I'd love to start filling one of these.
I saw a nice quote on this forum this week from someone discussing a theory (was called plunder-something) that electronic musicians make their best music of their career when they have little to no gear at their disposal. Can't find the quote for the life of me right now unfortunately.
Found it - from the Minilogue thread
Takahashi is the dude. I feel like he should be a household name for synth nerds by now.
This is great, I like the way he says the Volca designs were deliberately inspired by the limitations of the crap 2nd-hand gear that early techno producers were using.
Yeah that is the feel that I get out of the Volca line up. They're *very* good at one thing and not so good at everything else. There is lots of room to explore and trick the machines into doing different things they were not designed to do and get around the limitations.
Yes and I think that's fantastic. I've surely mentioned this elsewhere but it reminds me of Tom Ellard's idea of "fleacore":
http://tomellard.com/cave/fleacore.html