General "Did you Know?"s

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Early electronic bands had to be much more resourceful than nowadays and the advents of computers and other technologies. Probably the best example of this is Kraftwerk. Listen the the beginning of this song here, and you can very clearly hear an electronic drum that also produces a scratchy sound effect:

You might wonder where they got this instrument. The answer is simple: they invented the bloody things. That's right, they invented the electronic drum and then used their own invention extensively in their early works. They also always used at least 2 keyboards in a song at the time, because this was before keyboards were polyphonic (able to play more than one key at a time), meaning that two separate keyboards were needed just to play two notes at once.

Edit: I might add that the innovation continued as long as the technology improved. When simple sequencers came along, John Foxx created this piece by looping multiple sequenced tracks over each other, creating something nearly as complex if not more so than a lot of electronic dance music of today with what was basically analog equipment, all the way back in 1979.