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Appreciate that proceeds are for a SEN sensory garden

Kettel - Wingtip (2016) Various stuff on Bandcamp by EOD, e.g. the EPs EODS1 through to EODS9 Imagine This Is A Higher Dimesnional Space Of All Possibilities - James Holden (2023) Various stuff from Aleksi Perala since 2020, e.g. FI3AC2039070 from Midnight Sun 4a

@chenGOD Yeah sorry about it being Spotify, its the only practical way I can think of to share playlists. I'm open to suggestions. Is there a playlist format thats shareable? I wish you could make playlists on Bandcamp. Aleksi gets a lot of discussion in 'New and Upcoming releases' threads but I thought we could do with a thread on the 'music' forum for general AP chat. So have started one here, including a 3 hour Midnight Sun Highlights playlist: https://forum.watmm.com/topic/104787-aleksi-perälä-discussion-and-playlists (and I spent a while stitching together all the Midnight Sun covers not realising @cear had done it already)

Aleksi Perala gets discussed a lot on the 'New + Upcoming releases' forum (e.g. this thread has 2000+ posts in it) but I think we could do with a thread here on the Music forum where we can talk about his stuff more generally. And maybe post playlists? If ever there was an artist that its worth making playlists for, its Aleksi. A recap for those who might be new to AP: Aleksi Perala was originally on Rephlex as Ovuca some 20 odd years ago (e.g. check out Afternoon Girl from 2001 ). Around 2013 Aleksi and Grant Wilson-Claridge came up with "Colundi" which is a set of 128 specially chosen frequencies that make an alternative microtonal tuning/set of scales within which to create music. Since then he's worked exclusively on making music with Colundi and has released a huge amount of it - over 100 albums of material since 2013. He explains his prolific output in this 2021 interview: So he puts out a lot of music. Often there are some great tracks there, they get released without fanfare or explanation and then he's moving ever forwards and working on the next thing. And the track names are all numerical ids like FI3AC2139340, which makes it hard to remember which is which, and hard to discuss them. I can tell you that FI3AC2039070 is a banger, but thats not much use to you unless I also provide a hyperlink. And so, WATMM, I think there's some important work to be done here, sifting through everything and sharing recommendations and playlists with each other. In late 2020 he released a series of 16 Albums/EPs called Midnight Sun, so I'm going to start with that Midnight Sun "Midnight Sun was all for Finland, the Finnish nature and the beauty here and the fact that we have something called “midnight sun” up here. At midsummer, you have to go to northern Finland to actually witness the midnight sun. With my wife, we went to see it last summer, it was awesome. I don’t think people realize that very much. I get the impression whenever I’m in Central Europe that people seem to think of Finland as a cold and dark place, which it is in the wintertime, but in summer, it’s the opposite. We have more light than the rest of Europe and it can be very hot up here as well" Midnight Sun and some of the series that come after it have a lot of tabla-style sounds and rhythms. I found this explanation attached to a grant that a Finnish Lift company awarded to Aleksi: "In this project I plan to use Colundi Frequencies to model physical instruments and materials. First, I analyze the sound I've chosen using Fourier analysis, a visual equalizer and my tuning ear. I calculate the ratios of the sine waves in the sound and their averages. Then I digitally build the sound of my chosen instrument part by part using colundi frequencies based on my tuning systems. I have found that the sounds of indigenous percussion instruments are best suited for this, as their upper notes are not harmonic in the usual way" The whole of Midnight Sun is 134 tracks lasting 13 hours, I spent a few weeks listening to it and made this playlist of my favourites. Its 30 songs, 2h52m, you can think of it perhaps as a long double album. I've kept the original ordering and included at least one track from each of the 16 releases:

wait so this is like limited edition? you have to have a code?

re: fashion: I guess you might have seen the dieworkwear/derek guy guy on Twitter? He does hilarious but also very interesting threads where he explains tailoring I'm not actually into suits or tailoring but have learnt a lot of interesting stuff about the last century of fashion by following him. Here's a thread from last year where he demolishes Tristan Tates' suit e.g.

Can you make a track with this or just sounds? What would the code for a track look like?

Good to think about all this stuff. But I do quite appeciate that whatever the funniest thing is that happens in the world each day, a large portion of the world gets to hear about it. e.g. Which makes me reflect on how amazing it is that the whole world is potentially in touch with each other now. I can remember the pre-internet days when that was not the case, and I could write a lot about how that felt very different (maybe another time). Which makes me think that for all the problems being created by putting everyone in touch with everyone else, it might be a necessary thing that we have to go through. But still, there's lot to figure out about avoiding the pitfalls so good thread.

Getting rid of them is an idea because they do sortof hide things from the people that don't visit them. But they are sortof important for the 'identity' of watmm I guess? I remember when the Artist Subforums first got added, years ago, there was a plan where the posts would still be optionally visible in the main music forum too. Sortof like tags? Chaosmachine was working on it but it never got done iirc. Wonder if you could do that now with tags, the artist subforums just filter to a specific tag (and if you post there, that tag gets added), but the posts also show up in main 'music' forum. re: having a poll every few years to add a new featured artist: if you did that, you'd also need a process to get rid of them, .e.g any artist subforum that hasn't had new posts for a while gets retired and the posts get released back into the main music forum. Didn't there used to be a cylob subforum? I guess thats what happened. Or alternatively: just leave everything as it is. I was just kindof interested in the fact that the featured artists are frozen in time and what that says about us.

https://tubedubber.com/?q=NrH7hbi8fPM:JQceBpIOU-E:0:100:0:0:1 or, on second thoughts https://tubedubber.com/?q=NrH7hbi8fPM:uVx-n7X_47Q:0:100:0:0:1

Now we just need to get RDJ to soundtrack an episode of In The Night Garden

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS TILL NOW Squarepusher + Cbeebies, genius

No new Featured Artists since 2011. Thats an interesting thing to ponder. Are we a bunch of old people stuck in a time capsule (yes is a perfectly valid answer to that). Or is there just no one new on the scene who's good in the last 13 years (seems unlikely). Or should we add some new ones (I have no idea who. Aleksi Perala? EOD? Kettel?). edit: Idea: Maybe every N years (N=3?) we should have a poll to add a new artist subforum, to keep up with the times?

edit: why am I writing about star wars? nevermind

CDs cost an average of $16.98 in 1995 — about $34.84 in today’s dollars. Buying one album meant not listening to another. Thats exactly it, music is so different now. Its everywhere, and free or cheap. But there's still lots of great stuff. I don't miss the days of paying £13 for an album on CD and then finding out it only had 3 good songs on it.

superheavy (the stage 1 booster part) came down HARD, about 34 min in the video Rubin posted. Engines didn't re-light properly and it hit the ocean at 1000kmph, transmitting video all the way down edit: apparently automatically self destructed at 1km above ocean

Largest object ever to go up in the air

Cool video of the flaps moving and glowing red at start of re-entry. Think it broke up some minutes later.

Her account was new (she had just joined twitter the day before) and it was suspended briefly (for about an hour) by some automated process. They unsuspended her as soon as they became aware of it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68350222

Oh right when you wrote "Really hope Tchaikovsky keeps things going in that series" I took it to mean you hadn't read 2 and 3. But what you're saying is, you hope there's a 4 and 5 etc...

Yep can't recommend Children of Time enough. Glad you enjoyed it @aderei and @Walter Ostanek @Walter Ostanek The other two in that series are also solid, but different, as a trilogy should be. Perhaps not as stellar as the first but taking the theme and going different places with it. The second book is fairly horrific in parts. The third book goes in a somewhat fantasy direction, but still rooted in the same universe. Adrian Tchaikovsky's architect series (starts with Shards of Earth) is also good - like big space opera with a band of misfits getting caught up in the enormous action. Its like 'ok this is a big space opera with a band of misfits' but he executes it VERY well. @aderei I read We Are Legion, its kindof got some nice ideas and the first few chapters are strong but then the second two thirds become like a cartoon, like contrived situations, weak characers, and telling you whats happening instead of showing you whats happening. Like the author is a coder originally so its kindof like you would imagine sci-fi written by a coder to be like. Its not crap but its not in the same league as "proper" writers.

happened across this randomly and really liked it: Marking Time by Pauline Anna Strom I looked her up, interesting story: she made electronica in the 80s, had to sell her equipment because skint so stopped making music, got into Reiki instead. Eventually in 2017 someone re-releases her old stuff from from 30 years previously. It is well received, so she gets some new equipment and makes a new album at the age of 74. The album in announced in November 2020 and a month later she dies. The album, released posthumously contains the above track. Oh, and she was blind from birth.

tbh I bought the double cd the month it was released and I just listen to the 'nice' tracks. I am unapologetic about that. My 'best of' playlist is: Cliffs Rhubarb Curtains Blue Calx Parallel Stripes Lichen Have barely listened to any of the other ones for 30 years It took me too long to get round to checking out Stone In Focus because it wasn't on the CD but its actually one of the very best.

For anyone thats never read about the lucid dreaming angle: From David Toop interview, 1994 https://lannerchronicle.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/aphex-twin-the-face-magazine-1994/

We all saw this, right?