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Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1

In the 1980s, drum machines were ubiquitous. Initially available only to the moneyed few, as the cost of computer tech plummeted, so did the price of drum machines new and used, allowing access to all.

Eventually, sequencer-equipped sample-playback ‘workstations’ would push the drum machine out of the

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