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    Societas x Tape

    in Boards of Canada

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    3 hours ago, Friendly Stranger said:

    This mix still brings me to the brink of wetting myself every time, it’s so good. What’s the most “recognizable” song on here? Probably Devo or Colourbox? Outside of that I didn’t recognize anything on it when it aired.

    For most people Slave to the Rhythm / Just an Illusion probably?

    post something controversial about you

    in General Banter

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    It's time I watched Akira again, I think. I recognize a lot of what's been said here, being super impressed with the opening, finding some parts hard to get through or understand what's even going on, but still being completely fascinated by the time it was over.

    On The Simpsons I don't need to refresh my memory, there's a private (commercial) channel here that shows an episode every weekday, looping through the first ten or so seasons, and I still catch episodes pretty regularly. Feels good man.

    Legowelt

    in Music Discussion

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    New Zandvoort & Uilenbal album's out, including that North Sea field recording track from the ambient set in my previous post. Sounding great so far (I'm on my first listen right now).

    FOLK TRIUMFATOR is the second album by Zandvoort & Uilenbal, a 'paramusical academic' project of medieval music expert Jimi Hellinga and electronic musician Danny Wolfers. As Zandvoort & Uilenbal they appropriate historical instruments such as a 19th century Victorian harmonium, a medieval hurdy gurdy, an electro acoustic thumb harp and an mid 20th century German Mixtur Trautonium. These are cross bred with the usual arsenal of contemporary electronic instruments and seasoned with some sinister poetry in their North Sea coast temple of sensory sonic delights.

    We can write how conceptual and arty this all is but let's just say this is hardcore dark ambient with lots of medieval drone space jazz influences to trip your mind out into a region where time and your opinions cease to exist.

    A bit more about some of the instruments used:

    The mighty medieval hurdy gurdy is a curious, and for its time, highly technologically advanced instrument in which sound is produced by a rotating wheel'bow' that strikes strings while a little Keyboard that pushes wedges is used to play the melodies. Special dedicated strings can be set to play a continuous drone that can accompany the melody. You can hear Jimi Hellinga playing his hurdy gurdy on tracks like "Safe Haven for the Galleon Caladrius" and "Folk Triumfator"

    The late 19th century Kimbal parlor organ/harmonium was already used intensively on the first Zandvoort & Uilenbal album (the 2015 "Geruis Uit Somberdorp"). With its grotesque wooden carvings and ornaments it is still a pièce de resistance in the studio. This colossal instrument produces creaking haunting drones that have become the signature sound for the Zandvoort & uilenbal project.

    An electro acoustic mbria / kalimba - an electrified thumb harp using a contact microphone going directly into a tape echo and spring reverb -instantly brings forth endless rusty metallic sounds of chaos like a dark Ligottian music box. It can be heard on 'Always a Nice Story Before Bedtime' among other songs.

    The mixtur trautonium, just like the parlor organ, is also revived from the preceding album. This strange early electronic instrument originally invented in 1929 by Friedrich Trautwein at the Berlin Musikhocheschule music and radio lab provides spookily electro acoustic sounds that can be played in an intense expressive manner with a special touch controller.

    This album was uploaded in 24bit 48khz audio format for a high quality sound experience.

    released April 30, 2020

    ©2020 Written, performed and composed by Jimi Hellinga & Danny Wolfers at the North Sea Institute For The Overmind, Scheveningen, Holland.
    Spoken word performed by Dim Garden
    Stories written by Danny Wolfers
    Mastered by Jimi Hellinga

    Coronavirus COVID-19

    in General Banter

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    26 minutes ago, goDel said:

    Belgium is also an interesting example btw. But the assumption is they count their number of deaths more rigorously than others. At least, that's what they say.

    The EuroMOMO data above show mortality regardless of assigned cause of death, so that's no excuse for Belgium's performance. :closedeyes:

    I think it's more likely that one or more of the regional governments were negligent in readying nursing homes for the epidemic (hospitals are a federal matter), and that people abused the permission to exercise outside, especially early on.

    And, it being a small country (more comparable in population to Lombardy than to the whole of Italy, for instance), there is the element of luck. Once you have a "local" outbreak there's already not much left in terms of lesser affected regions to bring down the average.

    Legowelt

    in Music Discussion

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    a 100+ minute hardcore AMBIENT SPACE DJ mix to drowse into dreamland with, trip your consciousness into a cozy custard of exaltation, make your fitness yogo meditation stretching substantial,  uplift menial work tasks into a more pleasant adventurous experience, transform your living quarters into a temple of transcendence, soundtracking your solo wanderings or whatever.

    Mostly stuff from the North Sea Institue for the Overmind made recently and a few tracks from other artists such as O Yuki Conjugate, Kali Malone, Corrupted Belly Buster, Eliane Radigue,  Dim Garden etc.

    The mix has an xxtra dose of the magnificent Alesis MIDIVERB II FX machine BLOOM effect for an intense space experience

    The painting is also called ‘Ambient Trip Commander’ I will make some prints of it soon and you can probably buy the original too with frame etc.. 

    anyways here is the…Tracklist:

    The Obsolete Computers –  新たな始まり
    Rudolf Lalleman – De Zwarte Regenboog
    Samantha Otto Fielding – A Light Only Seen In The Stars
    Oberheim gepiel
    EMU EMAX II Huxley Bliss
    The Futures – Ain’t no Time Fa Nothing Loop in Akai X7000
    Luciano Berio’s Wasserklavier on Synths
    O Yuki Conjugate – Cloud Cover
    Corrupted Bellybuster – Untitled
    Small Town Minstrel – Castle Illuminator
    Peter Michael Hamel – Organum
    Arcane Head Celery – Spring Rain
    Oiseaux Tristes – S900 Ravel Loop
    Dim Garden – Sleeping like a Baby while the World Burns
    Pancakes With Mist – Frisky Snowdog On A Mountainslope
    Alchemulator PSS480 – Larping at Fairsnake Market – Wind Gallopper
    Moon Film – See The Hills
    Kali Malone – Fifth Worship
    Éliane Radigue – L’île Re-Sonante
    Zandvoort & Uilenbal – Noordzee Zo Eens in de Winter

     

     

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