Less than a year after the song flooded American airwaves, the 808 was no longer in production, but it would not be forgotten for long: Appearing at the dawn of remix culture, the 808 and its successors soon helped turn the curation of machine-generated beats into its own art form. That’s the magic of the TR-808, which was released 40 years ago and played a major role in propelling “Sexual Healing” to the top of the charts. If you’re familiar with the percussion on Marvin Gaye’s 1982 hit “Sexual Healing”-those bursts of bass and snare drums amid robotic ticks and claps that collapse atop one another-then you understand how the machine can form a kind of bridge from one moment of breathless desire to the next.
The sequencer on the 808, a row of 16 color-coded buttons, offered artists a way to store beats they programmed.Įven if you don't know the Roland TR-808 drum machine by name, you’ve almost certainly heard it.
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