{"id":8399,"date":"2006-08-26T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/fm\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:47","slug":"fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/fm\/","title":{"rendered":"FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Mix-a-Lot&#8217;s Testarossa, despite it&#8217;s HORRIBLE vocals and awful samples, has one of the best FM synth-based rythem parts ever recorded. It just simply sounds wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, lots of this cheesey 80s\/90s rap has some wonderful backing music.<\/p>\n<p>When at Guitar Center earlier today I got to play with a real DX7. That was nifty. I still wish I had purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagesynth.com\/yamaha\/tx816.shtml\">TX816<\/a> on eBay a few years ago when I had a chance. It would have been only about $150.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Mix-a-Lot&#8217;s Testarossa, despite it&#8217;s HORRIBLE vocals and awful samples, has one of the best FM synth-based rythem parts ever recorded. It just simply sounds wonderful. Then again, lots of this cheesey 80s\/90s rap has some wonderful backing music. When at Guitar Center earlier today I got to play with a real DX7. That was\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13230,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions\/13230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}