Q 01/05

Which Kraftwerk album, built around a 22-minute title track, became a surprise US top-five hit in 1975?

A) Trans-Europe Express

B) Autobahn

C) The Man-Machine

D) Computer World

Answer · why

B) Autobahn

Autobahn reached number five in America after radio took to a three-minute edit of the title track, whose German chorus 'Fahren, fahren, fahren' was o...

Q 02/05

Whose 1968 album Switched-On Bach, performed on a Moog synthesizer, became the record that put the instrument on the charts?

A) Wendy Carlos

B) Isao Tomita

C) Suzanne Ciani

D) Morton Subotnick

Answer · why

A) Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos built the album one note at a time, because the Moog could sound only a single note at once; it took about a thousand studio hours and th...

Q 03/05

Which 1980-83 drum machine flopped commercially but became a cornerstone of hip-hop production?

A) Roland TR-909

B) Linn LM-1

C) Roland TR-808

D) Oberheim DMX

Answer · why

C) Roland TR-808

The Roland TR-808 ran to only about 12,000 units before Roland could no longer restock the faulty transistors behind its sizzling sound; cheap secondh...

Q 04/05

Who teamed up with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo in Paris in 1993 to form Daft Punk, the duo who performed as robots?

A) Thomas Bangalter

B) Laurent Garnier

C) Étienne de Crécy

D) DJ Falcon

Answer · why

A) Thomas Bangalter

Thomas Bangalter, and the duo's name came from a bad review of their earlier indie band Darlin', which Melody Maker dismissed as 'a daft punky thrash'...

Q 05/05

Which American city is considered the birthplace of house music?

A) Chicago

B) Detroit

C) New York

D) Miami

Answer · why

A) Chicago

Chicago, where DJs in the city's queer Black underground clubs reworked disco records with drum machines in the early 1980s. Detroit answered with tec...