Babylon Disco has unfortunatly cancelled his gig due to personal reasons, but Fredrik Mathtiiaas Rosén has said he will cover for him so we’ll throw the breakbeat night tomorrow anyway! We’ll be selling all of tumul’s records, including Babylon Disco’s Natsukashii!

What started out as a spelling mistake, turned into the final name for this little thing. It’s an Atari Punk Console, with added control, making it a thing with the annoying name Gameboy Ounk Console. Apart from the shape and frequency knobs, there’s an LDR (Light dependent resistor) for light control and four screws for body contact. However, the volume knob has been removed to be able to fit everything in.
The case is a small Gameboy-shaped box that I got as a gift from Dj Scotch Egg during his stay in Stockholm. I promised him to build a noise producing device in it, a promise that I’ve obviously kept.

This is the rear view, and the battery’s brand name has been censored, because their batteries suck!

This is a peek inside the machinery. Compactness comes at a price. Wires and components have been soldered directly onto the 556 IC and wrapped in plastic tape to form a true rat’s nest. This gives an optimal size, but maes it almost impossible to fix the thing, would it break.

And as usual, here are some sound samples:
GBOC Sample 1

GBOC Sample 2


Or for those who prefer links:
Sample 1: http://localhosted.net/~nitro2k01/mp3/gboc1.mp3
Sample 2: http://localhosted.net/~nitro2k01/mp3/gboc2.mp3

For a few days I thought I had lost the LED boy, but fortunately, it was just well hidden away. Today I decided to shoot it, as well as yellowboy, our modded yellow Gameboy.
From now on all pictures related to Gameboy modding will be available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gameboygenius/tags/ledboy/

 

OXO-Unlimited will from now on be distributed by Tumul-Distro, who are also responsible for distributing Babylon Disco’s 8BITERROR Label. We’re looking to provide all of our current releases within the next two months. I’m sorry if this makes for any form of inconvenience for you. We’re doing our best to provide a truly high quality product for you and we’re very unpleased with the quality that cafepress provides.

It is unfortunate that there isn’t a proper, high-quality, affordable press-on-demand cd-service available. The concept is great.

Yes these must be strange days indeed, for I’ve just got confirmation on me (veqtor) and nitro2k01’s participation in an upcoming Swedish tv ad. I can’t really give any details at this point but I can tell you this much: It is about making braindance and other experimental music. No i’m not bullshitting you. Happy new year