The toys in Studio C

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A trip to Ikea this week provided us with the shelving needed to display what has become a formidable collection of toddler toys acquired by Matt over the past few months.

The guy hits every yard sale and estate sale in the area, has recruited his family in the hunt, and is an avid ebay-er. Boxes of unidentifiable noise makers show up at the studio door with his name as addressee.

Pieces of this collection can be heard all over some the chill and ambient tracks here at BurstLabs.com :

Check out Heaps & Heaps, In Hail We Trust, and Hotel Motel.

Here’s a list of noise makers in Studio C at Burst HQ (sure to be outdated by this time next week… the photo shows merely 4 of the 8 shelves we bought with an eye toward the inevitable expansion) :

• Suzuki Omnichord
• Yamaha Portasound PSS-9
• Yamaha Portasound PSS-130
• Playskool KidKeys PS-635
• Fisher-Price 3810 Electronic Keyboard
• Generic Japanese Electronic Keyboard
• Sesame Street Elmo Electronic Guitar
• Mattel Barbie Rockin’ Electronic Guitar
• Kawasaki Electronic Toy Guitar
• Toy200 Electronic Toy Guitar
• Alaron Kool Shades Toy Guitar w/ Amp and Headset
• Chicco Toy Piano
• Woodstock Music Collection Toy Accordian
• NTP Music Toy Hammer Piano
• Suzuki Study-23 Melodion
• Wurlitzer Funmaker Special Organ
• V-Tech Tiny Touch Phone
• Conn Min-O-Matic Rhythm Box
• Suzuki Child’s Starter Violin
• Paolo Soprani Accordian
• Generic 2 Octave Chromatic Glockenspiel
• HandRoll 37 Key Rubber Roll-Up Electronic Piano

More music coming from the Toy Box, to be sure. I think there are currently over 100 new songs waiting to be finished in there. If we can get him to stop buying toys and shelves, we’ll have a lot of killer tracks to upload to the Lab! [dh]