


takken from: DMGice
Both the sx-150 and the mini theremin belong to the japanese enterprise gakken. They belong to independent kits and each one of them comes with a magazine that exposes the history of the instrument, its principal propulsors, the most relevant artists and recomends the most relevant LP’s… it’s all written in japanese. It’s easy to assemble and it only requires to screw and load it with four batteries, so you can start enjoying it.
analog synthesizer kit SX-150
mini Theremin kit
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The Stylophone Beatbox has just been released, 40 years after the original Stylophone took the world by storm. We were lucky enough to receive one of the first units in the US. I'll post a video shortly, but here are my initial thoughts:
It plays sampled sounds rather than the simple weedy oscillator that made the original famous. That makes for some surprising audio coming out of tech that looks so 1960s from the outside. You can still slide around the control surface. The Beatbox is rigged so that several samples can be triggered at once.
It has a built-in looping sequencer. You can tap out a beat on any of the three sound banks, and the Beatbox will keep looping until the 3 x AA batteries run flat. You can also play other sounds over the loop.
Even though it uses a lot of modern sounds (including a few samples from champ beatboxer MC Zani), it retains that retro charm. Not just because of the overall look, but the quality of the sounds coming out of the thing.
It's the perfect companion for an original $19 Stylophone, or as we see in this marvelous video by plastic keyboard heroes the Brett Domino Trio, a second Stylophone Beatbox.