{"id":15401,"date":"2010-08-04T01:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=15401"},"modified":"2010-08-04T01:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T23:54:28","slug":"the-50-greatest-vocoder-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-50-greatest-vocoder-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Greatest Vocoder Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The vocoder was invented to improve telecommunications in the 1930s and re-purposed by the military to mask speech among officials during World War II. By the 1980s, artists like Afrika Bambaataa and Zapp began using it as a musical instrument. The sound caught on and has remained one of the most influential movements in music to this day, although Auto-Tune (not included on the list), has mostly replaced it. Writer Dave Tompkins is somewhat of a vocoder historian; the legendary music journalist wrote a book this year, How To Wreck A Nice Beach, chronicling the machine’s history. (The book includes a chapter on Talkbox, vocoder’s funkier twin sister, which explains its inclusion on parts of the list.) Musicians have been trying to sound like robots for years, and this Tompkins-curated list of The 50 Greatest Vocoder Songs is the ultimate guide to the machine’s best moments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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