Roland Keeps the 808 Moving Forward

The TR-808 is one of those rare instruments that stopped belonging to the company that made it almost as soon as artists got their hands on it. Roland released the TR-808 Rhythm Composer in 1980, and the machine’s strange version of realism became its superpower. The kick did not sound like a real kick. The [...]

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