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Red hot Chemical Brothers live gear porn Ben from Galactic writes "my band played a show with Chemical Brothers, and I took some shots of the gear" . And here they are (click on the pics for big versions). Nice to see them keeping it old-school, with a very battered MPC3000, a knackered Octave Cat, two Akai S5000 samplers (complete with Zip Drive!), and everything covered in little coloured stickers so they know what to do. Its a very long way from Daft Punks Pyramid, which contains almost nothing but computers, controllers and copies of Ableton Live. Theres another shot here. BONUS: Get extra Music Thing updates at: http://twitter.com/MusicThing or in the sidebar at http://musicthing.blogspot.com download  file  now

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The most beautiful piece of synth porn Ive ever seen Heres Charles Cohen playing a beautiful and incredibly rare (only 14 were ever made) Buchla Music Easel. Be sure to click through to the Vimeo page and view full screen for true high def (embedded videos arent in HD, theyre just a lot crisper than YouTube). Heres Charles talking about the Music Easel: "Ive been playing The Buchla Music Easel since 1976. With its color-coded slide pots, its musically logical panel layout, and its almost sculptural patching system, I can comprehend the state of the instrument with a fleeting glance. The touch-sensitive, capacitance-activated keyboard responds smoothly at the speed of light to the slightest skin contact, and its assorted control voltage outputs can be directed to sonic and structural perameters very quickly. The potential to supplely flow into and amongst all the basic electronic sound forms is literally at my fingertips. I am happy when Im playing this instrument." Im h...