Gadgets That We All Used in the 80’s

E-mu SP-1200

This synth explorer was one of the biggest, if not the biggest tech icon of the 1988 golden era of Hip-Hop, this legendary drum machine and sampler molded the music industry at the time. Although it has limited sampling specs, the dirtiness of the sound is perfect for house music or hip-hop because it sounds like “old vinyl”.

E-mu SP-1200

Used by music giants such as Dr. Dre and Phil Collins, this gadget gave them the tools to create their legendary music with it’s “crunchy digitized drums, choppy segmented samples, and murky filtered baselines”.