From Florian Anwander Sent Wed, May 23rd 2018, 10:16
Hi Jesus Am 23.05.2018 um 01:57 schrieb Jesús Gallego: > but we still hear the TR-808 in famous mainstream productions as late as 1987 (Whitney Houston - Dance With Somebody). So did the TR-808 ever go out of style? I’m not really sure about that, You are right from your (and my) point of view; I was in the eighties deep into "black" dance music, which featured the 808 very often quite prominently. But you have to imagine the experience, which a japanese electronic engineer could have: home organs for happilly grinning families in adverts and hotel lounge background music while joining an international tech conference. Maybe our engineer listened to Whitney Houston or even early Detroit Sound privately, but the public music experience was far away from a genre, which used a 808 in the mid eighties. Florian -- http://www.florian-anwander.de