Here it is, Mike:

The Casio MT-46 circuit bent for Quell, features:
– Installed optical “theremin” with accompanying blinky light
– mute/mod switches for Hi-Hat sounds
– 4-way glitch joystick with alien filters and harmonies
– 3 body contacts for bitcrushed BROWN NOTES, special for the Reverend Moquell

There were times I thought this whole thing was wrecked. Up until the last minute, half of the keys weren’t even working. At one point I was getting no audio at all — fearing that I had crossed something hot and blown out a chip. I spent more time fixing things I’d snapped, unsoldered and burnt than I did adding new features! I couldn’t resist adding the blinky opto-theremin thing either. The idea is to reflect the blinking *LAZERBEAM* back onto the photocell to make it freak out more.

SO MIKE — the deal is, you have to post some freakout acid jams for us now. Maybe you can finally record the soundtrack to that new Unicorn-Cardiologist-Outer-Space-Western cartoon drama you’ve been working so hard on!

I was recently given the gift of a photo tour at the San Diego Wild Life Reserve where I got to feed the Giraffes. My favorite animal, a dream come true.

A photo has surface of Justice performing with the controller run by Gaspard clearly not plugged in. The photo has no date, but it is presumably from their recent US “DJ tour” where URB saw them using this set-up at HARD Haunted Mansion. Of course, you can see the USB cable lying next to the controller….

Why do electronic musicians need to fake it with some little buttons and knobs? And why does the audience need artists to be doing something anyways. Honestly everyone? Do most people who go to shows even know what the fuck the artists are doing on stage anyways? wheather with a turntable or some little box with buttons and sliders? It’s just a fasaude. “act like your doing something please” or I don’t feel like I’m getting my money’s worth. Let’s all be fake to each other and everything will be fine I guess… What a strange world we live in.

AND WHY DO THEY LOOK LIKE MOTORHEAD’S ROADIES? WONDER HOW LEMMY FEELS ABOUT ALL THIS?

…here’s my brand new homemade analog synth, inspired by the Thingamagoop, but designed from scratch by Zippy. It’s controlled by three mercury tilt-switches and of course, buttons-and-knobs. Fun to play! The sound changes as you rotate the thing. It’s brain is seven square-wave oscillators: three for the “notes,” three for the blinky lights, and one for the “tremolo” mod. The whole thing mounts on a round, blank circuit board and fits inside this acrylic rocks-glass I got at Lucky’s!!!! 1/4″ output also installed to crank-it-up and annoy the neighbors.

This was a big one. Took me about a month to finish, doing a lot of testing, learning, ordering wrong parts and re-ordering… It took a lot of science to make this happen!

Ya boy builder gets a nice lil’ feature on Media Contender complete with a ton of free downloads

expect some big big thangs from daly-city in 2009

And this guy would know…

Bought my cd online. Had it delivered.

http://www.dalycityrecords.com/blastoff/288/

for the party at 111 Minna on November 1st.

Big things going on over here with daly-city records oakland division
threw up a bunch of new songs up on the myspace
get ready to hug your subwoofer and never let go.

We have lots of new music for you coming on Daly City Records. We are also changing up a lil bit to make love to this new digital age. Lots of suprises in store. Please stay tuned!