It’s 9 September, and that can only mean one thing: it’s our annual excuse to fawn over Roland’s immensely influential and widely beloved drum machine, the TR-909 Rhythm Composer. Introduced in 1983, ...

The Roland TR-909 drum machine, like other pieces of now iconic Roland gear, was not embraced by the masses when it came out. It received mixed reviews, and like the TB-303 before it, Roland scrapped ...

Roland's Boutique line of synthesizers broke from cover last fall and today the company announced three more members of the series. Appropriately enough for 909 Day, the highlight of the trio is a ...

Roland ‘80s-era engineers must have felt a bit like Cassandra, the mythological seer that could foretell the future but to whom no one would listen. It must have been terribly frustrating to know they ...

Exciting news for gear nerds as Roland seem to have started hinting at the return of the TR-909 drum machine next month. As FACT reports, the team at Roland are currently planning a special ‘909 ...

Vintage & Analogue Occasion has listed the Roland TR-909 that once belonged to Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk as a “collector’s item” on Facebook, which will be sold to “the highest bidder”. The 909 is ...

The Roland TR-808 and TR-909 are iconic drum machines that powered a ton of the music from the '80s and '90s. While both hardware units were recently revived as the TR-08 and TR-09, they haven't been ...

There is no more desirable gadget in electronic music than the Roland TR-808 drum machine. Well, maybe the TR-909, depending on who you’re talking to. Discontinued by the mid-80s, these machines have ...

Roland’s influential TR-909 series of drum machines is set to be honoured with a new book and record release by hip-hop reissuists Get On Down. Record Store Day (20 April) will see the release of a ...

The Roland TR-808 may be the most iconic drum machine of all time, but its successor is a classic in its own right. But if you don’t have thousands to drop on the sample-based “rhythm composer,” you ...

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