Reviewer:
FP
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July 27, 2005
Subject:
Comprehensive overview of the TB-303 and its derivative products
If you're interested in the early history of ROLAND, the Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments and the TB-303 Bassline, you'll enjoy this 20-minute video. The TB-303 and its design are described in depth, and many examples of popular music made with the machine are presented.
Four stars instead of five for two reasons: There are long stretches of black screen with only narration, and the opening sentences read by the narrator are painfully academic, with the stultifying grammatical rigor of a doctoral thesis. The video gets pretty cool after that, though.