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Tuesday Timesuck: PLay with a Roland TR-808 and a TB-303 bass synth right in your browser

If you’re looking for a way to kill time today, composer Yuri Suzuki has created a website in concert with

Aliens exist. Tom DeLonge will be proven right. Moving to music news for February 1, 2020… This is important: A

Here’s the best part about potential North Korean missile attacks on the US: They’d have to fly over Canadian territory

May 4, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments adidas, TR-808

It used to be that sneakers just needed to keep your feet comfortable. Now, though, they’re expected to make some

There are few musical appliances that changed the course of music history like the Roland TR-808 drum machine. It’s now

It’s rare that a piece of music-related technology can seismically alter the future of composing. But that’s exactly what happened

The Roland TR-808 was (is?) hands-down the most important drum machine ever made. And instead of scrolling through your Facebook

You may have never, ever seen an 808 in person, but I know for a fact that you’ve heard one

Pigeons and Planes points to the 808 Cube, which is a virtual cross-breeding of the familiar Rubik’s cube and the