Blair Thaumic

Dimension Nun?

Graham Wood + Izik Levy + Drezz and Lex Name: Monsters From The Id

Met Atmos a couple of times. Sarcastic but friendly guy. He played at a friend's friend's house in the Hollywood hills, back when parties getting shut down out of the blue was the norm; we had started in the basement of a downtown hotel, but that got nixed after the first couple of DJs. Later that year (I want to say 2000, but it might have been 2001) I saw him play an awesome morning set in the Mojave Desert. S.U.N. Project were nice but very shy due to their limited English at the time (2000). MFG were extremely friendly, humble and down to earth people. Astral were friendly, though in retrospect I'm VERY glad I didn't ask them anything controversial... nuff said! IM were shy, again due to the language barrier. Again, they played at a friend's house when their party got shut down. This was around late 99/early 2000. Space Tribe, Cosmosis, and Posford were nice. Nothing much to say about them. Mubali is a super nice guy! Xyla was VERY reserved. I think confusing her for someone else the first time (I don't remember faces well) didn't exactly ingratiate me to her. Stef Holweck had a great sense of humor and wonderful stories about the old days. EVP is the most opinionated MFer you'll meet in this scene. This means we got along well, naturally. I gave Jon from Ozrics a wooden bug toy after his gig. Wonder if he still has it

I was never crazy about Shango, and consider it one of Juno Reactor's worst albums. It's more like sketches for some post-techno concept album that was never really fleshed out. (Controversial opinion: I consider The Golden Sun Of The Great East their worst album)

There can be only one. http://www.discogs.com/Alien-Jesus-Open-Your-Eyes/release/2576722

It's spring cleaning time at the Bring That Beach Back base, and that means parting with some physical media. While I'm in the painful process, I'd like to generate some new art out of it, so please consider entering my contest for Ubar Tmar's awesome (and awesomely collectible) Ubarpedia 3CD: http://bringthatbeachback.com/2014/05/19/ubarpedia-mix-off/ In order to mix things up a little, this contest is ABSOLUTELY ANY GENRE. Obviously, proto and oldschool are welcome, but don't feel like everything has to fit that description; give me your most twisted possible sets, guys and gals. (And even if you don't want Ubarpedia, enter anyway! Two runner-ups will walk away with something... rather nice. That's all I'll say about it.)

My only problem with di.fm is that the programming is sometimes spread a little too thin, with multiple stations that play very similar music to each other. For instance, do we really need both a 'psychill' and 'psybient' station? But yes, for casual listening it's a great service.

Sure. I think when the original was mastered, it was done with the awareness that this was a 'spacy' album. Lots of space between layers in the recording, and the bass has a smudgy/pillowy feeling. With the remaster, everything sounds jammed together, and the bass is a loud 'thunking' sound. It's especially bad on Deep Space 5D, which had a more open feeling originally and now feels like it's on rails because of the dominance of the single bass note. It's meant to be a deep and more rock influenced track, but the way it's mastered sucks the ambience out of it.

Tim Schuldt's desecration of Dimension 5 - Transdimensional.

Some people's ears can feel the signal of a TV remote -- yes, a TV remote -- and it's painful for them to stand in its path. Imba, don't discount the wide range of sensitivies people can have to different frequencies of sound or light. I don't know what's causing the problem with the Iphone 5, but I doubt that radi is just being a crank or looking for things to get irritated by. I've met people with environmental sensitivity and one of the worst things for them is being gaslighted by other people and being told it's just a psychological problem.

I've been collecting music like a fiend all year so far. Now I want to stop and savor everything I have. I don't plan on buying any more music in 2014, except for maybe one or two compilations on Suntrip/DAT. If I want to check out something new, youtube gives me all I need, and if I want to try a new style of music or just have some new-ish background sounds there's always di.fm. But this is the year that I really want to get deeper into my album collection and have lots of sit down, start to finish listens.

Nothing revolutionary, but still quite good IMO! And yes, that sample. I want to drop it smack in the middle of a set at a Goa party one day, just to watch the reaction. Most of the Bearded Acid Warriors Of Peace label is worth a listen; some tekno and some trance. Also try the Punk Floyd album.

http://www.magichat.net/elixirs/dreammachine/

Hooray for more artsy-fartsy Goa.

I always loved the dynamics on this album:

I'll just add that I get beats stuck in my head too. e.g. Underworld, "Juanita" or "Pearl's Girl". I don't think about the melody or harmony in those tracks (though I know and like them), but I do remember and think about the beats. I guess it's a combination of the tonality of the drums and the catchiness of the rhythm patterns.

So, the unsung sing-a-longs? Morphem tracks usually have great melodies/riffs. Here's a track that was cut down to an outro in the album, foolishly in my view. https://soundcloud.com/giligul/morphen-closed-sektor

Do you mean music that you made up yourself, or other people's music that you're remembering and replaying in your head? I sometimes make up melodies and hum them to myself, I'd guess it's a fairly common habit.

Bringing this to your attention: https://soundcloud.com/eddy303 Denshi-Danshi don't have a lot of released tracks, but wow, they produced some amazing unreleased gems. There's a little bit of Total Eclipse's melodic sparkle, a little of Slinky Wizard's power and drive, and everything on this page is super colorful and creative. My favorite is "Ladder", which is just one great spiralling riff after another. I love this. I want more like this. I'd buy an album of these tracks in a hummingbird's heartbeat. Oldschool labels, take note.

Koxbox ~ Derango Har-El ~ New Born

http://forums.verizon.com/t5/High-Speed-Internet-DSL-and-Dial/Dsl-customer-for-over-10-years-Horrible-speeds/td-p/575925 This sounds like our situation. When my parents first got DSL for the home ~10 years ago, it was a huge jump from 56K. Now there are ten scripts running on every webpage, five of which bog down or outright crash my browser, uploading 200MB files takes hours when it works at all, and Youtube videos cough and sputter at anything above 240p. The fast connection of the 2000s can barely seem to handle the Internet of the 2010s, and it's an enormous headache. I wonder what our options are?

On a tangent: I HATED the Otto Edit of Feel The Universe. How could you cut the beginning, the key 1 1/2 minutes that set the mood for everything else? It's like cutting out the first movement of Also Sprach Zarathustra.

I was just listening to one of their tracks on Youtube, "Atiq". Very catchy oldschool goa. They have one album from 1996, quite rare it seems. Anyone else familiar with them? Are their other tracks as good? http://www.discogs.com/Saw-Angels-%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5-The-Germ/release/1209015