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This is a spotify playlist of the whole set of Midnight Sun releases. 128 tracks, 12 hours.

I've listened to Midnight Sun 2A and Midnight Sun 6 loads. Really good albums for programming or working to. I've dipped into the odd other Aleksi album from the last two years but nothing quite latched on like those two. Last year I found this, which was interesting: These guys (they make lifts, appropriately enough) awarded him a grant: https://koneensaatio.fi/en/grants-and-residencies/elektronisen-musiikin-saveltaminen-ja-tuottaminen-pohjautuen-colundi-taajuuksiin-2/ Machine translated from finnish: Composing and producing electronic music based on colundi frequencies I create my own tuning systems based on colundi frequencies and make them using new music. Colundi is the name for a series of frequencies based on the beneficial effects of sound on the human body and mind. The frequency at which the sound vibrates is primary. Colundi frequencies are not playable on known scales. Colundi consists of 128 different frequencies, located unevenly in the 10.8 Hz–12,000 Hz frequency range. Every interval and octave is different. Because of this, I have concluded that the most effective way of working is to make different tuning systems from these frequencies and use them as a basis for composing. I have been using pure sine waves in my music for the past 20 years. In this project I plan to use them 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. Examples of these include the lithophone, tingklik, kyezee, bianqing, pyeongyeong, qing, Chinese two-tone bells, the bronze drum of the Karen people, African percussion instruments, Indian tablas and the Balinese gamelan instruments jegogan, calung, penyacah, ugal, pemade, kantilan, trompong and reyong. In my self-built home studio, I use a computer, samplers, synthesizers, drum machines and effects devices as tools. I feel that colundi frequencies have pure and endless power. So when you hear bells and marimbas and whatnot on these recent releases, it seems that Aleksi has used Fourier analysis to re-build the sound of the instrument using only colundi frequencies. Perhaps we should think of the album release schedule as being somewhat like a subscription.

Just realised OMD and ELO are two different things

Welcome back. Please re-read the rules. (from https://archive.org/details/mtk180 )

ChatGPT, please draw a funny picture of forum of aphex twin fanboys depicted in lego I’ll try to create that. Here is the picture I made for you. I hope you find it funny. It shows a group of aphex twin fanboys in lego form, wearing t-shirts with the logo of the electronic musician. They are discussing his latest album, Syro, on a forum called WATMM (We Are The Music Makers). Some of them are expressing their admiration, while others are criticizing his style or comparing him to other artists. One of them is holding a vinyl record of Syro, while another one is pointing at a poster of aphex twin on the wall. The picture is meant to capture the diversity and passion of aphex twin’s fanbase, as well as the humor and irony of their online interactions. the actual pictures generated:

Yeah @GAK just press record, hum the tune, post it here, thats the only way we're going to sort this out I want to find it too now

So its that pad but not necessarily that tune?

Random guess - the bit at 6min24s in Mu-ziqs 1 Hip 007 Phattest detuned lead ever

Please record yourself humming the tune

I liked those books. They do what they do very well. Its like the authors are winking at us saying "OK we know its corny that historic events keep hinging on the actions of these same five characters but keeping the same characters going is what makes this whole 'book' thing interesting so just go with it ok?" Plus points of the Expanse books: - actually quite realistic depiction of what a colonised solar system might be like. e.g. people spending a fuck of a lot of time speedng up and slowing down on spaceships, a lot of time living in tunnels. - actually quite well thought through depiction of what politics would be like in that situation. Also what space combat would be like. - into that fairly realistic setup they throw a completely mental alien artifact which (as I read someone say somewhere) is actually one of the best sci-fi antagonists ever - I thought Holden was well written - heroic without being too badass - Good balance between each book being a book in itself while also moving the series along. You can see that they planned the whole thing out well in advance and it really pays off. - Same level of quality pretty much all the way through the series. Minus points: - For the expanse universe to work, you have to pretend that people would like the endless boring life-or-death maintenance that would be needed to keep the ships and habitats working. Several characters find out to their surprise that that endless maintenance is their life's calling and get really into it.

edit: ok nevermind

9 years later and the only soundscloud-bonanza track from 2015 that I listen to regularly is floating infinity. I know there were some other good ones in there but I can never remember which and its all too much to wade through, I always meant to go back and listen to them all again but never did. lol

I was a big fan in the Lifeforms/ISDN era. Dead Cities and My Kingdom were my exit ramp, I kindof stopped following them after that. But I'm really digging Papua New Guinea Translations. And I guess by 'digging' I mean I put it on and get loads of work done and it lifts me along which is kindof my yardstick for a good album these days.

Just discovered Papua New Guinea Translations from 2001 - each 'translation' is really a completely new track, and they all work together really well. I think it might be the most consistently good 'album' I've ever heard from them. (edit: and to fit the thread, heres purlieau's blog post about this one)

But he did all that with the first two albums Since then he's tried to explore slightly different vibes but still reconignisably burial. I've bought random EPs from time to time, I like Kindred, Rival Dealer, Street Halo, Claustro, all that. And it seems like the tracks are actually 'about something', even if we can't discern what it is exactly. I like what burial does.

I just stumbled across the Brothomstates EP which is from 2000 and pre-dates a lot of the other stuff. Its stripped down and crunchy, just gets on with it, I think its my new favourite brothomstates. Along with this of course:

pitchfork was a very good name too, I'll give them that. brought to mind digging through tons on new music every day with a pitchfork, trying to find something interesting. Thats a really fucking good point. The original use of music reviews was to let you know whether it was worth walking down to Woolworths and buying the record. But now you can just instantly listen to whatever.

Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8 (The Onion) “Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid-tempo tunes, most notably ‘Liebesträume No. 3 In A-Flat’ by Franz Liszt and ‘Closing Time’ by ’90s alt-rock group Semisonic,” Schreiber wrote. “In the end, though music can be brilliant at times, the whole medium comes off as derivative of Pavement.” ... “It’s elitism for the sake of elitism,” said Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, who refuted Pitchfork’s middling rating, describing the entire art form as “transcendent.” “I’ve been listening to music for over 30 years, and it’s consistently some of the best stuff out there.” https://www.theonion.com/pitchfork-gives-music-6-8-1819569318

This came out in 2023 but posting it because it didnt get a mention at the time https://3phaz.bandcamp.com/album/ends-meet Egyptian electronica, got mentioned in Pitchforks 'Best Electronic Music of 2023' article

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