Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson: Drum Machine

From the Linn drum to the 808, in the fifth episode of Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson on Apple TV+, Oscar- and Grammy-winning producer and artist Mark Ronson, Questlove, Too $hort, and more give us the history behind the machines that made music-making more accessible and helped birth hip-hop. “In my mind, this was hip-hop stuff, this was ours,” explains Too $hort in the show. “They had drummers and guitar players; we had this stuff.” Check out these songs created almost exclusively on some of music’s most groundbreaking technology.