Elektron Musical Instruments

>     --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Sr. Minimo"  wrote:
>  ...just a note on that: we _never_ give stuff away for promotion.
>  We've been approached by quite some big names, or rather their
>  secretaries, asking for some kind of promotional deals. But our
>  thought is that if there is anyone who can afford paying it's them -
>  and also, if you see someone using our stuff it's because they really
>  want to, noone payed them for it.

well said!  I always thought that it was unfair that big name artists get
lots of free gear...they have the money to pay full price, we paid for
their records and concert tickets to give them that money AND the cost of
giving them that free gear will be aggregated into the cost of the gear
when we want to purchase it!  not very fair at all.  so it's nice (though
not surprising) to hear that Elektron is very grounded on this.

>  Of course we're very happy Authecre seems to base their whole live gig
>  on the MD and the Mono SFX-60, but even more so knowing they payed the
>  full price and thought it was worth it!

it's funny to me that Autechre was interviewed in the very same SOS issue
that gave the MnM a mediocre review, finding quite a few gripes with it. 
I wonder if that's how they found out how sweet the MnM is....:-)