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dcom last won the day on May 30 2023

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  1. dcom
    I've got a Tokai AST-'62 sunburst w/ 12/52s, and an Ibanez Universe UV-70P w/ 9/46s. Not a virtuoso either, but I know my way around the fretboard. Haven't played for a while because reasons, so I'm probably very rusty and would skin my fingertips immediately. Should get back to it, really, and not just fool around with synths. I'm a big fan of Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Tony Macalpine, Yngwie Malmsteen, Guthrie Gowan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Frank Zappa and the like - recently got into Polyphia and their extremely technical playing.
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    Humble Bundle has a set of guitar books for a pittance.
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    Headphone Commute says things.
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    We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various Classic UK-Detroit IDM/techno. Highly recommended, RIYL B12, Black Dog, Stasis, Nuron.
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    Elem Klimov - Иди и смотри (Come and See), 1985. One of the most intense depictions of the horrors of war, ever. It's beautifully horrible, disturbing, and disquieting. You can see it here.
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    Sorry, I guess? I was just getting all kinds of associations all the time, it was fun. Loving the album.
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    When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis (Stat Significant)
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    Fallout 7/5 (binged in full), Sugar 5/5 (S1E1-3), looking very much forward to Mindhunter S3 (I've been a serial killer otaku since my teens).
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    We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various Dark, aggressive, distortion-supersaw-glitch-infused cinematic ambient. Highly recommended, heard this in full from a release listening stream on Bandcamp.
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    Igloo says things.
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    The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin, 1935). Original essay.
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    Sturgeon's Law.
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    As long as the models are trained with what exists, they won't make anything resembling creativity. Yes, you can add all kinds of randomness, overlap and whatnot to get X in the style of Y, but it will still be a computed pastiche by a machine without introspection. The reason these tracks sound so bland is that there are no artists, no producers, no musicians, no audience, no feedback of any kind, just regression towards the lowest common denominator. Most (popular) music is bland by design, appealing to the aforementioned lowest common denominator - formulaic, harmless, innocuous, inoffensive - geared to make people think that million flies can't be wrong. Now that the LLMs are already cannibalizing their own creations, the regression is just getting worse. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso.
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    We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various Beautiful synthscapes. Recommended.
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    We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various A compilation showcasing modern UK electro. Highly recommended.
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