How It Was Recorded

Gear · drum machine

Roland Drum machine (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 2

  • Parallel Lines

    Blondie · Album, 1978

    • Drums · InstrumentVerifiedUsed on 'Heart Of Glass' to build the groove that the band played along to, and run through the song while the producer sang so that the mid-song time change stayed on the beat.
  • Tainted Love

    Soft Cell · Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, 1981

    • Drum machine and percussion sounds · InstrumentVerifiedBorrowed from singer Kit Hain because the band's own machine was broken; it supplied the drum sounds, with kick and snare on separate tracks.

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

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Roland's own plugin versions of its TR drum machines, including the TR-808 and TR-909. The source does not name the model, so this stands for the maker's family of units: it is not a model of the one on the record.

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