Since boyhood, I’ve had a fascination with music and electronics. Unsurprisingly then, I’m also fascinated by electronic music and can remember waiting for nearly a day for ReBirth, a Roland 808 emulator, to download over a 28.8k modem. We all wanted to make classic rap beats at age 14, right?
Since then, I’ve ditched the dial-up modem for broadband and ReBirth for a full blown electronic music production suite called Reason. Needless to say, I’m still fascinated by electronic music. However, what is more fascinating to me is that electronic music production has gotten to the point where musicians can now be recognized for being able to play a laptop just as well as someone who can play a piano. Here’s a neat fact, an electronic instrument called a “Drumitar” has been used to win five Grammy Awards. Check out a video of it being played here. Read the rest of this entry »
