question: What's the name for early electronic hip-hop and music based around Roland drum machines and new wave 1980s sounds?
answer: electro
context: Title: Roland Corporation
  Passage: Roland Corporation (ローランド株式会社 , Rōrando Kabushiki Kaisha ) is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software.  It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥33 million in capital.  In 2005, Roland's headquarters relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture.  Today it has factories in Italy, Taiwan, Japan, and the USA.  As of March 31, 2010, it employed 2,699 employees.  It has existed in different forms since 1960, making it relatively old among still-operating manufacturers of musical electronics.  Known for hundreds of popular synthesizers, drum machines, and other instruments, Roland has been one of the top names in professional music equipment since the late 1970s.
  Title: TR-REC
  Passage: TR-Rec is short for TR Recording.  One of the Roland Corporation TR-Series drum machines, like Roland TR-808 and Roland TR-909 had these control features.  TR-REC mode lets you turn the desired notes on and off using the PADS on the Roland MC-303, Roland MC-307, Roland MC-505, Roland D2, Roland MC-909 and the new Roland MC-808.  You can see the notes onscreen or on the pads as you work.
  Title: Elastic Love
  Passage: "Elastic Love" is a song recorded by American recording artist Christina Aguilera, taken from her sixth studio album, "Bionic" (2010).  The song was written by Aguilera, M.I.A., John Hill and Switch, while production was handled by the latter two.  Originally, "Elastic Love" was recorded by M.I.A., but later it was given to Aguilera.  However, M.I.A. was disappointed when Aguilera didn't want to do her "trademark warbling" in the studio.  "Elastic Love" is an electro and electropop song with strong elements from 1980s new wave music.  Lyrically, Aguilera compares her love to office supplies, from paperclips to rubber-bands.
  Title: Roland TR-909
  Passage: The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer is a drum machine introduced by the Roland Corporation in 1983.  It was the first Roland drum machine to use samples (for its cymbal and hi-hat sounds) alongside analog sounds.  Designed by Tadao Kikumoto, who also designed the Roland TB-303 synthesizer, the 909 features a 16-step step sequencer and drum sounds that aimed for realism and cost-effectiveness.  It is fully programmable, and like its predecessor, the TR-808, it can store entire songs with multiple sections, as opposed to simply storing patterns.  It was the first MIDI-equipped drum machine.  Around 10,000 units were produced.
  Title: Minisystem
  Passage: Minisystem (Jeffrey Lee) is a Canadian solo electronic musician and molecular biologist based in Toronto.  His music is produced almost entirely with analog synthesizers and drum machines. His debut album, "Madingley", was released in 2006 on Toronto's Noise Factory Records.  Minisystem is often defined in contrast to Intelligent dance music and glitch.  Combining simple drum sounds from the Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines arranged in a dance progression with melodic and warm tones from a variety of vintage analog synthesizers, Minisystem has been compared to Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk.  His music has been described as "synth-pop".
  Title: Korg Mini Pops
  Passage: Mini Pops was the name given to a number of early drum machines from the Japanese musical equipment company Korg during the late 1960s and the 1970s.  The machines were based around a number of preset rhythm patterns, such as waltz, samba and rhumba.
  Title: Boss Doctor Rhythm DR-110
  Passage: The Boss Doctor Rhythm DR-110 Graphic is a drum machine produced by the Boss product division of the Japanese Roland Corporation in 1983.  It featured advances in technology compared to previous Roland drum machines: it had an LCD graphic display, showing a step-programming grid for the various drum voices.  The DR-110 allowed the drum sounds to be played manually from rubber pads (as well as programmed).  Like all Roland's previous drum machines, the DR-110's synthesized drum "voices" (synthesizer sounds) used analog synthesizer circuits.  Tempo was continuously variable between 45 and 300 beats per minute (BPM).  The DR-110 used a 4-bit Hitachi microprocessor and 1KB of μPD444C RAM memory.
  Title: Electro (music)
  Passage: Electro (or electro-funk) is a genre of electronic music and early hip hop directly influenced by the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machines, and funk.  Records in the genre typically feature drum machines and heavy electronic sounds, usually without vocals, although if vocals are present they are delivered in a deadpan manner, often through electronic distortion such as vocoding and talkboxing.  This is the main distinction between electro and previously prominent genres such as disco, in which the electronic sound was only part of the instrumentation.  It also palpably deviates from its predecessor boogie for being less vocal-oriented and more focused on electronic beats produced by drum machines.
  Title: Electronic drum module
  Passage: An electronic drum module is an electronic or digital music device in an electronic drum kit that serves as the central processing unit and sound module.  The drum module creates or produces the drum kit sounds or other sounds selected by the drummer.  By itself, a drum module cannot play or sound drum beats.  It only produces drum sounds when a performer strikes electronic drum pads or acoustic drum kit instruments that have electronic "triggers" (or sensors) attached to them.  When the electronic drum pads or trigger-equipped instruments are struck, this sends a signal to the drum module, which produces the corresponding electronic drum sound (or other sound).  Even when drum pads and/or triggers are connected to a drum module, the drum module by itself does not make any audible sound.  Like other electronic instruments such as the synthesizer, the drum module only outputs an electronic signal.  The performer can hear this signal by connecting headphones to the drum module (i.e., for individual practice) or by plugging the drum module into a amplifier and loudspeaker or PA system for audible practice or live performances.  The drum module's output signal can also be patched into an audio console for concerts or sound recording.  The nomenclature varies (see below).  For example, electronic drum modules are called "percussion sound modules" in the case of Roland Corporation, or sometimes simply modules.  A common colloquial term for this device is drum brain.  (see below).
  Title: Roland TR-707
  Passage: The Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer is a programmable digital sample-based drum machine built by the Roland Corporation, beginning in 1984.  The TR-707 was a staple in early house music, particularly with acid house.  It is also a staple of almost all electronic Arabic pop music (al jeel).  Because the TR-707 offers a limited number of instruments sampled at 12 bits, its sound is considered dated by modern standards.  However, it is still in use because of its versatility in synchronizing with other hardware and its fully featured interface, comparable to that of high-end Roland drum machines such as the TR-808 and TR-909.
citations: Elastic Love Electro (music)