The mighty 909 casts a huge shadow over bleep, helping to define the sound. Originally released in 1983, the drum machine was a mainstay of early house and techno but the way it was used in bleep was ...

In this roundup we have everything from simple drum machine accompaniment devices to full-on boxes that bleep, beat, sequence and sample. Nowadays you can make tunes anywhere you like, without a ...

Bleep, the online music store started by Warp, is celebrating its 10th birthday this year with a new compilation and series of events. Appropriately titled Bleep10, the comp features music from ...

Sponsor Message "It's about 2 feet and some change tall," says Joe Mansfield, author of the new book Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession. "It's maybe a foot and a half wide, and it looks like ...

But it also kicked off a new era: The age of the drum machine. These early contraptions never moved beyond musicians’ rehearsal space. But people continued to improve them, and by the 1970s ...

A drum machine emulates the sounds made by any and all percussion instruments. But unlike the actual instruments, a drum machine lets you go a step further in the creative process, allowing you to ...