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way is that they have open minds

towards different music. So you hear

Bambaataa and he's like, "Oh I want to

make a Kraftwerk record." As opposed

to I want to make these rap records that

are f***ing awesome but they're like

you know funk records, R&B tracks that are

awesome, but it's like I want to make

this other thing. Rick Rubin was like, "I

want to make a Led Zeppelin rap song."

And Alec Empire that's like, "I want to

make a f***ing Bad Brains dance 808 track."

There's people that make some weird

sh*t, that takes this thing into a

whole different direction. That

makes that thing special.

Have you ever heard this track

I did called 'Kick drum'?

You hear that 808 blasting. I'm

doing

sh*t with the 808 that's never

been done.

F*** it let's reference

that sh*t.

I'm running that sh*t through

f***ing all kinds of filters and

chaos and sh*t. I think I have the

best 808 track of the last ten years.

Big fat kick drum makes

you wanna get some

Makes you wanna get some,

makes you wanna get some

Big fat kick drum make the girlies

get none, makes the girlies get none

The whole track is an 808. It's like, "My

big fat kick drum makes me go boom, boom."

It was like... Boom, boom,

boom... Y'all feel that sh*t?

Big fat kick drum makes

the girls get some

Big fat kick drum

makes the girls get some

Big fat kick drum makes

the girl, girl

Big fat kick drum makes you wanna get some,

big fat kick drum makes the girls get some

It just filled a massive void in the

sound spectrum that wasn't there.

Since its arrival it just

established itself as this

pertinent frequency.

People may not have known that that

frequency mattered so much to them with

music, but once the 808 started to occupy that space

it became something you missed if you didn't have.

It's like semtex man, it's like, "Carefully put

it in the arrangement pattern, and walk away."

If the 808 never existed,

where you're sitting now, I

don't know if I'd ever own

this house, this console. Every hit

record I've done has 808's in it.

I've used it throughout my entire career

in one-way or the other. If not as an

actual stand alone 808,

the sounds, because they were

unlike any other.

I'm assuming any producer that

makes rap music just has one.

So it's part of your every day recording.

You know what I mean? It's just there.

Right? You know what I mean, it's

like having jelly in your fridge.

- You just have it all the time.

- Jelly?

- Yeah. You don't have jelly in your fridge?

- I have artisanal jams Adam.

- I'm sure you do but same thing, you get

what I'm saying right. -Artisanal preserves.

Whatever I've got

jelly in my fridge.

It's not just the sounds that

are in the 808, it's the

internal rhythm of it that's so

specific to that instrument, almost like the way

a certain percussion player plays something.

As a musician, if you have a guitar, if

you have a drum, it's how you interact

with that machine to create the

nuances that become your trademark.

And the trademark of an 808 is

that human interaction.

Actually, a really nice feature of the

808 was you had this huge tempo knob,

and then you had this smaller

like kinda fine tuning

which you could play with and slip

and slide the rhythm and the tempo.

These are all things that make 808

bass tracks so incredibly wonderful,

and again there's a spirit, there's

an energy there from that machine.

What happened in the early 80s,

the way that staple became

the sort of heartbeat of

dance music, that's, that's the starting

point for where we are now, you know.

If it weren't for those records, I don't

think the 808 would carry on because of

what a great sound it is. In some ways

the idea that it was obsolete eighteen

months after was true, it really was.

But because it was used on these great

records, and has such a signature

sound, it lives on forever.

Every musical movement actually

comes from technology.

'Cause there are only so many

chord progressions, there's

only so many notes.

What makes the difference is when there's

a new instrument that is created,

and people are like, ok I'm going to

use it, and I'm going to twist it.

I think it happened big

time with the 808.

I guess the interesting thing for me

would be to be able to see what Roland

thinks of what they've created or if they

even understand the culture that they

created. They created a whole

underlying musical movement, you know.

A few musical movements that's the thing.

There's been a few of them.

Yeah, so it would be really interesting

to me to hear what they think about the

808 and the music that's

been created from it.

I have a feeling they

have no idea.

I don't think so.

We bring the beats that

make you vibrate

We bring the beats that

make you vibrate

808 kick drum, 808 hat

808 snare drum, 808 clap

Got an 808 this

and an 808 that

Got an 808 boom

and an 808 bap

808 bap, 808 bap,

808 bap, 808 bap

808 boom and an 808 bap

808 kick drum, 808 hat

808 snare drum, 808 clap

Got an 808 this

and an 808 that

Got an 808 boom

and an 808 bap

808 bap, 808 bap,

808 bap, 808 bap

This is 404 over 808

808

808

Boom clap on the beat

that's a classic

Boom clap, boom clap, boom

that's what happened

808

Boom clap on the beat

that's a classic

808 kick drum, 808 hat

808 snare drum, 808 clap

Got an 808 this

and an 808 that

Got an 808 boom

and an 808 bap

808 bap, 808 bap,

808 bap, 808 bap

808 boom and an 808 bap

808 kick drum,

kick drum, hat

808 snare drum,

snare drum, clap

Got an 808 this and an,

this and an, that

Got an 808 boom and an 808

Boom

Boom clap on the beat

that's a classic

808 kick drum,

kick drum, hat

808 snare drum,

snare drum, clap

Got an 808 this and an,

this and an, that

Got an 808 boom and an 808

808 bap, 808 bap,

808 bap, 808 bap

808 boom and an 808 bap

808 boom and an 808

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