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re-phaelam-ed wrote:

Torn n Frayed wrote:

re-phaelam-ed wrote: Is that Machine Drum a UW version? I have the Analog 4 and have half paid on an Octatrack that is due to arrive in November. I heart Elektron Gear!

ya MDUW MKII

sick man. A4 and Octa....that will be heaps of fun!

I traded my OP1 and some $ for a MDUW MkII and I have to say I love it! By far the easiest, most complete piece of Elektron gear I've used. Octatrack is a bit of a MF'er, still getting used to it but I took to the UW straight away! LOVE IT!!

- The Advisory Circle - From Out Here (CD)
- 5 packs of Nag Champa incense
- A couple of emergency bottles of cheap e-liquid (Magic Juice devon toffee, and vanilla Custard flavours, in case you were curious) from a shop just round the corner because i didn't have time to visit my usual vendor.
- A train ticket to Barrow-In-Furness.


I lead a fascinating life.

Update: The Devon Toffee is fucking horrible. It tasted great in the shop. They always do *sigh*

I finally upgraded to the iphone 6. I live in a really remote and gorgeous place (boc would probably like it here) and take a ton of pictures. I have an SLR but never want to take it out or hike with it so this was a smart upgrade for me and the camera is a significant improvement over the 4S. I took some pics yesterday you can see them here:

http://websta.me/n/instrumentsofflight

Your photography never fails to impress. Lovely.

Thank you so much!

this...comes next week!

an old VCR

Nice.

next week

Torn n Frayed wrote:I traded my OP1 and some $ for a MDUW MkII and I have to say I love it! By far the easiest, most complete piece of Elektron gear I've used. Octatrack is a bit of a MF'er, still getting used to it but I took to the UW straight away! LOVE IT!!

I absolutely agree about the MDUW. It's the only bit of Elektron gear I've kept. I had the A4 for almost a year but never figured out a way to integrate it cleanly into the rest of my setup. I can see how the A4 would be awesome with modular kit though.

I clicked with the Machinedrum instantly. The FM machines are my favourites. Incredible for kicks. I had a vanilla MD without the UW for a couple of years, but I traded that towards the UW. To be honest, I should probably have stuck with the MD I had. Since picking up a used MPC1000, I've barely used the sampling on the UW. Still, the +drive has been worth the extra anyway.

machinea wrote:I finally upgraded to the iphone 6. I live in a really remote and gorgeous place (boc would probably like it here) and take a ton of pictures. I have an SLR but never want to take it out or hike with it so this was a smart upgrade for me and the camera is a significant improvement over the 4S. I took some pics yesterday you can see them here:

http://websta.me/n/instrumentsofflight

Holy shit, are you Instrumentsofflight? I follow you on Instagram, but I have never known that was you. Some really quality pictures on there!

Victorialand - Cocteau Twins, UK first pressing.

So Soon - Slag Boom Van Loon on vinyl. I can't believe I found it in decent condition for the right price. So happy to have it in my collection.

Old Timers sweet liqourice --MOWMOWMOWM--

2x Make Noise t-shirts (glow in the dark)

Mutable Instruments - Clouds

This is one for the ambient/drone/out there music fans. Every month I take a punt on an unknown record and buy it from one of the local record shops down here in Brighton, whatever catches my eye usually, or if the description is interesting I try it out. This month I saw this box set:



http://lightintheattic.net/releases/943 ... -1950-1990

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Am-Center-Priva ... the+center

So I know what you're probably thinking: New Age? Isn't that music from a time taste forgot? Well some New Age is, but this box set seems to be the cream of the crop, artistically and aesthetically, from the artists and people who lived "new-age" before new age was even a movement. So I was pleasantly surprised to get home and find out this album is bloody brilliant. The label description says it way better than I ever could:

Sound created the universe. It wasn’t a word. Sound created atoms; sound and light are the original manifesting principles for worlds… A musician sources that primeval, eternal sound, and it comes out as music.” – Constance Demby

Forget everything you know, or think you know, about new age, a genre that has become one of the defining musical-archaeological explorations of the past decade.

I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990 is the first major anthology to survey the golden age of new age and reveal the unbelievable truth about the genre.

For new age, at its best, is a reverberation of psychedelic music, and great by any standard. This is analog, handmade music communicating soul and spirit, often done on limited means and without commercial potential, self-published and self-distributed. Before it became big business and devolved into the spaced out elevator music we know and loathe today, this was the real thing.

From mathematical musical algorithms to airport murder mysteries to Henry Mancini and Bugs Bunny, the connections to mainstream culture run in curious directions. (Did you know, for instance, that a track from the first modern private press new age album is featured on the Blade Runner soundtrack? It’s called “Pompeii, 76 A.D.”, and we’ve got it here.)

I Am The Center is a knowing, but never cynical overview that invites listeners at last to the mainspring of a misunderstood genre’s greatest lights. Many of the biggest names are present — Iasos, inter-dimentional channeler of “paradise music”; Laraaji, discovered by Brian Eno playing for spare change in Washington Square Park; and the recently famous JD Emmanuel, icon to a new generation of drone, ambient, noise musicians. Call it what you will — before it was anything else, it was new age.

Lovingly conceived and lavishly presented, I Am The Center features stunning paintings by the legendary visual artist Gilbert Williams, and liner notes by producer Douglas Mcgowan, who weaves the words and images of the wizards and sorceresses of new age into a prismatic portrait of music that can finally be recognized for what it is: great American folk art.

This is an unboxing from the labels YouTube channel. As you can see it's really nicely presented and the vinyl is top notch.



Here is a longer track sample, check it out, listen all the way til the end cos it builds so nicely:

Hey fujee that looks like a great buy. Love the sample.

One of my favourte artists was labeled new age back in his day, because he was basically an 80s hippy. He hated being musically shoeboxed and produced in my and a great many others' opinion some of the finest acoustic guitar music of all time.

Shameless plug here: if you are lucky enough to spot a copy of 'Breakfast in the Field' or my username on wax one day, for god sakes take your money and throw it at the guy. That is one purchase you'll never regret.

Tickets to see the Super Furry Animals in Cardiff and London I love this band! So great to see live, always a great atmosphere.