This looks like a good one, that’s an apt title -Let the music play- This has to be homage to electro master Shannon. 😎

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-Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell In Love With 80s Synths is the overlooked story of how R&B, disco and funk were transformed by the explosion of synths and other music tech in the era of ghetto blasters, shoulder pads and Ronald Reagan. It traces how pioneers like Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock inspired a new generation of black musicians and producers in the US and UK to reinvent music using a whole new set of rules.

From superstars like Prince and Sade to production geniuses like Kashif and Jam & Lewis, it looks at how sounds and genres kept adapting to each new innovation, including drum machines, samplers and digital studios. It tells the fascinating stories of the artists involved and how some of the best-loved records of the era were made – creating a blueprint for music today.-

And he talks about kashif as well @Aquilla

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Interested to look into this.

Interesting stuff

reading asap thanks

Damn I'm overjoyed to seeing a book on this. I didn't know that you tagged me smh. Imma check it out. Thanks @AudioConsulting

@AmoryBlain @Sk8brdKee there’s another great book about the vocoder and how it arrived in music recording .

The reason i bring it up is because the coverage of the musicians that use it outside of kraftwerk and Neil young (which they cover ) , there’s a lot of interesting history with black musicians in r& b jazz funk hip hop house disco etc and they do a little a***ysis into vocoder lore and it really is pre synth era but people have no idea of where it comes from

i need to read it again. the fact it was a espionage instrument during war time ie crazy. the fact it was created in 1928, that’s some dr who type s***. Just to come up with it someone or a group wakes up and say “we need new espionage tech , i got it! “ 😳

and the title of the book is so clever (which i won’t spoil what it means - it all connects )

i remember seeing it going whoa this is a book on just the vocoder? This is insane someone had this idea to write this

i’ve never seen an entire book dedicated to the vocoder device. But i see why he did it. Because it’s a musical catalyst that shifted & revolutionized so much

This was a proto auto tune in a way this thing
and it was like talk box’s much older brother which is strange to think the vocoder is older than heil talk box. Because it sounds interdimensiobal like the cylons in 70’s Battlestar Galactica

It’s well researched and quite impressive what he dug up and the vocoder song reference index in the back is cool as well 😎

yo this is right up my alley. good looks

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The vocoder was an espionage weapon :

That is insane. The more you know

80s synths birthed r&b as an actual musical genre separate from r&b being nothing more than racial genre classification. This should be great

100% agreed