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  1. Leon Sumbitches
    A mate of mine ordered me a pair of Tommy Wiseau-branded undercrackers for my birthday a few years ago, proper Y-front job, came with a signed photo of the man (?) himself. Can't quite bring myself to wear them.
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    Go on ye boy ye
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    I've posted this in some other thread but here's the weird folk stuff by the Trees Community, some sort of Christian sect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmSkUO5wMB4 Has a bit of a Broadcast-y vibe imo. They never seem to have got round to murdering or molesting anyone though.
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    This thread's got me on Youtube looking at Keys tutorials now, people can coax some lush sounds out of these. The right reverb/delay really seems to bring the wee box to life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaC_bOOKIuk#t=1.12
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    Nice, how do you like it? It seems to have the most real-time control of all the volcas, and seems to be able to make quite a variety of sounds. I'm still eyeing that, and the sample. I like the Keys but oddly I find myself using it less than I thought I would. I think this is partly because I haven't known it as long as, for instance, my pishy old Casio keyboard, which is like an old friend I can fire up and start making tunes with right away. That said the Keys is great and I should probably make more use of it than I do. One thing I've found it's really good for is windswept, stormy kinds of sounds; playing with the time knob for the delay with the feedback up high can make really nice wind-sweeping-across-the-moors sounds; I find myself doing stuff like this more than the kind of standard acidy arpeggio stuff. Will post an example later on. The Keys IMO responds well to slow, slow incremental knob movements, you can coax some nicely organic stuff out of it this way. That said, I still need to spend more time with it; I reckon there's lots of little secret alleys that I haven't explored yet. I'd say buy a keys; they're ace for the price. Funny I looked at the sample too and would have bought one in a flash but for the fact that (iirc) you can only load samples onto it from a computer, rather than say sticking a 1/8 jack in and taking stuff directly off a record player; that's kind of a deal-breaker for me because I like to only really use a computer for editing.
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    Congrats boiii!
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    God, RSP, those look glorious. I wound up bouncing a music video onto VHS for a mate's band last week and I've pottered about with bouncing audio onto it, but that's a whole other level. Over the years watmm has drilled a real appreciation of the aesthetics of old plastic kit into me. Lovelyyy.
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    ^ from the rather excellent 'Welcome to Scarfolk' book
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    Dug out my dad's old bike, something I've been meaning to do for years, and have been getting up at 6am to go for beasting wee cycles in a nature/ towpath-y place. Ducks and grebes fly out of my path. Feel like a rank casual passing all the folks with their fancy lycra clobber but man, I feel so good. *freewheels out of thread*
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    I totaly understand where you're coming from. It's a reactionary thing from my side, I try to remain neutral (right nor left) in all of this but from what I've seen from videos posted on Youtube refugees are causing trouble and harassing innocent people on the street, not taken from any right wing given news sites. Those refugees that are detrimental to society are not welcome and those who wish to contribute and make something of themselves are very welcome to stay. Yeah man, it's not like you'd ever get native Norwegians committing senseless acts of violence! And definitely not in the name of some sort of weird nationalist/ quasi-religious viewpoint
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    Listening to 2003's Under The Panda Moon for the first time. Groovy giallo disco vibes:
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    Flol @ Funeralopolis, I've done that IRL
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    Farkkk man, Gary Numan's really let himself go
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    Lol xxx
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    FB's articles are always good. Lol'd at the bit about Melania: "The look of a woman frantically trying to unlearn English, appalled to find that this only makes her understand her husband more clearly"
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    prob a ground loop hum! google it. annoying first world stuff. maybe through everything away and listen to silence. It's weird though as it only happens through my headphones, the monitors are fine? But yeah you're probably right, I have been having issues with the turntable as well so... ugh Dude this is a 'Wearing Headphones Without Listening To Anything' comp track waiting to happen
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    It's a plastic ruler, tucked behind the keys of the keyboard, upside-down (so that I can measure the phatness of my tunes, obviously)
  19. Leon Sumbitches
    Yeah, it only cost me £50 squid, well pleased with it! It's 'Wavelength' by Van Morrison, my sister got it for me for Christmas. I'd have gone for a tune off Astral Weeks myself but it was still a rather thoughtful and lovely present. Big Van head.
  20. Leon Sumbitches
    Punk as fuck, that's how to do 'er!
  21. Leon Sumbitches
    Had a day off today so I spent it getting my little attic studio knocked into shape, doing lots of mundane making-sure-everything-has-a-dedicated-lead-so-you-don't-have-to-scramble-to-find-one work, getting everything assembled within easy reach so it can all be patched together. Bits and pieces: - The silver keyboard is a Casio CTK900; proper mid-2000s home keyboard level gear, but with a totally underrated synth section; Casio obviously had a frustrated synth designer working for them at the time. - Yamaha PSS570 for FM crystalline sounds on the cheap, and a surprisingly kicking drum section - Wee Volca Keys - Various crap Behringer pedals (although the delay on the silver multi-fx is actually pretty usable in a grungy sort of way - Boss BR600, sort of guitarist's sketchbook digital multitrack affair, but I'm pretty sure most of the effects are identical to the ones on the SP303 (the vinyl sim, etc.). You can use the tiny drum pads for chopping up samples and breaks as well. - Tascam Portastudio for tape vibez Pretty much everything here was either second-hand or super cheap; the big speakers were in the attic in my parents' house. There's a Nakamichi deck under the hi-fi bumf, liberated from Cash Converters. It's so sweet having everything set up so that I can just switch from one thing to another without interfering with my workflow, time for DEEP SPACE ADVENTURES
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    This is ace, dat guitar tone. What do you play?
  23. Leon Sumbitches
    You dirty dog
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    Yeah, this is a lot more insane than I had expected. I thought, as some people have mentioned elsewhere, that once he got into power he'd be kind of reined in by more sane/competent people.... but fucking hell man, this is nuts, straight-up discriminatory and not hugely different from something like the internment of Japanese nationals during the war... except at least that was in a legit war situation (and I am absolutely not defending it). This is basically banning the entry of an entire religious group based on a handful of phantom terrorists. This cannot be right, surely.
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    Lushness
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