What would happen if someone decided to engineer a lovechild between a Korg Kaoss Pad and the Monome? You will get a Kaossonome, an open source hardware touch controller based on a modified ArduinomeSerial. According to the creator’s webpage, the new controller is “is fully Monome 256...

What is the best way to get your music heard, if you are an independent musician? Should you pay a music service to get your music reviewed? Should you just upload your music to Itunes or CDBaby and hope someone just buys it? Should you just tweet endlessly about how great your music is? No. (more about...

In our previous article The DIY Music Revolution we explored some of the reasons why despite the “DIY music Revolution,” Indie Record Labels are here to stay. Recently, the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) released a report about how much it costs a major record...

Can you guess what the most expensive, used, non-modular analog synth is? I thought i did know for sure, which the most coveted analog relic was, but after buying, selling and watching synths on Ebay for months and months, i was certainly surprised at the results.. So, if you are lucky to find one and have...

In the 21st century, the underground credo of most musical forms can be validated, not by the amount of big media airplay, radio and video coverage, but by the lack of it. Those musical forms that, once upon a time had any underground credibility, have all but become tired and calculated machinations of the...