goodbye michael jackson

rip michael jackson, the thriller video gave me nightmares

here's a cool video from an old michael jackson arcade game, moonwalker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LXwYhkyBoE

original nintendo gameboy dmg 001 "pro sound" mod

i have been playing with nintendo gameboys as a sound generation device for my music fun, i recently tore apart a couple of old gameboys, the original big grey one, and a black one, model dmg001

this simple mod increases the volume of the gameboy, it makes the lows a bit larger sounding, it also decreases the amount of line noise that one would usually get with an original gameboy

you can see here, there are only 2 wires, 4 solder points, very simple, the solder points are very close near the original gameboy headphone jack, i almost destroyed the first gameboy i tried it with! the huge gob of solder my shaky hands placed was so close to the other wire's large gob o' solder, i'm very fortunate i didn't destroy it, haha =)

i have seen many other mods online, many will use a seperate output jack, that's cool, but i personally didn't want the outside altered, and i'm a bit lazy, plus imho it looks way cleaner...some other mods will cause the built in speaker to no longer function if there is nothing plugged into the headphone jack, this mod lets the built in speaker function normally ;)

disclaimer: i take no responsibility if you screw up your gameboy by trying this

disco diamonds

a friend turned me on to disco diamonds, they do some really great disco house, if you dig that sort of thing then you gotta' check this out:
http://www.kiyoshionline.com/2009/disco-diamonds/

from the site:

Who is Disco Diamonds? Nobody knows.

No, it is not a record label.
No, they do not have a MySpace or website.
No, they do not have any official releases.

You can’t really buy these records anywhere… They’re all white labels!
If you like disco house, this is for you.

ohm64 midi controller

this is such a lovely midi controller, fully programmable, lighting up, sequencing and triggering clips, it even has a cross fader, the ohm 64 midi controller is handmade in the usa and is justifiably a bit pricey at $599.- a pop

rack mounted nes for use with midines and other music nintendo cartridges

this guy rackmounted a nintendo entertainment system, he's using it for music purposes mostly, using the midines cartridge for his musical needs, a very cool project

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/08/08/challenge-rack-mounted-midi-capable-nintendo-nes/

eggs found on a hike through mojave desert

i ran across these eggs while hiking through the kelso dunes area of the mojave desert, not certain what they could contain, maybe a tortoise?

red bull cola

tasty, made with real sugar and not that high fructose corn syrup stuff *yuck!* makes a good rum and coke, use appleton estate rum

rad test post

this post is a test

here is my lil .com

http://www.natefrogg.com