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yes, i was the same. until i was 28 or 29 i was about 185lb. that was fifteen too much for my knees and ten or twenty i'd have preferred be muscle. until i was 28 or 29. then my metabolism took a nose dive. things got ambitious; at my worst i was like 210. summer 2012 i couldn't find any pants that fit, which was pretty embarassing. i'd lost weight a couple times before. first was end of high school with . "treat it like an engineering problem" is pretty much the best thing i can do for myself whenever i seem to be shooting myself in the foot repeatedly. anyways, i knew i could drop the weight. that wasn't the problem. the real issue was saying "i can beat myself through strict dieting for a few weeks or months but that will never last, i have to replace the frozen pizza with something i actually like or it will never stick." junk food is an addiction, really. i love bananas like a former smack addict loves his methadone. it'll do. i don't want to die. i _do_ get ahead of the curve before middle age sets in. anyways, w/rt to the quasi-autistic interaction with my environment, i've been doing that since forever. since little kid forever. but it mostly a stretching thing... until around 2014, at which point i realized i was in shape enough to dance properly, and pretty good at it. i wake up sore four or five mornings a week from going for three hours the day before. once i get over the initial snoozy limbs it doesn't want to end. i think i've found a way to get my pineal gland to make frozen pizza. this is also why i've been on message boards less in 2016 than 2014 |
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your american right, must be quite difficult maintain weight considering the amount of unregulated stuff they stick in frozen pizza, i doubt its much better her though, yes getting ahead of the curve before middle age sets in thats my plan as well im just about keeping even keel at the moment |
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also in 2014 was financial ruin and having to sell off most of the gear i'd been buying and modding since high school. i could have dove back into software, but i felt pretty sour about it all (and i have to say, i still do). but i do love music, and i think i got so incredibly into dancing because it filled the hole that left. true fact: i bought a prophet VS in high school. who fucking does that when guitar center has something with cool lights for a tenth of the price? but i was very into nine inch nails at the time, and it was one of the three synths Reznor used on pretty hat machine, along with a (mini?)moog and an xpander. the moog and the expander were lovely things i didn't have the ears to appreciate, but the VS does this thing where it sounds like cracking, peeling paint. or rust. curly. anyways, syro came out with the gear list right before i put it up for sale, all that prophet vs on there probably got me a few extra bucks. thanks richard. 180db style |
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very good synth, wish i had one, then again im sure you could produce something really good for half the price if you looked around |
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according to the gypsy my parents took me to for a laugh, i'm part fish and all-american boy. quote unquote. if she foresaw me drinking sweet and sour sauce on a bet in second grade and genuinely liking the experience, she was merciful enough to keep my parents in the dark. there are plenty of other things i could cop to, like ellios frozen pizza tastes way better if you undermicrowave it. the box says "not for microwave preparation." it doesn't say what happens with the microwave; i'm guessing you get fat because i did |
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i spent god knows how many hours building a modular, modding casios. i still have all that stuff because it had no resale value. thank god for that. |
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couldnt you get the schematics for some analogue synths, like get the filters from one that you really like and the oscillators from one and make your own really good hybrid, if i was as good as electronics as you its what id be doing |
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it is very involved though so i understand why you wouldnt |
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it's not just the synths. going from adam a7 + sub8 to my altec lansings was a bit of a kick in the balls. it's also hard to find something nice to say about onboard sound chips after an rme fireface. even with pure software my laptop is all HHRRRNNNGHRRRRPBllalaaapppff. then i converted everything to linux since cubase was the only reason i kept windows. so when you say i "could produce something really good for half the price" i think you're fucking insane. to quote the wire, you can't do more with less, you do less with less, and that's why the fucking call it less. this is before how you start to anthropomorphize a synth a little and it starts to feel less like a machine and more like a pet. |
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i think you could personally, didnt say it would be easy though, then again what do i know ive never owned a prophet |
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i am not terribly good at electronics. i am a software engineer with a soldering iron. i can follow schematics, i understand digital, but analog design is completely out of my reach unless i go in for an undergraduate course. to put it in perspective: if i'd spent the time i spent on my modular working a software gig, i probably could have just bought a fenix. really, that's why i had all the nice crap like the adam's in the first place... if i get into it again it will be for one of two reasons: A) i have a certain core of gear back; enough to do something with and not feel like it's a tease B) i figure out how to make music on linux |
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so does this afx guy have a guy to fix his things? "the synthi 100 is broken, you should open it up and have a look." i'd say no, i'd just email dave wright, he worked on dangers' and didn't jack it. i guess aphex has his own dave for that noyze |
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what was this thread about again? i've forgot. |
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I cant remember, yes in that case its probably a good idea to get some quality gear that isnt prone to costing a grand to fix |
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if your a software engineer, im guessing it really wouldnt take you much effort to fix something with a soldering iron, i know they are different disciplines but they both rely on the same sort of mind frame |
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it's just a rough metric, but i think you can tell dance music vs. bed rolling music by the ratio of arm flailing to toe walking when you attempt to move to it in a standing position. |
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i meant, i'm sure i could learn, but it would take me a year or two. i hate school and classes but that would burn it into me properly. resource management is another thing i've fixated on (like toe walking, or treating things as an engineering problem). it is not where my passion lies, and i hate calculus. there are two things that let me do alright... first, i like building things. in general, but in particular, wiring up perfboard is a nice, zen sorta thing. i'll put on manhattan research or NPR and count resistor color codes on my fingers for a few hours. it's also one of those things like coding where i get incredibly dug in -- just another resistor. one more. then you can get up to pee. now a capcitor second, i have a very good memory for patterns. regular moments like "i could steal this bit from that schematic i built six months ago and drop it into this one right here and it could be cool." i still have to go look up the schematic from six months ago to actually build it, but when i do it's more or less what i remembered and what i wanted. without this i would be critically fucked. |
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i guess it'd be a good summary to say i'm better at remembering the pattern of lines and triangles to turn a TL084 into a level mixer than i am at remembering how it works. fucking op amps, how do they work? i have a book called "high-speed design principles" or something and it's mostly on my shelf so i can feel important, and sometimes kill spiders with it. |
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reminds me more of Bwoon Dub maybe |
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those Soundlcoud cheetahs have fucking amazing meloedies |
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Also looking forward to hearing more from some strange sort of wavetable synth? |
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^ sounds like a nightmare, but i love stuff like that presents a bit of a challange |
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i had a moment with the VS. i thought to myself: you know, there are a lot of noises in this box. and indeed there were |
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lots of jokes in this along a usual formula: the interface is the irritating layer between you and the sounds you want. wires are the worst. it's like a jungle; so many fender cables. "how do you guys get anything done with all these wires?" "oh, well, it's even harder without them" so where's this soundcloud, then? |
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i hate wires, i really really hate tangly wires |
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like the lcd soundsystem guy said, life's a compromise. |
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yes you have to learn to deal with inconvenience to do good stuff, im just not a very organised perspn, some people can spend hours sorting all their cables out, i could no way ever do that i dont think |
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oo i have a sh101 you can hear CIRKLON3 on spotify now, i hate spotify |
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aphex has a vevo lol richard is tay tay |
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vevo certified artist |
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finna get stacks selling those air pheezys |
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the video is better than what i could do |
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i like the viddy, well done kids |
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:]]]]]]] |
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cirklont3 so fukn lush mastered already had this whole thing memorized what a treat |
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brilliant viddy. So Aphex Twin. Made by a 12 year old, too. The song itself is absolute ear sex. |
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so some of the trax off this ep were part of the soundcloud dump please link me the trax here |
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just the two tracks in total? nice beats, simple melody and arrangement. subtle yet developed. no real buildup or drop or chorus or anything. subtle, subtle trax |
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^ yeah just the 2 were on soundcloud |
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hope the other trax have more buildups and drops and shiet or wotever the lingo is for aphexual kickassery |
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there is another 7 minute track on there could be the one |
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"Id say from cassettes, i put up about 75%, from dats about 30% and from hard drive or other format about 0.1% !" fantastic news |
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imagine what the windowlicker era stuff sounds like hehe |
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we want windowlicker |
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we want windowlicker |
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