Pharmakon

I had some distortion pedals and a tape player. I would mess around with the speed on the tape player and put it through different pedals, and then have the Casio and the voice, and I had that setup for like five years before I upgraded to the Korg Microsampler, which is basically a grown up version of the Casio SK-5—without the lion and lasers sounds

I never had enough money to buy my own synths, so I'd always just sample my friends' synthesisers, or guitar, or take field recordings of a piece of metal falling in an alley or me kicking a dumpster or something, and then I would turn them into rhythms. But finally, from this last bought of touring the last record, I've saved up and got a modular synth and an MS-20.

She's seen using an Octatrack DPS-1 on this live performance posted on YouTube.

When I started, I inherited from my stepdad an old Casio SK-5, which is this little toy miniature keyboard—and it is a toy. It has straight-up lion samples on it. There's a roar, there's a laser sound. But you can sample things with it. You can only take 1.5 seconds of sample, and when you turn the sampler off you lose it, but all the early Pharmakon stuff was just me making different vocal sounds into that, looping it and playing it on a keyboard, looping that and making a new sample, and then doing stuff over the top of it and adding vocals.

In a photograph, Pharmakon is clearly using the Behringer Eurorack MX 802A mixer.