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Easy Timer Hack For Budget Fog Machines
I built up a light truss with some lasers and needed fog to see them. I clicked over to that giant supermegaevil online market run by a guy that looks like Lex Luther, complete with an inflatable wife, and to my dismay, none of the budget options under $200 had timer controls. I’m not spergy… Continue reading Easy Timer Hack For Budget Fog Machines
Hackerman Uses Prosthetic Arm to CV Interface and Make Music With His Mind.
From my anecdotal limited experience working with one armed artists, they tend to take things a bit further. Having gigged a few shows over the years with DJ Don Tinsley, I think that adversity often becomes a driving force and motivator. Hell, outside of being a legendary deep house DeeJay, he was a semi-pro vert… Continue reading Hackerman Uses Prosthetic Arm to CV Interface and Make Music With His Mind.
Uganda Read About This! Africa’s first diy modsynth: “AFRORACK”
One of those feel-good inspirational joints right here. Bamanya Brian was just chilling in Uganda doing the usual Uganda stuff and decided to get into the notoriously prohibitive realm that is modular synthesis. Being Uganda this presents a smidgen more of a challenge for him. Heck, even in most the first world, it is so… Continue reading Uganda Read About This! Africa’s first diy modsynth: “AFRORACK”
New Squarepusher Be Up A Hello
There’s a tier of bands that transcend art culture and evolve into a description. Tom Jenkinson is one of those. He’s often a description around experimental socially cause it’s easier (and less wanky) to just say something/someone sounds like Squarepusher then a virtuoso midi guitarist of brutalist 303 acid breaky drill & bass of the… Continue reading New Squarepusher Be Up A Hello
Adventures in Eurorack Case Staining
Alright, so you got modsynth case and you don’t want it looking like some Ikea but you also don’t have money or carpentry skills for more then Ikea cause you waste all your time and money on modsynth in the first damn place. Oddly there’s a lack of information about this specific subject too. Doepfer… Continue reading Adventures in Eurorack Case Staining
Berhinger Clone Megapost
I’ll update this post on the regs cause so much yet so little going on this year with Berhinger. In their quest to avoid any innovation, destroy livelyhoods of small boutique makers already doing better clones and pissing off snooty collectors that have originals (my favorite part) figured I’d start curating an article (containment post)… Continue reading Berhinger Clone Megapost
New Decade Who Dis?
It’s 2020 who would of thunked it and color me underwhelmed! Seemed like only yesterday was a whole decade ago and I was on Wix unnecessarily paying more for a grossly inferior product I barely even used and prior to that… oops almost stepped on a label NDA sooo yeah, anywho kicking off this decade… Continue reading New Decade Who Dis?
New Chemical Brothers Album & BBC Essential Mix
originally posted 04.14.2019|transmission by: zaxx An old band I was in opened for these guys on the Surrender tour 1999 at the American Theater in Saint Louis and let me tell you the brothers working it out on their 9th studio album “No Geography” back to old habits in proper form. To celebrate they even… Continue reading New Chemical Brothers Album & BBC Essential Mix
Buchla Covered In LSD at UC East Bay
originally posted 05.24.2019|transmission by: zaxx It’s not every day a long standing legend becomes confirmed truth. Having lived in the East Bay for some years around the electronic music scene it was certainly a campfire topic ie: The Merry Pranksters and specifically The Acid Freak Out Parties of the 60s were really something different then… Continue reading Buchla Covered In LSD at UC East Bay