The shape of things that hum
'The Shape of Things That Hum' is the story of the cult electronic instruments that have shaped modern music. It consists of a series of 8 programs of 10 minutes duration shown early in the morning during the months of January and February 2001. It features various artists discussing the hardware in their music.
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| The Minimoog | The Vocoder | The Yamah DX7 |
Rick Wakeman and others talk about the Minimoog. Daniel Miller of Mute Records shares his opinions (with his ARP 2600) over all the featured instruments with Andrew Harrison from Q magazine, music journalist Frank Tope, Orbital and Jacques Lu Cont from Les Rythmes Digitales. Add N to (X) discuss the vocoder. Recorder producer Ray Keith talks about the Akai sampler notably the S1000 and Matt Black from Coldcut talk about the TR-808 and TB-303 with Arthur Baker.
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| The Fairlight | The TR-808 | The TB-303 |
In the mid-1980s, the Fairlight Sampler cost as much as a house but revolutionised pop music. Nick Rhodes and Vince Clark wax nostalgic about the machine that put a barking dog in every record, created Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and made Trevor Horn a star.
John Keeble from Spandau Ballet comments on the Simmons drum kit, there's the inevitable Eastenders intro plus folk lore from Dave Simmons himself. You'll never guess what he developed next after the collapse of the Simmons company!
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| The Simmmons | The Akai |
Contents
| 01 | The Minimoog | 10 min 54 sec |
| 02 | The Vocoder | 11 min 04 sec |
| 03 | The DX7 | 11 min 10 sec |
| 04 | The Fairlight | 10 min 40 sec |
| 05 | The 808 | 10 min 48 sec |
| 06 | The 303 | 11 min 07 sec |
| 07 | The Simmons | 10 min 37 sec |
| 08 | The Akai | 11 min 10 sec |
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