Bands who use drum machines for non 'dance/pop' music

ewal

Currently searching for drum machine inspiration and listening to bands who use drum machine/ programmed drum sounds for non dance or electronic purposes. Some examples:

Drop Nineteens - Kick The Tragedy
Cocteau Twins - multiple (obvs)
Teenage Fanclub - Is This Music
The Radio Dept - various
Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix
.... etc

Hit me up or whatever the appropriate phrase is

distressed

Big Black
Godflesh

paganskins

Smashing Pumpkins's album Adore has a load of drum machine on it. 

Carter USM

blobb

Early All About Eve. They used a drum machine until Mark Price got involved as a session drummer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0QhGBebk38

AntonHunter

Radiohead do this a bunch, alongside having a real live drummer of course. This duo performance (there are two or three in the same setting on Youtube) is wonderful.

hollywoodrox

Sisters of mercy

thecolourbox

The Kills
The Dead Weather occasionally 
Yeah Yeah Yeahs maybe? 

The XX are i think a different case, as they played drum machine sounds but i think "live", ie like when drummers use a trigger pad thing.

Edit, been listening to Sleep Token lately and it sounds like they do too

CaseOfAce

hollywoodrox said:

Sisters of mercy

absolutely! Who can forget the legendary Doktor Avalanche...

ewal

Interesting. Big Black were on my list - SAF Drumulator sounds - same drum machine as Cocteau Twins got significant mileage out of.

The Raveonettes are another that I forgot to mention.

thecolourbox

I think Julian Casablancas and the Voidz also have user the sounds on occasion

stickyfiddle

The War on Drugs
The National 

blobb

Loads of Ozric stuff, Ed Wynne is a master drum programmer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YC4CUuswlo&list=PLGvqKvm4tdgfjwNoqs_z5ctDaFpXtYKRC&index=14

Jonathangus

ZZ Top's Eliminator is mostly drum machine.

Sporky

The Jesus and Mary Chain between Bobby Gillespe and Monty. 

stickyfiddle

Jonathangus said:

ZZ Top's Eliminator is mostly drum machine.

As is the Manic’s Generation Terrorists

scrumhalf

Echo & The Bunnymen.

Echo was Minipops drum machine.

ICBM

CaseOfAce said:

Who can forget the legendary Doktor Avalanche...

But which one?

EricTheWeary

Early stuff by Young Marble Giants. Either didn’t want to or couldn’t make it sound much like drums so it’s very drum machine. 

Quite a bit of drum machine in reggae, an early one would be So Jah S’eh by Bob Marley. If you listen to Billy Jean by Shinehead that’s very drum machine. 

Keefy

The Breeze by J.J. Cale.

AntonHunter

stickyfiddle said:

Jonathangus said:

ZZ Top's Eliminator is mostly drum machine.

As is the Manic’s Generation Terrorists

Much to the annoyance of Sean Moore!

Funkfingers

Dalí's Car (Peter Murphy and the late, great Mick Karn).