Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World
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Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of what is perhaps the most controversial musical instrument ever invented: the drum machine. Here, author Dan Leroy reveals the untold story of how their digital pulse became the new heartbeat of popular music. The pristine snap of the LinnDrum. The bottom-heavy beats of the Roland 808. The groundbreaking samples of the Emu SP-1200. All these machines-and their weirder, wilder-sounding cousins-changed composition, recording, and performance habits forever. Their distinctive sounds and styles helped create new genres of music, like hip hop and EDM. But they altered every musical style, from mainstream pop to heavy metal to jazz.
Dan LeRoy traces the drum machine from its low-tech beginnings in the Fifties and Sixties to its evolution in the Seventies and its ubiquity in the Eighties, when seemingly overnight, it infiltrated every genre of music. Drum machines put some drummers out of work, while keeping others on their toes. They changed composition, recording, and performance habits, and anticipated virtually every musical trend of the last 40 or so years: sequencing, looping, sampling, and all forms of digital music creation.Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1501367269
ISBN13:9781501367267
Release Date:November 2022
Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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