Eastbloc Dispatches is the podcast for the Eastbloc culture you’re missing

From DJ and journalist Andra Amber Nikolayi, the Eastbloc Dispatches podcast is your pass to all the culture you could easily miss out on elsewhere, from central, eastern, and southeastern Europe, and various parts of the world recovering from the Soviet Union. And it’s full of terrific conversations.

Bastl’s new Neo Trinity module: 6-channel modulation with recording

Why go modular if you’re not going to go nuts with modulation and signal? Bastl Instruments has reimagined their hex modulation CV Trinity with a new 6-channel beast for modulation, envelopes, and knob and trigger recording.

Peter Kirn - January 29, 2024

Lost in a queer party, in Local Suicide x The Hidden Cameras music video

Here’s a music video treat: Canadian legend Joel Gibb aka The Hidden Cameras joins up with Berlin’s Local Suicide and music video dream team. It’s a murky trip into the queer party underworld with a lone dancer searching for the unanswerable. Plus we get a look inside the studio for some of the vintage synths producing those EBM sounds.

Peter Kirn - August 22, 2023

Bastl – Casper Aikido module is a mixer and a quad VCA and a compressor envelope follower

Peter Kirn - February 8, 2023

Here’s Jan Hammer in an 80s power suit rocking his Miami Vice theme on the Fairlight CMI

Peter Kirn - January 22, 2023

Bastl adds extra toppings to Pizza wave-shaping, FM oscillator

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2022

BASTL Microgranny is back – in a limited Monolith edition with Bogdan Raczynski

Peter Kirn - October 14, 2022

Erica LXR-02 drum machine update: finally, autosave, plus new Hrtl kits

Peter Kirn - August 31, 2022

Bastl’s delicious Pizza: waveshaping meets FM for a tasty modular oscillator

Peter Kirn - May 11, 2022

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