PERCUSSION LAB PRESENTS
Mochipet PetHop Mix Total Time: 00:25:13 Stream (M3U) Download (MP3) Podcast (iTunes) Mochipet has been dropping some of the dirtiest, hip hop, idm and crunk influenced beats for the last decade. Head of Daly City Records, he’s been busy lately with his “Microphonepet” release, compiling a list of the finest beat conductors for a remix extravaganza, and this exclusive DJ Mix for Percussion Lab. Be sure to enlist in the ranks if you’re down for the remix competition. And keep an eye out for the upcoming remix album, due out 11/08 featuring remixers such as Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o, Darko (SpankRock), DJ C, Jahcoozi, Boreta (GlitchMob), Machine Drum and…possibly you? Fire up ableton already fool!

September 08Out of a brief summer hibernation with a bang. This month we’re featuring a body thumping DJ Mix by Daly City Records mastermind, Mochipet. From Daly, California to Brooklyn, NY, Mochipet is rounding up the finest for a round of Mochipet remixes coming out this fall. There’s a remix contest going on so fire up Ableton and hope to get on the releases featuring Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o, Darko (SpankRock), DJ C, Jahcoozi, Boreta (GlitchMob), Machine Drum and more… More info here!

I’m inspired, of course, by Futureman of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, with his amazing Synthaxe Drumitar covered in touch pads. A friend of mine had this Rock-Band guitar controller that wasn’t working with his XBOX anymore, so i gutted it. I bought the BOSS DR-110 off of Craig’s List and it was a perfect match: 6 non-velocity-sensitive drum pads and a clearly marked circuit board. My original plan was to install the entire drum machine into the controller, and just have an audio output. Logistically though, the cat-5 connection made more sense. AND because it’s detachable (thanks to a female-to-female coupler) I still have a working drum machine i can use without the guitar!!!

This isn’t the best performance, i guess, but hey, this thing is brand new!!!!

MY NEXT PLAN involves the installation of a Moog 3P circuit into my cat.
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Build128 Works New Remix for “Hope Again” off the new Microphonepet Record. Keep an eye out for the “Hope Again” Remix Record coming out in September featuring remixes by: Deework, Kush Arora and Genie, Commute, Many Illz, Eriksolo feat DJ Cheapshot, Yoko Solo, TaiwanKid, and another remix by Build128!
download the free build128 remix here

So Strange..

Preshish Moments made a ginchy new video explaining how his wooden box (splinter) works with his max patch (shredder) to make hot beats. He gets electrocuted a few times and pushes a bunch of buttons. books… check em out!

Meet my new guitar, Joelle. She’s a knock of Tellecaster from the 70’s maybe, she has a Fernandez sustainer, killswitch and Marshal Vibratrem pedal built into her.

whoooooo-eeeeeeee
fresh out the lab kidz

hope again axillary badass remix
some of you might remember this from the old Baby Godzilla compilation

there’s been some stirrings about….
more soon
B128

I’m just gonna plow through this:

Well, it is a kind of funny story how we thought of the Plasma Globe invention, and it all started on April 3 when were on a podcast for Shark vs Octopus in downtown San Francisco. Ian and Dez were interviewing us and asking us a lot of cool questions, one of the questions is here wait…I know its… we have it someplace around here because we recorded it for the you tube… hang on a sec, A-and;

So, then a week after that podcast, Matthew Zipkin or Zippy as we call him sometimes, purchased a Chinese Plasma Globe off Ebay for eight dollars. He and Cyrus tore it apart and looked around in there and then put it back together, but afterwards there was much more plasma running around inside the glass globe when it was on, pretty cool looking and we’re not sure if that did something to the gas in there when we took it all apart.

We tried all sorts of things to have it make noise for us but nothing seemed to want to work so we tried holding live pickups to it, holding a live quarter inch wire and touching it, which worked but not so well as we had in mind from the podcast idea. So we kinda forgot about the whole Globe thing for maybe a month or two when Zippy got me a Thingamagoop which I’ve been using at shows now which is a lot of fun I sorta started looking around all the time for strange gizmos like my Thingamagoop, and that twisted speak and spell that I bought, but then I really wanted to make the globe thing after seeing how all these other cool people made these unreal sound inventions and decided to get all obsessed about it because Zip and I wanted one we could call ours, a glowing little fun to play with scream and whooper, something no one else had. At last I thought to try a theremin out. I saved up some money and bought one on the internet for a great price. When it came to my house (which only took like four days, those theremin guys rule!) Zippy and I were ready with screwdrivers and things to take the Globe and Theremin apart. We wanted to have fun taking them apart and making this nutty creation but for some reason Zippy just turned them both on and we found out that if you stand in between them wait a second Zippy kind of explained it in here someplace… hang on a sec…email searching…oh here it is… A-and:

Quite simple really!
The theremin is just plugged into Timmy’s amp, and placed near him when he plays with the globe! Easy!
The theremin is designed to pick up tiny changes in the interference in its little radio field, namely body parts with high capacitance.
When you touch the globe, the “lightning” grounds to your body, covering you with static electricity.
SOOooo the theremin reacts normally to the proximity of Timmy’s body – and then goes COMPLETELY APE SHIT when Timmy’s body is covered in static electricity. Hence, the distortion and FUGGINCOOLness.
luv,
Zip

And so we got this kick ass invention now that we want to play live at our shows and I know we’re gonna, I’ve been practicing a lot. We named it The
Imipolex G, after a certain type of Rocket Insulation from this crazy book I can’t stop reading about deadly rockets and sex called Gravity’s Rainbow.

Anyway, if anyone else out there has any ideas about how to bend the theremin or combine them into one thing I’d love some help, I’m way into knobs and switches and buttons but I haven’t bent anything myself.

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Now I run all of this through my mixer and into my mini Hiwatt for a really kick ass tone. I don’t have my camera (left it at the gf’s) so I took a cell phone picture which is blurry and crap but it’ll work for now, also I am making you another video which will be uploaded tomorrow that shows all the cool noises. This stuff is all fun but the neighbors keep banging on my floor/their ceiling, Screw them, this is science….

IF ANYONE CAN SHOW THEY PURCHASED ANYTHING BY Pu22L3, PLEASE GET A HOLD OF ME AT:

Puzzltyme@yahoo.com or Puzzlebreaker@gmail.com

And i will send you either new art work or some kind of mixtape, or maybe even some new tunes.

transmission out!

xoxoxoxoxoxo
Pu22L3