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"As the Detroit style matured, the techno minor triad was featured in front of minimalistspiralling keyboard riffs and the rat-a-tatting of the Roland TR-808, as in the classictrack ‘Off to Battle’, a more sophisticated effort by Atkins, now working under the nom-de-microprocessor Model 500. (He took the name from the Roland MC-500 MicroComposer, one of the first affordable digital sequencers.)" - page 16

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What kind of gear were you using when you did your seminal Cybotron track, Clear, at the beginning of the 1980s? "Well, I wasn't using no software! We were using a Korg SQD1 [Korg's groundbreaking MIDI recorder/sequencer],

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