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  1. i intended to post this in the richard devine appreciation thread...which is locked? there's a conspiracy here
  2. not really sure where to post this inquiry....but does anyone know if this track is released in full anywhere? i can tell it's a good one...some one please ask richard devine for me thanks
  3. precise release dates are difficult for these. for reference, this order form and catalog from 1982 lists then-current Orban items for sale and both of the units pictured in my post (418A and 526A) were available; I'd not think they were still selling equipment from the 60s in this list. also if you take a look at this timeline you can see the precursor to the 526A (the 516EC) was released in 1974. also, my understanding of the 418A is that it was developed from the multiband compression system of the Optimod which was first released in 1975. so my best guess is the signature Orban blue-face gear with the BOC font were released late 70s/early 80s.
  4. there are similarities but i think the killer is depicted more like a regular person , whereas in american psycho the finance bro is a really over the top psycho. it's less a film about a character losing his grip on reality and more a story about someone with a completely inauthentic lofty personal philosophy that he adheres to while pretty much disobeying every principle throughout the film. that's more "life like" and really made me think about how our culture is so obsessed with performative ideologies that mean nothing as they are never tested or brought into action, and when challenged they evaporate into thin air. it's almost like the narration was like his "posting" online. where i think this has a secondary humor is with respect to fincher himeself, a director known for operating under very similar principles to those articulated by the killer: total control, clinical distance/lack of empathy, rejection of improvisation, etc. i feel like he was having fun with this.
  5. *the killer semi-spoilers* i thought the killer was excellent. watched in the theater. i don't really care if a movie has a "subtext" but i will say i think this is yet another entry into fincher's cannon that seems to be a send up of masculinity. in this one the killer's whole ethos comes across as some "rise and grind" guy who's worldview is a mishmash of cherry-picked nuggets he can't even attribute properly (lol at not remembering aleister crowley). his philosophy is all about total control of the mind and body in order to put these into the service of the sole purpose of getting money, about everything else he "does not give a fuck." fincher puts this guy in a situation where he makes one single mistake and he instantly spirals into a revenge spree, all the while telling himself he denies emotion, he sticks to the plan, he does not improvise. this is classic fincher, he always seems to be undermining masculinity and its various trappings and i really enjoyed how contemporary this one is not just bc of how well fincher depicted the modern world but bc this character and his ideological trappings are such 21st century things. our society is dominated by men like these - guys who think they are stoic geniuses who hide their mediocrity with profound-sounding quotations, who are ultimately unremarkable and not even good at what they do (the killer doesn't just fuck up the assassination but also leaves his girlfriend in some beach-side hideout with no walls lmao), and who continue to justify completely contradictory behaviors with the same pseudo philosophy about how controlled they are and how they are actually sociopaths, etc. additionally, the film just ruled. amazing editing and sound design here. fincher working with editing and sound together in new ways here imo - lots of really disorienting, even jarring shifts in the sound, where background becomes suddenly very loud orvery fast edits from one thing to the next also involve corresponding shifts in sound intensity. the whole diegetic music thing was very clever - how the music would change from in-environment to soundtrack depending on the particular shot. also the choice of the smiths i thought fit the theme i mentioned above so well and was pretty funny - the hyper stoic masculine assassin is actually motivated by emotion and is constantly listening to the most emo shit ever. definitely plan on watching again soon. the pacing was pretty aggressive so i feel like there's probably lots to see the second time around. ultimately found it really rich and fun, a taut but not lean thriller, which sees fincher bringing a little more levity into his intense control. kinda felt there must be a little self-deprecation in this one, in a way
  6. thank god. i thought i was on the verge of having my fsol cred REVOKED!
  7. please don't make fun of me but...what's the third volume of E6?
  8. File this under Minor Speculation i've been looking into vintage Orban gear (made for radio broadcasting) and i feel it's quite possible The Brothers took some graphic inspiration from this gear. maybe they even use it? the signature blue and whatever that font is are very BOC imo. just a thought.
  9. Alcofribas

    Hyped for this

    i first met rob at through our mutual friend "sean booth." they were both into tagging or the italian art of spray paint draughtsmanship. i was not. but nevertheless we met through our mutual friend brad pitt who was then staring in a film or, in hollywoodese, "a movie." actually it was brad who first came up with the idea of making music. but that's another story. sean and brad used to bike over to my house and ask me questions about electro and egyptian lover and mantronix. i had all the records and used to do pause button edits where i would press pause and "edit" (speak) to them about music, explaining how it works. brad suggested to sean he get into this kind of thing (this is the story i mentioned earlier) and sean just stared kinda aggressively, smoking a cigarette and then storming off with my beloved juno 106, roland r8, mc202 (the "micro composer" was my nickname at the time), 606, 808 and then came back for the korg ms20 about 45 mins later. the entire time i stood there stunned, not moving. how could he do this? brad laughed and made an international call to dave fincher. ironically, it was while robbing me that rob showed up. he was looking for some kind of architectural facade to admire on the street and bumped into sean, sending my beloved pieces scattering across the pavement. he bent down to pick them up (i'm inside stunned but i can see this through the open front door of my "semi-detached" which is a british thing which i know as i am actually british, a "lad" so to speak). rob was like "woahh sick what is all this." sean was mad bc at that time he didn't really know, he hadn't really used them. so he said they were devices for architecture. rob had to learn more so he offered to give him a ride to sheffield. what sean didn't know is that rob didn't own a car or even have a license, he only rode around on bmx bikes. panicking, rob glanced around and saw through my front door - car keys! so he grabbed them and stole my car. the two drove off and composed "lego feet" and "incoonaboola" on the spot. they were naturals. even i can admit that, now that the wounds are healed. i next saw them via our mutual friend richard "afx, caustic window, bradley strider, aphex twin, polygon window, analord, hangable audio bulb, the dice man cometh, d" james. rdj had just stolen some dats from luke vibert, or maybe it was the other way around. in any case lots of thievery during this era. this is a british thing, chavs. he stopped by my place and asked me to hide the tapes, which i did. years later, he turned up laughing about how the post man had come to pick up a remix from him for blur or beck or bowie and he'd just given them a random dat of his various studio experiments. this reminded him of those tapes i hid for him. "you still have those?" he asked. we set off to the woods where i buried them and it was there we met sean and rob who were now "the brothers." i don't understand that. "the 'chre" richard said. sean and i locked eyes but by this time they'd moved on to impressive midi and nord music and i was so in awe of this i didn't dare mention all that gear. rob was doing mountain bike stuff in the woods, sean was just admiring birds and twigs and such. richard pulled out the hidden tapes and we played them on his portable dat. they sounded "fucked up" which inspired the brothers who then made their music more fucked up sounding. sort of like a "what's going on here" effect the first several times you hear it. i kinda feel i inspired that quality and this is another way i am sort of like a third "brother" of the group "autechre." the band. subsequently, i never heard from the lads for many years and was it not for their regular appearances in the media and constant releases of albums and live material, i might've supposed they were dead. one day i was in a cafe in london using max/msp to make beats do kind of like a skipping around thing, basically like triplets or something. sean heard about this from the barista and he later phoned me on the "telly" (sp?) to inquire about this. i sent him a zip of "max" and to this day both he and rob use this. again, it's like i am a brother, one of the main characters of the duo. recently i caught up with them at the "barbicon" which is a convention for barbeque enthusiasts. as i was admiring the specs of some sauce a familiar voice with a distinctly "mancunian" accent arose behind me. i turned to see sean. there were tears in his eyes, his cheeks were moist. i thought this must be it, sean is going to apologize for stealing all that vintage classic gear. my heart was racing and already i forgave him. i soon realize, however, that he was just eating some very spicy bbq wings (it was then i noticed the sauce stains on his chin dripping onto his cycling 74 t-shirt) and after wiping his hands on his jeans he began speaking to the sauce master just behind me. i realized he didn't recognize me at all, didn't even see me. i left them engaged in a discussion on the merits of ghost peppers. this was the last time i saw either of the brothers.
  10. sorry mom I can’t help you bring in the groceries I’m listening to luxury sonics
  11. Props to Jack for appearing in his signature white t shirt that he wears in like every concert since 1996
  12. kind of interesting considering the timing and naming of this release and another remix album Richard was on: nin “further down the spiral”
  13. i kinda feel like jack is so under-appreciated that i welcome him putting the same top shelf material on multiple releases. people gotta hear this.
  14. this is a pretty good track record. i permit thee to fly free, enjoy this music, go wild, soar.
  15. i tried listening. ya'll are on some shit this is cringe
  16. really enjoying this. i really love how delicate this music is. it's hard to describe bc there's lots of music on line imprint that goes for a soft, quiet sound, but somehow the monochromes series hits different. everything is really distant but with distinctly sensed layers that open up a lot with headphones. it's interesting to me how there are these beautiful threads of noise that arise when certain things fade in (monochrome 25, and monochrome 3 is beautifully noisy) as well as what come across like kick drums or bass sounds (monochrome 4) but somehow the mix is so restrained that these never sound percussive. very much like a distant thunder effect. idk, it's hard to explain why this feels so unique to me. one way of looking at it is in relation to their other releases - none of them sound like this, the other works are way more similar to other computer music i've heard a million times. i think it's hard to identify why certain ambient music works for me better than others but i definitely feel it physically. it creates a physical mood that transports me right away.
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