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Piano Mouth wrote:Does anyone know where the link for the torrent is on dimeadozen? I can't find anywhere where you can click to download the files:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=535637

"Beck_1994-01-26_SBD.torrent" (will be personalized for you upon download)

Something else...GZ Press, where a large percentage of records are pressed that we buy. Unless you pay for the highest package (not even sure it is available anymore...mastering records is a real craft, and they might not employ anyone to do it anymore), they use Direct Metal Mastering, and from wha...

I actually contend that it would be higher fidelity coming from a digital master because the only distortion added would be from the playback equipment. If the source were analog, you’d essentially be doubling up on the distortion. First from the source, then from the playback equipment. My point w...

Trust your ears, not specs. And, obviously, listening depends on lots of things. Playback gear. State of mind. Mood. Expectations. Skepticism. You know, the psychological game. A person who thinks all speakers sound the same...all amplification sounds the same...all beer tastes the same...all wine t...

A couple of points to what has been posted. 1) There's no death to high fidelity in digital. While compression, loudness, and digital tools have been misused and abused, there's an argument to be made that digital is another level of high fidelity. High-resolution transfers that are at least technic...

anyone here a Steve Roach aficionado? I'm curious to find his most tribal/percussive albums. Recommendations appreciated.

nevermind...

Lots of my favorite names released something this year, but many of them are simply good and do not rise to the ranks of "best of". To me, "best of" implies I want to recommend these things to you. I'm not going to bother pushing something that is merely okay. So far, this is how my list is stacking...

that is the same record Bill and Richard recommended upthread a bit. I don't listen to much noise these days but I might have to check that one out. Whoops. I didn't see those inclusions for some reason. If you put that album through a spectrum analyzer and then used the sharpest scalpel to shave a...

Muslimgauze - Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones, 1983–1988 box (it's too bad this wasn't an affordable CD box set) I liked, but not deserving of a best of: Clock DVA - Clock 2 (great sound and sounds; the Uwe Schmidt remix moves beautifully) Hal Hutchinson - Wreckage Installations & Metalworks Tehom ...

my ambient/drone recommendations in a .txt file: HERE

but anyway a few thoughts: I'd find it more interesting to follow if the textures were more "perforated". The simplest way would be irregularly muting fractions of a second, every fraction of a second. Or taking a cartridge and hectically scratch over everything near you. something like this I .II ...

just before x-mas:
Niyaz "Beni Beni"

ones that I can remember:
Discharge "A Look at Tomorrow" and "The More I See"
Bob Dylan "Ballad of Hollis Brown"
Goatsnake "Easy Greasy"
Niyaz "Beni Beni"
Ola Belle Reed "High on the Mountain"
The Cult "She Sells Sanctuary"

maybe O.Rang "Herd of Instinct" ? wonderful album, but not sure that's what you meant Thank you. I gave it a listen on youtube. The instrumentation isn't of this style. That almost sounds like post-rock, or whatever it is they call it. Maybe ethno ambient is an outdated term. It's been around a lon...

I listened to almost no new experimental music this year. I have too much I've only heard 1-3 times to be adding more to the stacks. A high percentage of my listening was unofficial live recordings. An unusual amount of death metal, too. I don't care for death metal much. definites: Autopsy - new so...

I'm back in an ethno ambient phase, and I'm looking for Steve Roach recommendations in particular. I'm open to any artist and album that might be found extraordinary, though. Feel free to educate. Let's start off with what I do know. I'm a big fan of Tuu. Also well schooled in Hybryds, Voice of Eye ...

Hiroki Sasajima - Monogenic 2009 I did a search, and his name hasn't been mentioned even once. I'm surprised. I'd blame it on small pressings, but that doesn't seem to impede other artists of lesser craft and quality. I'd say this is somewhere between JGrzinich (Intimations, perhaps) and some tones ...

Bastard Noise - Rogue Astronaut CD Contrast Attitude - Apocalyptic Raw Assault LP/CD Destino Final - Atrapados LP Emeralds - What Happened CD Instinct of Survival - North to Nowhere LP/CD Hitoshi Kojo - Ezo 10" Kylesa - Static Tensions LP/CD Phill Niblock - Touch Strings 2CD Slogun - Bloody Roots CD...

I see Keith has this one in stock: "centaur (usa) #crc 2219 cd cdcm computer music series (united states) #cdcm 19 cd but it looks like the only piece I'd really care about on there is Accidents. Yeah, I've got that disc and Accidents is the only piece that does it for me. Picked up the Retrospecti...

Fushitsusha - The Time is Nigh 1997 - so far, that's the only Haino, or Fushitsusha, that rivals 15/16 in sun-like, unfathomable energy - one of the all-out heaviest releases I've heard in a LONG time - almost too much at once.