Big City Music

Datarock visits Big City Music and checks out all the “antique synthesizers”.

Big City Music has announced that it will be selling the quirky designs of Folktek Instruments:

From somewhere underground in Portland Oregon Arius Blaze and Ben Houston are creating some wildly interesting instruments. The Folktek pieces are truly unique in every way. Each one is hand crafted by the artists and is a one of a kind. Most of their instruments are crafted into beautiful antique boxes too. These are not your typical circuit bent instruments. The way you can “play” them varies tremendously and Folktek offers some alternative user interaction with their pieces. Check back with us as we will get more pieces soon.

The Magnetic Bug, shown above, is an example of Folktek’s work:

The Magnetic Bug is a custom work in the filanthropoid series which includes such work as the bugs, the insectariums, the growling insect, the book of sound, the pendulum translator, the archnid, the octa-hedra. the transporter and many more. 

These patchable works in the Filanthropoid series provide evan more possibilites than previous units. This Beauty has been hand-crafted with durability and ease of play in mind. 

The sound produced by these monsters is phenomenal and continues to amaze us. It is a sonic symphony of nasty and grimey sweetness, endless layers of sound possibilities emenating from High quality OSC originally based on high tech speech synthesis. Seemingly randon bits, waves, hums, drones ,crackles,yips can be rediscovered time and again and then there are those moments you will most likely never rediscover. 

This is an overview of the synthgasm that is the Big City Music booth at NAMM. 

You can see shots of the new Metasonix eurorack modules and the new KV-100 Assblaster. You can also see the new Signal Arts Tetra Maps sequencer, the new Sherman Rodec Restyler, all of the Jomox Products, a giant Analogue Systems modular, pieces from Diabolical Devices and Folktek, as well as Cwejman, King Capitol Punishment, Bleep Labs L.L. Electronics Rozzbox, Schippman, Malekko, Vermona and more.

Big City Music is always sharing cool stuff, but this may take the prize. 

The father of modern electronic music, Bob Moog, signs a giant rubber duckie for Stephi. 

There’s got to be a great story behind this photo – if you know what’s going on, leave a comment!

BigCityMusic is the culprit behind this frenetic hardcore synth porn jam video.

It demos the Minomoog Voyager running into the Malekko Heavy Industry Assmaster. They call this octave-up fuzz “brutal”.

Between the brutal Assmaster, the Fucking Fucker and the recent splooge of NSFW synth videos, though, we can pretty much kiss getting lunch-time traffic from people at work goodbye.

C’mon gear makers, can’t you call your next device something like “The Business” or maybe “2008 progress report”?