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This looks useful. Thanks.

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/

Does it read like a crazy woman wrote it? That description sounds like it's going to be less of a novel and more a series of rambling essays by a nut job. I must admit that a quick Google search makes me more inclined to go with my early prejudices. But if I am wrong, it looks like it could be a great read.

Very nice! The best thing I find about Sennheiser headphones is that they are often on sale. I got the HD560s at 75% off just before the Amazon prime day sales. I really want to support my local stores but 9,000 yen compared to 36,000 yen is too much of a difference. No they were not used nor did they even look like a return that had every been opened. I am happy with them.

I was wondering where my review for this was. I am sure I had one, then I realized I was thinking of Earthshine. But I have this, surely, I have bought everything that Solar Fields has ever made, but I can't find it in my collection. Did I dislike it and never ripped it? Sounds like a mission for the weekend.

I have this Yet I honestly cannot really remember listening to it. Maybe I listened to it once, distracted, or on crappy headphones, or worse some shitty speakers, and didn't appreciate it? Well that ends today, I just put it on, and the first track "Resign Riot" is already sounding better than the other Prog I listened to this week (Except for Head cleaner that I listened to on Tuesday, seriously can't think why I ignore this and 2nd Brigade in favour of Head cleaner and Almost & Friends) I guess I'll find out...

I can't wait for Shulman's next release....11 years later, nothing Did they release anything underground that I never heard of? Would love to hear more of their style. Each album was different and great.

KZ Castor Harman IEM when I commute - crisp, clean sound, with EQ you can tailor their signature to whatever you want. Sennheiser HD598SE at home - very comfortable, superlush, musical sound with large soundstage and plenty of details, probably better suited to more traditional genres like rock & pop due to lighter bass kick, but, for me, they work with EDM too. Ultrasone HFI 650 Trackmaster - simmilar to Senn, but closed back, these have stronger and deeper bass, but smaller soundstage due to constructon of the cups. I love headphones, I'm also considering HD560s as an upgrade. As for the sources: Tidal and Deezer, both on max sound quality, through my phone or laptop, with some EQ. Works great for me.

I was listening to this the other day, it remains great. It doesn't however remain free in the above link "page not found" 😢 Still sounds futuristic (because the modern day suck archaic balls) and driving, energetic and fun. I was taking a 100 degree (now I use fahrenheit because triple figures sound cool) walk and it gave me the energy to sweat bucket loads while doing so. Where can you get it now? Not sure, I already have it. Do you?

Elena Danaan claims to be in real-live contact with some extraterrastrials. In her books she tells about her visits to Venus and Jupiter. Sometimes the extraterrestrials tell her about events that will happen in our solar system, e.g. an earth-quake on Mars or a scientific discovery that will be made in a few weeks time. There is a website with these fact-checks https://thewebmatrix.net/elenadanaan.html . As I wrote before the first book describes a lot of alien races complete with drawings. A lot of these are human, they look like us but with some minor of major variations. Some can be taller, others have slightly different facial features like wider eyes or a higher fore-head. The way a species look depends on a lot of factors. The power or the light of the sun or chemical elements that are present on a planet. There is a planet where people have a green tint because of the abundance of manganese. Than there are also intelligent reptillian or insectoid species. The type of species does not say anything about their intentions. There are also hybrids. Humans with reptillian features or beings that are part insectoid and part human.

Wow! Thanks for the first hand perspective. One thing that I have never understood, I just cannot get it through my head, and maybe it'd because I am not American, and from where I'm from, anyone that's "into" politics is a big loser that cannot get a girl to sit in the same room as him, and if a girl is into politics, she's a big loser who can't get a girl to sit in the same room as her So while it amazes me that Americans can be so into politicians that they go to rallies, and make their favourite political "star" a big part of their personality like a tween girl and her favourite boy band, I still cannot understand how people feel this way about Donald Trump, who has the charisma of a tax audit, a room temperature IQ (not fahrenheit) and hair that looks like pubes. Even if he's a big old racist that agrees with all the things your big old racists think, wouldn't they be more ashamed to be associated with such a human toilet brush? I've recently been reading about his trade deals, all these deals with short term benefits to the USA...him and his cronies I bet, feel like they're just going to push your trading partners away long term. Even when he's replaced long term, other countries aren't going to trust that 4 years later that replacement won't be replaced with Trump 2.0 For a while, other countries are going to suffer through this, but they'll open up more trade with India, China and African countries and the USA will become a minor world player, with a shit tonne of nukes, now there's a scary thought. What happens when the country is washed up and relying on foreign aid AND has all these nukes. War war war. I'm sure someone has written a book about this. Anyway back to books. The Bone Clocks that I am reading, the last chapter was pretty good because it involved who the story revolves around, Holly Sykes. The book started really well, as it focuses on her as a 16 year old. I was invested and read quite quickly. Then it moved to some story about someone really uninteresting and in the last part of his story he met Holly, then it was about her partner who was a war journalist and was not that interesting, now it's about another novelist who's life is intersecting with hers. It's just that all these people's stories are so boring, but hers sound interesting and I just want to get to that. Maybe I'm impatient, maybe David Mitchell just isn't a great writer.

Brother we are living in the land of a wannabe dictator. He is almost 80 years old and implicated in the greatest human trafficking operation in history. There is solid evidence that he raped underage girls, but his administration is actively covering it up in broad daylight because the media will not hold him to account. He has shredded the rule of law and the constitution. He is mind numbingly stupid thinking he's always the smartest guy in the room, fires anyone who gives him bad news, and has run our great economy right into the dirt. We are currently living in a land where shootings are fairly frequent, a trip to the grocery store is becoming twice as expensive and half the populace is deluded by his cult like media propaganda. It's hard to rank the evil coming out of the White House, but I would say having a secret masked police force that has an unlimited budget snatching brown people off the street with no due process and nobody to stop them is particularly terrifying. And the people that are charged with upholding the law and protecting us? Sit on their hands cowed in fear and subservience. The economy is in the toilet, and they are rapidly destroying protections for the people with an ultra right wing Supreme Court that has given him immunity for his actions. That said, I have no room to complain. I weep for the people of Gaza who are starving or the people of Ukraine who are currently living under war by a mad man. Our country is struggling with the massive corruption, but currently I am well and still listening to psy. Most people in this country are appalled by the constant lying, deception, and cruelty by the current administration. And we are only 6 months in to a 4 year term. But back to books, getting ready to start The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. Heard good things!

I feel that a lot of the old acts that we loved back in the day, started making music that was more commercial and less to the tastes of us fuddy duddies, but recently a lot are pivoting back as the people they made the pop sound for are no longer interested, and they know that we are all stubborn and will be the ones paying to hear the old sounds 😁

Flying Rhino Freestyle - Carribean Eclipse Next up, Cornwall Eclipse Some of the best downtempo comps made.

When people say things like a movie remake has ruined the original or a change in music style has ruined an artist. Do they not understand that the originals are still there and unchanged? If the next AP album isn't too my liking, I can still listen to the old ones that I do like (not did, do)

I love grimdark fantasy and sci-fi How is everything over there for the normal folks? All I get to hear about sounds like hyperbole and I come away thinking it can't really be that bad, can it? Can it?

That sounds really interesting, I want to check her out. I'll put them on my reading list (although that's really long right now 🫠

"Each of us has a twin in another world!" Since Mergi and I are the only ones participating in the topic I now will add that I believe this is the only place to find this particular Miranda track Tellus Twin. Personally I feel it goes on too long and could've been tightened up. Also I would like to request Suntrip's digital label to maybe discuss releasing here albums with a remaster. They're of course quite good and just need some TLC. And I'm aware of the limited Spiral Trax version found here. Beatspace

I'm rooting for them. If they drop a great album in their style what's not to like? If it's not to your liking nobody is forcing you to listen to it. And it's not like they haven't given us a huge cache of great music.

E-mantra - Drifting Great floaty downtempo, a dnb track, some progressive style, and of course a goa track!

Like most I'm actually stunned that this is actually happening. Hoping for the best, but how many times has a project from the golden days come back to disappoint? Ah well, fingers crossed! And yes Iboga seems an odd choice. Highest bidder? How is this not on TIP or Suntrip or Global Sect?

Superb topic that for some reason I'm just discovering. Maybe should start lurking again. Just finished The Devils by Joe Abercrombie and Empire of the Vampire as well as Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff. All were quite graphic and great reads. Highly recommend if you're into grimdark style of fantasy. Currently reading Illusion by Paula Volsky about changing attitudes and how horrible exalted classes are to non-exalted. Anything to distract from my terribly disappointing country. I apologize and want to reassure you normal, educated Americans are not ok with what this fascist administration is doing.

I haven't posted much here yet, but this is something I have to share. I am currently obsessed by the books of Elena Danaan. Her first book describes the 100 extraterrestrial species involved with our planet. She writes that the species from Zeta Retucili are not friendly and what was the reason of the sinking of the Titanic. In her second book she describes what happened after the Roswell crash in 1947. These books are highly recommended if you are interested in UFO's

This is still a great album, very Solar Fields, mature resounding but resonates nicely when you let it unfold.