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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

You know that thing when you can't find your 3.5mm type A MIDI jack adaptor and you can only find the type B, but you find the switchable input/output SCART adaptor that finally lets you test a VHS machine you found in the street? Okay, probably just me then.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Finally received my M-VAVE FM-1. A few weeks ago someone realised that you can upload your own firmware onto it and now there are about 70, and more every dayAnd even better: M-VAVE rose to the challenge and launched their own updated firmware and developer […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

When I'm on holiday I eat whatever I like. And what do I like? Tesco's Czech microwave meals. Ones that taste of brown. Perfection.

Packaging for Tesco's Czech microwave meal.

Brown meat in a beige sauce on white dumplings. The absolute best.

That same delicious dish on the table of our metro carriage themed apartment. Bliss.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A couple of albums that I found today for two euros a piece. The Boney M sent me down a rabbit hole about Frank Farian, and I discovered amongst other things that he wrote a 370 page book about why he felt that Dieter Bohlen of Modern Talking was a fraud […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Love For Sale by Boney M and The Harder They Come soundtrack, both on vinyl.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Okay, I think we've got at least one more album in us this year. Watch this space in particular. #EntropyCircus

A fan hanging in the middle of a derelict area.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Picked up a double-album of music from the soundtrack of the groundbreaking late 90s anime series Cowboy Bebop. Yoko Kanno's soundtrack music with her band The Seatbelt is rightfully legendary, and moves from big band jazz to funk to blues to... eclectic […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

After all that Magyar rock, a switch over to Germany: Eroc from Grobschnitt with his 1979 album. Good powerful sound and a strong moustache game. #vinyl #krautrock #eroc #grobschnitt

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

New T-shirt just dropped, bae, and it was under two euros in Woolworths.

Me taking a call on a dumb phone and wearing a TAKE AWAY KEBAB shirt featuring an image of a bossman carving a kebab.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

More Magyar rock on vinyl. This time it's V'Moto Rock's second album from 1980. V'Moto Rock were far punchier and ostensibly new wave than Omega, a supergroup featuring Lerch István and Herpai Sándor of jazz-prog trio V'73 and Demjén Ferenc of Bergendy, as […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

My first Omega gatefold, Gammapolis from 1979, sounds as enormous as it looks. #vinyl #omega #prog #MagyarRock

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

This might seem like a lot of trouble for one visual joke. #studio #kpop #nmixx #bae #PatchBae

Two cut outs of Bae from NMIXX affixed to jackplugs plugged into a patch bay

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Installed a patch bay on the wall above the Model 12 because rewiring the cables on the back of the mixer is a bit of a pain in the bum, buts also because it sets of the painting above it nicely. #studio

mixer, patch bay and many coloured cables

pan out to a wider shot of the studio revealing a painting that kinda looks like an overwrought patch bay.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Not AI, just good old 3D ray-traced virtual mirrors. Shifting the angles minutely and adjusting the lights is a lot like synthesis. Far more fun than typing prompts. #daz #SallyKitchener

Repeated image of a woman sitting cross-legged across what appears to be a long corridor but is actually a mirror chamber repetition.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The Friday vinyl haul this week is all secondhand and all from our favourite Magyar prog rockers Omega. On Tour is actually a compilation of English language cuts on a (west) German label, put out to promote their tour for the 1977 Omega 7 album, while […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

With this box I can make 5 litres of Pocari Sweat. This is enormously good news. #pocarisweat

Box of Pocari Sweat powder next to a model of EVA until 00.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Here's that Whitney carrier bag!

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Nice mid-week vinyl haul from a junkshop near Thaliastrasse. Two ELO albums, one Vangelis album and a Ry Cooder album. Total cost twenty euros, and they put them in a Whitney Houston carrier bag too! #vinyl #ELO #vangelis #RyCooder

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Working out an ideal setup for the TherapKid + CZ-1 Mini combo that was near perfect, but to for of the desk it needed a slight lift. I was surprised to find the object that was exactly the right size for raising synths that are roughly the size of a VHS […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

You know the deal by now. It's Friday, and after my last class of the week I did a little vinyl shopping. This week it's Khruangbin! #vinyl #khruangbin

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I'm happy that BIGBANG are back with us, but the arrogance of dropping a single for the 20th anniversary, that is pretty much treading water, when T.O.P dropped a whole album that is peak across every track, feels unearned. And their riffing off his op-art […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

BIGBANG in op-art/expressionist concept shot

T.O.P doing a more psychedelic take on this, and earlier in the year, and also he's the member of BIGBANG who is literally an art collector.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

As is customary I did a little shopping while in town for my last class of the week. This week it's the first Molchat Doma album on "coke bottle clear vinyl". #vinyl #MolchatDoma

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Finally finished this absolute chonker of a biography that I bought at least a year ago. I was slowed-down by the sheer size of the book rather than how interesting the contents are, because it's not a slim volume that you can slip into your pocket, and it's […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, and yes, it's an enormous book.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Took a while to work out how to arrange these two optimally, but in terms of sonics, fake Commodore 64 SID chip synthesis paired with Casio phase distortion synthesis is a combo to die for. Yes, it needs to go through a reverb to give the CZ-1 Mini pads […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

TherapKid and CZ-1 Mini synths on a studio desk.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

This morning Panda is mostly listening to Finnish jazz. #catsofMastodon

Tuxedo cats sitting under a record player that is playing For Children by Eero Koivistoinen.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

This cheap as chips tablet stand from Action is good for all sorts of synths that are about the size of a VHS cassette. #synth #studio

BASF PHG 240 video cassette and Behringer CZ-1 Mini.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Excited about the upcoming ARTMS album Hyper-Ego, but I'm a little concerned from the pre-publicity images that they are about to become the K-pop reincarnation of the late 80s Birmingham hand Birdland. #kpop #90sMusic #ARTMS #birdland

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Last classes of the week were in town, and since it's become a bit of a tradition, here is this week's vinyl purchase. The debut Magma album, also known as Kobaïa, which I've never owned a physical copy of. Might sound a bit more like early 70s modern […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Once again my last classes of the week were in town, so I made one single vinyl purchase on the way home. The CD edition of Holger Czukay's Radio Wave Surfer was actually the first CD I ever bought, and I have no idea why I don't still have it because it's a […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Holger Czukay's Radio Wave Surfer on vinyl, front cover and inner sleeve.

Holger Czukay's Radio Wave Surfer on vinyl, back cover and inner sleeve.

Holger Czukay's Radio Wave Surfer on the turntable.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

I've seen a fair amount of long USB-C cables, and indeed USB Micro, and pretty much all of the USB-Bs that I've owned have been a good old length, unless I actively ordered ones that were specifically short for specific uses. But I don't think I've seen very […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

literally all of the USB types that I've just mentioned.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

K-pop on vinyl is one of those things that doesn't seem like it should exist, so I find it irresistible, especially if it's LE SSERAFIM on translucent pink, silver flecked vinyl. As a complete contrast, my other purchase was Cluster's Sowiesoso in a limited […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

cover and lyric sheet for LE SSERAFIM's Pure Flow album

cover and sleeve notes insert for Cluster's Sowiesoso

Label indicating number 623 of 1000 at the back of the Cluster album

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

My brother-in-law and family came to visit today, and their youngest, Eddy, was very taken with my Commodore 64. I showed him a BASIC program, but he just wanted to vibe, and fair enough. And this screen that he completed by the end of the visit is the most […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Okay, that's pretty much the whole of the 70s United Artist Amon Düül II catalogue on vinyl going through the wash. They got played in some pretty smoky environments over the years so hopefully they'll sound a bit livelier now. #krautrock #AmonDuulII #vinyl

Vinyl of the first album of Dance of the Lemmings going through the Spincare cleaner.

The whole of my UA Amon Duul II collection drying after cleaning.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

My cats have deeper early electronic music pioneer energy than yours. #catsOfMastodon #studio #synth

Another tuxedo cat but on a dalmation spotted stool looking moody.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

@algebraicterror From my visit at Easter, it's this apparently.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Today's vinyl from the junk shop in Jägerstraße: an 1986 album from German drum god Curt Cress, and ELO and Olivia Newton John's soundtrack from Xanadu. #vinyl #CurtCress #OliviaNewtonJohn #ELO #xanadu

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Already winning this week. On my way out to my second class today, I was surprised to find that the new Billlie album had arrived in the post box from Seoul, and then at Neuwaldegg Spar I scored some Sage Derby, which is usually impossible to find in Austria […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Slight update to the cover for the Continuous Stationary album. Sally now has ten rather than eight arms and a slightly more aerodynamic gravity. Once again no AI was used in this or the previous version of this design. #EntropyCircus #SallyKitchener

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

If you found a Hornyphon WM-5104 reel to reel tape deck in the street for free would you take it home? Because apart from being a good-looking 1961 piece of tech, I think we have to agree that Hornyphon is objectively the funniest name for a manufacturer of […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Hornyphon WM-5104 reel to reel tape deck play mechanism

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

These two have been sitting together like this for half an hour, not attempting involuntary washing of each other or standing on each others heads, just hanging out. The hell are they planning? #catsOfMastodon

Two black and white cats sitting together on a black and white stool.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Some essential shopping this morning.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

I discovered Ton de Leeuw's Mountains for bass clarinet and tape on this album online about ten years ago. It was so good that I put it on YouTube, because no-one had put it online and I needed to tell the world about it. Who would guess that I just found it […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

A bit of shopping at Alt & Neu today turned up two albums from 1978. Omega's Csillagok útján is just amazing. Seriously one of the top space rock bands ever, with the added bonus of the lyrics being in Hungarian. Snappy dressers too. Ganymed's Take You […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Setting up a new version of the Narcotic Transmissions writing forum that I administrated in the 00s. If you're interested in joining, or even just curious, PM me. #NarcoticTransmissions

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Final day of London shopping for this trip. #kpop #yves

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Slight rejig of the studio today. Trying to keep all of the most commonly used equipment as near as possible to the control column without feeling cluttered. #studio #synth

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