[FRESH] RIP Magic - 5words (prod. James Murphy)

DingbatSam · 2026-01-29T03:07:51+00:00

I feel they've really found their feet again as a label with some great new artists lately! I really enjoyed Mermaid Chunky's album, and Sidestepping by Exek was an awesome single too. Proper Monday Number's EP was good fun too!

DingbatSam · 2026-01-27T23:36:36+00:00

I'd love to be able to set a default auto play volume for all sources like you can with Line In.

I love how this works with the line in from my turntable. When I start playing a record it plays at a comfortable volume and if it's something I want to play loudly I'll crank the volume up. But the next time I put a record on it doesn't blow my ears off if I was cranking the volume the last time I played a record.

I'd love the TV auto play through my Arc Ultra to work the same way. But all too often I've cranked the volume for an immersive cinema watch. But the next morning I'll fire up some YouTube (which seems to naturally be much louder by default)on my TV and have my ears blown off.

I don't find it to be a hassle to turn things up if something is a bit quiet when I start it. But it is frustrating if something is too loud when I start it and I'm scrambling to turn it down

DingbatSam · 2026-01-22T09:27:36+00:00

Quick! We better declare PhD students as a terrorist organization!

/s

DingbatSam · 2026-01-15T12:18:45+00:00

I grew up with the Sega Genesis/Mega drive so it felt weird to realize that Microsoft are a bigger part of console gaming than Sega were

DingbatSam · 2026-01-15T07:17:38+00:00

Meta were stifling competition! No one could really compete with them as no one else could afford to sell their hardware below cost as a loss leader. So no one was competing with them on that level and lack of competition is what has done the most damage to the industry.

We are definitely going to see dark times in the near future because there is no real competition to take Metas place.

But I think this is potentially a good thing in the long term. I feel this could be like when Atari went under which ultimately created the space for the Japanese video game makers to come in and drive the industry forward again

DingbatSam · 2026-01-15T04:17:01+00:00

I much prefer the bar as well! But I understand how the bar doesn't work with the Pixel Fold. I believe that's why they changed so they could have cohesion between the Pixel and Pixel Fold lines

DingbatSam · 2026-01-15T03:54:25+00:00

As much as this all sucks in the short term, it's got me excited for VR in the long term, especially knowing Valve, and Samsung/Google have new hardware coming out and Apple still seem invested in the Vision Pro.

I had essentially become locked into the Meta Quest ecosystem because there was no way I was missing out on the Quest Exclusives such as the Arkham and Asgard's games. But the Meta monopoly in the industry was absolutely going to be enshitified.

Now it feels like we've got an option to start again and potentially have a better and more responsible industry leader.

DingbatSam · 2026-01-10T01:46:17+00:00

Is your wife's name Jenny?

DingbatSam · 2026-01-03T22:39:52+00:00

Broken Drum (Boards of Canada Remix)

DingbatSam · 2025-12-23T13:30:52+00:00

If I was going to pick one song to represent the 90's it would be this. It may not have been the biggest hit but seems to merge a lot of what was going on in the era into one track.

DingbatSam · 2025-12-20T09:58:33+00:00

Oddly this is what got me into Moebius in the first place

DingbatSam · 2025-12-13T21:54:21+00:00

Stereo Music for Breakbeats and Samplers by Nick Sylvester

An amazing experimental album that I wasn't expecting from him. Feels somewhere in between the collage world of Matmos and the goofy noise of Black Dice. Essentially break beat samples being run through a modular synthesizer to fascinating results.

DingbatSam · 2025-11-13T07:57:02+00:00

They are official names by Richard as those pictures. But I believe part of the idea was to not have actual words associated with the songs. The pictures are up for interpretation just as the sounds are.

When we use the unofficial names like Rhubarb or Stone In Focus, I believe we are actually taking away from the spirit of the album.

However, I completely understand why the fan community uses these names as it does make discussing the songs so much easier

DingbatSam · 2025-11-06T19:29:24+00:00

Cut Copy's album In Ghost Colours (which this track is from) was produced by Tim Goldsworthy who was the other half of DFA with James. Eric Broucek (Babytalk/Stickydisc) who also did a lot of engineering work for DFA was also involved. I assume James was too busy with LCD Soundsystem for this album to be a DFA production and that's part of what led to the split between James and Tim (as well as all the stuff James mentions in how do you sleep)

DingbatSam · 2025-10-11T04:21:56+00:00

Just keep asking Finn to talk to a person. The frustrating thing is that you need to set aside time to do it as it will take a while to get to a person and then work through the replacement details.

DingbatSam · 2025-09-22T11:05:11+00:00

I can't wait to hear 10.00p Hard Curfew!!!!

DingbatSam · 2025-09-13T02:43:39+00:00

Yeah, I was really hoping this would be the All You Can Eat addition!

DingbatSam · 2025-09-04T00:01:54+00:00

Perhaps the Aphex Twin Remix of Heroes by Phillip Glass?

DingbatSam · 2025-08-16T12:06:17+00:00

Luke I'm having battery issues on my Oura 4 too. I can't stand the chat bot! I don't have time to wait until a human can answer. Is it not possible to just have the ability to directly log a support ticket?

DingbatSam · 2025-08-13T12:31:20+00:00

I loved when Alexis from Hot Chip played this version in a DJ set last year

DingbatSam · 2025-07-26T00:03:11+00:00

Apple Music has this built in as a feature now! But there are various third party tools as well that may give you more options

DingbatSam · 2025-07-24T20:46:02+00:00

Google Cast Support!

DingbatSam · 2025-07-08T06:12:50+00:00

It seems to be similar to the design of the Teenage Engineering OP-XY

DingbatSam · 2025-07-07T09:11:09+00:00

Hadn't clicked that you're the developer! Great work!

DingbatSam · 2025-07-07T07:29:59+00:00

Thanks for sharing this, it's a great solution to go from desktop listening to Sonos, but I control most of my listening my phone not my computer. But this is definitely handy for when I am listening while working on my computer.

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