Vinyl isn’t as retro as you might think. The Tennessee Times Leader reports that Nashville’s United Record Pressing cranks out 20,000 to 40,000 records a day, making it one of the largest — and last — vinyl record manufacturers in the country. Most of the discs are 12-inch singles destined for professional DJs at radio… Read More Vinyl LP Manufacturer Growing
Daniel McPharlin has posted a create collection of photos of miniature analog cardboard synths. Obsessive-compulsively cool.
Forget analog or digital – vanilla or chocolate? via Alicia
On February 27, club and DJ culture will be brought to a boil in the online virtual world of Second Life as The Scumfrog opens the doors to his spectacular new virtual club “Glam Scum”. The will be joined by international heavyweight Ferry Corsten for the grand opening on the 27th. Both DJs will be… Read More The Scumfog, Ferry Corsten take on Second Life
Metku Mods, a hardware modding site, has an interesting step-by-step photo essay on modding a Casio CTK 530 keyboard. Why spend hours turning a cheesy Casio keyboard into a control keyboard that only offers limited control? Here’s modder Jani Pönkkö’s reason: When not modding, I usually compose some music. As an input device for the… Read More Insane Casio Keyboard Mod
One of the coolest things we saw at the NAMM Show this year was a new MIDI controller introduced by C-Thru Music, the bizarre AXiS-64 MIDI controller. Designer Peter Davies threw out preconceptions of what a music keyboard should be and designed a layout based on the Harmonic Table. According to C-Thru Musiic, the arrangement… Read More Video: Hands On With The New Axis MIDI Controller
A couple of weeks ago we brought you a sneek preview from the Winter NAMM Show of the Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher. Now, Metasonix’ Eric Barbour has released the details on the Scrotum Smasher. Here’s his explanation of how it works: The TM-7 is basically a mean, angry guitar preamp made of three vacuum tubes.… Read More Inside The Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher
Can a piano be sexy? After seeing Philippe Gendre’s M.Liminal Piano, I think you’ll agree that it is the sexiest piano in the world. The real question, is it too sexy? More photos below:
2007 Winter NAMM Show: Metasonix introduced the TM-7 Ultra-Distortion Scrotum Smasher, the latest lo-fi tube-based sound mangler from the mind of Eric Barbour. Barbour has described his modules as brain destroying, meaty, bizarre, crude, nasty, powerful and evil, and the Scrotum Smasher looks to be no exception. The TM-7 joins his other tube-based creations, including… Read More Metasonix Debuts The TM-7 Ultra-Distortion Scrotum Smasher
We don’t know why, but Synthtopia is the top site in the world for the search phrase topless DJ. We’re not sure if it was the story on “Erotic Fetish DJ Extraordinaire” Portia Surreal, the story on pornstar-turned-topless-dj DJ Niki Belucci, or the one about DJ Diva, the topless skydiving DJ, but somehow has Google… Read More Italy Joins Topless DJ Craze
