Gear & Tech
Laser-Cut Wooden Record

Laser-Cut Wooden & Acrylic Records

They don’t sound the clearest, but they look beautiful.

May 10, 2013

Technics SL-1200 Inspired Motorcycle

The Technics Sportster XL883N was created in an alliance between Roland Sands Design and Technics. Sands’ brief was to evoke the style of Technics’ SL-1200 turntable.

Nov 30, 2012
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Studio Visit: K-the-I???

Bionic Diversions visit K-the-i??? in his Echo Park, CA studio. Download the featured track here.

Apr 20, 2012
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Analog Vinyl Sampling

Emulating the audio tape cut & paste technique, by making vinyl sampling a bit more analog -- literally cutting and pasting precision cut pieces of vinyl to create samples.

Aug 29, 2011
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A Brief History of the Minimoog Synthesizer [video]

One of Moog Music's earliest engineers, Bill Hemsath, recalls the process of the Minimoog's birth and sheds some light on what sets the Moog synthesizer apart from other analog synths.

May 9, 2011
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Wristwatch Turntables

Instructions on how to make your own wristwatch turntable set out of two recordable greeting cards and some potentiometers; enabling you ...

Mar 23, 2011
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The Vinyl Experience [video]

Video footage of vinyl record production, recorded at Pallas Records in Diepholz, Germany — one of the last factories in Europe ...

Feb 10, 2011
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Invincible + Waajeed Tour Detroit’s Archer Record Pressing Plant [video]

Watch Invincible and Waajeed tour the legendary Archer Record Pressing plant in Detroit where their vinyl was being pressed. emergencemedia.org

Jan 26, 2011

Using Google Translate to Beatbox

So, people have discovered you can use Google Translate to beatbox using a German to German translation... it's sort of interesting.

Dec 2, 2010

Edison

San Francisco based beat maker and monome builder. Edison has been button pushing his way to a high seat as a beat lord, especially after the recent release of the Les Swashbuckling Napoleons album 'Fuck!'

Nov 29, 2010