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Sarah P. - Who Am I (2017). Sarah Psalti was the original singer for Keep Shelly In Athens, who were (for an all too brief moment in time) the best thing under the entire chillwave umbrella. She left KSIA years ago and her solo work has been ...not of the same calibre. Hey 2015 EP "Free" was so bad I felt embarrassed for her. The collaborative projects she did with other artists weren't very good either. I stopped paying attention for a few years and she's put out a fair amount of new material including a full length that came out 2 years ago. All I can say is ho lee shit the loudness war is over and Sarah won. Even after running the entire album through ReplayGain in Foobar (which does fuck-all for dynamic range but does at least turn the gain down to non-earbleed levels) I can barely listen to it. This album is physically fatiguing for me to listen to. This is shame as the music is sort of not horrible. It's far better than her earlier EPs and varied enough to keep it interesting. The mastering engineer that worked on needs to be taken out back and shot.

This is what millennials call a "boomer meme." D'Urville Island, New Zealand. Click for slightly larger.

Ready Player One (2018). What a steaming pile of shit. There's so many things wrong with this movie I could fill a book with them. The worst offender is what they do to The Shining.

Dubai Night Cityscape. Click for cartoonishly larger.

This will fuel your nightmares ...because of how well it works.

Roxanne! Cantal, France by moonlight. Click for slightly larger.

Bear Lake, Colorado at Sunrise. Click for slightly larger.

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Monitor Audio Bronze 5s.

Yo dawg...

Sunrise over Vermillion Lake, Banff, Canada.

Let's talk about some fricken expensive records, shall we? Dan Lacksman is a Belgian fella who did a fair amount of noodling with his Moog modular in the 70s. He produced at least one timeless classic: A guy I met on slsk in the early 00s turned me on to Electronic System. Same guy who sang the praises of FLACs to me (this was at a time when I thought 320k mp3s were overly large.) Oww, my ass! $400, pls. This is in spite of the above track (which is really the only reason to own the album) being released on this compilation a couple years ago. (Yes, I have both a needle drop of the '74 vinyl and the 2017 CD in FLAC.) Regular listeners to Test Tone will note that I have long held the belief that one does not want to enter into a bidding price pissing contest with serious ambient collectors. Strictly speaking, Electronic System is (electronic) lounge, but the overlap in the venn diagram of the listening base is pretty large. Add to that the Moog modular synth provenance, scarcity of the records and hoo baby, thats some expensive wax. Footnote, there's an earlier pressing with some truly terrible artwork ("let's put a bikini babe on there, we'll sell a million!") but as the bard would say, herein lies the rub: the '73 version of Skylab is shorty, faster and more Moogy. This I do not have and really do want to hear. I have something of a fetish for 70s Moog noodling.

Mesa Trail Natural Light Leaks Sedona, AZ.

These channels are huge with millennials. etc etc. Seattle, Washington Kerry Park.

Sydney Harbour Bridge.

I tried to fine a picture of Epstein and Bill Clinton together, but GIS didn't produce anything meaningful. I did stumble across this: ...is Donny trying to grab Slick's Willie? O_o

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Chinook clouds over Banff Alberta, Jan 2019. Click for slightly larger.