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Bjooks have built a reputation for books that go deep on synthesisers and music technology. BEAT GEMS: Drum Machines in Modern Music is the upcoming book by Oli Freke that covers more than 60 drum machines, from the most well-known to very niche, and traces how they helped shape the music we listen to today.<\/p>\n
Catch up on all the latest news\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Freke is a musician, illustrator and historian of electronic instruments. Freke can get into the technical weeds without losing the reader, and BEAT GEMS reflects that. Each machine gets high-resolution photography alongside commentary on its origins, interface design and musical significance. The Roland TR-808, Linn LM-1, Oberheim DMX and Akai MPC60 are all in there, but so are lesser-known machines that often get skipped over in the standard histories.<\/p>\n The book isn\u2019t just a catalogue, but follows the broader story of how drum machines evolved from basic preset rhythm boxes into the programmable studio tools that gave birth to hip-hop, house, techno and plenty in between. If you\u2019ve ever been curious about how these pieces of hardware end up reshaping entire genres, this is a book that answers that question.<\/p>\n BEAT GEMS launches on Kickstarter at Superbooth in Berlin. Early bird tiers and backer rewards will be available through the campaign.<\/p>\n Sign up to be notified when the campaign goes live here<\/a>, or follow the Kickstarter pre-launch page directly here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source mixdownmag.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bjooks have built a reputation for books that go deep on synthesisers and music technology. BEAT GEMS: Drum Machines in Modern Music is the upcoming book by Oli Freke that covers more than 60 drum machines, from the most well-known to very niche, and traces how they helped shape the music we listen to today. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2392410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BEAT-GEMS-a-book-dedicated-to-drum-machines.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392411,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392409\/revisions\/2392411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}