So.. I'm not really using my Doepfer modular much these days and am thinking about clearing it out to make room for other things. If you're interested, let me know (or if you know anyone who might be, point them my way). People around Seattle preferred, but I'll ship it, assuming you're willing to cover a very good packing job.

Everything is in excellent shape -- I recently checked through all the connections and everything's working fine. The one exception is a few small batz-maru stickers I added to a few modules for novelty. I'm probably looking for about 75% of new price, but I'd much rather sell this as a whole than have to deal with parting it out, so any reasonable offer will be considered. New price would be about $2700 for the case and all modules (not counting the AS modules, which don't seem to be available any more). Complete module list below the cut. I'll be happy to answer any questions about the modules (especially the analogue solutions modules, which are fairly rare).

I'm not parting it out yet, though if you're interested in multiple modules you can make an offer.

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Any of you guys interested in a free rolling rack? It's got a sloped top with something like 12U, and maybe 20U in the bottom. One caster is missing, but it's otherwise in fine shape.

I've been collecting old drum machines lately. Like, hammonds, univoxes, and rhythm aces. I also picked up a quadraverb GT, like I used to have back in the day. Rhythm Ace Track.

I challenge you to listen to nitzer ebb on your morning commute without a fair amount of yelling, pointing, fist-pumping, clenching, or air hitting-oil-can-with-mallet. not possible. it does kind of wake you up though, makes you insa-sa-sane.

A robot playing theremin (and check out the uh drum machine). Gnarls Barkley theremin jam (nice MPC work too there). and some dude playing video killed the radio star (dude, turn the theremin on first). Bonus: video killed the radio star on upright bass, mandolin, and harp (warning: no theremins or robots). Bonus bonus: star trek/simpsons mashup on theremin, rhodes, and funnel.

Not a great recording (peter's bass sounds especially muddy), but I like watching the back-and-forth between gillian and stephen. plus, hey thieves like us.

Honestly, what have you seen or heard recently that rocks out as much as this:


I heart Damaso Perez Prado.

optic: whoa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5uUZkcio8
optic: blue monday live in 1984
optic: not the top of the pops one either
optic: never seen this before
optic: barney sure is wearin some short shorts
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I'm cleaning out some cheap/free stuff. no reasonable offer refused if you come to my house and take it away.

- korg er1 drum machine. great condition with box and everything except I can't find the wall wart. $147
- yamaha dx200 drum/FM synth box. great condition, with box and everything. $221
- dmc mx8 midi patch bay. $74
- two kawai mm16 midi controllers, $free
- roland cn20 midi controller thing, $free
- alesis black mmt8 (yes!), $free

Ethel Merman singing Everything's Coming Up Roses has to be the most horrible thing ever inflicted on the ears of radio listeners. This is why many people feel about "broadway" about the same way they feel about clowns or mimes.

I've been sort of itching to do some old school studio fiddling lately (especially after eric sent me this). so yesterday I made sure all the old boxes were hooked up properly and ground out this, and this morning I managed this. the first is so-so but I like the second. just to give you an idea of where I am, the second one is 17 minutes long and the bassline doesn't even appear for the first five. 808, 909, evolver, 777, jp8, tiny amounts of computer.

I just put on an old Deadly Buda mix from 1994 or so, and am therefore rocking out.

If you enjoy a bit of sample backtracking, first refresh your memory with this Portishead classic and then check out this Lalo Schifrin tune.

Last night I dreamed that I was asleep and dreamed that I was singing a New Order song. but in the dream dream, I realized it wasn't actually a New Order song, but something I was making up in their style, including some good lyrics. Since I've been having trouble writing lyrics, I figured I'd finally found a way to write. So I woke myself up halfway from the dream dream and memorized the lyrics for later. Of course, I can't remember any of the actual words now.

I've heard the mashup but I didn't know there was a video of kylie performing it live. and as long as I'm flogging kylie videos tonight, I may was well mention the original which pretty awesomely involves a fast car and dancers in weird robot-type costumes, as well as fever live, which features sexy nurses and some writhing around.

Jody Rosen has a nice review of the new Justin Timberlake/Timbaland album in Slate. I like the way Rosen traces through their musical development (especially Timbaland's) with clips and Youtube links of past recordings. All that said, I don't really know about the actual review. I read a lot of reviews of pop music that go into all sorts of critique about the techniques and song structure and sounds and this-and-that, and though all that stuff is good, it's not really what defines my experience of the music. Rosen talks about all these great details of some songs, and then I listen to them and, though those things are there, I'm kind of bored anyway. Somehow, there's something more holistic in a piece of good pop music than whether it's well produced. It's kind of like reviewing a big hollywood blockbuster in terms of its qualities of character development and historical accuracy, rather than telling us how many explosions it has and whether they're satisfyingly done.

060729/2.

Some messing around with slow tempo, 808, and a harmonizer.

I had a dream last night that I made the perfect mashup, like the best mashup I'd ever made. Obviously all my recent mashup work is getting to me, but unfortunately I can't remember what the two songs were, except that I think one was Kraftwerk.

In honor of the Tour de France (I guess): Tour de Bicycle.

A while back I made a post about an alleged New Order side project called Mankinds Audio Development*. I did some googling at the time and found a little more info, including a promo sheet that mentioned New Order (and several other bands) ambiguously. But an anonymous comment this week on that post led me to some more googling, where I found wikipedia entry that claims that MAD was members of Play Dead only. Assuming that's true, it's a little disappointing (and I know I'm not the only person who picked up that record after seeing "new order" scrawled on it in a music shop). but on the other hand, since I liked some of the MAD stuff, now I'm curious to dig up some music by Play Dead.

* No apostrophe