Episode list

Sound designer Alex Rosner was the sonic architect and guru of some of NYC's most legendary clubs of the 1970s. In the first edition of The Note documentary series, we offer an intimate portrayal of how Rosner - and others like him - fundamentally changed the way we experience dance music via soundsystem designs for iconic clubs like The Loft.

Inspired by the early '70s activism of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, Latin music pioneer Eddie Palmieri produced one of the most daring albums of his already storied career: Harlem River Drive, a politically charged Latin-funk masterpiece so ahead of its time that its influence continues to resonate decades later.

Art and engineering converged in mid-'60s New York City under the banner E.A.T. - a watershed meeting of the exploratory minds of Bell Labs researchers and avant-garde artists like Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage that forever altered our perception of technology's relationship to art and music.

At the height of the anti-disco movement in the late 1970s, Chicago rock radio host Steve Dahl devised one of the most infamous promotional events in pop culture history, and in doing so unwittingly set the stage for a dance music revolution.