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Trying to remember what I was supposed to buy on Bandcamp Friday. (Sampling the new Saafi Brothers album as the first idea.)

Today we have a simple one. I had been postponing my Ott album purchases for many years. Maybe they were released in times when I was busy or preferred something else or didn't feel like ordering just one disc. Well, actually I did get the crowdfunded Blumenkraft LP and bonus 12" in 2018 because those are classics and the vinyl releases were something new and hot, but the more recent albums were another path which I had missed. This year I finally fixed that and got: Fairchildren Heads Hiraeth Ott is such a decent bloke; fair prices, no artificial scarcity tricks, free signing service, positive messages and maybe even extras included. It's always a pleasure shopping there and I'm pretty sure you will agree, no matter what you get and how. Now, about time to give these a proper listen...

Well, here's a short list. Mark "Drezz" "Nervasystem" Dressler found a few copies of 13 Amp Fusion. I think I've bought all his albums one by one since his 2013 comeback. Now I ended up filling this gap too. These are sold "as new", and at the moment of writing some are still available on Bandcamp. Get one if you want one. For some reason I thought this was one of the CD only purchases (like some other old stock sales) so I just ripped it. In fact, it came with a download and apparently I have that one too. Oh well, now I can confirm that they indeed look and work like new...

Damn, there's some massive backlog again. I find boxes of received discs that I've semi-forgotten for assorted reasons. This time I won't even try to create a mega-list of them all but instead post in any convenient chunks which I can mark as sorted. In this batch there's Andrew Heath. I suspect I got The Silent Cartographer when it was just released in 2014, then Flux from somewhere. Then there was a break. Then there were good offers so I've been following the trail of his solo albums on Disco Gecko: Europa Soundings Evenfall The Alchemist's Muse New Eden Scapa Flow The Cloud Machine (OK, this one is whitelabrecs, not Disco Gecko.) These have their very own character. To be honest, I'd probably struggle to name any specific song or even an album by hearing it, but that's kind of the point. There are moments when I don't really want to hear music as in banging tracks or catchy tunes but simply some kind of ambience made of musical elements, and that's what one can find here. Real ambient music. Now I have a proper playlist of these and I may end up visiting it many times when those moments hit.

After a long streak of summer events and heat, I'm doing many chores at home - also ripping a bunch of albums I got as CD only and checking assorted vinyls which I haven't added to my bookkeeping yet.

That's a major milestone. Congratulations and thanks for being here, Psynews and everyone.

It has been roughly forever since I last posted in this topic. 2024 was quite a shit show in general. Then I (maybe) waited for a few batches to arrive, and then waited three months more for one replacement. Anyway, here we go again. Let's start with the CDs. Something may have been on earlier lists already, something may be missing. Who knows at this point. Astral Projection – Let There Be Light Ka-Sol – Fairytale Mini Spacer – M.U.S.I.C. Xenomorph – Qlippoth Xenomorph – Demagoguery of the Obscurants Xenomorph – Netherverse Globular – Lifts the Curse of the Grey Goo Assimilators..! Gabriel Le Mar – Light of Unity Holeg Spies – Brave New World (Multimedia Pack) Banco De Gaia – Trauma Carbon Based Lifeforms – Seeker Elysium – A Journey through Time & Space Greg Hunter – Discography Part I Also, some dark ambient and disco and other cool stuff.

I'm alive. My candle has just been burning at both ends and therefore my forum presence hasn't appeared alive. But now I'm doing Bandcamp Friday shopping.

Well, maybe not that much new (or used) vinyl. Here's everything somehow related I could find right now. I've managed to score some nice finds from other genres recently, though. Tor.Ma in Dub – Terra Deep Fried Dub & Italiks – Crown Palefield Mountain – On My Way Syb Unity Nettwerk – Life Support System (Mindscape Mix) / Sun Invaders (Full Moon Mix) Astral Projection – Let There Be Light Meanwhile, one counter suggested that this would be the 9000th reply in this topic. (And now the forum found my lost draft, which I had already re-typed yesterday...)

It has been a while again. There's quite an incoming pile here, old and new stuff. Time to update various listings. I'll start from CDs... Set:01 Kumharas Benza – Benza Society of Inner Light The Irresistible Force – Kira Kira (the 2017 disc, along the 2023 reissue/remaster release) Dub Trees – Nature Never Did Betray the Heart that Loved Her (2024 reissue/remaster) Pitch Black – Electronomicon (2CD version) Pitch Black - Invisible Circuits Acidum Influxum Veasna – Providence Vaporized – Human Odyssey Distant System – Distant System Tor.Ma in Dub – Life in Dub That should cover most of it. There's also some dark ambient from Cryo Chamber and some other things with no relation to this forum. I'll check and list vinyls in another post. It was already painful enough to lose half of this list once when I tried to click the tab but hit "close tab" instead. The forum had helpfully auto-saved exactly the first four words of it. Alright, time to rip a few discs with no digital versions and then stash this pile.

Etnica - Full On Definitely true fact.

Hello I still have a couple of things to wrap up today (or this year), but semi-relatedly, here are a few reminders: Suntrip writes: Today is the last day you can use the "newyear2024" code for your 20% discount! (Bandcamp store) Liquid Sound Design is clearing out. I think almost all of their stuff, excluding the very latest, is directly discounted still today. (store) Despite the recent acquisition, Bandcamp Fridays do seem to return. The next one is announced for February 2nd so you can save up until then if you want to support your favourite artists and labels 100% again. Apologies for being a bit late with these, but there has been some royal mess and the general to-do backlog has been immense. I hope you can still grab something if you feel like doing so.

It's on the Lunar Civilization re-release, CD and digital. https://www.discogs.com/release/4571152-Crop-Circles-Lunar-Civilization-EP

I might give at least some shit but I think I already have all those items...which may tell something. About the rest of the matter...I cannot phrase it properly right now because too many things are happening, but I really hope that at least some of those would turn for the better, eventually.

Unfortunately I skipped that one, despite it sounding pretty good. As mentioned in my previous rant, there was a completely absurd amount of hassle with all of my summer orders when this was released so I couldn't handle any more logistics. My wallet was also bleeding, and UK shipping + customs really bite for single discs. Furthermore, it's a nice collectible, but I really doubt whether I'd really play the vinyl anywhere. I have to draw a line somewhere with shelf-filling collectibles...although it's pretty far out there. Maybe I'll eventually regret this skipping too. Anyway...now basically all of those cursed orders have arrived (except one CD which may not be even pressed yet, thus not shipped either). So let's clear the backlog before I go shopping again. Many familiar and trusted labels here. Fractal Glider – Zactoglider Martin Nonstatic – Pulsatille Lauge & Aes Dana – Terrene Triquetra – Myriad Vision Morphic Resonance – Extrasensory Perception Triquetra – Access Denied 12" Virtuart – Pisces Moon Rising EP Hallucinogen – The Albums Remastered Gaudi + Savona – Havana Meets Kingston in Dub Hibernation ...and more disco.