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Sam Battle
Battle with electronic equipment
Battle with electronic equipment
Background information
Born
Sam James Bartle[1]

1990 (age 35–36)[2]
England
Genres
Years active2016–present
Member ofZIBRA
Websitelookmumnocomputer.com

Sam James Battle (born Bartle), known online as Look Mum No Computer, is a British YouTuber, electronics enthusiast, musician and composer who posts videos about making pro audio gear and synthesizers, as well as original music tracks.[3][4][5] He is known for making and playing unusual, esoteric, and eccentric electronic musical devices made from vintage technology; notably such devices as a Furby organ, a synthesizer fused with a classic Raleigh Chopper bicycle, and a Gameboy Triple Oscillator synthesizer.[3] Battle directs This Museum is Not Obsolete—a museum in Ramsgate, Kent which showcases vintage analogue devices which are often repurposed for humorous uses.[6]

YouTube

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Sam Battle launched his YouTube channel in 2013, originally setup for ZIBRA, a band that Battle created with three friends. Battle's first music gear related video was posted in 2016.[3][7] Besides ad income from YouTube, Battle has also been funding his electronic inventions with fan donations, on the subscription platform Patreon.[3]

In 2019, he created a Furby (an electronic robotic toy) based synthesizer, by wiring it up into a modular synthesizers.[8] In 2022, Battle began restoring a 1914 church organ, as an exhibit in This Museum is Not Obsolete,[9] the process of which has been documented on his channel. Battle also produces and sells modular synthesizer components,[10] such as the #1222 Performance VCO.[4]

As of January 2024, his YouTube channel has garnered over sixty-three million views.[11]

On March 17, 2025, he announced a video game developed in collaboration with the German indie studio The Bitfather[12] and which will be published by Headup Games.[13]

Music career

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He released his first single called "Groundhog Day" in 2019.[3] He did a tour in Germany, Switzerland and the UK in 2019.[3]

In May 2022, he joined with Cuckoo and Hainbach to form a musical supergroup called Uncompressed.[5]

Bartle has co-produced several composition for screening, such as Satellite Moment (with Charlie Fink), for the film adaptation of a Street Cat Named Bob, as well as Glitter and Gold (with Barns Courtney) for Netflix's series Safe.[14]

Discography

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As Look Mum No Computer

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Singles

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  • "Groundhog Day" – 2019
  • "Modern Gas" – 2019
  • "Shock Horror" – 2020
  • "Desperado Vespa" – 2020
  • "Daydreamer" – 2020
  • "Stand and Deliver" – 2020
  • "Youth8500" – 2021
  • "Stupid Me" – 2021
  • "RIDE" – 2021
  • "Mind Over Matter" – 2021
  • "We'll Find a Way" – 2022
  • "Time Is Not a Healer It’s a Fuel for Resentment" – 2022
  • "Handbook on How to Stay Alive" - 2023
  • "Night or Day" - 2023
  • "T.I.M" - 2023
  • "Too Many Mistakes" - 2024
  • "No Hope Eternal" - 2025
feat. Hainbach
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  • "Bordsteinkante" - 2024

Albums and EPs

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  • "Human Procrastination" – 2019 (EP)
  • "These Songs are Obsolete" – 2020
  • "Look Mum No Bootleg PT. I" – 2022
  • "Look Mum No Bootleg PT. II" – 2022
  • "Kosmo Plays Vivaldi" - 2023 (EP)
  • "Kosmo Comes For Christmas" - 2023
  • "Pipe Dreams" - 2024 (EP)
  • "PortaKosmo Vol 1 At the Length" - 2024 (EP)
  • "Double Barelled Decadence" - 2024
  • "The VCS4 Collection" - 2025
  • "Portakosmo 2.0" - 2025
  • "Godwin Band in a Box" - 2025
  • "Hungry Vultures" - 2025
feat. Hainbach
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  • "Rotopops" - 2024 (EP)
  • "Ghosts" - 2024

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References

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