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By Metatron72 Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:43 am
http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/Casio_MT-520.html

Me and my flatmates in Cali used to have a battered one of those in our kitchen. The sounds are god awful on it. So maybe they can be circuit bent. New EPROMs? I have no idea. I never opened one up. Or maybe dude is just running it through good FX.

You're in Fremont. :smoker:

We had ours over in a flat on Jackson above Naan "n Curry in SF. :mrgreen:
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By v00d00ppl Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:59 am
@metatron yes I'm from Fremont.

He must have had it circuit bent then. Were these keyboards only available in Europe mostly?

Never been to Naan and curry. Always wanted to. There's that Irish Pub off of Haight street that serves good curry fries. They're a Liverpool pub. Where do you reside now?
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By Metatron72 Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:58 am
I ended up back in WNY. I miss the Bay dearly.

I'm in my early 40's and I remember those particular Casios and smaller similar ones being sold in K-Mart and catalog stores that you went to a counter at, and they would bring the goods out to you.

They never had the Casios like the FZ-1 and the VLZ there, just the booty ones with samba presets and all that. :lol:

But I bet I passed over MT-40's in those stores or at least a Guitar Center. I didn't know at 14 years old that was the one that Jammy used to set off digital dancehall riddims on "Sleng Teng" RIP Wayne Smith. But that riddim is the straight rock preset on that one. Now they trade for a lot. And one small firm specializes in modded ones that kick more bass with finer controls.

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By Mike Boogie Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:51 pm
I actually OWNED the exact little shitbox Casio.

I was lost in the great flood of 2009.
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By tapedeck Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:10 pm
99% sure that keyboard isn't circuit bent.
he is just good at playing it, and he is using external fx pedals to the looper.
very cool performance with very little - true musician.