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Hell yeah brothers, thanks for the tips. I'm even more stoked
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How did it go Stocko? Does he press play on "Again" or does he haul out any other hits? Close on "Chrome Country"? I'll see him in 2 weeks but my curiosity is killing me lol.
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Confirmed. It *is* really really good.
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I'm grateful for this coming out. I didn't realize "Multiples" was the name of their collab and Detroit pitted their slot against Underworld
It wouldn't have changed anything because I've never been able to see Underworld but still--stoked to get a record at least.
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There was that infamous Hecker performance at some posh dinner party and someone commented "sounds like he's letting the air out of his Macbook"
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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On 1/26/2024 at 12:40 PM, jules said:
teleharmonic
yes this answer is correct
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is gonna be so fuckin good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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".
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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.