Wendy Carlos – Sinfonia To Cantata #29

Rolling Stones – stop breaking down

Tangerine dream – Phaedra

Cluster

NEU! – Hallogallo

Tone Float

Kraftwerk 1 – Ruckzuck

Kraftwerk 2 – Klingklang

Kraftwerk Autobahn

Kraftwerk Autobahn

Kraftwerk  Trans-europe express

Kraftwerk N

Advent of “remix”

King Tubby. Jamaican electronics repair-man and DJ. Idea of taking an existing song and pulling back the vocals, emphasizing the “break” (drum/bass), and generally tinkering with the song’s elements to create something new.

Larry Marshall – I Admire You (original song)

Watergate Rock (listen here for the emphasis on the break and [...]

“Rapper’s Delight” – Sugarhill Gang
“White Lines” – Grandmaster Flash Can you hear it?
“Cavern” – Liquid Liquid
“Good Times” – Chic

Kool Herc is of the first to use “break sessions” of other records into his performance.
“Apache” – Shadow

How many ‘samples’ do you [...]

Disco – The Producer’s Genre

Evolved from Soul, Funk, R&B, and Motown.

Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive

KC & The Sunshine Band – That’s The Way I Like It

Called the “Producer’s Genre” due to the large amounts of control that the producers had in the creation of the songs.

Disco was [...]

Throughout his time as producer, Reznor goes for a very hard and gritty sound.  Much of what he produces is classified as “Industrial Rock” for this attribute.

Reznor cites his greatest influence was his life in a small town:  “I don’t know why I want to do these things, other than my desire to [...]

British Producer, Composer, Non-Musician

Art Student – Ipswich Art College

Sound as Light, paint with sound

Roxy Music – Non-musician
Re-Make-Re-Model 

http://www.worleygig.com/2009/07/thirty-six-years-ago-brian-eno-leaves-roxy-music/

Robert Fripp – Frippertronics
The Heavenly Music Corporation 

http://my.opera.com/billinbeijing/blog/an-explanation-and-demonstration-of-frippertronics-as-well-as-a-brief-history

Here come the warm Jets

Needles in the Camel’s Eye

Examples of free-form experimentation:

Jimi Hendrix, “EXP” from Axis: Bold as Love (1967) Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love (excerpt)” from Led Zeppelin II (1969)

Sixteen-track recorders influenced recording by enabling experiments, but it also impacted mic techniques—how?

Examples

Beatles, “Please Please Me” from Please Please Me (1963) Stevie Wonder, “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” from Up-Tight (1966) Pink [...]

Some interesting introductory thoughts from Laswell:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_A6iZIL-5fk?rel=0

Bassist, Producer, Record Label Owner

Laswell’s music draws upon many different genres: funk, various world music, jazz, dub and ambient styles.

“Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted”

Beginnings with “Material”:

Material – I’m The One

Listen to the massive echo on the drums and the control asserted to guitars. [...]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Frank_Zappa_Weasels_Ripped_My_Flesh.jpg

-True Composer and Producer

-Had very little formal education, but decided at 14 to be writer/composer

Heavily R&B Influenced

Ruben And The Jets – I Wanna Know

-Became an obsessive producer, with a 3.5 million dollar home studio

-Produced over 70 albums

-Had two engineers on hand at all [...]

From London, England

Attended Guildhall School of Music studying music composition and classical music orchestration in addition to piano and oboe

Known as “The 5th Beatle”

Head of EMI’s Parlophone Records and founding Head of Associated Independent Recording Studios (AIR)

Produced records by the Beatles – Originally signed them after having been rejected from every [...]