Boxus
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I've been replaying Metroid Prime on Dolphin. The emulation is a little sketchy, with slowdowns on bigger rooms and occasional crashes, but the game is brilliant enough for me to keep at it. It doesn't quite capture the magic of playing through it on Gamecube back in the day, but still.. greatness.
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Sounds heavily intentional for me, almost an equivalent of this technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_cut I've heard prior examples of this in Liccflii on EP7 and Xylin Room on Draft 7.30. I'd have to agree as well that it's no accident. Teartear is the best + worst example of this, that gap is just fuckin RUDE.
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The film is definitely more of a visceral experience, while the book matches its sense of wonder with detailed explanations. I love them both, but I would probably pick the book as my favorite. They are very different from each other. The film has more of an abstract beauty, it's more open to interpretation. The book maintains a sense of mystery, but it does explain much much more about what Clarke envisions actually going on. Still it's full of awe-inspiring moments, like the part where he describes something falling through the layers of Jupiter's atmosphere - that chapter was kind of an interlude in the book, not in the film at all, but it was one of the highlights for me. Really beautiful, imaginative, writing. I'm a big fan of some of his other novels, especially Childhood's End. I like the balance in his work between spectacle and logic.
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Autechre Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]
Boxus replied to Friendly Foil's topic in Autechre
Hey, me too! While playing scrabble actually. pt2ph8 has become one of my very favorite pieces of music - it makes me feel mentally stimulated but calm in a way that is just blissful. The calmer tracks on Oversteps really help me focus. -
Pretty sure spl9 is my favorite track, it's a fucking beast. Also prefer the ending of Fleure to the beginning, by far. I always like it when their tracks open up and you can focus on the space around them, since they're so damn good at creating textured, nuanced atmosphere.
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Fuck yeah, I love that one. I'm a huge fan of Freestyle Fellowship. Innercity Griots one of my all-time favorite albums. And this track, fuckin killer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANAQo2nr9g
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I always thought maybe "r ess" was a Max reference, since r is shorthand for a receive object. It could be an object receiving something sent by "s ess" / "send ess". I'm probably wrong.
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Complexity is not really an issue for me, but I do miss how on Confield/Draft the sounds were so abstract and alien. With Exai things are more identifiable, relatable. You hear pads, you hear crisp hats, tight snares, samples. They still process and structure everything in mind-blowing ways, and it's great. But I think they're at their best when they pull the rug out from under you and rip away all points of reference.
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i love my 80 gig ipod classic, purchased some time in 2007. still works well. sometimes it'll pause itself, which is annoying, but it's pretty rare so i look past it. when it was new i installed the klondike solitaire game they had for sale, and i still play it, more than any game on my phone.
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I like setting one ratio to 1 or 2 thousands off a whole number value for some vibrato.
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I've listened to Orch.V the most. I love how they exploit the orch stabs on the first couple tracks, blowing them open and splattering the remains all over the place. They seem especially good at this in general - exploding and splattering various musical things all over the place. Kphanapic is amazing, but I need to devote a little more time to it to really let it sink in. It is vast.
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the track in this video is immense http://vimeo.com/24967117
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nothing beats chess for me. stratego is pretty great though for sure. and that shadows game looks amazing.
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This is really true. I knew a lot of people in college who would take high doses of psychedelics with little foresight, just to brag about the trip later on. I mean you could tell that they didn't spend any time within the trip trying to absorb the experience in a genuine way, because they were too busy trying to find labels to attach to it so that they could babble about it the next day with their friends. Some people clearly had lackluster trips but claimed they were amazing experiences just to look cool. This is a nasty attitude and I think it's common with any status symbol, ie it's kind of the same as somebody pretending to like a band in order to fit in. It's a shame that these drugs (which definitely do have incredible positive potential when used wisely) have become status symbols for young people trying to fit in. Also, good advice from Robbie about letting your ego develop naturally before modifying it. Make sure you have a full deck of cards before you shuffle it.
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Psychedelics? Why yes! N,N-Dimethyltryptamine is a good one.
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Our siamese cat Cycle, all up in my shit:
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My Mouse on Mars obsession goes on strong! Got this record recently - Mouse on Mars - Pickly Dred Rhizzoms - 7.5/10, nice ep of weird groovy tracks falling somewhere in between the styles of Glam and Niun Niggung. These tracks have excellent percussion but the melodies seem a little dull. I have a feeling further listens will reveal more melodic subtlety and get me more interested. I've also been listening to Niun Niggung a bunch lately. It's still incredible. 10/10!
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this one is ridiculously long, but if you're a fan it's worth watching for some great info. when he starts describing the venue that buchla helped him design with a whole-floor subwoofer and flashing neon dancers, it really blew me away. i can't believe that kind of stuff was being done way back in the 60's. http://vimeo.com/32362481
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BLACK COFFEE
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Autechre Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]
Boxus replied to Friendly Foil's topic in Autechre
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i find it depressing largely because i listened to it the most when i was depressed.
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one of the bleakest albums ever. it's a deep dark void of bleakness, but a really pretty one with (as mentioned) killer delay effects and nice thick reverb. my favorite track is trellisaze, great processing and weird jangly noises on that one.
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i love this thread, so much great inspiration in here. those dub videos especially, seeing lee perry do his thing makes me happy to be alive. ODB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrseWt7fG20
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The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)
Boxus replied to Rubin Farr's topic in General Banter
that needs some deep analysis, but this show doesn't... :) i kinda decided i was gonna quit watching it during the last episode, but then, in the end, when the chick came up, with zomby slaves, lol, cheap cheap cheap, but i guess i'm a cheap person so i loved it, and will keep watching. but seriously, it's one of those shows where i want to break the tv... yes i use a tv i mean, the ricky character, as it is presented to us, would never have the balls to do something like that... maybe you secretly hate enjoying things, because some voice in the back of your head is always frantically searching for reasons to be cynical i mean no disrespect - this is a problem all of us musical elitists deal with from time to time! -
you probably already know can, but i didn't see them mentioned yet so i'll give it a shoutout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyTo8PplhmA
