Akai

That's because we're going old school, get it? Never mind now show your hands who knows the villain with a metal face Well, it's more of you than I expected Now Professor Dreesnick stole the new and novel, but you gotta know your roots, and the roots is Doom.

MF Doom made Operation Doomsday on a borrowed Akai MPC drum machine once a week while crashing at his friend's house.

Why? Because the other six days he was sleeping on benches and hustling to get by.

The death of his brother left him traumatized and miserable and twisted him into the villain we know as Doom.

Yeah.

But at the time this was mind-blowing because, um, a load of modern synths and samplers, like Akai samplers could, couldn't do it.

They, they-

Sure

... couldn't do it.

It, it was, uh, I did spend, I remember spending days and days once, uh, I got my first Akai sampler to try-

Yeah

... and emulate the power of the bass-

Right.

They used Akai MPC samplers to chop up old songs.

They embraced actual physical cassette tape recordings specifically to get that lo-fi texture we talked about.

Mm-hmm.

Exactly.

The strings and the frets are just a data entry point, conceptually no different than the plastic keys on a synthesizer or the rubber pads on an Akai MPC drum machine.

Wow.

Yeah.