[AH] devilfish-ish

From KULTBOX
Sent Mon, Jan 25th 1999, 21:10

In a message dated 99-01-25 15:26:34 EST, xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx writes:

<< I would definitely do this mod again. The Audio in to Filter is a really
 cool addition. The CV and Gate Ins make it controlable via MIDI (through a
 MIDI to CV converter, of course). And the plethora of added knobs and
 switches adds hours of twiddling fun. You can also control Slide, Accent,
 and something call Audio to FM Filter which I haven't quite figured out yet.
>>

Fish-heads.

I had my Devilfish done in early 96...At the time i think it cost me $700
(after shipping express mail/$40 bank transfer fee etc.)

Robin does TOP OF THE LINE WORK. He is a *great* tech and a nice guy......
The work he puts into the unit is worth the money......he changes the
buttons..gives the 303 a once over....install's the mod...tests it out..etc
etc...

Everyone should talk to Robin just once!  Hes cool as hell.

I dont read "the press" much....but just last night i was over a friends house
reading a magizine called "MASSIVE" (ah's mark verbos (is he still here)
writes a captin analog thing for it....pretty good stuff...smart guy)
Anyway.......that cry baby little bitch ;) Richard Hawtin was AGAIN slagging
the devilfish saying it was not the secret to his sound......it was not used
on "krakpot" blah blah.  This was the 2ed time i saw him talk about this
mod....(first time was in Future Muisc ?)  And he did'nt have very nice things
to say about it either time...Boo Hoo.....!

(all the richie hawtin groupies on this list ****please***** dont send me your
hate mail....yes i am bitter that im not a rock n roll star and i have too sit
here at werk on a god damn computer all day crunching fook'in numbers!)

Back 2 the devilfish-

i get asked alot if i would do the devilfish mod today..and i mostly awnser
NO.
this has ***nothing*** to do with the sound or the quality of the work......

When i had most of the wierd mod's done 2 my old stuff the analogue world was
a diffrent place......there were not alot of crazy "new" products out on the
market....

Now look at the world of analog! Just in the last month we saw the release of
moogerfoogers, sidstations...EH synthbass pedals, new doepfer modulas CHECK
OUT THE NEW Blacet ring mod! and freq divider!  Check out Paul Perry's
FROSTWAVE and Blue ringer!.....1999 IS NOT 1995. We have new stuff to choose
from.....new cool stuff!

I have not used the dfish in the last year.......and if you look at the price
of a devilfish:

$800 for a 303 (is that what they go for now?)
$700 for the mod's

thats $1500.00!!!!!!! THE PRICE OF A DOEPFER basic system!!!!!!!!!!
Id sell my devilfish NOW if someone offered me $1500 dollars!

Now.....if you are an Acid Junky (or listen 2 the acid junkys?) the devilfish
is awsome..........im glad i did it.....

But also remember the 303 is 20 years old...what are you gonna do when the NEC
cpu blows OR what are you gonna do when the res pot dies...?  Good luck
finding a new res pot. (i have an extra  res pot BTW for that sod whos gonna
buy my dfish ;)

-r
www.kultbox.com
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KULTBOX RECORDS/ ILL STATE UNDERGROUND, CHICAGO USA
Winter 99

There's a new upcomming  7" release on Chicago-based label KULTBOX
entitled "TIME OUT OF JOINT." It's an audio verite/musique concrete
conceptual package based on time signals and the millennium. I
assembled it and wrote the liner notes. I'm told it will be 300
copies, limited-edition.  Contact xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx for more info on
this one.

TIME OUT OF JOINT
Time is no longer defined by succession because succession concerns only
things and movements which are 
in time.  If time itself were succession, it would need to succeed in another
time, and on to infinity. 
 Things succeed each other in various times, but they are also simultaneous in
the same time, and they 
remain in an indefinite time.  It is no longer a question of defining time by
succession, nor space by 
simultaneity, nor permanence by eternity.
-- Gilles Deleuze, 1963

End of succession :: End of time :: "Eternity ":: ?
Trial Document Nr. 1:  At the tone sixteen hours forty two minutes. Bang.
Documents made in time of time.  Time captured on tape.  Time frozen. Sample
and hold.  It's simple to 
freeze time: what is time but a representation?
(A splice in time saves...)
        Real time
        Just in time
        Right on time
        From time to time
        Time and time again
        A matter of time
        A wrinkle in time
        "time ... is on my side"
There must be something to this.
Burroughs and Gysin sewed time into itself and saw that the future leaked in.
The cut-up method as 
primitive prophecy: time has form and can be violated.
Time is in the atoms.  Polarize a controlled environment and you can make a
cesium atom jump through 
hoops.  Under the right circumstances it's inviolable. Steady. But what makes
it Time?
Nothing, until they say so.  Give it an audio signal and put it on the air.
Two letters later you're in 
business. This is Radio Station WWV, Fort Collins, Colorado, broadcasting on
standard carrier 
frequencies Cesium. Hydrogen. Radio waves. Ionosphere. Magnetic strips.
Digital encoding. Wax. Now you 
can buy time sliced lengthwise. A few spins and you'll be in the future before
you know it.
People are constantly trying to stop the future as fast as they're trying to
make it happen.
>From the futurists to the desert moralists it's one big tug of war towards the
Millennium.
It'll be here soon enough, don't shove.
You can hear the future on any shortwave radio.  You don't have to strain to
hear it coming.  It's got 
tiny footsteps, the magnetic prints of cesium ions jumping.
With time signals it's all the same. The past the future and right now.
They've been ticking on 
indifferently since before you were born and they'll probably outlive you.
Difference is, they're not afraid. And they're not in any hurry.
Pre-millennium tension is nothing but a potato sack race towards
inevitability. You may as well sit it 
out.
Starting right now you could play this record 36,000 times before Y2K.
Take your time.
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