A couple of 808/303 live jams by Boddika. I mean they're not to everyones taste, I've definitely heard a lot better, but it's still pretty cool. It's basically a recording of layers of patterns being built up and stripped away, and affected in various ways. Proper synthetic stuff.
Monday, 9 January 2012
Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreak.
Obviously referring to the drum machine. Or maybe the area code for Hawaii.....but probably the drum machine. Definitely.
Swamp 81 t shirt
I'm sure I've included swamp81 records as part of the research for nearly all of my projects so far..
Swamp81, a label run by Loefah with the aims of diverging away from the current state of dubstep, released a few drum-machine-heavy singles by producers like Addison Groove, Ramadanman and Boddika, which came as a refreshing change to other sounds of today's scenes. Presumably in celebration of Roland's renewed/continuing popularity this t-shirt was released:
quite simply displaying the numbers of three of Roland's drum machines.
Goes a fair way to show that whilst digital software has rapidly become very popular, there will always be a place for older, more established hardware that perhaps shows a greater level of solid consistency, despite their restrictions.
Swamp81, a label run by Loefah with the aims of diverging away from the current state of dubstep, released a few drum-machine-heavy singles by producers like Addison Groove, Ramadanman and Boddika, which came as a refreshing change to other sounds of today's scenes. Presumably in celebration of Roland's renewed/continuing popularity this t-shirt was released:
quite simply displaying the numbers of three of Roland's drum machines.
Goes a fair way to show that whilst digital software has rapidly become very popular, there will always be a place for older, more established hardware that perhaps shows a greater level of solid consistency, despite their restrictions.
A bunch of adverts for older drum machines, particularly the Roland series (I'm not sure how legit the first one is, doesn't seem like it would be part of the same campaign as the others). I imagine most of these surfaced around the 70's or 80's kind of thing, though I'm no expert...A lot of the history and information about these machines is quite shrouded; maybe I'm not looking in the right places just yet.
Wurlitzer SideMan
Another advert for the SideMan presumably in a magazine or something. It'd be interesting to hear how primitive an instrument like this might sound when stacked up against more modern machines.
Early Drum Machines
The Rhythmicon - 1930-32
An instrument created by Henry Cowell, who wanted an instrument that could play compositions which had rhythmical patterns far too complicated for existing keyboard instruments. Could produce sixteen different rhythms each associated with a particular pitch.
Chamberlain Rhythmate - 1957
A device containing 14 tape loops with a sliding head that allowed playback of different tracks on each piece of tape, or blending them. Contained a volume and a pitch control, and also had separate bass and treble level controls.
The Wurlitzer Side Man:
An instrument created by Henry Cowell, who wanted an instrument that could play compositions which had rhythmical patterns far too complicated for existing keyboard instruments. Could produce sixteen different rhythms each associated with a particular pitch.
Chamberlain Rhythmate - 1957
A device containing 14 tape loops with a sliding head that allowed playback of different tracks on each piece of tape, or blending them. Contained a volume and a pitch control, and also had separate bass and treble level controls.
The Wurlitzer Side Man:
Drum Machines
For the 'top 10' side of the Digital Design brief, I have selected Drum Machines as a topic to investigate and create a title sequence for. I feel that this might be quite an interesting topic to certain types of people, such as those with an interest in the production of the music that has shaped today's sounds and scenes.
Many producers (particularly amateurs, beginners etc.) have ditched drum machines in favour of modern DAW's (Digital Audio Workstations); so in some ways we have left behind an era of hardware; drum machines, synthesizers etc. as we can do pretty much all of it on a laptop screen. Many producers undoubtedly still use drum machines, so the future of their place in the production process is obviously uncertain.
Drum Machines have had a profound effect on many parts of the music scene, perhaps the most noticeable being Roland TR-808's influence on hip-hop in the 80's, but also of course with many other genres and subcategories that can be found in modern day music.
Many producers (particularly amateurs, beginners etc.) have ditched drum machines in favour of modern DAW's (Digital Audio Workstations); so in some ways we have left behind an era of hardware; drum machines, synthesizers etc. as we can do pretty much all of it on a laptop screen. Many producers undoubtedly still use drum machines, so the future of their place in the production process is obviously uncertain.
Drum Machines have had a profound effect on many parts of the music scene, perhaps the most noticeable being Roland TR-808's influence on hip-hop in the 80's, but also of course with many other genres and subcategories that can be found in modern day music.
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