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Blip Festival 2009: Making Your Old-School GameBoy Relevant Again

A few months ago, I decided I wanted to start making electronic music. On an impulse, I went online and ordered a Theremin, an electronic instrument that creates sounds based on the manipulation of radio waves. The instrument ran me about $500. Flash forward three months later, and I’ve barely touched the thing (hidden pun there… you get it?). For all that, I could have just ordered a much cheaper instrument, like a $4.95 used classic Nintendo GameBoy.

Merry Bitmas

If you’re sick of the local soft rock radio station playing Xmas music ever since Halloween, don’t fret.  While its clear, Christmas season seems starts earlier and earlier each year, that doesn’t mean you need be bombarded with the commercialization of Xmas with advertisements in November and non-stop “holiday” music till February, check out this …