Akai MPC 2000

At 0:07, Kanye West is seen using a MPC 2000. Notice how at 0:09 it says "2000," this confirms it is a 2000 and not a 2000 XL.

According to this article, Damon uses this in his recording studio.

The xx shared this image on their instagram, presumably from the making of the video for their single "I Dare You". This image shows Jamie with an MPC 2000 on his left side, next to a Roland TR-808.

Quote direct from article: "There was an MPC 2000 [drum machine] in his basement. He religiously used the MPC 3000. Well, ?uestlove broke a disc inside the 2000. Dilla said, "If you can get it out, you can take it to crib and keep it." I got it out, made three tracks that weekend, left them there to see what he would say. He called me like, "Goddamn, dog! You made that shit!?" For him to say that meant a lot."

"My rack and MPC2000 take the clock from Rick's MPC2000, whilst my MPC2000 goes through this little 8-channel Mackie, so I can turn off or boost things. I select my source via the rack at the top left, which is made by Funktion One. It's really just a channel selector, and the red button in the middle is a mute."

It's located in the far left of the photo, next to the 'Ecko Shoe Box' and on top of some other gear, that's unfortunately unidentifiable.

Used on *The Private Press* and Unkle's *Psyence Fiction*, as mentioned in this October 2017 *Sound on Sound* interview. > Davis’ trusty old MPC60, though, is sadly long gone from his setup. Over successive DJ Shadow albums, however, he has progressed through variations on it: upgrading to an MPC2000 for his production of Unkle’s 1998 album Psyence Fiction, then MIDI’ing two of them together for the second DJ Shadow album The Private Press, released in 2002. > “I basically had nearly unlimited sample power and chop power,” he says. “But after The Private Press, I felt like it was important to switch things up. I had purchased Pro Tools so I was fully up and running on that. There’s probably two or three songs on [2006’s] The Outsider where the initial ideas or sketches were done on an MPC. It’s been I’d say 13, 14 years since I used one. > “I will say though that in I think about 2008, I got whatever was new at that time [the MPC5000], thinking, ‘Oh I kinda miss it, let me see what the new version’s like.’ But I just couldn’t go back. It seemed a bit silly to me, knowing what was possible within stuff like Maschine. Once you go into the software synth world, it’s really hard to legitimise going back into the box.”

On Genius.com, Eminem talks a bit about the production of his track [Square Dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kjCwOFIXQ). He explains, "I like going on stage to this beat. I don’t even know if people care that much about me producing things. It’s fun for me to make a beat, but it doesn’t give me the same feeling or gratification as rapping. I’m not really tech savvy. I still use an MPC 2000. That’s probably a cardinal sin now in hip hop. Everyone’s onto other things. I just use that because I don’t have time to learn something else. I don’t have the patience." The original link can be found [here](http://genius.com/5136597/Eminem-square-dance/Produced-by-eminem-and-jeff-bass).

"We had that sequencer by the, um, MPC60 at first. That's how I got into all my Akai machines... (...) Then we graduated, of course, to the 3000 and the 2000, the 2000XL..."

the Akai MPC2000 is specified as an instrument used by him

In this Twitter pic, Dan shows his machines off, Including a MPC 2000. Dan says "Yeah it all starts with the drums sometimes."

After purchasing an MPC 2000 from his uncle, a friend brought Luger an unlicensed copy of FL Studio, a piece of music production software which he uses to this day.

At :20s in this video you can see Kev using a couple pieces of gear "I got the 2000, Akai MPC 2000 right here."

In this screenshot from an Instagram Story posted by Big Sean, he can be seen using an Akai MPC 2000 in the studio.

In [this archived version of a December 2000 article from *Sound On Sound*](https://web.archive.org/web/20150606082550/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec00/articles/underworld.asp), Underworld bandmate Rick Smith explains Karl's then-current rig. "Hyde's live rack is very complex, according to Smith, partly because the guitarist/singer has several input sources to choose from: vocal mic, guitar, vocoder, Mesa Boogie Triaxis guitar preamp, CD player, and Akai MPC2000."

It appears in At Home With Ty Dolla $ign: Sonos x The FADER video, 54 seconds in.

> I was and still am into electronica, so I programmed an Akai MPC 2000 to combine hip-hop beats with old drum-machine sounds mixed with acoustic guitars. Out of that record there came a sound where guitars would come into the chorus.

At 7:25 In this video, Dj Evil Dee shows some of the gear in his lab and states, "It's nothing complicated my SP, y'know my Mpc 2000".

I’m an old school MPC guy. I love these. As well as the MPC4000 I have a 2500 and a 500, and my old MPC2000 too. I used to just make everything on that, like my Landscape EP on Panhandle.

Pictured here playing Madvillain Revisions off an MPC 2000.

In this video MElissa talks about the gear she owns and mentioned the MPC 2000 as one of her favourite pieces.

"Got something in the mail today.. " - FloFilz

"Eine MPC2000, danke ***** das ist seine"

The Akai MPC 2000 is visible during Max's interview with *Electronic Beats*. He says: "I wanted more and more to edit things by hand. And I do that more and more with the MPC" at 2:14.

The Akai MPC 2000 appears at 1:15 in the video.

"Just found these #badboys in a closet... Good memories #Akai #MPC2000 #ASR #XPro"

In the 2018 interview he says, > "Lost Wigs was my **MPC2000** days. Before then, between 1998 and 2000, I was rocking the Dr. Sample 202. Eventually I moved on to the SP1200. Lately, I’m in Pro Tools and [using] a few pieces of outboard gear: Space Echo, Distressors, and a Tascam 8 track."

Early pic of Boris Divider with full livepa rig.

From a 2004 interview with Fat Jon, he answers runnin.de's equipment question with: "*I use an akai mpc 2000, a roland jp8000 synth, technics turntables, vestax 06pro mixer, outboard effects by lexicon and alesis, outboard eq’s by dbx and aleseis, dbx compressors and a mac.*"

"Album recorded using: Akai MPC 2000, APR Pro DGX and Technics 1200."

"I use the sequencer on my [Akai] MPC2000 and then that's a different feel to the computer sequencer"

To access link use https://archive.org/web/ aka the waybackmachine Aleksi’s musical progression continued over the next few years. He had upgraded to a **Roland XP-80** workstation and an **Akai MPC-2000** and was making hundreds of tracks. The outcome of his mind at this time is the huge 71 track album ‘Onclements’ released in 2000 as Ovuca.

While their live rig has evolved recently, J&H were known for the live rig seen in this video.