beatboxes

Demo! (first in a series)

A Roland CR-8000, a piano, a shit-tonne of echo, and Phil Collins circa 1980.  Sounds incredibly modern.   Click here or…

12 years ago

1981: Battle of the ’55s

1981: Korg and Roland both release prosumer drum machines designated 55.  The KORG KR-55 is a non-programmable drum machine with…

13 years ago

Univox-branded Synth+Drums

Billy Preston with a Univox Compac-Piano Univox (brief company history here) was a US company that marketed a huge range…

13 years ago

Electronic Drum Trends of the 1980s

Legendary pop/RnB session drummer Bernard Purdie was apparently the distributor (!) of the MPC line of electronic drums.  Purdie is…

13 years ago

Keyboard accessories circa mid 70s

The ACOUSTIC Model 500 'Keyboard Control Center.' Never seen this piece before.  The original ACOUSTIC amps from the early 70s…

13 years ago

Star Instruments Synare Electronic Percussion c.1979

Disco-mania.  Behold an early electronic drum meant to compliment your acoustic kit.  The Synare 3.  This caught my eye mainly…

14 years ago