Best hip-hop albums of all time, from Public Enemy to Dr Dre, Jay-Z to Kendrick Lamar, to school you in hip-hop history.

• Gangster Chronicle by London Posse (1990)
• The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest (1991)
• The Chronic by Dr Dre (1992)
• Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan (1993)
• Illmatic by Nas (1994)
• Ready To Die by The Notorious BIG (1994)
• All Eyez On Me by 2Pac (1996)
• The Score by Fugees (1996)
• Aquemini by OutKast (1998)
• The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill (1998)
• The Blueprint by Jay-Z (2001)
• My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West (2010)
• To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar (2015)
  Kendrick Lamar’s third studio album, To Pimp A Butterfly, has been compared to Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation

The titles, according to Ultimate Classic Rock, include:

They Came in Peace, Live, Leeds University 1970 Washington University 1971
Live at Grosser Saal, Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany 25 Feb 1971
Mauerspechte Berlin Sportpalast, Live 5 June 1971
Live, Lyon 12 June 1971, Tokyo 16 March 1972
Live in Rome Palaeur 20 June 1971
Amsterdamse Bos Free Concert 26 June 1971 (Live)
Live in Montreux 18 & 19 Sept 1971
KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Live 23 Sept 1971
KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Vol II, Live 23 Sept 1971
Over Bradford Pigs on the Groove Bradford University, Live 10 Oct 1971
Embryo, San Diego, Live 17 Oct 1971
The Screaming Abdabs Quebec City, Live 10 Nov 1971

The Mellotron, built and sold by Mellotronics, Ltd., was based on an earlier instrument, the Chamberlin MusicMaster, which used recorded notes from members of Lawrence Welk’s band—hardly the hippest sounds on the scene when the Mellotron MK1 debuted in 1963. By the time of the MK2, however, the device developed into a powerful multitimbral machine, with a dual keyboard, “containing more than 70 3/8-inch tape players, a reverb unit, amplifiers and speakers.”

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http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/rick_wakeman_tells_the_story_of_the_mellotron_the_oddball_proto-synthesizer_pioneered_by_the_beatles_.html

James Hill, an award-winning ukulele player and songwriter from Canada, has been called a "ukulele wunderkind," and an artist who "gives the ukulele its dignity back without ever taking himself too seriously." The video above puts Hill's lighter side and wunderkind talents on full display.

Performing live for a crowd in California, Hill and his "imaginary band" perform an enchanting version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." With just a uke, Hill plays the bass line, percussion, and piano parts. Put it all together, and you have a fascinating one-man ukulele performance. But wait until you see what he can do with a uke, chopsticks and comb...

You Are My Sunshine
House of Rising Sun
Four Leaf Clover

Alda’s ambition is to be a powerful and flexible music programming language that can be used to create music in a variety of genres by typing some code into a text editor and running a program that compiles the code and turns it into sound. I’ve put a lot of thought into making the syntax as intuitive and beginner-friendly as possible. In fact, one of the goals of Alda is to be simple for someone with little-to-no programming experience to pick up and start using. Alda’s tagline, a music programming language for musicians, conveys its goal of being useful to non-programmers.

Rob Keller on the bass (1994)

Web Audio API lets us make sound right in the browser. It makes your sites, apps, and games more fun and engaging. You can even build music-specific applications like drum machines and synthesizers. In this article, we'll learn about working with the Web Audio API by building some fun and simple projects.

Newest uploads! Auto-78-twitter. Through the Great 78 Project the Internet Archive has begun to digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery with the help of George Blood, L.P..

Drum machine

Roland TR-808 drum machine emulator

In these lessons, you'll learn the basics of music making. No prior experience or equipment is required; you'll do everything right here in your browser.

A few years back I discovered that even a person of limited soldering skills can create a nifty surround-sound system with the magic of a passive matrix decoder system; the results pleased me and continue to, It's certainly not a big and fancy surround system, but I recommend it highly as a project with a high ratio of satisfaction to effort. (Here's one of the many, many tutorials out there on doing it yourself; it's not the long-forgotten one I actually used, but I like this one better.) I like listening to recorded music sometimes just to hear how a particular playback system sounds, not just to hear the music "as intended." I'd like to find some more audio hacks and tricks like this that are cheap, easy, and fun. Bonus points if they can be done with the assistance of a couple of smart children, without boring them too much. I have access to Goodwill and other thrift stores that are usually overflowing with cheap-and-cheerful gear, to match my toy budget. What mods or fixes would be fun to implement? Are there brands or models of turntable I should look for as the easiest with which to tinker? Are there cool easy-entry projects akin to that surround sound system that I could use to improve my radio reception? I'm not sure what's out there, but I'd like to get some cool use out of the closet-and-a-half I've got filled with speakers and other gear that I can't quite bear to toss, since "it still works."