Boxus
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i sat in my room and listened to autechre for about three years straight. then i started smoking weed, and sat in my room listening to autechre for a fourth year, while stoned.
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I like Jel's Soft Money best.
same, i got the record a while back and it's always nice to hear, laid back and solid in every way.
i saw jel at an art show in oakland a while ago. it was a small crowd, i ended up talking to him and doseone while they were hanging around the entrance waiting for shit to get going. cool fellows, dose let us borrow a rolling paper.
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I had an absolutely incredible semiconscious dream experience while falling asleep to this track. I'd slept to it before, with positive results - it occupies a space more dark and discreet than Oval's Do While, so it has replaced that track as my #1 bedtime recording.
Anyway. I was falling asleep, listening to this song. At some 10-20 minutes in, I start to drift off... but my attention to the song magnifies a thousandfold as I begin to lose consciousness, to the point of completely changing it... all of a sudden the melody grows with subtly introduced string-pad-shits waxing and waning. The atmosphere is the same, and the original sounds are still there. But this odd and beautiful emotional contour unfolds around everything. It builds and builds. Layers spawn. At its peak, I hear human voices, almost choral, chanting in gorgeous harmony with the music. Still in half-sleep, I was awestruck - this was some of the most beautiful music I had ever heard.
Suddenly the rational part of my waking mind kicked in - wait. You've heard this before. This stuff wasn't there. Could it be that it was, all along, and my state of mind brought it to be? As soon as these thoughts hit me, the song went back to normal, and I got up, sat at my computer, and went back and listened. And it wasn't there, of course. But somehow it was. Some part of it. Something in the song resonated deeply enough in my subconscious to draw out this breathtaking symphony of accompaniment. Something.
The song is special. I think it is quite good, too.
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useless bullshit information. fuck a linguistics program.
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mirror pond, jameson, chips
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smoking a bowl, drinking water and waiting for a kennebunkport IPA to chill
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Ah me! but the glory of ravening storm
Enswathes thee and wraps thee in frenzy of form.
Be still, O my soul! that the spell may dissolve
As the wands are upraised, and the aeons revolve.
Tom's pretentious essay on machines and music
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Around the time Ultravisitor came out, an essay by Tom was posted on his warp page, some really pretentious philosophical banter about the role of machines in the creative process. I tried looking for this recently but it doesn't seem to be up on the warp site any more and I forget the title. Anyone remember what this was called, or have a copy or link?