Interview
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!’
Gear & Tech
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The SL-1200 is Dead: Panasonic Scratches Iconic Technics Turntable
We posted about the possible death of Technics last year, when it was rumoured that Panasonic would be stopping production of turntables in November 2010, now it looks like those rumours were in fact true…
Triple Decker Record: A 7-inch embedded inside a 12-inch
Designed by Jack White and assembled by United Record Pressing, the Triple Decker contains a 7″ record embedded inside a 12″ record…
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Press Your Ashes into a Vinyl Record When You Die
Music lovers can now be immortalised when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones.
CD/Vinyl Record Hybrid
One side of the disc is a normal CD, the other side plays on a normal analogue turntable.
Video
Take – “Incredibright” video and studio tour
Music video from L.A. based producer Take’s new album, Only Mountain, out now on Alpha Pup. Check out the video below as Take gives fellow producer Daddy Kev a tour of his studio.
Vinyl Record Grooves Under an Electron Microscope
These are Electron Microscope images of record grooves from Chris Supranowitz, a researcher at The Insitute of Optics at the University of Rochester. ⇑ Vinyl
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Record Your Own Records with Gakken’s Gramophone Kit
With a bamboo needle and hand-cranked, completely mechanical action, this is a nearly perfect replica of gramophones used in the early 20th century. So along
Man Makes Chocolate Records
After losing his job in a local brewery… Mr. Lardong created the world’s first chocolate recording and music actually plays from the records. “At first
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Technics is Dead?
Rumors are that according to spokesmen from Panasonic, the parent company has announced that as of February 2010 they will cease production of Technics Turntables…
Delicious Vinyl DJ iPhone App
Delicious Vinyl DJ is a new music rhythm game for the iPhone/iTouch that lets you scratch along to the label’s classic tracks, as well as new remixes.
$25 Stylophone Beatbox
Following last year’s return of the 1970s Stylophone mini-synthesizer (in physical and iPhone app form) comes the new Stylophone Beatbox (available now)…