Aug 21, 2017
How a Recording-Studio Mishap Shaped '80s Music
Over the past few years a general nostalgia for the 1980s has infiltrated music, film, & television. We deeply love those gated reverb drums of the '80s - you know that punchy percussive sound popularized by Phil Collins and Prince? In this episode of Vox’s Pop Earworm, they spoke with two Berklee College of Music professors, Susan Rogers and Prince Charles Alexander, to figure out just how that sound came to be, what makes it so damn punchy, and why it’s back.