The history of music technology is littered with happy accidents. Think Roland gear being misused to create house music, circuit bending and chiptune supplying extreme beats and melodies, and Kraftwerk's DIY gear ethic basically creating everything else. But now there's a new genre in town created by extreme technology abuse. It's 'accidental techno', and all you need is a torch and radio.
Marc Hasselbalch has shared a video of a kick drum pattern being created by the interaction between a battery operated torch and a Sony radio, and the results are a lot more mesmerising than that sounds. There's deep quality to the kick, a sidechain effect, and an ambient static noise that has a new strain of lo-fi writ large all over it.
