By Audionerdz Editorial

Berlin is many things: a haven for the weird, a breeding ground for sonic revolutionaries, and once a year, it becomes the epicenter of the electronic music hardware multiverse. That’s Superbooth, and in 2025, it wasn’t just a synth convention—it was a full-blown ritual. Think Burning Man for modular heads, minus the sand and plus a metric ton of blinking LEDs and throbbing oscillators.

Welcome to Superbooth25—a place where your wallet dies, your mind expands, and your sense of what’s musically possible is permanently rewired.

Moog Just Revived Analog Attitude with the Messenger

Let’s start with the Moog Messenger. Moog has long been the cathedral of analog worship, but this time they baptized it in modern fire. This $899 beast brings Moog’s snarling tone into a format that’s screaming to be mangled on-stage. The sequencer? Stupidly good. The vibe? Raw, nasty, and begging for filter abuse. It’s like Moog remembered what made them gods—and dropped the pretentious price tag.

Frap Tools Is Making Polyphonic Synths Sexy Again

Then there’s Magnolia—Frap Tools’ first polyphonic synth. Imagine an Italian opera sung through a modular patch bay inside a radioactive submarine. Through-zero FM, wavefolding, and voice architecture that feels like a hallucination during a Max/MSP fever dream. It doesn’t care about your presets. It wants you to explore.

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Korg’s Phase8 Sounds Like It Was Built for Aliens Who Love Jazz

Phase8 might be the weirdest thing Korg’s done in years. It’s an electro-acoustic Frankenstein built with vibrating metal rods and resonators. It doesn’t sound like anything else because it literally isn’t anything else. It’s the lovechild of a Tibetan singing bowl and HAL 9000, and yes, it’s glorious.

Erica Synths Resurrects Hexinverter—and Your Groove

With HexDrums, Erica Synths is pouring one out for the late Hexinverter Électronique. It’s not just homage—it’s evolution. This drum machine doesn’t punch—it murders. Analog drum synthesis on steroids with sequencing that wants to take over your live set like a rogue AI with good taste.

Modular Nerdvana: From Make Noise to Morphor Madness

If you were near the modular zone, you likely had an existential crisis staring at Make Noise Polimaths—a glorious eight-channel function generator that sounds like the offspring of maths and chaos theory. And if your brain hadn’t already melted, Morphor Echon 6 offered six delay lines of delicious confusion. Together, they made you question whether you were playing your rig or it was playing you.

This Is More Than Gear. It’s a Culture.

Superbooth isn’t about specs. It’s about the energy. The vibe. The community. It’s about catching Surgeon live in a courtyard while a 12-year-old patches kick drums next to a 50-year-old synth wizard explaining phase modulation with a beer in hand. It’s about how Dasha Rush, JakoJako, and countless others rip the veil between sound and soul—and how you leave with a mission, not just a wish list.

There were workshops for women and nonbinary creators, mini labs for kids, and jam sessions that made it clear: electronic music is evolving fast, and it’s inclusive, experimental, and deeply alive.

So What’s the Takeaway?

Superbooth25 wasn’t just about hardware. It was a reminder that we’re standing on the edge of something bigger than music. We’re building the future—one patch cable, one open-source sequencer, one blown-out kick drum at a time.

And here at Audionerdz, we’re not just watching the wave. We are the wave.

Stay tuned for deep dives into the sickest gear of 2025, exclusive tutorials, and guerrilla techniques to turn your studio into a weapon of sonic liberation.

Plug in. Patch weird. Blow minds.
The revolution is modular.