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A 1970s DIY modular from Elektor Magazine just got reborn
Erica Synths is reimagining a modular synth you’ve probably never heard of. In the late 1970s, Dutch publication Elektor Magazine put out something it called the Elektor Formant as a series of DIY kits. That modular system is getting a full reimagining and reboot from Erica Synths.
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Sampleslicer MKIII, the definitive real-time sampler looper slicer module
Live performance requires practice. And creating a truly performance-oriented module also requires a long process of iteration and refinement. Sampleslicer MKIII, the live sampling-looping-slicing labor, by Jan Willem (ginkosynthese), is the culmination of that process. And it just keeps getting better: today’s beta update, just announced, adds features like momentary reverse, non-repeating one-shot, and gate-triggered resets.
Peter Kirn - July 11, 2025
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Nazar’s “Demilitarize” sees the artist channeling Ghost in the Shell
Nazar’s Demilitarize, out this month on Hyperdub, is essential listening – reimagined Angolan kuduro DNA woven into a sound world inspired by processing trauma and absorbing the ethos of anime classic Ghost in the Shell. It follows two releases that responded to the civil war with an imaginative, intimate coda.
Sequencing with light on an alien-looking instrument by Kacper Ziemianin
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2025
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Amigo Sampler, Amiga sampling in plug-in form for £10, plus skank music
Peter Kirn - March 22, 2024
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Meng Qi’s new Wingie2 firmware is inspired by the late Rob Hordijk’s Blippoo Box
Peter Kirn - February 27, 2023
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