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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Post-Punk Explosion Part 2: Techno-Pop
Description: For the longest time, the sounds of rock were made with voice, guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards like piano and organ…there were plenty of ways to manipulate the sounds of those instruments: effects pedals, studio tricks, happy accidents that happened when you least expected them…
And for a couple of decades, this was plenty to work with…we discovered all sorts of techniques to create sounds that no one had ever heard before…
But when engineers started messing with electricity in new ways, it became possible for musicians to create sounds that not only we’d nev...