Roo
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M4 Lema at 6:43 has an iPhone new mail ‘Ding‘ sample by the sound of it.
dummy casual pt2 had a similar iPhone text notification effect at 3:13
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Is that th red a at the bottom layer of the artwork?
maybe there’ll be a th blue e on the next one?
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Just synced my phone and apparently I've already racked up 27 listens in not even 6 days. That's crazy.
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5 minutes ago, Roo said:
Pretty solid NYT interview*
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yes I think someone left Wire & Stereogum links a page or two back
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Pretty solid review that one, I think we’ll be quoting it for years. Excerpts/summarises the collaborative/artistic process, a bit on SIGN, and responding to ‘the critics’. I like how Pareles gently refers to the obligatory generative question as ‘some electronic musicians’ and Sean immediately confronts it. The answer info all complements well.
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rinsrptx1000
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Sean: "But I’m not sure that art can be produced by computer...I can't build systems that do that"
Third Member: "fu! I'm locking you guys out of the groupcode. I'm building my own. You dumb mortals have been holding my depravity back with this fluffy emosh!"
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9 minutes ago, Sub0 said:
It's a loose convention, but capitalized variables are often constants you'll find on top of programs. Maybe I speculate too much, but the sentence makes sense. I still don't get why people read that as an abbreviation. I hear clearly that's it's kind of a… start of something they don't want to talk about ?
I think most everyone read and understood it as such, but in forum banter acronyms for the lols obv. ‘SIGN’ invites it.
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“In ASL, initialized signs [fingerspelling initial letters] are typically considered ‘hearing’ signs”
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As a kid my nightmares were typically based around a repetitive dread, tableaux of water bore drilling, failed crop enterprises, and sinister infinite livestock counts, and a few tracks here tickle that brooding procrastinating demonic twist.
I personally don’t have an endurance problem with the emotional resonance here. I’m an introverted empath of sorts, so I get the need for boundaries, but SIGN doesn’t overload me at all. I love emotionally raw music and find it therapeutic.
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2 hours ago, d-a-m-o said:
The capitalized album title, Brown said, is “an initialization, but we don’t want to tell anybody what it stands for.”
Society Is Gone Now
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Tri Rep has a 25th anniversary on 6th November. Also happens to be a bandcamp friday. Pwease WAP records.
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43 minutes ago, eclipsis said:
You really need another album already? SIGN isn't even out yet (officially).
This should win most WATMM 2020. The “pre-“ in the “pls” (pwease) grows more pronounced and emboldened with each indulgence.
Still, I’m keen for my green eggs & ham, Saemus-I-Am. Anytime after Easter would be excessive.
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On 9/4/2020 at 2:29 PM, Roo said:
SIGNature
A green album? Nature? The digital signature Nfinito era?
tks Sean B.eat & l'ush Robkim
Only about 5-6 weeks and 100 pages late Mr William Fields
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Biggest difference I’ve perceived outside headphones is lusher main chords in th red a.
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SIGN is an ae album that really requires you to relearn and come at it from a different angle to that you might be accustomed, it isn't really a matter of accessibility or simplicity or range. It impresses their rich command of sound design more than ever before really, "the piano is dumb" comment feels very relevant here. It almost feels like an interplay between the themes and embellishments, like one remixing the others demos. Grandma managing to smile a "that's nice, dear" to SIGN is missing the point of what makes SIGN a little special.
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Far back in the mix is really the album’s trademark. That is where SIGN’s sense of progression lies, the support details, whilst the forefront themes get modulated infinitesimally. Has a jammy precision feel to it that does reward many listens, lovely textural depth to get lost in. The 3 beatier tracks are much the same, just a bit more varied in affect. The second half of each track is packed with goodness.
the one in-album criticism I might have is gr4 being much shorter than the rest and seeming to be gone before you know it. An emosh reprisal yearning for another minute to acquaint itself (“Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item”). Doesn’t hurt the album, just undercuts the track’s selfhood slightly
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Some Seussian & red hat shenanigans
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Darren Cross - Keeping Up?
in New & Upcoming Releases
Posted · Edited by Roo
Out 6th november (Bandcamp Friday). No issue (or much in the way of release) details yet but probably some vinyl option eventually.
Darren Cross was a key creative force in Gerling back in the late 90s/early 00s and has since done a few solo/collab projects since. Last half decade he had the excellent _Xantastic & Peacer (lot of great DIY music videos from this period on YT) as well as the neat Jep & Dep folk-noir side-project with Jessica Cassar. Since 2019 he has released two lush new wavey ambient American Primitive releases Ecstatic Racquet & Terabithian under the instrumentalist moniker 'D.C Cross'. This seems a follow-up to Peacer but the description as "guitar-free", "an escape into nostalgia inducing instrumental music made on obsolete computers, drum machines and OSX 10.8.5" might suggest a continuation of some of the lushness thrift on the D.C Cross records, and finding solidarity with other remnants made to feel obsolete in the here and now.
One of those multi-talent Gen Xers still tryin to keep it real and true, I'd recommend a lot of his discography (Bandcamp). Will repost when release tracklist/art/preorder/etc. are known.