The birdhead: It's been a few years since I watched "808" so I purloined a copy and put it on. I'm amazed by the variety of artists they interview. I can understand that most of them are retired now and bored and willing to do documentaries, but how do you get Pharrell Williams to take your call (in 2014-15)?
b1-66er: Yeah yeah!
bh: Also, gotta love Afrika Bambaataa. Every time I see him interviewed, he's in some ridiculous outfit that goes past stylish, past farce, and somehow wraps back around to stylish.
b1: Yeah. That's him.
Style is a globe.
Keep going west.
Keep going.
Keep going.
No one navigates accurately.
Spin enough, you'll get to a pole.
That's were all the cool is.
bh: Quick story: two guys from New Order are interviewed in 808. Their song Blue Monday has a huge drum track that everybody alive in the 1980's recognizes...but it's not from a 808. It's from a LinnDrum. According to bass player Peter Hook, they'd programmed the entire song's drum part on the thing and had moved on to instrumental parts when somebody tripped over the power cord and the LinnDrum's memory was lost. They spent another day re-programming it, of course, but Hook says the replacement part isn't quite the same.
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