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On 5/9/2024 at 8:13 AM, YEK said:
I went to this installation back in 2009 or 2010. It was free entry so I went back like 4 times over 2 weeks. They would perch on your shoulders too while you walked around. I have the poster advertising it too somewhere, which I stole from a tube station. It's in the never ending, years old pile of things waiting to be framed.
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It's very nice for what it is.
I too do not care for the cover.
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18 hours ago, Walter Ostanek said:
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This is the most recent 'trilogy' btw
There will be physical copies at some point, mainly to sell at a gig I will be playing in Leeds in June-
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This is my pal
Got him for £1 from a bootsale in 2002 or 03. The guy I bought him from said he hadn't been tuned in ten years, so that's now 30+yrs of not touching those pegs.
3/4 acoustic that somebody strung with steel strings, so the whole body is now banana shaped. Am missing both a string and a fret.
His tone is gorgeous, like dusty, woody, vibrating walnuts.
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yeah I got his tape that was recorded in a cave full of bats with organ and shit on it, was part of boomkat's white tape series thing
vgood shit
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On 4/17/2024 at 2:25 PM, cwmbrancity said:
“Arsenal to Wimbledon” on your Balked release is annoyingly sublime. The blend of tube acoustics, with a motorised guitar strum or drone over & underlaying ambient background conversations, is mint. Need this.
Thanks m8. Yeah that is currently my favourite of my own releases. At this point considering it the best thing I have done. DM to remind me and I will see if I've got some spare BC codes btw
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Hullo, a year in production (of the physical goods + design), this is a 'lost' cd_slopper album from either 2000 or 2001 (am still waiting on confirmation on that from Berthold)
cd_slopper is the duo of Oswald Berthold (Farmer's Manual) and Florian Hecker
Available as digital download, extremely beautiful cassette tape or art print.
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On 3/8/2024 at 10:28 PM, zkom said:
I watched the Boxer's Omen, a 1983 Hong Kong occult film.
And this is the strangest movie I have seen in the last few years. It is fucking bonkers. You might think the trailer up there is some kind of collection of just the craziest scenes. No, I can assure you the movie is even crazier. Everything is so bizarre: the plot, the effects, the camera work, the rhythm of the movie, the sound design, the acting, the locations. And it barely has any quiet moments. It's just 1 hour 45 minutes of madness. Like a nightmare you would have after 4 days of binge drinking. I would imagine that if David Lynch and Terry Gilliam got together and took some acid and decided to make a kung-fu movie it would be something like this.
Rating: Flying severed tentacle head / 10.
I bought this on bluray about 6 years ago and afaik still sits sealed on a bookshelf with the rest of them. This might be a sign to crack it open.
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On 3/12/2024 at 9:37 AM, thejewk said:
I'm rereading some Lovecraft while waiting for a Thomas Ligotti anthology to arrive.
I'm about halfway through Songs + Grimscribe
It's ok. A little goes a long way. I find if I binge too many of them at once it gets a bit samey and meh. I do enjoy the very fiddly/intricate prose though.
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sorry for your loss man
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On 1/26/2024 at 5:57 PM, hello spiral said:
There's actually a pretty well known label around these parts interested in putting some of this stuff out :^)
something for the FWS thread if the talks work out
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I have an album out of more odd guitar explorations on the venerable fals.ch label
Quote"They take this bloody thing, this box with strings on it and they use it in a particular way which suits their purposes. Well, that’s all I wanted to do. I wanted to take that box with strings and use it in a freely improvised situation."
- derek baileycredits
released March 1, 2024
Everything by Joseph Baldwin. Recorded next to Arsenal Stadium in January of 2024, salaamhelicoid.bandcamp.com
Acoustic Guitar, milk foamer, 12W Amplifier, Korg Monotron, SRS-X11 bluetooth speaker, Droner Kebab v1.0 oscillator unit, Digitech 'death metal' distortion pedal, Rucci touch synthesizer, wooden cigarette dispenser, bottle caps, crushed coke cans, ibuprofen.
Thanks to Tom Bench for inspiration, Kerry Gilfillan for support & Jon Abbey for prods, pointers and paraphernaliaenjoy!
NB: the original videos that these edits are taken from are uploaded to the bandcamp in unedited form
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11 hours ago, Walter Ostanek said:
the only person i've ever had to sack is also the only person IRL i've known who's been a self declared JP fanboy. Sacked him for joking about rape one too many times in front of female coworkers, alongside all the typical woman-o-phobic comments
lol christ
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Part three in a trilogy after 'You Have Never Properly Misunderstood My Intentions' and 'System Preferences'
Here I have recorded multiple takes of guitar drone, aided by an electric milk foamer augmented with knotted picture-hanging string.
Each take was played alongside a 45 minute recording of a train journey from Arsenal to Wimbledon on the 18th of March 2023.
Myself and my partner were travelling to a dinner party hosted by her friends. It was a fairly fraught and tense journey, with us falling out with each other a number of times and not speaking. My partner was very anxious about getting there on time and being pleasant and sociable. I didn't particularly want to go and was especially baulking at having to navigate The London Underground for an hour.
I am told I was a drunken mess at the dinner party and managed to embarrass my partner and put the other attendees on edge.
Arguably this episode was the tipping point in our relationship, which ended two months later.
According to the instructions that came with my milk foamer, extended use should be limited to 3 minutes maximum. During these multiple 45 minute long takes it got very hot and the batteries ran low and required changing multiple times. This proved to be an interesting and unexpected development and introduced tempo changes into the layers of guitar drone here. Quite a few takes got slower and slower towards the end and in some instances the motor stopped altogether and had to be manually coaxed back to its feeble spinning.
After hours of recording I fell asleep during one take, at around 2am, and woke up to find my trusty milk foamer had carried on in its duties for 19 more minutes past the 45 minute field recording.
My options were either to incorporate this extra audio into the rest of the track somehow, or allow it to remain as an extended outro. I went with the latter and it's now the 2nd track here 'Somnambulist (Works on Paper)'.
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On 12/19/2023 at 3:54 AM, baph said:
Can someone get China Mieville to write a new novel?
Man, I loved Embassytown and The City and The City. So when I saw a gigantic one by him in a charity shop I grabbed it.
I didn't realise Perdido Street Station was published 10+ years before those other books, when he was just starting out writing. He was clearly some kinda fantasy RPG type nerd back then. That book has the stink of single boy bedroom and steampunk all over it. If I start a book I will always finish it (only one exception to this in my life so far) but jfc that was a slog.
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Play some more live shows (broke my cherry in December)
Get some more stuff out on some more known and diverse labels (have started that process already)
edit: oh yeah and start and finish a zine I've had in my mind for years (I've bought it up with a label that's already released one thing of mine so now I've actually kinda sorta committed)
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Hello,
I looked for my old thread but it apparently got archived and I can't bump it no mo.
here is my most recent bandcamp 'trilogy'
Also very recently I have been moving into non-computer music territory
I have an improvised guitar based album on Chocolate Monk that can be found here:
http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/available.html
and have been exploring that further with some things I've been doing while under house arrest
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Hello Spiral Ephemera
in Your Latest Creations
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The guy in my local area that organises all the artsy basement venue gigs near me came over on Sunday to drop off a mixer he said he'd loan me for the gig I am playing up north in June.
And we had a little jam too