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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. It's a very long way from Daft Punk's Pyramid, which contains almost nothing but computers, controllers and copies of Ableton Live. There's another shot here.  

Cute hardware upgrade for BC16 synth

Here's a tiny patchable inverter accessory for the Chimera BC16 mini synth "a little PCB (postage stamp) with four wires hanging out of it (the whole package is heatshrunk into a clear sleeve) - it's purpose is to 'invert' any control signal used on the bC16" . Being sent out free to all BC16 owners(mine hasn't arrived yet). UPDATE: It arrived! It's cute! Haven't tried it out yet...