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Stunning techno experiments from Korridor.
Precise and hypnotic. Highly recommend.
Last track gives me Digeridoo level chills.
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5 hours ago, Nebraska said:
That one second gap in her speech after hearing the comment.
LMAO
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''"In this album I was trying to explore the idea of pop music on PCP. PCP has fantastic lore around it and I think the most fascinating thing about it is that it seems as if many people have had these experiences where they took PCP, it presented them with an alternative reality, and they accepted it without question. It's as if that umbilical cord of knowing that you're high is cut, and the person taking it is fully immersed in the trip. Not only that but from some of the accounts, the alternate reality seems quite twisted and perverse. There are reports of people disemboweling and eating each other, or deciding that the best course of action is self-mutilation or castration, and then emerging from the trip still convinced it was the right choice. Or even the accounts of people gaining superhuman strength and fighting off 5 or 6 cops at once. It
seems like there's something quite dark on the other side of that door. So for this album I tried to write what I imagine the pop music of that alternate reality might sound like. What would happen to the sugary sweet, wet dream, corporate sponsored top 40 hits, if we dipped 'em in angel dust and got "wet". What would happen if we slopped all of those fun summer hits into the meat grinder of the PCP reality tunnel, and just pushed them through. I like to imagine an intersection under an overpass in a cyberpunk dystopian future. It's midnight and you can see the neon's from the storefronts on the other side through the thick smog. A modded AE86 Corolla pulls a left turn and you can hear the music pounding from the sound system as the rubber peels underneath it. As it's drifting through the intersection, smoke pouring out of the tiny gap at the top of the tinted windows, the music pours out of the car like a thick syrup, engulfing us as we stand frozen for a moment as they pass. This is what they were playing."
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10 hours ago, LimpyLoo said:
I love David Albert (from the panel in the first vid): he's a rare case of someone who knows as much philosophy as he does mathematics physics.
Most excellent combo indeed.
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On 9/22/2021 at 5:01 PM, LimpyLoo said:
Or when he lectures in English: French-accent comprehension, amarite? (The guy in the second row clearly knowsbwhat I'm talking about...)
I started reading a pdf of B&E (he shoulda called it 'B&E imo) and I had zero knowledge of the ZFC axioms/patches/ad-hoc-duct-tape-job (though I knew that Russell's paradox was the problem with naive set theory) so I ordered the book and tried to brush up in the meanwhile.
I will say that to the extent that math/set-theory is a constructed language (as opposed to a Platonic 'discovery'): you can't learn/deduce from it truths about ontology/metaphysics, for the same reason you can't learn about the world from studying the English alphabet.
(A mathematical Platonist might counter: 'well how come math maps onto reality so nicely?' Whereby a constructivist might say 'because we hand-pick the equations that map so nicely onto reality...')
Anyway point being: I don't intend to agree with Badiou on alot of this stuff. And also I have alot of weird ideas about "set-theory/predicates/categories as shitty-bitrate samples of reality" that for sanity/brevity I'll omit.
Barely have any knowledge of maths but on the subject, those talks were quite interesting.
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David Hockney - That's the way i see it
Franz Kafka - The Castle
Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Stephen Hawking -A Brief History of Time
L'Atelier du compositeur: Écrits autobiographiques, commentaires sur ses oeuvres by György Ligeti
One excellent thing about the covid antisocial hermit mode, is that i started reading a lot more than before because of it.
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The four scientists who participated in a Science-sponsored discussion today about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic differed sharply on several issues, but there was one thing they could agree on: Amid an increasingly politicized media frenzy over the issue—and tons of Twitter vitriol—it’s still possible to have a civilized scientific debate about whether SARS-CoV-2 originated from a “lab leak” or a natural jump from animals to humans that didn’t involve researchers.
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https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4298023
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In the grant notice, EHA stated that it had generated a chimeric virus with a spike protein with a 10% divergence from SARS-CoV. The notice added that the chimera had "replicated in primary human airway epithelium, using the human ACE2 receptor to enter into cells" in the transgenic mice.
In 2019, just before the known start of the pandemic, WIV assistant researcher Hu Ben (胡犇) began his work on a project titled "Pathogenicity of 2 new bat SARS-related covs to transgenic mice expressing human ACE2." No information about this research has been released to the public since the start of the pandemic, including data on the eight chimeric viruses the WIV had been infecting the mice with.
Stuart Neil, a professor of virology at King's College London, conceded on Twitter that the DARPA documents reveal "GoF however you want to cut it." Neil said that he was "troubled" that the information is only being released at this late date and that there are "aspects of this proposal that are concerning from a DURC and GoF point of view."
Jamie Metzl, a WHO committee member, said on Twitter that given the revelation of Daszak's "undisclosed conflicts of interest & material nondisclosure" of the DARPA grant application, the time has come for the WHO to begin an official investigation into his participation in the study of COVID's origins and to "retract its deeply flawed report." Rutgers University microbiologist Richard Ebright wrote that the EHA application "outlines several risky research projects" that included the introduction of human-specific cleavage sties into SARS-like viruses.
Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, reacted on Twitter to the leaked DARPA documents by remarking that such information would have been invaluable at the start of the pandemic: "Imagine if the public had this info in Jan 2020."
Chan noted that while scientists such as Neil have pointed out that the proposal was not successful, it does not mean such work was not already underway at the time of the proposal. "When you see this level of detail, there's a good chance some preliminary work has been done."
Quite feelin' like im part of a disaster sci-fi movie now.
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Well, well, well
''Wuhan and U.S. scientists were planning to create entirely new coronaviruses that did not exist in nature by combining the genetic code of other viruses, proposals show.
Documents leaked last month of a grant application submitted to the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), reveal that the international team of scientists was planning to mix genetic data of closely related strains, and grow new viruses.''
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/
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1 hour ago, ignatius said:
was losing it wondering why the image was moving. gif!
its not moving its the vaccine in you that makes it move
its being exorcized
if you look at it long enough the 5g chip will burst through your eyes
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fucking amazing miniatures
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love this guy
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LOL
Fred Durst singing My Generation with a granpa look is special to say the least
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The bridge in Here to Stay is still massive.
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On 4/2/2021 at 4:51 PM, Roo said:
Been heavily into an Untouchables phase recently. Fantastic album that. Has me itching to revisit some others now, especially the two surrounding (Issues & Take a Look).
Untouchables has always been my favorite. Still is to this day.
I like the atmosphere and production in that one.
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1 hour ago, LimpyLoo said:
Yeah totally. This post made me think of how many of my favorite songs have bold/bizzare mixing decisions
Jeff Mills - Berlin
always come to mind for that
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Of course there is an element of fetishism in this tho hahaha
Ive probably made a few mixes sound less good in terms of clarity just to keep a synth special tone.
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9 minutes ago, LimpyLoo said:
Yeah i've heard alot of analog synth addicts (mostly on yt) that some of the classic synth (prophets, jupes, moogs, etc) are impossible to fit in a mix because they take up so much space, and so they end up sounding tiny after getting hi-passed or like you gotta use ducking (e.g. with the kick/snare) or hella automation to make them sound as huge as they do on their own. .
Yeah. Ive played with Prophet 5 and a Moog and i have a few quite fat analogues and one thing you learn using those is that you have to EQ or process them differently in regards to the importance of each channel in the mix or the track. High passing/over eq them basically ruin lots of the special flavour sound those have. It ends up just sounding like a VA or any other synth. You lose the vibe and flavour with too much EQ. With important synths lines i try to keep things conservative and minimal if i can if i record with analogue synths.
The main idea in the foreground, i will often leave less processed and have a pure fat sound, especially bass patches and on the other hand i will process the shit out of background synth, and remove all the bass and shelve them, eq them.
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8 minutes ago, LimpyLoo said:
I almost entirely agree.*
*The only exception I can think of is the sound of certain older hardware samplers, where the whole character of the sampler comes from the homogenous boominess, from how the drum break is a single sample that gets eq'd as a whole, so you sometimes get snares and hats with lots of low-end, and if you try to scoop out like 200-300hz the whole vibe disappears.
Yeah. I found the same is true for the VERY VERY good analogue synths. I sometimes barely touch the recording, especially bass or mid synth patches but even for pads sometimes, (like a fat moog type, square bass is often better pure out of the box then over EQed imho) because it fucks with the pure lushness that comes out of the box.
Very good or idiosyncratic equipment in certain context, just need to be left untouched to shine the best.
It's something you have to experience first hand to understand. Sometimes a sound is just good as it is.
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One thing i sometime neglect and i shouldnt is inventive panning and full control of the stereofield.
It can really help to spread things more from each others so the stereo can breath properly and still be rich with information.
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Dont be afraid to cut the bass of anything not bassy. Helps a lot for a cleaner mix.
But if you cut too much tho, it will sound more and more unnatural and you may lose the roundness of the sound. If that happens, you can try cutting less bass or use a less radical shelve instead of a high pass.
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(Cant say im an expert, mixing is hard but) if you loose the vibe, musicality, spirit and goosebumps of a track, press undo and try it again (maybe in a ''less is more'' fashion)
The most important thing is musical impact, mixing and EQ should follow whatever the piece of music demands to have maximum impact. A wrong mixing decision in a certain context can be the best decision. Something can even sound bad or wrong if it trigger goosebumps, it should be chosen over anything else. When you get to a place were the impact is so strong you get actual goosebumps its probably right to stop right there cause it rarely gets better. Mix with goosebumps even more than with your ears.
Too much time spent between the mix and composition can fuck with unity of the vibe. Some distance can be good, too much distance will give a feeling of two different mindset competing in one track and gives a feeling of lack of unity.
Too much EQ can fuck with the analogue tone and lushness of hardware. It can be quite delicate to preserve the special vibe analogue has and EQ it.
Eq and mix things like they are jigsaw puzzles, cut on channel 1 were it breaths on channel 2, and vice versa.
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Man, Joe lost his grip with reality.
I remember watching his podcast with Chuck Palahniuk and Brian Greene, he didnt seem that bad...
I guess too much fame, macho bravado and DMT will fuck with you eventually.
mira calix - a̶b̶s̶e̶n̶t̶ origin
in New & Upcoming Releases
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This is pretty good. Proper weirdness. Especially like 'Transport Me''.
As a collage person i like of the video and aesthetic as well.
Quite the Dada feel both musically and visually.
Will check the full album.