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Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm

or many, drum machines are encapsulated by the booming sound of an 808 kick drum or the snappy whipcrack of a 909 snare. Resurrected by hip-hop and dance musicians, those machines reshaped our perceptions of what a drum machine could sound like; yet before

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