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winamp, cds when driving, and vinyl but my setup is out of commission until I get a new receiver. if i buy digitals it's usually on bandcamp, I fucking love bandcamp sometimes I use Plex to stream music from my computer on other devices. I'll use spotify if I want to send a playlist to a friend but I kind of hate it.

love this album. saw it on another list the other day and checked it out and it immediately clicked with me. such grooves!

who needs janky AAA titles when there's such a wealth of great indie games out there. this year has been all about detective/mystery games for me, playing Return of the Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Paradise Killer.. all amazing games with deduction and worldbuilding so cleverly blended into the gameplay.

Confield/Gantz Graf is the best that electronic music has ever been

i love white noise as open hats

plus thread transformed into deep psychomusicological analysis, nice on the melodically dense tracks, my ability to understand the implied harmonies and connect with the music emotionally really does grow with repeat listens. like there will be melodic phrases that feel disjointed at first, but over time I realize that they're hovering around satisfying notes in the negative space, or that they hint at a chord change that comes later in the song or something, and it becomes a more satisfying listen

Disco Elysium is so good. Excellent writing, art, and music, and the characters and narrative are so well realized and memorable. For a game that seems at first so cynical it has a lot of heart too - I ended up really caring about the characters and the politics of the game world. Now playing Paradise Killer and Wasteland 3 and they're both really good so far. Can't get enough of deduction and dystopia

I think my second favorite this year after SIGN/PLUS is Pole - Fading. Four Tet is close too

I like Her Revolution quite a bit but the other track isn't doing much for me.

dont know if it's been mentioned already but this shit absolutely slaps

lol yeah I agree. the show is at its best when the focus is narrower. my favorite episode this season was the one in black and white since it was a vignette focused in on just a few specific characters.

Magic Window

bumping this instead of posting it in the 6852 thread - I was listening to some of these today and holy shit I forgot how good Stop Look Listen is!! what a ridiculously sexy track

another one of my favorites is Deena Abdelwahed - Dhakar. just an EP but all the songs are great - she is massively talented and underrated

easily. nothing else has resonated with me on such a deep level. I feel like I've had liquid Metaz form8 flowing thru my veins for the last 2 months

I can't remember the last time I did anything special or interesting for xmas. In 2014 I had a cancer surgery on 12/24 and that kind of ruined the holiday season for me.. I had already become pretty disenchanted with it but since then I just plain don't like it. However.. I do still like new year's eve. I appreciate that it's a holiday without all the religious and cultural trappings of most others, and it's just everybody getting drunk because of numbers.

I've been learning some of Grieg's Lyric Pieces on piano. this one is a favorite, it's pretty easy to play and just fucking beautiful

Now reading - the extensive and beautifully written text in Disco Elysium

I love DS9, highly recommended. TNG was the only Star Trek show I watched as a kid in the 90s, but DS9 became my favorite when I watched through it on netflix recently. worth watching the whole thing imo. there are some weak filler episodes here and there but that's to be expected with any series of that era, networks forcing everyone to make 24 episodes a season was always a mistake.

Obscure just started its second season - Michael Ian Black reading a book, generally one chapter per episode. like a slow burn audiobook with occasional jokes/commentary. really enjoyable show. first season he read Jude the Obscure, this season is Frankenstein

wow I hadn't realized xbox game pass on PC was this good - lots of games available that I'd been meaning to check out, and very cheap. really glad I gave this a try

TM1 is so blunted. the smooth acid bassline, chill melody, spacious atmosphere. it's lovely to hear them making such a fun and lighthearted track that rewards but doesn't necessarily demand deep listening

yeah I've been listening to this and agree it's too focused on reviews/ratings and the album discussions can be rather nitpicky. it seems like a lot of the material is new to them too, I'd rather hear discussion from hardcore fans like myself who have spent years delving into their discography and aren't just forming first impressions. still, some interesting comments here and there and I'll consume just about any autechre related content that's out there.

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i've never really listened to his music before but this album is incredible, one of the best of the year for sure