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Songs made with just a drum machine
Watching the 808 documentary the other evening I enjoyed Kickdrum by Felix da Housecat. Just a filtered 808 and it kills. Now it’s got me thinking. What other songs have been made with just a drum machine?
Obviously early hip hop is a contender but even then There was usually some accompanying scratching
Anyone?
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This is right down my street. Just completed a track that is 90 percent 808.... or rather 08.
It's the perfect machine for this type of thing, clean and minimal
Watched a YouTube thing the other night with DMX krew where he talked about and played a house track .. without drums.. very weird.
Some of Stephan Bodzins stuff is very close to what you ask.
The DMX krew thing sounds intriguing.
Some effects / EQ processing allowed in this discussion!
You'll have to dig deep, but a lot of what he talks about I can relate with ...
Doesn’t really fit the bill strictly but
and
https://youtu.be/lNYcviXK4rg
Its a winner. I've got both the 7 inch single from the time and the VL-1 (no box though) which I bought with my savings account aged about 13. I'm 50 this year and wow if I could imagine back then what we get on IOS for pennies!
I hear ya, 46 here and thinking back the VL-1 was probably my first synth too. Definitely predated making random noise on an Acorn Electron.
Unless you count messing with a soldering iron on a dodgy Speak And Spell (what would be called circuit bending these days).
Yup, sure makes you appreciate the sonic power we have now for next to nothing.
My favourite drum machine:
Yep Vl tone was my first "synth" too back in the day. Mine was a birthday present. Think they were about £25 back then .. 1982'ish. Loved messing with the adsr feature
I think this is a much better use of the casio than the trio effort ...
I made "full" songs with a Yamaha RX-5 drum machine for local and regional TV spots back in the day. For a drum machine it was very capable for sound design especially if you had all the extra sound cartridges.
I have fond memories of “Fifth St,” the demo song that came with my Roland R-5 drum machine — which I haven’t heard in probably 20 years! A single fingered bass sample was resourcefully used for the melodic part of this track.
A whole album? https://www.discogs.com/Anthony-Manning-Islets-In-Pink-Polypropylene/release/20038
Not quite drum machine only, but "88 lines about 44 women" comes pretty close.
This Plastikman track became a classic techno drums only track in sets.
better link for the Anthony Manning Roland R8 only album http://www.germstore.com/islets_in_pink_polypropylene.php
Don’t ‘now any but there are songs just made with dog barks. I’m especially fond of this one as my old band used to cover it.
Quite a few Plastikman songs were nothing but a 909. I've done entire live sets with just a Machinedrum too, fun stuff.
Some of these drum machines are cheats! All that sampling and melodic sound cards bah! I was thinking along the lines of mantronix and schooly d. Early hip hop
Does this count?
I think one are orchestral stab can be forgiven! Minimal power
Hell yeah. And one of the first examples I thought about.
One of my fav old school records , just rap and an 808
This is super rare ...
.... as is this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beats-Breaks-Loops-John-Robie/dp/B001NCE762
https://open.spotify.com/album/6rkD6McOCbf0xYyPPpqagp
@dougdi @enc niceeee!
I love the way these old school producers used minimal means to create memorable mighty tunes. mmmmmm
I guess they focused on the one instrument and mastered it.
This is my own personal favorite. Albeit liberally sprinkled with some mean cutting and scratching
It was a case of having too. There wasn't an abundance of kit around like there is today.
Arthur baker and john robie didn't have an 808 when they recorded planet rock. They found the 808 programmer/owner advertising his services in a NY paper.
Talking about tracks made only with one drum machine. Are there any made with for example the Elastic Drums app only?