Just a few quick links today, to MP3s by a unique New Orleans electronic act. Be sure to check out the jury-rigged, light-sensitive synthesizer that is Quintron‘s Drum Buddy, at drumbuddy.com. The site includes MP3s of a half dozen samples of Quintron’s homemade instrument playing the equivalent of a kick drum (MP3), snare (MP3), scratching (MP3) and more. Swamp Tech, his album with Miss Pussycat, is due out on the Tigerbeat6 label on September 20. … And now go visit the Red Cross, and help clean up after Katrina: redcross.org.
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