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I found Draft 7.30 the hardest Ae album to get into, maybe followed Quaristice. I don't know what is it, but there's something almost impenetrable for me in some of the beats that is not present in the other Ae albums.

Finished the Lord Dunsany anthology (and a tongue-in-cheek Finnish collection of Lovecraft/Paavo Väyrynen parodies..), now reading this: Seems good so far after the two first chapters.

Group theory..

This is a bit cheesy but it's a fucking bomb on the dance floor.

The tea shop that sells my favorite tea is only open from 11am to 6pm and I'm always too early or too late, so I have to buy like 500g bags of the tea so I don't have to go there all the time. Also, three letters: PHP.

Eufrosyne's Time Zone +13:00 features Dune's music. One of my favorite demos:

I only read the stories and the Fungi from Yuggoth which is pretty bad-ass poetry. You can read it in full in here for example. My favorite Poe story is probably the Tell-tale Heart. The mood and the insanity are just perfect.

http://pouet.net/gro...0&order=release (or is that not what you meant ?) Check this also: http://scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fmusic%2Fartists%2Fdune/

Yeah, I read through the complete works of both Poe and Lovecraft a few years ago. Also I've been reading a lot of Arthur Machen lately, which is kind of similar. But I have to check Borges and Blackwood. Thanks for the recommendation. Anyway, I've been a Lovecraft fan since age 13 so I had already read about 95% of the stories he had written before I started my project, but it was fun to read the whole body of work in a chronological order. You can see him developing as a writer because to be honest the early stuff is pretty bad but the good stuff starts to appear slowly at first around the time of The Music of Erich Zann and then after Herbert West it just kicks up a notch and from Call of Cthulhu forward it's just pure gold.

Currently some Lord Dunsany:

My gf and I are going to be in Portugal and Northern Spain for a couple of weeks soon. We're flying to Lisbon and returning from Bilbao, otherwise the trip is pretty much open so we'll be heading to whatever looks like a nice place. I'm not going to be carrying a lot of gear so I won't be having tent etc, but I could use some nice day trail suggestions in that area if anybody has any? Though most likely we'll be just chilling with beer or wine and see some occasional attraction.

I've been trekking/hiking/whatever a few times in Finland and once in Thailand. I'd like to do it more but never seem to have time or the weather is against the whole thing. First time I was hiking was with my mates who were also first timers. We decided that an 80km trail would be a good start. I went with cheap ass gear, rubber boots for wet weather, running shoes for dry, cheapo tent, etc. We all had been through army service so we weren't completely new to staying overnight in forest but we learned a bit about hiking there.. My feet were fucked up for a couple of weeks afterwards.

I think some of the Texas Faggot stuff is pretty cool. Also I like Tekniset and Huopatossu Mononen with especially Huopatossu having some great game music like elements. But yeah,there are some fucked up elements and the scene is even more insular than the regular psy-trance scene with some people dissing everything that's coming outside of Finland as monotonous tube trance. Anyway, I have had some great times at the parties dancing through the night in a forest. There is also a tendency in the psy scene to look at IDM and related genres as too "artsy" and not enough focused on the party and the more poppy stuff is considered too commercial. That might explain why there is not that much cross breeding between psybient and other forms of ambient and chill out music.

Yeah, it's a fairly large scene with it's own huge festivals with maybe Boom being biggest in Europe. It also overlaps somewhat with the backpacker scene and people go to places like Thailand to join full moon parties. Even in the country the size of Finland we have at least one psy festival a year and I remember that some people even tried to launch a psy magazine at some point. But there's Finland specific peculiarities in the scene, like the Finnish underground hip hop scene is connected with the psy festivals and there's a Finnish version of psytrance called suomisaundi or spugedelic trance which is more melodic and acid influenced than the mainstream psy.

OK, this isn't psybient actually but I think this is one of the hidden gems in that kind of the Orbesque, FSOL-like genre: Voices of Kwah - Silver Bowl Transmission , released in 1996. I can only find their more poppy stuff on youtube, so I can't give any examples but the Silver Bowl Transmission is a trippy mixture of FSOL kind of stuff and glossolalia singing. Good luck finding it though..

Ah, I used to listen to his stuff back in the days of mp3.com. He had a bunch of free tracks available there that I think still have stashed somewhere.

I think there are audiowise differences between "normal" chill out and psybient. Like for example psybient uses time stretching similar to psytrance to give the music a trippy feel. Also the sound is more compressed and dance music like than regular chill out (well, anyway what I've been listening). Also there is a pretty clear thematic undercurrent in psybient: psychedelics, DMT, LSD, ayahuasca and all things related to them when it's not at least so upfront in other electronic music except for psytrance. That's what has been really putting me off from psybient lately. It sometimes sounds like a fucking brainwash attempt by some weird drug addled cult. I still enjoy listening to Divine Moments of Truth though.. makes chills run down my spine.

Haven't really listened to psybient lately. Kind of drifted away from that psy-trance thing. Anyway, Shpongle is pretty much essential, but you probably know that. If you don't then grab the first two Shpongle albums. Simon Posford is pretty much THE psybient producer (also in Shpongle) so you might want to look what he's been up to. He has a shitload of aliases. I have heard the psy-hippies praise Younger Brother but haven't bothered with it myself. Ott's Blumenkraft is also quite good.

So far it's been great. It's set in near future Istanbul. I've read the River of Gods, Cyberabad Days and Brasyl from him before and this has been the best so far. They're all sort of 3rd world cyberpunk, set in India and Brazil respectively.

Lol, I kinda want to read this: http://www.bogost.com/blog/10_print_announce.shtml

been meaning to get my hands on some of his stuff. where to start? I've been reading just the travelogues, but from there I'd start from Shenzhen and work chronologically from there, because he sometimes references back to his older work and you can see him developing over time. Though Shenzhen is a bit more boring than the rest in my opinion, so if you like you could skip straight to Pyongyang where the stuff gets more interesting.

I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula and Guy Delisle's Jerusalem, which is great. I've read his Shenzhen, Pyongyang and Burma books before, all top notch. But beside those I'm also reading this fucker: It's a description of fundamental physical laws and mathematics needed to understand them in 1100 pages.. I'm kinda out of my depth with this one, I may just as well soon give up. The speed in which new ideas are introduced is breathtaking and his approach to some things is not really the most intuitive to say the least. Even when he's dealing with something relatively simple like Newtonian mechanics the mathematics get pretty heavy.

Oh man, I like good basslines but there are so many. Liquid Liquid's Cavern and Squarepusher's Iambic 5 poetry are fucking great as mentioned previously. Good dub basslines are just heavenly: Also The Orb has many great ones Blue Room 12" version for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyMZDBdoe8g Slug Dub has pretty insane in the bass line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2etnJW0NxjE Also check out Jah Wobble: And of course P-Funk, especially Bootsy: George Clinton: