Video: Beloved Drum Machines Hit the Road


Would You Like to Tap My Box? from kamoni on Vimeo.

Drum machine lovers, you now have the beat gear equivalent of Matt Harding and Where the Hell is Matt?. Kamoni, aka sonic creator, composer, and experimenter Micah Frank, takes his favorite devices out on the road, piecing them together into an epic YouTubular jam.

Doepfer and Korg, Elektron and Akai, plus a lot of other devices make their way around New York and Brooklyn and other parts of the world. Ableton I think figured into editing the video clips in time — thank you, Live, for video. I could point out individual devices, but then I’d ruin your fun, wouldn’t I?

Of course, this could be both emulated and expanded. We could perform a single rhythm, played by MPC and Machinedrum owners around the planet. (You could even get that laptop running on battery.)

I can see it now. Internets, go!

And yes, this does demonstrate where puremagnetik gets all those beats for their line of sampled things. Micah gets his hands on a lot of gear.

Updated: Replaced with a Vimeo link. Google seems to be having a bad week. We like Vimeo better for videos, anyway.

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bananananananana

oh yea i know this guy! he is awesome ! i knew he had a thing for drum machines… hi Micah! are you reading this ?

February 26, 2009 @ 12:53 am
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February 26, 2009 @ 7:05 am
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Art Gillespie

‘We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.’ Any pointers to another location?

February 26, 2009 @ 11:36 am
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Malformata

Wow. That was incredibly annoying. So annoying I think it’s worth mentioning…

February 26, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
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bohus

Very nice, but next time let me know when you’re doing this… I can throw some Hit Stix and a Synsonics into the mix for ya. ;)

February 26, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
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den

poor korg ddd1 :(

February 26, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
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steven

how many of those hits were from windowlicker?

February 27, 2009 @ 3:12 am
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mofuzz

hee hee, fun!

February 27, 2009 @ 12:27 pm
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al

Holy fuckin unplugged!

March 2, 2009 @ 1:32 pm
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