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Roland launched the TR-909 in 1983 and nobody wanted it. Producers preferred machines that sounded more like real drums, and Roland stopped making it after about a year and 10,000 units.
Then the used ones got cheap. Producers in Chicago and Detroit like Frankie Knuckles, Derrick May and Jeff Mills picked them up second-hand, and that kick drum became the sound of house and techno. Derrick May even sold his 909 to Frankie Knuckles.
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