 After Musicaid went bankrupt, Simmons set up a new manufacturing company under his name, Simmons.Burgess pioneered the use of the SDS-V, triggering the prototype version with a Roland MC-8 Microcomposer in 1979 to make Landscape's groundbreaking computer-programmed futurist album "From the Tea-Rooms of Mars... To the Hell-Holes of Uranus".Burgess's original concept had been to make a machine which could be played by a drummer as a replacement for acoustic drums.