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Kanye West has become the Kevin Bacon of music
xy_politics replied to Rubin Farr's topic in Music Discussion
This Is Spinal Rap- 528 replies
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- take your meds
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Would You Pay to Access WATMM In Lieu of Advertisements?
xy_politics replied to Joyrex's topic in General Banter
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- 65 replies
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- Future of WATMM
- Paying ones fair share
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Peak GAS has arrived, folks: Korg PS-3300 FS
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great hearing this again not on busted old vinyl
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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
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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.
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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
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Autechre gigs you attended and how much the ticket was
xy_politics replied to Rbrmyofr's topic in Autechre
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. -
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JPEGMAFIA X Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES
xy_politics replied to thumbass's topic in New & Upcoming Releases
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love that artwork. reminds me of nutting in the bathtub indeed
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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
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Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Promo
xy_politics replied to the-lazy-light's topic in Aphex Twin
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 ? -
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Promo
xy_politics replied to the-lazy-light's topic in Aphex Twin
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. -
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Promo
xy_politics replied to the-lazy-light's topic in Aphex Twin
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: -
1987 to 1993. Your "electronica" recommendations!
xy_politics replied to watmmisdead's topic in Music Discussion
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): -
1987 to 1993. Your "electronica" recommendations!
xy_politics replied to watmmisdead's topic in Music Discussion
Some random selections! from '85: from '86: from '87: from '88: -
Best Timestretching Plugins or Algorithms you have heard?
xy_politics replied to Brisbot's topic in EKT General Discussion
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 -
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)
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There has never been a better time to reset the term IDM, welcome ELM
xy_politics replied to demo's topic in Music Discussion
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