Otto Matta

I still have a bug up my ass about stealing from creators. Funny thread.

Films about stoners are not nearly as good as films for stoners. My #1: La Planete Sauvage Also: Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Baraka (social art-documentaries) Paprika, Spirited Away, Ponyo (fun, light, surreal Japanime) El Topo, The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky) Tekkon Kinkreet, Vexille, The Sky Crawlers, Renaissance (more hi-tech, international anime) Solaris, Stalker, Nostalghia (anything by Tarkovsky) The Life of Birds (or any BBC nature documentary with David Attenborough)

+1 Check out Stalker if you haven't already. Tarkovsky is king in my movie world.

You absolutely have to check out Art of Noise if you haven't already. Maybe also Yello. Not quite the same thing, but '80s electronic goodness. Kraftwerk was earlier.

Agree about Shenzhou. Cirque for me was disappointing after Substrata, but still has its moments.

Not quite, but you're right, it is from that era.

I would assume it's too late for a significant release, having finished it in 1999. Would be nice if he could make a stack of CD-Rs. I'd sure as hell buy it.

Listening to it now. Damn, this is great stuff. Did Hypnotic botch this release? Incompetent bastards.

That makes sense. I was baffled at the amount of production and investment for a relatively obscure piece of electronic music. Thanks for the tip about the film. Looks interesting.

The original video for God is God is actually really nice. Surprising the amount of effort (and money, surely) that went into it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5144-MQV0bU

I was about 10 when arcade games and consoles like Atari were a tidal wave of pure joy in the early '80s. It was all we could think about. We lived, breathed and ate video games and anything having to do with them. I can't say I found the music itself very memorable, but the aesthetic of the 8-bit sound is something that I absolutely love and incorporate into my own music. We could play Atari or Vic-20 or Intellivision all day long, but there was nothing like actually being in the arcade where the sound was full-quality from decent speakers, where you could feel it as you played. And there was a psychological factor to this that drew you, and what little money you had, back to the games over and over. You almost felt like the games were doing you a favor, when in fact you were putting your measly quarters in the pockets of the game companies.

Fucking great. Thanks for the news!

Fucking great movie. Loved how an otherwise traditional movie went artsy at the very end. Reminded me of Kubrick. And Daniel Day-Lewis was amazing in it. That was an unusually great time for films (I really liked No Country for Old Men, too). Another recommended one from that period is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

One melody from one Goa track? That's hard. I'm going with Tandu's The System, 2:17 - 2:44. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgTWLnRHV20

For me it's a toss-up between psychedelic techno and South African style. I love both a great deal, but if I had to have one on a desert island, it would be SA. It has the qualities similar to what I got into psytrance for in the first place (pace, aggression, melody, psy effects) and has more maneuverability. Forest/dark is third, as it tends to lack melodic qualities and focuses on structural rather than emotional qualities.

I read Angels and Demons about 7 years ago. It was thoroughly entertaining, and a hard book to put down, but I felt dirty after it, like after eating a meal at McDonald's. There was almost zero substance to the book beyond the plot's energy. This was after reading Eco's The Name of the Rose, which was, in comparison, a masterpiece of literature. I wanted more, so I did a search for similar books, and Brown's name came up. I hadn't heard of him before. Basically, if you like books that are made-for-Hollywood, like Grisham and Creighton, then Brown is the writer for you. He certainly knows how to keep one's attention. I worked at a bookstore shortly after The Da Vinci Code came out, and the amount of merchandising surrounding that book made me nauseous.

Yeah, Fantastic Planet is on a level of its own, for sure. One of a kind. And speaking of Tron, I'm not as excited about the new one coming out as I was two years ago, judging by the newer trailer(s). I think the idea of a new Tron was far more exciting in my mind than the commercialized reality will be. I hope I'm wrong.

Thanks, guys. It's very exciting. GGT - I hope you like the new mastered versions. I think the guy did a great job. And yeah, I've got some things in the works. But I'm very sloooooow, so... I'll let you know. Wubbies!

Free netlabel release. Electronica. Six tracks, 34 minutes. Please enjoy. Link

Nice work, Billy! You managed to capture an amazing assortment of natural activity within a month. And I personally think the lack of HD was probably an asset.

I miss it too, and I also miss all that money I spent and couldn't afford as an obsessed music hunter. There was a great used CD scene in Chicago in the '90s and early '00s. Found so much great music of all genres in a variety of different stores. I discovered, and quickly fell in love with, IDM and psytrance this way.

And: Ignore video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_wRJCFQSA

More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2OHb4tFpfw Crap recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfow2cb89WU