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    Drexciya

    in Music Discussion

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    4 hours ago, dcom said:

    I think I have only one Drexciya proper, Molecular Enhancement on RePHLeX. I caned Aquatic Bata [sic] Particles like mad when it came out, but I never got more into them until 10-15 years later - although I've always liked Donald and Stinson's solo alias work, especially Arpanet and Transllusion, and other collaborations like Der Zyklus, Dopplereffekt, Elecktroids, NSRB-11 (completely indispensable) and so on. I really should get Journeys Of The Deep Sea Dwellers I-IV. As an aside, I have no recollection of how, but I found Ultradyne by way of Drexciya, and Ultradyne's been more my thing during the years than Drexciya.

    this is great 

     

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    if you had to pick just ONE budget synth?

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by fxbip

    5 hours ago, TubularCorporation said:

    I've never messed with a Monologue but I used to know a guy who had an original Minilogue and it sounded great.

    On the whole i think Monologue is even more beastly in its pure sound.

    Monologue filter has definitively more bite and character imo.Its supremely juicy.When you go portemento you those fkin sweet pitch slide that reminds me of Drexciya.

    Also motion sequencing per step which minilogue cant do.(I think? if im right)

     

    Coronavirus COVID-19

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by fxbip

    On 2/22/2021 at 3:14 PM, Cryptowen said:

    Seems to be on schedule for the first week of March. All the movie theatres etc are being opened back up for the children, which imo is another example of the ridiculous handling of the lockdown procedure (along with keeping schools open while shutting down basically everything else for months & months). I feel like there's a strong likelihood that cases will go back up as a result of this, and that will be justification for keeping all of these measures in place even longer.

    It's been kind of wild to watch the public opinion shift since the early fall. I feel like most people (who weren't covid conspiracy theorist or anti-government types more generally) were all onboard the "we're in this together!" train prior to the second lockdown starting in October. But the handling of this second lockdown has been widely seen as extremely incompetent. The idea of 8PM curfew being maintained once it's no longer dark at 8PM (so let's say another couple months) seems to be what a lot of people are pointing to as their ultimate breaking point.

    tbh it's depressing going on the montreal reddit page & gradually seeing more & more randos talking about how they feel like their life has completely stalled, how their marriage is falling apart, how they've developed a substance dependency or have gotten extremely out of shape. I've got to count my blessings here - sure I'm a little pissy about not being able to lift weights, but in most ways my mental health is more stable than its ever been, and in some areas of my life (reading, making music) I've been really thriving this last year.

    this

    all of it

    (except the lifting weight part)

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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

    in General Banter

    Posted

    1 hour ago, ignatius said:

    doesn't spotify do it for themselves though? isn't this part of the scam they run to generate revenue for themselves? fake songs in lot's of playlists so they get plays and generate income. if they can do it why can't someone else?

    well they're in charge haha

    i know from good sources that they do not take it lightly to be robbed out of their money and can be quite ruthless if you scam them a decent amount of money

    like they will send merciless lawyers after you until you beg

    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by fxbip

    Yeah once people get so much music for free or very little its hard to get them to pay 20 bucks an album.

    I often say buying music in this day an age is a choice basically.

    It's a choice you make to support the artist and ecosystem.

    But we all know that if you offer people to choose between paying for something or having it for free or very little the vast majority will choose the easy way.Cause free stuff.

    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

    in General Banter

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Silent Member said:

    but you could probably score a gig in your hometown if you put some effort into it, maybe get to know an ildsjel (this is a norwegian word/expression, literally translated it's a firesoul, I can't find an english synonym for it, someone enthusiastic, a driving force in a scene, someone that has a burning passion) in the process, maybe some of those people have connections, maybe you can use those connections if your stuff is good enough, play another city, meet other ildsjeler etc etc etc,  or you could just make tunes and smoke pot, maybe throw some of them online and have a good time with it either way, but that probably won't get you anywhere. I think it's still viable to make a living off music/reaching an audience, but sure, the competition is fierce.

    I've done all thoses things and it's a rich journey of amazing musical experience, amazing human experience and growth.

    You do beautiful gigs, meet amazing people, feel the passion.

    But there is no money in it.

    Maybe i'm not good enough.I'm not Beethoven.I just make tracks.

    But i know the whole game is rigged too.

    I personally dont have any illusions of it.I don't think i'll ever make a living off music but that's ok.I don't really care that much.

    I do my thing.I love music.

    That's enough for me.

     

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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by fxbip

    Bottom line is that we live in an age dominated by greed as the dominant value.

    Greed motivated individuals and societies doesnt care about having a healthy cultural landscape and ecosystem very much.

    Money is god.

    I'm grateful there is still things like cultural institution and donators amongst all of this because if not for it things like orchestras and museums would disappear pretty fast.

     

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    Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.

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    Posted · Edited by fxbip

    Once upon a time a musician had the other musicians in the city/village he lived as competition.

    Lets say you play violin/guitar, there is a few other people playing in your town, youre known as the town violinist/guitarist.

    You live in a hunter gatherer village there is maybe one or two other musicians.Maybe a few more but not thousands.You're respected as such.You're the music guy in the place.

    There is maybe 5-10-20 competitors in a bigger town.You have decent chance making a living.

    Then cities.Maybe the ones in near-by regions come around sometimes.A few more competitors.

    Then the world changed and you were in competition with people in other countries that are traveling.The pool gets bigger.

    But now with the internet and total globalization you're in competition with the whole world directly.The pool is HUGE.

    No matter what your talent is you're in the race with the talents of ALL the countries in the world AND on top of that you have the whole ecosystem going against you, marketing, big labels, streaming services.

    It's like there is 10 millions people going to the same job interview as you, some may have massive contact to get in and the job wont pay and rip you off hahaha

    The game is rigged from the beginning against musicians to make a living off it in the modern context.

    If bread could be downloaded-streamed, and be in competition with the bread from every bread maker in the world, the local baker wouldnt make a living either.

    You gotta do it for the love of it.

    Maybe you'll be lucky and make a living but probably not.

    Support music all you can and still make the music you love, but it's a crazy new big scale, big profit, globalized-and-not-so-much-at-human-scale world we live in, and things like artists are not the priority.

    But eh loads of good music tho.

    It's kind of a golden age in a way as well.

    LOTS of good music from all over the world.

    Double edge sword of modern life and modern technologies.

    What is better before? or is it better now?

    In some ways yes it's better now but in some other way definitively not.These are the cards we are dealt with.

     

     

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    Coronavirus COVID-19

    in General Banter

    Posted

    22 hours ago, Cryptowen said:

    won't speak for the world at large but i feel like i'd be more into the lockdown measures here in quebec if they weren't half-assing it so badly, like if they actually shut everything down proper & basically forced people to stay at home for a few weeks. instead we just have this annoying situation where the schools aren't closed down, the infection numbers aren't going down, but most of the things that make a big city worthwhile to live in are shut down, and the government keeps saiyng "okay it'll only be another couple weeks, for real this time", before extending it another month (which is whats been happening consistently since october). small businesses closing left & right but apparently amazon wants to open five warehouses in quebec so woo hoo, welcome to neofeudalism

    i hope legault knows what he's setting himself up for if he plans on keeping this curfew going once its warm enough for the average person to want to get drunk & have sex in a park on a friday evening

    yeah seems to me big part of why it's not under control its because everything was so half assed in quebec

    like do it once but do it for real else it will just drag and drag and drag

    New Zealand :

    Go Hard go Early.

    seems the only way

    im no expert tho

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