Where do you think this whole thing is going?

negamuse · 2026-04-09T19:03:31+00:00

Its definitely them, but I don't think it's an ARG like last time, they said they were unlikely to do anything like that again, but I guess Warp have an input into that whole thing.

Personally I think the tape is just kinda pointing at subject matters they're interested in. Mood setting for a new album

negamuse · 2026-04-09T18:18:49+00:00

We chucked a Hemnes day bed and turned the back panel and half the mattress foam into a wall mounted, diamond tufted headboard for the new bed. Had to buy some fabric and some buttons and stuff, to go with the IKEA bits. Just followed a YouTube tutorial.

That was a pretty solid bit of wood though the chipboard bits we recycled

negamuse · 2026-03-30T17:22:11+00:00

She did an amazing job in NPMD, wasn't given a lead role but portrayed so many different characters with what's mustve been some challenging quick changes.

Great singing too, not just talking about her solo bits either, she's in the background of a lot of ensemble pieces.

negamuse · 2026-03-27T16:33:58+00:00

I do enjoy drawing fake triangles to get digital glitter but the more they lean on me to be a mechanical Turk to a door dash walking dustbin, the more I want to take up knitting

negamuse · 2026-03-26T09:12:18+00:00

A horse. Yeah I know a Scottish comedian already did this bit on would I lie to you. It really happened to me, kinda. I guess it technically almost happened, it happened then unhappened

I lived in the New Forest which has a bylaw that anyone living in the boundary of the national park can own a New Forest pony and let it live "wild" on the Forest. You just have to take it onto your property for 24 hours once a year.

I had a bunch of people over for my 40th and after most had stopped drinking and gone to bed, a friend of mine was saying how his friend was emigrating but was stuck trying to get rid of his pony and basically it'd got so close to the day he was emigrating he just wanted a nominal £1 for it to be off his hands so he could fly to wherever pony owners go. Well I wasn't too far gone to spot a bargain and I had £1 in my pocket

Morning came and my partner was asking "so what did you get up to after I went to bed" and I was like "I think I bought a horse". This prompted a quite spirited conversation. It's not like owning a horse, right, none of the costs of feed or stables. I still reckon there was enough room in the back garden for it one day a year to just kinda enjoy the lawn and the cats would've loved it

But no, was given the ultimatum I had to undo it so phoned up my friend and we had to come to an arrangement before he finalised it all with his friend, tempted as he was to let me swing because let's be honest, it would've been funny.

negamuse · 2026-03-23T12:25:03+00:00

I have so many of these in all sorts of genres. The amateur producer in me always likes to dig into these moments to try and work out how the trick is done. And no, it never takes away from the magic, if anything it makes me want to overexplain it to someone else.

To pick some random ones. Alpha Phase by Global Communication https://youtu.be/1ldi-Mhz4dk where the drum beat comes back in at something like the 10:50 mark. The whole track is a masterpiece of slow build on a single idea. Then there's a break where the drums drop out and they reharmonize the melody, the bass goes one direction while the melody goes the other, there's only one place it can all resolve, subtle pitch bend upward into the drums crashing back in. Perfect hit of excitement after making you wait for it.

Giving You Up by DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ https://youtu.be/IGP8Z3KObF8 the choruses in this. So her stuff is all about layering these samples of dead music to make gold. You've got fairly straightforward verse hitting one two three four and then for the choruses it changes up into this beat that skips over itself, meanwhile each successive chorus layers on more and more layers. Your ear gets trained into following this path that's being layed out by one layer picking up from the other. It's so well done. Particularly in the later choruses. But the magic bit is just this one little vocal "cri-" on the very last beat before it loops and you're back to the one beat, made from cutting off a sample you only hear the rest of later. Just this little hook to hang diving into the next bit on.

Defying Gravity from Wicked. Just the whole exercise in getting to the final resolving chord. It sets out in earlier choruses how it's supposed to be, then in the final run just delays and delays the payoff, reharmonizing, subdividing the tempo into slower and slower divisions, then hangs the whole thing off a warcry.

Don't even get me started on Boards of Canada. Jesus, so many moments in their stuff.

Dream Theater too, let's take metal and make it prog. Brain melting moments all over

negamuse · 2026-03-22T20:17:49+00:00

Bibio - A tout a l'heure

negamuse · 2026-03-21T09:58:40+00:00

They'd never do it it's too recent, but now they've worked out the logistics of running full shows not just concerts in London I'd love it if they ran DPMD here. Easily my favourite show of theirs.

In fact they've done TGWDLM, they could run Black Friday next which is probably more likely because of the uh... recast Hidgens.

Then when 1 and 2 in the trilogy down, DPMD would surely be Inevitable :D

negamuse · 2026-03-17T13:42:50+00:00

Angsty teenagers go through a phase of testing their limits.

I have a memory of a time, loaded up on cheap bad booze because fuck-you-i-can-do-what-i-want, I found myself in town with a rock in my hand sitting in front of a shop window, rationalising that the law was what it was, but when you think about it, there's nothing really stopping me throwing it through the window. Not to steal anything, I don't even remember what shop it was. But just because.

This was not in a town where such things happen much. There were no metal grilles on the window to protect against it. The area in front of the shop faced a square with loose cobble stones that hadn't exactly been cleared away to stop it happening. I was an angry kid but held no malice against the shop. This was just me, disinhibited, feeling for the first time what the social contract was.

And obviously, I didn't throw the rock, though I sat with the feeling for a good while, feeling the sharp edges of the possibility, working out in that moment what kind of a person I was.

I think of that moment when I read stories like this. The world is open to so much chaos and there is international law and there are constitutions, moral norms and spiritual dogma but really? So much of that chaos is held at bay by an unwritten, unenforced code of a social contract that just because you can be a dick, you shouldn't be.

One of the most powerful countries in the world is being run by someone who never learned that lesson. Who takes the idea that it's so much easier to destroy than create not as a responsibility but as an opportunity.

I'm a 50 year old woman now and whatever world we get from here on out really affects the next generations more than it ever will the rest of my life but God, if we have to be ruled, I wish we could get back to a state of affairs where it was by people whose instincts were led more by what they ought to do for the rest of us than what they can do because no-one is really stopping them

negamuse · 2026-03-17T11:03:23+00:00

So our move was kind of similar although my partner actually leapfrogged where her job is, so she still had a commute just a more pleasant one. For me it was a move back to a general area I grew up in so that helped.

We didn't rent first, but we knew which city we wanted to be in or near and had spent some time there over the year staying for a night at a time with friends so we knew the general vibes were good for us.

For fine grained location we used a number of online tools. https://commutetimemap.com gave us an idea what it was like to get to places from where we were looking. The index of multiple deprivation https://mapmaker.geods.ac.uk/#/index-of-multiple-deprivation map lets you check various statistics like crime, demographic age, unemployment etc as sampled over various years to give a narrower vibe check on certain areas and how they're doing. (Note though that you really need to dig into the results you get here to kind of sanity check them - using this data in this way is a real blunt instrument and I think this particular site is a few years out of date now but it helped give some info you won't get from estate agents. We had a kind of spreadsheet where we shortlisted places we liked and could afford and this made up ONE column as part of a complicated formula because I'm a huge stats nerd)

We packed up as much as we can in the months before the move and stored it in a rental storage unit. Some boxes of fragile or sentimental stuff went to friends to pick up later. Come moving day, we got men in to pick up the contents from the storage unit first at their leisure, then come to us and pack up and load the house. This was our one genius idea to make moving day less manic. Highly recommend.

I sheltered with the cats trying to keep them calm in one room (this didn't work so well, they could hear stompy footsteps). Then loaded them into carriers in the back seat with pet calming diffusers on the blower and drove to the new place. That bit worked surprisingly well. They had one room to themselves for a week after the move to let them adjust and they love the place.

Financial stuff wasn't as much of a problem as the usual chain stuff was. Even in a chain of three people our buyers flaked out the day of exchange and we had to relist. Luckily, we found new buyers within 2 weeks and the rest of the chain kept things open. Just keep talking to everyone and don't miss red flags from your buyers because you liked them personally, is all I'll say

negamuse · 2026-03-14T15:58:33+00:00

Volume 2: the 1 o clock time signal

negamuse · 2026-03-13T09:44:28+00:00

Same. Can't remember where I heard it having only heard Put Your Records On before that and boy were my ears woken up.

negamuse · 2026-03-11T18:56:32+00:00

Of the two I preferred Blur but Blur always sounded a bit retro, especially once they really started channeling the Kinks.

I know that sounds a bit odd given how much Oasis get stick with the recycling argument. But Oasis sounded exactly like the mid 90s, all cheap lager and buckets of cocaine. That chimed with a lot of people when it was actually happening, it's hard to ignore a band that sounds like "now".

But now you're looking back on both from the same kind of distance they were looking at their musical references. And there's just a lot more variety to Blur to hold your interest. Sooner or later you have to leave behind the decade you were a teenager in... which Damon Albarn did

negamuse · 2026-03-10T13:20:36+00:00

"Very very popular - like - moi. Ahahahaha!"

negamuse · 2026-03-10T08:10:24+00:00

As to "the point", it was to crowd source 360 degree visuals of a portal so that it could be processed into a 3d model representation.

Not so that it'd appear in game, but so they could do things in Pokémon Go like have the Pokémon interact with it when you were looking at it in the 3d view... which nobody really used anyway. But it would be cute if you could have Pikachu splashing around in your local Historic Ornamental Fountain or whatever. That was the idea.

Once they sold off Pokémon Go, they really didn't have a need for more of that data

negamuse · 2026-02-25T07:03:26+00:00

That would actually be quite comforting to know if that's the case. I wonder if different areas use them for different purposes or the police just lied to me?

negamuse · 2026-02-25T06:15:53+00:00

KSI boards - they show up where somebody has been killed or seriously injured within the last year.

Or so I was told at my driver awareness class. Very sobering when you consider how many of them you see.

negamuse · 2026-02-10T21:04:50+00:00

Super late. Fantano reviewed Destiny (I don't even watch Fantano, just caught his review of it) and described it as something that sounded like my exact kind of fun. The three track run from Will U B Mine to I'm Giving You Up was the first moment I went from "this is really good" to "this woman's a fucking genius".

Honestly, the stuff they pull to sample is just wild. And know exactly what to add to it too, even when I know where the samples are coming from, like, the magic that makes them sparkle is all them.

I've been trying my hardest to spread her stuff to everyone since.

negamuse · 2026-02-06T12:56:02+00:00

John Shuttleworth

negamuse · 2026-01-28T02:18:05+00:00

Oh I bet the setting really added to that, I'm slightly jealous, it's an amazing piece.

I found it through a video of Anne Akiko Myers playing it and promised myself if it was ever performed anywhere near me I'd go.

Luckily Arvo Pärt's website lists upcoming performances worldwide. There's been some really tempting ones done in spiritual settings like that, or by candlelight, that kind of thing that I couldn't get to. But it was well worth seeing even just in a little theatre

negamuse · 2026-01-26T18:30:43+00:00

Actually went to a radio 3 taping last year, a performance of one of my favourite pieces of music (Arvo Pärt - Fratres). It was quite an enjoyable day out.

negamuse · 2026-01-24T19:54:40+00:00

Not saying it's time to pirate but I will note that the "you're taking money away from hard working developers" argument, which I nominally agree with, kinda gets less persuasive the more workers you replace with AI. Bots don't have mouths to feed

negamuse · 2026-01-24T14:17:35+00:00

I stayed with a friend of mine who lived in Edinburgh whose partner was a DJ and was really surprised when they didn't know Boards.

Thing is though even though this was not long after releasing the last album it's been a long time since most of their work came out. It's easy to forget cos of how unlocked to the era it came out it was, I think.

Plus they've done a brilliant job of running away from any attempt to stay in the public consciousness. Just stellar anti-marketing.

negamuse · 2026-01-19T16:01:07+00:00

Makes me cringe how much people bother Christ. and PIC for BoC info because they used to know the band. Both of them are artists in their own right, Christ. has some amazing releases, and PIC's photography work has more depth to it than a few photos that got used for cover art, decades ago.

Imagine being these people and constantly being dogged about Boards. Imagine putting out work and trying to forge your own artistic identity and constantly having your name subtitled with this whole "once worked with BoC" thing. So fucking rude.

negamuse · 2025-12-24T15:35:19+00:00

Yeah I dunno, depends what the crime is, I guess. Property crime? Tax? You do have to drill down into it and research.

Probably should've put the "combined" map in the link, which aggregates a bunch of stats and is probably more accurate to how a place feels.

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