Dolmot

"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 It's amazing how much utter junk one can (and will) accumulate over time - outdated electronics, old clothes, endless piles of papers and so on.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.

When there's a race for speed, rarity and general exclusivity, all sources are exploited. Just look at the movie release scene. They use camcorders in cinemas, promo DVDs, premium channels, hotel movie services, Asian street discs and whatnot. There are even several cases of workprint copies leaked from studio's internal post-production. Those definitely weren't bought from any legit source. Plenty of minus-day game releases have been sourced from store back rooms, review copies or directly from the studios. You can probably guess where this is going when we return to CDs. Then again, some groups release stuff like out-of-print 90s vinyls so at least someone had to buy them first. There's no single route and I can't even guess, what would be the ratio between different sources.

For fame. For thrills. For being a part of the scene where practically everything is available from day zero (or earlier). Typically they insist that their releases are for the inner scene alone, where everybody is expected to contribute somehow. Eventual leaking to casual freeloaders is seen as a neutral or negative by-product. By the time a release hits p2p or whateverupload.com, it's already past its prime. As there is no real coordination, the motives of individual contributors are varied. Some probably just enjoy the quick access to everything. Others claim the system is for getting a chance to try before you buy, or for archiving everything. Then there's the "information should free" / "it's only a copy" argument. Or "stick it to the man" attitude (although in reality everything is released, down to tiny labels and home-made CDs). Nevertheless, one of the greatest driving forces is the 15 minutes of fame for being the first to release something. The runner-up is ridiculed. Groups really spend plenty of time and money to achieve that for no direct, tangible benefit. Kinda weird but if you take a look around, people everywhere are doing even weirder stuff for the same goal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene

NM Accidental Occidentalism? Suddenly the 100e offers on Discogs start to look cheap in comparison. I'll trade happily to something much more common. It's surprisingly hard to get rid of these...

BTW, it's a bit unclear what the Discogs entry and your sales refer to. While both versions are sort of limited, I think currently the 50-copies ltd is shown. Are you selling that one? The versions should be either split or clarified in text.

Lucid Flux