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Coverts are absolutely fabulous, way, way up there with the likes of Neo Ouija's Cottage Industries. I don't even care who the specific artists are, because I know I follow most of them anyway - the Touched roster is relatively narrow.

Then you must check out the earlier albums as well.

Out now, amazing album.

Also at Bleep, Juno Download, and most probably others. I've also had the tape since it was released, but I also love it when artificial scarcity and obsolete format exclusivity is disrupted.

Of all the Elektron boxen the only one I'm yearning for is Analog Four (MK2), I don't care about the sequencer (for obvious reasons), although a lot of people have told me that if I'm not using the Elektron sequencer, I'm doing it wrong (I would love to prove them wrong instead). From the same heuristic category I'd probably prefer a Vermon PERfourMER MK2, or a Dreadbox Abyss (yeah, it's not a four separate monosynths in one, but a 4-voice poly, multitimbral, and more - close enough for me).

Not four tracks, but four separate sequencers with multiple modes to choose from: MONO, POLY, CHORD, MULTITRACK, STOCHASTIC, and MATRICEAL. MULTITRACK has 8 monophonic tracks you can use whatever way you want, drums, monosynths, whatever - each track can be configured to use a different MIDI channel, gate + CV outs, whatever. MONO and POLY are what it says on the tin, monophonic and polyphonic single track sequencers. CHORD is a polyphonic, chord-sequencing and performance sequencer. STOCHASTIC is a controlled randomized performance sequencer, four-track monophonic; last but not least, MATRICEAL is a four-track monophonic quick-access sequencer with direct pad access to a plethora of parameters. So, if you want, you can have four MULTITRACK sequencers running at the same time, and you'll have 32 monophonic tracks at your perusal. You can also load whole sequencers, their tracks and patterns in various ways, and have e.g. two sequencers running while you load the next piece of your performance to the other two sequencers, then mute/solo/unmute tracks or whole sequencers at will to transition between parts - or you can use the arranger, or control your sequencers, patterns, whatever via MIDI Program Changes etc. OXI One is definitely one of the most versatile and powerful sequencers available, but I would still love to check Cirklon out, to see how it fares against OXI One. Hapax, too, although I know it doesn't even come close to OXI One's features.

I remember reading about someone who was stealing only the blotter sheets from the original Sheet One from record shops to use them as designed, but the internet doesn't find any articles about it. The CD cover is 20x20, Arkives page is 35x49 - I can't find my OG vinyl at the moment and I can't remember if the sheet that came with it was the CD's 20x20 or a full 12x12", but that's a lot of tabs even from one CD cover.

I noticed when I checked out the original post and not just a quote, thank you.

I think that Hapax is mostly Pyramid but with direct access to the pattern grid and other functionality through the pad matrix, the MIDI effects seem to be about the same, and there's a few more hardware extras, but otherwise the biggest difference is the UI/UX - Pyramid has been squeezed to a minimum, whereas Hapax has been expanded for easier access to various functionality. I agree that Pyramid and OXI One have a steep learning curve, but especially with OXI One the payoff is huge. There's a second-hand Hapax available near me for a very good price, I'm still a bit tempted.

They discontinued Pyramid a while back and released a last firmware update. Shame, Pyramid is a good sequencer, especially when paired with a Hermod/Hermod+ it's a hybrid MIDI-eurorack powerhouse as you can control Hermod with MIDI from Pyramid but output gate + CVs for rack modules. I've been eyeing Hapax as well, but I don't think I'll check it out as I've finally settled on OXI One as my primary sequencer, nothing else comes even close the features, versatility and capabilities it has, especially after the 4.0 firmware update. I have OXI Split to give me 48 MIDI channels and OXI Pipe to bring the 8 gate + CV outputs right into the rack. Thank you for the heads up, I'll have to upgrade and check it out, sounds cool - do you have an URL, where? I also got an OXI Coral, need to go deep on it to learn, and vpme.de Euclidean Circles w/ Six Switches for easy rhythm sequencing in the rack, it's really quick and fun way to make beats with e.g. Queen of Pentacles.

Hardware Wars (Wikipedia)

We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various Melodic and deep emotive electronics from GGGG; their previous outing was Gazé on Firescope, so I'm looking forward to this. Recommended.

After $500m Zuckerberg donation, Harvard university gutted its disinfo team studying Facebook (Boing Boing)

Did you find anything from the runouts?

There are almost always runout groove etchings that have the catalog code of the pressing, check out both sides and if you find a code, check it against Discogs.

Dreadbox synths are great, I got the Typhon first, then Nymphes, then Erebus and Hades reissues, and now I also have Erebus v3, Nyx v2, and OG Hades. Nyx v2 and Erebus v3 are the best. Nymphes is the only poly (although Nyx v2 and the Erebuses are duo/para), but I've been lusting after a second-hand Abyss - there's been some talk of a new Abyss version with eight-voice polyphony, but I wouldn't count on it. I wish I could get a pre-built Dysmetria, it's a bit too challenging as a DIY for me.

020 previews, sounds nice.

Hexalyne is cool AF.

Out now in full. Exquisite.

We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various Highly recommended.

We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various Darren Nye's next album is vying for a place in the UK-Detroit continuum, and sounds absolutely fabulous. Highly recommended, RIYL As One, Stasis, B12.

I also got my Dreadbox Nyx v2 finally updated, which wasn't as easy as I thought, because I had an early unit (serial number under 170) without a working bootloader; I had to get an ST-Link microcontroller programmer, erase the chip and install the bootloader, and only then I got to the point where I could do the actual firmware upgrade. That was exciting, but in the end, easier than I thought; I never thought I'd had to do things like that to desktop synths, although I'm aware that some eurorack modules, especially DIY ones, do things that way.

I finally realized what makes Edge's internal sequencer sound like it does - there's a legato in all the notes. I now can get arbitrary-length patterns (polymeter yay) and have it sound like it does with the internal sequencer, but with MIDI. Joy.