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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: My Neverending Digital Sound Legacy |
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Posted: 11 Oct 2008, 6:30 am
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Replies: 4
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| I find these truly fascinating! I could watch and listen to the first one for a long time - I wish the video was longer. That one and the counting one are very hypnotic to me. This kind of work intrigues me a lot as I'm very interested in generative, algorithmic sound and graphics. Do you by any cha... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Favorite Van Halen Era |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2008, 7:59 pm
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Replies: 16
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| Yep - sadly that seems to happen a lot with musicians. Apathy brought on by success suppose. I can think of many bands / artists that have amazing output early in their career and its just downhill from there. There are rare ones that can keep it going strong for decades - those seem extremely rare ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Favorite Van Halen Era |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2008, 7:30 pm
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Replies: 16
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| ... and Eddie's guitar tone had increasing amounts of processing, as well as the fact that he stopped using late 60's plexiglas panelled Marshall amps, both of which which caused it to suffer. Yeah that's definitely something else I didn't like about the post-1984 era aside from the lack of Dave. T... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Favorite Van Halen Era |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2008, 1:36 am
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| The Diamond Dave Era Part One (1973-1984) - that is Van Halen to me. I just could never get into the Hagar and later periods much at all though undoubtedly Eddie is still an amazing guitarist. Just something about the early material - it has an energy they've never matched. And Dave had so much more... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Anyone here like Noise Rock |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2008, 9:32 pm
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Replies: 22
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| Yep I like noise rock - of those listed especially VU, Beefheart, Suicide, Swans, the Melvins, the Boredoms, Acid Mothers Temple, the Residents, Glenn Branca. I've been meaning to check out many of the other bands listed. But my favorite noise-rock band hasn't been mentioned and that is Skullflower ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Anyone Like Shoegazing? |
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Posted: 10 Aug 2008, 10:26 pm
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Replies: 51
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| i got My Bloody Valentine - Loveless cus of this thread gotta admit im not terribly into it .. maby it will grow on me, but it somehow seems kinda silly The first ("Only Shallow") and last ("Soon") tracks are key on that album. It's one of the few albums like that. It's is a grower tho. I wasn't in... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Anyone Like Shoegazing? |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2008, 9:51 pm
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Replies: 51
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| I only recently discovered that My Bloody Valentine have re-formed and are touring! Did everyone else know this? I have been seriously out of the loop. Sadly they won't be coming up to the Pacific Northwest where I live, and I can't afford to travel much this year. At least there is the new album in... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: The best of Minstry |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2008, 4:59 am
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Replies: 6
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| I had the pleasure of seeing Ministry live at Lollapalooza in 1992 (Massachusetts). They totally stole the show - the energy level so high the crowd went completely insane, ripping the sod off the fields and flinging it around - and eventually tearing down the wooden fences in the back of the venue ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND? |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2008, 4:40 am
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Do Aspies love Black Metal? |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 6:22 am
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Replies: 69
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| If you like Black Tape for a Blue Girl I'd recommend Dark Sanctuary and Elend. They're gothic neo-classical--VERY dark. Elend in particular is recommendable to black metal fans, even though it's not black metal, because it uses classical in an extremely cacophanous way that rivals black metal for s... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Games As Art |
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Posted: 12 May 2008, 10:54 pm
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Replies: 23
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| "Art" is such a subjective term - and I don't really care at all what Roger Ebert thinks of it. But my personal view is that games are capable of being the highest of art forms - since they can combine all the other art forms and have the additional element of being interactive. In games you can hav... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Ulver |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 2:18 am
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Replies: 5
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| I love the black metal / folk era of Ulver. Bergtatt, Kveldsjanger, Nattens Madrigal. Their other stuff I don't know quite as well - but I've enjoyed what I've heard. I should check it out a bit more. Still, nothing grabs me quite like their black metal material - Bergtatt is amazing. |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Any MMO players excited about Age of Conan? |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2008, 8:01 pm
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Replies: 8
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| I'm really looking forward to Age of Conan. "Open" beta starts on May 1st - though it seems it will require a Fileplanet account and only 50,000 keys will be given. I'm not much of a PVP person right now but might give the PVP a try on AoC at some point. The city-building and sieging sounds like fun... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Gantz Graf - Autechre |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2008, 7:49 pm
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Replies: 13
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| I am a huge fan of Autechre! I think they are absolutely brilliant. Their output from around LP5 onward is fascinatingly complex - though I enjoy their early stuff too - like Tri Repetae in particular. And I do get a kind of visual synesthesia listening to music of this sort (more so than with more ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Anyone like primus? |
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Posted: 20 Feb 2008, 7:54 pm
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Replies: 13
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I love Primus, and Claypool is a god of bass-playing.
Frizzle Fry is my favorite of their albums. I also like Sailing the Seas of Cheese quite a bit. I didn't get into their later stuff quite as much but its all pretty good - and Claypool always amazes me. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Web Hosting |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2008, 7:58 pm
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Replies: 34
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| I have signed up with 1and1.com and, so far, they seem good. However, they have a lot of terrible, terrible reviews on the Internet, so I'm on the fence. However, almost all of those people are people who didn't pay and are upset that their bill went to collections. Now, apparently, they went to co... |
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