Knuckledragger

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At least one person (h1 du57y!) will know of Brent (not the fat-headed Mexican) who listens to my show. He's been collecting euro rack modules for over a decade at this point: One of his enclosures used to be owned by Junkie XL.

That sucks. I have plans to buy a MOTU M4 and ..one of two different mic pres (almost assuredly a dbx at this point) from them in the next few weeks.

DIY 300B monoblocks.

It's their best album, TBH. \m/

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Remember that NAS/TV mount debacle from however many years ago? Some ...Synology? model shared the same # as a TV wall mount and NewEgg handled the situation in a spectacularly poor fashion.

Two very different things: GIGABYTE M28U 28" 144Hz 2160P UHD 3840 x 2160 4K SS IPS, 1ms (GTG), 94% DCI-P3, HDR Ready, FreeSync Premium Pro, 1 x DisplayPort 1.4, 2 x HDMI 2.1, 3 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB Type-C KVM Gaming Monitor $600 at the 'Egg. 3080 needed to drive it not included. Sceptre U515CV-U 50" Class 4K UHD LED "stupid" (no SMRT features) TV $203(!) at Walmart. You hafta pick Walmart as the seller. In-store pickup. This is not a great TV, but might make a good secondary one somewhere. Also F most SMRT TVs TBH.

I spy a synthcat.

On the CotB website? I did not.

Don't look now, but everyone's favorite fat-headed Mexican (with the whitest sounding name) is no longer a 30something.

Oh, wow. So anyone who has listened to my show has at some point heard me rant about Planet Dog records which was the record label arm of the infamous Megadog series of nightclub events. There was a time in the mid 1990s when Megadog was the most happening thing in the UK, and the UK in the mid 90s was popping TF off. Planet Dog helped launch the careers of Eat Static and Banco De Gaia, two artists that have been staples in both on my radio show and my personal listening for decades. One of the lesser know Planet Dog acts is somewhat awkwardly titled Children of the Bong. CotB put out one album, which is absolutely brilliant, completely of its time, and a decidedly lo-fi affair. They also released a few singles, some compilation-only tracks, and then promptly disappeared. Well, apparently they're back. The just re-released their album in digital format, though I am unsure if it's been remastered. It has some bonus tracks, but AFAICT they are nothing newly available. That is, the bonus songs were already on plenty of releases. That said, I stumbled on to a really good blog piece about them. They cover the thought process and studio work on the tracks from the album. As someone who spends entirely too much time thinking about electronic music from the first half of the 1990s, this is absolute catnip for me. Later this evening I'm going to put on my copy of the album (and by that, I mean load up FLACs in Foobar) and read along as I listen to it. Bonus: check out the gear in the vintage photos of Banco's studio:

I meant to do that.

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