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Wikipedia: Casio was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio, an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. Kashio’s first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer’s hands free. Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II so cigarettes were valuable, and the invention was a success.

Wikipedia:

Casio was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio, an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. Kashio’s first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer’s hands free. Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II so cigarettes were valuable, and the invention was a success.

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Afraid of Sharks (Kane'ae bite)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Unearthed this old live recording yesterday when rummaging around the dustier corners of my hard drives for other stuff.

Correlating my memories of the recording location (Hove, actually) and the gear used —

  • Roland TR808 & MC202 & Casio CZ-1000 synced and sequenced by a Roland MSQ700*
  • Moog Moogerfooger MF-101 low-pass filter pedal
  • Spirit Folio Rac Pac mixer
  • Overly heavy handed usage of a crappy Behringer compressor
  • Lexicon Vortex and three (!) Zoom 1201 effects units in a mutual feedback configuration

— indicates that this was sometime back in the dark ages of 1998, shortly before I went on an year-long brain-breaking bender of making painfully unpalatable, semi-modular experimental noise nonsense.

1998 isn’t that long ago, is it?

Oh.

* A pretty damn retro setup even in 1998; ridiculously quaint now. Which reminds me that I need to liberate the CZ; it’s been on loan for over a decade and I miss it.

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“I’d suggest waiting four bars before dropping in Percolator, Mabel. As hard and heavy as you like.” “Good call, Deirdre, righty-o.” zoom

“I’d suggest waiting four bars before dropping in Percolator, Mabel. As hard and heavy as you like.”

“Good call, Deirdre, righty-o.”

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Vox Pop: How Dartford Powered the British Beat Boom 1/2 (2/2)

Documentary about how a small company in Dartford manufacturing Vox amplifiers came to define the sound of the 60s.


[btw, I hate Marshalls]

“No no no,” says Tom. “Too heavy, too loud, too big. Go away, forget about it.”

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♥ Check out the rest of Sameli Kujala’s Flickr set for more cool vintage electronics, like this gorgeous reel-to-reel: and this dusty radio transmitter: zoom

♥

Check out the rest of Sameli Kujala’s Flickr set for more cool vintage electronics, like this gorgeous reel-to-reel:

and this dusty radio transmitter:

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Always forgetting to execute RUN $DKA200:[ENV]GRAVITY.EXE upon system startup. zoom

Always forgetting to execute RUN $DKA200:[ENV]GRAVITY.EXE upon system startup.