From Nick Rejack Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 04:31
From Nick Rejack Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 04:31
>Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:11:56 -0400 >From: Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks/In The Mix <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> >Subject: Re: (idm) X0X (drum machines, not kisses) >philip: >roland tb303 was manufactured to be a bassplayer for musicians who wanted bass >accompaniment, but ended up in dance use instead. started out as a real bassline >in classic work from people in chicago like larry heard; artists who realized >that random stuff could happen when you took out the batteries and then put them >back in (to put it simply) frigged with it and came up with "acid". phuture, >etc. >606 was designed to go with the 303. hear early acid and the perc is the 606 >you're hearing. it's very raw and doesn't have separate outputs for the sounds. >727 is the latin one. think jeff mills. >808 has classic sounds like the cowbell that everyone uses. 909 is the "harsher" >older brother more in use today in house and techno. hope this helps and makes >sense :) >andrew Sigh. I don't know where this rumor about messing up a 303's batteries having something to do with the "acid sound" came from, but it's incorrect. The small truth behind it is nearly dead batteries can have some strange effects on the sound, but the acid sound was pretty much created by DJ Pierre, of Phuture, who turned the knobs WHILE the sequencer was running. A pretty basic idea now, but up until then the idea was to get the sound you wanted, program the notes and let it run. The 606 isn't actually that common in early acid. Although it is the companion to the 303, Roland's 707/727 are more popular. Some songs that come to mind are Phuture's "Acid Trax", "Your Only Friend", and "Phuture Jacks", and Adonis's "We Be Rocking Down the House". Hawtin has been known to use one now and then also. The 808 was the king of early hip-hop(Run DMC, early Beastie Boys), soul (Marvin Gaye, Whitney Houston), and other 80s music. The 909 of course is the premier hardcore/dance/house machine. I think that's about it for this thread, let's lay it to rest. nick