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Just paid for the pre-order here at Tower Records japan - album plus a tshirt (nothing exclusive just a white shirt with the aphex logo on the front - i feel like such a fanboy) plus some goodies apparently. Will see what they are when the record arrives! I'm giddy!

Cat pervert!

Was just coming here to post that. Best DLC 2023.

Well give this one a try - maybe you'll fall back in love. It's really good! Not quite RTJ2 good, but really good!

https://killermike.bandcamp.com/album/michael So this has been out for a minute. No talk on here about this one? Lot of really good jams on here - and as always Mike talks about a lot of social issues. Don't know what my fav track on here is but Exit 9 has a great groove, and Scientists&Engineers is pretty pretty good.

Thanks for the tip. Just added the three ALITHIA records for a reasonable price.

I thought for one brief second that Cylob had moved from walking to cycling. Lovely video though.

Didn’t even realize, it’s probably even worse now than then.

Aleksi is the one artist I don't feel bad streaming...just can't keep up with all the releases. I totally missed all the Gaia releases lol.

That adds a lot, thanks. I was reading this interview with Chuck Klosterman and he made this point about how like an insta account or tik-tok account can have millions of followers, but unless you follow them, you wouldn’t know about them. Very different from pre-social media where like for example, everybody knew Nirvana. Similar to your point about knowing those insta accounts.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B0C8VG39LH/ref=sr_1_33?crid=1P0AJO2U6NK89&keywords=aphex+twin&qid=1687390667&sprefix=aphex+twin%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-33 From the link: オリジナル特典マグネット付きwhich translates to "includes original bonus magnet" https://tower.jp/item/5759182/Blackbox-Life-Recorder-21f---in-a-room7-F760-［LP＋Tシャツ(XL)］＜数量限定盤＞ From tower - that one comes with a t-shirt! No pictures of the bonuses though. Edit: Note the prices though. The Amazon one is 4,000yen which is like $40 Canadian. They just launch the box with the loop as far as I can see.

Will let you all know how it sounds ?

Looks like I know where I’m going tomorrow.

Walking around Japan at night listening to new Aphex on good headphones is proper lush. Google drive version fucking lovely.

Doh!

So to clarify, it’s this EP plus a special 10” from Sonar?

It's june 21 and all I've got is this image from the website goddamnit I want to talk around Japan with this playing on headphones! Take my money Richard!

If Boris Johnson were a bird...

@milkface apologies if anything I said came off as aggressive - if it did it certainly wasn't directed at you. Maybe the guy who runs that channel has done something more interesting that explores ideas more in depth? He seems like a bright guy, but like I said - all that analysis is very surface level (maybe that's just the point I'm missing?). I'd like to link to this interview (text only - so old school) with Benedict Anderson (am incredible political scientist/sociologist who wrote one of the most amazing books ever called Imagined Communities - which is about nationalism as a constructed state, but has connotations far beyond the nation-state as well in my opinion). This was done in 1996 - but it's amazing how much of what he is saying then is still relevant to the world today. https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9711/msg00019.html

I don't see anything on his IG that counters what I wrote.

Just got a bike here - super easy to bike everywhere in town. So much better than back home in Ottawa, which is even reasonable by north american standards.

I'd say it's more nuanced than that - because service industries can create lots of value, and not all physical goods are valuable. In the financial sector you'd want to differentiate between banks that provide actual banking services (i.e. chequing and savings accounts) and then the hedge funds and other parasites should be taxed out of existence.

That "presentist"'s hair is on point. Literally. And then he said that seeing a meme is the equivalent to reading a Ph.D. (by which I presume he means reading a doctoral dissertation) - that's fucking stupid. The context and nuance that gets to the crystalized point (as expressed in the meme) is fucking half the importance - you can read/see the point but if you don't understand how the author got to that point you haven't really learned anything - you're just regurgitating something you read without any actual understanding. I'll try and struggle through but so far, all signs point to: Christ then the host starts talking about chasing clout.... Jesus - the aesthetic of war - it's brutal, harsh, and ugly. And no one who doesn't have clearance is doing signals intelligence, christ on a stick. Stopped watching there.

Sounds good. I just worry that you'll be in and out of the prem - it's a tough season with very few, if any, easy games (leeds can get fucked). Hoping you stay up!