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MisterE

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  1. shit, wasn't even 30, sad. i remember having some weird late night convos/interactions with the guy in chatmm/discord over the past X amount of yrs, and his posts here. strangely i can't actually remember them, but just the impression that i had that he might be one of those wacky lsd chemists out of an indie movie. the ones who seemed to live in an entirely different world and you wonder what living there for just a day would be like and if you could handle it. easily one of the most interesting guys around. RIP salv

  2. my main problem with damogen was that even unlike ufabulum (which it was definitely a progression of), it seemed to lack dynamics, in both composition and intensity. the tracks just seemed like a constant assault of LOUD stuff happening (long intense  jams), usually without buildups or progressions. been a while since i've listened tho

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  3. 18 minutes ago, andrd said:

    At least it's only $6 extra if you buy it as a bundle with the album.

    ah nice. didn't notice that.  thanks for the heads up. not sure i'll get it but maybe

    edit- actually from bleep the shipping is like 13 so it ends up being the same as if i buy the single separate at amazon for 15 so im prob gonna pass on that

  4. pretty nice. not super recognizable as a cover... i haven't listened to saw 2 in criminally long though (i actually like to keep it kind of special and not overplayed though). but i don't think that's it. you've changed enough that this is almost its own thing. anyway, sounds pretty nice.

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  5. you can get actually pretty decent sound from cassette, depending on the tape you use and the deck itself. type IIs are the way to go for less muffled treble, or even type 4s for the best performance there, but those are fairly expensive. but keep in mind that afx said that lots or all of the first selected ambient works, and SOSW, were taken from cassette tapes.

    one time i posted here that i noticed for the analord series, he listed, i think at rephlex records website, that he used an elcaset, which i'm sure isn't what he used for the SAW/ambient stuff, but he prob acquired it later (and apparently used for analord stuff). it's a deck that takes special, bigger (and kind of rare) tapes, and runs at twice the speed of normal cassette and is said to sound more like reel to reel quality.

    a few of the standard cassette decks can run at double speed too, and i've had 3 of those decks, and they do actually extend the freq response all the way to 20khz and usually lower the noise floor in double speed mode. the four track tape machines used by people to make bedroom demos etc can usually run at double speed too, but i'm talking about standard stereo 2 track decks. there's very few of them that can run at double speed. i've been using one for processing synths and stuff. the one i currently have is a marantz 4020 i think. this one doesn't actually lower the noise floor in double speed mode like the other one i had did, for some reason, but it does extend high freq response. i saw a guy at a tape forum offering to mod tascam 122 mk3 decks for double speed, claiming they gave specs like reel to reel tape after the mod (i kind of believe it because my mk3 is pretty rock solid). he wanted like $1k for the mod... i have a super sexy looking B.I.C. T4m top of the line deck that can do double speed. i had to replace belts which on this deck was a BITCH, and it worked for a short while before eating tapes and i left it there. it sounded INCREDIBLE in double speed while it worked (recorded a couple of cds to it and played them back). some day i might pay to have that thing professionally looked at..

    anyway even a standard single speed deck can sound pretty good if taken care of. i originally didn't believe that SOSW was sourced from cassettes but now i do. i also wonder if  ICBYD was, since it has that cutoff in the high freqs, but still sounds pretty lush

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  6. yeah there's kind of a muzak or like shopping mall music vibe (or.. vaporwavey) to everything, except maybe the acid bass. the acid bass still fits in nicely and everything creates a nice chill vibe. good stuff.

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  7. there's a lot of pretty cool stuff that happens in this jungle track. i feel like the main farty buffery-sounding grungy synth and the stringy synths that come in around 1:40 could both have a bigger thicker sound if they had some (a little) nice bass boost EQ. it sounds like they've got some high passing or just lots of bass cut to separate them from the low bass, and that's a pretty common thing to do, but imo there's plenty of room for that synth to have some (more) bass of its own and still not really interfere with the lower bass. i think it could give the whole track a bit of a bigger meatier sound and more weight.

     

    but that's just my 2 cents and mixes are kind of a personalized thing so if it's how you like it then it is what it is, and the track itself is just fine anyway. i'd prob like to see a bit more stereo width too but again that's just my opinion. and too much would be bad. seems like a bit of a combo of some of the jazzy/dnb elements of early squarepusher with the synthwork of tuss, as kind of an inspiration here. not a bad combo..

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  8. It caught me off guard, being more about building ambiences/vibes than about arps that build to an epic climax like on Cro Magnox. It's clear that Ceephax had a specific sound/goal in mind with this, and created something different (than what he's done before). A couple of places reminded me of tracks on SAW1, a little. Not sure it will ever top Cro Magnox (one of my all-time favorites) for me, but I do think it will grow on me more with future listens.

  9. you're kind of touching on shock comedy in general here though. like when louis CK goes on SNL and jokes about how banging kids must feel pretty good..... for pedos i mean for them if youre one of them i mean! and you had people here and everywhere saying how GENIUS that is. for some reason it was super genius to say kids must feel p good. super intelligent. like the man could be making rocket ships but instead hes gracing us with brilliant jokes that expand our mind almost like how LSD and weed does. and you can't criticize it because hey that's comedy. comedy is sacred. you can SAY ANYTHING (but only if you're one of them, nobody else). just not sure you'd be as bugged about sam making a holocaust joke if he had voted on hillary.

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    that was a pretty good response from sam

     

    It wasn't though

     

    Everyone's "just joking":

     

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-claim-russia-hacked-dnc-help-him-joke-n616266

     

    https://mediamatters.org/research/2016/07/27/right-wing-media-claim-trump-was-joking-about-russian-espionage-national-security-experts-aren-t/211959

     

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3405315/Trump-insists-joke-claimed-Chinese-invented-global-warming.html

     

    http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/12/trump-furiously-peddles-claims-joking-obama-founding-isis.html

     

    http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/08/24/1616743/duterte-threat-leave-un-just-joking

     

    http://touch.metro.us//news/alleged-would-be-robbers-claimed-they-were-only-joking/tmWihs---0fgBZXzuVoRFM/

     

    https://www.nationalgunrights.org/press/gun-rights-news/item/590-mainedonutshop

     

     

    How about we stop being assuaged by the "just joking" excuse?

    This is real life with real consequences on real people's lives

    "Just joking" doesn't disconfirm a single concern

     

    the just jokes im only a comedian defense? wasn't that practically invented by jon stewart? and i know, it totally sucks that there are people with different view points from you, and that some of them dare to show their faces on video and tv, it's terrible, and i agree with you that sam has an obligation to not only mock and ridicule the left wing but should also mock and ridicule the 'alt-right' movement. because not every other comedian in existence or just short of it is already doing that. now excuse me, i have to go look at some youtubes of my fav comedian of all time, bill hicks, a left wing comedic hero who was constantly mocking left wing ideas in the name of... i don't know, being fair? or whatever?

     

    if you want i can highlight every sentence in there that's sarcasm.

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