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The famous choir sound in Blue Monday actually traces back to Kraftwerk’s Uranium. Kraftwerk made it using a rare instrument called the Orchestron, an optical-disc keyboard designed to rival the Mellotron. Instead of tape, it used transparent discs to play back recorded choirs — and that haunting sound became the foundation for one of the most iconic tracks of the ’80s. Blue Monday - New Order: Breakdown Released: 1983 Bernard Sumner: vocals, Moog Source synthesizer, programming, vocoder​ Peter