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Yeah I was being sloppy and hyperbole there, there's more to film and its history ofc. Think I also read somewhere that David Lynch called it an artform that combines all artforms. It's sound, image, narrative, and beyond what would strictly be called art, architecture, fashion design, and more. The novelty aspect had to wear off for it to become an artform in its own right. The step from "wow, we can do this!" to "okay, so what are we actually doing with this?".
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Whole album is great
Has a killer intro, too!
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3-part documentary on Run DMC coming up
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more history:
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Andy really has built a tiny and wonderful world of his own. Baddow Moods is so yummy and smooth!
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8 hours ago, o00o said:
is it still worth playing?
I saw it on gog for €3 or something and just thought "why not?" Hadn't played it since 2003. It's based on AD&D 2 rules which can be a bit of a headache. If you like companions with character then you might enjoy it.
Edit: Playing anything but a good aligned character seems to require metagaming, but I never play dickheads in rpgs anyway.
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Interesting. It always carries over into spring for me as well but I find that those crisp reverbs on stuff like Big Loada, Hard Normal Daddy or Ufabulum really fit the glistening sunlight in the January cold, and the incredible clarity of the light after months of fog and rain. I'm in Denmark though, where the sun can just disappear for weeks, so January is our spring
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On 1/21/2024 at 7:35 PM, decibal cooper said:
In the case of Twin Peaks or other Lynch work, him and his team who help with audio and post-production, it seems like they pay very careful attention to the sound and this helps communicate the dream-like quality of the imagery.
Yup, and even more: He's said before that sometimes, a sound is the beginning of a scene. Meaning a scene didn't start with a narrative at all, but just with a sound that to him suggested a particular mood, texture, or development. So the imagery was derived from the sound instead of the sound merely emphasizing the image.
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On 1/21/2024 at 6:06 PM, Wunderbar said:
Why are people so concerned with the meaning behind the art ? Shouldn't the things you felt be the only thing that mattered?
Like after listening to some instrumental music do you care about a meaning ? I feel like in music we only really care about the feeling why is that so different with visual art?
I agree with you. Film is mostly used to tell stories, and a lot of films stick to age-old narrative structures, or subversions of these structures. The hero's journey is a very prominent example. The roots of film lie in theater, in other words: In text, in narrative, in character development. What Lynch does is use the medium of film to do something completely different, something that is a lot more about raw subjective experience instead of an objectively true and reliable narrative (true in the sense of "what we can say actually happened in this story"). He seems to not care if we see the same thing he does, maybe because the emotional experience is what he's most interested in. Like there is no way of watching these films "the right way". A true liberal lmao! I love his work but never bothered with the clues to Mulholland Drive.
Lynch is special in that he brought this approach into the consciousness of pop culture. I was at a video store once (yeah, long time ago obviously), and there were these two hooligan types who were just checking out splatter stuff but then one of them pointed at Eraserhead and said something like "man, I've seen that one, if you want to watch something that'll really fuck you up, watch this". Today, a lot of films use "Lynchian" stuff for flavour, while still sticking to old structural formulas. No one but Lynch can pull this off, even the directors of series 2 of Twin Peaks failed to realise that this isn't just about doing something weird.
I think most people really do prefer music with lyrics and a face attached. Even if they love the melodies, instrumental music just doesn't cut it for a lot of people. People love a good story. Unless they go to a club. But then, the club is the story.
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2 weeks ago I caught a nasty virus infection and spent that weekend with a cheeky high Charisma / low Wisdom thief in Baldur's Gate II, good fun.
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Might be, yeah. iirc they said they'd been using that name on a couple of things just because they thought that it looked cool (which it does). imho it's got to do with their background in graffiti writing, where people make up words all the time, purely because they like a particular sequence of characters, not because the words mean anything.
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Still checking back here regularly in case they're uploading this show to their mixcloud, but so far they haven't. I hadn't heard about this station before the SKAM thing, they've got some good stuff up there.
On a side note, the name RTM gives me a chuckle, this was the name of a really nasty and thuggish graffiti crew in the area that I grew up in. The type that would "settle" any writing dispute with fistfights. This included imaginary disputes. They were often hanging around at the corner of the local cans shop. If they saw anyone come out of that store with a bag of cans, they'd go over and rob them. Truly unsavoury types.
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I love this! Great news, and great track. I always get back into Squarepusher in January for some reason.
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Full recording is up! A gift to people like me as I couldn't tune in last night.
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Good day!
I made this mix a few weeks ago. Now, I decided to post it here. I make mixes just for the fun of it, it's thrilling to find two tracks that complement each other well. Thought WATMM might like this selection. Happy New Year!
https://www.mixcloud.com/wielandr/total-conversion/
Diamond Version - Operate At Your Optimum
The D.O.C. ft MC Ren, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg - The Shit (Acapella)
Simo Cell - Stop The Killing
Wiley Kat - Ice Rink
Bowly - Idee d'un Tropique
TSVI & Lorenzo BITW - Storm (Instrumental)
New Class A - Tribal Dreams (Shades Of Rhythm Remix)
Mirage - Perception
Geiom - Luso Slate
Klute - Perceptron (Overrride Remix)
Covert 3 - Vogon Poetry
Leftlow - Thoughtful
Djrum - Portrait With Firewood
Ceephax - The Green Night
borderlandstate_the best kisser in l.a. - SE17
Valance Drakes - Freedom Is An Illusion
Dubone & LT - Enforcer-
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On 11/20/2023 at 8:07 PM, Bubba69 said:
This resonates a lot with my thinking/philosophy of music, especially electronic music, as an artform. I often even use a painting analogy, filling out this space with different textures, frequencies, sounds, abrupt edges, smooth transitions, dull colors, bright colors, depth, shadow, contrast. Theres so much possibility but so many artists have a confined view of what electronic music means and what can be done with it, what is a "good" sound or correct mixing choice.
I find myself thinking in these terms, too, and painting is indeed a good analogy, exactly because both art forms are dissimilar. One thing that never ceases to amaze me about Autechre is the degree of detail in "placement" and relations between the individual parts of a track. There's so many tracks that I must have been listening to for +100 times until I suddenly realised "wait, what's that third melody there in the background??? Will wonders never cease...." This is exactly like suddenly finding a beautiful small detail in a painting you've been looking at many times before. This detail might just be very subtle variations in colour, or in figurative painting, a tiny detail in the far away background. Sometimes, these even feel placed like Easter eggs. Often, when listening to the tiny details in a track, I see it in my mind as something that is happening in the far distance. The amplitude of individual sounds becomes the "distance" from the viewer/listener. This is Autechre getting "spatial", not by corny ambisonic shenanigans, but simply by paying attention to how the individual elements all relate to one another.
There is great artistic confidence, instinct, autonomy,
Spoilerand extremely bAsEd autism
in adding small details that are guaranteed to not catch your attention right away.
The opposite is made by peddlers who want you to hear every part of their track right away, where everything has to make sense immediately, it's completely one-dimensional.
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Wishing everyone in this thread a glorious weekend.
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17 hours ago, toaoaoad said:
True fan
Yeah I am incorrigible about them. I listen to a lot of different music but Autechre is a gift to the world. That said, I switched to all end and a few other tracks from NTS after a few months, I needed to give Perlence a rest.
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11 hours ago, Draft78 said:
I'm going through the dublin second half: what the fuck!!!
Judging based on the droid interview + my having been to the Dublin gig, it seems that Sean and Rob really do love Dublin. I've only been there for a few days but it seemed great, filled with down to earth but uniquely brilliant people you can just have a fun chat with at the pub.
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Norovirus caught me yesterday which led to some quality time spent in bed with Losid 2, Subrange 3, and Subrange 6-36. It struck me again how simple yet incredible that Perlence beat is (the one that's playing throughout Subrange 3). Totally hypnotic! I love this so much.
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Always loved Perlence. Losid 2, Subrange 3, and Subrange 6-36 put me in a special state. I just calm down immediately. Garbage does the same for me. And of course bladelores.
Back in 2020 I decided to get into Python as there was just nothing else to do and I'd always wanted to learn it anyway. I can handle about an hour of uninterrupted study / teaching myself before I need a break. So I would put on Subrange 6-36 and then read and do exercises for an hour. Take a short break. Repeat. This cycle for around 6 times a day. For months on end, I was listening to Perlence Subrange 6-36 in its entirety, 6 times per day. It was great. This track really opens up the pores in my mind. I heard people call it a "loop" but that's just plain wrong. The track changes a lot over time, but with beautiful subtlety.
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What TV series are you watching at moment?
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