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Martina Dörner @dorner_martina · 3d

Thank you for your Music💜

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Aakash Gupta Verified account @aakashgupta · 5d

The drum machine behind more hit songs than any other in history was such a flop that Roland killed it after three years. Leftovers were going for under $100 in used music shops.

That flop is the reason a German marching band can make a whole crowd lose it with a tuba and a marimba.

Roland put out the TR-808 in 1980 so musicians could have a drummer without hiring one. Problem was, it didn't sound anything like a drummer. The kick boomed like a blown speaker and the cowbell sounded like a kid's toy, so studios paid up for the LinnDrum, which actually played back recordings of real drums. Roland built around 12,000 808s and quit making them in 1983.

The next year they tried the same trick with bass. The TB-303 cost $395 and was supposed to replace your bass player, except it came out sounding more like a squelchy mouth harp, and Roland pulled it in 1984.

Nobody wanted either one, so they got cheap, and cheap is how they landed with broke kids in Chicago and Detroit. A Chicago crew called Phuture got their hands on a 303, cranked the filter way past anything a bass player would ever want, and the noise that came out became "Acid Tracks" in 1987. Dance music basically grew up on the exact sounds Roland's customers had thrown back as fake.

MEUTE takes all of that and hands it back to humans.

Thomas Burhorn was a jazz trumpeter dancing at a techno club in Berlin when he started wondering why nobody had tried playing that music with a live bass drum, marimba and trumpet. He put the band together in Hamburg in 2015, and now there are eleven of them, each one doing a machine's job. Marco Möller's bass drum is the kick on every beat. Philipp Westermann plays the bassline on sousaphone that a 303 would've played. André Wittmann's marimba covers the looping synth patterns, while two snare drummers handle everything the drum machine used to do up top.

What makes this way harder than it looks is that a drum machine never gets excited. It doesn't rush when the crowd screams, and it doesn't get bored playing the same bar for six minutes. People do both. A jazz trumpeter spends years learning to change the line every time through, and this band asks him to play it the same way over and over until the whole crowd locks in.

Roland spent the early '80s trying to get a machine to sound like a band and never pulled it off. Forty years later, eleven guys in red marching jackets are working their butts off to sound like that machine, and everybody in the crowd has their phone up filming it.

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✨💫Dreaming is free 💫✨ Verified account @Picturethis74 · Oct 18

How could I possibly quit with support like this? 🥹❤️ Wow, you’re all absolutely amazing, and I can’t thank you all enough! 🫶❤️
❤️ I do still need to take a little break, but I’ll 100% be back in a week or two!
Honestly, all this support has reminded me that I must be doing something right! 🥹❤️ Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. You have no idea how much this means to me! 🫶💕

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