I say LInnDrum, ok it's a Korg Electribe ES1mkII loaded up with LinnDrum sounds. Found this great video on youtube posted up by harlemnightsmusic showing you some examples of how extensively used the LinnDrum was on so many iconic records. I want one.
* Here's a list of some of the tracks this drum machine has been used on featured and the video......
Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Searchin' - Hazell Dean (megamix version)
Don't you want me - Human League (the first Linndrum hit track, 1981)
Walkin' on Sunshine - Rocker's Revenge (the original combines with Oberheim DX)
Maniac - Michael Sembello
When Doves Cry - Prince (snare from SCI Tom)
Midnight Man - Flash & the Pan
Beat the Street - Sharon Redd
Love how you feel - Sharon Redd
So many Men so little Time - Miquel Brown
State of Independence - Donna Summer
Eyes without a Face - Billy Idol (additional clap from Oberheim DX)
What's Love got to do with it - Tina Turner
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Everything She Wants - Wham!
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Wanna be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson
Maneater - Hall & Oates (intro, solo part)
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
I want to break free - Queen
Sign your Name - Terence Trent d'Arby
And here's a list of a few more....
ABC — "Lexicon of Love"
George Benson — "Turn Your Love Around"
Berlin — "Dancing in Berlin", "No More Words", "Take My Breath Away" (LM-2)
Bobby Orlando - "All People Are The Same", "Reputation", "Take A Chance"
Blancmange — Happy Families
Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy", "Why", "Junk", "Close To The Edge", "I Gave You Everything", "Hit That Perfect Beat"
Irene Cara — "What a Feelin'" and the rest songs on her 1983 album
John Carpenter — "Escape From New York"
The Cars — "Drive" (possibly LinnDrum)
Glenn Frey - You Belong To The City (Linn 9000)
Chemical Brothers — "It Doesn't Matter"
Phil Collins - "Sussudio", "Don't Lose My Number"
Miquel Brown - "So Many Men, So Little Time", "Beeline"
Culture Club — "Karma Chameleon", "The War Song"
F.R. David — "Words", "Pick Up The Phone"
Devo — "New Traditionalists" Album, 1981 (Alan Myers can be seen "playing" a LM-1 in the music video for "Beautiful World")
Dollar
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
Diana Ross - "Chain Reaction"
Pat Benatar - "Love Is A Battlefield"
Farley Jackmaster Funk
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - "Don't Take My Coconuts"
Jan Hammer - "Crockett's Theme"
John Foxx
Huey Lewis and the News — "Heart of Rock & Roll"
Matthew Friedberger — Holy Ghost Language School/Winter Women
Peter Gabriel — "Shock the Monkey" and almost all the other songs on his fourth album.
Genesis — "Genesis" ("Mama")
Steve Hackett — Cured
Hall & Oates — "Maneater" (heard at beginning of song and during saxophone solo when acoustic drums drop out)
Heaven 17
Don Henley — "The Boys of Summer", "Sunset Grill", "Dirty Laundry" (beginning of song)
The Human League — "Don't You Want Me", Dare, Hysteria, "Mirror Man"
Icehouse — "Great Southern Land," "Hey, Little Girl", from the album Primitive Man; Sidewalk
Billy Idol - "Eyes Without A Face"
Michael Jackson — "Thriller", (including the title track, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "Human Nature")
Jean Michel Jarre
Elton John — "Nobody Wins"
Mark Knopfler — "Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)"
Madonna — "Burning Up," "Everybody," "Rain", "Borderline", "Physical Attraction", "Gambler"
Modern Talking (used Linn 9000)
Giorgio Moroder — Cat People OST, Scarface OST, "Together in Electric Dreams", among others
Lime - on their album "Unexpected Lovers"
Divine - "I'm So Beautiful", "You Think You're Man"
Digital Emotion - "Go Go Yellow Screen", "Get Up", "The Beauty & The Beast"
Gary Numan — "Dance", "Telekon"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Peter Brown - "They Only Come Out At Night", "Classical Dancing", "Love Is Just A Game"
Ready for the World — "Oh Sheila"
Men Without Hats — "Rhythm of Youth"
Roxy Music — "Avalon" (all songs built from the ground up using an LM-1 Drum Computer)
Ryan Paris
Laserdance (LM-2 in "Power Run", "Humanoid Invasion" and others)
Prince — the majority of his 1980s albums, including the singles "When Doves Cry," "1999", and "Let's Go Crazy"
Queen — "I Want to Break Free", "Radio Ga-Ga"
Todd Rundgren
Michael Sembello — "Maniac"
Pete Shelley — Homosapien, XL1
Rod Stewart — "Young Turks"
Most Stock, Aitken, and Waterman productions during the 1980s (possibly LinnDrum or Linn 9000)
Donna Summer
Joy (used Linn 9000 in "Touch By Touch", "Valerie")
Thompson Twins
Justin Timberlake — "Until the End of Time"
Ultravox — "We Came To Dance"
Vangelis
Vanity — Wild Animals
Visage - "Beat Boy"
Wham! - "Last Christmas"
Bill Wolfer — Wolf
Baobab - "Let's Break", "N.O.J.O.B"
Stevie Wonder — "Part Time Lover"
The Twins - "Ballet Dancer", "Love In The Dark", "Talk To Me" and others.
Sparks - "Popularity", "Sports", "Minnie Mouse", "Rocking Girls"
Sandra (used Linn 9000 in "Maria Magdalena", "Hi Hi Hi", "In The Heat Of The Night")
Fancy - "Chinese Eyes", "Bolero", "In Shock"
Mike Mareen - "Love Spy"
Samantha Fox - "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" (possibly LinnDrum LM-2)
Gazebo - "Telephone Mama"
Laura Branigan - "Take Me", "When I'm With You"
Janet Jackson - used LM-2 on her 1985 album "Dream Street"
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