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  It’s almost like I’m in the south of France. 🤔 Walked up a block from my accommodation and stumbled into this sight.

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  No genre fiction on this flight, please

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  Accidentally stumbled upon the site of the cover photo from Autechre’s Amber yesterday. Sightseeing in Cappadocia and there those hills were, *opposite* the thing we had stopped to look at (Uchişar castle). A weird feeling. #IDM Sightseeing

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  Mad music-related lego sets. The Neve mixing desk is particularly detailed. https://numode.net/

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  I'm having fun with this free plugin Polarity-RES, thanks @polarity@social.bitwig.community! Here I've got the pitch of all of the resonators wobbling in sync, but also the individual gains of each node modulating at different speeds (Curves modulators for those using #Bitwig). The visual is like yo-yos! Fun! https://polarity.productions/polarity-res/

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  K*Saba and HoneBeGood - Bird of Paradise A couple of the lesser known affiliates of the whole Young Gifted & Broke crew (most famously Homebrew, @Peace, etc.). Wellington producer / Auckland MC. Not that much hip-hop wanders off into looping acoustic instruments and such. K*Saba has done a bunch of theatre work and it shows (in a good way). #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds #NZMusic https://ksaba.bandcamp.com/track/bird-of-paradise

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  Gulls - Edith's Waltz One for fans of Talk Talk and such, a solo artist from Dunedin who's received zero attention AFAIK... choosing this for the artist's name, rather than the theme of the music, but hey. https://gullsorgulls.bandcamp.com/track/ediths-waltz #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds #NZMusic

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  Anthonie Tonnon - Bird Brains https://anthonietonnon.bandcamp.com/track/bird-brains #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds

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  @TwoClownsEating@beige.party @distinctdipole@tech.lgbt side note: I like that the story involves queueing so we know it’s in the UK

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  The trailer for 2003 flop Tiptoes really looks like a parody. Matthew McConaughey and Kate Beckinsale … with Gary Oldman playing someone with dwarfism by kneeling all the time - and even if the movie were somehow good, the flavour of the trailer is just horrifyingly like “things were great until this *terrible revelation* that her bf’s family all have dwarfism!” https://youtu.be/O3qGGk5ymQ4 I would love a documentary on the making of. The director massively denounced what became of it, swearin...

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  Huh, a friend told me today that DJ Krush's 2001 album 'Zen' is not named after the Buddhist tradition. It's an obscure homophone meaning "gradually" or "bit by bit", more commonly said "susumu" in Japanese. Krush seems to be into word play / fucking with people, heh. If you can read Japanese or Chinese you'd presumably this up straight away from the album cover. I find logograms super interesting in this respect, how they disambiguate homopho...

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  A nice interview with the guy behind Topdown Dialectic and all of the music on the False Aralia label https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-183-topdown-dialectic-is-real #ElectronicMusic #DubTechno #ExperimentalMusic #Dub

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  @TwoClownsEating@beige.party Ha, now singing to myself "Underground, overground, Mongoling free"

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  Connected to what I just boosted about having a personal website, I’m happy to lease a domain in order to have a consistent email address that is not connected to an email provider. I’ve switched providers multiple times over decades and never had to tell people to use a different address to reach me.

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  If you know J Dilla's album Donuts, the amount he *didn't* mess with the samples he took from this track for 'workinonit' is kind of eye opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sraKulMHZw

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  Been mildly amazed by this original version of ‘Bette Davis Eyes’, as covered much more famously by Kim Carnes. So, so different! https://youtu.be/FAQsOJbs-yo

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  I decided to buy this audio plugin Aava today which is the fanciest kind of convolution "reverb", where you can throw in 4 different sounds (impulse responses) and blend your input signal through all of them. Plus you can change the size / pitch of the impulse responses in real time without the whole thing falling silent, which is something I've not seen any other convolution tool handle. I was pretty much sold by that audio demo "Turn your drums into a bassline" on the...

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  I learnt today that techno-ish producer The Field has a day job as the cook for a series of kindergartens. I kind of love it.

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  Make pop songs less definitive Mostly What I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun Hardly Ever Gonna Give You Up Many People Were Kung Fu Fighting Few Things Are Gonna Stop Us Now ...

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  Very nice! "Gardens 1-3 consists of three live sessions recorded in the summer of 2025, in a small cottage garden in the middle of Malmö. Friends, family, and aquaintances were invited to a couple of cozy hours among the foliage. People were chatting, leaves were rustling, birds were singing, and when the time felt right we began to play. The recordings do not capture the sounds of the audience or nature. We recommend adding those elements yourself." https://s01system.bandcamp.com/...

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  I’ve only got time for 20% of Take Five today, sorry I actually genuinely enjoy this, it just doesn’t feel worked through enough because of its length https://youtu.be/-8hRuvCwvTM?si=xElZ6gwmuejqSKGG

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  I keep Screenshots of Despair in my feed reader and it consistently makes me laugh https://screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com

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  @stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz yeah seriously. I partly wrote this to say "out loud" it's only been two days. I know it gets easier, but all so vivid right now.

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  We said goodbye to a cat of 15 years two days ago and this is my first day working at home... really missing how _around_ he was, keep expecting him in every room and around every corner. We used to say he was running puppy software, he loved following people about and being near them. We have another cat, but he's a much more trad, aloof guy.

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  TIL an older English name for “penguin” was “arsefoot”. Also that penguin is Welsh.

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  A good little write up on New Zealand techno from this century, including touching on how Mu happily went there even if people don’t think of Fat Freddy’s Drop that way. https://selectedworks.substack.com/p/exploring-the-sounds-of-2020s-techno #techno #NZ #NZMusic #ElectronicMusic

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  Huh, I just realised it's very easy to create a wet-only (delta) version of an fx plugin's output in #Bitwig, if the plugin doesn't do it natively. Put the plugin into an FX Container. Add a Tool to the container as well, and invert both channels. That's it. I hope this is helpful, might be something a lot of people figured out a long time ago. :) I am using it to create a spectral vocoder out of Trackspacer - it would work with Soothe too, if you have that. There's also...

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  Peak Guardian. A friend quipped “Charli’s first appearance in the coveted Lyme disease section”.

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  Peak Guardian. A friend quipped “Charli’s first appearance in the coveted Lyme disease section”.

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  A decent round up of initiatives to create new music purchasing marketplaces, imo. One of the things I really like about @mirlo@musician.social is how their contributors are open like this. When people do move away from #Bandcamp I don’t think the best answer would be another hegemonic platform. Obviously I’m not “the people”, but… 🤞 https://www.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1uj68me/comment/ouokv9j/