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Nonono...some ways of ingesting our favourite paint solvent / neurotoxin simply are cooler than the rest. Make no mistake there.

Got it today. How's that for accurate timing?

Desiderii Marginis - Procession album It's nice, for just sitting and calming down as I started my summer holidays.

Is it possible to get this into the same order with Altar shop stuff?

It's good.

Have you ever tried? And "blindly" is absolutely the key here. People can also "definitely hear" the difference in their $20 000 speaker cables, but only if they know the setup. There's a lot of boasting around, but after a proper test many self-proclaimed golden ears have to eat their humble pie. I could quite safely make a bet that even properly encoded 256 kbps CBR or 192 kbps VBR cannot be distinguished from the original in a listening test. (However, I buy all my music in lossless, just because getting a crippled version feels wrong in the days when transfer and storage costs for lossless audio are negligible. Why buy a worse product than we had in the early 80s when CDs were introduced?)

Back in stock at Psyshop... (I ordered my copy before posting this, just in case. )

Where do all these tracks come from? This game would be more interesting if we heard something about the DJ / radio show / whatever. Now these just come from nowhere in large piles and then disappear. Besides, describing the source would also help in identification.

I also enjoyed the set greatly. A lot of it is familiar but still well worth listening. As for the track...is it The Big Blue, either from Daze or the live version from Planet Riders?

I find it quite nice too - even included it in my 2009 yearmix. (Yep, the original is that old.) It has some clubby vibe, true, but AP still manages to produce tracks with good groove and clear whole-track structure instead of just repeating a single loop for eight minutes and adding a few pointless squeaks to random locations. I don't think I'm going to need any of the remixes but hey, if it's finally a real release, I approve it and take a short break from mudflinging. Thanks to TIP as well for getting things moving.

I'm making a presentation for a seminar which is only held for formal annual reporting. The topics are technical, they vary wildly, and it's unlikely that they'll be of much interest to anyone else. In fact, I expect most of the participants to daydream through it and to use the printed proceeding as a pillow. How much effort should I spend on this?

What's there?

The new Celt Islam album is good and follows that style quite closely, I think... http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IazaH0nOUwA (That clip is skipping, cutting and generally crap. Get the real thing.) For a few quick classics in North African/Middle Eastern style, see: Adham Shaikh Toirés ...although at some point I usually get fed up with all the ethnic yodeling and move back to honest instrumental dub. Fortunately I don't have to pretend being a model world citizen all the time within the walls of my own home.

Who wouldn't love that heavy machine beat?

That would make a badass lead sound.

Is that track lowpass-filtered to 1250 Hz? That's surely an odd version of the Biocandy I know... (Kind of neat garage-mastered cassette effect, though. I almost like it.)

Cool stuff, absolutely...but am I supposed to listen to warez copies for three months (or try resisting it) before the actual release?

I just realised this is a very special CD. I can read the track listing. It has a clear font (not some goddamn hippie squiggles), big letters and good contrast. (Have you ever tried reading, say, Synthetic Flesh's labels when DJing at a pitch black club?) Also, the titles are real words, not some pseudo-ethnic nonsense taken from a language the artist doesn't even speak. I was able to fill in the titles in extraction software without consulting Discogs. For this reason alone, I give it five stars.

Should we define rarity by supply, demand or their ratio? For example... - Koxbox Live at Burning Man 1996 was a test pressing estimated at 20 copies. Not that many people are looking for it actively. (It's a bit of gimmick item with only modest differences to released material.) Nevertheless, one copy sold on Discogs for $656. - Let's say mr. whoever self-releases a crap CDr and manages to sell five copies before quitting. It's very rare but not sought after. - IFO was released properly in multiple full pressings without any intended "limited edition" tricks or problems. Probably several thousands of copies exist. It's not rare in the absolute sense, but 440 discoggers have it on their want list at the time of writing, and VG copies go for 60e or something. So you can get a lot of requests for a reasonably well supplied item because even more people want it, or maybe just a few (very generous) offers by hardcore collectors for a truly obscure item. Both can be listed, but are you specially after absolute or relative rarity?

I bought Unify (2xLP) brand new. It was good. Cosmic Experience had a few good riffs hidden somewhere in a big barrel of cheese. Didn't buy that one. After that...five seconds of the first sample have usually told more than I wanted to know. I'll pass.

Well...checking a few new places, sleeping under a tree, barbecue, swimming, stuff like that. There was more than enough fucked up shit happening last winter already.

Crossing Mind - The Inner Shift Makyo - Purnima Ren Toudu - Intangible

Which year?

Very handy. A few suggestions if you still have another boatload of free time to spare: - Track list and timed links in the description. - Maybe a short list of famous artists and/or labels for each genre. Discogs links might be nice too as a starting point for browsing. Oh, and "space samples" to goa. Eastern, drug-related and space/sci-fi samples. They're all equally essential.

You can try listening to psy-amb. There are 46 episodes at the moment of writing plus some radio extras, each containing 1-2 hours of quite enjoyable psychill. It's hard to predict, what counts as brilliant for each listener so dive in, sample a lot and spot a favourite. A large chunk of important releases over years are covered there. I've found plenty. Besides, even the not-so-brilliant stuff makes good background muzak. The articles and interviews are often worth a read too. (A Posford interview was posted today. )