Alcofribas
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13 hours ago, chenGOD said:
Datacide I + II and Ondas (worth it just for Stereo Kiss)
his use of stereo in this era (~94-95) is very unique. in addition to Ondas, albums like Silver Sound, Semiacoustic Nature, and BASS have really cool stereo production, sometimes with such different things happening in each side of stereo you can listen to the channels independent from each other (the BASS album is the best example of this) . if this is not to your liking he did an entire album in mono in 96 lol.
he has such an insanely creative catalogue.
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i definitely think the first on these mpu101 releases it the best by far. it's a concise expression of the mpu101 project at it's best but it's diminished returns after that. i think this guy should take some time off of releasing and let something new cook, there isn't 4 albums worth of idea here. "sunset memories" is just "olson"-lite come on now.
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IDM or IDW? you decide
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55 minutes ago, dr lopez said:
yes this is the biggest issue with doing that sort of stuff. not worth it.
however, best way forward is to just never apologize. don't double down either; just move on.
oh god he's replying to everyone... NOOOOO
uwe on Rogan when?
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4 hours ago, dr lopez said:
yeah ftr Uwe is quite literally a musical genius so this tweet took me a little off guard I'll be honest lol.
not that he shouldn't be critical of current movements in media and culture more broadly but it did seem to reference or allude to some internet edgelord shit which seemed a bit beneath someone as creative as he is.
I think he’s been flirting with a much deeper cultural critique for several years now. He’s been explicit about his loathing of electronic music culture and I think the conformist trends of social media are absorbed into this disdain. But he hasn’t laid it all out, really. Maybe he won’t ever do so since he’s an artist not a social theorist or smth.
I don’t conflate what he’s doing with edgelord shit. I think there’s a lot behind the scenes and he’s presented it in a very typical laconic, goofy visual way. The art is for instance perfectly in keeping with Rather Interesting’s aesthetic. I think the times have changed so it has a different feel, though.
I’m hoping for more written stuff from him tbh but I don’t necessarily expect it.
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3 minutes ago, taphead said:
This seems like a good idea to push against this, but wouldn't it be more effective if it were done with good music? I think this track is already protected from any risk of co-option by the capitalists due to it being entirely unappealing on an auditory level
I haven’t quite been able to get a feel for his stuff in the past few years. It seems he’s been exploring a very different technological setup recently and everything coming out feels like experiments of this. Just my guess based on some interviews and stuff.
Pop HD seems like a good example of what you’re suggesting tho imo
39 minutes ago, dr lopez said:rubin farr's thoughts contemporary retardedness ?
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I would pay for Richard to invite me to his lair where we listen to unreleased SAW tracks and he thinks I’m cool so he slowly starts showing me his whole collection of synths and gear and eventually gifts me something special like a rhodes chroma or whatever and we still talk on the phone to this day
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interesting. some of the idealogical motivation for this might be detected here: https://atom-tm.com/blog/2023/07/14/entry-14-historie-und-hysterie-ii-keynote/ . hard to summarize but a key point being made has to do with the appropriation of electronic music/club culture by private corporate interests that sanitize the collective and subversive thrust of this subculture in order to make it more profitable and easier to exploit for personal profile development. in other words, perhaps he sees "woke" conventional wisdom in the club community as a pro-capitalist appropriation of its historically radical origins?
but this does fit into the greater picture of his work which has always had a sense of humor and satirical dimension, always poking fun at trends of the zeitgeist. relevant for us is his "Real Intelligence" series, spoofing on warp's "Artificial Intelligence" and here the explicitly anti-"imperialist pop" message of HD. i don't think it's too hard to see how hyper-capitalist entities and consumers use ostensibly woke language or concepts to push themselves up in a system that's inherently exploitative and oppressive for the very minorities it claims to valorize. he's a cheeky lad, my first impression is this fits into his basic agenda of being a goof and being something of a leftist.
i think we're probably just used to being more comfortable with him toying with less sacred cows
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28 minutes ago, ignatius said:
i think you're supposed to fist your ass in the voting booth.
come on man, ofc I’m doing that regardless
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I keep thinking about this and it rules
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I was gonna vote for Trump but then some guy online told me to fist my ass so you can be damn sure I’m Pokémon going to vote for Biden
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46 minutes ago, decibal cooper said:
I had to look this up, had not seen it before
Fuck her and her dumb as shit Karen haircut
It reminds me of when Dave Chappelle said her 2016 campaign was like watching Darth Vader give the 'I Have A Dream' speech
nothing but empty rhetoric from a completely out of touch, dull politician. “Jobs, infrastructure, business, unions, apps, Pokémon go.” meanwhile Trump was just roasting everyone he came into contact with and absolutely invigorating his audience. sad!
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3 hours ago, decibal cooper said:
online posting in right wing spheres was a non-negligible factor in mobilizing people to support Trump
"pokemon go to the polls" lost the race for clinton
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8 hours ago, usagi said:
nobody reads WATMM ffs. get real, my guy. in a world where public discourse is dominated by either dopamine-hooking ADD social media or the traditional media intelligentsia, who do you think is reading internet forums? let alone a niche one dedicated to a bygone era of music?
even supposing significant numbers of people on the fence about Biden were exposed to your posts, they wouldn't be swung by the constant jerking him off. instead of, idk, explaining about how their lives might be bettered by a Dem election win. cheerleading turns people off massively, I can see exactly how Trump got the spite-Hillary votes in 2016 and may well get the spite-Biden votes this year.
if you want to actually make a difference then you should be out there campaigning and co-ordinating with others, and with a nuanced strategy aimed at winning people over. you obviously have the energy for it, I can't understand why you're channeling it here instead.
i do think that liberals thinking that posting online is "doing the work" is a definite contributing factor to their loss in 2016 and their persistent inability to hold power or thwart the wild west bullshit of the rightwing. liberals are concerned with expression and appearances, having the correct takes, and other things that have such little impact on people. republicans do not care about this. they are not afraid to be wildly wrong and hypocritical bc it does not matter.
when obama was prez the right wing just hunkered down and made absolutely everything about thwarting obama at every turn. and this is precisely why, e.g., we now have the supreme court we have - bc obama and rbg would not do exactly what republicans would do in their place and bc the republicans simply refused to let obama put merrick garland in a seat and he just ate it. so, liberals get to be "right" by pointing out the hypocrisy of republicans or whatever but the republicans don't give a shit and when it's their turn they just stuff whoever they want in the courts and just go wild with partisan rulings. but liberals are content to post their superior opinions in the media and online, inshallah.
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6 hours ago, usagi said:
#metoo
cool I’ll fly to Australia and we can watch it together
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wait sorry, am I correct that people paid for this 8 years ago?
and now it’s being re-announced that it’s coming out with just like hey sorry this took a while check it out I’ll be shipping soonish?
lol
this rules. this is echospace and neuron levels of business.
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40 minutes ago, MadameChaos said:
Perfect Days 9/10
Loved this so much I'm planning to moved to Japan and become a toilet cleaner.
looking forward to this.
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1 hour ago, YEK said:
You’ll be the first to go when ai takes over. Shouldn’t have said that.
I’m ready
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i intensely dislike the way so much of the ai stuff has that weird smoothness. looks awful.
i do like the one on the previous page with the anime girl blowing the flower or whatever the fuck
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16 hours ago, trying to be less rude said:
his time would be limited. it would share a lot of important, well-formulated information with the source evidence right there. the justice system is a system for establishing and laying out truth. i know what you mean, he hacks the marks, and they're a big segment. i think it would be worth it. people would be tuned in and they would absorb some shit that would make an impression.
regular American trump guy watching 20 second clips of this trial on Facebook: “sir, you have violated the sacred processes of the justice system, you have no respect for truth, sir, I see by viewing this footage that I have been conned and I solemnly commit myself to voting for joseph biden this November. I am sorry to the United States of America, for my past folly.”
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2 hours ago, luke viia said:
can you raise the intensity of this post?
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“hello what is up cool? can AI do loops for my videos on YouTube content creator like and subscribe turn on notifications (Ads x2 (unskippable)).”
”yes check me out I will take this orchestral loop and make it longer” *types in “longer”*
”wow now that is very cool for the loop to get longer”
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delightful
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On 2/13/2024 at 2:39 AM, thumbass said:
I really like this one tbh. Better than Donda probably, it's a little rough around the edges but because of that the production sounds exciting. Not excusing his actions and or behavior but the album is kinda fire.
I do not need to click to see who faved this post bc it can only be Ivan lol
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Danny Daze - ::BLUE:: (Omnidisc)
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i learned about this album on watmm, various people singing its praises in the AOTY 2023 thread.