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The Brooklyn retrospective covers 17 years of the artist’s career, but he has been making boomboxes for much longer; the New York creative warmly recalls trading his sister’s boyfriend a copy of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti for a stolen car stereo. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can purchase a DIY zine from an ATM attached to Sach’s Bodega that dates the beginning of his obsession to 1981: “I hooked my Sony Walkman up to a set of mini speakers and Velcroed them to a block of plywood. It was a clusterfuck of wires.” The Bodega is a boombox too, of course.
The collection showcases Sachs’ balance of obsessive attention to detail and an irreverent sense of humor: one speaker has a perfect recreation of the Chanel monogram alongside the word “Pussy” written in Sachs’ signature scrawl; a Courvoisier bottle in Presidential Vampire Booth ‘s bar has been Wited-Out to read Corbusier.
Interesting retrospective, considering the resurgence of boombox culture, and innovative boombox technology like HI-RO.