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Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral. It's looking pretty clearly like this is the end for Queen Elizabeth. The rest of the royal family is traveling to Scotland to see her. The UK press appears to be more or less saying she's gone without saying it. Operation London Bridge in full effect.

Russia buying millions of rockets and shells from North Korea, US intelligence says. 🤡

Ugh. No thanks, Native Instruments. SaaS is cancer.

Last night's show is up:

20 years ago an obscure and legendary Detroit electro producer died, weeks before his 33 birthday: James Stinson was one half of the electro duo Drexciya. At the time of his passing, he was a mysterious figure. For the dozen or so years that he made music, he recorded under innumerable aliases. For the last few decades I've observed endless slap fights on sites like Discogs over how he should be credited on specific releases. Techno fans can be, ahem, a bit narrow minded. Detroit techno fans are the most singular focused of the lot. Detroit electro fans make ...every other electronic music snob look easy going by comparison. The artists themselves often (usually) gave incomplete or flat out misleading information about themselves. The trope of the "faceless techno producer" was a fairly common occurrence in the 90s. I've been fascinated by the genre since I first heard it on college radio in the mid 1980s (and had no idea what it was.) I first heard about Drexciya in a UK music magazine upon the release of their anthology The Quest. I was lucky enough to find a copy locally. It was some of the strangest music I'd ever heard. By 2002 I had a number of their 12"s, none of which were easy to come by. I joined SoulSeek early that year after the demise of AudioGalaxy. The day Stinson died, there was much talk about his passing in the slsk Electro room. I actually didn't have a Discogs account at that point. Unintentionally, I ended up making one on Stinson's birthday. In the two decades since James Stinson died, most of the mystery surrounding him has been lifted. A large amount of his previous unreleased catalog is available on limited vinyl runs and FLAC downloads. I've listened to a lot of it and it's quite a mixed bag. James was a very uncontrained artist and that meant he went deep into experimental territory. Often that resulted in noodling wank. Sometimes he struck absolute gold. There really as not been another artist at all like him.

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Last night's show is up:

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The following is going to be nothing more than a bunch of YT embeds. There's a newish member of the Mic Snobs TF2 community who is experienced as the Spy class and posted a short "frag video" to our Discord. You don't need to know what any of that means. The music he chose was so actively painful I commented how it made me want to die. He said it was a classic from "when [he] was 15 years old." That was 2007, apparently. I did the proper old person thing and went on a rampage in the music channel of our Discord, posting a bunch of songs from when I was ~7 years old. I'm not sure it will embed, but the frag clip with the "song" is here: https://streamable.com/37w5zo

NSFW. This guy shoots Leica and is a spectacular example of why Leica glass just obliterates everything this side of large format. His images are so sharp it's stupid.

Is this thread indexed by google? I forget. I had a dualski colonoscopy and endoscopy yesterday. The prep work was gruelling in extremis. The good news is that I don't have any obvious symptoms. The bad news is that there's no explanation as to why I'm sick so severely and so often. Today I am operating at like 1/10 power. Unsure if I'm doing my radio show tomorrow or not.

Last night's show is up: Got into some fairly weird territory.

Russia Has Lost Two Squadrons Of Its ‘Best’ Su-35 Fighters. Su-35s are roughtly $85M each.

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Nobody tell @Grahame.

Friday's show is up:

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Substrata (Alternative Versions) Nothing to see here folks, just alternate takes from the greatest ambient album of the 1990s(!)

Some internet history right here: Democracy Manifest. Does contain some, ahem, dental gore.

Last Friday's show is up:

Steven Seagal appears in Ukraine, serving as a Russian spokesperson. 🤡

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