How It Was Recorded

Gear · drum machine

Linn 9000

Records it appears on · 3

  • She Drives Me Crazy

    Fine Young Cannibals · The Raw & the Cooked, 1989

    • Snare and drum programming · InstrumentReportedDrum machine on which the producer created the session's first groove loop, and whose 12-bit internal snare was blended into the ruler-struck snare.
  • So

    Peter Gabriel · Album, 1986

    • Demo drum machine · InstrumentVerifiedKillen says Gabriel's original demos of his songs for the album used a Linn 9000 drum pattern.
  • Never Gonna Give You Up

    Rick Astley · Whenever You Need Somebody, 1987

    • Drums and samples · InstrumentVerifiedUsed to sample kick and snare sounds, which were then loaded into the AMS, while building the track's groove.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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Emulates Linn's earlier LM-1 and LinnDrum. The 9000 is a later machine.

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