Dragon

i've done that! it works

i know i recognize this sample - probably from more than one thing. it's driving me crazy! it's like humming a song in your head, times x100000 (@0:28) it's a wagon christ interview so this should be pretty straightforward. or you could leave me to it and see if this escalates to hallucinations or big maps of SAW2 artwork on my walls like a detective.

finally got a new phone sorted. slightly better model except it's 2nd hand from an amazon seller and not in the best condition. i tried playing the aphex twin collapse video on full volume/brightness to test it out. on this display, i get a camera zooming down a street in london, all smooth and crystal-clear with no issue at all. what the fuck is wrong with this phone

i've been thinking about this for a while. during the AAA, Sean revealed the bombshell that the majority of their tracks are solo tracks - easily one of the most surprising things to come out of that thread. so which tracks do you think are collabs, and which are solos? time for a whole load of speculation. obviously there's no way of knowing whether it's rob or sean who composed a solo track, so i'll mark these as solo and B+B. Garbagemx36 - this is a very sophisticated track with a lot of different elements playing off each other - but it all blends together so seamlessly. i think it may be stitched together from separate solo tracks that worked really well with the mix, rather than different lines playing together at the same time. also, i have a feeling that their EP material - particularly the leading tracks - are more likely to be collabs. i'd say this is B+B. Cichli - i think this is another collab, but here there are elements from the two of them running at the same time. Chris Randall, who did a great cover version of Cichli, pointed out that the different layers have very little to do with each other. the percussion line in particular is extremely detailed but it generally stays the same, and it present thruout most of the track. i think this is an example of both of them composing parts and then fine-tuning them - possibly together, with ideas swapping. B+B. Drane2 - this is an interesting one. rob and sean talked about a war between themsevles and RDJ, who apparently created Bucepahlus Bouncing Ball from CTD as a response to one of their tracks. they created Drane2 as a response, and RDJ is said to have created a "revenge track", which may or may not be even more lush than Drane2. i guess that means they worked on it together? B+B. Goz Quarter - i think Envane is an exception to what i said earlier - since this is four different remixes of another track, i would guess they're more likely to be solos. this one in particular is quite straightforward and settles into a groove (then another groove). solo. Bike - i think a lot of tracks on Incunabula are solo. definitely Bike, Autriche, Doctrine, Maetl, and probably Windwind and 444 give-or-take some ideas going back and forth. solo. Rotar - ever get the feeling that an Ae track is getting into a groove, and something unexpected happens? even subtle things like every third bar of Rotar getting an extra scratch, and then two out of three with a scratch, despite the whole thing playing at 4/4. this is what i'm talking about! B+B. Cfern - this goes with Rae as an example of a beat locking into place and staying that way. again, it shows that the ideas going on have changed - parts of it being tweaked and re-composed, and other parts left the same. B+B. Outpt - the thing about this track is that it follows a particular mood and stays there, taking it as far as it can go. that's what makes me thing it's solo, along with Dropp, Maphive 6.1 and Pir. solo. Pn.:til - one of my favourite Ae tracks, blows my mind how those sounds can deliver something so personal, so devastating. i'd say this is solo, it's got a vision. Reniform Puls - on the other hand, here we can see several very novel techniques going on. maybe one of them finding a method and then the other checking it out? B+B. Flutter - the story behind this track clearly shows they worked on it together. this allegedly uses 65 separate drum patterns and carefully switches between them, so there's a lot of preparation before it's all layed out over the 10min~ timeline. B+B. Second Scepe - i think this one is solo. also notice it has elements in common with the Keynell (Ae Mix), which i think is going to be very common - a track coming out with certain elements and then re-using them, getting a new take on it. solo. Altibzz/The Plc/IO - same as before. maybe this entire album is solo? probably with remixes going back and forth, leading to multiple versions. Vletrmx21 - i think this is a solo track. this is because it captures such a particular mood and takes it as far as it possibly can - it doesn't just develop structurally, which can be done with collab tracks, but it develops by getting even closer to that mood. you have to be working solo for that. solo for sure. so come on over and speculate! if you're a DJ or musician, i'd love to hear your take especially because i don't make much music myself.

this post is spectacular, classic chenGOD. please keep me up to date with your opinions

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interesting to see De Waal weighing in on it - he showed his skepticism, as any scientist should, and they continued to develop the study until they could show it pretty much without a doubt. Frans de Waal has an extensive career in primate research, and has demonstrated that chimpanzees and bonobos show genuine empathy and reciprocation. so as you can imagine, his standards are very, very high. this is absolutely mind-blowing news. fish and sea creatures are criminally overlooked and ignored with this type of science. simply being underwater, and not being out in the open, is a dangerous way for a species to live...

guys i think this forum is heading in a completely new direction. new innovative watmm memes are sure to follow as we resisted the really obvious answer to that question

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hey @pizza @trying to be less rude thanks for the link!!

just dropping this in here, blows my fucken mind

why don't i just put the word up in huge fucking neon lights in the center of the moon, and have a 13 year old on deviantArt pay for the juice. edit: this is the most robotic, thoughtless post i've ever written. i'm ashamed of myself tbh

if i was overseas i would fucking emigrate to a country where facebook has been wiped out. i think most people in the UK will just flock to the Daily Mail comments section (if it still exists, 10+ years since i checked).

CALLED IT!!!

i found a word that only returns one result on google. what should i do now? i think this thing is worth money. should i auction it?

same here, one of my all-time favourite films. for the love of god, all of you watch Mulholland Drive and see for yourself how powerful this scene is when the rest of the film comes together. since we've had a few a capella solos in this thread, here's one i fell in love with recently. the song itself, and the reason it hits me so hard, might need a trigger warning.

i don't think rob or sean have used a word ending in "er" in any of their interviews or throughout their entire lives, including childhood. they would nevre make the mistake of pronouncing an "re" as "er" even if they discovred that the way they talk has been spelt wrong all this time.

awesomesauce haven't listened to Scanner for a while. damn, those early albums of his would be really, really illegal nowadays.

imagine how inconvenient it must be to be a sadist. no really, you'd need to get another person involved every single time you wanted to do shit like this. masochists can basically fulfill everything they need in life with stuff they find in their kitchen drawer.

i would absolutely fucking die for Tiny Tim so many people mistook him for a novelty act, but in every performance he is 100% being real, that's the kind of person he was.

paul mccartney found a way to crash their servers with a series of truncated file paths