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Limo

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  1. It's not Cubase, that's maybe the point. It's a sampler with a DAW bolted on. Kinda like an MPC, but not as good a sampler. Better DAW, though (because you can use VSTs).
  2. Someone already recycled the joke (from 1969) that when they arrived they encountered a Malayali tea salesman. Only this time people were not amused. Sigh.
  3. Yup. Spent some time going through it to refresh my memory. Your list is fantastically thorough. Thanks! Some quick observations: Poison: still no, but I’ll admit they’re like a really well trained pub band so I guess that’s the appeal. Warrant: oh god no. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. Ratt: the most 80s thing imaginable and therefore dull, but very competent. Cinderella: couldn’t for the life of me remember what they sounded like. Very good, it turns out. Like a mix between AC/DC and Motley Crue. Like you, I was very young when this was relevant. 13/14. Hated the ballads but liked the energetic stuff. But then I discovered punk rock and “alternative” and I was so glad there existed music that was loud and energetic but that didn’t use those blues rock clichés all the time that I dumped absolutely all of it.
  4. Hahaha … Title track from this album is pretty good too, but like this one I never know much is the band and how much the producer. Oh boy … Poison? Really? ;-) I see you included LA Guns, though. That’s cool. Will save this for … uhm … later reference
  5. Yeah, but for me 89 was also when I discovered "alternative" music and the accompanying anti hair metal attitude, so in my head these guys were all flash and no substance (with really awful music to boot). I still feel that way about most of the other bands they're often lumped in with but judging from this video these guys actually did what they did very well. Like I don't think it's really *necessary* to have such an elaborate stage act, but if you're going to do it at least do it like you really mean it, like they do. Also, this video gives me the impression that even without it these guys could probably still rock, unlike, say, Ratt or Poison.
  6. For some reason YT has started feeding me Motley Crue stuff. Out of curiosity I watched a few things. To my great surprise this show from 1989 was actually quite good: I mean, yeah, it's stupidly excessive, with all the fireworks, the band rising up through the stage and the drummer doing a 15 minute (I think? didn't watch the whole thing) segment *suspended above the audience* not to mention his spinning his drumsticks *every* *other* *beat* that really gets on my nerves after a while ... But if you take it for what it is: simple balls to the wall balls to the wall bad taste rock and roll ... They're *way* better than I remember them.
  7. Tommy Simpson. Died during his ascent of the Mont Ventoux from having drunk too much brandy and taken amphetamines in a 42 degree (centigrade) heat.
  8. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-peripheral-canceled-amazon-season-2-renewal-1235700019/ There will not be a second season for the Peripheral. Shame. It was easily the best, most intelligent thing on television the past year.
  9. What also makes this is good is, and I can not stress this enough, that every episode is self contained (ok, there’s some recurring things, but they’re minor). None of this story arc soap opera bullshit. In other news: - Star Trek Strange New Worlds: “Boldly crying and whining where no one has cried and whined before”. Nay. - What We Do In The Shadows S5: running out of ideas but still fun. - Good Omens S2: obviously the original source material has run out so it’s all a bit stretchy. Still fun.
  10. RIP indeed. Nature has an interesting article on what LK99 turned out to be and why it wasn’t a superconductor but looked to people like it may have been. Interesting and surprisingly accessible read to close off an interesting summer diversion: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7
  11. I was such a fan of them back in the day but for some reason their music hasn’t aged all that well. In addition to everything that was mentioned above (especially Mouse on Mars - that they do not have their own featured section is criminal): FX Randomiz.
  12. Update: there’s now a paper that shows the material sort of half-hovering over a magnet is not, as first thought, proof of superconductivity. Instead, this effect has been shown to also occur in materials that are definitely not superconducting. As most of the evidence of LK-99 being superconducting was this half-hovering over a magnet, this does not bode well. Ah well, summer is almost over anyway. Edit: the paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
  13. Same presenter / piano player with Wes Montgomery:
  14. For a good overview without all the hype and internet drama and an explanation of what LK-99 and how it works Ars Technica now has a writeup: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/
  15. TBH Anyone but James Hetfield singing Nothing Else Matters immediately improves it. It's not even Dave Gahan at his most David Gahan-iest ?
  16. Ooh … right in the 1999 / 2000 feels. They’re pretty good, too. Thanks for sharing. And also definitely very FruityLoops. Like tracker music with the harshness polished off if you know what I mean.
  17. So it turns out there is no thread about this DAW yet … On a lark I installed the demo version a few days ago and I have been having so much fun with it. Sequencing samples is a breeze and because the main pattern view is rows of buttons, it’s still fairly close to forcing you to listen instead of look at waveforms. Part of the enjoyment is doubtlessly nostalgia: decades ago I upgraded to FruityLoops from Impulse Tracker (and a brief spell with (IIRC) Digital Orchestrator) and spent a few years with it in what is the closest thing I ever had to a music career. But, like I said, other than that really *is* fun and fast to work with and it turns out all the (dark! patterned!) floating windows don’t bother me all that much. Points also to the playlist that allows you to create a song by *arranging* existing patterns instead of by *copying* them (looking at you, Ableton!). It’s almost like a tracker workflow with less typing. Or something. Anyone here use FL Studio? Any workflow tips?
  18. The Indian group didn’t follow the recipe, apparently Didn’t know about the other one, though. But the original team too has a hard time actually making the material (something like a 10% succes rate) so maybe that’s why the Chinese team couldn’t reproduce the results. Yeah, I think that’s the reason the first version of the paper was uploaded with a different list of contributors than the second version (which also had some corrections of obvious flaws). Probably something was made public when it shouldn’t have (the 99 in the title tells you how long they’ve been working on this). Anyway, it’s all a fun diversion in a time without other, more relevant news.
  19. TBH you’ve probably just outgrown it. Just watched it and it was fine, just Futurama as it always was. Not super exciting but quality stuff nonetheless.
  20. Skepticism is good and room temperature super conducting more than warrants it, but there seems to be more going on this time. Take this HN comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36965812) I’m not knowledgeable about this field at all, but over the past few days people who claim to be have repeated stated this LK-99 thing may actually be interesting.
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    Just finished Salman Rushdie’s latest, Victory City. It’s fun. You should read it.
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