Category Archives: housekeeping

the idiot winds

Just a quick note to let you know that Vincent’s blog – http://theidiotwinds.blogspot.com – is back up and running after a bit of a break. Vincent plays guitar in Harmonica Lewinsky and on his blog he usually writes about music, film, media, politics and the like. Although sometimes he just posts videos of people opening [...]
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what’s cooking

Had a good time on Waiheke last week, thanks to everyone who came out on such a cold wet night. We’ll be back soon. Got a few remix/re-releases in the pipeline, working over some b-side songs from the past few years. Here’s a taste of what’s happening in the studio at the moment: Playing the [...]
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harmonica lewinsky on kiwifm top 10

Our song “the gentle art of self destruction” is at no. 8 on the kiwi fm top ten. If you have a moment, please visit kiwifm.co.nz, take a moment to register as a “kiwi citizen” near the top right corner of the site, and cast a vote for us. p.s. download the song here: the [...]
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why i like the rubbish tip

Pics of some of the stuff I found at the tip on the weekend: The whole face is a flat panel with touch sensitive regions and the “keys” can play flute, glockenspiel, trumpet, and guitar sounds. This one is very boring but I’ve been looking for a boring keyboard to modify, and lately I’ve only [...]
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twitter and scores

At the tip today I found a couple of awesome bits of tech. This is the Toshiba T1910 and it freaking works! That’s MS Word 2.0 running on Windows 3.1 And this is the Jam Stand Radio which is going to get bent all to hell and join the plastic-battery-powered-portable-dub-orchestra. It is actually a functioning [...]
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