Neon Indian will release their sophomore album Era Extraña 9/13 on Static Tongues/Mom + Pop; check out their tracks “Polish Girl” and “Fallout,” as well as their video for “Heart: Decay.” They’re selling a number of different bundles for their album on their website. With the limited-edition Deluxe Package, they’re including the PAL 198X, a custom mini-synth that Neon Indian designed with Bleep Labs. According to the Neon Indian website, the synth “features swappable controls that allow all three of its oscillators to be controlled with the included knobs and light sensors or with all kinds of devices just by screwing them in.”
At Stereogum, we’ve got one of those PAL 198X synths to give away. Below, we’ve got all the details on the giveaway, as well as some examples of what the synth can do. To show off the synth, Neon Indian has made a bugged-out ’80s-style infomercial, which could give you flashbacks to the Dharma Initiative instructional videos on Lost. It also gives you a glimpse of the band’s new lineup, with two brand-new members. Check it out:
And here’s an audio clip of some of the sounds you can make with the PAL 198X:
To enter to with the PAL 198X, all you have to do is (1) be a fan of Stereogum on Facebook and (2) comment by telling us what you’ll do with your PAL 198X. You’ll have to comment via Facebook Connect, not your ‘Gum user account on this post — we’ll have to be able to check if you are a fan of Stereogum on FB when the sweepstakes ends. We’ll pick a winner from the comments posted here, at random. Deadline to enter is 9/13 at 5:30PM EST. Have your comment logged by then, and you’re in.
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I’d make bedroom synth pop like it’s 2009
I’d make the world dance like its 1984!
enslave humanity
Well, I have never had any sort of pal before… so maybe we’ll get pizza or go to the movies or something? Probably check out Spy Kids IV: All the Time in the World in Aromascope ® 4D.
If I has a PAL 198X, I’d do so much stuff with things.
OK, with this in my possession, the cyber-crust band I was planning with a friend of mine would probably be the best thing ever. The sounds of this thing..!
I’d use it to find the frequency that makes me instantly 2000X more attractive to the opposite gender…
pass my electronic music class.
I’d use it to make “The Brown Noise.”
I would use it to make an ambient EP that I will post on Soundcloud for free download.
Become the new Bjork …
i’d use it to make my sound more layered. and get to wonderful projects i might not normally : )
I’d ride some chillwaves and try not to get too “washed out.”
(Get it???
No?
All right then…)
I would use it to create a hybrid-clone-extravaganza of Alan Palomo, Ariel Pink, John Maus, Noah Lennox and Kate Bush (just for good measure). Together, this monstrosity will bend space and time and life itself to modulate and synthesise the most terryfing rendition of ‘The Suburbs’ ever performed and witnessed by us common folk.
The risk in giving me this opportunity will be great, but my dearest Stereogum I assure you it will be worth it.
I was just gonna figure how to smoke weed out of it.
If I had a PAL 198X, I’d make love to it. Endlessly.
If I had a PAL 198X, I’d probably try to plug a touch screen to control the pitches of the two triangle wave oscillators and a photocell for the LFO.
Make fun sounds
I’d blast this synth all day melting brains and giving out eargasms.
PAL 198X .. hope.
I’ll get real far out man.
It would confuse me; I would eventually break it on accident ; I would not know how to fix it; it would be thrown in the trash.
I would destroy the world with super retro sound. How? I do not know.
If I had a PAL 198X, I’d call him Gerald !
Win the affections hipster girls.
Finally achieve my dream of living in an 8-bit NES game
save the world with super retro synth sound
I would use it to become the greatest Pokemon trainer who ever lived
i would quit my job and use the PAL as a starting point for blasting out some serious gay-wave pop songs. for real though, musical dreams come true !
I would quit my job, drop out of school, and burn down my house…so i can focus on making sound waves to control frogs and help me make A UTOPIA OF MAN AND BEAST! WHERE WE ALL SIT AND LISTEN TO THE PAL AND EAT ONLY WHAT IS TO BE EATEN
I’d make it copulate with a theremin and play with the offspring.
Give them away like a box full of kittens.
I’d take it to class and when a professor asks me a question, just play a bunch of random noises
Well honestly, I was thinking of trying out the harp during my second year in college. But if I got THAT, I would become the Neil Sutton (Human League) I was born to be!
Go on a world wide chill wave tour babies!
There are several planets and alternate dimensions I’ve been meaning to visit, but I’ve just been too busy. So, yeah, that’s what I’ll do with the PAL198X.
That, or get a job working behind the scenes at Space Mountain. Did you know one guy makes all those sounds?
I will release acid-trip radio waves with my oscillators of destruction.
make music
try not to shock myself!
I’d make killer make out music with it.
I’d have an orgasm on it.
I would put it in my ass, baby
I’d probably put it on my shelf next to my potted plants. That’s it.
I’d drive my dog & wife crazy.
hack the shit out of it
Pair it with Ableton or Traktor and make some cool loops.
I’d have something cool to make music with.
I plan on giving it a face. And it’ll have a large mouth that I can jump into. And then I’ll make music with its insides.
Build a flirtatious relationship with it, culminating in a night of virtuosic and drunken robotic passion. Of course, after that, things’ll get awkward between us- our friendship diminished to terse hellos in the hallway and late-night inebriated phone calls.
take acid with it
I’d sell it on eBay to some hipster doofus willing to overpay for it.
If I were to enter the world with a PAL 198X, I would simultaneously play all of the retirement homes from the past and future in the outlands of the amplodrome…simultaneously.
I would make beautiful music with a PAL 198X
Finish working on my new song, “German Girl”.
I would make it have plenty of lovely noise babies.
I would make sweet sweet love with it.
probably just give it to a homeless person.
I will name it George and hug it and pet it and squeeze it…
swim the sacred spiral
I will be the next Merzbow.
I will DJ all of my house parties and everyone will be like, “Whoa! Dakota! This party is super rad!” and I’ll be like, “Yep. It’s all thanks to my Neon Indian PAL198X.” It’ll be great.
With it I will make good or moderately good sounds and/or songs
Lets be honest here: I’m going to use it to annoy my friends, family, and coworkers!
i would plug it into my computer
I really dont know…
put it in the microwave with a marshmallow to see which one would explode first.
Great video. I’d torture the cat more with my PAL 198X or use my guitar as a CV controller for it.
I’d probably begin our evening by taking my pal, PAL to a nice hole-in-the-wall restaurant. My treat. Then catch a film; probably “Crazy, Stupid, Love” again, because I can’t get enough of that Gosling. We could end our night at my place, making sounds and such over a nice, quick game of Risk. Risk LOTR edition of course.
Use it.
I’d use it to control cats to do my bidding, like fetch me a coffee or call in sick to work.
I would do illegal and immoral things
Id let people know… That when the going gets tough, the tough get tough… Because now my Billy Ocean cover band “Silly Ocean” would finally be complete…
If I got it, I wouldn’t use it for chillwave.
I’ll impact a nation. Literally.
i’d score my psychedelic romantic horror short film set in the 80s
Slap on some analog delay and drift off into a spaced-out, fuzzy haze.
I’d either use it to further the insanity in my experimental electronic music project, or to fight hostile aliens. Whichever is more necessary at the time.
I’d make lovemaking whalesongs.
Use it a creepy stairwell so as to frighten little children!
I would replace my tongue with it.
I definitely need more pedals and this would be perfect. I’d probably combine it with my line6 or just try it out with an electric guitar or keyboard.
Start a horrible sounding one man band.
I’d use it to create theme music for my new podcast/blog – cassette tape gold
Be Awesome.
i would shot web from it
I will chillwave to everyone who walks by my witchhouse.
i will remember it fondly
Seduce Zola Jesus into my shadowy web
sex jams.
i would annoy the hell out of my wife
I would get detained by airport security as I tried to board my flight with it. (in addition to making fantastic music!)
use it as a really crazy lead on my mostly guitar-based recordings
i’ll bury it in the dirt and make underground music. but no, i’d probs make a 83 song LP thats only 46 minutes long for fun and giggles
If I had a PAL 198X, I would make an operation to attach it to my balls, so that everytime I masturbate god would come down from heaven to sing-along to the music.
Hide it in my backpack and have a personal synth pop theme song wherever I go
I would force feed my brother acid and lock him in the bathroom, then play a 384 minute long song made from the PAL 198X and slowly drive him insane.
I’d start a band with my PAL 198X.
I’d start a Neon Indian cover band called Neon Indian but in quotes
I’d probably taunt my friend who just told me he never wins contests.
I’d use it to travel back in time and kill Hitler. It does that, right?
Use it to make late 70′s-style progressive music
I’d use it every single time I poop, which means I’d get pretty damn good at it.
I would use it as an excuse to bunk in my brother’s room and we’ll turn my room into a studio and I’ll have THE BEST SENIOR YEAR EVER!!!