#soundbreaking

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Adrock discusses the evolution of computers in music in this Soundbreaking extra.

Clip above is from Soundbreaking's twitter page and the full episode that Adam appears in is here:

He appears throughout the episode but the main Beastie Boys stuff starts around 32 minutes.

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SOUNDBREAKING | The Making of the Song: Imogen Heap | PBS

If you have access to PBS, I highly recommend watching their “Soundbreaking” series. It discusses a brief history of recorded music and how innovations and trends affected artists and culture. I watched with my dad, and I kept wanting to interject when [recent] artists I knew were featured, like Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek”. He kept interjecting when stuff from his youth and young-adulthood was featured, so we had great conversations.

There were several instances where race and politics were mixed with the music, particularly discussing Motown-style (ie marketable to whites) versus James Brown’s style (eg “I’m Black and I’m Proud”) and the rise of hip hop and rap, along with how MTV was pretty white when they started. I would love to see a similar analysis of a few different genres and how sub-genres (eg new wave, nu-metal) formed and evolved. 

My only complaint (not much of one) is that I wish they had more contemporary interviews with artists - interviews when their music first hit the market. The footage of Little Richard was a really great example of such footage. (It discussed how “Tutti Fruity” was covered by a white dude and sold more records at the time.)

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Annie working on “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” album, 1982

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This show is AMAZING! Get it, watch it. #recording #recordingstudio #iwanttobelieve #focaltrio6be #focalspeakers #focal #soundbreaking #thebeatles #bigbadsound #bigbadsoundla

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Soundbreaking.

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"I'm a Philadelphian, so I stand proud by disco." -Questlove

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Nigel Goodrich and Thom Yorke