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On 1/16/2024 at 12:04 PM, dr b0rk said:
new gig in Austria, donaufestival around April 26
I was all set to go, but now I'm really debating if I should - SØS Gunver Ryberg, Evian Christ and Dopplereffekt all play on different days (of course!), so I'd have to pay for a full day ticket only to see the brothers (there's nothing else of interest on the lineup) plus the four-hour drive one way, the hotel and so on ... Maybe I'm just getting old, lol.
But damn, all of the above on one day would've made for a sweet little mini festival.-
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On 1/30/2024 at 12:28 PM, BlockUser said:
The roots of film lie in theater, in other words: In text, in narrative, in character development.
I'm not sure that's accurate. While TV evolved from radio, the roots of film lie in carnival attractions and spectacle such as magic lanterns, zoetropes, and chronophotography. Movies were a silent medium for a long time, the "action" mostly restricted to humorous little slapstick scenes or sensations like fast-moving trains and animals created to titillate and/or scare the audience. The technical aspect and the thrill of the moving image per se dominated over any sort of narrative structure for quite a while.
At least that's what they taught us in college ...-
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19 hours ago, chim said:
I made these with Bing's Dall-E 3, I'm pretty sure the exact prompt was "Frank Herbert's Dune movie from 1940, black and white, film still". Hit reset a few times and grabbed the ones I liked. Varying the prompts and trying to get more control came after that attempt. Dall-E doesn't really have a great amount of control, but it responds well to additional short suggestions and then hoping it's not a copyright-related blind spot. Hergés Lord of The Rings turned out awful.
The English Patient vibe is pretty interesting, I wonder how it came up with that. Or maybe I'm just imagining things, like a good li'l AI.
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I gotta to say I only really, really rate him since Ufabulum/Enstrobia. Before that, there were always a few alright tracks here and there, but that's when he went into full-on Beast Mode IMO.
No more self-indulgent noodling on fucking flamenco guitars, no more flimsy little breakbeats, no tired traditional instruments at all, just pure, unadulerated synthetic pleasure, over-the-top, no-holds-barred, all-stops-pulled, gung ho awesomeness, like "EDM" in a more evolved galaxy, like an infinitely better version of brostep or something. To me it's akin to what happened to AE with Tri Repetae, a cesura, an artist's coming into his own. I've loved everything he's put out since then.
Squarepusher: Putting the Fun into Funk since 2012.
\ hot take
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On 1/17/2024 at 1:38 AM, BobDobalina said:
Re NTS shows: thru a lil' internet magic and elbow grease I was able to capture Mixcloud's HQ streams (for the 4 shows thus far) and extract the rich, juicy audio from the .webm files (they're Opus codec, ~180 - 200 kbps). If of interest to any fellow luxury sonicians, holla at ya boi
Also, still really enjoying this album!
If I could listen to these in all their glory before I die I'd be a happy man Post Mortem.
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1 hour ago, user said:
Stoor/Circle of Live/Narod Niki collab when???
Ha, Narod Niki, I'd totally forgotten about them! But they're not active anymore, are they? Would be a cool sight, all of them combined, 20-odd people on stage jammin' out.
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15 hours ago, auxien said:
literally never heard of them. i know almost nothing regarding actual dance culture
Well, I guess they do have a bit of an SEO problem.
But they're a live supergroup consisting of Sebastian Mullaert, Âme, Djrum, Dorisburg, Mathew Jonson, Neel, Andreas Tilliander, Neel, Vril and many others, and they're well worth your time.
Check this out, wonderful set, even if the location is a bit over the top (gun):
Here's one with a bigger lineup. Does my head in, absolutely fascinating.
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread.
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On 11/7/2023 at 1:14 AM, auxien said:
ends up being a cool idea, sorta like a dance crew supergroup? lol
Isn't that what Circle of Live have been doing all along though?
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1 hour ago, Key said:
I love the Enya crap.
Maybe we should make a record together!
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So this dude called a comment of mine "cynical", which it wasn't (I swear), so I told him to look the term up in the dictionary or just spend an afternoon with my granny.
I thought that was pretty good.
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28 minutes ago, droid said:
I cant stand the Enya crap and the awful trance leads, but this is pretty great.
I love the awful trance leads!
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On 12/22/2023 at 9:27 PM, o00o said:
Wow it’s even animated
There's now a matching headphone for all you snazzy Lego DJ's out there:
I like what he's done with the pads.
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30 minutes ago, t yst r said:
Cool, thank you so much!
So I guess this is the fabled track with the "au" sound that was responsible for their name. Amazing! And what a cool track it is. Oddly touching to partake of this piece of their origin after they've become the legends they are. Goosebumps.
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HOW? WHAT? WHERE?
The link in the OP seems to be dead, can someone Direct Me to the motherlode?
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4 hours ago, ignatius said:
HB DL. 78 today
just gotta add. this guy has had amazing hair is entire life.
A shampoo/styling gel line would not go unappreciated. Hell, "Eraserhead", "Blue Velvet", "Wild at Heart", "Fire Walk With Me", even "Twin Peaks" are all pretty decent names for haircare products! Not so sure 'bout "Elephant Man", but for diversity's sake ...
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Alien: Impeccable. You won't find anyone of sound mind willing to disagree that this is one the best movies of all time, period. (If you do, it's proof they're not of sound mind.) Even writing this down feels superfluous.
Aliens: Great for what it is: a bangin' sci-fi-actioner that still holds up. Mastered the near-impossible task of following up a one-of-a-kind movie by finding a fresh approach. Kudos!
Alien 3: Decent at the time, hasn't aged that well. Not a match for 1 & 2 and therefore, yes, the beginning of the downhill slope.
Alien Resurrection: Barely okay even at the time, has probably aged even worse, have hardly bothered to rewatch. Jeunet was an unfortunate choice, a fad, a directeur de jour hopelessly stuck in an aesthetic and sensibility that the sands of time have long since swallowed. (It's debatable if that is a good or a bad thing or just the natural course of life. It's not debatable that he was a poor match for this franchise.)
Prometheus: Loved it when I saw it in the theater; a gorgeous movie, absolutely spectacular visually. Lapped it up like manna from the heavens and gladly never fell prey to the jaded view of all the "scientists dumb-dumb" naysayers for whom I feel truly sorry. A successful reboot of sorts as far as I'm concerned.
Alien: Covenant: I honest-to-God forgot that it even existed for a long stretch of time. I know I saw it in the theater, but I literally don't remember anything about it except maybe a vague image of some weaselly little aliens fleeing from gunfire on some planet's surface (was it some sort of jungle?) in the dark. That is literally all. The vibe I get from it is that it might also have been the worst production-wise in that it failed to inspire a sense of grandeur, that it was just lacking in the cinematic department; I think it felt like some direct-to-video/streaming flick to me, a sleazy little B-movie, indistinguishable from Aliens vs. Predator schlock. But that's just guessing because, well, I don't remember it.
As you were.
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1 hour ago, Rubin Farr said:
lol
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On 3/5/2022 at 2:45 PM, beerwolf said:
Oddly enough I had an weird Alien influenced dream last night. I was stood in darkness on a corner of a shelled out, apocalyptic strewn city corner, just like the original Escape From New York and there were plumes of green fog and beams of effervescent green light billowing and swooping around me. Then I heard the sound of helicopter rotor blades getting closer and closer until they were overhead and I could see the choppers lowering glass cages with something massive and thrashing about. Then a voice whispered in my ear the Xenomorphs are here….RUN!!!
Thankfully the running never happened because I thought the best thing all round to do was wake up and get the proper fuck out of there.
On 3/5/2022 at 7:42 PM, Amen Warrior said:A lad in my primary school had a big long head like an alien out of alien. I've not thought about him for 25 years. I wonder what he's doing now and if his head looks any more normal as an adult.
Skimmed through the last couple of pages of this thread and just wanna say I love WATMM.
Re: Romulus, Alvarez's involvement is not encouraging — his pretty forgettable Evil Dead remake was 10 years ago, and he hasn't done shit since, nothing worth mentioning at least. I hope the rumor about Waller-Bridge is just that — a rumor. The only thing I've seen her in was that godawful Indiana Jones mess, and now everytime I get a glimpse of her it's like reliving some sort of childhood trauma. Okay, I guess that's a personal problem. But since every single movie in the franchise (not counting Prometheus) was worse than the last, I don't see how this of all things is supposed to break the curse. I mean, the title's kind of cool, but that alone won't save it. And yet, I desperately, irrationally want it to be good.
Please be good.
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^ lol, I didn't realize they still made 80's movies in 1997. Awesome!
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I believe it's called enlightenment
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I don't see the problem with watching/reading an analysis of something I like. Often it's lots of overinterpretative BS, but I can always take note of the things that make sense to me and discard the rest, and I don't see how that should be detrimental to my enjoyment of the thing itself. Learning about the historical context of a painting, a novel or another work of art can certainly reveal new layers to it and help me appreciate it even more. Of course you can enjoy it on a purely aesthetic level, but why not have your cake and eat it?
Now, annoying dudes on the other hand, well that's just a no-no.
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2 hours ago, auxien said:
pops up during that sample bit ~1+ min in which seems to be what the sample is saying....sample source spotters?
~4:25 HUMANOID MUST NOT AGREE
then at ~5:45 SUNG BY DAVID BOWIE ... TALISMAN RED SAID IT WAS ... THE BREAK INTO THE FUTURE
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SUNG BY DAVID BOWIE ON SINKING RAFT
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Cool track, "Mentasm" meets mid-to-late period RDJ meets, er, Squarepusher. It's all good as long as he keeps the upright bass in the case. Preordered pink vinyl for the heck of it.
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10 hours ago, Hugh Mughnus said:
Just popped in to share in the hype! Hope everyone is well. I can’t login here except on my phone so I can’t come here v often
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Good sleuthing peeps.
Same for me. It's fine coz I mostly come here on toilet breaks anyway. Wonder why that is though.
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"Windowlicker" is 25 years old today
in Aphex Twin
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That's twenty-five years. JFC.
I will celebrate by sticking my merch umbrella up my bum-bum and firmly pulling the trigger. How do you commemorate this quadranscentennial anniversary?