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Antique Phonographs and Gramophones
Antique Phonographs and Gramophones
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Before anyone owned a record player, there were wind-up machines. This gallery follows the phonographs and gramophones that carried recorded sound from Edison's workbench into parlors, trenches...
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Songs About Home That Mean Very Different Things by It
Songs About Home That Mean Very Different Things by It
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One song takes you back to a childhood bedroom. Another finds home in two cats in the yard, a friend making sure you get in safely, or the hope of seeing your country again. Listen for the small...
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Synthesizers and Drum Machines That Defined Genres
Synthesizers and Drum Machines That Defined Genres
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Hip-hop, house, techno, acid, synth-pop, dancehall, jungle and trance all have a machine at their root: a box whose particular sound, or particular flaw, gave musicians something nobody had heard...
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Classic Record Turntables
Classic Record Turntables
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From bare motor units fitted into custom bases to sleek decks with everything under a single lid, these turntables make different choices visible. Look at the platter, the tonearm, and the...
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Historic Computers That Changed Computing
Historic Computers That Changed Computing
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A photo gallery of the electronic computers that set the direction for everything after them, in the order they appeared: wartime codebreakers and room-sized vacuum-tube machines, the first...
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Vintage Radio Designs From Bakelite to Transistor
Vintage Radio Designs From Bakelite to Transistor
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Some radios were made to look at home on a mantel. Others were built to slip into a shirt pocket. These photos show how designers used molded cases, bright plastic, and compact controls to give...
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Songs Where Falsetto Adds More Than a High Note
Songs Where Falsetto Adds More Than a High Note
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Listen to what happens when the voice changes texture. Here a falsetto can turn a casual verse into a confession, jump out of a busy dance track, or carry a phrase long enough to make the silence...
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Songs With Stereo Details Worth Paying Attention To
Songs With Stereo Details Worth Paying Attention To
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Play these versions on headphones or a pair of speakers. A drum kit might cross the room, a voice might widen for one line, or two instruments might stay on opposite sides so you can follow both...
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Experimental Electronic Albums with an Emotional Centre
Experimental Electronic Albums with an Emotional Centre
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Experimental electronic music is often stereotyped as an academic exercise: chilly abstraction, impenetrable hardware and noise for its own sake. The best of it uses radical sound design to...
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Electronic Albums That Reward Listening Away from the Dance Floor
Electronic Albums That Reward Listening Away from the Dance Floor
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Club sound systems deliver immediate physical power, but many of the most enduring electronic albums are built for close listening at home. Free from the job of keeping a dance floor moving, their...
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Drum and Bass Albums That Show the Genre's Range
Drum and Bass Albums That Show the Genre's Range
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Drum and bass is often reduced to one extreme: frantic club tempos, relentless sub-bass or commercial pop crossovers. Across three decades, though, it has produced some of electronic music's most...
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Calculating Machines Before Electronic Computers
Calculating Machines Before Electronic Computers
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Long before vacuum tubes and transistors, people built machines that added, multiplied, tabulated and even solved equations with beads, gears, punched cards, relays and flowing water. This list...
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Electronic Albums Built From Field Recordings and Concrete Noise
Electronic Albums Built From Field Recordings and Concrete Noise
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For listeners who like ambient and experimental electronic music but want to hear the physical world in it, these records build from real sound: weather and wildlife, surgery and skin, vinyl...
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Jazz Records That Make the Rhythm the Main Event
Jazz Records That Make the Rhythm the Main Event
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If you come to jazz through dance records or hip-hop, follow the drums first. On these albums the rhythm can feel like a club track, an argument between two kits or a live session chopped into a...
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