1. My Fisher-Price Record Player! It sounds terrible (like it should!) and if you put it on a surface that isn't PERFECTLY level, it will skip like crazy. What I usually do is leave it on 33BPM, incline the back a couple millimeters and let it drone over a certain part of a record to provide background pad.

2. This is my V-Tech Smartdesk Crash-box! The name pretty much explains it all, it has a couple switched that cause it to bug out indefinitely, but it has a couple other buttons that cause it to behave even CRAZIER! This thing is great cause it has a bunch of samples that I really like (especially of animal noises).

3. This is an Atari Plug-And-Play device that has 10 pre-programmed Atari games on it. I've sampled it a couple times, and I plan on bending it at one point or another so that I can use it for visual effects and such.

4. This is another lil drone box I have. I got this one for free for buying two other toys at "Switched On!" a really great place here in downtown Austin that provided much help here! It has two knobs that control pitch/speed and pitch/distortion. What I really like about it is that when you press a button, you don't have to wait for that sound to stop before you can press another, you can even "play" a certain button and either of the knobs and create simple portamentated melodies.

5. This is a tape full of samples that I use during sets.

6. I play my sample tape with this tape player. What's different about this one is that I can open the lid while a sample is playing and manually slow the tape down, or I can hit the FF>> button and toggle the play button quickly and it sounds insanely noisy, I couple the button toggling with shaking the entire unit (which causes a warbling effect) turns whatever is playing on this tape deck into a garbled mess! Hours of endless fun!

7. This is a delay-effect pedal. Usually used for guitars, I use it to add delay/echo/and drone effects to any instrument I plug into it (all of my instruments have outputs modded into them).

8. This is one of my most recent bends. It is an "Engrish Rearning Raptop" A.K.A. The Spazz-Top. Originally made to be something to teach kids to speak proper english (even though the voice built in speaks TERRIBLE english) it still has some pretty cool functions including a built-in keyboard for playing notes, a pre-programmed melody function with which you can sample melodies, and even a "Paint" tool, with which you can make pixel-art on the tiny lcd screen! I've added two body contacts (which are switches that are activated by being touched) that control both pitch and speed, and if touched in the right way can provide a lot of different effects.

9. This is the centrifuge of my entire set. This keyboard provides excellent drum loops (and if toggled correctly, can result in some really complex drum-work. It has several functions that can range from a droney 8-bit sound to a screaming lo-fi death blast. It has a special tweak-knob on it (so properly decorated with a lil skull and cross-bones sticker) that if activated and toggled correctly can result in the sound similar to that of a screaming theremin. Also, there's another knob that of course controls pitch and speed, another that seems to control the delay of the keyboard, and a couple switches on top that seem to toggle the bitrate of the sounds, and gives the drum sequences a strange time-signature!


Thanks for reading all this nerdy-ass shit!