What gear does The Emperor Machine use?

“Yes, my EMS VCS3.”

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“The last synth I bought was a Behringer Poly D out of curiosity. I ended up being really inspired and wrote a couple of tracks with it.”

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“Recently, it's been the Roland SH-7. That's the one that sits right next to me.”

“to prove him wrong I switched on my SH3A and wrote a whole track, using an MPC to record some different sections.”

“I did exactly the same process using a Roland Pro Mars.”

“I bought a Roland SH101, in around 1984. I think my dad lent me the money.”

“After playing on that recently, it does everything really.”

“The riffs I played from the Polymoog and I started signing, "Kananana" to get a rough vocal idea and it worked.”

“The track I did with the [Oberheim] SEM was the most difficult.”

“maybe the RMI [Harmonic Synthesizer] is my favourite.”

“Then I'd switch to a [Moog] Prodigy and you could hear it straight away.”

“I've brought some of my own stuff over here as well, like the MPC [3000].”

“The Akai S950. I still use that.”

“I've never really been into digital synths and plug-ins but I like Reaktor and [GForce] Minimonsta.”

“When I started buying my own records, I think one of the first things I bought was "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty.”