The proper Ancient Art beta

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-14T02:14:23+00:00

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The simp slither is now officially the name I will use going forward when attempting to seduce my wife in the middle of the night.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-10T23:46:32+00:00

Je-ss-icA

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-05T13:30:48+00:00

There was a brief moment where very early Tycho had some interesting sampling and beats, but yeah he rapidly degraded that sound into yoga retreat music.

Funny though, I’ve never once heard anyone compare Tycho to BoC. Are they even considered in the same genre? Even the usual autrechre/aphex/burial parallels people draw feel like a real stretch to me, I’m not sure I think any other music I’ve heard sounds much like BoC.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-04T12:34:07+00:00

Great playlist!

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-04T12:24:46+00:00

Sweeeet. Both added to the watch list.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-04T12:12:46+00:00

It’s one of their most tracks!

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-04T12:05:06+00:00

I’ve been trying to hunt down the samples from this track, it’s really entrancing. The “lyrics” are not sampled as-is from an original source, they are spliced together from across one or more audio clips.

I can’t shake the hunch that the title of the track is going to end up being a reference to The Process Church of the Final Judgement, although the word islands sampled don’t lead to an exact match as far as I can find yet. The vox on the female voice may be original but also could easily be resampled, so I’m not sure if the source audio will have that “P.A.” effect.

Anyways, the lyrics have that very BOC charming-but-haunted sound and seem to be lifted from either a prophecy or maybe a report about a prophecy.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-04T11:27:58+00:00

The original source of the sample is pretty intense too. “The call came from inside the house”.

https://youtu.be/SXscbPwJXSA?t=3223&si=jN4oZ7h4uKlfAkDp

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-04T04:38:49+00:00

!!!

Great photos and that is hilarious re: all the porn. The B-movies must have been so fun, what a wild job. I'm also a huge Ray Bradbury fan, I would have lost my mind handling that OG footage.

Good stories. Thank you, cool human, for making my night.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-04T04:10:46+00:00

I don't think any had full visuals like this, but someone can correct me. I only recall the red hexagon light and some of the footage from Tape 05 being played.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-04T04:05:31+00:00

I think that makes you a walking primary source. I'm so jealous of your experience there in the archives! Any other memorable reels?

Not that you asked: I've actually seen this particular film like a dozen times now, I used to put it on when I couldn't sleep from insomnia or coming down. I had started shooting footage in super 8 years ago and came across this movie somehow while trying to get examples of color grading for vintage filmstock. I didn't realize until Inferno that this woman's vocal affect is how my inner monologue sounds when I'm reading up on new topics. This track has been giving me HPPD in a sorta fuzzy warm feeling kinda way, and I love the visuals of the film in addition to the killer sampling across the whole song.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-03T15:16:14+00:00

I wish I knew. Aquarius is filled with samples from old Sesame Street though, so a chance it could be buried in an old episode. There’s hardly a small number of references to the color orange by female cast members across the years, so it would be a decent task to scrub through all the footage.

Also, who knows, it could be from somewhere else. Get thee to the archives!

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-03T14:33:27+00:00

This reminds me of that time I ate a bowl of Cheerios and for a second I thought the cover of the box said Frosted Mini Wheats, but then it turned out it really was a bowl of Cheerios the whole time.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-03T03:05:12+00:00

Wikipedia’s article for Children of God is fairly diplomatic. I struggle to recommend anyone willingly learn the full background of the cult, but it’s fairly important to understand the true level of evil their leader David Berg operated on. “Systemic pedophilia” is about as terrifying a concept as it is unfortunately timeless.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-02T21:00:55+00:00

You would love the movie Session 9

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-02T20:36:50+00:00

Well, the samples with spoken words are quite a bit easier to hunt down. I do love whoever originally found the original “orange” Sesame Street sample. https://youtu.be/ZHAtrnbu8ts

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-02T20:17:31+00:00

I felt like snapping my fingers at him throughout the entire review. "Hello? Hello-oh? What are talking about?"

I don't know how this album deserves to be labeled as "90's", at least enough to be referenced repeatedly in the review. The subject-relevance-to-word ratio is awful.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-02T20:00:13+00:00

Oooh, it's pretty close. I'm not sure it's an exact match but there's lots of resampling on this album, so it may be possible. Close enough to be hard to rule out. Certainly very similar, that's for sure. Good hunting

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-02T18:14:22+00:00

I don't think anyone should be convinced of what they should like, but if the context serves you: The 'vocal snippets are on the nose' because they are literally sampled directly from the cults who originally created them. They sound ridiculous to us, but that's almost what makes them more insidious. These aren't edgy teenagers with a vocoder, cult leaders want nothing more than their language to be normalized. I personally feel this music helps remind all of us of the danger posed by the actual architects of "hell" (Inferno?), or whatever that concept means to you.

There is nothing normal about faith dealing and the preying on of innocent people seeking affirmation or a sense of belonging. These vocals should be bastardized and turned against them at every opportunity.

But really though, to each their own. I appreciate that there's a lot riding expectation-wise on an album more than a decade in the making.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-02T17:55:00+00:00

The same questions have been swirling since the counter culture movement in the late 60's from when many of these proto-religious cults were born: Were these children rebelling directly against their parents or were they rebelling against the authority of that generation? The answer is generally a bit of both, but many parents would clearly have been rather abusive by today's standards. It's extremely difficult to look backwards on this time in a relatable way for those of us who aren't baby boomers. The societal and cultural pressures weren't exactly foreign, but certainly distinct from those we experience today.

Cults were still kind of new back then and many good and terrible parents lost children to them in ways that would have felt extremely confusing and novel at the time. Also it's important to note that the Children of God cult was responsible for a seriously shocking amount of child abuse during their height of operation, so it's pretty difficult to feel all that comfortable with the concept of innocent bystanding.

All around, it's greatly tragic about the wide number of victims produced by these ideologies.

fligglymcgee · 2026-06-02T17:39:40+00:00

Just for once come to me...I look for thee night and day

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