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This is gonna be so fuckin good.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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".

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.

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.

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.

"where's the lie? fr, ong " as the kids would say hahaha.

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"

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!"

I guess we might have rinsed this before but I'm just coming across the phenomenon of "Archived Posts/Threads". Rustie's "Glass Swords" came up on random and I had just forgotten all about Rustie. It was such a mad lad move to use the Seinfeld bass on "Hover Traps" and I found the original thread but I couldn't post on it This is off-topic/meta but I wanted to comment how I can't believe it's a 12 year old album and that, not only would a fresh crop of heads maybe not know a 2011 album so well, they may be even less able to get a Seinfeld reference. I then tried to old man at a cloud in a thread that itself is closed for discussion due to age lol. One last thing...Solo Strike's rebuttal to the "kitschy, poppy, lame" criticisms to the album: "It's wonderful, joyful music, probably not best suited to people wanking in their mum's basement over snare rushes from 15 years ago"

I remember being pretty miffed that "Ginger" never got stocked but "Dimension Intrusion" did back in the day. I bought it anyway as you did in the IDM desert days but I just never cottoned onto it very well. I still don't care for it. Richie had the most American exposure and could be found in every record store. He can crack a banger now and again (System 7 - "Alphawave" remix) but, otherwise, he's a snoozefest to me. I'm grateful to Jochem chucking everything up on Bandcamp a couple of years ago. "Ginger" holds up today imo.

Thoughts?

We used to have a thread dedicated to this guy but I couldn't find it within our native search or scraping Google. Anyway, I'm sure most know him by now but he'll do MSPaint renditions of whatever strange shit you cook up. This is apparently him on his own doing a tribute to his 90s adolescence. I gotta say that zooming in and taking it in bit by bit kicked off a crazy nostalgia hit in my case. I was especially taken by the Aphex bear and the records at the decks.

With all the talk of "weird" in the thread, this NTS show is where it *actually* delivered

Weird thing out of YouTube comments RE: the tank--somebody said: "Put two and two together folks. They don't let just anyone have access to tactical/weaponry stuff in Britain. RDJ has Royals somewhere in the line". I was curious if that had any traction. I always saw it as a working class hero tale of dad in the mines and mum at home but it feels "truthy" in a way.

got a few chuckles out of me

Something that I noticed recently and cannot unsee is that Richard has really stout forearms and hands. For a dude that's very trim everywhere else, it really started to stand out to me. Do a pic dump analysis over the years and tell me I'm off base. I have an inverse problem--pretty good upper arm definition but genetically troublesome forearms. 3 times a week, I do 3x5 40 lb. forearm curls with my thumb over the grip and they're murderous. I can see more definition but I just can't get that RDJ circumference. So, it truly is a tale as old as time. I sit down to my synths and I definitely can't manage a "Synthacon 9" and it's unlikely that I'll catch up to his forearms either. recites "Serenity Prayer" under breath.

Man, I fuckin' love oneohtrix point never. I am so happy rn. Also, I used to be very deep into NTSB/FAA air disaster analyses. I still am but you just kinda reach the bottom after awhile because aviation is so safe now. Anyhow, the scenario at the end of this video is a real threat to mostly smaller craft like Cessnas. There was a feller whose seat clicked all the way back due to the force of the climb and he couldn't reach the controls. The nose pitched too far up, he stalled and that was that. I can't say for sure that Danny Boy is similarly into air failures but he does stack his stuff with lots of imagery/symbolism/etc.

"Riichurd" That old speech generator lol

Since he was doing a cross-section of New Yorkers with a merry prankster vibe, I wish he would have collaborated with HumorBagel on the trailer. It would have really upped the ante on the unfamiliar reading task with surprise blasts.