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  1. fixed my sub just close the loophole? see what happens? let's sort the pHaithful from the pHreeloaderz + shane&bob provide an idm scholarship fund, for the truly needy triangular beat herders
  2. Peak GAS has arrived, folks: Korg PS-3300 FS
  3. great hearing this again not on busted old vinyl
  4. to be fair, in that situation (like, an intimately close booth monitor) a weight might do useful stuff to the resonances coming from airborne feedback, or if you've got a budget technics copy perhaps
  5. I couldn't tell a blind bit of difference when I borrowed a pair. Even A/B'd recordings with and without. Zero difference. And they will put extra, unnecessary strain and wear on the motor, spindle bearing and thrust plate.
  6. I took the plunge last week, upgraded all my eligible PCs to W11 On my low-power NUC-style PC which I use for day-to-day general stuff, the general performance massively improved. This little 1.1GHz QC Celeron LOVES Windows 11.. On my 12-core Ryzen studio PC, the performance didn't change that much if at all, but it's certainly not worse Zero issues with faulty apps, crashes, drivers, anything I miss having old-style non-grouped app tabs on the task bar, but that's the only thing
  7. record arrived today, the sounds and mixing are lush but left feeling that more should have been done with it, musically it didn't grab me and seems a bit slight, not itching to play it again. i'd say collapse was much better
  8. i last saw autechre in 1993, in manchester, at the academy. i think it was a tenner to get in. was before incunabula came out. their hour-long set consisted of two tracks, very long versions of the egg and crystel.
  9. love that artwork. reminds me of nutting in the bathtub indeed
  10. Interesting article, new this morning, on some of the less-trodden paths in the early northern UK dance music scene, centered around two DJs/artists responsible for helping create the first and third releases on Warp Records. Illuminating, even for an old fart like me ‘It felt like a revolution’: Jive Turkey, the Sheffield club night that blazed a trail for UK house | Clubbing | The Guardian
  11. That number is very plausible! You should create a Discogs entry for it - and bask in the envy of thousands of aphex collectornerds such as myself ?
  12. initial pressing = first pressing, yes pressing ring just indicates the pressing plant the record was made in, most plants have a unique configuration for this. I can often tell where a record is made just by looking at it - for example, the MPO pressing plant has a series of faint concentric rings that no other factory has. Looking at published photos for the initial AW release (my records are in storage atm unfortunately) it has a ring that looks very similar if not identical. by the way, I was looking at some contemporary R&S releases around 1992, and R&S quite often issued promos with blank labels in various colours - pink, green, blue, grey - and also black (see Mantrax – Scarlet Circus (1992, Vinyl) - Discogs for an example of a black-label release) so that is a very good indicator your AFX LP is a genuine item - and as there's not even a Discogs entry for it, it's likely to be extremely rare if genuine. also, don't worry about that non-genuine sleeve - it's very likely that this promo was not distributed with any sleeve at all, and was just put in this sleeve by a previous owner to protect it.
  13. Are the labels (all) printed solid black? Or perhaps no labels at all? There's no Discogs entry for a pressing like that - the closest being a white label in full picture sleeve The matrices indicate an initial pressing, but you'd have to confirm visually to be 100% sure of that (I have a day-1 non-barcode copy, and the matrices are hand-written btw). The pressing ring around the centre hole looks, at a glance, to be correct for an initial release too. One thing I can say with almost complete certainty - the sleeve is not original. That particular gold promo stamp was a feature of American-made major label releases going back to at least the early 1980s. Here's a US Madonna promo with the same stamp:
  14. It did in the UK, early-to-mid 80s, but wasn't used widely. Check the label on this one, for a while I've wondered if that was an Aphex namecheck (rather than just a reference to the BASIC programming language):
  15. Some random selections! from '85: from '86: from '87: from '88:
  16. Devious Machines Infiltrator has a regular and an FFT timestretcher Also see: DS Audio Tantra 2, and sort-of related, the freeze functions in Unfiltered Audio SpecOps, NI Raum and UVI Sparkverb
  17. active user. there's very little I can fault. Piano Roll can be frustrating, being simultaneously cutting edge (e.g. chance logic, 2 axes of per-note modulation plus Gain and Pan for internal and CLAP plugins) and clunky (mouse pointer hotzones for drag/shift etc are easy to miss, not much in the way of note manipulation processes) Also, plugins can only have 4 channels of audio input (Stereo in + Stereo sidechain) which gets right on my nerves sometimes These are small potatoes though, compared to all the good and unique things it can do. Selling Ableton was a very easy decision to make. It's a very good fit for me (preferring to take the approach of building a track like a giant "machine" rather than laying down and arranging static events on a timeline) but of course a lot of people prefer a more trad/linear experience (which it can also do of course, but perhaps in a less distinguished way)
  18. yes techno is what I called it at the time, before internet and mailing lists were a thing, and still would do except it confuses most people who just think of techno as, I dunno, Blueprint or Ostgut Ton or whatever, 4ttf stuff i settle for 'electronica' these days, though I don't really think it's a genre at all - just some people who wanted to do a personal and/or experimental and/or hybrid take on the established electronic dance genres - and if it is a genre then I would only include within it all the imitators of those guys who came afterwards
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