Publisher's Synopsis
- The amazing history of the vocoder, showing how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon.
- Includes interviews with Kraftwerk, Africa Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Bootsy Collins and more acts.
- A comprehensive history travelling from Nazi research labs to the Muppets and Kanye West.
- Illuminates the work of some of music's most provocative innovators.
- Dave Tompkins has written for The Wire, Vibe, Wax Poetics and The Believer.
