A short history of the 909 in 16 songs

The Roland TR-909 has shaped the sound of many genres ranging from Techno, House, Hip Hop and Pop to Industrial and Eurodance. In this video we'll take a look at 16 of our favourite 909 drum patterns - including its very first appearance as well as modern productions nearly 40 years later, so get ready for some interesting 909 history and trivia. We'll be using an external sequencer so you can see all the different instruments and you can try the patterns in your drum machine or in your DAW.

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Featured drum patterns (transcriptions available on Patreon):

Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope Mantronix - Bassline Phil Collins - Take Me Home Inner City - Big Fun Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam Madonna - Vogue Adamski - Killer Aphex Twin - Heliosphan Circuit Breaker - Trac-X Björk - Hunter Daft Punk - Revolution 909 Darude - Sandstorm Duke Dumont - The Giver (Original Mix) John Tejada - Stabilizer Jeff Mills - Exhibitionist 2 Mix 3 Peggy Gou - I Go

Gear used: OXI One Sequencer Steda SR-909 built by Turnlab https://www.turnlab.be/steda-electronics-sr-909-premade-with-mod.html (not an affiliate link) beetlecrab.audio Vector Seaboard RISE 2 provided by ROLI Korg Monologue Arturia Keystep

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0:00 Introduction 1:02 Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope 2:36 Mantronix - Bassline 4:56 Phil Collins - Take Me Home 6:09 Inner City - Big Fun 8:39 Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam 11:17 Madonna - Vogue 12:51 Adamski - Killer 14:50 Aphex Twin - Heliosphan 15:44 Circuit Breaker - Trac-X 17:03 Björk - Hunter 18:02 Daft Punk - Revolution 909 18:44 Darude - Sandstorm 20:16 Duke Dumont - The Giver (Original Mix) 23:04 John Tejada - Stabilizer 24:04 Jeff Mills - Exhibitionist 2 Mix 3 25:13 Peggy Gou - I Go 26:16 End Jam

Produced by Jean-Claude Dirckx and Sophie Hoppstädter