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Music, Makers & Machines
A brief history of electronic music
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A Sample of Electronic Music History
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1
Tech Nerd
Learn about the machines and studios
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2
Just Here For The Music
Explore the songs and the artists
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3
At The Club
Dive in to the nightlife and culture
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4
A Total Novice
Your beginner's guide to electronic music
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Meet the beep
How a Little Beep Took Over the World
From your phone's ringtone to your microwave's "ping", explore how electronic sound changed life as we know it
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In 1895, the first synthesizer was invented
The Telharmonium
The Colossal History of a Magnificent Invention
Weighing 200 tonnes, 60 feet long, and consisting of 144 alternators, 672 keys, and 336 sliders
The science
An Explosion of Technological Progress
Tracing the unlikely origins of electronic music
Music was electrified
The Pioneers of Dance Music
The movers and shakers of Dance music from Lee Scratch Perry to Juan Atkins
10 of the Most Memorable Electronic Music Tracks
Uncover the instruments and techniques behind some of the songs
Les Compilations Kitsuné
Le label parisien
It thumped in the clubs...
3D Object
The Coolest Door in Techno History
See what's on the other side of first ever electronic club's door
Club
Berghain: Club of Clubs
The world's most famous club – but why?
90s
Reliving Nineties Berlin
Open spaces, illegal raves and a thriving sub culture in a newly united Germany
Underground
A Tour of London's Lost Clubs
Keeping the underground alive
Manchester
Factory Records
Learn about Manchester's electronic music scene
... and pinged on our screens
Video games
A History of Video Game Music
From computer-generated blips and boops to fully orchestrated scores
Movies
From the Golden Era to Gigabytes
Dive into the history of film scoring
Now you can see the instruments that changed everything in 3D
Akai MPC-60
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Roland TR-808
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ARP Odyssey
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Roland TR-909
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Roland CR-78
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Ensoniq EPS
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Korg PS-3100
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Rhythm ACE FR-1
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Akai S900
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Roland Jupiter-8
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Casio VL-1
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Korg MS-20
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Oberheim OB-8
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Fairlight CMI
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Yamaha CS 80
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Sequential Circuits Prophet 10
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Roland SH-101
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E-mu Emulator-II
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Millioniser 2000
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Roland Jupiter-6
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Elka Synthex
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Moog Memorymoog
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Go inside the legendary studios...
Paris: INA GRM
The analogue era
Cologne: The CAN Studio
Krautrock origins at the rock'n'popmuseum
Paris: The Studio Pierre Henry
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Milan: The RAI Studio
Italy's journey to electronic music
Berlin: The Studio for Electroacoustic Music
A public platform for artistic innovation
Munich: Siemens Studio
A lab for the musical avant-garde
Cologne: The WDR Studio for Electronic Music
Entirely new sounds
... and meet the musical innovators
The history
Ahead of The Curve
Early pioneers from Daphne Oram to Wendy Carlos
The inventors
Alan R. Pearlman
The engineer who founded one of the early leading American synthesizer manufacturers
The inventors
Raymond Scott
The composer who invented the polyphonic sequencer
The inventors
Pierre Schaeffer
A French composer who put the new sounds together
The inventors
Daphne Oram
A major music pioneer who could 'paint music'
Explore new sound and new instruments...
The instruments
7 Early Electronic Instruments That Changed Sound
From the successful to the one-of-a-kind
The history
The Instrumental Instruments
Key creations from Leon Theremin to Bob Moog
... discover the evolution of dance culture
Berlin, the City Without Tomorrow
A place of freedom and the absence of closing time
The Club Kids
From ballroom and disco to cybergoths and psytrance
The Second Summer of Love
How the summer of 1988 kickstarted a rave revolution
Three Stacks High
Sound system culture
Club Culture
An incomplete history
How Gay Pop Music Shaped The World
A story of suppression and its opposite
After The Rave
90s club culture in the UK
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