I do believe the Casiotone 201 predated the VL-1 by a year or so. Afaik it was the first Casio keyboard to hit the market back in 1980.rsaintjohn wrote:So weird, this was just released today: Ben Folds on a Casiotone 201, Casio's first consumer keyboard (after the VL)
Speaking of the 201, it was also used by Landscape on their album From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....(released in early '81 but recorded in mid '80).
The Casio MT-40 (also 1981) was apparently the basis for the reggae tune “Sleng Teng Riddim”: