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Video: How to build your own boombox

How Do You Build a Portable Boom Box Using a Cassette Player
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History of the GhettoBlaster

For a "Rise and Fall" history of the GhettoBlaster check out PocketCalculator.

Conion TC 999 From "Days Go By" video

LL COOl J - Classic Scene from "Krush Groove"

DiscoLite Boombox from Madonna Video

Radio Raheem

GHETTO BLASTER SHARP GF-777 N°5 MODERN SOUL FUNK

The Big One

LP Box?

Say Anything

Mosquitos - Boombox

Boombox Blast

Elevator Music

Kylie Minogue - Boombox

1. Like A Drug (Extended Mix)
2. Boombox (La Riot Remix)
3. Cherry Bomb
4. In My Arms (feat. Jolin Tsai)
5. Speakerphone (Impossible King's Radio Edit)
6. King Or Queen (Impossible Kings re-edit)
7. Lose Control (Impossible King's My World Mix)
8. Rippin Up The Disco (Matty Boys Mix)
9. Wow (MSTRKRFT Remix)
10. The One (Voyager Mix)
11. Sensitized (DiscoBoy's Radio Edit)
12. In My Arms (Chris Lake Mix)
13. All I See (Impossible King's extended)
14. Nu-di-ty (Edi's Shuffle)

Wall of Sound

Norwiegen artist Maia Urstad does some very cool stuff with boomboxes.



From her website:

The CD-and cassette radios in the installation have a double, visual and conceptual function. On an auditory level they are mediating the sound image implemented in the installation. Visually they are the concrete building blocks, the obvious function in the wall, but they also reflects issues related to the technical development and our culture of consumption.

The CD players in the wall are playback units for a composition of electronically treated sounds borrowed from radio waves, Morse code, FM- and satellite radio etc. Sound signals that also will be obsolete and forgotten sooner than we might expect.

The CD-and cassette radios in the installation have a double, visual and conceptual function. On an auditory level they are mediating the sound image implemented in the installation. Visually they are the concrete building blocks, the obvious function in the wall, but they also reflects issues related to the technical development and our culture of consumption.

The CD players in the wall are playback units for a composition of electronically treated sounds borrowed from radio waves, Morse code, FM- and satellite radio etc. Sound signals that also will be obsolete and forgotten sooner than we might expect.

Photo: Flickr

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Boombox made Double Bass

Double bass boombox fiddle
$15,000
edition of three
medium-modified double bass fiddle, spraypaint, casters, oak, plywood, metal, iPod, two tube pre-amps, B and C mids and tweeters, Electro-voice woofers, JVC tweeters, Crown XLS 602 Poweramp, and Behringer equalizer

Earth Wind & Fire -- vintage boombox commerical

Flat-packed self-assembled iPod boombox

Firebox.com:

Zip up your tracksuit, gather your crew and get ready for a retro-tastic dance-off because the iPod Boombox is here. This utterly ingenious flat-packed iPod speaker system looks just like an '80s style boombox. You know, the shoulder-riding sound systems used by breakdancers, posers and anyone else keen to assault the eardrums of the general public. And get this, it's made of cardboard. Why? Don't ask us. It's like that (that's just the way it is).

$29.95

Wired: Lasonic X Famous i931, "21st Century Ghetto Blaster Makes Us Want To Do The Right Bling"

Wired:

This ghetto-fabulous boombox featuring a "Famous Stars and Straps" pattern designed by former Blink 182 drummer, Travis Barker is sure eye-catching, and its ability to play music from iPods, SD/MMC cards, microphones, USB sticks and line-level sources hits us right in the feature set sweet spot. But with an interface that somehow renders the user-friendly iPod nearly un-navigable and a chintzy plastic construction, it's best suited for one activity: belting out rhymes over backing tracks stored in one of the above-mentioned formats. See, this thing has a quarter-inch input that works with a standard stage mic. A gain control knob mixes vocals above or below the music, while an echo knob adds various intensities of delay to your voice. We would not recommend this 2 x 12 Watt monster for regular music listening since it can be so frustrating to use. But if you know exactly what you would do with a microphone enabled iPod boombox, Lasonic X Famous i931 will get the job done in style — even if your name isn't Radio Raheem. —Eliot Van Buskirk

Buy it here