{"id":90,"date":"2018-04-24T18:45:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2018-04-24T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:45:39","slug":"lasting-influence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/lasting-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasting Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the use of the Roland TR-808 in \u201cPlanet Rock\u201d had a profound effect on music, specifically hip hop, in the 1980\u2019s, the drum machine\u2019s influence also helped create new genres which are still prominent fixtures in our modern musical landscape. Many popular songs in the past decade have drawn on Bambaataa\u2019s unique use of the Roland TR-808. In 2008, Kanye West released an entire album titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">808s &amp; Heartbreaks<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which drew heavily from the synthetic sound of Bambaataa\u2019s \u201cPlanet Rock\u201d through the heavy use of the 808 throughout the album (Shaham). The most popular song off of West\u2019s album, \u201cLove Lockdown,\u201d possesses many striking resemblances to \u201cPlanet Rock,\u201d and these similarities serve to highlight the lasting influence of the 808 in Hip Hop. West\u2019s \u201cLove Lockdown\u201d utilizes a thin texture which highlights the two main layers in a similar fashion to \u201cPlanet Rock\u201d, the vocals and the synthetic drum beat. Both songs utilize an almost robotic timbre in the vocals as well as a prominent synthetic 808 drum beat to give the song a futuristic essence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kanye West - Love Lockdown\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZwMX6T5Jhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the use of the Roland TR-808 in \u201cPlanet Rock\u201d had a profound effect on music, specifically hip hop, in the 1980\u2019s, the drum machine\u2019s influence also helped create new genres which are still prominent fixtures in our modern musical landscape. Many popular songs in the past decade have drawn on Bambaataa\u2019s unique use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3872,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}