Here is kinda a freak story that just happened to me recently-
In a nut shell A few years back I was given an sh101 by a friend in a noise band. I thought the thing was a broken toy- well I was a junkie, so I sold it to a pawn shop for $25- so stupid- but I had no idea what the thing was, it sounded like shit cause I didn’t know about synthesis or how it worked. Well A few years later I get clean and start producing and find out what it was I had sold. I was miffed like a mofo. So long story short- I start talking with this guy over the internet about music… and it turnes out he had bought my sh101 from the pawn shop!! And he gave it back to me for free.
yeah- it’s bizzare to play it. I get all nostalgic when I turn it on. This is going to sound all cheesy- but I look at it like a sign that I was supposed to make music… I mean what are the chances of that happening you know? Who hawks a synth off for drug money and gets clean- and through a twist of fate gets it back 4 years later from a guy you’ve never met- not ever having planned on producing music in the beggining? It’s just too bizzare of an event in my life not to take a step back and look at and think about you know? I can’t ignore it.
Here is a pic of the mystical sh101- you can see another grey one in the corner of the pic- that’s why he gave it back to me- he had two and he saw my wierd attachment with the synth- it’s so stupid. It reminds me of those silly stories that you read in christian pamphlets about a dog that ran away years ago but came back in time to save the life of a child in the family- except the situation is all too appropriate for me.
Just so you guys don’t think i’m making up stories or something here is the messages that took place when we found the crazy coincedence, really freaky- from bottom to top:
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From: kuxaan-sum
Date: Mar 23, 2006 10:55 PM
yep that’s the one…those russian guys hated me…i wanted to check it out and they wouldn’t get me headphones or anything to listen to it…went back a few days later and bought it- you wanna come play it again?
yeah…i will probably build my new desktop…debating between the opteron, core duo & the D…
???
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From: anti_pulse
Date: Mar 22, 2006 11:00 AM
Holy shite- it really was on east colfax in aurora (before colfax and havana if you are headed east from downtown)- at abc pawn across the street from pacific… it was red- it had the little keytar style handle/pitch bender on the side. I remember I was arguing with the guy- I was playing with it to show him that it worked fine- but I don’t think he understood that it was a synth and not a regular keyboard, he was wondering why it sounded so strange- at the time I couldn’t synthesize a sound for the life of me. All I could show him was some wierd bleeps and tones- So all he would give me was 25 bucks for it.
Yeah- amd opteron procs- the machine f****ing smokes, I just put it in a rackmount case and put about a terrobyte of hard drive space into it- it’s sweet, I have yet to make it crash. But I just use this in the studio for recording and shit like adobe after effects and 3d-max. I like using a laptop for sequencing though- it just feels like a smaller component in my rig, I just look at the laptop like a super stupid advanced sequencer or drum machine that I can check my email on…
You building your computer?
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From: kuxaan-sum
Date: Mar 22, 2006 8:50 AM
holy shite!
$25…i think i bought it…was it the pawn shop on east colfax>? across from pacific…what color.>?
my little silver boxes are modded 606’s…one with the 808 mod/mult audio outs and the other with mult trigger outs…
my next purchase is going to be a computer…i’ve got a dinosaur…how do you like the opteron…that’s AMD right?
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From: anti_pulse
Date: Mar 21, 2006 6:36 PM
oh yeah- I just saw a little of your hardware setup- I had an sh-101 and thought it was a toy (I wasn’t yet into making music, just on the streets shooting dope and listening to puppy wanting to learn how to make music, I got it from one of the guys in chapter 23 when they were still around)- my dumb ass sold the fing piece for 25 bucks to a russian pawn shop for dope… fing stupid man. I still hate myself for it. Is that a 303 or a 909/808? those little silver boxes all look the same. OH!!! and the 202- sick sequencer- it has some crazy time sigs in it. Nice set up! If you don’t have any recording gear to record the song, you can use my studio, I have a pretty nice little setup going on for my recording rig- opteron dual core with 2 gigs of ram, emu 1212m card and a 1616m on a laptop too, got a new yami mixer and some nice condenser mics and shit-. I also have a good monitoring system, alesis mk2’s and an krk rp10s sub, and quite a few nice synths you might want to f**** with as well.
And if that even would have been the case I promise you that I 
