Music
Get dark and strange with this free GodHatesGodRecords compilation
Out of Belgium, there’s a murky, forbidding free underground netlabel that has survived from another era. It’s aggressively anti-algorithmic, soul-chillingly dark in its aesthetics, and committed to free culture and commons like if social media and AI never happened. And it’s perfect for a frozen European night, wherever you might be.
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Watch as a telephone is transformed into a DIY analog drum machine
Push-button telephone. Analog drum machine. Arduino Nano. DIY amplifier. Shashwath Sundar, aka simple_but_nerdy, makes the telephone-drum machine fusion seem like it was meant to be.
Peter Kirn - January 9, 2026
DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Tech
Baby Audio’s Tekno drum machine gets a sequencer and iOS AUv3 version
Tekno from Baby Audio was easily one of my favorite plug-ins of last year — it’s a rich, “bend”-able, brutal box with the feeling of hardware drum synthesis. And now it gets a step sequencer, plus a ton of tweaks you might have missed in the first release. And one more thing: iOS users, there’s a mobile version with AUv3 version.
What’s new in the DIY world of Music Thing’s Workshop System
Peter Kirn - January 7, 2026
DIY + Unusual Modular-Analog Music tech Stories Tech
JW-Modules free Grains, Buffer are must-downloads for VCV Rack
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2026
Modular-Analog Music tech Software Tech
LANDR acquires Reason Studios; takeaways from that announcement
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2026
Music tech Software Tech
OB-Xf, free and open-source Oberheim-inspired synth, is now in beta
Peter Kirn - January 2, 2026
Music tech Software Tech
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