Today I *finally* received a stupendously late shipment of records, DCP003, from the pressing plant in down in LA. So after tying up a coupla loose ends with the artwork+packaging, watch for these puppies to be hitting the promosphere + stores très bientôt! The release date is a month away or so. Promotion for this single and the upcoming DCP004 will hit full throttle at Mutek! Woohoo!!

For the last month or so, I've been on an vocal accapella acoustical tip. Last week I made it out to Bimbos to see the amazing Sia. Her voice had a startling expressive range, not to mention her infectious-arse personality made every moment downright pleasurable.

Then, earlier this week I stumbled on Camille, who lyrically, reminds me a lot of Carla Bruni, but with more sophisticated vocal control and a richer timbre. Check out the her video Au Port.

The illustrious Limor and her clever, industrious cronies have spent countless hours reverse engineering the guts of the classic acid bassline synth to bring us the xoxbox (zocks box), the very first build-it-yourself Roland TB-303 clone kit. Yep, the kit is just a printed circuit board and a bunch of components to solder, assemble and of course, modify. In addition to old-skool CV/Gate ports and DIN Sync, it also sports many of the useful bells and whistles that adorn modern synths, namely proper MIDI I/O, upgradeable firmware, USB for easy connectivity to your computer and of course a handy software patch editor!

I signed up on the waiting list this morning! woohoo!!

Check out this awesome (but computationally expensive) flash video. The way the video unfurls to Plug Research recording artist Milosh's You Make Me Feel, is decided by the weather conditions and local time at the location of the viewer. Voici, a sampling of different screen captures that folks around the planet have thrown up on flickr.