LABS: Obsolete Machines

LABS releases LABS Obsolete Machines – a riot of hand built and modified machines, curated and created by electronic anarchist Sam Battle AKA Look Mum No Computer.

Recorded on location at his museum in Kent (UK), electrify your compositions with sounds from the GAMEBOY Megamachine, Sega MegaDrive Synth, and a gargantuan 1000 oscillator Megadrone.

A digital guided tour of a museum filled with curious and hand-built eclectic and voltage driven monstrosities. This all-access pass around one of Britain's most unique collections of obsolete gadgets, apparatus and computer-based machinery shows that as long as you are armed with a soldering iron and determined attitude you can extend the usefulness of tech – repurposing it far beyond being relegated to the scrap pile. 

“It was just inside me -- the idea of being in a dark museum. I haven’t got a hoarding problem, now I’m a curator” 

– Sam Battle AKA Look Mum No Computer

 

KEY FEATURES

• PRESETS
• The Mega Drone
• The mega drone with all its detuning capabilities
• Almost In Tune
• The mega drone, brought to tune with more oscillators available over modulation
• Transcend
• The Transcendent 2000, straight from the museums walls
• 8Bit Blasts
• An array of 20 Gameboy DMG classics playing short notes
• A Wall Of Classics
• An array of 20 Gameboy DMG classics fighting to stay in tune
• De Rezzed
• The Sega Mega machine, FM synthesis at its 12bit finest, hand built by Sam
• Punk Mod
• The Sega Mega machine, FM synthesis at its 12bit finest, hand built by Sam
• Formant Bass
• A formant Synthesiser, a DIY-kit built by Sam himself
• Attic Dust
• A vintage Univox hand-restored from Sam’s Collection
• Barely Functional
• A vintage Univox hand-restored from Sam’s Collection

• CONTROLS
• i1 - Expression
• i2 - Unison/Warp/Dynamics
• O1 - LP/HPF Filter
• O2 - Reverb