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  A nice firmware for the FM-1 that you can also listen to in your browser, inspired by Brian Eno's Ambient Vol 1: Music For Airports. You can click on all the buttons, most of which will switch what the 4 knobs at the top do. https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-amb/ #Ambient #AmbientMusic

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  Heh I did a search and confirmed that visual puns on song names like ‘Modem Love’, ‘Modem Talking’ have already been done…

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  Rewatching Page Eight (2011), the first of the creaky UK spy TV movies starring Bill Nighy, and it's awesome seeing the actress who plays Standish on Slow Horses playing the Home Secretary. It's almost like actors act or something! So different!

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  I just got rickrolled over lunch in an easy listening style. Thanks, restaurant. https://youtu.be/9AxKPBx8bPc

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  TIL horchata is Spanish, not (originally) Mexican

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  “I heard a Phone buzz—when I died”

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  Autumn in Dorset #bloomscrolling

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  Screenshots of Despair delivers again. https://screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com/post/830578118650642432

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  I thought "enervated" meant the opposite of what it does mean for years.

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  I had one of those “ok I’ll never see this again” moments and ordered a dessert of whipped ricotta, grated chocolate on top… and _capers_ underneath! Dear reader, it worked. Really good. Super crazy. I laughed my way through it.

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  -_- #pareidolia

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  It’s almost like I’m in the south of France. 🤔 Walked up a block from my accommodation and stumbled into this sight.

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  No genre fiction on this flight, please

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  Accidentally stumbled upon the site of the cover photo from Autechre’s Amber yesterday. Sightseeing in Cappadocia and there those hills were, *opposite* the thing we had stopped to look at (Uchişar castle). A weird feeling. #IDM Sightseeing

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  Mad music-related lego sets. The Neve mixing desk is particularly detailed. https://numode.net/

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  I'm having fun with this free plugin Polarity-RES, thanks @polarity@social.bitwig.community! Here I've got the pitch of all of the resonators wobbling in sync, but also the individual gains of each node modulating at different speeds (Curves modulators for those using #Bitwig). The visual is like yo-yos! Fun! https://polarity.productions/polarity-res/

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  K*Saba and HoneBeGood - Bird of Paradise A couple of the lesser known affiliates of the whole Young Gifted & Broke crew (most famously Homebrew, @Peace, etc.). Wellington producer / Auckland MC. Not that much hip-hop wanders off into looping acoustic instruments and such. K*Saba has done a bunch of theatre work and it shows (in a good way). #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds #NZMusic https://ksaba.bandcamp.com/track/bird-of-paradise

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  Gulls - Edith's Waltz One for fans of Talk Talk and such, a solo artist from Dunedin who's received zero attention AFAIK... choosing this for the artist's name, rather than the theme of the music, but hey. https://gullsorgulls.bandcamp.com/track/ediths-waltz #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds #NZMusic

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  Anthonie Tonnon - Bird Brains https://anthonietonnon.bandcamp.com/track/bird-brains #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds

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  @TwoClownsEating@beige.party @distinctdipole@tech.lgbt side note: I like that the story involves queueing so we know it’s in the UK

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  The trailer for 2003 flop Tiptoes really looks like a parody. Matthew McConaughey and Kate Beckinsale … with Gary Oldman playing someone with dwarfism by kneeling all the time - and even if the movie were somehow good, the flavour of the trailer is just horrifyingly like “things were great until this *terrible revelation* that her bf’s family all have dwarfism!” https://youtu.be/O3qGGk5ymQ4 I would love a documentary on the making of. The director massively denounced what became of it, swearin...

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  Huh, a friend told me today that DJ Krush's 2001 album 'Zen' is not named after the Buddhist tradition. It's an obscure homophone meaning "gradually" or "bit by bit", more commonly said "susumu" in Japanese. Krush seems to be into word play / fucking with people, heh. If you can read Japanese or Chinese you'd presumably this up straight away from the album cover. I find logograms super interesting in this respect, how they disambiguate homopho...

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  A nice interview with the guy behind Topdown Dialectic and all of the music on the False Aralia label https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-183-topdown-dialectic-is-real #ElectronicMusic #DubTechno #ExperimentalMusic #Dub

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  @TwoClownsEating@beige.party Ha, now singing to myself "Underground, overground, Mongoling free"

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  Connected to what I just boosted about having a personal website, I’m happy to lease a domain in order to have a consistent email address that is not connected to an email provider. I’ve switched providers multiple times over decades and never had to tell people to use a different address to reach me.

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  If you know J Dilla's album Donuts, the amount he *didn't* mess with the samples he took from this track for 'workinonit' is kind of eye opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sraKulMHZw

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  Been mildly amazed by this original version of ‘Bette Davis Eyes’, as covered much more famously by Kim Carnes. So, so different! https://youtu.be/FAQsOJbs-yo

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  I decided to buy this audio plugin Aava today which is the fanciest kind of convolution "reverb", where you can throw in 4 different sounds (impulse responses) and blend your input signal through all of them. Plus you can change the size / pitch of the impulse responses in real time without the whole thing falling silent, which is something I've not seen any other convolution tool handle. I was pretty much sold by that audio demo "Turn your drums into a bassline" on the...

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  I learnt today that techno-ish producer The Field has a day job as the cook for a series of kindergartens. I kind of love it.

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  Make pop songs less definitive Mostly What I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun Hardly Ever Gonna Give You Up Many People Were Kung Fu Fighting Few Things Are Gonna Stop Us Now ...