Roland
A. G. Cook
“There's one that I labeled as Prince because it reminds me of when he's doing some Juno thing with the effects turned up way too high.”
“Like the 606 drum as well, that's just rattling through. It's all just the decisions I was doing to come up with the material.”
Adam Buxton
“It's like a Roland — what is it, a System 100? I think the Human League used to enjoy the System 100. Nice little thing with a sequencer on it.”
Air
“You need a Roland Juno or Jupiter-8 to have the Japanese sound.”
“You need a Roland Juno or Jupiter-8 to have the Japanese sound.”
Arlo Parks
“what comes to mind is probably the Juno, the 106 we used for Two-Sided... that day it was the only thing that worked”
Barry Cant Swim
“You can just get a really sterile 808 going doo doo doo, and then I'll run that through that and it creates all these incredible harmonics”
Bleachers
“A lot of ways he got around that was really super gritted synthetic instruments. So this Juno arp, immediately... very hypnotic to me.”
“the TR-808 changed music because that frequency did not exist”
“I just heard this bouncy Juno in my head... then I get on the Juno and my idea was a little ahead of time.”
“This Juno... that's such like a clearing moment, like so introspective”
“we turned the space echo, we just turned the return really loud... all echo, so I could just play with the time of it and just found the pitch”
“I'll present it through TC Helicon and a VC-10, you know, old vocoder and Auto-Tune”
“I was in Paris and I did this on a Juno... I start layering Junos, added another one, added a low one.”
“I remember I added 808s. I started making this weird little synthetic thing, added some hi-hats.”
“when the first Bleachers album was the Juno-6, it just like spoke to me in this way”
Bob Vylan
“We tried using 808s, bass guitar, and all of these other things... I think we then ended up settling on an 808”
Bonobo
“These kind of lovely harmonic 808 low-end kicks... sounds like an 808 clav, I think, but then pitched.”
Charli XCX
“you can even hear this 606 stuff pitched down a little bit, really soft and weird”
“909 was very across the board from the start of this record, wasn't it? I was really trying to run with that”
“So 808s and 909s really is like the vibe.”
“They are referencing this 909 palette that George mentioned... it can be both heavy and a bit brittle”
“It's like their version of an SH-101 type thing, and you can really— it has a really aggressive filter in it.”
“606 off the PPG Waves. 606, PPG Waves. Guitars”
Clean Bandit
“And it had like an anti-drop. So it was this big build, and then it was just like a kind of 808.”
“808 warfare.”
Danny L Harle
“with that Reaktor 808, I know that it just needed some support in the bottom end”
Declan Mckenna
“he just played on like a Mellotron or his Juno, something a little bit like what's actually on the track.”
“I think this is the Juno. So I think this is a Juno-60, which Luca has.”
Djo
“This is an Alpha Juno that he had just got… I think this patch was called Rich Strings.”
“The Alpha Juno was basically like a 106 without any sliders or knobs.”
EJT
“I think it's a Space Echo I'm putting it through, just as the phrase moves on, feeling more and more delay”
“It's done on my beloved Space Echo. It's a little slap vocal to bring more of that Motown-esque essence through”
“I used this SH-101, I think it is, this Roland synth that's really fat and aggressive sounding”
“the drums are very slightly going through the Space Echo all the way through the song... adding almost a ghost note effect”
Four Tet
“I found an old recording of a — it's like a TR-8, Roland TR-8, and a DrumBrute, like 2 drum machines sort of hooked together”
“there's this song Angle Poised, which is really long. It's like an 808 drum machine and bass guitar”
HAIM
“I can also get into the combination of the Juno and the piano, which is like kind of the backbone of the verses”
Holly Humberstone
“There's like 20 Junos playing different parts. There's like 100 backing vocals.”
“My Juno-60 is my absolute desert island... the Juno-60 is the absolute number one essential piece of kit. It's on everything.”
Jamie xx
“I was running this 808 through a guitar distortion pedal, which was not for putting drum machines through, but it did this crazy compression thing”
“and then I ran it through the Space Echo over there, which just adds that spring reverb”
“which is what happened with the 808. Everything has its moment and then things have to move on”
Joy Anon
“Which is this kind of arpeggiated 808 with this amazing filter”
“we have a TR-1000, which is like a very alive drum machine, which is an absolute beast”
Kae Tempest
“This is a composite of 808 samples... an old 808 sample that I'd have had, which I'd have played in Ableton and then bounced out.”
“This siren sounding, which feels like a rally call into the choruses, was actually my trusty Roland SH-101, with the portamento up.”
“Just going from low octave to high octave through a space echo pedal.”
“He had his snare drum and then loads of pads that he'd kind of just cobbled together and an SPD-S.”
Kasabian
“Like those sort of early hip-hop records, there's always an 808 backing up the live kit with an electronic flavour.”
“What is creating that bass? That's just a big 808.”
“Some nice little 808s. Anyway, 808s pretty much on every kick drum. I love, love an 808.”
Laufey
“I have this Juno here, and there's places I think in this song there's some Juno. In fact, it's right here.”
Lorde
“I subbed out a lot of those drum samples for — we recorded a drum machine. It's the CR-8000”
“remember we were doing it with just bass notes on the Moog, or maybe it was the Juno... so that's this. Juno”
“almost everyone thinks it's strings... it's just a VG-8... they're insanely expensive now on Reverb”
Maribou State
“let's go with the Juno. We'll spend an hour or two running the Juno through pedals, through different processes, miking it”
“a spring reverb, the 555 Space Echo, and then I think we layered a couple of other bits with it”
“I've also got an SPD sampler that I'm triggering stuff with”
“he's got a sampler as well, Roland SP-404”
“And then got a 303, which has been more linked in with some of the stuff on the new record”
Matthew Herbert
“with a drum machine, with a 909 or an 808, they sound amazing, but you're up against 50, 100 million pieces of music”
“In the same way with a drum machine, with a 909 or an 808, they sound amazing, but you're up against 50, 100 million pieces of music already using those sounds.”
Olly Alexander
“I like a Roland Gaia. I bought a Roland Gaia a long time ago. It's a nice little synth”
Pomplamoose
“I recently found a piece of digital gear... it's the JU-06A. This hardware emulator is absolutely genius. I use it all the time”
“a Roland reissue of the Juno-106 and the Juno-60 keyboards”
“a Roland reissue of the Juno-106 and the Juno-60 keyboards... I use it more than I use my original Juno”
Porter Robinson
“What if instead of using the drums from the rest of the song, we put in the big trance kick drum and then big 909 open hi-hat?”
RDS
“it's just like a white noise saturated against like a sort of 808 kick, so it just crunches really interestingly”
Snarky Puppy
“The second piece of gear that I can't go without is my Roland Space Echo. You put this through a Space Echo and through an old amp and it's magic.”
St. Vincent
“that modular loop is also run through like a Space Echo, so you get this little bit of slapback dimension”
“I think that's an 808 that comes in. Not a real 808. I'm not made of money.”
The Favours
“But not, you know, a big modern 808 sub, just like a sub energy.”