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Twofer (or twoFUR) today.  ZeosPantera is a guy who wears a GoPro, yaps at great length and ostensibly review headphones gear.  It is my understanding that he is somewhat well known on that other site.  I have watched his videos on and off for years.  I don't think I've ever made a product purchase based on Zeos's reviews, but his content makes good "second monitor" entertainment when I'm doing something else.  Zeos is know for a few things, he's got the gift of gab (45 minute video rambling on about a DAC/amp combo), his absolutely cringe taste in anime waifu art, and his various cats that make cameos in his videos.  For years he had a small gray cat named Drake that is one of the mouthiest creatures I've ever heard.  His persistent, insistent meowing is the stuff of legend.   I happened to be checking Xitter (not something I normally do) and saw that Zeos had posted this: Very sad.  His videos won't be the same without the Chorus of Drake.   I'm not sure if YT deep links work on HC.  The timestamp I used includes an earful of Drake.

This is a bit of an obscure one, but still significant.  RIP Mickey Mann.  Via the official Orbital FB page: I first head Pressure of Speech's "X-Beats" in a DJ mix, sometime in the mid 90s.  At that point there was no Discogs, no P2P, and remarkably little info online.  In 2002, I asked about it in the techno room on the then-new Soulseek.  One of the UK denizens said "Oh, that's the sound engineer for Orbital."  Some time later, I paid $25 on eBay for the 12" (a lunatic price for the time.)  I was mortified to learn that the remix I liked so much was NOT on the 12".  Eventually I got my hands on the Phase 1 CD an deduced that the track that moved me so much in 1995 or so was any version of X-Beats, but in fact "Elone," specifically the Pressure of Speech 12" Version.  Elone got mislabeled as X-Beats on a number of compilations and bootlegs in the 90s.  As much as I tend to romanticize that decade, especially compared to the oligarch-driven, AI-generated hellscape in which we now reside, I do grant that it was a right royal PITA to be into obscure electronic music in the dialup era.   It is a moody, timeless classic to this very day.  Times like these makes me wish my radio station was still going, so I could build a set around it.  More on that later.  Much later.

For the same money, you can buy a Steinway grand piano that will play itself.

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