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When Derrick May sold Frankie Knuckles his 909, and house music was born: "This is a Roland 909 drum machine, and it's going to take us to the future. It'll be the foundation of music for the next 10 years"
"I've been in love with that drum machine ever since"
1997 interview reveals that Aphex Twin owned a tank, wanted to buy a submarine and used the vault of the former bank he owned as a reverb: "It would be great for parties"
And there's more about lucid dreams, the music software he used at the time and (maybe) getting a job if no-one bought his records
"The minute I stopped mixing my stuff, I became my most creative": Should electronic artists mix their own tracks?
Skream ignites debate on Twitter over the merits of asking an engineer to handle mixdowns in electronic music production
Tycho is selling 100 pieces of gear on Reverb, including the Eventide H3000 that he purchased after he learned that Eddie Van Halen used one, and an Oberheim FVS-1 synth that he says “has a mind of its own”
“I always saw the Eventide in [EVH’s] studio, and I’d think, ‘I got to get that thing’”
Calvin Harris reveals his early love of Jamiroquai and the Spin Doctors: “I became obsessed with basslines… they had an amazing bass player”
The producer also says he tried to learn the “intricate and cool” bassline from Nirvana’s Lithium
Deadmau5 says that he plays pre-recorded DJ sets “all the time”, and reveals the “dead giveaway” that audiences should look out for
“What do they do up there? Twiddle filter knobs and clap”
“I invented this DJ technology, I did this with nothing”: Grandmaster Flash on turntablism, Rapture and Wheels Of Steel
The pioneering DJ reveals how he built sound systems from junk and what he thought of Blondie's Rapture: "Shit, she kept her word!"
"I don't see this as a threat": David Guetta says AI will win the music-making battle, and he's fine with that
It might be able to make great music, he says, but AI will never have great taste
