Saturday, June 27

Get Rhythm!

I love drum machines. I bought my first drum machine in 1994. An Alesis Sr-16. Not a bad first drum machine. You could program beats with it, pick different sounds, and it had a nice big dial (that sadly only controlled the tempo.) Since then I've gone thru quite a few different machines, at least a dozen. My favorites are probably the pre set early rhythm units, like the famous Roland CR-78 - used on Phil Collins' hit song, "In the Air Tonight." Here's the 3 drum machines I've never owned, but always coveted:



Sly Stone made famous another great machine, the Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2:



Elektron makes probably the only digital drum machine that I really dig, the Machinedrum. The MD is glitchy, spurted joy and I've always wanted one:

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