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Herbie Hancock gets future shock

Herbie Hancock is a musician’s musician. He pushed the boundaries of acoustic piano in the sixties. He found a uniquely personal voice on an array of synthesizers in the seventies. And in the eighties, he helped bring turntablism into the pop mainstream. People have been experimenting with recording playback devices as musical instruments for a …

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Posted byEthanJune 17, 2009March 10, 2015Posted inInterfaces, Key Musicians, Music, SamplingTags: breakdancing, digging the crates, drum machines, eighties, electronica, funk, Herbie Hancock, hip-hop, jazz, keybs, pop, remixes, sequencing, synths, turntablism, vocoder5 Comments on Herbie Hancock gets future shock

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