Who Do you think Had the best drum patterns, programming from 1983-1987 
Not judging the over all song and melodies, Just the funky drums patterns and use of effects ect ect .... 
Egyptian Lover
Newcleus
Amos Larkin
Hashim
Arabian Prince
Micheal Sterling
and I doubt this is from 89 - 90 .. this is more 92-93 for sure. I can tell by the keyboards .. around the time "Freestyle" was trying to come back.. "Lil suzy, College" stuff like that.. not old skool though.. but cool track
sounds new school to me
sounds like some Club Nouveau (Jay King) production. like sitituation # 9 . A little intrested in a scan seb
yes ! lets not even bring up "Yes,Yes,Yes" !! that track kills every track on the poll !! by 1 million feet ! im with you skeme on that one. one of my favs
im gonna have to go with Uncle jamms Army on this one... its the only one outta the list that sounds like music .. any idot can get a drum machine and hold down a few keys and call it electro. DIAL A FREAK IS CLASSIC !!! listen to the CHORD Changes RICH CASON PLAYS ON THIS ! are you guys serious ?? no contest.. DIAL A FREAK
all jokes aside.. start with software and old skool samples to learn the direction you wanna go in. and when you can buy some GEAR, start cheap .. you can get a good ole old skool drum pattern with a roland 505 and those you can buy cheap. you can also buy a cheap Yamaha Dx 7 for $200 . start there hope this helps.
Use what I use... 
AKAI MPK 49 and Cubase and Reason .. no need for all those floppies .. its a matter of tast really though. Its good to have both software and hardware ..any good producer knows that. But if i had to go hardware only im with elktrokaust the 2000 still is the best to me.
are you useing a REAL dmx or something else ?
post a sample of exactly what your trying to recreate and with Reason 4.0 or my mpc i will try to show you how to recreate that drum sound with my DMX samples that I use.
One of my favorite records.. I shared this with my buddy doctorcrack sometime ago ! it is for sure a forgotten gem not many knew about.the synths are great and the vocoder is pretty nice too. I forget which LP its off as my records are not here with me. aldin how did you here about this track ?
I posted this sample on Audiogalaxy MANY years ago !! i got it from "Thomas" EE old skool member " Action44" I believe he knows the name of this track ! at one time there was a fake name given to it. so people where in search for the wrong title of the song. Its most def a german production. I have no clue though..the sample is taken from a tape. Im still curious myself
Kosmic Light Force... One of my favorite 12inchs
1983 - 1986 ! Vocoder bombs/cool synths and good beats ! after that.. 87 came and electro was more BASS MUSIC with not so many good beats and songs.. to me at least... the last good "electro" record in 87 was HC Smooth LETS rock non stop and even that wasnt as good as some of the jamz from 84-85 ..
RICH CASON ALLLLL THE WAY !!! the man was a GREAT keyboardist !!! even outside of electro. most of those tracks wouldnt be as great without his touch on the keys and synths hands down. everybody who KNOWS the records knows that.
Young Beanie Valentino - Get Tough ,is the jam for me . The beats are dope !
Wayne
