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Even cheaper - in every conceivable respect - was the Casio VL-1. It had one unforgettable performance though: https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA?t=70 https://youtu.

Even cheaper - in every conceivable respect - was the Casio VL-1. It had one unforgettable performance though: https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA?t=70 https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA?t=70

pantulis 5y ago
Enjoy - https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/11993-vl-1german-folk-song-mystery-fake-unterlanders-heimweh/ https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/11993-vl-1...
minikomi 5y ago
Casio MT-40 also has quite a story to tell https://youtu.be/4zpjGXH4umQ https://youtu.be/4zpjGXH4umQ
- elevaet 5y ago
  Sleng teng riddim! I wish I could have experienced this on one of the huge Jamaican soundsystems of that era. Before sleng teng, dancehall music was all done with acoustic bass. This changed the game, no one had ever heard bass like that before
- Mizza 5y ago
  The story is even more interesting than that video makes it out to be! Hiroko Okuda, the woman who programmed Sleng Teng was (and still is) a Casio employee who had just graduated from school with a degree in musicology. She was a fan of reggae and wrote her thesis on reggae. So, it seems the whole thing is circular! Source: https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-04-casio-and-the-sleng-teng-riddim.html https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-04-casio-and-the-sleng-teng...
nobleach 5y ago
Don't forget Whitetown's Your Woman. I think the rest of it was done on an Atari ST Falcon.
- photojosh 5y ago
  From which the key catchy sample is also used in the recent 'Love Again' by Dua Lipa... which originally dates from Lew Stone & the Monseigneur Band's 'My Woman' from the 1930s. [0] It was fun listening to the 3 songs in reverse chronological order with my 11 year old, particularly the moment we realised it was played on a muted trumpet originally and sped up with each resampling, eventually sounding more like strings. [0] https://www.whosampled.com/sample/729975/Dua-Lipa-Love-Again-Lew-Stone-%26-the-Monseigneur-Band-Al-Bowlly-My-Woman/ https://www.whosampled.com/sample/729975/Dua-Lipa-Love-Again...
singingfish 5y ago
Awesome. My colleague just bought one of them on the used market. They flip around the second hand market for the price of a couple or four cases of beer
tgv 5y ago
I've got both, and still have them. I rarely touch them, though. They're toys rather than instruments to me.
- dimatura 5y ago
  At this point, they should be treated as collectibles.

Even cheaper - in every conceivable respect - was the Casio VL-1. It had one unforgettable performance though: https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA?t=70 https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA?t=70

pantulis 5y ago

Enjoy - https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/11993-vl-1german-folk-song-mystery-fake-unterlanders-heimweh/ https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/11993-vl-1...

minikomi 5y ago

Casio MT-40 also has quite a story to tell https://youtu.be/4zpjGXH4umQ https://youtu.be/4zpjGXH4umQ

elevaet 5y ago
Sleng teng riddim! I wish I could have experienced this on one of the huge Jamaican soundsystems of that era. Before sleng teng, dancehall music was all done with acoustic bass. This changed the game, no one had ever heard bass like that before
Mizza 5y ago
The story is even more interesting than that video makes it out to be! Hiroko Okuda, the woman who programmed Sleng Teng was (and still is) a Casio employee who had just graduated from school with a degree in musicology. She was a fan of reggae and wrote her thesis on reggae. So, it seems the whole thing is circular! Source: https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-04-casio-and-the-sleng-teng-riddim.html https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-04-casio-and-the-sleng-teng...

nobleach 5y ago

Don't forget Whitetown's Your Woman. I think the rest of it was done on an Atari ST Falcon.

photojosh 5y ago
From which the key catchy sample is also used in the recent 'Love Again' by Dua Lipa... which originally dates from Lew Stone & the Monseigneur Band's 'My Woman' from the 1930s. [0] It was fun listening to the 3 songs in reverse chronological order with my 11 year old, particularly the moment we realised it was played on a muted trumpet originally and sped up with each resampling, eventually sounding more like strings. [0] https://www.whosampled.com/sample/729975/Dua-Lipa-Love-Again-Lew-Stone-%26-the-Monseigneur-Band-Al-Bowlly-My-Woman/ https://www.whosampled.com/sample/729975/Dua-Lipa-Love-Again...

singingfish 5y ago

Awesome. My colleague just bought one of them on the used market. They flip around the second hand market for the price of a couple or four cases of beer

tgv 5y ago

I've got both, and still have them. I rarely touch them, though. They're toys rather than instruments to me.

dimatura 5y ago
At this point, they should be treated as collectibles.