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BALROG21 is a brutal banger indeed. The rest is nothing to sneeze at either.

Hadn't heard of Loudness Warning before. Interesting. There's also Elby Designs. They're going to be putting out DIY panels (but they're a year late now) that are reasonably affordable: https://www.elby-designs.com/contents/en-us/d79_Best_of_CGS_-_BOCGS_01.html

Excellent taste. Any ideas yet on where you're going to get them? I have a Doepfer version of a Serge module (A-171-2, based on the Voltage Controlled Slope) which is awesome (and cheap).

How very Zen of you

Wait ... where is Cop in his list? You haven’t listened to Cop yet?

They’re also so laden with chemicals crisps / potato chips are likely a healthier option. Tasty, though (the Chinese variety at least, never had these “hot chicken flavor” ones)

That”s because we’ve been telling him that since the early 1990s. It’s a miracle Collapse turned out as good as it has.

Now I'm confused.

US is doing surprisingly well, indeed. Indonesia is also not pulling punches. They're requiring everyone with a public facing job to be vaccinated or risk a fine that's about the average monthly wage. Interestingly enough they're doing it with the Sinovac vaccine that China itself doesn't have enough of. Apparently China thinks using it for diplomatic reasons is more important than inoculating its own population.

To the best of my knowledge Thailand has always been full of tourists. Source: visited Thailand in the 1980s.

Dude ... that low bitrate acid thing is pretty cool but that pad tripping over itself at the beginning of its loop: what were you thinking LOL? But yeah, like @Cryptowen says: enough with the smother everything in reverb and distortion nonsense. Bring digital back, baby!

I could have sworn your original post was a riff on this Stockhausen thing. I retract my like.

Tasty

Just picked up a digital copy. Holy crap this is good. Of course more than twenty years in you recognize some of the samples from his library, but he's still so, so good at gluing them together. For the time being (this week) this is my favorite release of his.

Impeccable taste, though ...

Maybe this is some new sort of aesthetic plebs like us aren't aware of? On the other hand, I got curious so did a quick Google and I'll be darned ... you can indeed by cassette players. Conrad (the really boring, definitely not hipster German electronic components store) sells a dual cassette player for €92. If that is too pedestrian for you, there are Teac models out there for €300 and more. WHY? EDIT: wow ... Check this out: https://www.electronic-star.nl/HiFi-TV/Radios-Wekkerradios/Radio-CD-Speler/RQ-132USB-draagbare-cassetterecorder-dictafoon-memorecorder-Micro-USB-USB.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhs6Qx5Kh7wIVkuh3Ch1UrgiIEAQYEyABEgJXoPD_BwE

Hipsters.

... but no one was listening because we plastered our message with the same 30 minute loud soft loud orchestral drone over and over again.

i5 8th gen and 8GB RAM does not sound like a potato to me. I looked it up and that’s a three year old laptop. The days when three year old laptops were massively outdated are well behind us. Guess I’m not going to update for a while ...

I love it how you left that gigantic price sticker on your copy of Collapse.

Very elegant album ?

Too bad. You missed out.

Not sure I’d mind it if a beautiful girl with big knockers likes carpentry and hunting. Likewise tall muscular guys who bake cakes seem to do quite alright with the ladies. Of course. Civilization was a grave mistake.

What are you trying to run it on? A potato?

Right, but but what you’re talking about is physical attractiveness. “Manliness”, on the other hand, is a social construct - and an outdated one at that. And trying to conform to it, or at least to the outward trappings of it, makes you look extremely silly these days and, yes, a loser.