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kaini

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  1. I gave most of this album a listen last night after reading such great things about it here... I just wasn't feeling it. Really just sounded like a mess to me. A few moments stood out but no complete tracks... I wonder what I'm missing.

     

    I don't understand the BOC references either... doesn't remind me of them at all.

     

    :(

     

    i think 84 pontiac dream is probably the most 'vhs head' boc cos of the warped 80s tv ident sounds,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIK3G7VuqXM

    but there's that kind of thing in a fair bit of their stuff.

  2. • 250g unsalted butter

    • 250g smooth peanut butter

    • optional: 75g crushed walnuts

    • optional: 75g crushed unsalted peanuts

    • optional: 50g crushed dark chocolate

    • 80g cocoa powder, sifted

    • 65g plain flour, sifted

    • 1 teaspoon baking powder

    • 360g caster sugar

    • 4 large free-range or organic eggs

     

    Preheat your oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Line a 25cm square baking tin with greaseproof paper. In a large bowl over some simmering water, melt the butter and the peanut butter and mix until smooth. Add the nuts, if you’re using them, and stir together. In a separate bowl, mix together the cocoa powder, flour, baking powder, chocolate chips, and sugar, then add this to the peanut butter and nut mixture. Stir together well. Beat the eggs and mix in until you have a silky consistency.

     

    Pour your brownie mix into the baking tray, and place in the oven for around 25 minutes. You don’t want to overcook them so, unlike cakes, you don’t want a skewer to come out all clean. The brownies should be slightly springy on the outside but still gooey in the middle. Allow to cool in the tray, then carefully transfer to a large chopping board and cut into chunky squares.

     

    adapted from http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chocolate-recipes/bloomin-brilliant-brownies

  3. plz stop ghost box, i want it allllll

     

    This September is a very exciting month for Ghost Box, first of all we'll be releasing Belbury Poly's Farmer's Angle (Revised Edition). This is a new version of the very first release on Ghost Box, originally a 3" CD limited to 200 copies and back now by popular demand in the form of 10" vinyl, full size CD or download. The EP features three new tracks, in one of which Belbury Poly are joined by the The Advisory Circle.
  4. on a bit of a tangent but keeping with the old TV aspect

     

    http://www.discogs.com/Mordant-Music-Dead-Air/release/716931

     

    As the listening habits of a generation move ever-closer to collections based on file-extensions, one possible weapon with which to retain the physical size of music consumption is by getting clever with your packaging - something Mordant Music seem to have done with considerable aplomb... Never the easiest thing to make indispensable, the Mordant Music crew have nonetheless played a blinder with this CD - housing it in a gatefold type sleeve that extends off in all directions with some lovely wall-paper style decoration inside to keep your eyes happy. Oh, and it's a funny shape too... What more do you want?! Tearing ourselves away from the visual aesthetic, the lovingly wrapped music inside is hark back to simpler times; where electronic maneuvers could be straight-up and less reliant on sonic gymnastics to engage the listener. Sounding not unlike some lost Dr Who episode, the Mordant crew have employed the talents of ex-Thames TV continuity announcer Philip Elsmore on narration duties - bringing the electronics a sense of real pathos and crumbling despair. Alternating between styles, the likes of grime, industrial, electro, pop and music concrete are all fed through the Mordant machine to produce an oddly soothing affair that bursts into life sporadically for some Prefuse-style shenanigans, but overall retains its composure to threatening effect. Dark without becoming claustrophobic and instilled with enough bite to warrant the fancy packaging, 'Dead Air' proves that music can still be a tactile experience. Touch it!

     

    narration by Phillip Elsmore

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Elsmore

     

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    i've only bought stuff by The Advisory Circle and Belbury Poly so far ...

     

    yeah, i have this. it's awesome.

  5. we'll see if the mordant music track is any good. i like The Tower stuff but i find everything else tough to get into in a way i can't explain.

     

    dead air is great. like the ghost of a pirate station from the early 90s/60s/90s

  6. the sort of person that likes ghost box is generally also the sort of person who would love to have a ghost box shelf with all the cds in a row.

    Before my life was boxed up during my Uni limbo, I actually did this, dispensing with my usual OCD artist alphabetisation. Didn't look at all impressive though, as there's no back cover on the original CDRs to show through the spine. Just plain old blank plastic.

     

    even one level of elitism further then: "it's not how it looks. it's how it makes me feel. it makes me feel complete."

  7. I think he's too busy to actually make music anymore.

     

    He still finds time to tour with Björk whenever she goes out... Which I can quite understand!

     

    what exactly was his role in bjork's tours?

     

    i saw him with bjork at a music festival when she was touring volta.

    he was alternating back and forth between a fairly small synth/sequencer/fx combo, and a reactable.

    he was bashing the reactable with such force i was surprised he didn't break it for 'declare independence'. it was awesome.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHeX6yg95xU

    basically an lfo track with bjork vocals :emotawesomepm9:

  8. I don't imagine he's any need to money-wise

     

    i'd say mark bell could comfortably retire off his bjork $$$ alone.

    What I was thinking kaini, and good on him too.

    and maybe cuddle aftar?

    (a reference to this, which is as old as the internet) in case it's lost on you. [/labours point]

  9. I don't imagine he's any need to money-wise

     

    i'd say mark bell could comfortably retire off his bjork $$$ alone.

    What I was thinking kaini, and good on him too.

     

    'hi mark, it's bjork. i'd like to pay you more money to fool about with reactables and lemurs and other cool shit on my new album. and maybe cuddle aftar? oh, and chris corsano would like to have a jam with you. anyway give me a ring back when you get this message'

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