Finally on Amazon. For all you music geeks - this one's for you

808 is consistently interesting, informative and fun.

It's a valuable piece of work, laying out the ongoing influence and impact of the Roland TR-808 drum machine.

Music nerds, especially nerds who are all about the beats, will find satisfaction in 808, the new documentary tribute to the drum machine/rhythm composer that revolutionized popular music.

For music lovers, this is a lovingly fascinating journey through the last 30-plus years worth of musical history that deserves to be heard on the loudest speakers possible.

Everything you ever wanted to know - or perhaps never knew you wanted to know - about the wildly influential Roland TR-808 drum machine is laid out with entertaining, if exhaustive, brio in the documentary "808."

808 succeeded in showing how artists operating within myriad paradigms of music ultimately transformed a technical implement into the most important creative instrument of the 21st century.