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Psilocybin (that's Oliver Lieb to you) - Steroids remixes: https://www.discogs.com/Psilocybin-Steroids-Remixes/release/19622 A double pack vinyl release from nearly 20 years ago. I have maintained a heuristic since some point in the 1990s: With the rarest of exceptions, remixes of OL's material by other people are crap. OL remixing other people is almost always excellent. OL remixing himself is often the best of the best.

More or less at the end of my rope wit Adobe's bullshit. Officially in the market for new editing software. Currently considering Affinity Photo: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ It's cheap. $40, or about what one month of Adobe's SaaS bullshit costs. Also looked at Corel's PaintShop Pro (a problem I last used in the early 1990s). It's slightly more expensive at $65, but it's Windows only. (The actual fuck. What kind kind of inhuman monster edits photos on WINDOWS?!?!?) I already have GIMP (FLOSSy AF, screwball UI, but it is free.) The new freeware kid in town is Krita: https://krita.org/en/ I have downloaded it but not installed it yet. That's going to be tonight's project. I've been editing photos in Photoshop on and off for 25-30 years (not an exaggeration, really. I learned PS on a Macintosh II.) It feels weird to be dumping an app that is muscle memory to me, but ADBE seems intent on being as evil as a tobacco, oil or chemical weapons manufacturer so F the MFers.

Sunrise in Mule Canyon, Utah. Bears' Ears Natl Monument in the background.

Table Mountain, located in Butte County, CA.

Motorhead fans, 1980s. Milky Way galaxy over an erupting volcano in Guatemala.

Klipsch, Sansui Setup.

Cap De Formentor Lighthouse Light Trails. Sunset in Dolomites, Italy. New South Wales, Australia.

All Rega setup - Planar 6, Exact 2, Brio (2017) and RX3s.

Test Tone @ Home live right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

The longer you look, the worse it gets. Lake Peyto, Banff National Park.

Dealing with a crappy apartment layout.

Rega Planar 3 with Ortofon blue cartridge, Rega Apollo CD player, Audiolab 8000q preamp and 8000p power amp, Schiit Bifrost DAC and Mani phono stage. Monitor Audio RX6 speakers.

This is my kind of joke. Since there's no Open Reel Deck Porn thread ...yet. Grassi Lakes - Canmore, Alberta.

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.)