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Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we got a Whole Gamut - a Plethora - indeed a Bounteous selection of audio toys to bleep, blurp, click & whistle their way into whichever compostiton fancies a bit of extra shting! 

 Extra Toys - most definitely do not need to be expensive - but they do need to be interesting - here's a few we've used recently to embellish various musics.

 1. Drum Synth 

 These are great - you can trigger them by either cv/gate, hitting the front face with a pencil or finger, or even better - from an audio source like a live snare or kick drum. 
They are made by Rakit & are based on the electroharmonix drum synths from the 70's - which were the coolest of the bunch. 
It's excellent for adding subs or modulation to a kick drum - noise to a snare - or indeed just playing along live to add odd rhythmic textures to a track. 
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Next up in a very odd looking thing we got from a £1.00 shop in peckham, London - for £1.00 !!! 
It only does one thing - a kind of bishy bashy cheapbeat - but has a bunch of nasty rolls that seem to work just about anywhere you put them. Odd.
best south london rehearsal recording studio said arctic monkeys to parquet courts & george ezra
Old keyboards with inbuilt drum machines are a superb source of rhythm madness - run them through a distortion pedal or compressor & play along to a track - it works every time - & you generally get enough mojo to set the track trajectory on a completely different path - mucho ideas!!! 
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