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Every Friday at Axehole, we bring you the most unusual music or audio find of the week. In previous weeks, we’ve delivered a veritable cornucopia of strangeness, including Microsoft’s plan to buy its want into your pants, stripper ringtones and grunge-guitar robots.

But in the immortal words of James Brown, “Show me your horn! Hah!

You don’t keep the Godfather of Soul waiting, and we can’t hold out on you either - so check out HornMassive:

HornMassive is a 2 Ton (4500 Lbs US), 2000 watt steel and aluminum mobile sound system. It’s enough horn to be heard 1 km away.

It’s the horn o’ plenty.

HornMassive functions as a mobile audio input station. According to its creators, HornMassive is “designed to be the ultimate monophonic sound projector intended to catalyze social activities in multiple settings.”

Not only does this thing catalyze social activities in multiple settings, it probably protects you against those annoying peni$ enlargement emails.

But how does it sound?

According to the people at Art Net, “Horn Massive’s explosive sound invisibly sculpted the space around it on opening night. Made of steel, aluminum and a few choice electrical components, and standing over 13 feet tall and almost as wide, the work is a super-efficient sound chamber, capable of projecting its audio dominance with very little (electrical) effort…unfortunately, the subtler points of military technology and sonic coercion seemed lost in the deafening noise.”