Sweatshop
NOISE: New York Underground, New Media Gatekeepers
By Eugene Reznik
Oliver Ackermann makes Total Sonic Annihilation—the stompbox, that is. With a flick of his pick, strings vibrate sending a signal to the magnets of a humbucker pick-up. Then down a cable it goes, through the metal casing of a tin box, bouncing in and around a series of cleverly arranged resistors [...]
SWEATSHOP
On Lorimer Street in Brooklyn, near Metropolitan Avenue, there’s a dumpster next to a staircase. Walk by too fast, and you would not even notice the staircase. A closer look, though, would reveal the steeply descending concrete stairs with the word Sweatshop neatly written on the building just above. A cold, metallic [...]
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