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How to Wreck a Nice Beach The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks

Dave Tompkins

The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquit...

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It was mentioned as a source of inspiration for the episode, detailing the history of the vocoder's journey from military use into popular music.

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Special thanks this week to Dave Tompkins, author of How to Wreck a Nice Beach, the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop.

— Episode: Vox Ex Machina

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It was mentioned as a source of inspiration for the episode, detailing the history of the vocoder's journey from military use into popular music.

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Special thanks this week to Dave Tompkins, author of How to Wreck a Nice Beach, the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop.

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