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Hexahedral

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  1. Anecdotally seeing a few people being hit by customs charges in the US. Pretty rough considering the high price in the first place. Yes - I got dinged ~$56 CAD via Aramex (the broker handling the Ochre/DPD shipment upon its entry into Canada). So to anyone in Canada (and USA as well), heads up that it is likely there will be some hefty brokerage and duty to pay unfortunately if you chose the Ochre (and in the case of Aramex; you pay your duty in advance, online, via Credit Card only) method rather than FedEx (though I'm assuming FedEx is equally as hefty a fee).
  2. They are not gone. I had one in my basket and it was still present when the Aphex Twin bleepstore briefly reconnected. I doubt many people have been able to get beyond adding it to their basket at this point. It also appears as if it will be distributed elsewhere outside of Bleep (i.e. Norman Records).
  3. I feel this way about nineFly as well [it is my favourite piece from Session 3]. The synesthesia that it provokes within me is a warm, dense space with no ambient light at all, filled with a mass of molten glass/metal amalgam that is both becoming more liquid and more solid as it forms and deforms, flowing with the rhythm. There is also a very refractive quality to it; a gravitational lensing of sorts - bright white and red/orange/amber light being bent into very sharp points via the morphing material, and diffuse forms as well, but never becoming completely nebulous. It smells and tastes very glassy and metallic as well, and a bit sugary. Overall it is very pleasing - as have all the other tracks been. There are textures here that I have never heard anywhere else before, and combinations of textures that feel very uncanny and yet physically very alien and implausible.
  4. I am waiting until the end of the month myself. I don’t want to assume that this is definitely the process that Warp are going forward with, but for a project of this scale (12 LPs as one box-set or four separate 3xLP sets) it would be a wise decision to take pre-orders first in order to better determine how many copies should be pressed, and then go forward with the pressing of the records/CDs and the manufacturing of the sleeves/packaging. I wouldn’t build up too much FOMO, as I am sure that all who want it will be able to secure a copy.
  5. * Tap Water * Purdy's Chocolate Delicious. Dinner is served.
  6. Lint Yeastwood Bandaid Quest Bearpusher Bic-Pen Lumber-Snatch
  7. Simmons Clap Trap ooh yeah, spot on! This clap caught my attention too. I was thinking it sounds like Elektron Analog Rytm clap? With lfo filter sweep or something. Also some kinda rimshot flam/fill at 1;58 lurking low in the 2x202 mix? Elektron AR Clap demo at 12:25. All percussion throughout the release sounds like TR9090 (909 clone) - very nice Cirklon sequencing techniques used to make it more alien (extreme flam and so on). Don't think it's RYTM as within the credits it is mentioned that the version of his studio used to create these pieces was pre-Syro, and RYTM is a much more recent bit of kit.
  8. Would be dope. What the unit sounds like:
  9. No. Different location [Source]: Another different location [Source]: inb4 'flattened out the crease and moved it to another surface' inb4 'took the photo with a different device' Marble countertop advertising conspiracy 2016.
  10. The flyer contains a few similarities to the written contents of the actual Cheetah MS6 Operator's Manual.
  11. Fade in to a macro of an active clothing dryer vent outdoors. Lint at the lip of the vent is violently fluttering in the warm breeze generated from within the dryer. An arduously slow zoom-out reveals an approaching feral cat. For one reason or another the cat decides it is a good idea to lick the swiftly fluttering chunk of lint and a large portion of it gets stuck on the cat’s tongue. The rest of the film consists of the cat tediously attempting to remove the lint from its tongue. It is not revealed whether the cat succeeds in this or not. At some points the lint ends up on the cat’s back. It tries to get rid of it but the lint once again finds itself on the cat’s tongue and it continues to lick with a slight increase in the bluster and chaos of its licking pace. This segment occurs with tense sound effects and music which starts with great immediacy and stops just as suddenly and awkwardly as it began. The films ends in an instant after nine aggravating hours with no fades or credits. It is entitled “Nine Hours, Nine Lives”. The cat is actually two costumed actors and the dryer vent is the size of a garage door. The head is played - and the tongue puppeteered, with an astringent attitude of haste - by Meryl Streep, and the hind quarters is Danny DeVito, wearing cheap fur coat and a tail with a small bell on the tip. He’s also eating a sandwich during the whole nine hours. The sandwich happens to be cut into nine, roughly cubic, slices. He takes small bites with his little finger extended. The sandwich is cucumber.
  12. Were I limited to five: Pretend Analog Extmix 2b midievil rave Mk2 [pre plague mix] 5 Scorrier 34 ibiza spliff Cheetah3 Teac
  13. Especially of note, for me, is that there is a lot of emotional content in here that feels very warm and dream / lucid-dream like. Perhaps it is just that I've taken Valerian and am half awake but it is notably deep emotionally. It has been some time since I have been this directly shaken by music. For a synaesthete it is a lot of information, almost an overload, at first listen so I will need more time to absorb every detail and feeling, but the mind/dream/etc-scapes that it generates within me are immediately vivid and feel like they have one foot inside this world's door, and the rest very much outside.
  14. 10/10 Beyond Every single moment is gorgeous.
  15. Not seeing that here. Hey, what did all this mean btw? (There were a few others.) I don't mean, "Is RDJ's face in there somewhere?", I just mean: Can a person w/ knowledge explain what this means to a non-musician? I noticed some ppl described minipops as "loud," and someone posted about why the person who did the mastering may have chosen to do it that way... hopefully this doesn't make it a stupid question. Can someone explain something beyond "it means the song sounds loud"? Some audiophiles here have this idea that the song is mastered badly because of the clipping, that there are some transients cut off at unity - in layman's terms, music levels are backwards, we talk about negative decibels and the loudest a song can be is 0db. Anything going above that is cut off and disintegrated, so that's what you see in the bottom and top of the pic, parts of the waveform aren't there. Limiters and compressors push the sound up towards that limit, and this is almost a necessity to have a competitive volume level in this day and age, but if it is excessive, you hear audible distortion, and that is a negative. I look at a lot of these and the truth is that this is nothing in 2014, track sounds fine. The picture is zoomed out from the waveform quite a lot so it can be rather misleading. My (worthless) opinion is that the song is mixed and mastered well but not fantastic, aside from the shakers it's well balanced, lots going on on the lower registers without it being muddy and a pleasing sound overall - the song is loud and there is a little audible clipping, but there's less harsh treble than most electronic music these days. A good ear can hear that analog summing gear hard at work. But I listen to a lot of EDM and bass music that's ridiculously loud, so I don't judge it by the same standards as someone who might be used to quieter music. Agreed. The other important factor is that RDJ probably would not have approved something he didn't like or didn't feel was appropriate for his music. The artists' preference for mastering comes first, not the fans'.
  16. Not seeing that here. Hey, what did all this mean btw? (There were a few others.) I don't mean, "Is RDJ's face in there somewhere?", I just mean: Can a person w/ knowledge explain what this means to a non-musician? I noticed some ppl described minipops as "loud," and someone posted about why the person who did the mastering may have chosen to do it that way... hopefully this doesn't make it a stupid question. Can someone explain something beyond "it means the song sounds loud"? The waveform, when zoomed in, displays clipping in louder elements of the music (kicks, bass, and so on), which indicates heavier compression and/or limiting on the master. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war Though with minipops the result is still audibly very nice despite the clipping. The engineer did a great job.
  17. Right you are! I would edit the transcribed list but I have no way to go back and edit :/
  18. Transcribed the list: Google doc for the dots maybe?
  19. Confirmation that "aisatsana" is the Barbican piano track: Wondering Sound track-by-track [Source]:
  20. The description of "180dB_" in both FACT and The Quietus track-by-track reviews makes me think it might be the Snowbombing track. It is around the right BPM too. @6.57 here for those who aren't familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzLEMYXPkcE FACT: The Quietus:
  21. source field mix... nah, def not live. Considering he named another tune after Thanaton III, I think he means to reference this Source Field: Just be cool :) You all know it's gonna be a dope LP.
  22. isoprophlex - afx mountain goat - amorphous androgynous polynomial-c - afx circles vicious mix - john & julie temple - jon hopkins jungle - jungle wonz allowance - isolee work harder/work softer - perc no.3 - VA chain reaction X2 - electric soul indicatif roissy - parmegiani from the hame hill - brian eno untrue - burial i could go on and on, mbe all diff contexts but pretty much euphoric to me 'now this is fun' by depeche mode always gets me in a really up state, but it's not really euphoric in the way most people mean (i.e. 'too many fizzy synths') Thank you :) [Also for this inspiring thread. I have learned a lot!]
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