Knuckledragger

The album originally came out in 2014 on Psychonavigation Records. It was my album of the year for 2014, oddly enough. It's the Bandcamp re-release that's new. Oliver Lieb has worked as a mastering engineer for years now and his skills in that area really show in his own work. OL is an absolute master at using reverb and EQ to arrange the elements in his tracks in a glorious fashion. I am actually envious of any Stax owners or HCers with serious speaker rigs who get to hear Inside Voices. It's such a 3 dimensional experience even when listening to it via, say, comparatively humble HD580s and a HRMH.

Isn't that thing 1/1 and in terrible shape? Someone on here (Voltskool?) had a look at it and the woofer is blown and not easily replaced. I forget the specifics. It's more an objet d'art than a working subwoofer at this point. If I were gonna drop five digits on Moth gear, I'd get a nice tube space heater or six. Maybe one of the five Xanas or other exotic (as if all Moths aren't exotic.)

Tekton Design Pendragons powered by a Sunfire Cinema Grand.

I downloaded and listened this afternoon while I did work around the house. A few things: It's two 1 hour mixes. Being a DJ, I'd have preferred individual tracks, but I'll take what I can get. The actual release is a pair of .wav files. Apparently Ae haven't heard of FLACs. Fortunately it's trivial to convert them and add tags + artwork. Being me, I cropped the massive image that was in the zip file to a square an embedded it in the FLACs: As for the music itself ...ayep, that's some late 80s/early 90s rave. It's decidedly weird by the standards of the genre and still recognizable as Autechre. There were parts of both mixes I quite enjoyed and a not insubstantial number of parts I could do without. I do love me some golden era UK rave sound, but I pretty particular in my tastes. There is some fantastic Ae analogue synthesis going on at times.

Horseshoe Bend. Click for slightly larger.

https://www.factmag.com/2019/06/24/autechre-warp-tapes-89-93-for-free/ Oh snap. '89-93 is the era when Ae made music that I actually liked. Well, to be fair, they did decent stuff through 1995. In any case, that's some prime vintage material they're giving away. For some reason, the Fact mag link is giving me trouble, so I had to go here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/43993 File is 1.1 GB on Wet Trans Fur.

Jonah Sharp with David Moufang. View from Chicago 360.

Klipsch KG-4s.

"Yes." (Unless OL releases an album of new material this year.)

https://twitter.com/MixlrStatus

Also, he just released the album on his Bandcamp page: https://oliverlieb.bandcamp.com/album/inside-voices

Damn, dude. Oliver Lieb just put the entirety of his 2014 album Inside Voices up on YouTube: Even in YT quality, this thing is worth a listen if one is remotely interested in minimal, ambient IDM etc. OL is one of the most consistent producers in all things electronic. He's had a stellar track record since his first release in 1989. Mostly he produces dancefloor oriented techno, which managed to be interesting enough that one might want to actually listen to it in a setting outside of the nightclub. 5 years ago he decided he wanted to produce a piece of art that had nothing to do with club culture and boy did he ever.

Focal Aria 948s.

Fuji touches the sky - Japan 2018.

Mixlr right now. "We will continue to stay online over the weekend, with a backup server allowing an 85% success rate of connecting via the desktop app." From an email they sent out this afternoon. Either I'm in the unlucky 15% or their estimate was widely generous for a fricken Friday night. In any case, I've been trying to connect for 20 minutes and been unable to do so. EDIT: Oh noes now Head Case knows my email address!!111one

This is a good friend of mine tonight. The numbers are bit different. It's a brand new Subaru Outback (which is like $30 large IIRC), and over 400 miles (SF to some place outside of LA). The price of the "pedals" is more or less spot on but most of them are Euro Rack modules. He is making noise at an experimental music festival. I presume he won't be asked to leave. No, he's not recording it. I already asked him. The bum.

Mixlr had some serious database issues this week and is still not at 100%. I just got another email from them saying "yeah, things are still broken and will be all weekend." Unsure what that means for my show. I will attempt to do one.

Moraine Lake, Alberta.

It's a Grant Fidelity Rita-880. An exotic integrated amp in a "big stonking monoblock" form factor.

I posted this in slow forum, but it really belongs here. The North made in OpenRCT.

The North of Iceland.

This is not a parody.

Midnight sun in Tromsø, Norway.