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I can definitely see this being useful for Korg DS-10 and more experimental MIDI to button-input stuff, but you can use the DS as a pretty alright MIDI sample-based synth with Nitrotracker and MIDI I/O over the DS' WiFi, only at the cost of the flash cart. I'm not sure how well it works, haven't tried it out yet.

I hope you dig em!

Another kinda weird parallel between the Lips and Kamattechan is that they've both done some hella weird collaborations. Kamattechan once collaborated with B.B. Queens, a really bad one-hit wonder pop band, kinda like that time the Lips collaborated with Ke$ha. They did a live TV performance where everyone except Noko and Kamattechan's keyboardist played the song while Noko and the keyboardist just fought and screamed at each other. It was pretty great. I can't find the youtube footage atm because I don't know Japanese that well.

They also did a really fantastic show with Midori, the hardcore punk/jazz band, but the live footage of it isn't on youtube.

Sweet! Can't wait to see the results.

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alternatively this needs to make a comeback

Ditto, I look forward to buying Aly's VST because sweet jesus does he deserve to get paid for this technical wizardry.

This sounds rad! I'll see if I can pull something together for this.

I'm probably gonna be coming down to Austin sometime in the near future to do freshman orientation at UT, so if I can get some more equipment for live performances it'd be rad to do some stuff with y'all. Or just chill and chat. That'd be cool too.

I think the song's alright. Sticks to the tried-and-true formula you see in most popular dubstep production, but it's got some clever sampling here and there. Fun enough. I can't see my opinion on it really changing that much if they replaced the chippy leads with the average trance synths though. More focus on the chippiness would improve it drastically.

Dubstep doesn't really have anything inherently good or bad about it, I think. Most other popular EDM genres grow into similar structures: a strict formula, a characteristic instrumentation. Dubstep is essentially the new ULTRASAW BREAKDOWN-INTO-SILENCE TRANCE in that regard. What's Tiesto doing these days anyway?

There'll always be dudes who created the genre that make good material that doesn't adhere to that 100%, and there'll always be dudes who come afterwards and build off of the established formula. James Blake is pretty danged cool. And a lot of the subgenres that've spawned out of dubstep's quick rise have been interesting, at the very least. More dubstep horrorcore/gabba please.

I'm hoping that the popular dubstep goes the way of eurobeat, getting sent off to some part of the world where people will be able to appreciate it for decades onward without it getting in the hair of the general global populace.