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These are alternative takes from the studio sessions. From Bandcamp So, how I figure out is that Geir played a series of live controlled takes in the studio and then some were picked for the album, and these alternative versions are just alternative takes on the same tracks from the same studio sessions. I think this was a pretty common strategy back in the 90s before sequencing the whole track in a DAW became the norm? Like The KLF's Chill Out in which case the whole album was recorded multiple times live and then the best version was picked. Anyway, for a person like me who has heard the original Substrata about a million times, this is a pretty interesting release. I like some of these versions better than the original release and some original versions better.

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Thx, I got it

So, if someone has the info where to send the ticket information etc by email to get a code could you just kindly PM me?

I bought my ticket for the Helsinki gig from Ticketmaster and I haven't received any emails about codes or anything.

I hadn't heard any of the recordings from the previous sets before I went to the Helsinki show so I have no idea what was part of the actual music But I guess the high snapping sound shouldn't have been there? I also hadn't heard Ilpo's solo stuff before so that was interesting.

Musiikkitalo web site says it ends at 21:15 and there's an intermission (I guess between Ilpo and Autechre?) https://musiikkitalo.fi/en/events/autechre-2/ Also "Pop and Rock", lol

No, except for the quite minimalist cover. It's the first two parts of the Arabesk trilogy by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabesk_trilogy

The two books I randomly found in the book recycling shelf are set in some kind of cyberpunk alternate history/future where the Ottoman empire never disappeared. I've never heard of them. Might be shit but the premise sounds interesting at least.

The Onion going hard at it

I don't own much books anymore because I've either given away or sold most of them. I still have a few boxes of books stashed away in a storage room. The problem was that I've moved a lot and I didn't even have a permanent residence for a long time so I just got rid of hundreds of books. Mostly I read ebooks now. And even comics I read mostly electronically. This week I went to drop off a book I just had finished to a book recycling point at a library and then ended up picking two books to go with me. I'm not sure how I keep accumulating more of them when I'm trying to get rid off them

How much books you read really depends on the field you are in. I was in engineering so I read very few text books for my master's degree. I bought three, I think, and then maybe loaned around 5 books. I don't think I read any of them from front to back, just the relevant parts to pass the courses. Mostly I got the information from lectures, lecture notes, labs and exercises. When I started on the PhD I was just reading tons of research articles. I can only remember one book. But I never finished that degree. Anyway, watching a video of the lecture and sitting at the lecture aren't really that different in my opinion. If you have questions you can just email the professor or go visit during the visiting hours. And if you've ever been in a lecture in Finland you know the students generally ask very few questions, publicly at least. God, if I had had the option to just watch the lecture being streamed instead of going to the uni back then I would've been doing it all the time.

My grandfather never went to a proper school, but to a kind of mobile school that would stop in his village now and then. That's where he learned to read and write. The funny thing is that, to everyone's knowledge, the only book he ever read in his life was Victor Hugo's Les Misérables which is absolutely massive brick of a book. Decades later my family is still talking about how he read Les Misérables. The story of him reading the book has become an epic in itself.

I read about 30-40 books per year but honestly some of them are such trash that the youtube videos I also watch are way more educational and mind opening. So I don't think there is any inherent value in just reading books. They can be pure trashy entertainment or bigoted hate mongering or whatever. Yesterday I was reading a book in a Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu series and watched a Youtube video of a Slavoj Žižek vs Yuval Noah Harari discussion on the nature of, well, nature. The book was just pure entertainment and the youtube video was actually the educational and intellectually stimulating, and so on and so on. What I mean is just that books are one medium and it's the contents that are important. I don't think anyone got much more intelligent by reading the billion books in the Warrior Cats series. I've actually freaked out my friends by just staring at the emptiness in a train and bus for hours even before the mobile internet was everywhere, lol. My ex also hated it when I did that. Something like this: