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    Rolando Simmons - World Building

    in New & Upcoming Releases

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    Question about Strange Poet from someone with no recording/mastering experience. What did you do to generate those early sounds (it almost sounds like pots of water being struck and gliding by a mic from different directions or something)? The whole song seems to have a lot of depth and does a great job of crossing channels in my headphones, as do other songs, but this one more so for some reason. Also, that humming at the end, did you use a vocal sample on that? it sounds much more organic near the conclusion of the track before everything dissipates. Basically, was it your, or maybe Hardwood's intention to give that song that much depth, or am I just imagining this shit?

    Rolando Simmons - World Building

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted · Edited by Hail Sagan

    I need a few more listens to wrap my head around the album but I can safely say that I love it. Right now my two standouts are Uncertainty Pond and Strange Poet. Uncertainty Pond feels so good to listen to, the way it builds and finally incorporates those vocal elements near its end. Then there's Strange Poet, which is indeed very strange. Such a bizarre yet intriguing way to close the album, with its seething hum and traveling sounds. That one is pure wizardry. 

     

    My initial impressions are that this is the best thing Rolando has ever done, and I can see why he decided to release this as a LP. The fact that Free Analogue is one of my all time favorite tracks of his from Volumes and that it isn't the clear standout here as the other songs are just as strong if not stronger offerings shows his development as a musician and mastery of his craft. I'm sure the fact that it just sounds great and was obviously mastered with great care enriched its overall sound. 

    IDM Subculture

    in General Banter

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    It must be something because OPN is trying to distance himself from it as much as he can

     

    via reddit

     

     

    [–]TheDarrenJones 10 points

    1 month ago 

    Hey Dan! 

    Any chance we will get to hear the batch of tracks you'd initially made for Warp (prior to GoD)? If I remember correctly, you referred to this batch of tracks as your shitty attempt at IDM. WANT TO HEAR!!

    Can't wait for next 0PN album and looking forward to Good Time, though your soundtrack stresses me the fuck OUT! Props!

     
     

    [–]0neohtrix[S] 51 points

    1 month ago 

    all my records start out as shitty IDM and then i remember how much i actually dont like IDM that much and everything gets better from there. so you heard it already

     

    antIDM is the new "IDM". Contrariantronica. Post Intelligence electro. Actually, fuck that, it's too complex and ever-evolving for it to be classified with conventional musical taxonomy. His shit is as close to "genreless" as you can get but can't be coined as such because no labels can define it. 

    New countdown, new release? [Aphex Twin Warp Store]

    in Aphex Twin

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    piano pieces from pluto y'all

    $11.49 + shipping for one track that may or may not be a famous electronic artist. Hard pass.

    Bleep should just release all vinyls as “Unknown - Unknown”. Everyone will think it’s Aphex Twin and buy it.

    Worked on me

     

     

    it could very well be that the artist's name is unknown, and it's a self titled release.

     

    Wait, you actually bought that?

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

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    Here's my verbose, add little to the conversation review of IT.

     

     

    Saw IT finally, and had the feeling going in that I would be a bit let down considering I saw the original mini-series. The person I was with never saw the TV miniseries or read the book so I was really interested in what her take would be more so than mine. She really enjoyed it. I actually liked it as well, though it's hard for me to watch things and enjoy them when I basically already know what's going to occur. The mini-series has some serious sentimental value for me as I was as old as the kids on the show when I saw it with a friend late at night and was shook for about a week or so after. Tim Curry was fucking great, and I loved how much more he clowned it up as a character. While I think the scares were less telegraphed in the miniseries I bet if I went back in rewatched it they would probably have the usual cues and obvious set up that permeated the most recent version. I think a huge part of what made IT so scary to me as a kid was that after what happened with Georgie, the sudden realization that kids were being murdered by this thing, made all the subsequent scenes way more fucking scary. I didn't know at the time if more members of the loser's club would be killed. Plus I was like 10 or some shit at the time.

     

    Take away the suspense of not knowing what's going to happen, and add years of watching films, particularly a lot of horror films that kind of burned me out on the genre itself, and it's just going to make for a significantly less visceral experience in my opinion. I also don't get the criticism I've heard from a few people saying this was too long. The best way you could bring a book of that size, with that many characters and backstories to the screen and actually do it justice I think would be in a longer miniseries form on a premium cable network like HBO or SHO. I'm sure someone a Lynch, Aranofsky or Kubrick could have pulled it off with such limitations, knowing what to omit and how to make you feel for so many characters in such a short amount of time, but how many of these types are around? 

     

    Things I liked:

     

    The sailboat scene with Georgie was a great, grim way to open up. Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise. Not as much as Curry, but he had a different enough take on the character to make him feel fresh. I still think they should have turned the make up down a bit, but he did a good job. The loser's club. Basically all the kids, Bev in particular, gave good performances. All the immature dialogue was appreciated as well. Well shot, and I didn't find the CGI to be overbearing in most parts. I also enjoyed how detached and strange all the adult characters seemed. They really emphasized their age, making them seem damaged, weathered, condescending and impossible reason with. I didn't mind the fact that it was set in the 80's, it really did seem to kind of pay homage to Stranger Things for successfully paying homage to IT and Stand By Me. Im also happy that Freddy Krueger didn't make a surprise appearance after seeing the the poster at the theater and remembering the wolf man appearance from the miniseries. Apparently that was actually being considered, how shitty would that have been for both sides?

     

    Things that sucked:

     

    All those obvious fucking music cues in every scene indicating a scare would arrive in the next 3 seconds. The fact that Mike, who was the one that revealed Derry's history in the original series, and in the book as well as I've learned, was relegated to being the muscle, while the fat kid took on the role of learning what was going on. i feel SJW as fuck for saying this but when Mike rolled up to the old house with a gun it did feel a bit cringeworthy. Also the fact that the bullies basically called each kid out for there differences like being fat, being a stutterer, etc. But when they got on Mike's case they never really addressed the obvious reason why they were fucking with him. Also the lack of development revolving around the lead bully. They had that kid go from aspiring sociopath to patricide in an instant. That was handled very poorly.

     

    Overall I enjoyed it. Not a great film by any means, but a welcome update with some good acting, a potential star-making performance from Bev, and a step in the right direction for King's vision being realized on film. He has notoriously been responsible for being involved in and interfering with what turned out to be horrible adaptations of his novels after Kubrick turned a great book into a great film in which he incorporated a few of his own ideas, and left out some of King's. Most notably the conclusion, which I could understand would drive you a little nuts, but I think the reverberations of that butthurt are finally starting to fade. It's nice to see King green light something that's a little different from his work (or was this actually a more faithful adaptation than the miniseries outside of it being set in the 80s?). For a guy as visionary as he I bet it's pretty difficult to relinquish control like that.

     

    I just realized I'm still writing this drawn out and shitty review. Sorry.

     

    Where this film stands in the years to come will likely be determined by all the kids out there. I have to imagine, that for all its flaws and lack of nuance, the story is still there, and still strong. IT resonates strongest with kids, not with a bunch of jaded scarfs like us who nitpick boutique cinema online.

     

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