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So...blame Iboga?

Etnica - Tribute and TIP - Stimuli are a bit special too, although probably not the absolute #1, especially for "wider" audiences...

I like Belgian trippels.

Space would probably sound like 4'33" so the rest is largely subjective and open to interpretation. Nevertheless, my foremost thought would be that D5 really takes the cake here. They have space-related album/track names, OK, but that alone doesn't make the music spacey. However, they keep it quite heavily synthetic, mechanical, ethereal and cold. Can you recall any Indian melodies or instruments, chants or even drug samples in their work? I'd say they largely skip all that. Cosmosis - Cosmology is the most cosmic one based on the title. But that and Eat Static tend to follow the "visitors on Earth" theme so it's somewhere inbetween. What else...some Underhead, Moonweed, AP's tracks which are not about Tibet, MFG's tracks which are not about religion...dunno. I'll go with D5.

Today... Previous three direct orders took over eight weeks each so it's improving.

Trinodia - Astral Clouds Miktek - Elsewhere ...and the pre-download of Deep Fried Dub - Slow Cooked

"Too old" for anime junkies.

So awesome that I don't care a bit if it's staged... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGNk8pUj4Y

In space, no one can hear your ambient. Latest Jaja albums are long, deep, nice and free on Ektoplazm. There was a lot of weird and...quiet stuff on Umbra. Consider getting some if you can still find them. What a shame we first lost the label and then Oöphoi himself. It was always a pleasure to trade or just to chat with him. Or get the recent reissues of Robert Rich's early albums...although it's said that those cassette or CD-length albums are fairly hectic compared to the nine hour sleep concerts he was performing back then. There's the Somnium DVD album for trying something similar. Now I realise I really should arrange more time for these myself...

Well, not today but most recently the new Nervasystem album. Looks like the Anjuna guys aren't crooks after all, even though someone quite harshly suggested so on Discogs... Before that, a few more goodies from Robert Rich. Buying from him simply rules. I placed an order at Christmas and got a kind, personal reply (as usual) from R.R. the same night. They were shipped promptly on 26th and arrived on 31st. I even got an extra CD from his holiday sales, and you can have them autographed for free. Top bloke. The music is fine too. (Unfortunately, USPS shipping rates are getting outright ridiculous but that's hardly Robert's fault.) Definitely recommended if deep ambient and/or organic chillout are your thing.

Finally got mine yesterday. (#10, how does that correlate with penis size?) Sounded good on the first listen.

And looks like I got 24-bit files too...

I returned two copies so now it's three.

Finishing a house move. Took pretty much all of my so-called holidays. It's amazing how much utter junk one can (and will) accumulate over time - outdated electronics, old clothes, endless piles of papers and so on. In a sense it was relieving to go through that all and to figure out what's really worth keeping. On the other hand, it's always a huge PITA. In fact, toward the end I was so knackered that I didn't bother sorting it properly any more. Bits of useless junk will keep on haunting me. Anyway, right now I think that just returning to work and having the evenings free will feel like a holiday more than these weeks ever did. Let's see if I manage to do some updating with music and such...

(Re: cassettes) Collectors' items, basically. Especially in obscure branches of ambient there's a race for the most gimmicky release. For example, Eldar - Allegory of the Cave was released as 50 CDr copies with a t-shirt and...beer. Nordvargr released a CD with customised, endless loop cassettes and so on. At the very least they're limited editions, allegedly without repress (although that hasn't always been entirely true). Nowadays it's almost an oddity if an ambient/drone/noise/etc album is released as a plain, unlimited jewel case CD. While I enjoy Woob's releases, sometimes I struggle to figure out what's really being sold among all those "special editions" and other paraphernalia. Common CD sales are down and in some genres they weren't that high to begin with. The CD is also becoming less important as the actual storage/playback medium. Therefore the artists and labels now target collectors and try to get their monies with unusual items. Heck, I bought the Infinite Presence cassette because I could, but it came with a free lossless download for real listening. The physical item is nowadays just a proof of purchase and something to re-sell to another collector...but note that to some extent it also applies to bog standard CDs as almost everyone is listening to/spinning ripped files anyway...

Wait...I've managed to locate a few psy-ish vinyls in 2013 but did TIP actually release any or did you mean something else with that?

I'd guess it's a special uptempo Asura song only played live at special parties such as Paramatma and Fractal Gate but I could be wrong there...

Hey, at least it would be an honest answer, while many of those other excuses could be lies. Reminds me of one case when we had a position open. Our group leader asked one candidate "Why are you interested in this job?" He answered "Actually, I'm not". He was admirably honest about that, yet didn't get hired. Afterwards, this led to an interesting discussion about how an otherwise similar candidate who simply lied convincingly to that question could have got the job. Of equivalent options, the system prefers liars. Weird, isn't it?

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I hope you're referring to extreme cases or that would be a harsh interview. "Well, I had problems with my previous employer..." "Out!" "I didn't have problems with my previous employer..." "Out!" Out!

Er...yes, in post #25 of this topic? (And discussed in #27...)

Er...yes, in post #24 of this topic? (And answered in #26...)

I think a forum glitch just moved this from the "2041 releases" topic.