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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-05-21 09:24 [#02486753]
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what do you think of this band and their 2017 album???


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-05-24 21:25 [#02486794]
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flap flap flap flap
flap flap flap flap
flap flap flap flap
flap flap flap flap


 

offline freqy on 2015-05-25 20:05 [#02486800]
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i cant see a vid on youtubes megaepictrax.


 

offline betamaxheadroom on 2015-05-26 01:11 [#02486816]
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attention seeking sociopathic prick


 

offline obara from Aalsmeer on 2015-05-26 09:31 [#02486818]
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http://www.discogs.com/search/?q=talking+helicopters&type=a
ll



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2015-05-26 13:07 [#02486825]
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i think i found their video


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-05-27 22:26 [#02486855]
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flap


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2015-05-28 15:42 [#02486882]
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The only album I associate with helicopters:
LAZY_TITLE


 

offline freqy on 2015-05-28 20:19 [#02486886]
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nnnnn n n nineteen.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-05-30 19:16 [#02486929]
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i've long maintained that flaps can be musically represented
by an envelope follower driving a wahwah pedal. i played
coil's "disco hospital" just now, and i realized the autowah
on the drums exemplifies this. though it's not flapping
terribly hard, it definitely flaps


 

offline freqy on 2015-05-30 23:11 [#02486934]
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flap "grave times"


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2015-06-10 12:55 [#02487181]
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flap flap flap
they're following me
flap flap flap
they're stealing my neurotransmitters
flap flap flap
have you heard their new single?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-23 03:51 [#02511011]
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flap flap flap flap
flap flap flap t
flap flap j j
flap t t t
j j j j
t t t t
f f f f
l l l lap


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-23 04:59 [#02511015]
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january the 22nd ~

i took a moment to believe that the helicopters were
following me, even though i didn't.



afterwards, they still weren't.




it was worth a shot.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-23 18:32 [#02511029]
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imagine nano helicopters flying up your nostrils


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2017-01-23 20:03 [#02511033]
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i was convinced there were flying femto cameras in here for
a while, glad to be past that now


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-23 20:06 [#02511035]
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did they just turn out to be gnats?




 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2017-01-23 20:07 [#02511036]
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they turned out to be imaginary, that's the main thing


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-23 20:09 [#02511038]
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oh good, well thats a very good sign that you can
discriminate between reality and whats unreal, police men
dont tend to respond well when you ask them to investigate
a plague of flying femto cameras flying round your head


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-23 20:09 [#02511039]
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seriously though good to hear you are well


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2017-01-23 20:13 [#02511042]
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better than i was at any rate, not seeing hallucinations of
princess bubblegum and lady rainicorn cleaning up evil
thoughts now either


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-23 20:19 [#02511043]
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yes reality is fucking strange enough as it is, without
those sorts of distractions i must say


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-24 07:18 [#02511064]
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milli, micro, nano, pico, atto, femto, flap.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-24 07:21 [#02511065]
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"For context, a femtosecond is to a second as a second is to
about 31.71 million years" --wikipedia

"For context, an attosecond is to a second what a second is
to about 31.71 billion years." --wikipedia

that's a really fast camera.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-24 07:23 [#02511066]
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yoctopus.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-24 16:39 [#02511134]
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I cannot conceive how small those small things are, like the
planck length or the radius of an atomic nucleus

hows small we can see

explains why i can see my gf's mums mustache


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-24 16:49 [#02511135]
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its funny we think we are big compared to like bacteria, but
on a universal scale we are cosmic runts


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-25 05:38 [#02511166]
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makes you think right proper about how long it took dr. who
to punch through that carbonite


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-25 05:45 [#02511167]
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i don't think thoughts can properly be stolen. the mind is a
devilish maze of references to references to references and
you can't just take a thought from one brain and put it into
another. it wouldn't work. it doesn't even fit. it's like
trying to plug a usb cable into a three-phase outlet or a
banana into a car's gas tank or any sort of incredibly
mismatched technical and/or fruit metaphor.

i figure some people just hear their own thoughts before
they're done thinking 'em up. hearing it twice,
half-thought, then half-on-top-of fruit metaphors, sounds
confusing to me. certainly might feel like you keep trying
to think when the russian femtocopters that flew up your
nostrils keep radioing back your thoughts to moscow and
goddamn it i can't think flap with this flap noise flap flap
every flap thingflap i think flap makesflap my
brainflapflapFLAPFLSDFLOSDOPFPLSDfplpppantsthatfit


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-25 05:49 [#02511168]
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fuckin helicopters m8.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 11:51 [#02511170]
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lol had a proper laugh at that


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2017-01-25 12:25 [#02511176]
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i figure some people just hear their own thoughts before

they're done thinking 'em up. hearing it twice,
half-thought, then half-on-top-of fruit metaphors, sounds
confusing to me.


this is pretty accurate as to how voice hearing feels, yeah.
you end up finishing the half-formed thought that feels like
a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th or 5th) party started for you. it's
pretty weird meng


 

offline RussellDust on 2017-01-25 13:56 [#02511179]
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As you know probably, when it comes to hearing voices, it's
a completely different ball game when you don't hear your
own. When it's "exterior".

So nice to see belb post again!


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2017-01-25 14:31 [#02511180]
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i can imagine it's pretty nasty, yeah. i had a habit of not
answering the door because i could no longer tell if it was
my imagination that there was anyone there, with the banging
i mean. mind you i was smoking a lot of synthetic
cannabinoids at the time and blaming it on the chinese
government beaming sinicuichi (sp?) into my head. drugs can
do funny, funny things to ya


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 14:36 [#02511181]
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not to make light of this, but have you ever had like a man
come to check your gas meter and you have turned round and
he has disappeared because its your imagination, or am
getting the wrong idea?


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2017-01-25 14:40 [#02511182]
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no but i'd quite often hear a knock at the door, go and
check the peephole to find there was nobody there


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 14:54 [#02511183]
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that must get frustrating


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 14:57 [#02511184]
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i used to suffer from paranoia when i was younger, you know
when you think cars might be following you, i still dont
like it when you see someone sitting in a car then when you
walk past they suddenly drive off, I finally got over it
when i realised im pretty inconsequential in the scheme of
things


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2017-01-25 14:59 [#02511185]
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my own fault really for smoking too much but that shit is
addictive yo. i'd created quite a paranoid, squalid little
bubble to exist in, just drinking, smoking and living on pot
noodle and ensure drinks


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 15:00 [#02511186]
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yes im sure when the right time comes one day you will wake
up and think nah ive had enough, keep eating the pot noodles
though, yeah i used to smoke dope in college it was probably
that


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2017-01-25 15:01 [#02511187]
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yeah it's quite a nice realisation to come to, that you
don't really matter in the scheme of things, tis a decent
paranoia killer


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 15:04 [#02511189]
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yeah when you get older one of two things seems to happen to
people your, ego dissolves and you become much happier in
general or you cling on to it and become bitter and twisted
unless your richard branson. I mean i still have a small ego
but its only healthy but it doesnt interfere with my life
anymore


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 15:06 [#02511190]
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truth is your could be shaving orangutans and putting
suspenders on them in your living room, but unless your
annoying your neighbours literally no one gives a shit


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 16:34 [#02511192]
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sometimes i get up for a wee at i can hear my neighbour
watching like open university programs at 3 or 4 in the
morning, i wonder if he is watching population distributions
of medieval europe


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-25 18:54 [#02511194]
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i've tried sinicuichi. really, really tried it. left it on
the porch in the sun for a day or three to steep into tea
and then drank the worst cup of tea i've ever had. i'll
leave the digestive effects to your imagination...

...in any case, here's what it did: it sounded like i was
listening to things above a ring mod. it was definitely
somewhere north of 2000hz... but in bits and spots. so,
alright, someone took the output of a band-pass filter
(bands largely north of 2000hz) and ran it through a ring
mod. exactly like the intro to milkman except the
wet/dry mix was set kindly enough to allow me to hear what
was going on about as good as i could normally. no one was
banging on the door.

not particularly noticible were the promised effects w/rt
old memories. or much of anything else. i watched TV with
ring mod for a couple hours, then there were the digestive
effects i requested you pre-roll, then i decided i was not
particularly interested in sinicuichi anymore. half suspect
it was a different plant on that xochi chap.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-25 19:02 [#02511195]
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this is pretty accurate as to how voice hearing feels,
yeah. you end up finishing the half-formed thought that
feels like a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th or 5th) party started for
you. it's pretty weird meng


it actually seems a bit easier to cope with than outright
delusion. imagine you believe the dog's name is
Steve. you go over to the dog and say "c'mere steve."
the dog ignores you. everyone looks at you funny. awkward!
someone finally asks: "why are you calling the dog steve?"
you are confused. the dog's name is steve. it's always been
steve... no, no, people tell you. the dog is named
thaddeus.

this is more or less how i imagine a proper schizophrenic
break to feel. one can learn to realize it's happened from
the surrounding evidence (people confused, correcting you)
but putting humpty-dumpty back together over and over again
must be proper frustrating.

i feel this comes from the same thing as the voices: bits
interrupt each other. you ask for regular unleaded and you
get a banana... flap.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2017-01-25 19:15 [#02511196]
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i was lying in bed last night, stewing on this thread.
chewing gum. i thought: i'm already going a bit james joyce
on xlt, why not write a post? i'll write it in my head until
the gum is flavorless. crumple the gum up into a sphere of
context. leave it on my desk. explode it into the relevant
threads next morning. wonder how much i'll forget? answer:
some of these words i wrote in bed last night, others i'm
reconstructing today

my inability to shut up comes from chatting to myself
constantly. constantly. it is more or less the cause
of my insomnia. as soon as something like PROPHET VS is
mentioned, my brain begins loading up zillions of obscure
details about PROPHET VS and my brain begins to formulate
sentences explaining how it was an analog/digital hybrid and
the random patch generator (enter, 2) would generate patch
names that, once you got an eye for 'em, would tell you what
the patch would sound like before you even pressed a key.
then you're must mashing random over and over until the
letters tell you you're in the neighborhood of the patch you
are imagining in your head and this cuts patch creation time
down by like 10x and leads to some wicked accidents from
near misses...

i thought: this is because i ramble these things to myself
all day. it's force of habit. it's probably why i have such
a deep memory: i habitually, compulsively re-enforce things
by walking through them most any time they come up. this
makes anything that comes up a bit more... punchy.

lying in the dark. trying to pick an adjective. i land on
punchy.

more or less @ the precise moment i picked the word (perhaps
it was even a moment before ;) i got a strange
synaesthetic... thing: a pair of disembodied arms doing a
punch-punch motion.

what. the. shit. was that? took me a minute to suss it: i'd
been exercising for hours and hours, and it was effectively
an afterimage of my own arms doing motions i'd done over and
over and over earlier that day. like i said -- punchy


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 19:19 [#02511197]
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my brain just really has crashed today


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 19:21 [#02511198]
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did you ever have a note books on patches and stuff, ones i
spent months and months messing around writing hundreds of
pages on different synthesis types and patch types i made i
really went for it, just checked it was 8 years ago i wrote
the dates in it


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2017-01-25 19:22 [#02511199]
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triangle: harmonic series amplitudes decrease
sexponentially


 


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