Record your own records at home

When we say “record your own records,” we mean that literally. We’re not talking using Garageband, or Pro Tools, or anything like that. Thanks to Gakken’s Gramophone Kit, not only can you play records with a bamboo needle through the old-fashioned horn, you can flip the equation and use the horn as a microphone to cut your own vinyl.

Gakken makes all sorts of amazingly expensive, yet exquisitely made retro audio equipment. Their analog synthesizers and theremins are certainly drool-inducing, and priced accordingly. You can get all of the gear needed to make the most limited-edition, outsider art ever at Japan Trend Shop.

If you think about it, you could drop something like $500 and make single-pressing recordings of improvised atmospheric electronic music. Every single recording would be absolutely, 100% unique. Jandek would have nothing on you.

(Courtesy Gizmodo)