drum-machine

Amid a clutter of competing yet complimentary sounds, Philip Selway adds textures — on the kit and through drum-machine programming — often working in unusual time signatures.

Radiohead's Selway Explores a New Station in Life Jim Fusilli 2010

Like the drum-machine programmers or metronomic drum-and-bass percussionists the Scala audience was used to, Reid could sustain prolonged, unwavering grooves of astonishing tightness.

Steve Reid obituary 2010

There are operatic vocal samples, contorted brass, drum-machine tremors -- it's as if the maestros at NFL Films were commissioned to score Armageddon.

Album review: Big Boi, "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty" 2010

Horns, pedal steel, folk guitars and ticky-tacky drum-machine beats flesh out the arrangements under the vocal harmonies.

Cultural, Musical Roots Sprout Great Performances 2010

They throw impromptu drum-machine bashes where people wear horrible masks: devils, scary clowns, monsters, and aliens.

Bogus to Bubbly Scott Westerfeld 2008

They throw impromptu drum-machine bashes where people wear horrible masks: devils, scary clowns, monsters, and aliens.

Bogus to Bubbly Scott Westerfeld 2008

On the flipside, "CockRock" is a new dirty-south anthem, all glittery synths, drum-machine beats and filth spewed from all three involved.

Music (For Robots): January 2005 Archives 2005

BOTH make remarkably hook-y indie rock, that varies in tone from huge washes of guitar, like on the opening track "Holiday Machine" and "Is It A Crime?", to stripped down compositions like "Candyman" and the drum-machine beat-driven "Conjecture Means" - I decided to go with this track because it has this drive to it, with the double-tracked vocals and the clean guitar line, that feels like Summer-time perfection.

I like BOTH (Music (For Robots)) 2005

They're a three-piece Brooklyn-based, all-keyboard, all-girl band - Heather D'Angelo on vox, keys and drum-machine; Erika Forster and Annie Hart on vox and keys.

Music (For Robots): April 2005 Archives 2005

BOTH make remarkably hook-y indie rock, that varies in tone from huge washes of guitar, like on the opening track "Holiday Machine" and "Is It A Crime?", to stripped down compositions like "Candyman" and the drum-machine beat-driven "Conjecture Means" - I decided to go with this track because it has this drive to it, with the double-tracked vocals and the clean guitar line, that feels like Summer-time perfection.

Music (For Robots): July 2005 Archives 2005