Thank you godlee for such awesome gifts :3

I received two gifts in one box, one silly and one serious. The silly one was a plastic card appropriately named the DJ scratch pad. It's basically a picture of a turntable, made out of my favorite substance, holographic polypropylene. Years of memories of playing with that stuff on my assignment books in grade school, and now I have my adult version to play with. Needless to say it's taken the place of my driver's license in my wallet. http://imgur.com/wx7kY.jpg

The serious gift was a Bliptronic 5000, a synthesizer/sequencer unlike anything I've seen before. It'll loop 4 beats, 8 notes total with a range of one octave. You press the led buttons to activate that note, and you can do that while it's looping. You can hook it together with other bliptronics too, to make a longer loop. It has a few different settings, like bpm, tone, etc. The tones aren't anything special on their own ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rCfhF-fNb4 ), but some effects and post processing can work wonders on the thing, such in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wucjRJKLFE I don't know whether or not my Santa knew I was trying to get into electronic music production, but this is such a sweet little tool. I can already imagine a lot of fun things I can do to the sound.

Thanks again for super awesome gifts godlee