Dancing to the Drum Machine

Dan LeRoy is the Director of Writing and Publishing at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, USA. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Village Voice, Esquire online, and Alternative Press. He is the author of The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (Bloomsbury, 2006), The Greatest Music Never Sold (2007), For Whom the Cowbell Tolls (2014), and Liberty's Lions: The Catholic Revolutionaries Who Established America (2021).

"The never-before told story of drum machines, from their primitive beginnings to their Eighties dominance to the ways they're still changing music today"--

Foreword by Nick Rhodes: Timing is EverythingPrologue1. From Boats to Babies: How Drum Machines Began2. The Rhythm Aces3. Beat Brothers: Sly Stone and J.J. Cale4. "The Machines Are Fighting Back"5. Teutonic Sonics: Germany and Programmed Rhythm6. Turn the Beat Around: Eno, Disco and the Drum Machine7. Our Drum Machine Could Be Your Band8. The Drum Machines That Weren't9. Punch the Clock: The Joy and Pain of Drum Programming10. Without Me, You Would Not Even Have Thought of Writing This Book11. Give the (Electronic) Drummer Some12. Inside and Outside the Box: The Linn Revolution13. "Have You Seen This New Drum Machine? Shit!"14. 808 State15. Hip Hop's Electric Guitar16. Worker Bees of the DMX17. Destination Emulation18. Mr. K's Last Laugh19. The Mammals Arrive: The Linn 9000 and the End of the Drum Machine20. Computer Love21. Time Out of TimeAppendix: I Am EchoAcknowledgments