Mongoloid, drum machine?

[s***@trailing-edge.com]

OK, I don't exactly listen to it in digital hi-fi (all I have is an
original almost-30-years-old Are We Not Men LP), but are the drums on
Mongoloid real drums or some sort of super-funked-up drum machine? They
don't sound "real" (except for the spastic beat they sound like a cheap
80's drum machine) but maybe they fuzzed up some real drum playing to
make them sound that way? (And seeing as how nobody else had a drum
machine at the time...)

Tim.

[Plankton]

I'm sure they're real drums. Just the little "roll" before the guitar
starts is something a drum machine couldn't have done in the 1970.

[Gary Childs]

Post by s***@trailing-edge.com
are the drums on
Mongoloid real drums or some sort of super-funked-up drum machine?

They are heavily-processed real drums.
One critic said they sounded like someone pounding on garbage can lids.

[Ian Petts]

They are heavily-processed real drums. One critic said they sounded
like someone pounding on garbage can lids.

I always thought they sounded like "syn-drums". Electronic drum pads
played with normal drumsticks. The electronics can make them sound like
just about anything.

Regards,
Ian.