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FM3

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Based in Beijing, the experimental electronic group FM3 -- veteran rock musician Christiaan Virant and prolific session keyboardist Zhang Jian -- formed in 1999 and gained some recognition for their development of the Buddha Machine, a small, battery-powered box with a speaker that plays a series of short drones. With a series of recordings behind them -- for labels like Staalplaat, Sublime Frequencies, Mutek, Bip-Hop, and Nascente -- FM3 released Hou Guan Yin for the Lona label in 2006. They've performed at the Louvre, {~the 2004 Shan...[more]

 

 

2nd edition now available. A unique 'Soundbox' from China, which is causing senstation worldwide. A totally dazzling item which causes jaw-dropping delight everywhere -- Alan Bishop bought twenty-four of these on sight, Brian Eno bought eight (how's that for apocalyptical math?). FM3 are a duo of Christiaan Virant and Chinese keyboardist and computer musician Zhang Jian -- based in Beijing. The Buddha Machine is a hardware loop player, built kind of like a little AM radio (available in 6 different colors, s   [ read more ]

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The first official Buddha Machine T-shirt. 100% cotton black T-shirt with white graphic diagram revealing the secret inner workings of the Buddha Machine, specially designed by the FM3 team to fashionably accompany your sound enlightenment.

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100% cotton black T-shirt with simple white type that reads "buddha machine." Specially designed by the FM3 team.

Buy Now LARGE $19.99

 

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If Brian Eno were Chinese and had come of age in the era of digital sampling rather than the era of analog tape manipulation, it's very likely that his music would have ended up sounding quite a bit like that of FM3, an avant ambient collective based in China that is expanded, for this recording, by guest drummer Dou Wei, guitarist Christiaan Virant, and electronica artist Yan Jun. The music they make on Hou Gan Yin is a gorgeous fusion of traditional Chinese sounds, abstract {   [ read more ]

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