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  1. The quid was strong af against the USD back then too. 40 quid is $51 at the moment but at the tail end of '04 when the offer was released, it would have been about $74. I would just double GBP prices to estimate at the time because it was mostly correct. Give that an inflation check pegged at December '04 and it's $121 in today's dollars. Strangely, because of the nonsense in the physical media world that has transpired in the past 20 years, $121 isn't even controversial but it was then.
  2. I wish there had been a thread on that one. Not one time have titties gotten me likened to Varg
  3. What is this for real tho? I press play on war cacophony with an MSPaint dog whistle collage for a cover and first blush is: which one is he--"remove kebab" or "137 countries"? Or it's 4D satire that I've totally missed?
  4. Well I tried to scrape the lore but I couldn't find it. Theocide once likened 0pn to Donkey Kong Country music and he wasn't completely off base. So, this is obviously YouTube Poop-style shitposting but the problem is that it is such an unironic banger that I can't stop listening to it. Furthermore, I wouldn't bat an eye if this was on "R Plus 7" or "Replica". It somehow splits the difference between the 2 eras and doffs its cap to Theocide's DK theorem.
  5. I wound up sleeping on this pretty hard....well, 3 years nearly. I think mostly because I projected a cringe factor and I didn't want to take the chance. I bought it in January and it's a really remarkable record. I can't listen to it too much because the melancholy is overwhelming. Even though Floating Points sort of maps in my brain as "extended jazz house bangers", he's actually pretty mournful/pensive/etc melodically. This album is like peak bummer with that single motif running across the full movement but it's undeniably great. I try not to be very "meta" with my music but this record and "Blackstar" by David Bowie always offer a punch in the balls with the great tunes because you know it's a wrap. Bowie used word play in "Dollar Days" if you listen: "I'm dying to....push their backs against the grain" and then concludes the prechorus with "don't believe for just one second I'm forgetting you/I'm trying to/I'm dying to(o?)" with the last lyric working either way: "to" as a preposition or "too" as a literal statement about his terminal illness. I think the sax is the most emotional and expressive instruments we have. This is full on projection but there is something known as "terminal restlessness" that happens just before death where people get antsy, agitated, confused or completely delerious. That's what Pharoah's playing makes me think of since it alternates between those triplet-like loops and longer wails. I'm not even really scared of my own death and many days, I'd welcome the inconvenience but there's something about the vulnerability of enjoying music that gives you the full-on weepies with respect to finalities, swan songs and your last train stop. I think this was about the best send-off possible. On happier notes, ol' Floaty Pants will be at the Movement festival in Detroit in a couple of months and I'm stoked to see what he brings!
  6. Hey you guys remember the beginning of Aphex's "Milkman" and how someone used their Little Orphan Annie decoder ring to clear it up? Like: "Shit, I'd better not press too hard with my fucking 2 inch hard cock" and all that filth? Well if you listen behind all the war shit, I'm pretty sure the same thing is going on in this track. It wouldn't be as clear/isolated in this case but someone should decode it to make sure it's not "Mein Kampf" on audiobook or something.
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    Divorce

    Well...it's been a year. In America at least, divorced folks on average are married to a new partner within 2 years post divorce. A good childhood friend of mine got divorced in November '14 and was living with a new woman by the following February '15. The arrangement stuck until this past June when they got married. Personally, I find that mental but I'm not well known for my conventionalism so it's likely I'm the "mental" one really. Where are you now?
  8. Some other madlad talked about the album healing his friend's cock piercing. Truly some fans of all time we are hahaha.
  9. Damn, it's that "Akkranen" though, isn't it?! Fuckin' hell, I love that Maximum Priest loping in. I just can't get over how genius it was not to chop the breaks into clever bits but to instead edit the "room" each hit occupied. Subtle and shifting delay/reverb/granular details on a straightforward hip-hop beat is just madness. As a teenager, my friends and family always roasted the hell out of my musical choices by simulating a lasergun to mock the 303. In the last half of this track, it really does become weaponry. It sounds like an A-10 or anti-missile defense system. It comes in for a landing but still keeps that menacing rave siren sound to remind you of the dread and aggression. I love the whole album but this track is so far up in the sky that I'd put it in the top 10 best things he's ever done in the nearly 30 years I've listened to him.
  10. I will be at the Chicago stop on the 23rd of April. I don't love the Metro but I will make do. I feel like it will be something to sit and stroke chins to rather than mash in with the other sardines on foot but who knows. The Brooklyn stop on the following Friday has tony balcony seats for $100.
  11. Yes, Tom plz. We need '20 redemption. As everyone made good on the "rescheduled" appearances across '21, '22 and '23 and there was no Tom, my heart sank. I say this because, honestly, if you do enough electronic shows, they can become boring in a way but not Squarepusher. Every time I've seen him, it was something new and explosive.
  12. I am doing a wake-up browse of the thread. I was not ready to start the day and pretty groggy until I pressed play on that Vocaroo site. I feel like I'm ready for war now or some shit. God almighty Tom. I love how the milder Richard gets on his AARP releases, the more Tom seems determined to tear us in half
  13. xxx

    Vegyn

    This is gonna be so fuckin good.
  14. One night, I was thinking about how intense the bassline to "Girls on Film" was by Duran Duran so I bought their first 2 albums. What an achievement they are but that's beside the point of this thread. "Night Boat" came on and I immediately went "holy shit, Stranger Things". Granted, the track moves on to a completely different path but that intro is pretty undeniable.
  15. https://pedermannerfeltproduktion.bandcamp.com/album/the-benefits-of-living-in-a-hole This is straight madness. I had never heard of this guy but he seems pretty prolific. I'd only gotten the Karenn/Pariah releases off of Voam but I was definitely overlooking some gold. My mom and sister have a rescue miniature pinscher named Rosie and she has strange breathing problems. The grinding bit that begins at 0:40 on "Liquid Rattan Mainframe" somehow captured the sound of it perfectly.
  16. I travel for work and wind up in strange places. I'm currently about 70 miles west of Chicago deep in agricultural production. This place (Bright Farms) is actually pretty neat. It has a massive greenhouse operation for microgreens that uses a system of bugs instead of pesticides. However, at night, it is a menacing, dystopian sight. The camera doesn't do it justice but the greenhouse looks like a space heater element taken to 10,000x scale. "eastre" just felt like the right unease I felt when I first found it.
  17. Maaaaan, these reworks have the same energy as his Detroit set this year at Movement and he bloody killed it. At one point, he did this flanged/granular explosion just to give everyone a break because he was pushing the limit!
  18. Damn, what a genius. Rich for several lifetimes off of "Hey Ya" alone and now a conversion into busker mode. It's passable enough that if you didn't know for sure, it would be so easy to say "hey that street dude with the weird flute looked like Andre 3000".
  19. Just echoing this sentiment really. "Blizzards" is not bad. There is promise in every track but it has a sketches/meandering quality that never seemed to coalesce for me. I like when Nathan does bangers so "Tbilisi" is dope and "Vitesse" is a very spooky bit of ambient for me. "Vitesse" is "speed" in French and shares the Latin root for "life" or "strength" so when the track unfolds like a failing erection, it's a special sense of unease. "Crystal Vision" shores up the aimlessness of "Blizzards". It's punchy, has diversity, plenty of good melodic snacks to be had and doesn't overstay its welcome on anything. I definitely see the criticisms for "Guiro" but, like I said, I love Nate Dogg for his heaters so I love the whole thing.
  20. I feel pretty lucky to be able to go see him on 11/17 in Chicago with RP Boo. Maybe the Chi will flow and it will be some "Room(s)" energy. He just doesn't miss lately.
  21. That was a very good interview with Fantano. How can you not be charmed by that ol' mensch Lopatin? I must admit that I'm having a hard time understanding the video release surrounding "Memories of Music". The "40% battery life" subtitle hints at it really being an unfinished/sketched out scenario and I sifted through all the .zip file contents. There is a MIDI file for Van Halen's "Eruption" solo in it that is hilarious. Maybe my DAW settings were off but the tempo was juiced to hell and it sounded like flatpicking bluegrass in the style of Bill Monroe hahaha.
  22. "where's the lie? fr, ong " as the kids would say hahaha.
  23. 2:26 "vaporwave continues to be this dirty little skeleton [that] he refuses to pull out of the closet" Welp Chonkthony, it would be a bloodbath of sample clearances since he used some of the biggest pop songs in the history of mankind for the fodder and it's not in the closet on the last 3 albums. I guess we could be defining vaporwave differently but I feel like he tips his Celtics cap at least one time per album to a vaped aesthetic. See also: "ECCOJAMC1", "SDFK", first half of "Last Known Image of a Song", "Bow Ecco", "Imago" and first half of "On An Axis"
  24. For most of my life, Arkansas was "Land of Opportunity". It only recently went to the "Natural State", which is hilarious to me: "hey forget about jobs or economic mobility, dig these trees!"
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