Chromeo

"This is pretty much one of the most important pieces around here. I usually start all my demos with it. It's really fast to go to. Its MIDI sounds great. We've kept it on some songs, but it will be the starting point for everything basically. It's kind of a poor man's LinnDrum, I think. It's easier because it's MIDI, first of all. I guess the Linndrum you can retrofit to MIDI as well, but this one is a little more simple to work with. It can sound pretty much like a LinnDrum, you can make it sound like it. It's great! We start all of our stuff with it."

"The Yamaha RX5, we've used that a couple times. This is very, very 80s. There's like an integrated reverb that's kind of not like a real reverb... but it's a delay. It’s pretty good."

"The Akai s950... that's what I used when I made hip-hop beats. That's my old one, that's what I started with. We used it on the first album. The drums from 'Needy Girl' were on there, but we haven't used that recently. The MPC is just more powerful. The s950 is good when you you're dealing with loops and you want a filter. At this point it's just an old school sound."

"The Roland R-70 is a bit more 90s. We haven't used it that much yet - first album - but maybe it's going to come back. We've used crashes and little elements from it. This was one of my first drum machines. It was very cheap and it's very 90s."

"The classic CR-78, we've used it on our Eagles Cover and 'J'ai Claque La Porte.' What we did for the French song on the album is that we actually separated all the sounds and reprogrammed it ourselves. So we have the sounds from that machine, but we're not using a pre-existing pattern in it."

"Ah yes, another thing we haven't used much. The snare in 'Night by Night' is a sample of this. But somewhat like the Minimoog, it's almost too ubiquitous. When you start using it you recognize that. What's really amazing about the LinnDrum is that we haven't really ever used it. P has it just to have it for the archives. What's amazing about the LinnDrum is, well obviously the sounds because you hear them like you do in a Prince record, but also it's the internal sequencer because you have that groove that's just like the Prince - that kind of internal swing. You can't really recreate that with anything else. But we don't sequence on those machines, we use an old-school 90s computer sequencer. So we have our own - just have our own groove, as cheesy as that sounds."