after some further investigation i've come to the conclusion that its only really the bass drum from the dmx that is particularly floodland-esque.
imho
however:
http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/tech/doktors.htm
The Doktor was an Oberheim DMX by the time we made the first album. The Oberheim had a (relatively) huge memory, it would synchronise accurately to tape via FSK and the memory could be backed up reliably onto cassette. Each drum was tunable (inside), and Oberheim offered a few alternative sounds. Events could be programmed to happen around the beat, not just on it. The DMX would flam happily. We liked the Oberheim better than the LinnDrum, which was more expensive and sounded too sterile. The DMX kicks were a bit flabby, and the snare was maybe not quite tight enough; the tom-toms were good.
And a new age was dawning: soon it became possible to send the DMX back to the factory and have ... midi! put on it.
Unfortunately the midi retrofit was expensive. By the time 'Floodland' was being written, Andrew had spent all the ready cash on a computer and a sequencer, and was looking for a reasonably priced midi drum machine with a tighter snare drum. So he got a Yamaha RX5 for the snare sound (the kick was quite tight too) and wrote the album with that.
Having already abused the sampling delay units of that era (and some very complicated chains of painstakingly-tuned Drawmer gates) to trigger captured drum sounds, the first dedicated samplers were a godsend. Until then, even the AMS delay unit had a maximum seven seconds of memory, and that cost a fortune. A rare treat. Mostly we had only had access to Bel units with a couple of seconds at 8 bit resolution. Both had to be triggered by hand or audio key. By the time 'Floodland' was recorded, we had an
Akai S900 sampler. Like manna from heaven. Most of the drums on 'Floodland' came via the Akai. The DMX toms were resampled from the drum machine and off tape. Resampled RX5 kick, snare and hats formed the rest of the skeleton crew. We've been creating samples ever since, but we don't collect much any more; one encounters the same old samples circulating the globe under different names. Some of them sound suspiciously like they've been sampled off Sisters records.
so maybe i'm wrong and we need an rx5 instead?
in which case this site:
http://home.planet.nl/~scha0938/downloads.htm
has drum sets for Native Instruments' BATTERY, which i use and is a top piece of software, including sounds for the linn 9000, the DMX and the RX5.
ni battery:
http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?battery_us
lets try again shall we
the linn 9000 does a good rendition of snake dance though, if you're that way inclined
as with all things, just make sure you stick a truck load of reverb on it
