Music lovers will often tell you that Roland's TR-808 gave birth to modern music. Acid house, rap, techno and other genres owe some of their original (and even current) sounds to that synthetic beat.

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If you spent the 1980s hanging out at your local record store, and you don’t have a hankering for spandex and bouffant rock-god hairstyles, the chances are you’ll have more than a few pieces of ...

Alexander Dunn’s documentary celebrates the famous drum machine’s legacy with a mind-boggling degree of legwork and a mildly disappointing lack of finesse. A documentary celebration of the Roland ...

The Roland TR-808 is one of the most distinct, influential and beloved instruments of the early Eighties, with the electronic rhythm composer used by everyone from Talking Heads and Afrika Bambaataa ...

808 State's Graham Massey with a Roland TR-808 6 Music's Mary Anne Hobbs celebrates 40 years of the classic Roland TR-808 drum machine with a special show dedicated to the iconic instrument - looking ...