LJ Kruzer

There has come a time in this man’s life where babies are booming and money is tight, and learning to drive and the acquisition of a second-hand motor vehicle have become more important than the retention of a pile of old studio equipment. I was about to sell it all on the internet and scale back the Kruzio to just my workstation keyboard and computer – at least until the Kruzer family finances were in better nick – when a small pang of sadness told me that I should rethink the plan, or at least have one last fling with the budget gear and squeeze a few final bursts of sound out of it before passing it on to some online bargain hunters. So that’s what I’m going to do: make a selection of new tunes using only the equipment inexpertly pictured below – an Electribe, a Microkorg, a TR-505, a Yamaha mixer, a cheapo Behringer effects unit, and my wife’s old Casiotone keyboard, whose main role was doubtless to play the demo tune over and over again as Lisa and her sisters did silly dances around a makeup-encrusted bedroom.

It might sound awful. I shall post the results up here as I go, and maybe even the Casio’s delightfully abysmal demonstration song too. Then, when I’ve finished, I shall sell the dusty old electronic music boxes, and hopefully buy myself a few exciting driving lessons in suburban South London…

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