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I've had a bit of a history with shitty behringer gear, lots of bad but mainly average leaning towards good. I've released a few records using a behringer mixer making techno/electro, the thing used to sound great overdriven and resampled through with some more lofi gear (mpc, dx100, emu sampler, mfb522 etc) Had quite a few sound nerds scoff when they saw it + some behringer pedals for fx when i sound checked but no one ever mentioned the quality of it in studio and live sound wise but tbf the sound I was going for lent into a bit more of a rough hardware sound. Still got a soft spot for that mixer but its so rinsed now. Have had people asked what i was doing to get some sounds in a sort of complimentary way, im a big believer in that someone should be able to get decent sounds out of 97% of gear to some degree, curious to even try that steamy turd rhythm wolf just for a laugh but i bet i could make a half decent tune with it. Anyways fast forward a few years and earlier this year, decided to bite the bullet and got one of the 2600 clones. Got to admit, its a fucking mad synth for its price. Got a few odd patch points but I can hardly get a bad sound out of it, super easy and fun to use and it goes deep for sound design if you are making fairly standard sounds with it and some fx can really bring it to life. I'd sold all my analogs a few years ago so its great to have one back in the studio for general use and sound design but this has blown my super low expectations out of the water. Quality build, had bet itd start to crack by now but its all holding up physically after heavy use and I continue to find sweet spots in patching it. Def won't be selling it anytime soon, would recomend if anyone is looking for a reasonably priced 3OSC analog. I eventually wanna expand it with some modular gear, the LFO is a bit fast at its slowest and would rather an external unit over using one of the oscs for another lfo. Would like to get deeper into the FM mod but again think another module might be the best option as some of the pre built patches are a bit weak. The spring reverb is just ok but glad I got the spring over the other versions cause that digi reverb sounds sort of dogshit. The thing is a bass monster, tbf ive never used a super high end analog but really rate this and think itll last if i really look after it. Not sure im confident taking it to gigs just yet but shit its fun for ambient jams with a tonne of delay and would be fun to play with live. Anyone else got one? What you thinking about it?

Fantastic producer, has a great ear for melody and production. Really rate his work, also the split single with Babyfather/dean blunt is worth a geez, looking forward to a proper listen to the new EP. Vey exciting producer, waiting on that bigger label signing to see him go to the next level with some proper support, budgets and PR

These guys have been pushing away from some of their earlier shoegaze tinged music but this is a great release. Has moments that remind me of the latest OPN record in those two somewhat post punk vocal tracks. Think its well worth a listen

New release from Australia's Rings Around Saturn EP up on the bandcamp which is a dive into some fringe electro and bass music . https://rings-around-saturn.bandcamp.com/album/rc-13-six-trax Also another new album of lofi hardware electro recently that is pretty cool https://rings-around-saturn.bandcamp.com/album/rc-12-private-simulations-ii Quite a few new releases on the bandcamp of late that I thought some of you guys might like, some varied releases but some gems in here

solid album in whole, the 2nd half is great. would love a full nate boyce shredding x opn record. Hopefully we get a couple EPs again after this. Dont mind this sound at all, refined GOD x Ageof sound, tight production, can see why soyboys dont dig it. Rifts and especially Russian Mind are all time but these new records are good fun. From what i gather it was made more so at home in sketches and finished in the studio post hard lockdown and it does sounds a bit like that, thats cool with me, maybe less pressure to do it this way over hiring an airbnb and watching titantic on repeat. feels more pulp opn, the right opn

ordered! (hopefully he dropped the jblake mix downs), would still like to hear Age of pre Blakes little fingers all over it. These couple of tracks are a great start, hmu when it leaks

full album confirmed by one of the artists on insta. keeeeeen

ooh there are some great tracks in here. I always really like this live jam with my old Electron monomachine, its almost like a skit, makes me laugh sometimes. https://rings-around-saturn.bandcamp.com/track/peripheral-visionary this one here I quite like too, made too many arp heavy tracks where the only perc that worked seem to be a deep lowpassed kickdrum https://rings-around-saturn.bandcamp.com/track/world-interior I always liked this sound collage too, understandable people didnt really get around it like they do for more functional or club music but I it was a lot of fun to make it all without and grid on the computer https://repeatconcrete.bandcamp.com/album/rc-05-artificial-visual-system

I've had a decent break from listening to BOC over the last few years but still have a TH playlist setup with just the ambient tracks from the album, I think theyre all the tracks they discussed in interviews making with older tech/without the regular computer to sequence and as a small ambient album its incredible. The other tracks have grown on me quite a lot since its initial release but the ambient ones are quite special imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSUzoTAsug&t=11s Found this one the reddit but tis a good one

hangable auto bulb complete. would be cool to hear more drums like this with those mad lush circklon sequencing of synfs. yall mad if you think he isnt still 'innovating' with this music, still nothing sounds like this really.. Copycats will start using this sound palate but he is the one setting the standard stlll. bless, cant wait to hear the rest of the EP, hyped for less of the safe stuff

Been digging the album still, Gulf Gutters, last track on 'Four Pieces' is acting as a lovely companion, keen to hear these '4' pieces from Ferraro, so far very similar to OPN r+7 onwards in sound design, these two are obviously rinsing that ozone or whatever fucking epic vst is. If you've not heard it get on it Saw the vinyl of the single on OPNs insta all made and ready by the looks! Clenching for the new tracks, would be good to get a show in aus, make it happen. Might be the last new OPN lp for a while according to https://www.stereogum.com/featured/oneohtrix-point-never-age-of-myriad-byrne-anohni-twigs-usher/

Its that thought which makes me wonder if OPN could be putting out an LP of this quality every year. Ferraro is fairly prolific but is more involved in the art world and seems to live through a lot of artists residencies and installations where Opn seems to be working a little more independently on projects or with projects that just seem to take time to come out through the nature of them eg films + releasing on (what might as well be) a major label. Would be cool to see him put out more tunes like Ferraro, he has the fan base to have a really successful bandcamp which is the hardest part about releasing a lot of music.. Seems as tho he is going down a different path of producing for others + films and tv work which is also cool, maybe at his age he is largely done with a lot of touring and all that which is a lot easier while younger and less pinned down

few more thoughts after a few listens today Didnt mind the smaller promo build up to this album. I imagine there will be a bit more press coming but the promo on insta, twitter and youtube has been pretty cool for a change and really enjoy the interviews with him as he is just a bit of a nerd. Whether or not all the insta/twitter promo was all planned it doesnt matter cause we almost got a mood board and set of references the LP was being made from which is always cool to see. GoD really leant itself on the blogs and funny websites and back story that they made which I loved but this is a cool one despite being quite different.. The Live shows + work with David Rudnick has been awesome, got to be one of the best looking Warp releases in years and totally suits the album, cant wait for my preorder to arrive with the card, might even have to grab a CD after seeing how good they look. Funny to see a few people are upset they pre-ordered this, not sure what they were hoping for. I wonder if people would be more open to his work if he release more frequenctly, 3ish years between albums is a bit of time by todays standard but guess he does a hell of a lot of collab and commissions work which is great for him but comes out as a bit less content for the average consumers. Already super keen to hear any follow up and outtakes or proper recordings of the livesets.. Hope they are recording them for release. Musically this is a real trip.. Lots of fun and a hell of a lot to get through.. Wonderfully produced, would love to hear the mixes before j Blake came in for the sake of it. I found some of the Goodtime OST to be a little dense and sometimes hard on the ears during the heavy sections but thi new album sounds really nice, looking forward to the vinyl. Its full of classic OPN sounds and signature chords and melodies that I had hoped for, Raycats nails this. The autotuned vocals are great, he seemed to understand they might be divisive, maybe why he split the album up into 2 EPs with the second half being a very distinct follow up to GoD in sound and composition. Its cutting edge, as you expect from Warp, its a great use of modern synths and tech to still bring out this vibe that runs through OPNs music. I think of it as this nostalgia for a technological utopia that is either on the verge of coming to fruition or was promised and kinda collapsed whilst in our fingertips but there is some sort of hope or redemption going on. It dips its toes in the 80s through threads to hypnagoic pop or vaporwave but kind of reduces synth pop back even further to focus on these medieval themes / melodies similar to some John Maus in a way, his new album and the new James Ferraro '4 works' all seem to be touching on similar themes musically and slightly overlap conceptually, maybe a bit less Maus here but all three might be 3 of the best albums so far this year. Anyones thoughts on this vs new Ferraro new album in sound and theme? Would love to hear a interview with the 2 of them talking about music and their approaches to see how they differ.

decided to fuck off and listen to this and worry about today later. Sounding great so far, vocals are very cool, compositions are great, a little more considered and maybe less of these epic virtuoso solos then i expected (so far) but he still pulls out these classic opn synth sounds here and there, you know the great synth freak is still trapped inside this canne soundtrack winning version of Lopatin who is kicking all kinds of goals in the real world and good on him. Toys2 is about to get a rewind, that break with the cut piano/synth is all time. Can see this trend like this and james blakes car single really pushing a different kind of darker pop.. Is that already happening? I dunno. Will be interesting to hear this new kanye, new jblake, death grips and other modern or cutting edge stuff to see where this sits..