Yeah it seems they do have it a bit screwed up (I thought something was odd
about that article too) -
according to the Vintage Synth website
http://www.vintagesynth.org/roland/r8.shtml the R8 was first available in
'89
This is really poor for a magazine dedicated to the equipment of electronic
(and more focused - dance) music. Maybe a basic phone call/email to him
could have clarified that. Anyway, you'd think they'd know this sh:t or
have someone on staff doing some fact checking.
Sean - do you what drum machine was used?
MEK
sean deason
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speaking of writers doing research:
the lastest copy of REMIX mag has an article on the very last page about
Juan Atkins. In it they claim that he and Rick Davis used a Roland R8 on
the
Cybotron - Enter album back in 1981.
Maybe I'm no longer clear on my gear timelines, but it seems to me that if
the Roland 808 (with analog drum sounds) was in production in (roughly)
1982
and the 909 (with a mixture of analog and sampled drum sounds) in 1983,
wouldnt the R8, which contains sampled drum sounds only, have followed
those
machines years later (especially since it samples sounds from the 808 and
909 machines)?
wow! Juan really was ahead of his time, not only did he make futuristic
music, he even used equipment from the future to do it :^)
sean deason
> From: marc christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:45:09 -0700
> To: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 313@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: (313) George Clinton Answers
>
> At 11:55 PM +1000 10/1/02, Cyclone Wehner wrote:
>> From Derrick's standpoint, I think in interviews he has always been
someone
>> who carefully thinks about what he says because he knows it's for
>> prosperity.
>
> I think the longevity of that one quote has certainly added to May's
> historically-conscious introspection. Not that he wasn't a
> thoughtful and articulate guy before, but that quote has just been
> beat like a dead horse.
>
>
>> Does that quote really annoy
>> anyone? I would be interested to know.
>
> The annoying thing about it at this point is that every time i see it
> in print, i ask:
> "couldn't they put something fresher in here?"
> "can't they get a writer who can do a little bit of real *work* on
> their topic?"
>
> Imagine how much fun XLR8R would be to read if each and every issue
> had to run that quote just one more time.
>
> I've got little against the quote itself (except that one reading of
> it overemphasizes the specificity of the Kraftwerk influence, which
> Simon Reynolds uses to pretty directly diss detroit). I object to
> its mass republication-as-oversimplification.
>
> -marc
>
