mikeymad Posted July 26 Report Posted July 26 I am not sure why I like this so much, but I had to post it somewhere. Quote
guzziguy Posted July 27 Report Posted July 27 Saw this in a local parking lot. The first thing that came into my mind was "at least it looks a little better". 4 Quote
dsavitsk Posted Wednesday at 01:33 AM Report Posted Wednesday at 01:33 AM NYT distinguishes itself. https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/ 1 1 3 Quote
Knuckledragger Posted 11 hours ago Author Report Posted 11 hours ago I've been cheerfully obsessing over Oliver Lieb's music for well over 30 years now. His personal studio is the stuff of legend. OL's collection of kit goes deep, and he knows how to use all of it. OL's studio in 1993. OL's studio in the late 90s. OL's studio in the mid 00s. OL's studio in 2013. OL's studio in 2017. Oliver works as mastering engineer for other artists and his own productions are fastidiously constructed and precisely arranged in three dimensional sonic space. OL is the grand master of reverb, delay and compression. His compositions extend to the edge of the known universe. With that said, Oliver himself is very much rooted on planet earth. There are certain other visionary electronic musicians who are more than a bit out there. Geir Jenssen and Jake Stephenson are two shining examples. Both are (sadly, were in the case of Jake) capable of making music like no one else can and have a sound that is instantly recognizable. They are, to borrow a phrase from the late George Carlin, fuckin' nuts. Weirdly, both Stephenson and Jenssen made use of remarkably sparse studio setups. Jake was never hugely successful (he's far more famous in death than he was in life) and Geir is just weird. Gier Jenssen's studio, 2012. Gier Jenssen's studio, 2015. The man himself in his studio, 2017. Jake Stephen's humble bedroom setup in Glastonbury. What he was capable of doing with it boggles the mind. Compared to Jake and Geir, Oliver Lieb is (to quote my favorite malapropism by the greatest stand up comedian of the modern era, Bill Hicks) the complete realm of sanity and reason. In every interaction I've had with him online (going back to a text based internet in the late 90s), OL communicates quickly, concisely and wastes no time. No one as productive as him has time for idle chit-chat. With this said, I've noticed an uptick in Oliver's online presence recently. He's got a personal FB account (which I've been friends with since 2007. Neener.) that he doesn't use and an official artist page. That latter one has been exhibiting a flurry of activity recently. Today he posted this: In the man's own words: Quote The Into Deep album by my project L.S.G. has quite a few sounds from the Yamaha EX5Rs. I love Yamaha and their unique sound. My first one ever was the TX802 back in the days! I still have a TG-77, the unique sounding VL1m, the two EX5Rs and the FS1R. When I "discovered" the EX5Rs in 1998, I was blown away by the sound of the filters and effects! A sampler and synth with different synthesis forms in one machine...I had to get two! One for drums, more specifically individual drum sounds and sounds from loops that I cut in 16th note pieces with the Recycle software and load in a multi program. The playing around or use random notes until I find something interesting. Put some internal effects on top and I had some to me interesting sounding new drums. The second one was for the synth sounds that were also super interesting. For example the track El Tiburon from Into Deep is playing these EX5R drums and the weird sequencer melody from the second one. https://oliverlieb.bandcamp.com/track/el-tiburon Back then all synths and sounds were playing "live" from Logic Audio and going through my AMEK Rembrandt I had for a while and recorded on DAT. I also did quite a few other tracks with this drum sound setup in that time. I wish they would have gone further down this road with some new hybrid gear like that! There is nothing quite like hearing Oliver Lieb of all people geek out about synth gear. 3 Quote
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