drillkicker

According to wikipedia, this guy lives within 15-20 miles of me That's odd. I thought he lives in Japan. I wonder why he moved to the United States.

^Well, looks like we solved it.

I really love Kitaro's album Silk Road III: 敦煌. It's unbelievably beautiful. I found an original Japanese pressing of it (with the obi strip still on it) in a big used record warehouse, and it's a very special one to me. This is one of my favorite moments from it: [youtubehd]fhKX90i2O5A[/youtubehd] Plantasia is another essential. [youtubehd]IUVmcKcTZ4A[/youtubehd]

Yo I go over there sometimes. I didn't know there were WATMM people in that area. I'm in Southern Maryland.

I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but I've been doing a bit of visual stuff with Jitter in Max and took a short video. [youtubehd]CJf2MPVpLm0[/youtubehd] I had the shapes and lighting controlled by music, but I had no way of recording the audio. The framerate was also shit because I had to record from an external screen record application, which didn't do too well for my computer on top of the Jitter and MSP stuff that was going on.

An Autechre one of these would be a fucking gold mine. There aren't a lot of things I wouldn't do to see them in action.

How did you make that? I love it. I'd ask you to do artwork for my album if I had an album that needed artwork.

I remember when that cheetah pissed on him. Good times.

The "New Stuff" is finally here!

source?

Scorrier really needs more votes.

Pretty much, yeah. Historians like to write about that war by just saying "the Germans were bad." Nobody seems to want to write an objective history of the Third Reich without either focusing on the Holocaust or, conversely, glorifying everything the National Socialists and Hitler did. All I want is to read a book about the political system of the Third Reich and how it functioned, but nobody wants to do that, it's just a battle of stupid opinions that I don't care about and don't want to read. So I'm just going to wait a few decades for the rest of the dust to settle before I try to do research on it. There ARE books from objective viewpoints, such as Rise and Fall of the Third Reichand more books by William Shirer, among a few others I can't name right now. My grandad was in the war, hated the Nazis, but he himself wished to know what made his enemies tick and read a good few books on the subject, interested in the reality of their system than propaganda. He even read Mein Kampf, liking parts of it but finding it overlong by a third. If I can remember other names, I'll come back to you. Have not read them myself so I cannot say whether they're objective enough. Also--I'm not intending to start a debate, even if it sounds like it--but if you're waiting for a book / series to appear about the Third Reich without mention of the Final Solution, you may well be waiting a long time. That'd be like wanting to read a book about Elvis that doesn't mention music. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich seems pretty contraversial. Although I don't suppose it's possible to write about that period of history without contraversy from some group of people. All I was really looking for is something that explains the political system of the Third Reich: how it functioned, how it was managed, how the resources and logistics of the war were carried out, the philosophy of the party, etc. I couldn't find any books that focus on that aspect of the country. Most of them are just about the Holocaust and the war, or how the goverment of the Allied powers functioned. If the book you recommended goes into detail about the topics that interest me, then I'll definitely look into reading it. The Man In the High Castle interested me for these reasons.

Pretty much, yeah. Historians like to write about that war by just saying "the Germans were bad." Nobody seems to want to write an objective history of the Third Reich without either focusing on the Holocaust or, conversely, glorifying everything the National Socialists and Hitler did. All I want is to read a book about the political system of the Third Reich and how it functioned, but nobody wants to do that, it's just a battle of stupid opinions that I don't care about and don't want to read. So I'm just going to wait a few decades for the rest of the dust to settle before I try to do research on it.

How is it? I thought about reading it, but was kind of cautious about getting too interested as books like that have a tendency to be very biased or otherwise inaccurate. The Second World War is a subject that I try to avoid for those reasons. It's a subject filled with a lot of opinions.

I've been kind of in between books at the moment. I started reading Remembrance of Things Past, but realized that it should be read in its original language. So I've been improving my French vocabulary by working through a bit of Le Comte de Monte Cristo. Most recently, I acquired a few old books (an 1880 collection of William Cowper's poems, an 1895 copy of Vicar of Wakefield, and an original 1925 copy of Tree of the Folkungs), so I'm not really sure what to read now. The most recent books I finished are The Brothers Karamazov, which I loved on a personal level, and Dubliners, which I enjoyed though not extremely so.

Lunatic Harness is definitely his best, no doubt about it. It's always amazed my how much more recognition Tango n Vectiff and In Pine Effect get in comparison, because they just don't have the level of flawles production on Lunatic Harness. Every instrument on that album sounds so warm and lush, it gets to me every time. The drums were largely sampled from acoustic drums, which makes it a very unique album in IDM, and a criminally underrated one. The Brace Yourself EP is also essential.

Sorry! We can't find that track. Okay, I really should have read the above post before writing this reply. Ignore this please. Anyway, you should do one for Alberto Balsalm. That would make me very happy.