With Valentine’s just around the corner, you may have jewelry on the mind. Fortunately, there’s no need to choose between a love of music gear and a love of shiny things, for either men or women.

The talented designers at Technique have gone to extreme lengths to make jewelry out of DJ hardware, from phono cartridges to my personal favorite excess, a custom MPC pendant for Hi-Tek. Wear them with custom MIDI cable bracelets from Chicago designer Quantazelle:

MPC Bling: Complete Technique’s Audio Jewelry, White Gold and Jewel MPC 3000 [Create Digital Music]