Stop Smiling Books/ Melville House; 335 pp. The room contains two turntables and a microphone. Hulking consoles line the walls, covered in dials and gauges and blinking lights, like the bridge of ...

The vocoder—code name Special Customer, the Green Hornet, Project X-61753, X-Ray, and SIGSALY—started distorting human speech in earnest during World War II, in response to the excellence of German ...

The vocoder—the musical instrument that gave Kraftwerk its robotic sound—began as an early telecommunications device and a top-secret military encoding machine. sort of alienated from your body. It ...

Before T-Pain was using Auto-Tune to buy girls drinks, Franklin D. Roosevelt was using the vocoder to win World War II. In “How to Wreck a Nice Beach,” music critic Dave Tompkins (The Wire, Vibe) ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Fun and creative design, capable of effects that reach well beyond standard vocoder tones. Lots ...

At one point in time, to many, Snoop Dogg was the man. He was the epitome of a laidback hustler, the kind of cool no MC or even celebrity could replicate. And then he started making records like Da ...