Sound Museum TR-808 WAV REX AiFF

AUDIOSTRiKE | 17/05/2015 | 1.38 GB

Many musicians call the Roland TR-808 drumcomputer affectionately the bass queen and this pseudonym is without any doubt a warrantable expression. After its release in 1980 it first became a slow seller and people preferred the more natural and powerful sounding Linn-L1 instead of the rather artificial chinking Roland machine.  After a couple of years however plenty of producers all over sudden started to use grooves of the proud queen in their songs.  Afrika Bambata’s “Planet rock”, A Guy Called Gerald’s “Voodoo ray” or Adonis’ “No way back” with their remarkable rhythm patterns have in the meanwhile written music history.  Not to forget Whitney Houston’s “I wanna dance with somebody” with its purely artifificial sounding cowbell we cannot forget.  But the eight-o-eight was also able to replay ballads like LL Cool J’s legendary “I need love” with its kick drum full of warm decay so that it just makes boooooom…