Paul Eye

Soundtrack to the anime series Earth Girl Arjuna from 2001 (still one of my favourites). I used to be quite an anime geek but it has receded in the past 5-6 years or so. I still try to find at least one good series to watch per year but it seems more and more like a challenge.

Hmm. Probably not really anywhere anymore. The CD seems to be out of print, but there seems to be a few copies for sale at mostly ridiculous prices over at Discogs. For the track only, maybe Amazon.jp or something?

Japanese. Although the language she sings is complete nonsense, something invented by Yoko Kanno (the composer) or Gabriela Robin (who wrote the lyrics and whose identity was a bit of a mystery for a long time until Kanno revealed it to be a pseudonym of hers). She's done this before Umm, no. Not this time of the year.

Thanks I doubt anyone's forcing you to listen to the radio? I haven't had one in, hmm, over 20 years

Yeah well Prismatic Reflection was kind of an obvious choice because I had planned to end the set with just a slight bang (Navras + Where Ghosts Lay) but as I needed to extend it on the fly I decided to continue with a bang (and of course play an 11 minute track to give me some room to breathe and think of my next move) and then play a couple of tracks I just know to work well. And yes, toothbrush people were there. One of the girls who started the whole thing is actually Finnish (I didn't know that until she told me) and she was at the party too

So, a few weeks ago I played this. Call it a warmup set for Ott if you will. Anyway, some surprises along the way (for myself too) and this was actually recorded at the event (as opposed to "in my home studio" which is the case for all my other sets). I'll maybe have some pics/videos up a bit later on, maybe. Tracklist: 山本千夏 - Early Bird E-Mantra - Between Two Worlds: The Boatman Derango - An Invisible Tale 2Minds - Eclipse Phillax - Melting Frog Ailo - Chronos Dub Trees - Magnetica (The Love That Moves The Sun And Stars Mix) Floating Planet - Rainforest Globular - Up The Xylem Elevator (Radioactive Sandwich's Wild West Remix) Easily Embarrassed - Little Match Sister Banco de Gaia - Acquiescence Juno Reactor - Navras (MIDIval PunditZ Remix) Cybernetika - Prismatic Reflection Infected Mushroom - Stretched Eat Static - Epoch Calypso Genetic - Test One Eat Static feat. Elaine Frost - Where Ghosts Lay...

It actually needs a TRS ("stereo") and/or XLR plug in both ends to be balanced. There's no such thing as a balanced "mono" cable because the entire idea of a balanced cable is to have 2 identical signals (one of them polarity inverted) running in parallel With a "mono" cable such as an RCA you only have one signal running in the cable. Ans yes, microphones are usually mono, but they use the same balanced cable as you use between your audio interface/soundcard and monitors; TRS and/or XLR plugs, as far as the signal is concerned, the plug doesn't matter. So for all purposes the balanced cable you use between your balanced sound output and your monitors, and the one you use on an ordinary micrphone is exactly the same. You should probably just drop the "stereo" way of thinking (unless used in an explicitly stero application such as headphones) and just stick to the balanced/unbalanced distinction

Yes.

I think that some confusion might be caused because on headphones, the stereo plug/cable actually is stereo (as it runs 2 signals). On a headphone cable the signals are L and R (not the same signal) and on a balanced cable the signals are Hot and Cold (the same signal). Same cable (basically), 2 different uses

Yeah I can understand why it can get a bit confusing And of course you can mix balanced/unbalanced plugs on a cable, like an XLR -> RCA (as RCA is unbalanced, definitely by definition) but you're leaving the interference cancelling "cold" (polarity inverted) signal unwired in a cable like this (this is where my expertise is a bit lacking though but that's the principle). In home use it shouldn't really be a problem so nothing bad should happen (at most, some interference noise, if at all). Of course just out of good practice it's good to use balanced cables when your I/O is balanced.

It's not the "other" channel, it's the same. You plug you "stereo" jack (which in this configuration isn't actually "stereo" but "balanced") into the L output of your soundcard and it feeds the L channel into both wires in the cable. Read the Wikipedia article and especially the "Interference redustion" section for a better explanation than what I could give

No, the other "channel" in the cable doesn't go to waste. I put that in quotes as it's not another channel per se, but that one channel/signal runs in parallel with the other polarity inverted (for interference/noise reduction purposes, to simplify the matter). Trust me on this one, the cable you have is what you should use. Balanced audio on Wikipedia if you want further reading.

Yes, absolutely correct. The "stereo" cables/plugs/jacks* you're referring to are also known as "balanced" and is what you should use as your I/O is balanced *and XLR is balanced by definition

I'm just wondering why you have an XLR male on the other end. Usually you connect an XLR female plug to an output. Unless of course you use the XLR as an input to the monitors, then there's nothing unusual about it. Note to self: stop posting when dead tired and with brain function close to zero

If you have a balanced output on whatever you're connectiong the monitors to, then yes, the 6,3mm stereo (aka balanced) plug/jack is what you should use.

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do here. What's the input on your monitors and what's the output on whatever it is that's on the other end? But if you mean a cable with XLR (which is balanced) on one end and a 6,3mm "stereo" (as in, also balanced) plug on the other, this is how it should be done.

It's (for the lack of a better explanation) like an enormously detailed playlist that's set to repeat for all of infinity. But the trick is, the mechanism that runs it isn't 100% perfect, so on each repeat there are fractions of tiny differences in how it runs (noticeable maybe after a million runs or so, I'm definitely not sure what levels of magnitude we're dealing with here) so it never does the exact same run twice. Also, it stores everything as it runs, so the next run is always based on the previous one. Little by little it evolves (maybe mutates too every now and then). Don't ask me or anyone else who or what started it, or if it's ever going to stop. I guess it's not for us to know. And my déjà vu explanation still stands. Probably we're not supposed to remember anything from the previous runs, but something always seems to slip through the cracks. The mechanism being as imperfect as it is

Haha :DDDD

That's a 2014 release

Uptempo: 1: Various - The World Beyond (Neogoa) 2: Denshi-Danshi - Fluid Dynamics (Suntrip Records) 3: Phillax - Spooky Disco (Vertigo Records) 4: Kazuki - Four Day Weekend (RuffBeatz) 5: The Faithealers - Until The End Of The World (Neogoa) 6: Nervasystem - Nervasystem4 (Voodoo Voltage) 7: Psychowave - Dancefloor Metadata (BooM! Records) 8: Various - The Mystery Of Crystal Worlds (Global Sect Music) 9: Various - Aurora Sidera (Suntrip Records) 10: Faxi Nadu - Perfectly Flawed (Sun Station) Downtempo: 1: Hinkstep - My Forest Queen (Self Released) 2: Suns Of Arqa - All Is Not Lost, But Where Is It? (Liquid Sound Design) 3: Various - Locomotion (Hado Records) 4: Nervasystem - Nervasystem3 (Voodoo Voltage) 5: Jeremy's Aura - Stop What You're Doing (Omnitropic & Maia Brasil Records) 6: Nibana - Ask The Universe (Maia Brasil Records) 7: Martin Nonstatic - Granite (Ultimae Records) 8: Ott - Fairchildren (Ottsonic) 9: Sysyphe - The Cities Of Silver Trees (Hadra Records) 10: Flowertz - Kumbhaka (Self Released)

This won't work. You're taking a stereo signal from the mixer's main outs and feeding it into a mono input on the Scarlett. So you need a 2xRCA -> 2x6,3mm cable and use both inputs on the Scarlett (and set the switch to "line"). And of course pan the left input all the way to the left and the right all the way to the right in whatever software you're using to record.

Been looping it all night since I got it yesterday evening. Released yesterday Murky brooding haunting ambient-ish oddness, yum.

:DD http://qdb.us/35080

I think you meant it the other way. Goa trance being the mother

And one of the most strikingly annoying features of psytrance people is that you're actually looked down on if you don't take (a shitload of) drugs at parties. I've lost count of how many times I've got condescending looks for refusing to take drugs even if "everyone else is doing it, stop being such a pussy". Not directly said like that of course but I can read it between the lines. Seems like you're one with everyone else as long as you're as high and wasted as them. I'm in this first and foremost for the music, which unfortunately is nowadays mostly copypaste garbage for mindless partying. There are exceptions of course