Joe Mansfield Beat Box - A Drum Machine Obsession

Joe Mansfield's 200-page "Beat Box - A Drum Machine Obsession" coffee-table book features 75 drum machines from the author's personal collection, with more
than 200 photos by Award Winning photographer Gary Land and Foreword by Dave Tompkins.

It all started with one machine. The location was Boston, Mass. The year was 1986. The "beat box" in question was the TR-808. Almost three decades later, Mansfield's obsession with drum
machines has finally spilled out of his home and climate-controlled storage
space into the world at large. With "Beat Box - A Drum Machine Obsession" (Get On Down Publishing), the Boston-based hip-hop producer and music industry veteran - who helped bring the world Edo G's "I Got To Have It" and "Be A Father To Your Child" in the early '90s, and went on to found Traffic Entertainment Group and co-found Get On Down - shares his deep love and respect for "Beat Boxes" on every page.

Limited to 1500 copies in leather slipcase incl. a 7" with the beat from "Paul Revere" re-programmed on the Roland TR-808 by Joe Mansfield and a cassette tape with 17 beats by Joe as well!