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If you, like me, were attempting to make dance music in the 1990s, there was one obvious route: get something made by Roland, with an ‘0’ in its name.

The TB-303 bassline and TR-808 and 909 drum machines were de rigueur for dance; in fact, so monstrously de rigueur were they that they were already starting to fetch silly money, silly money that

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