Laptop Musician T-Shirts

Via Musicthing:

For the grumpy electronic musician… Fractalspin’s ‘No, I am not checking my email, retard’ t-shirt. For grumpy DJs, they also do ‘This DJ takes requests’ and who could live without ‘I am totally incrementing this value with all my might’?

Being a laptop musician myself, I can attest to the need for these t-shirts. At smaller shows where the DJ booth is on the floor of the venue, or in a small club where the DJ is out in the open, it would be not unusual to have people (usually men) coming up to me, thinking that they’re clever and asking me if I’m checking my email. I would like to respond “Wow, that’s about the 100th time I’ve heard that same non-funny joke this month!” but, being polite, I just say something very obscurely technical along the lines of “well, I’m actually mapping a filter-sweep graph right now, and then I have to hard-limit this .ogg file, then and put a high pass filter on the syncopated snare, then turn down the resonance and then then phase-sync the first one before I can try to beatmatch them” or something equally silly.Check out all their laptop musician t-shirts.

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