Casio EP-10 (Muppet Babies!)

Got this the other day, a Casio EP-10 Muppet Babies keyboard, closely related to the famous Casio VL-Tone series of keyboards.  Only 4 sounds, but they are very analogue sounding.  More info here at the brilliant Tablehooters website.

Interview with Qubais Reed Ghazala

Good interview with the 'Father' of Circuit Bending, there are 2 more parts to this if you have a look on YouTube.

Windscale at Tunetribe

Get these tracks

Get this Widget!

Just put a load of Windscale tracks on Tunetribe, including ALL the tracks from the new album 'Conflicts in Time', plus 'Fiveways' and '2 times 2' from the first album 'Schwarzes Ei'.

Windscale Live movie

Just a short movie of Windscale playing live at the 'Thing about Machines' festival in Coventry!  This is the very beginning of the set.

Windscale Live pics

Some pics from the Windscale gig at the Thing about Machines festival in Coventry at the weekend.  Theres a movie as well that I will post shortly.  

Interesting Ebay 7

A Honey (Shin-Ei) Psychedelic Machine with Fuzz, Tremolo, Vibrato, Delay all in one box.  These go for big money!  Ebay link here.

Nintendrum!

This is a rehoused toy drum machine that I have dubbed the 'Nintendrum' because it sounds like an old video game console at times! 5 buttons to trigger the sounds and a pitch knob to mangle the audio. Listen here.

Rehoused Super Speak and Spell

As far as I know this is the first time anyone has Circuit Bent AND rehoused a Super Speak and Spell.  1 Glitch switch, 3 Glitch buttons, a Distort switch, a Glitch knob (as you turn anti clockwise different glitches are initiated), a Drive knob, a Volume knob, and a button to trigger the Start up sequence of the Super Speak and Spell itself (the starting point for the mayhem!).  Also has an L.E.D. that reacts to the generated audio, a sturdy on/off switch, and a 1/4 inch mono output.  All the bends are hot glued for added stability, and a battery compartment is superglued to the base of the enclosure.  Obviously you can no longer play the original word games!   Soundclip here.

Burns Buzzaround clone ac-128 3

Burns Buzzaround clone for Terry from Canada, AC-128 transistors used.

Neils Bass pedal set up

Neils Windscale Bass pedal set up, including at the front a creamy sounding Tonebender Pro mk2 I made for him recently with 3 Mullard OC-71 transistors and one of Brads handmade enclosures.

Kay Tremolo with EH LPB Boost

Another Kay Tremolo with built in clone of the EH LPB boost circuit giving an overall volume control for the effect as well as blend and rate controls. Listen here.

Etsy shop

I have just opened an Etsy shop, not much in there at the moment but I will be stocking it up gradually.

Yo! The first ever Rap keyboard!

Picked up this Casio Rapman keyboard from a local car boot sale.  Some nice sounds and a 'voice effector' which pitch shifts your voice when used with the included microphone.  I doubt if I will be re-selling this, my 4 year old son loves it! ; )

Interesting Ebay 6

A circuit bent Akai sampler with external patchbay from the reputable circuitbenders.co.uk, nice work!  Ebay link here.

A Thing About Machines festival

Windscale have been booked to play the 'a
thing about machines' festival in Coventry.  The festival runs from 19th-21st September 2008.  Artists involved include Andy Votel, Broadcast, Modulate, Bella Emerson, 7inch Cinema, Frog Pocket, and more.  We are playing at 'Taylor Johns House' (which I think is a venue under some railway arches or something!) on Saturday 21st.

Phonics Keyboard 2

Another Phonics keyboard with LDR and pot pitch control. Audio here.

Fuzz Face with Mayer mods and input bias control

Another Fuzz Face with Mayer/Hendrix mods and input bias control plus L.E.D. indicator. AC-128 transistors used.

Windscale music at Indmill

Some Windscale music is now available on Indmill.  There's an E.P. of tracks from the 2nd Windscale album 'Conflicts in Time', and we will add some more 'singles' soon.  Good value too at 45p per 'single' plus a percentage also goes to charity.

Ge Fuzz Face - new style enclosure

Germanium (ac-128) transistor Fuzz Face with Mayer/Hendrix mods and input bias control. First use of the new enclosures I got a while ago.

Animal Board

Simple keyboard with downwards pitch shifting.  Audio here.

Patchbay Dub Siren

This started out as a sound effects board ripped from an old DJ mixer (thanks Neil!), I have attatched 8 bend points to the board which can be patched to each other.  Additionally the points can be patched to a light dependent resistor or 2 different values of variable resistor.  The leads are stackable so you can attatch a few leads to the same point.  The yellow knobs are from the original mixer.  8 different sounds can be triggered and messed with.  1/4 inch mono output socket round the back.  Audio here.

Burns Buzzaround clone ac-128 2

Burns Buzzaround clone for Craig with ac-128 transistors and blue l.e.d.

Terminal strip Rangemaster clone

Rangemaster clone for Craig.  This one has a Mullard OC-71 transistor and the circuit is made using terminal strip rather than vero board for a vintage flavour!  Also has a red l.e.d.

Interesting Ebay 5

The Nervous Squirrel stuff is pretty amazing (but expensive)!  Here we have a 'Furby Gurdy'. Ebay link here.

Burns Buzzaround clone ac-128

Burns Buzzaround for Gef from London.  This version uses ac-128 transistors and sounds really smooth with low background noise. Audio here (Mic recording).