NEW YORK (Billboard) - Half art book, half music nerd bathroom reading, Dave Tompkins' long-in-the-works history of the vocoder, "How to Wreck a Nice Beach," chronicles the sound synthesizing system's ...

A lot of Daft Punk songs use vocoder effects. Not really sure if that's the style of music you're looking for. Not really. I appreciate the suggestion, but DP songs just aren't my thing somehow. I ...