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Above Board Projects follows up their re-release of Megalon's Pandora's Box album with a Collected EPs series, part 1 already out on vinyl. Previews over at Juno. Highly recommended.

Here's a recent Resident Advisor article on Micay.

All of the first three have their grand moments, Scott/Alien, Cameron/Aliens, Fincher/Alien³. Jeunet/Resurrection is not bad, there are redeeming qualities to it, The Predator crossovers are passingly watchable, and I don't hate Prometheus nor Covenant, there's plenty of bulk sci-fi that's even worse, but in the continuity context of the franchise, they're not bad at expanding the universe. I have a long-time affinity to all things Alien, I think I have about 80 % of the comics ever published, and even some of the prose compendiums, so you could say I'm a fan, so I won't be able to hate anything that comes out of that particular universe.

One of my Torso T-1's plastic knobs broke (just the cap, not the pot); contacted Torso customer service, and they delivered a set of 8 spare knobs, free, DHL'd here in two days. I even said I had a second-hand unit, but they handled it regardless with 7/5 quality. Joy.

Out now.

I didn't even know about Micay until I heard him on the Industry OST (S1, S2), interesting series, great OST. I like this new album, too.

Modern Cathedrals has some of this, and now defunct Stroboscopic Artefacts might be worth checking out.

Mastering aside, it still blows me away how good these albums are, and I'm sort of envious towards people who get to experience them for the first time. Tracks like Psil-Cosyin are mind-meltingly great, pre-split Black Dog material is just superb, post-split I've been much more into Plaid than Black Dog. I also think that my penchant for electronic music with polymeters and syncopation originates from BDP/Plaid.

Bola. The 7th Plain. Nev. Beaumont Hannant. CiM.

I would assume, if one were to trust this.

Originally released on Dot in 2000, Lee Norris re-releases a classic Metamatics album in digital. PWYW for a while, so get yours. Highly recommended.

I bought Fruityloops before the turn of the millennium, and got lifetime upgrades, so it's been my go-to DAW for about 25 years. I've gradually upgraded it up to the max, i.e. All Plugins Edition. I come from an Amiga tracker background, so FL seemed like a step up from all the tracker clones, and felt really natural to me as an environment. I agree with your points, my biggest complaint is that after 25 years there's still no better support for polyrhythmic/polymetric patterns. Otherwise, if I weren't in the throes of going DAWless with HW only, I'd have a FL Studio setup. I have one AKAI Fire, but I'd like to have at least another and/or a Novation FLkey 37. The tracks below were all made with Fruityloops around 1999-2000.

Digitals released just now.

Six new pieces of electronic listening music from Undiagnosed. Recommended.

Beautiful first album from Sk'p, rhythmic, melodic, and ambient IDM. Highly recommended.

I don't, but I do have a bunch of semimodulars I put into cases to reduce the number of wall warts, so I added a few utilities as well. I've been thinking of getting an OXI Pipe to minimise patch cable mess, and I'll probably remove the Twisted Electrons Crazy8 Beats from the case and replace it with something else, haven't yet thought about it too much.

That's what I'm doing, like I wrote the problem is that reading manuals, watching tutorial videos, and pondering my orb doesn't give me what getting hands on with the kit does. It's also about the workflow, the affordances, ease of use, muscle memory even - I come from an Amiga tracker background, via Music-X as a MIDI sequencer, then there was a long hiatus where I concentrated on DJing, then got back to making music with Fruityloops (w/ lifetime upgrades I now have FL Studio upgraded to the max), then a hiatus again, and now I'm doing DAWless. I know what I'm doing, I really need to get my hands on the kit and work them to really know what I'll keep, it's not an abstract academic exercise. I think OXI One is the one (pun intented), it has the best balance of complexity, features, UI/UX, and workflow compared to the others; I also like the immediacy and speed of working with the Torso T-1. Then again, I love to have alternatives, and completely disrupt my ways of doing things, so I will probably keep what I've hoarded; although I listed things I'd still like to try, it doesn't mean that I will.

I've collected way more hardware sequencers than I need because there's usually no way to try out something unless you buy it. I've currently got (in order of acquisition) Squarp Pyramid MK3, Torso T-1, Twisted Electrons Crazy8 + Crazy8 Beats, Pioneer Toraiz Squid, and OXI One. I've also got a Polyend Tracker, which can be used as an 8-track monophonic sequencer. There are sequencers in many of my other devices, like the 1010music Blackbox. I'd still like to try out Synthstrom Deluge, Squarp Hapax, Polyend Play, and of course a Sequentix Cirklon, but high-end means high price. Some more exotic ones are Spektro Audio's NGEN, and Sixty Four Pixels' Noodlebox. There are plenty of odd-and-not eurorack sequencers out ther, but I'm most probably not going that way. I'll maybe get an SQ-64 to try out at some point.

The above DJ Food mixes are just amazing, check them out, please.

Blessed Are The Noisemakers - Before, Behind & Beyond The Art of Noise (Mixcloud) Blessed Are The Noisemakers (Diversion 2) (Mixcloud) I love AON. See also Art & ACT -- the remnants of Art Of Noise (Metafilter).

Infinite surface area, zero volume. Menger sponges are cool, 25+ years ago in school I hand-modeled one to M³ in 3D Studio, took effin' ages to draw the triangle vertices and edges, then render an animation with the sponge mapped to a glass material and several moving light sources. Things have progressed a bit since then.

Igloo says things.

EP2 in four weeks, two tracks out now. Rather nice.

Still available from FSOLdigital.