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I spent quite a bit of time at college studying the Stasi so it was interesting to see the society at that time brought to life. I wonder if there's anyone reading who lived in the GDR and knows how accurate the depiction might've been? My woman was raised in the GDR, but funny thing was that I as ...

DW: Sure, because as I wrote above, there are clear structural conventions and a there is a defined vocabulary in the music you're referring to. Yes, the point was trying to be: the defined vocabulary is out there now as well, only of course who's to judge what it is. DW: On the subject, would you s...

Just thinkin', it might be easier to try and define the parameters of this question within a music that's safely dead and where positioning oneself doesn't have so many implications. I grew up in a household of amateur trad jazz musicians. One of the great philosophical questions there was: what is ...

Same here, while the Ernie Ball feels more smooth, in practice it's only slightly better than the cheepo plastic thing I have (which, by the way, has withstood 15 years of maltreatment by now). I don't own the Boss kp* mentions, just borrowed it for a day, but it really seemed much better than every...

not album.. http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_Iij8Eyts definitely. The album version's much better, even, less wankery involved on the drummer's part. It's the only tune from the group that does anything for me (which makes me suspicious), but I think it's the future of jazz or whatnot. I second the...

I experimented with making a podcast for the first time. This is a very un-i-hate-music sorta list, but here it is anyway. Maybe I'll do one more appropriate for this forum. http://feraljared.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/first.m4a Your Cheat-Sheet: * Daniel Johnston, God * Jay Reatard, I know a plac...

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My advice is to go to the biggest, most complete guitar store with the most extensive selection you can find ( If I was back in Michigan it'd be Elderly Instruments..) and just play everything.. :lol: Ah, true for an acoustic, with an electric I had more luck when I bought from musicians whose know...

I don't much enjoy listening to Niblock's music on its own, but I'm a huge fan of The Movement of People Working. It's like the music stands in for the mind/concentration/numbness of the workers, and on the other side you really hear their movements, because they influence the rhythm of the drone. I...

Dan Warburton wrote: I'm about a third of the way into the book, and at that speed I read I expect to be through some time in late November.. 2017:)

Do yourself a favour and lose the book on a train ride in summer 2016. The denouement is one of the biggest letdowns in literary history.

I'm pleasantly surprised by almost everything I seriously do, especially when I make a beat, I could hop along to it all day, but even with my surviving shorter solos (I delete most stuff instantly) I tend to think: oh yeah, if only i could play like that. I'm always dissatisfied with the music as a...

trout fishing in america by richard brautigan I used to love that book so much when I was in college. "Watermelon Sugar" too. Don't know whether I still would like them, but even hearing them mentioned these days gives me a (pathetic) nostalgic thrill. Hi Walto. Emotionally I'm similarly wedded to ...

man, Jon, thanks for that DJ Screw blog link yes, again thanks. the screwed up UGK "One Day" made me a believer. Ooh, wow, against all my expectations (quit listening to hip hop after the early 90s), I'm blown away. Chance made me pick The Wreckshop first, which is uneven but the first two tracks h...

I'm preparing a percussion solo by Jürg Frey for a concert next month and the score has some peculiar playing methods that I can't quite determine exactly what they should be. The score's notes are only in German and I haven't been able to reach Jürg just yet and was hoping someone with some knowle...

My record player died on me after revisiting Lodger a couple of weeks ago. Yes, I was that underwhelmed, but still why the stupid thing would take things so personal instead of evolving along with me, I don't know ... Have to chime in on Dan's constant hymn on 1. Outside. There is no way the guy sho...

Haven't had much luck. Slowing things down by a factor of 8 definitely hurt quality when I tried. Couldn't put the recorder file through PEAK since the programme doesn't recognize it, so it's probably been subtly and wonderfully fucked in the first place. But that's only fair, if it had worked, I co...

Thanks, tried with Audacity, managed to slow things down, didn't sound as otherworldly on first attempt, but I'm a software illiterate so have to try some more. Have tried out the Chinese file on "audio studio deluxe" (shitty software for the pc that's also on my desk) and had definite dropouts, whi...

This has happened to me just twice (maybe because of switchin back and forth between mac and pc): an mp3 file loaded into itunes slowed down to c. ten times the duration, with fantastic sound quality, no change in pitch etc. First time was no use, some Chinese music that still sounded chinese only o...