Knuckledragger

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Condescension was really not what I was trying to get across in my overly-thorough explanation. The entire subject by nature is filled with obscure minutiae, and I started on the ground floor. Now please put away that laser sword. Now Playing: The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)

The message you have entered is too short. The left boob is Union.

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Not damning in the slightest. The innumerable qualifiers are a result of the hypercompartmentalization of electronic music in to endless subgenres and time periods. Allow me to expand a bit: Left coast means California, durr. Breaks in this case means "funky breakbeats," a style of dance music popular in CA to this day. Most of it is bloody awful. There are notable exceptions, like YAP. The first half of the 1990s was the golden era of electronic dance music, period. The California scene was particularly fertile during this time period. So in more easily parsed English, the eponymous YAP album is in the running for the best example of a great scene during its peak. The historical specifics are not important to the general population, and are probably known only to obsessive nutjobs like myself. That said, the music can be appreciated by anyone with ears. This is all one really needs to know about YAP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvIuodPmEg A review I wrote on "Sunrise" sometime in the late 1990s: Downtempo is a music of subtlety, it is often the smallest details that make or break a track. And so it is with this song that it's the fiddly bits - the spaciousness of the reverb, timing of the delay effect on the main melody - that lend so much passion and immediacy. The main arpeggiation is wonderfully mesmerizing as the rest of the song fades away and leaves it pulsating in the foreground. Simply, but powerfully emotive.

The message you have entered is too short. Lucky DAC intercept?

My friend Louie works @ the 'Bucks and has to open tomorrow. I sent him a link to that. He's crying in his beer now.

Possibly THE great left-coast breaks album of the first half of the 1990s.

So in front of me I have a Pico DAC, GLite (v1) and DPS. I also have two of the male-male RCA adapters that came with the Pico DAC. Unfortunately, the Pico DAC will not clear the DPS -> GLite power umbilical unless I attach the PDAC upside down (and therefore reverse the R/L connectors.) This isn't a huge deal, but I was looking forward to trying out this particular Stupid Pico Trick. What would happen if I connected the PDAC to the loop out jacks on the GLite? Would I get sound, get nothing, or maybe blow something up? Do they make 90

I've given Gridlock's Formless 3-4 listens now. It's growing on me quite a bit. "Re/Module" sound so much like 1994-era Autechre, it's not funny.

No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. The message you have entered is too short. The dark side will give you cancer, buddy.

The message you have entered is too short. What do you MEAN "rococo" isn't a kind of chocolate?

So close ...yet so *thunk*

He's "couch surfing." Edit: Sauce.

There are two major ambient artists who record under the name Gas. The first is Wolfgang Voigt, who is the significantly more famous and prolific of the two. The other is Mat Jarvis, whose music I much prefer. Thusfar he's only released one album under his Gas moniker, and that was 15 years ago on the storied em:t label. em:t (pronounced "Emit") has never been terribly well-run and has gone out of business at least twice. Supposedly, Mat recorded a second Gas album, but it has never seen the light of day. In all my years on the intertubes using various p2p apps, I have never com across a copy of it (unlike the second Young American Primitive album, which I eventually got in FLAC.) Given how rare and poorly distributed em:t releases are, it was quite a few years until I discovered Gas. I think I first heard "Oxygen" from the em:t compilation 1197 on SomaFM's Groove Salad in early 2001. Later that year, I got lucky on eBay and found a copy of that CD. In early 2002 I joined SoulSeek, which changed my perspective on electronic music forever. There I quickly found mp3 copies of dozens of albums I'd been after for ages. Included in that initial batch was Gas's 0095. It's somewhat on an uneven affair, but the good tracks sound stellar, even in 192K mp3s. A couple years ago, Mat released a remastered version in FLAC and announced it on Discogs. That is the sound of the Information Age working. The video above is for Microscopic which would be my favorite Gas track were it not for Oxygen. I think Microscopic might actually be the better piece of music, but it's not the first one I discovered. Obviously, the audio quality of a YouTube video is crap, but it's handy for embedding purposes. You can get a free download of the song in lossy format off last.fm (and if you ask nicely, Knuckles might furnish you with a FLAC.) Around the 3:30 mark, Mat does a solo with a stunning portamento synth string patch. The main lead in this song is a powerful argument for analogue synthesizers. The lead sound returns again around 7 minutes in to do it again. 10 minutes might seem like a long time to listen to one song, especially embedded on a message board thread via a YouTube video. This is one track that is worth the time commitment. Use your most musical source and most forgiving "euphonic" cans if you must.

Cool... but the West was won with an automatic?

I must have this lamp: Alien Abduction Lamp

Blame Ant Eater Boule.

Possibly the only FFFFUUUUUU comic I've ever liked.

The message you have entered is too short. I think one of them is wearing 'stats.

Not really HAHAHA FUNNY THING HERE, but a pretty cool nighttime long exposure.

What is this "need" you talk about. I am unfamiliar with this concept in home audio. Also, dubstep.