"It’s changed a lot. Mostly, back in the day, Akai s950 or MPC 2000xl or 909."

At 5:48 Kid Lib explains how he samples drum breaks into his Akai S950 to crunch them down. "So I'll record my samples into there, you know, grab a drum break off of vinyl or whatever, record it straight into the S950, give it that nice 12-bit crunch."

A slow-motion shot of the S950 is also shown at that timestamp.

In the interview with MuzikXpress Olivier was asked which instruments were used on his 1992 underground Techno hit "Anasthasia". Olivier replied, he only relied on Roland D-20 and Akai S950. Same modules were also mentioned in another interview with Lucien Foort, who worked with him year earlier on another successful project Quadrophonia.

Olivier also mentioned sampling Oberheim Matrix 12 and Roland TR-909 at Target Records.

In an interview with Attack Magazine, Primitive World mentions owning the Akai S950 MIDI Digital Sampler, describing it as a legendary piece of gear, though not one he has fully embraced.

Seen on official Facebook account.

This article lists his onstage equipment as "Farfisa Compact Duo; Ensoniq VFX SD2; Zoom 9010; Midiverb II; Tascam 234; Akai S950; Carver amp/2 wedges; separate monitor system for his vocals and the rest of the band PA"

He says, ". I came back from Detroit, sold my record collection, got a few grand together and bought an Akai S950 sampler, a Roland D-5 as a master keyboard, a DAT machine, a Roland R-5, which was their latest drum machine at the time, and an Atari 1040 with Opcode Vision. So I had pretty good gear to start with and I locked myself away for six months to read manuals and teach myself."

"I'll sit down and listen to a load of reggae, funk and jazz and eventually I'll hear something that I like and then load that into the Akai 950, start a tune. Normally, after two hours, I'll know if it's good or not. And, oh yeah, I'm ruthless, I'll just junk it if it's shit, not even save any sounds.”

The Akai S950 MIDI Digital Sampler Is seen at 2:04

"I worked as an employee twice for Elite, the 1st time 1985-1986 and the 2nd time around 1989-1990. The 1st time I was removed as an employee and taken on as a freelance musician earning a fixed fee per project, this cost them less but gave me the freedom to work for other people as well. I was taken on again in 1989 or there abouts, and things were much better, they got me some decent kit including an AKAI S950 sampler and a Korg M1 keyboard a long with Notator on the Atari ST. I produced music for Amiga, PC, Atari ST and NES machines. Later on Elite decided they were going to start publishing their own games and this required a lot of money. To this end they streamlined the company and made redundant a large portion of the staff, including me." - Mark Cooksey

Per his interview with MusicRadar:

"One of the things that was important to capture the old sound was actually digging out the old equipment: I've still got the Akai S950, I've still got the Atari 1040."