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Something new and mindfucking is all I could ask for.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't love both the music and artwork of all Ae albums from at least Chiastic Slide through Oversteps inclusive to death. The chance of me disliking this new album is a impossibly infinitessimal fraction of a higgs boson. Quaristice and Oversteps were incredible albums, they're always doing new things, it's always a reinvention of self coupled with overflowing creativity. Once I get my copy, I'm going to listen after smoking some space weed and inhaling a bunch of nitrous, get myself far out into space and visit an exoplanet or two in my mind with my favourite musical group's music taking me there.

Love everything I've heard from him, and yeah, also dig Ramadanman.

Our alcohol supply away from bars is pretty shit in Ontario, sadly. But we can still often find lovely Unibroue beers for relatively cheap, and Fin du Monde and Maudite are certainly no slouches as far as beers are concerned. We probably have some microbrews I don't even know about, though. When I visited Ithaca, NY, I couldn't believe how much better the beer selection was, even at a supermarket (Wegman's was) than at most locations of The Beer Store (here in ON) we have. Perhaps if I went to a really large location of the LCBO they might have some goodies, but sadly, it seems in order to enjoy many craft beers and microbrews, you have to go to one of those fairly chichi brew pubs, though a few places have some rather lovely beers by the St. Ambroise brewery on tap, but again, like Unibroue, that's a Quebecois brewery.

Currently have my nose in quite a few books, which are as follows: Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, which is a series of disjointed, often surreal, often quite funny vignettes connected by the idea of fishing for trout or simply the phrase "Trout Fishing in America", it is the source of my forum signature. The edition I have is a volume which also contains a collection of his poetry called The Pill versus the Spring Hill Mining Disaster as well as a story (In Watermelon Sugar) about a hippie community thought by some to be based on the real life hippie commune known as The Farm, which you can read about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee). Forces in Motion by Graham Lock is to date the only book-length biography of acclaimed avant garde musician Anthony Braxton. It follows him on his 1985 tour of England, and covers both details of some of Braxton's ideologies, musical and otherwise, personal life biographies on him, and also covers a bit on the musicians who at that time were in his quartet, namely Gerry Hemmingway on drums, Mark Dresser on bass, and Marilyn Crispell on piano. One of the testimonials on the back of the book is from Braxton himself who encourages anyone who considers themselves a fan of his music to read the book. Very interesting stuff and reminds me not only of how interconnected the world of jazz is, but how brilliant and interesting a mind Braxton is. VALIS is one of the last novels that Philip K. Dick had written and published before his death, and if I remember correctly is rather autobiographical, and is largely based on his own experiences with mental illness. Like his other books from around the time leading up to his death, it has a lot to do with his own ideas about religion and gnosticism. I recently finished reading these two books: The Cosmic Connection by Carl Sagan, which is a pretty lovely, if dated, non-fiction piece all about contemplating our solar system from an outsider perspective and arguing the case for the importance for interplanetary exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, and The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, which is a very entertaining, if in some parts a bit dated, read of an interesting sort of conspiracy fiction/science fiction/detective fiction crossover which covers many areas from secret societies to psychedelic drug experiences to anarchists and politicians to Atlantis and all the connections between each of these things. Some books I want to start after I'm done the ones I mentioned before are Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, Dennis Tedlock's translation of the ancient Mayan religious text the Popol Vuh, Bob Dylan's (to date) lone fictional novella, Tarantula, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert's Dune, Larry Niven's Ringworld, Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage, Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano, Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus, Andre Breton's Nadja, Watership Down by Richard Adams, and I will try to find some good introductory books to do with mycology. Just need to prioritize these. Feel free to recommend me some books, I'm mostly interested in the following genres: science fiction/speculative fiction, modern/postmodern fiction/experimental literature, scientific non-fiction, music journalism, sociology/political theory, and something I'm interested in but really have barely read anything in is queer theory.

I need to redownload a bunch of classic sets. Are they mostly on archive.org?

Yeah, a throwback to this kinda thing wouldn't be a bad idea at all, but really you could say that about any of their albums (since Chiastic Slide, if you want my opinion). Autechre are always redefining their sound, and we probably all sometimes think about how great it would be to have more than one album in a particular album's sound. Also pretty cool that around the time of Draft was the one time they've released a physical single. I guess they released y7 as a promotional single later, but that's not the same.

Yeah, this shit rules, definitely the album that made me realize Autechre were one of my all time favourites, but I don't know if it's my fave album of theirs anymore.

Just you wait. It's almost guaranteed by what I like to call "oscilik's theory of the Lianne effect" wherein a new Autechre release is out, then some complain about not enjoying it terribly much, and then when the release immediately following is out, people start to come around to enjoying the previous release, that you will enjoy it eventually.

I see what you did there, but it's really all about Werewolf's Sensodyne 12-inch single. I did quite like Where Were U in 92, but yeah the one after wasn't that great.

That doc looks like it's going to be rad!

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Bowel Movements of Ten

Way too many to choose from.

His later era stuff (which I adore) may really peeve some who have short attention spans, but Morton Feldman was an amazing composer.

I just wish I could get an affordable copy of The Quest.

Worship the Glitch is by ELpH. The other by Black Light District. Which are aliases of Coil.

I don't remember what How to Destroy Angels sounds like but yes, those other two are a really great introduction to Coil.

Yeah, Oversteps takes me to some pretty far out places even after just hitting a few bowls.

Seconding Fantastic Vol. 1 !! Released in 95 with production that sounds like it's from the mid to late 2000s. If you're a hip hop n00b who is interested in Dilla, I would highly recommend the three volumes of the Dillanthology.

There's nothing wrong with not liking an album, even if it is by a band you love.

The Complete Truth About De-Evolution is a really great DVD. I remember hearing they were cool with the Devo 2.0 because it was "proof of de-evolution". I think one day in the near future, I'm going to buy myself a classic red energy dome. Devo are so great.

And maybe bust out some nugs or your psychedelic of choice for when you do want to listen.

Care to elaborate?

Sorry, no chance of that on my end.