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Tom's Music Thing - Cute tiny robot plays drums, samples itself, plays again

This is the Yellow Drum Machine, a beautiful little homemade robot which finds surfaces to drum on, records it's own drumming (using one of the...

Tom's Music Thing - Turn your Nintendo DS into a vintage MS-10

This looks fantastic: An official, Korg-sanctioned Japan-only MS-10 for the Nintendo DS. It has two synth engines, a drum machine, and a 6-track XO...

Tom's Music Thing - The Technos Axcel Mark 2 on sale soon?

Remember the Technos Axcel? Only 39 of the mind-bogglingly cool touch-screen resynthesizers were made in the early '90s (here's the essenti...

Tom's Music Thing - Sampling a Fisher Price Music Box Record Player

A pleasant evening at Music Thing towers, spent fixing up and sampling this ancient Fisher Price record player from my parent's attic. The Swis...

Tom's Music Thing - Toumani Diabate teaches you how to play the kora

A wonderful clip of Toumani Diabate making kora playing look really easy. If that's inspired you to get started, start training, because you ne...

Tom's Music Thing - Belkin iPod XLR recording system

I love the 'UA does a multimeter' look of this Belkin Podcast Studio, supposedly just $100 with build in mic, built in speaker, dual XLR (n...

Tom's Music Thing - Moog Voyager OS

This is (if the rumours are to be believed) the new Moog Voyager OS, with OS presumably standing for Old School. It's an all analog synth with ...

Tom's Music Thing - Wii Remote as 3D looper/Kaoss Pad

Yes, yes, it's a video featuring someone with a Wii Remote, a mac and a bunch of DIY software, just like all those other videos on YouTube. BUT...

Tom's Music Thing - What could a scratch DJ do with a home organ ribbon controller?

The answer is in this bonkers video of Japanese DJ Tucker, king of the SL-1210 and the Yamaha YC-45 who also sets the whole thing on fire with ligh...

Tom's Music Thing - The Anarchy Cowbell

Pearl have a small range of extreme percussion, presumably for early-teen drummers in metal bands who are worried that traditional percussion is a ...

Tom's Music Thing - Free sample set of an 808 on a cassette

New Zealand-based Goldbaby have quietly become the coolest sample factory in the world. They get vintage gear, play it through more vintage gear, t...

Tom's Music Thing - Tony-B Machine

From France comes Tony B Machine, which pisses on Rave Generator and Punk-O-Matic from a great height. If you've ever wanted to make really awf...

Tom's Music Thing - Working microphone in a solid silver ring

Joel at Boing Boing Gadgets has this splendid microphone ring from Etsy. You could hack the module from a $5 K-Micro condenser mic into a ring, may...

Tom's Music Thing - Christmas Gift Guide 2007 pt 1

Buying Christmas presents for music geeks must be a nightmare. If you're rich and generous, this list might help. The guide continues with more...

Tom's Music Thing - Return of the synth cake

It's been a while since our last sighting of a synth cake, so I was delighted to hear from Benjamin, who writes: "My friends in the band

Tom's Music Thing - Arturia Analog Factory Experience keyboard Review

What is it? It's a hardware controller for Arturia's Analog Factory plugin, which emulates 7 classic vintage synths (Arp 2600, Mini ...

Tom's Music Thing - YouTube Korg Kaossilator demos are funny

Korg's little Kaossilator touchpad synth came out in Japan last week, so a handful of demo videos have appeared on YouTube. White sunglasses ba...

Tom's Music Thing - Japanese melody road plays tunes through your tyres

Don't be distracted by the burst of DJ Mink's 'Hey Hey, can you relate?' at the start and keep watching. If you drive at 28mph a...

Tom's Music Thing - Band play Abba on numerous beer bottles

Haukur writes: "I thought you might like this band from Denmark (apparently dressed as the Pakistani cricket team) who play Abba's Mamma Mia on...

Tom's Music Thing - Folding full-sized keyboard to fit in overhead locker

This is the Vax 77 - a MIDI keyboard which folds in half, weighs 25lbs, is made of powder coated Magnesium allow and has two OLED screens (with a r...

Tom's Music Thing - Sequencer controlled by Rubik's Cube

American/Frenchman Douglas Edric Stanley is professor of digital arts at Aix-en-Provence school of art, where he gets to build things like this seq...

Tom's Music Thing - Yamaha Tenori On review

I've had the Yamaha Tenori On for about five days now, so these are first thoughts. Summary version: It's awesome that this thing exists, t...

Tom's Music Thing - Turn a pizza box into a laptop DJ controller in two minutes

Dave sends this excellent instructional video, showing how to turn an optical mouse, a greasy pizza box, a pair of scissors and some sticky tap...

Tom's Music Thing - A teeny-tiny AC30 to plug into your guitar

This is quite cute - Vox are doing a range of little headphone amps - one based on the AC30 with top boost, 'Classic Rock' based on a Marsh...

Tom's Music Thing - Insane Japanese/Finnish anime mashup

OK, this takes a little bit of explaining. Vocaloid is a bit of Yamaha patented software which can sing - input the notes and the lyrics and off it...

Tom's Music Thing - Dude puts drum triggers in pants, calls them DrumPants

Here's Tyler Freeman and his drumpants. It's not the newest idea, but he carries it off with some aplomb. Full details and how-to instru...

Tom's Music Thing - Can you identify this strange inside-out steel drum?

Can anyone identify the instrument being played in this clip of some hippy dudes. Obviously there's a jaws harp solo at the end, but what's...

Tom's Music Thing - Dude builds wah-wah boots from boots, wah-wah pedals and gaffa tape

John writes: "Howdy, Dano from Beavis Audio Research sponsored a small d.i.y. contest over the weekend. My entry was a pair of d.i.y. Wah-Wah Boots...

Tom's Music Thing - New from Line 6 - the Pod X3 and Pod X3 Live

Vettaville gets the scoop on the new Pod range from Line6. There's a new Pod X3 to replace (presumably) the XT and a Live version. There arent ...

Tom's Music Thing - Prophet 8: Prophet 5 reborn by Dave Smith Industries?

Dave Bryce is a DSI staffer who regularly pops up on the Vintage Synth forum to drop rumours about new products (just like he did for the launch of...

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