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The Last Archive

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The Future of Music

In the 1950s, Americans were drunk on the post-war promise of consumer technology. These companies were selling the future, and they needed a sound to match it. Scott seems to have created one of the first, if not the first, musical sequencer. The device is the foundation for much of modern pop.

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