1970s futurism is so cool. At the time they were expecting a space age future and imagining what it might look like. Now we realize that it was the space age and that was what the space age looked like.
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Cool. Bonus points for the MF DOOM tape
All caps when you spell the mans name
My mistake - corrected.
I was disappointed the original video I found did not use his music, but it was instagram so I can forgive them.
Very sexy - but missing a few glowing VU Meters.
This tech looks dope
If there was a way to retrofit digital out on that thing…
So that it has software bugs?