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Futurisk & ‘Lonely Streets’ Remix 12 Featuring Chris Carter & More

This one in via Minimal Wave's Cititrax sublabel. You might remember Veronica Vasica's Minimal Wave label from this previous psot.

"The Futurisk ‘Lonely Streets Remixes’ includes remixes by four of the band’s biggest fans, each of whom have a sound as iconic as the band themselves: Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey), Tom Furse (The Horrors), Prince Language (DFA, Editions Disco) and Complexxion from the UK."

The release comes out April 28. You can find more info on takako here. The following is the original track from 1982 followed by some live performances of Futurisk. Moog Liberation gets the post here vs. C.

Update: SoundCloud and new, alternate video below.

Minimal Wave · CITI004 A1 Futurisk-Lonely Streets (Prince Language's Fantasy Mix) Sample

Minimal Wave · CITI004 A2 Futurisk-Lonely Streets (Chris Carter Mix) Sample

Minimal Wave · CITI004 B1 Futurisk-Lonely Streets (Complexxion Version) Sample

Minimal Wave · CITI004 B2 Futurisk-Lonely Streets (Tom Furse Mix) Sample

Futurisk - Lonely Streets (1982 Ocean Sound)
YouTube Uploaded by theinnernerd on Apr 27, 2009

"FUTURISK was a pioneering synth-punk group that recorded and performed in the pre-midi era of the early 1980s. As of yet, the Player Piano EP has not been reissued, but you can pick up a copy of a live performance of "Meteoright" at minimalwave.com on The Found Tapes LP. The audio for this video was taken from a 24bit/96kHz vinyl rip. Highly recommended.

http://www.innernerd.de
obscure music for nerdlings"

Futurisk - Army Now (1982)

YouTube Uploaded by minimalwave on Aug 6, 2007

"Live footage of South Florida synthpunk band, Futurisk, featured on the Ed Rich Rock Show. Buy the LP on Minimal Wave or download it via iTunes"

Futurisk Meteoright

Uploaded by DrMabuse66 on Jun 14, 2006

"Very obscure American synth-punk/wave band,circa 1982. No doubt influenced by ndW groups such as DAF."

sammichSID & sammichFM Assembly

sammichSID Assembly from Justin on Vimeo.

"A high speed construction video of a MIDIbox SammichSID synthesizer.

From the MIDIbox website:
sammichSID was designed to be the “no excuses” MIDIbox SID synthesizer kit - i.e. for all those people who want a MIDIbox SID but consider building it with modules too time-consuming, too newbie-unfriendly and/or too hard to design and construct a control surface, and where MB-6582 is too expensive, too daunting and/or too hard to source all the parts.

sammichSID therefore has the following design constraints/features, which support each other:

* cheap
* small
* DIY newbie friendly
* minimal control surface
* single “walwart”/AC adapter supply, no C64 PSU brick!
* stereo SID, optimized for 8580/6582A, 6581 optionally supported
* “sandwich-style” stacked PCB design, no wires!
* laser-cut 3mm acrylic case by Ponoko, customization possible
* industry standard 2×20 character LCD with low-power LED backlight, customization possible
* common control surface parts used, customization possible

I forgot to add a music credit at the end of the video. The audio track is djynnx. You might know him from NOMMO OGO. If you don't, you probably should. His music is amazing.

For more turbo-charged soldering iron action check out my Gristleizer assembly and test video here: vimeo.com/5498812

Or my MIDI controlled Atari game console here: vimeo.com/4424514

Or a vacuum tube clock here: vimeo.com/9153860"

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trouby modular

via this auction
Video at the auction and here.

"more informations to the modules: www.trouby-modular.com

- masterclock generator: gives out a precision clock w/ lookahead tempo table for 8th, 16th, 32th.
- digital buffer & quint inverter
- math trigger sequencer: a unique pseudo-random trigger sequencer for 16 outputs based on an 4bit ALU, contains NEW operand switches

- trigger sequencer: 1 bar seq. for triggering something (narrow switches)
- trigger decay: a simple decay envelope generator
- LED FUZZ: a fuzz effect based on 2 green LEDs...
- black plate: will replaced w/ another trigger sequencer (wide switches) soon

technical:
- power supply: 90-260VAC, internal +-12V
- digital level is 3,5V at high, is incompatible to the TTL of vintage machines but works fine w/ LS-TTL & CMOS how you see in the video.
shipping is $100 from germany."

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Cat Stick Synth Controller Made By Octave Plateau

via this auction

"CAT STICK SYNTH. CONTROLLER. THIS IS MADE BY OCTAVE-PLATEAU ELECTRONICS OUT OF NEW YORK CITY. THE CAT STICK ALLOWS YOU TO CONTROL FOUR DIFFERENT MODULATION SETTINGS. ONE FOR EACH OF THE JOYSTICK DIRECTIONS. THIS WORKS WITH A MINI MOOG, CAT, ODYSSEY, 2600, OBERHEIM, OR ANY OTHER SYNTHESIZER WITH CONTROL VOLTAGE INPUTS."

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LYRICON WIND SYNTHESIZER BRILHART TENOR SAXOPHONE

via this auction

"This rare wind controller looks like a soprano saxophone, but actually uses a modified tenor saxophone mouthpiece(Brilhart 9). The Lyricon II uses the Modeified Boehm System fingerings(fingering chart included in owner's manual)."

Update: video added at the end of this post.

Update2: The pics appear to be of a Lyricon I. The manual is for the Lyrican II. You can see a Lyricon II pictured here. Thanks goes to Ricko in the comments below for catching this.

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