"The remarkable story of Roger Linn, inventor of the drum machine. The son of an opera singer and a music professor, Linn's invention revolutionised popular music. He has inspired artists as diverse as Herbie Hancock, Heaven 17, and the Wu Tang Clan. Exploited by shady businessmen, Linn has been a reclusive figure for decades."
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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Wasn't the CR-78 the first programmable drum machine?
ReplyDeletePaia was.
ReplyDeletespandau ballet were at the forefront of electronic music, ...ha ha yeah right!
ReplyDeleteI fuqing hate famous musicians they always have to bring up they were in bands when they dont need to and most of them hold onto their look 20 years after anyone gave a shit about them.
That was a good broadcast. But Linn wasn't the first programable drum machine as already noted, but the first sample based drum machine, and perhaps the first with real time input. Linn seems to have invented so many standards in sequencing, quantization modes, swing, real time erase, etc. The MPC 60 is also credited with being very big in hip hop, but it was largely overshadowed by the E-mu SP-1200, especially in the Bronx, but, the SP-1200 was a design based on the Linn-9000, the first sampling drum machine, and Linn's most notable invention IMO.
ReplyDeleteI do love the fact that both Roger and Dave Smith acknowledge the role drugs, particularly psychedelic drugs in the creation of these new instruments, so many people edit that influence on thinking and innovation just to be politically correct. At least sequential put magic mushrooms and eastern deities on their circuit boards in homage to the role they played.
Gotta love the BBC. a good documentary is sorely missing on these subjects.
"Linn has been a reclusive figure for decades.""
ReplyDeleteWTF?
He's had Roger Linn Design for the past 5 years and worked with Akai before that.
Hardly a recluse.