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.
You Might Also Like
 Neon Indian – “Halogen (Boyd Rice Remix)” |  Deconstructing: Memory Tapes And Life Beyond Chillwave |  Come To Nitehawk Cinema For The Opening Run Of DOSA HUNT, A… |  Fight Bite – “Charlotte Iris” Video |
 |
 |
Leave a Reply
Sign in Sign in with FacebookYou must be logged in to post, reply to, or rate a comment.
Imma be the next Antoine Dodson with that bad boy.
Ssshhhh…It’s a secret. Just know that it’s gonna be epic! ;)
i’d make next level beats with my pc computer
Me + PAL198X = world peace
I’d take over the world with it.
I would probably only use it ironically, because apparently that’s what all the cool kids do now.
I will take over the world!
….With dancing
Something original, not like these other clowns
I’ll use it to take over the world. Muahhahaha!
It will be so awesome. I will put it on the desk with all my other musical equipment/instruments, and look at it every time I get up and get ready for work, then come home late at night and look at it again as I pass out on the bed. What is it, again?
Shit, I’d probably let it collect dust in the corner of my room. But in 10 years, I’d start making some really fucking interesting music called chillwave while I live in my parents basement and blippity bloop my ass off.
I’d use it a) every morning for cooking, b) comb my hair c) blow my mom’s ears with awesome sounds
d) all of the above
bang.
I would use it to defeat terrorists.
I’d use it to annoy everyone on my floor in the dorms. It’d be rad
If I get the PAL198X i will use it to finally give my R2-D2 and C-3P0 sex tape sound!!!
I’d use it to cure the world of all major diseases and end all wars. Now not giving it to me is just selfish…
(Something funny)
OK, so I don’t play an instrument, but with this I would stop studying and start learning how to make this cool clicks and beeps that I loved listening to on any song from the 80′s, and a shit ton of music that was not heavily influenced by the use of bugar-sugar.
It wouldn’t just make my day, or month, but my year. Maybe even my decade.
I’d put the PAL 198X between two pieces of wholemeal bread and make a synth sandwich with it
i’d beat synth hearts out of existence and into my bedroom.
I would use the PAL198X to dip my mind into a pleasurable sonic ether. I might watch a show on galaxies and turn down the volume, and create my own cosmic soundtrack.
Maybe after that I would have breakfast with it, while we watch a psychedelic croquet game that I taped in the year 2057, which I have of course on beta tape.
I’d reflect on that, and then take a photo of my PAL198X and print a t-shirt of it, and following, take a picture of that t-shirt. Then I would have a t-shirt of a t-shirt with my PAL198X on it.
Sometimes, I would see if I could use it to communicate with many different animals.
Finally, I would teach my PAL (Let’s call him just my Pal now) to build an exact duplicate of itself, and that duplicate would be able to do the same. After some amount of time, I’d have thousands of pals, and construct them into an organ. my PAL organ could then produce enough weird-sound-time-space sound waves to call our alien friends at the nearest galaxy, Andromeda. I’d go with the aliens back to their intergalactic bandshell and start a band called “my Pal and I”.
If my Pal organ was still resonating enough, It would give off enough sonic energy to (somehow) open a wormhole. I’d be transported back to earth, and then write this comment.
Oh man this is the new cyber age isn’t it! Alright, here’s the comment with my bookface connect.
I would use the PAL198X to dip my mind into a pleasurable sonic ether. I might watch a show on galaxies and turn down the volume, and create my own cosmic soundtrack.
Maybe after that I would have breakfast with it, while we watch a psychedelic croquet game that I taped in the year 2057, which I have of course on beta tape.
I’d reflect on that, and then take a photo of my PAL198X and print a t-shirt of it, and following, take a picture of that t-shirt. Then I would have a t-shirt of a t-shirt with my PAL198X on it.
Sometimes, I would see if I could use it to communicate with many different animals.
Finally, I would teach my PAL (Let’s call him just my Pal now) to build an exact duplicate of itself, and that duplicate would be able to do the same. After some amount of time, I’d have thousands of pals, and construct them into an organ. my PAL organ could then produce enough weird-sound-time-space sound waves to call our alien friends at the nearest galaxy, Andromeda. I’d go with the aliens back to their intergalactic bandshell and start a band called “my Pal and I”.
If my Pal organ was still resonating enough, It would give off enough sonic energy to (somehow) open a wormhole. I’d be transported back to earth, and then write this comment.
make music?? and sounds. what else??
let me folktronic germany with it!
0100010001100101011000010111001000100000010011100110010101101111011011100010000001001001011011100110010001101001011000010110111000101100001000000000110100001010000011010000101000100000010010010010000001101000011000010111011001100101001000000110001001100101011001010110111000100000011101110110000101101001011101000110100101101110011001110010000001110100011010000110100101110011001000000110010001100001011110010010111000100000010101000110111100100000011000100110010100100000011100100110010101110101011011100110100101110100011001010110010000100000011101110110100101110100011010000010000001110100011010000110010100100000011011000110000101110011011101000010000001101111011001100010000001101101011110010010000001101011011010010110111001100100001011000010000001110011011011110010000001110100011010000110000101110100001000000111011101100101001000000110110101100001011110010010000001101111011011100110001101100101001000000110110101101111011100100110010100100000011010010110111001100100011101010110110001100111011001010010000001110111011010010111010001101000001000000110100101101101011011010111010101110100011000010110001001101100011001010010000001100110011001010111001001110110011011110111001000100000011010010110111000100000011101000110100001100001011101000010000001110111011010000110100101100011011010000010000001101111011101010111001000100000011010000110010101100001011100100111010001110011001000000110001101101111011011010110110101100001011011100110010000111011001000000110011101110010011000010111011001101001011001000010000001110111011010010111010001101000001000000010000001100101011011000110010101100011011101000111001001101001011000110010000001110110011011110111011101110011001000000110111101100110001000000110010101111000011000110110110001110101011100110110100101110110011010010111010001111001001000000110000101101110011001000010000001110000011000010111001101110011011010010110111101101110001011000010000001100010011011000111010101100101001000000110011001101001011100100110010100100000011011010110000101111001001000000110110001100101011000010110010000100000011101010111001100101100001000000110000101101110011001000010000001110100011010000111010101110011001000000110110001100101011000010111011001100101001000000111010101110011001000000110100001100101011000010111011001101001011011100110011100100000011000010110111001100100001000000110001101110010011000010111011001101001011011100110011100100000011000010010000001110011011001010110001101101111011011100110010000100000011101000111010101110010011011100010111000100000000011010000101000001101000010100100110101111001001000000110001001100101011000010111010001101001011001100111010101101100001000000101000001000001010011000010110000100000000011010000101001111001011011110111010100100000011000100110010101101100011011110110111001100111001000000110100101101110001000000110110101111001001000000110001001100001011011100110000101101110011000010111001100100000000011010000101000001101000010100110000101101100011011000010000001101111011001100010000001110100011010000110010101101101
http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp
shite, this what i meant:
Dear Neon Indian,
I have been awaiting this day. To be united with PAL, so that we may indulge with immutable fervor in that which our hearts command; gravid with electric vows of exclusivity and passion, blue fire may lead us into things we cannot undo, and thus leave us heaving and craving a second turn.
My beatiful PAL,
you belong in my bananas
all of them
When you send this to my house Im’a gonna tear the shit apart cut few wires then switch em around get a nice noise that sounds like a boiling lobster screaming through auto-tune. Then proceed to stalk Lou Reed and together make Metal Machine Music 2: Ears Keep Bleeding! And If I don’t win your synth and I don’t make Metal Machine Music 2 I will be very angry. You won’t like me when I’m angry. You’ve been warned.
Try to fool the people at the SETI@Home Project
Make cassette-only EPs that won’t be appreciated in my time
I’d use it to ride those chillwaves, 2 years after chillwave reached its peak in relevancy
I would make fun sounds out of it
I would shock and scare old people. . . hopefully to their wretched death.
I would use it to get more comments on my blog, Stereogum.com
I would start the first buzzband that has cats as the only other members and have them play the PAL 198X while we take over the interwebs with our Catwave music.
Oh and I would rule Hipster Runoff, naturally.
I’d use it on my next album…Something like “Electronica experimental meets dance pop”.
I’ll wine and dine her, that classy gal.
i just want to make sweeyt8-bit remixes and music with it. i like crazy little synths.
I would satisfy my electronic-obsessed needs.
I want thiS!
Use it to make cool bleep bloop Brian Eno sounds in my band, Black Noun.
I will use it to make sound FX for short movies!
–DMC
i’d hack the fucking gibson
i will explore the vast cavernous sounds of cyber punk pop dark wave and lose my mind entirely
hmmm, I might use this try to find my bike that was just stolen
I would spend months trying to figure out how to use it.
I would use it to drive away everyone that has ever loved me.
i’ll wake EVERYBODY up
PAL 198X would get attached to a korg monotron.
I would be the ultimate keyboard cat.
if i had a pal198x, the possibilities would be so endless that your face would shit. I would establish alien communication, make bacon stuffed bacon, find the cure for aids and cancer simultaneously, just to name a few of my future achievements with my trusty sidekick, my good ol’ pal(198x). oh, and i’d divide by zero, too. the world would end as we know it. (in a good way)
I would buy some Chaos Crystals (sold separately!), then use its chaotic, oscillating, sound waves to enter the 4th dimension. There, I would start a synth-noise band with the 4th dimensional version of myself, go back to the 3rd dimension, rock out the indie-scene, and then have an article in Stereogum about how they helped us change the definition of music itself!
Throw it in my closet and forget about it.
I would use it to see if an actually neon indian popped out of it & started talking to me.
i would have a music making/merry making party!
I’m going to stop speaking and just use this as my main form of communication.
i would obviously use it to boost the signal on my att iphone4. or mod it into a time machine. does it come with the crystals?
I would use it to communicate within our historical synthesized moment
I’d use it to make my own 50s scifi style soundtrack to accompany Murnau’s “Faust.”
Give up the spoken and written word, use it as my sole means of communication.
With my Pal 198X, I would experience the past and the future simultaneously, and then play some concerts at my local symposium or retirement center.
I’m entering this for my BF because he wants to make music. He says he never wins anything and I want to prove him wrong! :P
I would use it to touch my son’s face for the first time since the fire
I’d use it to make all sorts of waves my imagination has no limitations
I’d set up a multi-colored strobe light in front of its light sensors, then do a bong rip and blow the smoke in front of the PAL198X. Then I’d ride some tasty chillwaves, get a cool high-pitched buzz, and be fine.
I’d use it to scare the shit out of people when they aren’t looking and to record stuff on songs I’m making. Mostly the scaring shit though.
I’d use it to make songs that would never appear on Stereogum.
I’d be very grateful to both Neon Indian, and Stereogum for providing me with a PAL 198X.
I would give my PAL 198X to my HAL 9000 and it would write the bleep bloopiest tunes about feeling ‘disconnected’ and lonely.
i’d tell you what i do with that synth, man: two chicks at the same time.
I will use it to make sublimely deep moving music that will change the world; since the pal198x will change me it will thereby change the world.
k so my facebook profile won’t let me leave comments :(
I’ll bleeping throw it away right after bleeping I break it, well long after I’ve bleeping annoyed everyone within ten bleeping yards of me.
I’d follow animals around all day – squirrels mainly – and use it to add a soundtrack to their lives. I think it would be the perfect time as they’ll just be starting to forage for nuts, and I believe a pulsating synth backing track would really spur them on.
I am going to ride chillwaves in my dorm room all year long, no matter the season.
Wire it into my brain so I could turn my thoughts into music
I’d use it to show people my comment won.
I’d make an concept album/short film set in an industrialized venice beach staring a ruddy everymanish protagonist trying to solve a biomech murder mystery, call it hot times 198X !!!
http://www.myspace.com/elleruc
so many things…
i would cure stupidity. i would stop biting my nails. i would travel thru time.
i’d make audio volcano to melt facebook. also why do all these cool contests involve facebook? can’t there be a contest for ppl who are just stereogumers?
i would beat a child at a children’s card game
I’d make a magic song with a catchy chorus and then license it to some crappy tv show.
I’d use it to introduce kids (and adults) to synthesis and indeoendent music at my portland oregon music lesson studio http://whirlingsquirrel.com, including in-person lessons and free video tutorials mentioning who made this cool little synth and why. :) Amanda
I would hold it against all 78 of my precious kittens.
Yeah, I’d just have fun with the thing. Take it everywhere and see what crazy awesome sounds I can make with the environment around me.
I would climb Devil’s Tower and then summon the Close Encounters of the Third Kind aliens with my PAL 198X.
I’d take it to school for show and tell.
I’d throw a party next Halloween and screen Nosferatu while I played an impromptu, tripped-out soundtrack.
I would use it to help with making Kraftwerk covers.
I will make the fattest beats ever known to mankind. McBasslines.
Fridge magnet.
I would hack into the mind of Brian Eno.
If I had a pal, I would feel like I had a friend. :(
I would play for a daisy so that she’ll grow tall and beautiful and then eat it.
i would re fashion it to make a brown sound machine for mushroom in a hermeiclly sealy container and show it as at. i can do that.
If I won the PAL 198X, I would make the coolest sounds on the chopping block.
I would do anything and everything and then a little more after that, PAL 198X <3
I would use it to boast that I finally won a contest, and make great music with it.
I would make fun bleep blop noises &start my absurd winning streak on Jeopardy.
I’d use it to bring all the boys to the yard.
I would be the coolest guy on campus and get allll the ladies. James Blake eat your heart out.