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  1. Evan Jones under his new Morewood moniker, an album of rephlexive classic IDM and Braindance from breezy melodies to distorted halfstep. Recommended.
  2. Erased Tapes' 200th release compilation (see track listing on Discogs) available in digital after RSD vinyl drop. Recommended.
  3. Acid-tinged melodic electro journeys from Sound Synthesis on his own Orbital Mechanics label, previously available on vinyl only, now in digital from the source. Highly recommended.
  4. Second album from my fellow Finn Sansibar, with a wider range of styles than before - more club-oriented house, techno, post-trance and breaks for early morning dancefloors. Recommended.
  5. I'm really, REALLY hard trying not to splurge on the £120 limited edition.
  6. Available in digital from The Jaffa Kid (Pulse State's digital is priced at £100 to drive digital purchases there).
  7. dcom

    ACID

    Expanded edition out now in digital from The Jaffa Kid's Bandcamp w/ four extra tracks not on the vinyl version. Highly recommended for acid freaks.
  8. This could've been on the OneSix tour where Russell Haswell was warming up for them, at least in Helsinki Haswell's set was noise w/ effects for about 45 minutes, really nasty and harsh ear-splitting material, real cringy. Too complex? No. Fold4, Wrap5 is probably the most complex rhythmically, and Gantz Graf is pretty intense (it hasn't prevented me from ending a couple of electro sets with it), but personally I've never had any problems with their material. Some of it requires repeated exposure and high tolerance for precise/algorithmic composition, but too complex? Not even close.
  9. Here's a quick snap I just took of my full set for later reference. Couldn't resist, cringeburger all you want.
  10. That's missing one, the picture disc version of Analord 10.
  11. Aleksi Perälä (Ovuca) :: The original harmony of Human and Nature (Igloo Mag)
  12. Digital release of various previously released vinyl-only tracks and archived tunes, highly recommended.
  13. The insatiable human appetite for exorcism (Prospect)
  14. A new Zainetica album, can't wait to hear more. Recommended.
  15. That's what I've been from the get-go; I went through the themes to see if it's a glitch in them, but it isn't - there's nothing in the profile page's HTML source either, so it isn't just hidden, it's completely missing.
  16. My profile feed doesn't have an input like that, I would've noticed if it did.
  17. How/where from are profile status updates made? For some reason I haven't found how to.
  18. Feeling Björnish? Björn is Swedish for bear, so would Björn Borg be an assimilated bear? That would be cool.
  19. I have an arrangement with my permanent resident demons, I feed them atypical antipsychotics and an occasional benzodiazepine (or two) and they mostly keep to themselves. Mostly.
  20. (Bah, this post should've been in Forum Discussion / Issues, admins, please move it.) As there's occasional grumbling about the difficulty of embedding Bandcamp releases in this editor, here's my writeup on the subject, including a simple(r) solution that's far from optimal, but it works. Bandcamp release id is AFAIK actually a WordPress article id, a numeric string that's more or less random from our point of view, so it can't be guessed. The id is not included in a Bandcamp release's URL, but embedded (multiple times in different ways) within the HTML of the release page, so manual extraction requires viewing the source and knowing what to look for. The way to get the id from the Bandcamp page without viewing the source is to click Share / Embed (under the release image), which opens an accordion below the link with a second link, Embed this album. Clicking it will open a Customize dialog, where you can select by clicking any style you want to get to the next step, where you get the Embed HTML code in a text input (the one starting with <iframe...). The embed code contains the release id within the iframe tag's src attribute, e.g. https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=140089158/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/ where you can see the release id as a value for the album parameter (bold emphasis); this is what you want for this editor's Bandcamp embed dialog. Paste the embed HTML to an editor and copy the release id, then click the editor's Bandcamp embed button, paste the id and Bob's your uncle. I used to paste the whole embed HTML to the dialog's text field, then delete everything before and after the id, but YMMV. This is difficult and sucks donkey derrière, although I'm quite quick at it. As always, TMTOWTDI (There's More Than One Way To Do It) - so I viewed the Bandcamp release page's source and found the easiest possible way to extract the id, so I came up with a small Javascript fragment that can be used as a bookmark: javascript:window.alert(JSON.parse(document.getElementsByName("bc-page-properties").item(0).content).item_id) Add it as a bookmark (copy and paste the code as the URL of the bookmark); when you're on a Bandcamp release page, run the bookmark and you'll get the id on a popup from where you can copy and paste it to the embed's input. As I've written elsewhere, this is not optimal, but definitely less painful than suffering through the indignity of doing it manually as above. There's no truly optimal solution that wouldn't require any copy-and-pasting, because to pick up the release number the release page's HTML source is required, so any solution is required to copy-paste either the id (extracted with Javascript from the release page like with my bookmark thingy above) or the release page URL (so that the id can be extracted programmatically from the page's HTML source). There are more complex and complicated solutions, but they're definitely even more farther away from optimal because of the effort required to implement them - I think the intuitive way would be to just paste the Bandcamp release's URL in the editor, but that would require modifying the editor's behaviour; the next best thing would be to paste the URL in the embed dialog, which would then load the release page's HTML and extract the release id - but that would require modifying the Bandcamp embed functionality. Therefore, the currently easiest way is to use the bookmark kludge above. Let me know if you come up with a better one without having to delve into the forum software's innards.
  21. Here's a thing I whipped up with to help with that, it's not optimal but eases the pain a bit, reducing the effort from four clicks, copy, change tab, click, paste, edit, click ? one click, copy, change tab, click, paste, click. There's no truly optimal solution that wouldn't require any copy-and-pasting, because to pick up the release number (which is actually a WordPress internal id) the release page's HTML source is required - the number is not directly in the URL of the release; so any solution is required to copy-paste either the id (extracted with Javascript from the release page like with my bookmark thingy above) or the release page URL (so that the id can be extracted programmatically from the page's HTML source). There are more complex and complicated solutions, but they're definitely even more farther away from optimal because of the effort required to implement them. How would you like to embed a Bandcamp release in the editor? If you describe it, I'll tell you how hard it is to implement.
  22. There are 1504 electronic albums on Discogs released in 1991 (by master release), could do some scripting and get a list here. Massive Attack's Blue Lines is 1991, as is Nightmare on Wax's A Word Of Science, and Yello's Baby - not forgetting Tangerine Dreams' Canyon Dreams.
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