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Normally you'd associate the talkbox with Parliament or American west coast funk music but he's used it in a more interesting, modern, electronic sense.
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Expect this end-of-year blowout to be a roadblock, with no less than two Guide cover stars – Hudson Mohawke and Jamie xx – along with Jackmaster, Spencer and Deadboy, plus the label's newest superstar, talkbox virtuoso Redinho.
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You can't talk about the talkbox without mentioning Peter Frampton.
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I've been hoping for the vocoder and talkbox to return to the top of the pop charts for a solid decade now (ever since "California Love", really) and am somewhat chagrined that so much of the recent voice-distortion on pop singles is in the context of rather uninspired songs.
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This performance clearly would have been vastly improved if Joel had simply inserted a transparent breathing tube into the corner of his mouth and insisted that he was opening up last year's Super Bowl game with an homage to the talkbox.
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The tube is Snoop controlling his (theoretical) talkbox!
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The thing is, "Sensual Seduction" doesn't use the talkbox, nor does it use a vocoder, which is a completely different instrument that often gets credit for the talkbox's outbut.
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We discussed that a bit in the post on Auto-Tune, talkbox, and vocoders.
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In the video, Snoop makes liberal use of a breath tube on his keytar, an obvious homage to the talkbox made (in) famous by Roger Troutman of Zapp fame.
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When he reached Kheraskov's suite of offices, the receptionist was nothing but a scanner and talkbox hooked to a computer too low-grade to be called a brain.
The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972
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