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Mar 16, 2025March 20, 2025

CASIOTONE M10 🧻🧻🧻🧻

It’s taken me quite a while to document the first polyphonic keyboard I ever owned, one that appeared in many of our early recordings – straight, bent through guitar pedals,…

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Mar 16, 2025March 20, 2025

JX-8p or JX-10

I remember I had one of these back in the 1990’s very second hand. But if you ask me which one I had, well… I really can’t remember. Looking at…

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Dec 9, 2024

Roland SH101 🧻🧻🧻

At the beginning of my career there were cheap devices that had reached old age. My SH-1 and MS-20 were already things that you should and would twist, thwart and…

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Mar 15, 2024April 2, 2024

Behringer Pro-800 🧻🧻🧻🧻

American keyboards have always been pretty expensive around here. If a Pro-1 was a bit of an ouch, the Pro-5 was tears of laughter as no one I knew was…

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Mar 15, 2024April 2, 2024

Behringer 2600 Xmas Edition 🧻🧻🧻

Open Box. Shop Soiled. Ex-Demo. Somebody Wiped Their Ass On This. OK maybe the last is an exaggeration but you can be sure one person scratched their pimples before fiddling…

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Mar 12, 2024April 2, 2024

Behringer Kobol Expander 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

For some time I’ve followed a sensible path, weaving around the snake oil of ‘legendary’ analogue dinosaurs. And for multiple reasons – they are hideously overpriced, they’re often outclassed by…

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Dec 6, 2023December 6, 2024

Novation PEAK 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Revisited 6th Dec 2024 Perhaps due to the woody bits at the ends of the box it’s taken a while for the PEAK’s second hand price to come down to…

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Aug 29, 2023December 18, 2023

Korg minilogue xd 🧻🧻🧻🧻

It wouldn’t be Korg if it wasn’t kind of weird. Once upon a time Korg released a little toy called the Monotron (2010), which caused much excitement in the troops.…

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May 7, 2023August 2, 2023

Oberheim Xpander 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Before I started making music there was an Australian band called Mi-Sex. Some of them became Twilight Productions that made soundtracks for film and TV (including Beyond 2000 – a…

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Apr 21, 2023August 8, 2023

KORG MonoPoly

That golden age, when old analogue equipment was dirt cheap. The 90’s was on heat, and everyone wanted the stylish new sounds of digital workstations and sampled MOOGs. If you…

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  • United Nations
  • Virtual Wood – emulations of the past
  • From Beyond – explorations of the future
  • Toys
  • iPad isn’t dead it’s just resting

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