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5 hours ago, o00o said:
Why does he have this stupid rule in the first place?
ten toes...ten films...?
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“(When composing ‘In Memory of Elizabeth Reed’) I was thinking of Benny Goodman. I was thinking of how he used melody and then I got all these Western swing influences from my buddy Dave Liles, who passed away about four years ago. But the thing came about, see, I was dating, I was slipping around, back-dooring Boz Scaggs’ girlfriend, live-in girlfriend, they weren’t married, but (laughs). She was a beautiful Italian girl. I wrote this song and I wanted to call it ‘Carmella’ but couldn’t. So the place we would meet, in this old 1800s graveyard, Rose Hill, there was this old tombstone that said on it ‘In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.’
RIP Dicky Betts, one of the main guys in The Allman Brothers Band
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i watched The Hunted this weekend and it was okay. a bit better than expected based on the poster, but also worse. good pacing & decent action, but also it all felt a bit neutered & rushed in ways. every aspect of the plot, dialogue, shots, etc., all was almost right, but nothing was very good. could’ve been better, would make for a good 1 season TV series thing.
6.5 knife fights out of 10
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6 hours ago, jaderpansen said:
PPL, how is this not complete fucking hype yet?? entirely new set indeed, banger upon banger!
if anyone's interesting i eqd the thing a bit o get rid of the low-end muddiness, sacrificing some oomph but revealing more detail i think: https://wetransfer.com/downloads/040be38a52dd7fd8db9c3347fb50037620240415074912/c88054f27e8f079a11981fbe62f741a420240415075444/
Also i seem to have cut off the last few minutes, oops.
ah damn on the cutoff, sounds like you did a solid job getting that muddiness out of there
whoever uploaded that first recording reupped it with some mastering, sounds better than it was for sure:
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31 minutes ago, ignatius said:
i never got _any_ traction on streaming services. had stuff up since the beginning. so like 10 years or something.
did you get on any playlists? that’s what Zephyr mentioned specifically and i’ve heard that before from others…getting on those popular playlists is super important supposedly for triggering the algorithms
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1 hour ago, hma said:
Everything I`ve heard so far has this terrible spectral smearing all over it and I don`t think it`s the encoding.
i assumed that was on there because it’s being trained on tons of low quality rips/feeds…everything’s got that washy mp3 sound to it, super noticeable in the high hats and stuff.
that'll be gone within a few iterations/new companies upping the quality of data tho.
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38 minutes ago, o00o said:
Around 1:00:00 it’s like a rollercoaster when it shortly stops just to tear you apart entirely afterwards
hell yeah, loved that part. crazy that they’re pulling this shit off live.
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Two of the Israeli government’s most hardline ministers on Sunday urged a firm response to the overnight Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich urging a response that "resonates throughout the Middle East" and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Israel should "go crazy."
Smotrich, the head of the far-right Religious Zionism party, said that if Israel hesitated, "we will put ourselves and our children in existential danger."
In a video statement, Smotrich called this a “moment of truth,” saying, “If our response resonates throughout the Middle East for generations to come — we will win.”
Ben Gvir, the leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, said Israel’s response must not be “weak,” and that “the concepts of containment and proportionality are concepts that passed away on October 7,” the day of the Hamas attack on Israel.
Neither Smotrich nor Ben Gvir are members of Israel’s war cabinet.
i'm sure everyone paying any attention to this saw that Iran's tried to attack Israel, with almost zero success (US was part of the defense taking out some of the missiles going towards Israel) but Israel is almost certainly going to attack Iran, to which Iran is already stating they'll 'hit back harder if Israel retaliates' so...yknow, expanded war already happening.
short video laying out some of the preceeding events, with a couple of notable facts: first, this is the first time Iran has directly attacked Israeli soil, and two, at least some Iranian citizens view this partly as retaliation for the slaughter in Gaza. this is exactly the kind of recipe for continued escalation. already multiple countries involved.
Zelensky over in Ukraine is speaking about today/yesterday as well.
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2 hours ago, ignatius said:
way different vibe to the others. that first part is a techno work out kinda.. gets pretty deep and a bit sad/dark later on. sounds like all new material. some nice beats throughout. off kilter stuff all over the place. digging it.
most 'standard' beats i've heard them using live since like the 00's sets. still some obtuse/mindbending stuff in there no doubt, but does tend towards more easily-recognizable rhythms. i think you're right that most/maybe all is 'new' stuff, hard to say with the recording quality at the moment tho. soundboards are going to be fucking nuts...section right up about 1:00:00 in this Lisbon second show set had to be wild live. getting almost Sublimit vibes from it.
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10 hours ago, decibal cooper said:
Like when I listen to a song like this one below in headphones, I feel pretty confident that it might not even be possible for a machine to recreate, or even come close really, such music on its own.
so the thing is, and i'm honestly not trying to be argumentative or anything, but Udio or whatever other program definitely could re'create' a track with that oddness & uniqueness, easily...if it's fed enough seed material. that's literally all that matters here...take enough seed data, make sure the program is good at finding the connecting aspects of a sound, style, etc., and is able to recreate that sound relatively accurately.
10 hours ago, decibal cooper said:Sure you can get some kind of cheap muzak imitation of this easy, but imo it will always pale in comparison to the thing itself, the human made music.
i guarantee the general public would choose most any of these Udio tracks posted and claim they're more 'human' than that Aphex track tho.
and the thing is, soon enough we won'tbe able to know the difference....we're already there, depending on how we want to define these things...SoundCloud is certainly already starting to get bits of Udio/Suno/whatever i'm quite sure, and Spotify has been battling a deluge of partly/entirely 'fake' artists, of which certainly some are using ML/AI/some amount of software exploitation for the sake of profit.
soon enough some jackass 'musician' who was shilling NFTs a couple years ago is going to release their 'AI-assisted' album like it's some big revolutionary/controversial thing. it'll be another Jacques Greene or someone like The Weeknd/OPN or someshit.
10 hours ago, EdamAnchorman said:Not an exact parallel, but did McDonald's make people stop and question why they like the foods they like and what food means to them? No, they just shove it down their gullet.
Like someone above said, music to most people is something that's ancillary, disposable, on in the background while they work/jog/exercise, etc.
I think there are enough people out there who value music enough to create a market for human-made music, as long as it can still offer a superior experience.
partly right, partly not i think. McDonald's/fast food has caused some amount of stopping and questioning of the nutrition, care, connection, etc. regarding our interaction with food. obv McDonald's still succeeded...and most don't have that reaction, but that reaction is part of the conversation.
but yeah, lots use music exactly like you're saying....just as background. and that's okay, i think? that's gotta be the target market (see previous Spotify mention)
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hopefully all this will make people start to really question why they listen to what what they listen to, what it means to them, if it connects them with the artist’s experience/story in some way… some among us will listen to any cringe Aphex-alike just because it sounds like Aphex. you’re about to have infinite Aphex-alike at your fingertips, so why do you want to hear that sound? does it matter if it was a particular artist’s take on the style that you like? or do you not care about the source at all, infinite variations of the same basic idea? do you want infinite variations at all, or just a few more tracks like Windowlicker? is it really just the sounds, that matter whether AI created or not? given the fervor around Aphex/AE/BOC/etc., it’s, at least for many, not *just* the sounds that are important but the innovation, the story, the artist…AI has none of that.
Spoileruntil the AI becomes self aware, of course….
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^the screaming from Bautista & one-note aspect of character from Bardem there seemed like some characterization/story/etc. was left out via editing…all that played into my thinking there’s gotta be a more full & fleshed out director’s cut on the way at some point.
some characters just get sidelined a touch in these big epic stories…i believe that happened even in the book/s (as good as those are). not an excuse but nonetheless not too surprising.
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5 hours ago, Joyrex said:
I’m actually open to the idea, and I think a poll would be the best way to determine which artist(s) would make sense to have a subforum dedicated to them.
that's good to hear! a poll is a good way to make those decisions, i wonder if there should maybe be a cap on how many 'featured artists' are available? if there's 50 or 100 "featured artists," is that really a help i guess is what i'm worried about?
5 hours ago, Joyrex said:Or, would it make more sense to do away with artist subforums and just have it all freeform?
personally i like the experience of going to the AE subforum with pinned posts, unread threads, etc., or the same for artists i'm not as familiar with like Vibert, i can see the active threads easily for looking into what's popular/recent for that artist specifically...having that for more artists would be good, or any artist perhaps, if that same basic structure/experience could be maintained. idk operationally how that would work tho...
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3 hours ago, iococoi said:Quote
Modernity has supplied the temporary illusion—initiated by our foray into agriculture—that humans stand alone and apart from the community of life on this planet. Our narratives around evolution, even, have emphasized the survival of the fittest rather than complex interdependencies and mutual cooperation in a co-dependent web of life. We imagine ourselves as the victors in the game. Winning, in this sense, is the quickest path to losing—because it’s not a competition.
good stuff. the author's right, 'modernity' is going to have to end to some extent or another. 'lifestyle change' is how i usually refer to it, but it's the same thing. the 'all new everything every few years' / 'go everywhere & do everything' way of life is unsustainable at scale. this is 100% certain.
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28 minutes ago, zazen said:
Are we a bunch of old people stuck in a time capsule (yes is a perfectly valid answer to that).
no, but Joyrex has stated pretty clearly that he is regarding new artist subforums. let’s hope he changes his mind one of these days.
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12 minutes ago, ignatius said:
nice! the bootleg someone here shared is pretty strong, good recording but i know there's a ton of detail missing...probably won't listen again so as not to sour my memory on it. set flows well, has a bit more separation and playfullness, some more pounding parts and really amps up hard af in areas. def looking forward to them releasing it eventually, some of the new/heavy bits sound fucking tasty in that bootleg (thanks again to whoever that was that posted, great recording!)
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14 minutes ago, Bob Dylan said:
They are having fun again on Instagram, hmmm the frequency is accelerating! :
sixty+ten=70
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Jacquard stands out a bit, sure, but not in a bad way imo. that 'standing out' of it lends itself towards the pseudo-soundtrack concept of the album...you're going to have pieces in many soundtracks that feel entirely apt when watching the film for that scene, but don't necessarily 'vibe' with the overall score. there's plenty of soundtrack-y ideas throughout the album in other ways but that's probably the most stark full song difference. it is the longest track on the album tho so maybe i'm coming at it from the wrong direction, idk...
mixing/mastering of this album is so fucking good, it's weirdly raw at times. i really wonder about their balance of being insanely meticulous vs just running with things and trusting their guts when it comes to recording/mixing/etc.
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2020 US Election
in General Banter
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some bits of (partial) truths in there as is often the case with lunatics