Movement MCS Percussion Computer Mk. II

The '''Movement MCS Drum Computer Mk. II''' (a.k.a. Movement MCS-2) was the second drum machine released by Movement Computer Systems, in early 1983. It succeeded the Movement Mk. I.

Phil Collins owned an orange MCS-2, which he upgraded to from the Movement Mk. I when it was released, and installed chips containing samples of his own drum sounds into this machine.

For the recording of Genesis (the 1983 self-titled album), Collins used the Movement Mk. II to program a basic click track for the band to jam and write to, with the intention of replacing the parts later in most cases. A few of the Movement's percussion sounds were retained on "Illegal Alien". And perhaps the snare sound in "It's Gonna Get Better" was partly one of Phil's samples installed into the Movement - studio tech Geoff Callingham was filmed manually "playing" the sound while recording.