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Gear Change: Suzuki PK-61ex 16 Sep 2012 | 06:45 am
In the mid-80s, my favorite synth manufacturer Siel found themselves in dire straits. Their marketshare was dwindling after the digital revolution kicked off by the DX-7, and their product line was p...
Gear Change: Korg RP-100 16 Sep 2012 | 02:02 am
The RP-100 Rhythm Programmer is an odd, obscure little device, produced around 1983/84 by Korg just prior to the transition from the Poly series (Six/61/800) to the DW series. Apparently it was only ...
Gear Change: Kawai PHm 11 Jun 2012 | 02:57 am
New gear to talk about, hopefully I'll get around to all of it. First up is the Kawai PHm "Pop Synth Module", a small half-rack rompler module in the vein of the Casio CSM-1. Where the CSM-1 was a m...
4 80s J-pop albums 17 Jun 2011 | 06:38 am
These are some rips I've had sitting around for a while. A few years back, every time I would go to Academy Records there would be a couple of old japanese LPs, either enka, J-pop, or anime-related. I...
Gear Change: SYSEX Bonanza! 12 Jun 2011 | 03:26 pm
This time around, I've got a special treat for you guys. I've finally gotten around to dumping some custom patches from a few instruments I've had around, essentially the only ones that have bulk-dump...
Gear Change: Korg DDD-1 28 May 2011 | 07:45 pm
The DDD-1 is the second to last piece of gear from my old studio, and likely the last one I'm going to wind up letting go of. The reasons would be lack of space and necessity, since I've just started ...
Pirate Radio: DJ Tat on SCR (Sheffield) 15-3-93 28 May 2011 | 07:20 pm
This one of those pirate radio tapes that I've had on rotation for the last year and half, which is quite a long period for me to keep revisiting a 128k rip of a tape with a ground loop issue througho...
Gear Change: XoXBox 18 Apr 2011 | 04:00 pm
If you're at all into synths and house music (and, really, why else would you still be reading this blog?) you'll have heard of the XoXBox. I pronounce it "zox-box", please inform in comments if you'v...
Gear Change: Roland DJ-70mkII 11 Apr 2011 | 02:29 pm
This is one of my current keyboards, alongside the CTS-2000. The Roland DJ-70mkII is the final product of the Roland S-series line of samplers, aimed at the strange 90s DJ-consumer market. It consists...
Gear Change: Siel DK-70 2 Apr 2011 | 02:03 pm
Before I move on from Siel products, I've got to talk about a synth I truly adore, and am sadly parting with. The Siel DK-70 is an 8-voice DCO analog polysynth in the vein of the Korg Poly-800. It has...
