Casio RAP-1 (1991) | Arcade

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I made a song using nothing but the Casio Rapman, called "Arcade". I've added no external effects, so what you're hearing is purely the Casio RAP-1.

Here’s what Tom Robinson of the “Music technology” -magazine had to say about the Rapman, in the October of 1991 issue:

In any creative field, fresh ideas emerge through play and spontaneity - if you've got even one first rate idea, a RAP1 would be well worth the money. In fact, you'd have to be a miserable po-faced bastard to resist jamming with it for hours. I took the review model with me to Real World studios last month and had difficulty prising it back off every musician who saw it. Manu Katche and his producer ordered four on the spot - even Peter Gabriel sat happily rapping and scratching away at the dinner table until Daniel Lanois came and dragged him back into the studio.

As Brian Eno, that much misunderstood guru of low-tech, once pointed out: "in the studio you often see a keyboard player spend hours scrambling through the electrons searching for a new sound, when it's obvious what he's really looking for is a new idea".

Can you remember the first record to feature a Fairlight, a Prophet 5, a Linn drum machine, Yamaha CS80 or modular Moog system? Neither can I - probably because the blasted things were so expensive at the time only super-rich boffins and bored pop stars could afford them. And what did these people do after lashing out thousands of quid on some new gleaming piece of gadgetry they barely understood? My guess is, wet themselves in terror. They certainly didn't doodle with it in the back of a tour bus.