Dave Tompkins heads over to NYC’s Big City Records to share some of his favorite albums that utilized the vocoder and a bit of the strange history behind the device’s creation and rise in popularity.
Be sure to check out Dave Tompkins’s recent book, How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, which is available now.
ain’t this record store Q-Tip digs at? I swear he was in there on one of his interviews.
I think this might be my contender for best use of a vocoder in a song: Jonzun Crew – Pack Jam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zkbjOvXWo