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  1. Damn, speaking of Vaporwave, I never wanted this part to end. It's like an Imago/Memories of Music hybrid but it got slowed and looped in real time. The flange overtakes everything in sync with the visuals melting away. I didn't get much because I was so lost in what was happening. The variety across these sets is so huge. I wish he'd give it the Autechre Live treatment and soundboard each set 🙏

     

     

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  2. On 4/21/2024 at 1:20 AM, Stock said:

    A very high quality captation of the rebuild Zones Without People at Coachella :

    Full set was streamed this week-end, I hope somebody thought of ripping the audio, I would very much like to give it another listen !!

    This is the one holy shit. I couldn't understand why I was flipping out until I realized it's "Zones" done in the fashion of R+7. Pretty key too as it was the first 0pn track I ever heard. Surgeon opened a set in 2010 with it and it's been some real dicklickin' ever since.

  3. Damn-- if you're in any way a fan, this show was like a religious experience. I was losing it start to finish on how awesome everything was. I'm glad I went in blind. Another notable thing is that almost no one made use of their phones. I hated to break the norm but there were so many parts where I was like "I gotta fuckin snag a bit of this lush".

    There is an Instagram trend on certain reels where someone comments "guys will see this and say 'hell yeah'" and that was The Metro Chicago last night. About 1,000 guys going "hell yeah" lol

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  4. 2 hours ago, Satans Little Helper said:

    Was one of Dennetts (Dennis?) last interviews. He died the 19th. 😞

    His interveiw/podcast with Brian Keating was more recent. And better, imo.

    Peterson The Lobster King is a loonytune. He's grifting on the conservative/evangelical US crowd. Tiresome.

     

     

    Yes I flubbed his name by accident. Thanks for this link-- shame he died

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  5. On 4/14/2024 at 7:43 AM, Satans Little Helper said:

    "up yours" He's such a fine adult

    Anyone seen his interview with Daniel Dennett? So much cringe. Was hoping for some good arguments. But it's another classic "Jordan Peterson tries his hands on philosophy and fails". It was mostly about Peterson and his ideas. Kinda like watching Bill Maher. But less fun. Dennett kept his friendly loveable giant schtick going. As opposed to, say, Zizek, who had none of it during their session.

    This was my favorite sit-down yet but more from a satirical perspective than anything else. It's important to know that Jordan is full throttle apologetics now in the spirit of C.S. Lewis. Any conversation that may seem to be about science, philosophy, politics, etc will inevitably steer towards the Biblical corpus and it can be a drinking game to figure out when it will happen. 

    Daniel was so funny at times. When Jordan does his 5,000 word essay on Bible stories being psychologically true, he paused and said something like ".... you're making something very easy so hard" and it summed up the entire JBP experience in under 1 second lol. 

    He gave Daniel a deference that he doesn't normally give to guests and it made for a much nicer dialogue. I know the Lobster King is full loon but I am grateful for these kinds of podcasts because, otherwise, my feed is diabolical: Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker debating the ethics of jacking off while your wife pumps breastmilk or Tim Dillon making an incest joke...I am not a refined podcast listener hahaha. 

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  6. On 4/15/2024 at 6:12 PM, ignatius said:

    sounds like the rush in changeover from previous band included some fuck ups.  i suspect there was some sample rate mismatch from the main clock that made it all twice speed. oops. 

    I don't understand why you wouldn't just mime along to a pre-recorded set like everyone else? Besides, I want minimal manipulation so I can Shazam the cuts I'm into lol. That's what I love and hate about Surgeon--hands down the most "No Result" DJ I've ever tried to poach. 

  7. On 3/1/2024 at 3:51 AM, Kennylogg Bubblebath said:

    the zone of interest

    a really well made film. cannot fault the cinematography, score, acting, editing and overall mood... if only it had an actual fucking plot.

    Your last sentence is the reason that he's directed some of the best music videos ever but it can work against him on his films.  "Under the Skin" had the same issue for me. While I relished Scarlett Johansson luring men to their death in her panties, it was all aesthetics and almost no plot...just like music videos.

    "Zone" is going for the "evil as banality" trope and does it so well that you kinda get bored along with it in a way. That said, I loved this movie. It was smart to keep all the Schindler's List torture porn oblique to the Eden-like "walled garden" home. Even though it takes awhile, all the idyllic imagery can't conceal what a couple of psychopathic shits Höss and his wife are. 

    The soundtrack was quite IDM as well-- sounds like Demdike Stare or something. The opening title sequence did that thing with a really slow pitch drift like Nathan Fake does on "Vitesse" and I'll be dammed if that device doesn't trigger the worst dread when I hear it lol. 

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  8. On 1/8/2024 at 3:20 PM, perunamuusi said:

    Binder was £40 new as I remember it, which seemed like a stupid amount at the time. I always thought it looked like a greasy spoon menu. Absolutely horrible design. Surely it had to be a joke?. I just bought the individual eps for £4.99  each from my local record shop as and when they came out. Once a month wasn't it? 

    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. 

  9. 5 hours ago, Alcofribas said:

    i'm pretty sure we're over-thinking this release, which i imagine is part of the point he's making. i mean, this is the same guy who made an album called "music is better than pussy" with a nude chick on the cover with speakers covering her breasts and crotch and a microphone between her legs.

    I wish there had been a thread on that one. Not one time have titties gotten me likened to Varg 😅

  10. 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. 

     

  11. On 4/4/2021 at 10:40 AM, thumbass said:

    This would deserve it's own thread if it hadn't been out for a while already. You guy's need to check out the new album FP has made with saxophone player Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra. It's fucking beautiful.

     

     

    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!

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  12. 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. 

  13. 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?  

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  14. On 3/9/2024 at 7:38 AM, Berk said:

    Listening to Wendorlan right now and holy shit this is turning me -as a reviewer on Bandcamp puts it- into partially stopped alcohol 

    Some other madlad talked about the album healing his friend's cock piercing. Truly some fans of all time we are hahaha.

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  15. 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. 

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  16. 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.   

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  17. 2 hours ago, xyrofen said:

    @ignatius You think the fucker actually makes it to Portland the next time he tours (fucking COVID, man).

    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. 

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  18. 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 😅

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