The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music
Music:Music History
Episode 55
Drum Machines: A Recorded History, Part 2: Digital Drum Machines
Playlist
Linn Drum
Oberheim DMX
Movement MCS Drum Computer
Roland
E-mu
Alesis
Closing, Linn LinnDrum
Background Sounds
Opening: Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz.
Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes.
For additional notes, please see my blog Noise and Notations.
There are dozens of drum machines that dot the history of electronic music. For an encyclopedic list of almost every drum machines ever made, and there were dozens of variations and models up until around 1985, check-out the excellent books by Alex Graham, a UK-based drum machine collector and specialist.
Love Spells in Electronic Sound
Electronic Music for Babies
Crosscurrents in Early Electronic Music of Canada, Part 2
Crosscurrents in Early Electronic Music of Canada, Part 1
Phonographic Education—a Sound Collage
Electronic Keyboards in Jazz, A Recorded History, Part 2 of 2
Electronic Keyboards in Jazz, A Recorded History, Part 1 of 2
The Sounds of Motoring
Radio Spirits in the Night
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Before and After Ambient, Part 1
Part 2 of The Distinctive Electronic Music of Oskar Sala and the Mixtur-Trautonium
The Distinctive Electronic Music of Oskar Sala and the Mixtur-Trautonium, Part 1
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Electronic Music of Dune
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