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All throughout Cash Money, I never abandoned the SP 1200. At the end of the day, I still use my SP 1200 'cause I like the way the drums sound.

If you know Down South production, Roland 808 is in almost everything.

I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

I love 808s - not only the Auto-Tune but just, in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working.

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.

It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.

Blue Monday's distinctive intro was written on an Oberheim DMX drum machine.

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.