A tout les histoiriens, la tr303 existe elle?

Citation : The Roland TR 303, smallest and most
influential box of them all, began life as an
impenetrable automated bass player. Only people with
heads as big as Brian Eno's could figure out how to work the
303. A commercial flop for Roland until...

The great Marshall Jefferson once told me that nobody in Chicago
could get anything out of this silver machine so
someone came up with the solution of taking the
batteries out, putting them back in, switching the 303
on and seeing what happened. That could explain a lot
of the nonsensical, impossible genius of early acid.
The batteries story is probably bollocks but, then
again, pre- 1987, you'd have died of shock had you
heard someone strolling down the street whistling
Acid Tracks. As a result of records like this, the 303
became known as the acid machine. Acid, put simply,
is the sound made by a constantly repeating pattern
modulated with the little knobs on the top of the
machine so it becomes bassier, then more extreme or
squelchy and distorted. Most of the great acid records
consist of a drum pattern and someone twisting these
knobs round for an hour or two. Boring now, I know,
but it sounded like all hell was being let loose back
then. The fact that the 303 died a creative death
several years back did not however stop Josh Wink from
making a career out of shaking his fake dreads around,
hunched over a 303 while treating us to the house equivalent
of a sad metal guitar solo. Add to this the fact that
lads with no shirts on, in the time-honoured fashion
of air guitarists at rawk shows across middle America,
now twist their thumbs and fingers around in mid-air
during the acid sections of progressive house records,
and it’s clear much damage has been done.

Yet, the simple aims of the faceless men from Osaka- to provide
the drummer-less with drums; the bass-less with bass,
have inadvertently provided us with a lot of great
music. Even so, the great house/techno dustbin is so
full of mindless nonsense, I suggest that, rather than
joining in when the lads start talking Roland
numbers, you should declare the conversation bollocks
and start talking about Moogs and Theremins like the
proper little clever dick I know you are.

Citation : TR 303 c'est un clin d'œil à la TR 808, une boîte à rythme utilisée dans les albums de rap old school comme ceux de LL Cool J. Un journaliste nous a appris que la TR 303 avait existé mais était tellement compliquée qu'elle n'avait pas marché !

Citation : Only people with
heads as big as Brian Eno's could figure out how to work the
303. A commercial flop for Roland until...