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A Buchla synth repair turned into an LSD trip, and made the evening news
It seems the legends are true – there really was LSD added to vintage synths. A Bay Area, California Buchla 100 reportedly triggered an acid trip decades later.
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Post-album techno: 9 years of live sequence data, from Shawn Rudiman
Here’s techno as it’s lived in the moment – the actual improvised grooves of nine years of live sets, echoed as a flood of glitchy, modem-like sounds from a war-tested Alesis MMT-8 sequencer.
Novation’s Bass Station II just got an Aphex Twin mode, crazy features
The Aphex Twin-ification of synths continues – and who’s complaining? Novation’s Bass Station II gets some mind-warping mental sound features, including key-by-key madness from Richard James.
nanoloop reborn as standalone, Game Boy-inspired groovebox
Peter Kirn - March 12, 2019
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A DIY machine imagines 808 kicks if they were made of actual fire
Peter Kirn - January 24, 2019
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Ethereal, enchanting Winter Solstice drone album, made in VCV Rack
Peter Kirn - December 21, 2018
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Generative music from Shanghai’s AYRTBH: interview, download
David Abravanel - December 17, 2018
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