Watch a hacked DJ technique made with karaoke tapes, by Ōedo Technica

Vinyl? CDJ? Meh. Hand-mixing and “scratching” karaoke cassette tapes on hacked machines as a new form of strange pop music DJing? Now we’re talking. Behold the YouTube channel of 大江戸テクニカ (Ōedo tekunika).

Find zen-like calm with these perfect miniature synthesizer videos

We all need a way to center, a way to lower our blood pressure and cure insomnia. Forget ASMR or videos of ocean waves or whatever. Just watch these mesmerizing videos of tiny, tiny, tiny accurate models of classic synthesizers.

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2021

Conspiracy theorists claim this “5G chip” circuit will be in vaccine – but it’s a BOSS guitar pedal

“This stompbox provides some of the most over-the-top, insane distortion tones in the world” – or, you know, some people are insanely over-the-top distorted enough to think it’ll be inside a vaccine.

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2021

WIRES from Hainbach, AudioThing turns a Soviet wire recorder into a plugin

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2020

“Studios with threatening auras” delivers aptly apocalyptic studio shots

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2020

The newest sound-making device is the trampoline – and here’s a synth made for bouncing on it

Peter Kirn - June 9, 2020

Paris Hilton building her DJ set at home is unintended zeitgeist genius

Peter Kirn - April 14, 2020

Terrible Christmas mashups with Mariah Carey are now practically their own genre

Peter Kirn - December 11, 2019

A Buchla synth repair turned into an LSD trip, and made the evening news

Peter Kirn - May 23, 2019

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