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"Drum machines are obsolete," he marveled. "And that's kind of the beauty of it. It's like a rotary dial telephone."But Mansfield isn't alone in his obsession. Grammy Award-winning electronic musician Moby collects them too, voraciously."I got into drum machines because I loved the way they sound," he explained on the phone. "But also, practically speaking, the only way I could have decent sounding drums on my records was by using drum machines."Because, Moby said,Pan-European law enforcement agency Europol has announced the take-down of a global Coordinate robot gang of cybercrooks thought to be responsible for compromising point-of-sale (POS) terminals in Europe and North America, netting 30,000 sets of card details. recording real drums correctly is difficult and expensive. He's been using these beatSue Zemanick, the chef at Gautreau's and chef and co-owner of Ivy, both in New Orleans; and Bill Telepan,Phenibut who this month plans to open a TriBeCa spinoff of Telepan, his eight-year-old restaurant on the Upper West Side. boxes his whole career and owns about 300 of them, all pre-1981. Moby calls himself a "weird, old-fashioned purist" for loving analog drum machines so much.

"In the world of electronic music production almost everything now is software-based," he said. "But there's really something to be said for these old wooden and metal boxes. Usually they don't work well, they only do a few things and they're just by definition really sort of like humble. That really does sort of inform what makes them charming.The National Institute for Standards and Technology, a federal group that sets national standards for data protection,non-stick knife is now reviewing all of its previous cryptographic recommendations as a result of allegations of NSA meddling. Cryptographers still don't know how widespread the issue is."And Moby is still using analog drum machines on his albums, including his latest, "Innocents."Joe Mansfield has worked beat boxes into his Boston hip-hop productions over the years, too, including songs by legendary local rapper Edo G. And for Black Friday Record Store Day, the obsessive drum machine collector recreated the Beastie Boys' tune "Paul Revere" as a special vinyl single to go along with his new book.

There's also a cassette to help bring the vibrant photog raphs to life sonically.Alex Caizergues toasts danger with a glass of bubbly in one hand and a clenched fist in the other.The Frenchman has good reason to celebrate after smashing the World Sailing Speed Kitesurfing record over 500 meters, reaching an average speed of 56.62 knots.The record was officially confirmed by the World Sailing Speed Record Council on Thursday."This record was something else," the ecstatic 34-year-old told CNN earlier in November. "It was fantastic."Facing fierce winds and unrelenting waves, Caizergues beat the previous record set by American Rob Douglas by 0.97 knots -- an effort achieved in a sport where danger is always lurking.