Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

YouTube via jimpavloff
"How to make Prodigy's legendary track "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton. Video describes, which samples were used by Liam in this wonderful track. Reworked by Jim Pavloff."

Circuit bent Casio SK-1 SK1 housed in antique suitcase

via this auction
"Looking to enter the world of high end circuit bending with a bang? You need not look any further than this handcrafted Umbrella Company beauty. With its laser engraved legend, and its rich, santos rosewood control panel, this is a piece of gear not likely to be overlooked by your eager public. The Rambler is comfortably housed in a hand selected antique suitcase, complete with luxurious interior storage pouch and road worn leather exterior. The suitcase's original latch and locking mechanism are fully intact, couple this with the rock solid SK-1 mounting system and you have a portable wonder worthy of its namesake. The integrated midi system supported by Highly Liquid's UMR retrofit provides access to a delicious world of tweakable possibilities, all with clear with LED indication! Max/Msp and physical input sensor junkies rejoice! All patch points remain, as always, nut and bolt pairs for maximum flexibility. Just break out a few alligator clip leads and your on your way to connecting with footswitches, expression pedals, external sequencers, circles of bodies holding hands, you name it! The optical and touch control over screaming distortions and filter effects is fine tuned for more precision control and musicality than ever before. Take a look at the full feature list below and let the drooling/dreaming begin!

Rambler Features
* Optional heavy duty aluminum or custom wood knobs (pictured above).
* 72 point patch bay with X/Y legend (0,A) for notation and documentation of bend patterns.
* 1 easy access touch converter contact in main bay (I,8)
* 6 user assignable, daisy-chainable bend controls, including two 100k pots for variable chaos.
* 8 pre-wired on/off/on switches for a total of 16 preset bends.
* switchable optical control over distortion and filters.
* tri-color main unit activity indicator LED
* muti-point access to touch control over distortion and filters.
* independent melody, bass, and percussion control.
* pitch control.
* quick access soft reset.
* quick access hard reset.
* heavy duty main power switch w/ indicator to prevent LED power consumption while unit is powered off.
* switchable midi retrofit integration with front panel power and activity indicators.
* switchable front panel mounted speaker for monitoring options and remote practice.
* 3 bussed 1/4" outputs for multiple processing destinations.
* 2 bussed 1/4" inputs for external sample sources.
* front panel standard midi port.
* original Umbrella Company cabin style hinged battery door and compartment.
* 8 included alligator clip leads to get started in patching.
* thorough documentation (instruction manual).
* laser engraved/signed seal of authenticity on base of battery box.
* unbeatable Umbrella Company craftsmanship.

Click the link below to downlad a sample piece created by a previous UmbrellaCo model (The Backpacker) that is electronically identical (two tracks, no effects)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ynuzymxjkae/Backpacker.mp3"

Sold For: $795

Devine GrainCube Instrument

Devine GrainCube Instrument from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

"First few experiments with the GrainCube Reaktor Ensemble. This is a multi-granular processing instrument that has individual randomizing sections, allowing for endless never repeating sonic gestures.

A creation & collaboration between RachMiel (Rick Scott) Reaktor building/construction and LemurCube Control surface design by Antonio Blanca. Sounds, sources, samples by Richard Devine, Antonio Blanca and Josh Kay.

Please check out these two amazing designers work:

Rick Scott's: rachmiel.org/reaktor/index.htm

Antonio Blanca: absoundscapes.com

Note: the video is a preview of the Lemurized version of GrainCube, the full version will have 4 granular samplers instead of two. Best of all it will be free from the devinesound.net site soon=)"

ELECTRONIC PANORAMA

via EARLabs: "Around 1970 Philips had its own recordlabel (as well as its own electronic studio, btw) and it released a series of records with state of the art electronic and electro-acoustic music which were all encased in a shiny silver sleeve. The series was called: Prospective 21e Siecle.
Currently these releases are well sought by collectors of ancient electronic music.
One of these release was a box with 4 records, each presenting the latest or the best of 4 electronic music studios: Utrecht, Warsaw, Paris and Tokyo.

Because this box is very hard to find - it is for sale on the web for $ 1,000!! - and I think it really presents the best of the electronic music from that time I present it here. This is the first release: Utrecht." You can find it here. via twitter.com/hamageddon

Paia OZ Vintage Mini-Synth

via this auction

inside a Paia OZ

"Uses 8 AA batteries as a power source."

Sold For: $184.50

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Paint Stripped Roland JX-3P

via this auction

Sold For: $100.00

Buchla Model 210e Control/Signal Router

via this auction
"The Model 210e Control and Signal Router is an audio signal matrix and a CV average mixer. The top section is an audio signal matrix mixer and the bottom section is a control voltage average mixer. Included is the 210e firmware care. The two sections function independently.

* each of five CV outputs can be connected to any one of eight inputs.
* each of five audio outputs to any one of eight inputs (patchcord emulation).
* each output also can respond to multiple inputs, with each different levels for each inpur.
* all 210e settings can be stored and retrieved under the direction of the model 225e or 206e preset manager"

Sold For: private sale

Buchla Model 227e System Interface modular synthesizer

via this auction


"The Model 227e System Interface provides eq, manual quad panning, and automated quad panning. The module is in excellent condition. It is both physically and electronically sound. Included is the 227e firmware card. Some of the features are:

* Built in MIC/Signal pre-amp
* Envelope follower
* 4-channel sub mixer
* 4-channel main mixer
* 9 signal inputs.
* Certain parameters of the 227e can be stored as part of 200e series setups; for this, a 225e or 206e preset manager is required."

Sold For: private sale

Oberheim OB-X + SCI Prophet VS

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synthesizer demo by RetroSound

Happy New Year for all synth maniacs :)

bassline: Oberheim OB-X 8-Voice (1979), only one of the eight OB-X voices is sequenced over CV/Gate by the MFB Step 64 step sequencer. This one voice is similar to the OB-1 monophonic synth.
storm fx, analog and digital pads: SCI Prophet VS (1986)
drums: Roland TR-707"

Cat Star Fence - Electro Accoustic Looping Jam - Kaosillator vs Guitar etc.

YouTube via VJFranzK
"Ambient Jam, done over holiday break by "The Brothers K". This reminds me of the sound of one of my favorite bands (who are also brothers) "Boards of Canada", particularly off their album "The Campfire Headphase" which blends traditional folk / rock sounds in with the electronic loop sphere.

Franz ( Seen ) Kaossilator, Kaoss Pad 3
Patrick ( Off Camera ) Guitar, iPhone with Coo2, Ableton Live 8"