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Can a mod please move this to the New & Upcoming Releases?

Am I able to post about an electro release before @dcom? Out yesterday, September 2nd Available from Bandcamp https://hypercolour.co.uk/album/power-charge-ep

Continuing from the other thread. What stuff do you guys put in all the awesome pockets of the cargo pants/trousers/shorts? For me it's: Front up left: phone Front up right: keys Front down right: wallet (yeah, I carry a separate wallet, because I don't want to lose my cards, cash AND the phone at the same time) Front down left: anything extra depending on where I am and what I'm doing, might be a passport, pocket knife, screw drivers, handkerchief, pocket camera, etc Back pockets are for short term storage for small items only, like museum or cloakroom tickets, public transport tokens, etc

I saw young people wearing crop tops with baggy or cargo trousers everywhere in Helsinki this summer. Something like Gwen Stefani or Mel B back in the mid 90s. Looks very nostalgic. I'm not disapproving.

As a person who has had a habit of wearing cargo pants occasionally since the 90s the zoomer trend of wearing them is pretty funny. Sometime ago I overheard a young girl in metro going on about how brilliant the cargo pants are because you can put so much stuff in the pockets.

An audio frequency causing trouble with a high precision electro-mechanical device like a hard drive sounds entirely plausible. And bass frequencies being the culprit sounds about right because their absolute amplitude is higher in music in general and they travel better in solids like in the laptop case and the components inside. The part about removing the frequency is very vague but I would assume it's some kind of band-stop filter in the audio device's firmware. If it's in the Windows driver level or in the windows audio pipeline it should be possible to cause the crash by installing Linux and playing the song there. Most resonance problems I've come across at work though have been due to electro-magnetic resonance.

Tourists with cameras were already a problem before TikTok or Instagram but they've certainly made it worse.. I've seen things like tourists shoving their SLR cameras in random kids' faces in railway stations without asking a permission. I guess because in their thinking "poor foreigners" are so photogenic or some shit and they think you don't need to ask them or their parents for permission. It's just fucked. They would never do the same thing back in their home country. Just start snapping close up photos of random children in public places in the US or Europe and see how it goes. Actually I myself might be in a Japanese tourist guidebook for Mongolia because I accidentally walked in the frame when their photographer was taking photos and then the writer and the photographers just fucked off.

I haven't really paid much attention to him, read his stuff or watched videos or anything because luckily I almost never come across this stuff IRL, but what little I have seen he seems like a comedy character, like no way he's really like that. Like he's doing a comedy bit. It's all a show. ykwim? I find it hard to believe that some people actually take him seriously.

There's probably a lot of stuff going on in "1 1 is" to modulate and phase the components in and out but one method you can clearly see if you just look at the spectrogram. There is a band-stop filter or EQ or something similar that cuts off frequencies and it's being modulated with an LFO. Also there's a 180 degree phase difference in the LFO between the left and the right channel.

Relating to this: my friend was recently on a bar terrace drinking beer when some unknown woman started to play a Jordan Peterson video very loudly on her phone and just stared at my friend like a lunatic. lol

I need to pay the Finnish VAT every time I buy anything on Bandcamp. Kind of related to that I would rather people just download my stuff for free because in theory at least I should report all the sales as income and it's just too much hassle for the (potential) money I would be getting. Yeah, I could deduct all the expenses like software etc and pay zero taxes (because lol at the thought of making actual net profit from my music) but god forbid finding all the receipts is one big pain in the ass. I think normally no one would care but because I have a VAT registered business unrelated to the Bandcamp someone actually might check my where my revenue is coming from. I'm not even going to go into how it would affect my employment benefits if I was getting any and the employment office found out. Just having the music up on sale is a potential problem in that case.

A Finnish immigrant song recorded in New York in 1930. The director of Finnish national public radio tried to destroy all of the copies in the radio archives in the late 1940s because she said she hated it, but the record was so popular that it got released on two different record labels in 1947.

Post album covers with hidden jokes, messages, visual gags, optical illusions, puns or whatever that isn't maybe instantly obvious I'll start

I've met people who have been traveling for most of their lives and they just can't stop. One time I met a woman in her late 60s who had been living in some pretty hardcore places from Haiti to Papua New Guinea. She said when she went to visit her family in Scotland for a Christmas she got very bad anxiety after just a few days and started to cry all the time so she had to leave for Africa. I also met a guy in Africa who had resigned or gone awol from the US navy sometime in the 70s and had been traveling in Africa since then. He just said it's impossible to return to US anymore. He had tried it but failed. I have also a friend who basically left Germany when the Berlin wall fell and lived around the Balkans and Black Sea area, never returning to Germany but somehow ending up in Japan with wife and kids and seems pretty miserable now that he can't travel anymore so freely. So I'm a bit wary what might happen if I travel too much.. I used to work and save money and then go traveling. The pandemic put a stop on that for a bit. But now that the borders are opening the pandemic has actually made combining work and travel easier because there is much more remote work available in my field so I can travel and work at the same time to some degree. Although it does get a bit hard if you're somewhere with an abysmal internet connection and rolling blackouts and several timezones off from your coworkers..

I feel like longer trips, like 6+ months, fry my brain somehow and every time it gets harder to return to some vestige of normalcy. Maybe at some point I'm just going to be stuck on an orbit around the globe and never land back to normal life.

I was around the Nordics, Germany and the Baltics in July and basically the only place where people were wearing masks anymore was the German public transport where it was mandatory. Also in Germany as soon as the people got off the vehicle most of them took the masks off which was a bit silly because there can be hundreds or thousands of people at the station but then if you're the only passenger in a local bus the driver ogles at you for not wearing a mask. (I did it by accident once because I didn't remember the rule coming from Denmark). Anyway, I don't know what's my point. No masks in Northern Europe I guess. I don't know how the rest of Europe currently is.