Massimiliano Pagliara

"This mixer here, this Boss KM60, looks pretty cool and very vintage. Was it something you looked for specifically?

No, actually I stumbled upon this kind of accidentally. I was looking for a new mixer, a vintage mixer from the late 1970s, that I could use for my drum machines to give an extra texture to the sound, and then yeah, you know… eBay! [Laughs]"

"So this is a Boss DR550 MK2? It looks quite digital.

Yes. It's the smaller version of the 660, which, you know, is the more famous Dance Mania kind of drum machine."

"And then I've got into the Korg Electribe. The first Electribe I had—not this one, this is a sampler actually—was the ER-1 mkII, but I've never really liked it for its internal sounds, so I only ever used it as a sequencer."

"And then yeah, slowly I got the 606, and the 707, and more and more. This is one of the latest. "

" I like to play it, you know, live, or sometimes I can also MIDI-fy it with a Kenton [MIDI Thru 5] box."

"And that mixer over there is actually just for my [TR]-808, so all the individual drum sounds of the 808 have their own outs in that mixer."

"In fact, this was the one I had before. The sequencer for this thing here, which is the Novation DrumStation, is the rack version of the 808 and 909, but together, basically."

"And then yeah, slowly I got the 606, and the 707, and more and more. This is one of the latest."

In an interview with Resident Advisor, Massimiliano Pagliara discusses his use of the Oberheim DMX drum machine, highlighting its classic status and the benefits of its MIDI capabilities.

"And then I was like, "OK, I don't need it" and I sold it, and instead got this thing here, which is like a rack version, the Yamaha TX81Z."

4th picure, under the Mackie monitors.

0:07 seconds, in his studio.