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We Celebrate 40 Years Of The TR-808 Drum Machine

We hear from musicians including Cosey Fanny Tutti, Afrodeutsche, Graham Massey (808 State), Jlin, Stephen Morris (New Order) & DJ Premier about their love of the TR-808.

We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the TR 808 Drum Machine which has completely changed the face of popular music.

The booming kick drum, snappy snares and crisp handclaps have been the rhythm section to some of your favourite tracks over the last forty years but you might never have realised . It is time to celebrate this plucky underdog that took over the world of music.

From Electro, Hip-hop, House, Techno, Soul, Funk, Synth Pop, New Wave, Drum and Bass, R&B to Trap. Its kick drum/handclaps/snare have created the backbone to so many genres, especially in black music.

We鈥檒l hear clips from innovators and contemporary artists praising the 808 and its influence. including Cosey Fanny Tutti, Afrodeutsche, Graham Massey (808 State), Jlin, Stephen Morris (New Order) & DJ Premier about their love of the TR-808.

We鈥檒l also have an exclusive interview with Don Lewis in California, the inspirational electronic musician/engineer who was one of the original consultants on the development of the 808. He鈥檒l talk about the importance of innovation for African American musicians and how key the 808 has been to the development of black music. He will also discuss what it was like working in Japan at the Roland Corporation in the Seventies.

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Wed 9 Dec 2020 10:30
91热爆 Radio 6 Music

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    HUMBLE.

    • Polydor.

  • Loyle Carner

    Yesterday

    • Virgin / EMI.

  • The Supremes

    Stoned Love

    • Hitsville USA (CD 4).
    • Hitsville.

  • KOKOROKO

    Baba Ayoola

    • Brownswood Recordings.

  • The S.O.S. Band

    Just Be Good To Me

    • CBS.

  • LL Cool J

    Rock The Bells

    • Global Television.

  • Talking Heads

    Psycho Killer

    • Stop Making Sense.
    • EMI.

  • Working Men鈥檚 Club

    John Cooper Clarke

    • Heavenly 路.

  • Jlin

    Lotus

  • A Guy Called Gerald

    Voodoo Ray

    • Rham!.

  • Pa Salieu

    B***k

    • Warner Bros.

  • Public Enemy

    Rightstarter (Message To a Black Man)

    • Mercury Records Limited.

  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.

  • Max茂mo Park

    Baby, Sleep

    • Prolifica Inc / [PIAS].

  • Kraftwerk

    Musique Non-Stop

    • EMI.

  • Darlene Love

    White Christmas

  • Chris & Cosey

    Dancing Ghosts

    • Elemental 7.
    • Conspiracy International.

  • Black Country, New Road

    Science Fair

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Bow Wow Wow

    C30 C60 C90 Go

    • 1977 - The Spirit Of Punk (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Nadine Shah

    Trad

    • Infectious Music.

  • OutKast

    The Way You Move (feat. Sleepy Brown)

    • The Way You Move.
    • Arista.

  • lau.ra

    Wicked (feat. Eliza Legzdina)

    • Needwant.

  • Beastie Boys

    Hold It Now, Hit It

    • Def Jam Music Group Inc. 10th Year Anniversary.
    • Def Jam.
    • 3.

  • Marvin Gaye

    Sexual Healing

  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

    Automation

    • KGLW.

  • Moses Boyd

    2 Far Gone

    • Exodus Records.

  • Caixa Cubo

    Dark Prince

    • Angela.
    • Heavenly Records.
    • 6.

  • Moonchild Sanelly

    Thunda Thighs

    • Transgressive Records.

Broadcast

  • Wed 9 Dec 2020 10:30
    91热爆 Radio 6 Music