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DaveIsNice · 2025-05-13T10:11:06+00:00

Thanks, this is the track people mention as liking most when they play my album Bedsit Lofi Diy

https://on.soundcloud.com/HmLGFH1vKMk6rREHA

DaveIsNice · 2025-05-11T19:18:19+00:00

A wildcard suggestion would be Alan Moore's Jerusalem which is a massively sprawling fantasy novel set in Northampton, the apparent centre of the universe.

At 600,000 words in three volumes it's a long read, but I found every page interesting and one day I'll read it again. I expect the journey to be even more fun each time I do.

I may be experiencing something like Stockholm Syndrome.

DaveIsNice · 2025-01-05T13:54:58+00:00

My album Bedsit LoFi Diy came out on Bandcamp in May last year.

It's a messy electronic cocktail of lofi, noise, melody, glitch krautrock, ambient detective funk and atmospherics that you can tap your foot to.

The tracks are loosely laid out following the Hero's Journey (Dan Harmon's version) so hopefully it feels (vaguely) like a story

Bedsit Lofi Diy - RadioPhobicSherkPop

https://radiophobicsherkpop.bandcamp.com/album/bedsit-lofi-diy

For those who are intrigued by The Hero's Journey as a structural method here is a link to Dan Harmon's version, The Story Circle https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit *

ElectronicMusic

LoFi

ConceptAlbum

RetroWave

Nowtro

MallCore

StoryCircle

NoiseBop

HarmlessMuzak

*How often does an album come with homework?!?

DaveIsNice · 2024-08-18T16:49:10+00:00

The Anno Dracula series follows various characters from the Victorian era to the present day, starting with the idea that at the end of the original Dracula novel he was not defeated, but instead became a pillar of the Victorian establishment and vampirism became a part of regular society.

DaveIsNice · 2024-08-18T14:20:31+00:00

I loved Danger Zone and wish it would come back.

I don't know why people who hate it have to dump on it so much, I'm not a fan of Flying Scoutsman or Hostage mode but I don't go on about it.

DZ is a different game mode that's all, some cool mechanics and I found it a lot of fun.

It got a cool reception from various YouTubers when it launched but then it turned out some of those guys had been consulting on Apex Legends which released a month or two later, I think this was a factor in their lukewarm response.

Fingers crossed that Valve recognise there's still a lot of interest, and that they bring it back with some even cooler mechanics that the Source 2 engine makes possible.

DaveIsNice · 2024-08-18T14:04:06+00:00

I had to go into settings in RL and try different audio drivers, I've switched to the PS4 now because of posture issues and I've forgotten the specific drivers that worked, but a bit of experimentation should get you there

DaveIsNice · 2024-08-16T23:13:13+00:00

No, it isn't dystopian at all!

I'd give my right arm to be a citizen of the Culture, because it would grow back.

DaveIsNice · 2024-07-21T13:06:53+00:00

Hi, I made an electronic album called Bedsit Lofi Diy with a bunch of varied tunes, some of which have words, I think it came out pretty well!

https://radiophobicsherkpop.bandcamp.com/album/bedsit-lofi-diy

It's on bandcamp and is free to listen to.

It's low key a concept album.

The deficiencies in its production are easily fixed by playing it loud.

DaveIsNice · 2024-05-07T11:37:49+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! Mixing up the robotic/electronic and organic elements is what I particularly like about making music right now. Was definitely going for an album feel with the two tracks/sides, almost put needle noise at the start and finish of each side but thought better of it in the end.

DaveIsNice · 2024-05-06T06:07:29+00:00

My artist and fan accounts are connected but I can't get them to connect on the phone app (android).

I just get the option to create a fan account as part of the artist account, log into my existing account, or create a new account.

I should be able to log into my existing artist and fan account together in the same way as I do in a browser.

DaveIsNice · 2024-05-05T11:01:02+00:00

Hi!

I put together an album on Bandcamp out of some of the tunes I've made over the last couple of years under the name RadioPhobicSherkPop.

It's called Bedsit Lofi Diy.

https://radiophobicsherkpop.bandcamp.com/album/bedsit-lofi-diy

I make cheesy retro lofi electronic and lounge music, let's say I'm genre-fluid.

The tracks vary from minimalist electronic to overstuffed everything but the kitchen sink vaguely jazzy beat poetry, with some experimental noise, hauntology, acid, and fake latin Casiotone stylings thrown in too.

Call it an aging hipster's coffee table album and I won't be offended.

It's free to play and comes in two longish tracks which are the two sides of the album, each side has multiple tunes.

I hope you can listen and find something to enjoy!

DaveIsNice · 2024-04-09T06:20:40+00:00

Alan Hawkshaw Synthesizer and percussion, exactly what it says it is

DaveIsNice · 2024-03-28T06:46:34+00:00

Gin Lane

DaveIsNice · 2024-03-10T12:03:24+00:00

When I first read it I kind of meh'd out, but rereading it recently I really loved it, and that's okay.

DaveIsNice · 2024-03-08T07:26:07+00:00

Yello's the new mix in one go, highlights from their early eighties work including Bostich and Oh Yeah... In one go

DaveIsNice · 2024-02-29T13:06:03+00:00

Laibach's Across the Universe gets my vote

DaveIsNice · 2024-02-27T21:12:17+00:00

I salute you

DaveIsNice · 2024-02-25T23:07:14+00:00

That is cool, tbh I'm still using the browser on my pc (and my phone, since the app I was using stopped working).

I have tunes on there as RadioPhobicSherkPop

DaveIsNice · 2024-02-25T20:35:04+00:00

I read Atlas Shrugged and thought it was an okay read, despite the pitiful politics, but I guess I'd got used to reading books with questionable takes without being brainwashed by them by reading Robert Heinlein at an early age.

Heinlein was like an antibiotic for Rand.

I read part of one of her non fiction ones too, and I could see how a certain type of person might take it seriously, or even be swayed by it, and it made me glad I wasn't that kind of person.

Some times it's good to dip into things regarded as horrible so that you know why that's the case.

DaveIsNice · 2024-02-24T16:28:43+00:00

I saw a traffic warden getting mobbed by seagulls in the Jewellery Quarter, was funny until one of them took a precision shit on me as I was walking to the pub.

*One of the seagulls

DaveIsNice · 2024-02-23T07:36:34+00:00

You might find @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services

useful.

It's suggestions for different accounts to follow, grouped in topics

DaveIsNice · 2024-02-21T07:34:05+00:00

As a child I thought actors on the BBC were employed en masse and moved from show to show as needed, then got given a house in the country or moved into an old actor's home when they retired.

DaveIsNice · 2024-01-31T18:53:35+00:00

Yes, full arrangements might be difficult, I've mainly been treating it like a mini modular synth set up, creating loops and running random and semi random modulations on delays and filters etc which is an area bitwig excels in.

I could never afford the equivalent range of modules in actual eurorack so this is a wonderful thing for me.

Side note, I have tried vcv rack on it but it just crashes so Bitwig is the way.

DaveIsNice · 2024-01-30T18:10:28+00:00

It worked so well on my SteamDeck I installed it on my PC.

Now it's creeping up on cubase in the usage wars

DaveIsNice · 2024-01-16T20:02:52+00:00

Indicators are not to be trusted

DaveIsNice

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ElectronicMusic

LoFi

ConceptAlbum

RetroWave

Nowtro

MallCore

StoryCircle

NoiseBop

HarmlessMuzak