not to reopen wounds or commit thread necromancy..
but I would think that if one was trying to do this sort of music style, whether in the studio or live, most of the fun of it would be using older gear and shelving the complicated newfangled boxes.
That’s not to say that you can’t or shouldn’t use newer equipment, but for less than 500$ you can get a pretty neat setup and I would think that intrinsically it would be fun to explore another workflow rather than mimic it.
That’s also not saying you can cheat a bit and use electribes, sequencers (RMX1 etc) and hyrbids such as the poly800, sx60, dw 6/8000 etc. either..
bit over all I think most of the fun would be to step out side our modern perspectives a bit.