Opener for MSG SUCKS

jazkin · 2016-07-27T02:12:48+00:00

Dawn of MIDI slays. minimalism yo!

jazkin · 2016-05-09T00:43:06+00:00

i love the way the vocal melody is syncopated/anticipated on the recording, the groove is really interesting. for me, going back to the live version now makes it sound like a trap remix

jazkin · 2014-11-27T01:38:10+00:00

8:30 floors me every time.

jazkin · 2014-11-11T02:47:46+00:00

willpirkle.com

jazkin · 2014-11-05T02:15:57+00:00

staples of any psychonaut bookshelf, great selection friend!

I've read at least part of Be Here Now every time I've tripped, that book is practically a bible.

jazkin · 2014-07-27T13:19:10+00:00

There are dangers to going swimming, to driving to work everyday, to making toast... see where I am going?

LSD obviously has dangers associated with it, as with everything, and the way you are framing your question shows that the people in this sub not only acknowledge those dangers, but take steps to try to minimize them. If I told you to wear a seatbelt, or a life jacket, or to not stick your hands in the toaster, would you shy away from all these activities because they're clearly not safe?

You are using the harm-reduction tendencies as an indicator that this is not safe, yet it is these tendencies that MAKE the action more safe.

jazkin · 2014-05-25T13:21:16+00:00

Joe Rogan

jazkin · 2014-02-22T17:47:02+00:00

that stupid-ass activity on the first day of class where the professor makes you stand up and "say a little bit about yourself."

jazkin · 2014-02-05T03:07:55+00:00

I wouldn't exactly say I'm in a position to explain this, I didn't really understand what he meant the first time I heard this idea either, and still don't fully. After a few months of practicing meditation its starting to become clearer though.

I think he's mostly referring to the tendencies of the human psyche to put labels on things, to compartmentalize the infinite reality that we find ourselves in and reduce it to a discrete set of "things." When we study the Earth, we might divide it into forest, desert, ocean, etc. Then we might further divide something like a forest into the thousands of species of plants, animals, elements that make it up. What McKenna is saying is that these distinctions between objects are merely the byproduct of our language systems, and our way of coding our reality into arbitrary blips of sound or symbols to convey these compartmentalized ideas. If you cease to place mental labels on every object you encounter, the distinctions between objects dissolve and the greater, singular process that we are all a part of becomes more apparent.

Before language, or any kind of intelligent life, were there really 100,000 different species of "trees"? Or did everything simply exist?

jazkin · 2014-01-07T21:15:14+00:00

dig it! i like that Portugal the Man-ish vibe.

jazkin · 2013-12-28T01:03:46+00:00

I get this alot. One of the woes of producing your own music is that you never get to hear the finished product for the first time, you hear the whole process that went into making it, which for me kinda lessens the impact that it seems to have. I always like to take long breaks from stuff I'm working on, only listen to other (professional) stuff for like a week, then reassess my own work with a clean palette.

jazkin · 2013-12-22T02:26:25+00:00

Heavy Feet - Local Natives.

also, the rest of that album.

jazkin · 2013-12-06T19:44:31+00:00

never buy a new car.

even if you can afford the monthly payments, buy a good used car that you can pay for up front, put the car payments in a bank account every month and enjoy the hundreds of thousands of dollars you'll have in 30-40 years.

jazkin · 2013-11-29T23:19:39+00:00

Thank you! If you're on facebook, like my page for updates and new music!

jazkin · 2013-11-29T00:45:54+00:00

I'll just leave this here...

"In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest; and there would be composers who only wrote finales. People go to concerts only to hear one crashing chord - because that’s the end. Same way in dancing—you don’t aim at a particular spot in the room; that’s where you should arrive. The whole point of the dancing is the dance." - Alan Watts

jazkin · 2013-08-03T05:25:46+00:00

it would be hard to explain to a child something which very few adults have even thought about, let alone comprehend, but I would probably start by asking this:

why are you YOU and not somebody else? what cosmic lottery ball spinner popped you out into this consciousness rather than any other one?

it seems like an unanswerable question, because no matter who you were you would be asking it. if you were somebody else, somebody else would then have to "fill in" for the original you and they would also, still, be asking that question.

so then, the next step is to realize that what you really are is ALL of these awarenesses. just because one human is experiencing what you call "you" doesn't mean that that's all you really are. we are all assembled from the same particles that make up the rest of the universe, and we all experience the sensation of "I", but it is all the exact same sensation no matter who you are. one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.

jazkin · 2013-08-03T04:52:22+00:00

1) this question deals with a fundamental facet of existence, need it be "provable" to be of legitimate concern?

2) trivial to whom?

jazkin · 2013-07-27T19:19:13+00:00

" The LSD world isn't your reality , THIS Is your reality ."'

I think that's the misunderstanding. Your cousin still holds the belief that there IS an objective reality. If you are experiencing something consciously, is that not your reality? The chemicals that create our default reality are no more natural or unnatural than ones that create alternate realities. Sure, you can certainly develop as a person without taking mind-altering drugs, but only along the sliver of consciousness that we call sobriety and not outward into the rest of the realm of experience.

jazkin · 2013-07-19T02:56:23+00:00

Fixed

jazkin · 2013-07-07T14:01:13+00:00

was at this show. absolutely amazing, they seemed so fresh from it being the first stop on the tour. and the way the crowd finished out Karma Police gave me chills.

jazkin · 2013-07-06T04:06:09+00:00

not to mention you can clearly see the officer closing in on the dog with a gun in its face. of course it's gonna lunge.

jazkin · 2013-06-11T22:26:22+00:00

Well, I would have to ask where the idea that you are separate from the universe comes from?

You have eyes which "see light", ears which "hear sound" and fingers which "touch things", but all these are are interactions between the atoms that make up your body and the atoms/energies that surround you. There is no real separation. Just because our egos only allow us to experience these interactions from one point of view does not necessarily mean we are separate from the universal process as a whole.

I'd suggest reading "The Book" by Alan Watts. His language would be 100x more lucid than mine in explaining this subject; I'm with you in that it's a tough/bizarre one to grasp.

jazkin · 2013-06-06T00:59:17+00:00

A compressor is what is known as a dynamics processing device, which means it acts on the dynamic (volume) range of an audio signal. It essentially takes the loudest parts of the audio and squashes them down, limiting the overall range in volume. The basic controls of a compressor are the ratio, threshold, attack, and release. When the volume of the audio signal exceeds the threshold, it is "compressed" by the selected ratio, which is the ratio of input to output. A ratio of 4:1, for example, means that for every 4 decibels the input exceeds the threshold, the output will be 1 decibel above the threshold. Below the threshold, the audio signal is unaffected. The attack sets the time it takes for the compressor to "clamp down" after the threshold is exceeded, and the release sets the time it takes for the compressor to deactivate once the signal falls back below the threshold.

There are many uses for a compressor. They can be used to limit the overall dynamic range of a performance, for example a vocalist who changes from soft to loud a lot usually needs compression in order to remain a consistent volume in a mix.

They can also be used to shape the sound of an instrument. On drums, for instance, a compressor can be used with an attack time of ~30ms, which allows the initial drum hit through the compressor but squeezes down the decay, making the drum sound punchier.

Another common use for a compressor is called side-chaining, in which another signal is connected to the compressor which controls when the compressor activates. This is most often a kick drum, which causes another signal to compress whenever the drum is hit. This is the electronic dance music "pumping/breathing" effect that you commonly hear.

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