New KORG kits with tubes: Nu:Tekt headphone amp, valve overdrive

KORG are adding to their inexpensive, easy put-them-together kits with a headphone amp and valve overdrive. Totally tubular.

The demonic musical Baby Bots of Moon Armada

Why should a synth be a metal box with some wooden endcaps? Why shouldn’t be a severed baby doll head with glowing red eyes and buttons in its skull? Moon Armada helps the forward evolution of synth form factors, and the results are … uh … adorable is the word?

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2019

8BitMixtapeNEO is a glitchy hackable synth the size of a cassette tape

It’s the size of a cassette tape, has buttons and pots so you can play it as a handheld instrument, it’s open and hackable – and it sounds like 8-bit mayhem.

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2018

Oi, Kant! is a raunchy, glitchy, out-of-control patchable groove machine

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2018

Fantasy Mansion is an EP that’s also a generative, 8-bit circuit with sync

Peter Kirn - June 19, 2017

A patchable, circuit bent Sony Discman turns into a glitch instrument

Peter Kirn - January 3, 2017

One new board turns into a complete sound and light lab

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2016

Watch crazy sounds meet remote Finnish countryside

Peter Kirn - August 25, 2016

Hack – listen to one LED create its own micro rave

Peter Kirn - April 22, 2016

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