In this video, Espen Kraft takes a look at the Casio RZ-1, a sampling drum machine from 1988.
“The Casio RZ-1 drum machine from the mid 80s was soon forgotten,” notes Kraft. “Today I revive it and take a look at the very smooth internal groove, its 8 bit sampling capability and how it sounds together with some synths.”
This was used in some capacity on the first de la soul album.
De La Soul admitted using a CASIO drum machine? really?
Enjoyed that – really brought me back to my youth 🙂 Nice synth jam at the end!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/apr/29/how-we-made-3-feet-high-and-rising-de-la-soul