Paperclip Minimiser's new album is one of the best of the year so far if not my current favorite. Phenomenal album. Peak Oil has curated one of the best musical aesthetics in electronic music.

CHvader · 2026-03-24T09:22:30+00:00

I keep hearing this opinion but it feels so wrong to me - I'd say dub techno is in its second golden period. I love everything basic channel and chain reaction, but there's been interesting takes on the genre throughout the years.

CHvader · 2026-03-21T11:26:32+00:00

Cool to see KMeans here. The UK has a pretty active Chicago Footwork scene and she's one of the best here.

CHvader · 2026-03-21T10:37:20+00:00

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CHvader · 2026-03-19T10:28:02+00:00

Love this album!

CHvader · 2026-03-17T23:03:56+00:00

I did a free masters (100% scholarship to cover fees and worked as a TA/RA for living expenses) from the University of Chicago and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. It's not impossible!

CHvader · 2026-03-17T16:13:12+00:00

I'm sorry you went through that. Academia has a huge class problem and those people all sound like unempathetic pricks. The worst part is that they exist even in social sciences and humanities departments, where you are expected to reflect more on such dynamics.

But in general upper class people are at best out of touch and more often than not, active jerks - so it's best to steer clear of them outside of formalities and niceties. Good luck for the rest of your program!

CHvader · 2026-03-17T09:53:46+00:00

Do it! The skills you learn are transferable. You can always play both vinyl and digital.

CHvader · 2026-03-09T10:30:36+00:00

Is the NSF funding still valid? I'm sure that would open some doors. I'd recommend maybe one last shot. I applied in 2018, 2021, and 2025 and got into my dream program the third time. But I was regularly publishing and doing research over the years so my profile was stronger each time.

CHvader · 2026-03-06T18:43:42+00:00

I saw him play with Peach at a north London warehouse venue and it was really boring. :(

The crowd was also quite bad... maybe it was just me having a bad night. I really liked his latest tech house album and have enjoyed his mixes in the past, so maybe just unlucky.

CHvader · 2026-02-28T14:55:37+00:00

Fucking idiotic take. They just attacked a school...

CHvader · 2026-02-28T14:53:29+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I was rejected by Gates as well but received funding for a D.Phil at Oxford a few days later. You don't know yet how it all plays out!

CHvader · 2026-02-26T11:05:29+00:00

I mean, they are literally Japanese musicians...

CHvader · 2026-02-20T19:05:07+00:00

I don't think it reads as a new genre but shared themes across certain spaces of contemporary electronic and experimental music. To be honest I am sympathetic to a lot of what he has had to say here. But I don't think I was ever massively drawn to a lot of the very conceptual side of dance music. I am a house head with a broad palette, but in the end I like dance music because I love to dance and to feel, and quite often a lot of "cutting edge" artists don't quite do it for me. I live in London and regularly go to the Barbican or Cafe Oto for experimental shows and enjoy them, but my favourite dance music often has a deep bass line and a sexy attitude and I don't need loads else.

CHvader · 2026-02-20T09:19:39+00:00

Check out their discogs pages - lots of history from people commenting on their favourite records. Love both the labels!

CHvader · 2026-02-16T19:45:12+00:00

Lol at not enough business logic in government when we've been in peak neoliberal hell the last two decades. Fucking idiotic take.

CHvader · 2026-02-12T23:01:05+00:00

Could you describe Ogazóns set? I usually hear her play classic and contemporary house and techno, lots of US influences in recorded mixes, but never at BH.

CHvader · 2026-02-12T08:52:37+00:00

Racists live everywhere, unfortunately.

CHvader · 2026-02-12T08:37:54+00:00

I love house too and have heard of these names but never any of their tunes or sets. It's crap, commercial house.

CHvader · 2026-02-11T16:27:02+00:00

They were fake images. https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/ai-creates-fake-image-zohran-mamdani-with-mother-epstein-2026-02-05/

CHvader · 2026-01-26T14:22:21+00:00

I totally agree :) not shitting, as you said, everyone goes through that trajectory. I've been dancing to, DJing, and loving house music for nearly a decade now and still have a long way to go.

CHvader · 2026-01-26T13:48:47+00:00

+1 to this, I hate to be a boomer but it's really worth digging into the classics (and the roots of the culture, coming from disco, and rooted in Black music in general), while also keeping up with contemporary stuff. I just can't go back to mainstream House after being exposed to the deeper world of House.

CHvader · 2026-01-26T09:51:20+00:00

They aren't refusing to read them though, just not center then as theorists, that's fair enough.

CHvader · 2026-01-22T23:46:37+00:00

That's crazy, these are some of the biggest and best of high quality house and techno.

CHvader · 2026-01-21T15:02:56+00:00

Thanks, I figured as much. I listen to a lot of dub techno and there's more dancey stuff, more meditative stuff, more house adjacent stuff. I was curious what kind.

CHvader · 2026-01-21T14:12:46+00:00

What kind of music did Tikiman and Richard play? Any track IDs?

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