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offline RussellDust on 2016-06-17 18:03 [#02497872]
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You people


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-17 18:08 [#02497873]
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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 the hacker's diet. "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


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-17 18:29 [#02497876]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-17 18:33 [#02497878]
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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


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-17 18:40 [#02497879]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-17 18:41 [#02497880]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-17 18:44 [#02497881]
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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.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-17 18:46 [#02497883]
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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


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-17 18:47 [#02497884]
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it is very involved though so i understand why you wouldnt


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-17 18:52 [#02497885]
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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.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-17 18:54 [#02497886]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-17 18:57 [#02497888]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-17 19:01 [#02497891]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-17 19:04 [#02497893]
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what was this thread about again? i've forgot.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-17 22:37 [#02497898]
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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


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-17 22:38 [#02497899]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-18 00:38 [#02497903]
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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.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-18 00:54 [#02497905]
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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.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-18 01:07 [#02497906]
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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.


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-18 22:27 [#02497934]
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LAZY_TITLE
reminds me more of Bwoon Dub maybe


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-18 22:29 [#02497935]
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those Soundlcoud cheetahs have fucking amazing meloedies


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-18 22:32 [#02497936]
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Also looking forward to hearing more from ms800
some strange sort of wavetable synth?


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-18 22:50 [#02497938]
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^ sounds like a nightmare, but i love stuff like that
presents a bit of a challange


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-19 19:01 [#02497964]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-19 19:06 [#02497965]
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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?


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-19 21:24 [#02497978]
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i hate wires, i really really hate tangly wires


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-19 21:26 [#02497979]
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like the lcd soundsystem guy said, life's a compromise.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-19 21:29 [#02497980]
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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


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-19 21:29 [#02497981]
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jungle


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-21 13:19 [#02498078]
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oo i have a sh101

you can hear CIRKLON3 on spotify now, i hate spotify


 

offline idle interloper on 2016-06-21 15:15 [#02498087]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-21 15:16 [#02498088]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2016-06-21 15:46 [#02498089]
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aphex has a vevo

lol richard is tay tay


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-21 15:54 [#02498090]
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vevo certified artist


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2016-06-21 16:01 [#02498091]
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finna get stacks selling those air pheezys


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-21 16:11 [#02498092]
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the video is better than what i could do


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-21 20:55 [#02498103]
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i like the viddy, well done kids


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2016-06-22 01:21 [#02498116]
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:]]]]]]]


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2016-06-22 01:22 [#02498117]
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cirklont3 so fukn lush mastered already had this whole thing
memorized what a treat


 

offline Portnoy on 2016-06-22 15:14 [#02498124]
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brilliant viddy. So Aphex Twin. Made by a 12 year old, too.
The song itself is absolute ear sex.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2016-06-22 15:54 [#02498125]
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so some of the trax off this ep were part of the soundcloud
dump

please link me the trax here



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-22 17:01 [#02498126]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2016-06-22 17:06 [#02498127]
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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


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-22 17:30 [#02498128]
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^ yeah just the 2 were on soundcloud


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2016-06-22 18:24 [#02498129]
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hope the other trax have more buildups and drops and shiet

or wotever the lingo is for aphexual kickassery


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-22 18:28 [#02498130]
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there is another 7 minute track on there could be the one


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-06-24 14:08 [#02498161]
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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


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2016-06-24 21:49 [#02498215]
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imagine what the windowlicker era stuff sounds like hehe


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-24 21:56 [#02498220]
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we want windowlicker


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2016-06-24 21:56 [#02498221]
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we want windowlicker


 


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