This is a fun and informative talk about the history of drum machines. I remember so distinctly the first time I heard a drum machine on a recording. It was electrifying: It was on Sly and the Family Stones Theres a Riot Going On) in 71 and the Timmy Thomas Everybody Wants To Live Together in 72 (though Robin Gibb had beat everyone to the punch in a track from 67, although the drum machine was very buried in the mix unlike Stone and Thomas tracks. A few years later in the late 70s I saw UltraVox play where they used a CR-78 (the first crudely programmable program machine) which played half of the beat while the drummer (playing only a kick, snare, hi hat and one cymbal) played, mechanistically to complete the other half of the beat. My whole world changed and I started collecting drum machines as soon as I had the money to buy my first..... a cheap Roland programmable one. In a lot of ways, they changed the way modern music was recorded and produced (you could control every single sound without any studio microphone bleed from other drum mics, so you could process sounds separately at will. Many people hate them, but I, as professional and life long drummer/percussionist, love them. They have irrevocably widened the timbral world of percussion. youtube/watch?v=3x7sPzzmTtM
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:09:09 +0000
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