The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock The device famous for making human voices sound robotic did not originate in the recording studio. As music journalist Dave Tompkins writes in How ...

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Today he’s back with a very different offering. “Vocoder,” the first new Floating Points single since Promises, finds Shepherd returning to the realm of heady, frenetic club music.

A vocoder consists of several filter bands, tuned across the audio spectrum, that respond to a set of envelope followers corresponding to their specific frequency ranges.

Following the landmark album's 50th birthday, we pop the hood on Kraftwerk's breakout release to inspect its musical ...

While Cher, Britney, and Kid Rock have twiddled the Vocoder in their day, Kraftwerk was probably the first band to really remind us of the techno-hell ...

Mixing American music at its most vintage, today’s most cutting-edge rhyming and the emotional vocoder music that symbolizes our future, this lush, powerful album attempts to move hip-hop past ...

Deviating from Thursday protocol to bring you a new, lifetime-in-the-making vocoder mix by Monk One (mix) and Dave Tompkins (ideas). "Bonus Beach" is the audio companion to Dave's brilliant ...

Before T-Pain was using Auto-Tune to buy girls drinks, Franklin D. Roosevelt was using the vocoder to win World War II. In “How to Wreck a Nice Beach,” music critic Dave Tompkins (The Wire ...

From there, the vocoder began its creep into pop music, often via Kraftwerk 's post-human take on R&B. The vocoder caught the ear of Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Roger Troutman, Michael Jonzun ...

The vocoder’s most revolutionary effect, however, may have been in the world of pop music—particularly hip-hop and funk, whose pioneers (Afrika Bambaataa, the Jonzun Crew, Grandmaster Flash ...

French electronics company Arturia, which is mostly known for its electronic music equipment, has announced that its MicroFreak has been updated with a vocoder function and a new white makeover. A ...