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Mouse on Mars criminally underrepresented in this thread, they've got so many great high-serotonin jams also gotta say The RDJ Album has always been one of the most genuinely euphoric albums in the world to me. the whole thing sounds like the kind of joy you have encountering new things as a child and exploring them with that youthful sense of playfulness and wonder

Jackie Brown is my favorite by far. Really liked Hollywood too. His others are fun too but I don't revisit them much.

I loved It Should Be Us. Not too crazy about this track but I'm looking forward to hearing the rest

been thoroughly addicted to Loop Hero for the past week. great game, simple but deep

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100%, the stuttering glitch sound that starts at 3:15 is my favorite part of the track and it unfolds so beautifully from there. A lot of the sounds in the middle remind me of Confield or Untilted era The first few minutes are less memorable but they're important to the overall progression - the release at the end is so much sweeter contrasted with the tension of the screeching snare and anxious melody in the intro. I love how it opens with the melody kind of wandering lost without resolution, but then ends with such a clear, confident chord progression. it's like it's peeling back all these dense knotted layers and then it reaches the emotional core underneath and just basks in it

I have a master hub patch that I always have open when I'm using Max and it contains all the tempo controls, and has some master effects that all the other patches get routed through. There are a ton of different ways you can approach timing. I miss developing patches.. I made so many 8-10 years ago (sequencers, FM synths, spectrograms, looper, etc), then I just got used to using them in presentation mode and stopped making new stuff lol. that's probably due in part to just being busier and having less time for it, and then depression inhibiting creativity and so on. still.. I believe in an autechre interview they said something about not overusing presentation mode in max and I think there is really something to that, you can lose sight of the development process if you stop looking at the guts. I've gotten tons of value out of it over the years though, and I still love using those patches today, even if they are overdue for maintenance.

the more fleshed out tracks on the album have grown on me a bit. there are some really solid grooves. it all feels very flat structurally though, like beyond a nice beat and a handful of vocal loops these tracks just aren't doing much. and every time the rambling philosophical AI interludes come on I just have to mash that skip button, they're so boring.

I've been really loving these onesix sets recently. especially the 2018 ones, they have such a nice trajectory building to the climax -> big chords track at the end. I love those lush arpeggios in the last few minutes, very reminiscent of SIGN It's also been getting me in the mood to revisit some early synth music like Subotnick and Carlos. Feels like these sets are in that same vein, with the wildly creative exploration of textures

this is a weird album. It's underwhelming, but with some highlights and moments I want to come back to. Speech and Ambulation being track 3 really fucks up the flow for me, that track seems so pointless.

All I've heard by him is this collab with Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can and it's really good. I mean, how can you go wrong with them involved? Love this track especially

ya I don't get the loyalty thing but Steam is the main place I buy games, it's convenient, biggest library, etc. Still I'd highly recommend having Epic too since they give away so much free shit, I've scratched a ton of games off my steam wishlist because they showed up as Epic freebies.

they tease this melody in really well. at first you just notice at the very end but on further listens you realize it actually comes in a couple minutes earlier and hangs out making a nice weird harmony with the bells

I was pretty into Discovery in high school. Still like some tracks but it hasn't aged well for me. Homework holds up pretty well though (minus Around the World, sorry - it's a nice beat but I hate that fucking vocal loop so much).

I was listening to Mouse on Mars and thinking about how great that time period around 98-02 was for music in general (and 'IDM' in particular). In addition to Ae you had some of the best ever material from Aphex and Squarepusher, BoC's Geogaddi, MoM's Niun Niggung and Idiology, Brothomstates' Claro, Amon Tobin's Supermodified, and so many more.. I'm sure my millennial nostalgia is a factor, but I do think it was really one of the most interesting eras in the history of electronic music.

I had the melodies from Tangle Ill stuck in my head yesterday. hadn't listened to it in like, a year maybe? so it took me a minute to remember what track I was thinking of. then listened to the whole EP and had a nice good time.

Lupin was really good. Clever, satisfying heist stuff, perfect pacing. Looking forward to the next batch of episodes

Finished Manifold Garden, it was excellent, I just wish it had been longer. I loved the sense of wonder as you explore and figure out the rules of the world, it reminded me of NaissanceE in that way, how it embraces abstraction and presents environments you have no context for understanding at first glance. Really nice music too. Also beat The Pedestrian, another great puzzle game. 2d platforming on street signs embedded in a 3d environment. Very clever design and some nice lateral thinking moments.

does anyone else pronounce sch.mefd "shmeffed", like it's a participle? like, "oh man I got absolutely schmeffed last night"

Manifold Garden is very cool so far and extremely IDM

ok yeah Parallel is really good. so lush and supremely chill

I love this track so much, I think it's become my favorite on the album. There's enough complexity in the melodies and textures that I feel like I always have a reason to keep listening deeper, but at the same time it's just so emotive and satisfying and even catchy, it gets stuck in my head all the time.

I really like Artificial Authentic. It reminds me of the best parts of Parastrophics.

I definitely believe that there's some intentional symmetry between them. Especially with the similarities in cover art - they all feature circular designs and Oversteps and MoT have green/orange colors on their inner sleeves.