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12 hours ago, BlockUser said:
To those who've been to one of these recent concerts - Do they actually sell any merch still? They did in 2016, got me a SKAM shirt there, I didn't like the Autechre shirt they were selling. My Exai shirt has suffered from me ignoring that it's supposed to be washed at 30°. inb4 is it washable: The SKAM shirt has braille on the shoulder, I think it's maybe hot glue or some plastic, so it's actually raised. Didn't even notice until I washed it the first time.
Come to think of it, the 2014/15 artworks, all combined into one large pattern covering the entire fabric, would make for a pretty good button-up shirt.
yah they had shirts at Barbican last year. Didn't think they did, I had to sniff'em out. Was down in the basement.
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Got me phone nicked last night by some toerag who shoved me over after nicking it then jumping on the back of a waiting moped.
All of my internet is from my phone, was royally fucked. Had to go knocking on neighbour's doors at 22:30 on a Sunday until eventually one kind lady answered and gave me her wifi password so I could contact people. Couldn't get the signal from my flat though so I had to camp outside her door like a literal bloody hobo.
This is the pic my ex took when she biked over to stay the night so I could leach the 5G from her phone and get my affairs in order.
The phone was paid off luckily and I was now on an unlimited data sim only plan. So today I took the standard upgrade and got a new iphone14 pro. Swings and roundabouts.
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I think he's painted himself into a nice and cozy sound palette corner since Tuss. The detuned acid lines, dry af drums, cop show dadfunk corner.
Cool if you dig that I guess, I don't particularly.
Also I am not impressed by the difficult gear technicalities behind how you got these tracks, whocares.gif, if this is the end result.
There are some nice little compositional tricks and touches on some of those London 12" tracks, what @Alcofribassaid about elegance and lightness of touch. I just wish he could get out of this sound palette corner he's painted himself into, it's terminally dull.
But as has been said 90000 times in this this thread, he does what he wants so *shrug*
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1 hour ago, zazen said:
guys, guys, check this out:
In 2005 I bought VS 'Defluxion' from Bleep (labelled as Untitled 7", originally dated 2001 ) and it was a reallly chilled track and I've always loved it and I was coming to post it in this thread as an example of Venetian Snares doing something chill and low key for a change. But then I find the youtube link and on youtube its a completely different track and its all breakcore??
This is not the Defluxion I bought in 2005:But I bought my track from Bleep, this isn't some Limewire labelling fuckup. The mp3 still has the bleep tags. But the version on Bleep today is also breakcore. So Bleep must have sent me a track by someone completely different 18 years ago labelled as Venetian Snares and ever since its been my favourite snares track.
So can someone ID this please, who is this?Extract:
P Mu got form this shit lol
I listened to the Ambulance album via AM for the first time, one of my fave Mu albums that I used to own on CD.
My fave track on there was not the right track, turned out to be another track by a completely different Mu artist. I tweeted sunken foals guy (ex-Ambulance) about it and he was like "have they still not fixed that yet?!"-
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1 hour ago, Alcofribas said:
i would argue that a computer and software qualify as "gear" and are the main equipment used to make music in the 21st century. i personally think this is a kind of "gear lust." something like the notion that you can "do more," everything is "more efficient" or whatever with a computer is the dominant ideology of music-making in our time.
to me, characterizing having an interest in non-computer technology as a kind of corrupting "gear lust" is really ignoring how beholden we are to computers. this is a something of a bugbear of mine, not meant with hostility toward you
I don't like the lack of creative freedom that comes with the territory of gear. It seems to turn into a dick measuring contest and also most of the focus is on the mechanics of getting your gear to actually fucking work and maintenance etc. It's music guy eq of those dudes who are always taking their cars apart in their driveways every sunday. Spergy compulsion.
A daw to me is a blank sheet of paper and a pencil. Putting gear in the equation is like introducing a spirograph to the mix.Or to use another metaphor, wanting to get really good at fancy yoyo tricks.
And no, if you go down the rabbitholes of gear people on social media, the dominant 'ideology' (aka bragging rights) is always along the lines of #analog #dawless etc
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On 8/19/2023 at 5:40 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:
I posted here back in the day. Had the honour of working with some samples he put together for me as part of a chain-letter music compilation release. Had 24 hours to take those and make a new track with it. Only got the part because another artist dropped out last minute, and it was a track-per-day schedule. Anyway, comp was released, so I mentioned it on the board, and he coasted in saying how much he liked it. Definitely worth staying up until 7am to complete it.
Rossz was my introduction to Snares because it was displayed at a record store in the listening section. Had no idea what to expect, and it was unlike anything else I'd heard at the time. Obviously there are some similarities in the drum programming still to Aphex/SP's old drill 'n' bass stuff, but coming at it from a whole other angle.was this that ceramic pig comp?
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9 minutes ago, Freak of the week said:
pure genius
mhm
There's a reason my av has been some variation on that cover since 2008 or so
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19 hours ago, mcbpete said:
Didn't he get into modular stuff, maybe he's got caught up in all the wires Tetsuo style ?
Yeah, the absolute death of creativity
Him and aphex are evidence of that, stay away from gear lust kids
5 hours ago, cheep_hardware said:It is interesting that like...his youtube doesn't have Songs About My Cats on it, which I loved. Always just a lot of traumatic imprint on all his stuff. "Winter in the belly..." starts w/the Dad content....with some luck he rounded out a whole era of trauma, because "Dad" is a very early song w/him singing, and late releases include a lot of that sort of stuff. Also (and I know this is very annoying psychosocial tone...) a lot of his sexual stuff was more in the middle of his arc. I dunno.
I remember listening to Meathole in high school art class. I got a lot of energy from the structural aspects of his music. But the content was never very relatable. It felt like a full indulgence in like......tim burton mixed with Requiem for a Dream, then shortly thereafter stuff like Into The Void. This was a theme I found many ppl go through in the 2000s.
It was a level of horror mixed with detachment that I never actually related to. Being older, I can hypothesize it was a mix of childhood trauma, small town sickness (which I do relate to), then like...antidepressant medications. Odd drug use (which to me would be more chemical than say, weed and shrooms).
Anyway. I think he managed to come out ok thru it. Glad for him. Drugs + trauma happen but many ppl never produce anything from it.
Will say that Songs About My Cats to me is the perfect level of confusion, human approachable release of his. Maybe he learned how to deal w/other stuff thru that. Being alone w/a cat is a good thing.
Yeah, I like the early more dada stuff. My cutoff point is the cylinder box album.
Hated Rossz, which seems to be everyone's favourite. It's so mallgoth I can see it wearing a nightmare before xmas backpack. Then he did that thing where the more musically adept and learned he became, the less interesting his music got-
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4 hours ago, CC Undefined said:
you leave your stupid codes in your pocket
I shall be purchasing this fine release
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super lush, super talented guys
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10 hours ago, xxx said:
hahaha Hello Spiral's famous
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8 hours ago, BobDobalina said:
lol I wish
memes are ephemeral like that, I still yearn for the basic-channel-romantic-fan-fiction-found-in-a-record-shop-trashbin, butt alass
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I wouldn't even call it 'influence'
SDEM is an OG, he goes way back with ae, part of the same scene when they were all unknowns. Along with SND and Haswell and Chris Douglas etc.
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On 7/29/2023 at 5:28 AM, Friendly Stranger said:
Aphex Twin released a new EP today, July 28th in the year 2023. Let it soak in and remind yourself how grateful we all should be. Seriously.
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Listened twice. If the APHEX name were not attached to it I doubt it would get the second listen.
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anyone have that meme with the text notifications from 'depression' and 'anxiety' but this version the third notification is Perlence Subrange 6-36 saying "bonk"?
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Oneohtrix Point Never - Again
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Cool vid, music felt almost incidental to the video, just providing the soundtrack.
Will wait to see if it seems better in context of the album.
Yeah opn hasn't been 'weird' in a long time. Someone the other day said 'coldplay for 'creatives' ' and that feels grimly correct.
hated the last album after one listen, was lukewarm on Age Of. Will still check this new one out.