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bassline baseline, Roland TB303 documentary

submitted by lavoll

1 decade 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago

A history of one of the most influential instruments in modern electronic popular music :)

A wicked documentary about the history of the Roland TB-303 Bassline Synth by director Nate Harrison, the guy behind "The Amen Break" http://www.videosift.com/video/The-ubiquitous-Amen-Break-explained

7 Comments

antiuser says...

Isn't this *long?

siftbot

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Invocations (long) cannot be called by antiuser because antiuser is not privileged - sorry.

jonny

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yes, *long and *interesting

siftbot

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This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by jonny.

westy

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I'm pritty sure it was the 90s yesterday.

13757

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his videos are brilliant pieces of documentation

westy

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yeah Evan though he sounds like Microsoft SAM at times he fits in allot of information and paces it relay nicely. its a nice change from the hyper MTV style documentaries that are becoming more and more popular.