Dave Ball

Dave Ball earns nothing but respect from me. As one half of Soft Cell, he built the electronic skeleton beneath Marc Almond's seductive vocals, and his fingerprints are all over the synth-pop and experimental scene from the late 1970s onward. Co-founding The Grid and collaborating widely showed an appetite to keep pushing sound forward rather than coasting on past hits. His passing in 2025 was a genuine loss, but the textures he engineered haven't aged. I'm endlessly drawn to these behind-the-board geniuses, the quiet designers of sound whose work rewards repeated, careful listening.

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Name (English)

Dave Ball

Name (Japanese)

デビッド・ボール

Reading

でびっど・ぼーる

Born

May 3, 1959 – October 22, 2025

Origin

Chester, United Kingdom

Occupation

musician / songwriter / record producer / disc jockey / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Boar

University

Leeds Beckett University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Ball%20(electronic%20musician)
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Tags

• musician
• songwriter
• record producer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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