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808

By Alexander DUNN

YOU KNOW FILMS - as PROD / FIN

Art - Culture - Completed 2016

The story of the TR-808 drum machine, the heart of the beat that changed music.

Festivals
& Awards

SXSW 2015

Love & Anarchy - Helsinki International Film Festival 2015

Seattle 2015

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, USA, FINLAND, JAPAN
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Alexander DUNN
- Producer(s)
- Alex NOYER (You Know Films), Alexander DUNN, Craig KALLMAN (Atlantic Records), Arthur BAKER
- Synopsis
- 808 chronicles the incredible story of the influential Roland TR-808 drum machine, a small but powerful piece of technology that changed the course of music history. Narrated by Beats 1’s Zane Lowe, the film features commentary and contributions from such superstars as Pharrell Williams, Afrika Bambaataa, Questlove, The Beastie Boys, Damon Albarn, David Guetta, Phil Collins, Diplo, New Order, and Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), as well as pioneering producers including Rick Rubin, Jellybean Benitez, Hank Shocklee, and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. The filmmakers’ three-year-journey concludes in the 808’s birthplace of Japan, where Roland founder Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi at last reveals the untold reason for the machine’s mysterious early discontinuation, just as it was turning up on more hit records than any other drum machine.