Maxell would like you to know that they still make audio cassette tapes

Memorex, Sony, TDK — most of the names once associated with selling blank compact cassettes to consumers have since discontinued production. But one holdout still making tapes is Maxell – and their social media manager does not what you to forget it.

In Phantasmagoria of Jathilan, enter the trance of a horse dance

Handmade instruments and electronic rhythms weave together with bone-chillingly moving vocals in the latest epic from Raja Kirk. This is serious anticolonial music: Jathilan recalls the horses enlisted in the fight against Dutch colonial forces, during a war that tore early 19th century Javanese society apart.

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2023

Keysette is a micro piano to cassette instrument – and limited edition faux vintage

It’s the musical invention that “should not exist, but does.” Keysette is an unholy combination of the 80s and 90s worst cheap synth technology with the worst cassette adapter technology and – is kind of impossible not to love.

Peter Kirn - June 21, 2023

Polish chemist Jan Czochralski, joysticks and patch points spawned this drum machine

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2023

Wiggler is a bendy expressive DIY synth – and its creator is sharing their process

Peter Kirn - March 9, 2023

Meng Qi’s new Wingie2 firmware is inspired by the late Rob Hordijk’s Blippoo Box

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2023

PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP

Peter Kirn - February 21, 2023

Neutral Labs Pip module: morphable, complex LFOs designed to be paired

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2023

Make your own drum machine: a $70 DIY creation built on Teensy

Peter Kirn - February 14, 2023

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