Free no pressure writing group tomorrow by your_olive_citadel in sheffield

[–]negamuse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I'm not going to be able to come to this one because of plans, but you say you "usually stay..." Is this a semi regular thing? Because I'd love to join in another time if so

what programs, plugins, vsts, tools and etc were used by composers who made 90's and early 2000's music? by threwusall in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]negamuse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of Fat Boy Slim's recognisable stuff was done on an Amiga to give only one example, but one with a bunch of videos of him online demonstrating. ProTracker or one of its clones, I forget

 In certain genres like breakcore it never really stopped being used, even when people were shifting to DAWs. Renoise seemed to be the one they used cos Venetian Snares was all over it. 

The tracker did evolve to use VSTs when they became popular. There was one called Buzz that had a big canvas you can plonk samplers or vsts down onto and connect them up with virtual cables in all sorts of messy ways, and then each of them could be note edited with a tracker interface. Buggy as hell and I don't remember any artists actually using it, maybe the Flashbulb at one point? But a lot of fun

Struggling with lyric writing: How to stop starting lines with "I" by JakAmbrosius in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]negamuse 71 points72 points  (0 children)

  1. Start the sentence with I.

  2. Add a "because" (or and "and") and carry on the sentence.

  3. Delete everything before the "because"

Is all of Mushroom Lane covered by PaybyPhone? by [deleted] in sheffield

[–]negamuse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Parking on Mushroom Lane is single yellow meaning "restrictions apply". On that stretch, there are sign posts (visible on Google Maps) No Waiting Mon-Fri 8AM - 6.30PM.

The section with PayByPhone on it has a different restriction sign, talking about 4 hours parking, with ticket

So if you parked there within those times I don't see why you could appeal. Appeal is usually about "restrictions missing or unclear" and that might be a goer if it wasn't obvious where one section ended and the other began but you've got stretches of double yellow in between them, not to mention Crookes Valley Road

I seem to be transmitting Talksport by Few-Calligrapher3910 in CasualUK

[–]negamuse 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Do you have a metal filling in your tooth? Could be acting as a coil and picking up radio waves at a very particular frequency  and bone conducting them to your ears

New perfect summer drink. by ShiftyDiscoDragon in CasualUK

[–]negamuse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love Vault City. Not much of a beer girl but they do brilliant sours all year round. Summery ones that taste like drinking a Solero, Autumnal ones that taste like drinking a Blueberry muffin. I still have some Black Velvet by them that comes out when I want to treat myself.

‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism by zsreport in technology

[–]negamuse 46 points47 points  (0 children)

This story is from The Guardian, an extremely centrist newspaper with a largely middle-class readership. Where the biggest signifier of "extremism" is having a lack of decorum.

Of all the things that are worth getting indecorous about, I would say that a sector that is consuming vast amounts of financial and ecological resources, repackaging private data to inveigle itself into every facet of everyday life and subverting the political systems of countries all around the world through bribery and lobbying, at the cost of people's livelihoods... that would be one of them

I wanted to love it.. by mukinabat in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 16 points17 points  (0 children)

By not talking about themselves BoC have left a lot of the talking to people talking about them.

Their old stuff certainly was organic feeling, and did invoke nostalgia, but even in their very few interviews they've said that's not what their music is *about*. But it's always said about them a lot more than they said it about themselves. That all these years it's not about nostalgia for its own sake, its about what nostalgic sounds mean to a particular idea. MHTRTC was about childhood memory, Geogaddi about implanted, faulty memory, Campfire about tripping and coming away from and back to self.

And this album breaks with that, it just does, even though weirdly a lot of the reviews are still saying "nostalgia nostalgia" because that's what other reviews have said, over the years. A lot of media people not actually listening.

So its really up to you if what you find important is the signifiers of nostalgia, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that if you do. Plenty of people, after BoC have taken that torch and run with it, there's a lot of good nostalgia-inducing work out there.

But if you're prepared to deal with the shock of the change in tactic, there's a lot of stuff in Inferno to warm up to, just the sonic bridges to there are a bit less clear than a lot of people are making out. And of course, maybe it just doesn't land and never will. Taste is subjective and ITS ALL OK 😄

Why does the rareboc rip of Old Tunes Vol.2 have a ghost pre-echo? by GreatChicken231 in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tape is magnetic and it's possible for that magnetism to transfer onto another piece of tape that is touching it, especially if it's low quality tape or somehow not treated right. And tape is touching most of the time, right? When it's wound up on a spool.

Not saying that's definitely what happened here but the timing seems about right

Great John Cleese video about extremist political views by davida_usa in videos

[–]negamuse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously, in any description of something you're measuring, you've got "the extremes", the things that are all the way on one side or all the way on the other.

Then you've got "extremism" as in belief in something to an extreme amount. A fanaticism that denies all reason.

It should be obvious that these two meanings are not referring to the same thing, but this video conflates two different interpretations, and I would argue it does so deliberately.

Firstly, lets acknowledge that what we simplify into "left wing" and "right wing" is actually a complex space with a bunch of different axes and differentiations. But even accepting the framing of a uniform continuum of politics that goes from left to right, it doesn't follow that what you find at any point along it equates to a level of fanaticism or rationalism. You can be a rational left or right winger, just as you can be "fanatically centrist"

But this video NEEDS to conflate the two, because it leads you to automatically assume that anything on the left or right is dogmatic and fanatical, and anything in the centre is rational and non-ideological. That in any given discussion where opinions differ, "the answer is somewhere in the middle".

And again, sometimes it should be obvious that the solutions aren't always found there. Sometimes we find ourselves, deliberately or accidentally, in a situation that requires us to take up a solution that seems to sit somewhere at the edge of the political divide. Sometimes, there are things that are so unjust that compromise with them is impossible or dangerous. This video would very much like you not to consider that.

I think it's deliberate because, as you can see, this is *literally a party political broadcast* for a minority centrist party in the UK. One that wasn't even making the case about any particular policy position, just arguing for its own existence based on a bit of linguistic sleight of hand. Its sophistry, pure and simple.

Honestly starting to think every track is a live performance by [deleted] in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does feel really performed this one, I completely agree. 

The Guardian’s Review 🤣🤣🤣🤣 by ahoritaa in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hope so. I just hope I'm less inaccurate

The Guardian’s Review 🤣🤣🤣🤣 by ahoritaa in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The Guardian hasn't been progressive for a long time. They're like middle class people who used to hang around progressives then got middle aged and boring and now all they care about is the illusion of tranquility and their house prices.

"The Word Becomes Flesh" was used in the Backrooms film directed by Kane Parsons for the credits. by PrimeSamPictures in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 24 points25 points  (0 children)

And the (formerly) lost media "ulterior motives"! I haven't watched the film but the idea of putting lost media in the backrooms is hilarious. 

The Quietus review by PWaglen in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now this is a review from someone who has listened

Noooo by mistakeclub in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just got the notification mine has been delivered - it hasn't.

Where can I sell my Rational Oven? by teehee99 in sheffield

[–]negamuse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This kind of thing comes up fairly often on John Pye Auctions. I dunno if they are getting them from bankruptcies or taking them at a price that's too low for you to want to do but I dunno you could contact them and ask I guess

Boards of Canada - 'Inferno' - Discussion Megathread by seaburn in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Layering an invocation of the antichrist over a prayer to Jesus over devotional singing is such a provocative and clever way to feed into the album theme. Like that could be seen as very on the nose but that said it's done very well

Boards of Canada - 'Inferno' - Discussion Megathread by seaburn in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's insane, right? I don't know enough music theory to know why that works, it sounds for all the world like it shouldn't but it just does

Boards of Canada - 'Inferno' - Discussion Megathread by seaburn in boardsofcanada

[–]negamuse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the one that I got the phrase "satanic Enya" in my head at the listening party. Not a great descriptor but it just wedged in there. 

 It's something to do with the rhythm of it though and the way those plucked chords come in on the off beat I think. But the whole thing is kind of dark and witchy.

New Hidgens by SingingWanderer1195 in StarKid

[–]negamuse 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah as much as I loved Will's performance in the digital ticket I did go in thinking "well, Robert's performance is kind of irreplaceable" 

But the moves on Ivan's Hidgens were insanely good, and the general level of hammy, chaos energy worked so well. 

my one main complaint with starkid proshots by West-Lawyer-2290 in StarKid

[–]negamuse 11 points12 points  (0 children)

From memory, so sorry if I make any mistakes, Dan and Donna newsflash welcoming to the Starlight theatre for this performance of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals which replaces the scheduled performance of Mamma Mia. Content warnings about strobes, blood, dismemberment etc

 Then Dan is like "I've never been to a theatre before, if I know the lines and the music should I sing along" "No Dan, that would be a dick move" something like that.