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SCONES TO DIE FOR

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    New countdown, new release? [Aphex Twin Warp Store]

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    4 hours ago, logakght said:

    Yeah in fact tracker software is the secret to do IDM... I've been using Renoise lately and indeed feels more powerful and liberating than other sequencers.

    I just switched to Renoise recently and love it. It's like the the un-DAW meant for musicians with ADHD. So straight forward (to me at least), uncluttered and geared to creativity. Why didn't I discover the beauty of trackers 20 years ago 😭

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    Is marijuana use an unspoken rule for posting on WATMM?

    in General Banter

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    Where I live in Oregon there is weed everywhere. You see fields of it. You smell it. Dispensaries everywhere. Greenhouses. Tall fences, barbed wire enclosures. Legal grows. Illegal grows. Backyard plants. Trimmigrants and people who work full time at legal grows. Sketchy Russian gangsters. LOTS of guns. High per capita dreadlock count. Big water trucks, underground water tanks, specialty soil shops. They sell bongs at the little markets. Everyone I skate with is stoned, usually smoking at the skatepark. If I wanted a toke, an eighth, an ounce, a pound, edibles, cannabis butter - shoot I could probably get anything I want for free. The market is over saturated and a lot of people just give it away.

    That being said I don’t smoke at all. Not my thing. 

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    Skateboarding

    in General Banter

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    This was my local skate shop back in the day in Santa Barbara, though I’d for the most part stopped paying attention to the world of skateboarding by the early ‘90s. I always sucked and skaters got ridiculously good by the early ‘90s  

    A few of Church of Skatan’s/Shorty’s earlier videos had old friends (I guess more like associates since personally I didn’t like some of them haha) from high school. One guy who was a friend filmed many parts of those videos and was a DJ who worked at a local record store, and if I remember correctly an IDM fan.

    I started skating again a couple years ago and do it as much as I can since I fell in love with a local skatepark her Oregon. I’d never even skated in one before since for the most part they didn’t exist in the ‘80s.

    Skating transition is now one of my favorite things in life, though in my old age falling hurts REAL BAD haha. But pushing 50 and still doing it, so I’m gonna pat myself on the back.

    And this is a golden age right now. At least where I live - where there’s 12 skateparks within an hour’s drive and by far the majority of skaters are cool with each other. At least around here.

    Sorry - long post, reminiscing, too much coffee, Renoise break.

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    Studio Pics

    in EKT General Discussion

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    On 10/31/2023 at 10:02 AM, Squee said:

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    Almost done with the new studio. Still need to set up my rear speakers and there's some pretty nasty flutter right above my listening postion which makes sense when you look at the naked ass walls right above the long absorbers. So I need to build some extra absorbers and maybe two extra clouds.
    But it's finally sounding a LOT better!

    This looks so slick. It's beyond my imagination to be that organized. My studio is developing into a future episode of Hoarders.

    On 7/12/2023 at 6:46 AM, chronical said:

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    took these yesterday.. if anyone's curious how it works I would love to explain it :sorcerer:

    So cozy looking.

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    Skateboarding

    in General Banter

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    I let someone try it out one night in 1992. The guy was really drunk and fell. He got really belligerent, and I took off rather than searching for it. It was down a hill on a dark street, and I wasn't about to get my ass kicked that night.

    Skateboarding

    in General Banter

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    I still skate, and I'm turning 40 this summer. I came up skating around 1986. I loved the culture but sucked at skating. I'd fall hard trying to skate ditches, couldn't skate a ramp to save my life, and couldn't even ollie. Bad coordination and no balance unfortunately.

     

    But around 1991 I found a G&S wood/fiberglass mini cruiser board from the '70s at a thrift store. It didn't even have a tail and had big soft Road Rider wheels. I loved bombing hills and carving with it, more in the tradition of sidewalk surfing. Tricks never appealed to me, but I loved the acceleration. I used that board to get around town until I tragically lost it. I found a similar one a couple years later, which I still ride 20 years later.

     

    Nowadays when the weather gets good I usually cruise around the neighborhood or just up and down my driveway, sometimes setting up cones for slalom. I fell hard a couple days ago, and my knee, hip, ribs, elbow, hands and shoulder got pretty messed up. I'm sore and bruised, but I still went out again today though.

     

    My son just turned 9 and rides now. i got him a '70s style board since he was always riding mine. I might have to wear head-to-toe protective gear or something to keep up with him as we get older. I don't have any plans to stop though.

    depression

    in General Banter

    Posted

    The Sapolsky lecture was very enlightening - thanks for posting. I recently lost my best friend to depression

    Not related to scones - I have to say that before one of you jerks do. :-)

    . That info is helping make a little more sense of it all.

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