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73 mentions in 32 episodes.

A. G. Cook

27:31 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“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.”
A Prince-style flanged Juno sound is the reference for one of Heartache's deliberately messy synth patches.
1:08:53 · TR-606 · named · medium confidence
“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.”
A 606 drum pattern from the writing session was kept as the final drum part in Serenade.

Adam Buxton

23:11 · Roland System 100 · named · medium confidence
“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.”
Joe Mount used his Roland System 100's non-quantised pitch sequencer to create the atonal Devo-ish synth riff that replaced Adam's guitar riff on Dancing in the Middle.

Air

1:49:55 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“You need a Roland Juno or Jupiter-8 to have the Japanese sound.”
He names a Roland Juno as one of the four synths he considers essential, for the Japanese sound.
1:49:55 · Jupiter-8 · named · high confidence
“You need a Roland Juno or Jupiter-8 to have the Japanese sound.”
The Jupiter-8 is cited alongside the Juno as his source of Japanese-sounding synth tones.

Arlo Parks

1:18:48 · Juno-106 · named · high confidence
“what comes to mind is probably the Juno, the 106 we used for Two-Sided... that day it was the only thing that worked”
A borrowed Roland Juno-106 was Arlo's desert-island piece of gear for the record and drove the writing of 'Two-Sided'.

Barry Cant Swim

1:50:00 · TR-808 · named · medium confidence
“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”
O'Flynn's example of turning a sterile 808 bass into something human by running it through the MS-20 filters.

Bleachers

9:05 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“A lot of ways he got around that was really super gritted synthetic instruments. So this Juno arp, immediately... very hypnotic to me.”
A Juno arpeggio is the synthetic pulse that pulls Jesus Is Dead out of sounding like a retro band in a room.
32:42 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“the TR-808 changed music because that frequency did not exist”
Held up as the last true sonic invention in recorded music during a discussion of frequency and novelty.
41:03 · Juno-60 · named · high confidence
“I just heard this bouncy Juno in my head... then I get on the Juno and my idea was a little ahead of time.”
The bouncy, slightly-ahead Juno part is the hook of Call Me After Midnight, including the chorus circuit's built-in 'ocean' noise he loves.
44:32 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“This Juno... that's such like a clearing moment, like so introspective”
A Juno playing the arpeggio/suspended chords that open up the chorus section of 'We Should Talk'.
52:08 · RE-201 Space Echo · named · high confidence
“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”
A self-oscillating Space Echo, pitched by hand, creates the long dissonant hanging note that defines 'We Should Talk'.
59:57 · VC-10 Vocoder Plus · named · medium confidence
“I'll present it through TC Helicon and a VC-10, you know, old vocoder and Auto-Tune”
Vintage vocoder blended with modern tuning tools on the 'We Should Talk' vocals.
1:09:44 · Juno-60 · named · high confidence
“I was in Paris and I did this on a Juno... I start layering Junos, added another one, added a low one.”
Stacked Juno layers written in Paris are the emotional core of We're Going to Know Each Other Forever.
1:10:33 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“I remember I added 808s. I started making this weird little synthetic thing, added some hi-hats.”
808 drums provide the abrasive synthetic backdrop under the Juno layers.
1:35:40 · Juno-6 · named · high confidence
“when the first Bleachers album was the Juno-6, it just like spoke to me in this way”
The Juno-6 was the hero instrument of the first Bleachers record, before the 80s synth revival.

Bob Vylan

49:05 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“We tried using 808s, bass guitar, and all of these other things... I think we then ended up settling on an 808”
After trying bass guitar and other sources, an 808 sub was chosen to ground the low end of 'Rain'.

Bonobo

57:21 · TR-808 · named · medium confidence
“These kind of lovely harmonic 808 low-end kicks... sounds like an 808 clav, I think, but then pitched.”
808 kick and clave sounds are referenced as the sonic target for Sapien's bass and percussion layers.

Charli XCX

11:57 · TR-606 · named · high confidence
“you can even hear this 606 stuff pitched down a little bit, really soft and weird”
A pitched-down Roland TR-606 provides the soft, weird drum layer under the fuzz guitar.
20:11 · TR-909 · named · high confidence
“909 was very across the board from the start of this record, wasn't it? I was really trying to run with that”
The 909 is described as the core drum palette of the whole Brat album, agreed between George Daniel and AG Cook.
21:40 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“So 808s and 909s really is like the vibe.”
808 and 909 sounds are named as the drum identity that ties the borrowed club kick into 'Brat world'.
1:10:15 · TR-909 · named · high confidence
“They are referencing this 909 palette that George mentioned... it can be both heavy and a bit brittle”
365's constantly mutating drums are built from the album's 909 palette, edited into classic, heavier and hardstyle variants.
1:11:36 · SH-101 · named · high confidence
“It's like their version of an SH-101 type thing, and you can really— it has a really aggressive filter in it.”
SH-101 used as the reference point for the mono synth AG jammed the 365 lead line on.
1:32:49 · TR-606 · named · high confidence
“606 off the PPG Waves. 606, PPG Waves. Guitars”
When asked for essential kit, AG and Finn name the 606, PPG Wave, Minimoog, drum kit and guitars as the album's whole limited palette.

Clean Bandit

4:08 · TR-808 · named · medium confidence
“And it had like an anti-drop. So it was this big build, and then it was just like a kind of 808.”
Describing the original 'Music Sounds Better Without You' version of Symphony, whose anti-drop was built around an 808 sound.
20:40 · TR-808 · named · medium confidence
“808 warfare.”
Jack points out the wall of 808 drum sounds in Symphony's drop while playing back the master.

Danny L Harle

27:43 · TR-808 · named · medium confidence
“with that Reaktor 808, I know that it just needed some support in the bottom end”
Refers to an 808-style kick built in Reaktor needing extra bottom-end support.

Declan Mckenna

10:50 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“he just played on like a Mellotron or his Juno, something a little bit like what's actually on the track.”
Luca's Juno (later confirmed as a Juno-60) was one of two main keyboards used to write the track's chords.
24:50 · Juno-60 · named · high confidence
“I think this is the Juno. So I think this is a Juno-60, which Luca has.”
Identifies the dark intro synth sound of Mulholland's Dinner and Wine as Luca's Roland Juno-60.

Djo

32:15 · Alpha Juno · named · high confidence
“This is an Alpha Juno that he had just got… I think this patch was called Rich Strings.”
The main pad in 'Delete Ya' is engineer John Rooney's Roland Alpha Juno on the 'Rich Strings' preset with a little EQ.
32:27 · Juno-106 · named · medium confidence
“The Alpha Juno was basically like a 106 without any sliders or knobs.”
The Juno-106 was referenced to explain the Alpha Juno's preset-driven design.

EJT

23:04 · RE-201 Space Echo · named · medium confidence
“I think it's a Space Echo I'm putting it through, just as the phrase moves on, feeling more and more delay”
The lead vocal in the Wanna Die bridge is fed into her Space Echo after recording, with the delay swelling and then cut dead into the drum break.
56:40 · RE-201 Space Echo · named · medium confidence
“It's done on my beloved Space Echo. It's a little slap vocal to bring more of that Motown-esque essence through”
A short Space Echo slap delay is printed on the Save Me lead vocal for a Motown feel; she calls it her secret sauce and uses it live too.
1:06:30 · SH-101 · named · high confidence
“I used this SH-101, I think it is, this Roland synth that's really fat and aggressive sounding”
Her own tech-house remix of Save Me leans on an SH-101 for fat, aggressive techno bass and lead elements.
1:16:57 · RE-201 Space Echo · named · medium confidence
“the drums are very slightly going through the Space Echo all the way through the song... adding almost a ghost note effect”
On Maybe Nowhere the whole drum kit runs subtly through the Space Echo, with the effect swelling at key moments to create ghost-note fills.

Four Tet

23:14 · TR-8 · named · high confidence
“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”
The lo-fi drum loop under Daydream Repeat came from an old recording of a Roland TR-8 jammed with a DrumBrute.
1:06:27 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“there's this song Angle Poised, which is really long. It's like an 808 drum machine and bass guitar”
Recalls an early Fridge track built from an 808 drum machine and bass guitar with room-mic chatter mixed low underneath.

HAIM

18:06 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“I can also get into the combination of the Juno and the piano, which is like kind of the backbone of the verses”
A Juno synth paired with piano forms the harmonic backbone of the Relationships verses, adding emotional colour.

Holly Humberstone

19:15 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“There's like 20 Junos playing different parts. There's like 100 backing vocals.”
Rob Milton describes stacking a 'wall of Junos' — many layered Juno parts — as a core ingredient of 'To Love Somebody'.
1:36:10 · Juno-60 · named · high confidence
“My Juno-60 is my absolute desert island... the Juno-60 is the absolute number one essential piece of kit. It's on everything.”
Rob names the Roland Juno-60 as the single most essential piece of gear on the album, used on every track.

Jamie xx

8:15 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“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”
The techno core of 'Breather' came from programming beats on the 808 and taking its master out through a guitar distortion pedal, using kick level to squash the rest of the kit.
56:08 · RE-201 Space Echo · named · high confidence
“and then I ran it through the Space Echo over there, which just adds that spring reverb”
The morphed synth pad in Daffodil was run through his hardware Space Echo for spring reverb character.
1:39:39 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“which is what happened with the 808. Everything has its moment and then things have to move on”
He reflects on how the sound of a plugin or a drum machine like the 808 can define a season and then become a bandwagon to avoid.

Joy Anon

17:48 · TR-808 · named · medium confidence
“Which is this kind of arpeggiated 808 with this amazing filter”
An arpeggiated 808 sound with heavy filtering provides the dub/techno sub bass in the main version of Nobody Ever.
1:13:51 · TR-1000 · named · medium confidence
“we have a TR-1000, which is like a very alive drum machine, which is an absolute beast”
The Roland TR-1000 is Hen's live drum machine, described as a beast he's digging deeply into.

Kae Tempest

43:46 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“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.”
Old 808 samples form the sub-bass layer that anchors the low end Kae wanted across the record.
46:52 · SH-101 · named · high confidence
“This siren sounding, which feels like a rally call into the choruses, was actually my trusty Roland SH-101, with the portamento up.”
Roland SH-101 with portamento creates the siren rally-call that lifts the chorus of 'Statue in the Square'.
47:10 · RE-201 Space Echo · named · medium confidence
“Just going from low octave to high octave through a space echo pedal.”
The SH-101 siren was run through a Space Echo for the chorus lift.
1:34:01 · SPD-S · named · medium confidence
“He had his snare drum and then loads of pads that he'd kind of just cobbled together and an SPD-S.”
Kae describes Kwake Bass building a one-man-band trigger rig around pads and a Roland SPD-S.

Kasabian

34:35 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“Like those sort of early hip-hop records, there's always an 808 backing up the live kit with an electronic flavour.”
Serge explains he backs live drums with 808 sounds so the kit has more than just an acoustic drum sound.
1:07:04 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“What is creating that bass? That's just a big 808.”
The sub bass driving the 'Dint' demo that became 'Goat' is a big 808.
1:23:35 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“Some nice little 808s. Anyway, 808s pretty much on every kick drum. I love, love an 808.”
While rebuilding the outro of 'Goat' Serge shows 808 layers reinforcing every kick drum on the record.

Laufey

50:26 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“I have this Juno here, and there's places I think in this song there's some Juno. In fact, it's right here.”
Spencer points out Roland Juno synth layers hidden in Tough Luck alongside the programmed kick.

Lorde

21:14 · CR-8000 · named · high confidence
“I subbed out a lot of those drum samples for — we recorded a drum machine. It's the CR-8000”
The final Favourite Daughter drums are a recorded, chopped and processed Roland CR-8000 replacing the original samples.
53:50 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“remember we were doing it with just bass notes on the Moog, or maybe it was the Juno... so that's this. Juno”
A Roland Juno plays the initial chords/bass notes of the Grown Woman sketch made the day Ella brought the phone memo in.
1:27:01 · VG-8 · named · high confidence
“almost everyone thinks it's strings... it's just a VG-8... they're insanely expensive now on Reverb”
Andrew Aged's Roland VG-8 guitar system creates the string-like parts in Shapeshifter.

Maribou State

30:51 · Juno-60 · named · medium confidence
“let's go with the Juno. We'll spend an hour or two running the Juno through pedals, through different processes, miking it”
The Juno is a typical starting instrument for their 'Sound Harvest' sessions, re-amped and mic'd to create sample libraries.
1:13:05 · SRE-555 Chorus Echo · named · medium confidence
“a spring reverb, the 555 Space Echo, and then I think we layered a couple of other bits with it”
A Roland 555 tape echo with spring reverb was the main colour on the Other Side lead vocal, printed destructively.
1:23:14 · SPD sampling pad · named · medium confidence
“I've also got an SPD sampler that I'm triggering stuff with”
A Roland SPD pad triggers samples in the live show.
1:23:22 · SP-404 · named · high confidence
“he's got a sampler as well, Roland SP-404”
Chris uses a Roland SP-404 sampler in the live setup alongside guitar and keys.
1:23:37 · TB-303 · named · medium confidence
“And then got a 303, which has been more linked in with some of the stuff on the new record”
A 303 is carried on tour for just two songs because the sound matters that much.

Matthew Herbert

1:31:25 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“with a drum machine, with a 909 or an 808, they sound amazing, but you're up against 50, 100 million pieces of music”
Named alongside the 909 as a great-sounding but over-used drum machine when Herbert explains why he prefers sampling unique sources.
1:31:25 · TR-909 · named · high confidence
“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.”
Cited as an example of iconic-sounding gear whose ubiquity makes originality harder, part of his argument for sampling real-world sound instead.

Olly Alexander

1:41:32 · Gaia · named · high confidence
“I like a Roland Gaia. I bought a Roland Gaia a long time ago. It's a nice little synth”
The one piece of synth hardware Olly Alexander owns and writes on.

Pomplamoose

1:21:28 · JU-06A · named · high confidence
“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”
Jack's favourite piece of gear: the Roland Boutique JU-06A tabletop synth, now his go-to, used more than his vintage Juno.
1:21:28 · Juno-106 · named · high confidence
“a Roland reissue of the Juno-106 and the Juno-60 keyboards”
Referenced as the classic synths modelled by the JU-06A that Jack praises.
1:21:28 · Juno-60 · named · high confidence
“a Roland reissue of the Juno-106 and the Juno-60 keyboards... I use it more than I use my original Juno”
Jack compares the JU-06A favourably to his original Juno hardware.

Porter Robinson

1:55:41 · TR-909 · named · high confidence
“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?”
The trance outro of Russian Roulette uses a big trance kick with 909 open hi-hats, a nod to his teenage hard-dance alias.

RDS

18:19 · TR-808 · named · medium confidence
“it's just like a white noise saturated against like a sort of 808 kick, so it just crunches really interestingly”
An 808-style kick was grouped with saturated white noise to create a crunchy textural layer in the Pressure beat.

Snarky Puppy

1:50:42 · RE-201 Space Echo · named · high confidence
“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.”
Roland Space Echo named as his other indispensable piece of gear, especially paired with the electric sitar and an old amp.

St. Vincent

9:13 · RE-201 Space Echo · named · medium confidence
“that modular loop is also run through like a Space Echo, so you get this little bit of slapback dimension”
The central modular loop of 'Broken Man' was printed through a Space Echo tape delay for slapback dimension (transcribed as 'Korg Stage Echo').
52:37 · TR-808 · named · high confidence
“I think that's an 808 that comes in. Not a real 808. I'm not made of money.”
An 808 sample/emulation adds low-end heft to the 'Sweetest Fruit' drum stack.

The Favours

28:23 · TR-808 · named · medium confidence
“But not, you know, a big modern 808 sub, just like a sub energy.”
The 808 is referenced as the modern sub sound they deliberately avoided in favour of vintage organ sub.