Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. “Planet Rock” didn’t so much put the 808 on the map so much as it reoriented an entire world of ...

It's disarmingly easy to become an amateur DJ in 2017, when an iPhone and a $1.99 app will quickly have you on your way to learning the basics of mixing songs together, or a thumb drive filled with ...

The English are a curious lot and among their many curiosities is a tendency to overthink and overanalyze various musical trends. Like the fabled trainspotters who camp out in railway stations ...

When we spoke to him in 2013, Saunderson credited the 808 and 909 as being responsible for the swing of those early house and techno tunes. Meanwhile, in several classic interviews, Jaun Atkins has ...

808: The movie, the long-awaited feature-length documentary about the TR 808 drum machine made by Roland just had its premiere at SXSW in Austin, Texas and in addition to telling the story technically ...

It’s almost impossible to imagine the modern musical landscape without the distinctive sounds of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. When the Japanese electronics company Roland started releasing the 808 ...

There is a particularly revealing moment at the very end of 808—the just-released documentary on Roland’s TR-808 Rhythm Composer, which has served as the backbone of hip-hop, R&B, electro, freestyle, ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a first of its kind release, Atlantic Films — a division of Atlantic Records — and You Know Films is debuting its critically acclaimed documentary 808 worldwide exclusively on Apple ...

Apple Music has been able to secure a number of exclusive albums and singles for its subscribers since it first launched, but as we've heard in recent months, Apple is quickly looking to add video to ...

The new film, '808,' will arrive Dec. 9 as an Apple Music exclusive. By Dan Rys Almost two years after it premiered at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, a film documenting the story of the Roland TR-808 ...

Celebrate the iconic Roland TR-808 drum machine with music by Public Enemy, Ye, and more.

Last Friday, a Stradivarius violin that had been stolen in 1980 was returned to family members of the deceased virtuoso Roman Totenberg. It had been made by Antonio Stradivari in 1734, purchased by ...