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LuisBSF

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  1. W7 turns out to be very good for audio apps. Anything that's not audio I do on an ubuntu machine. I've been using Linux for the past 15 years and I have to say the linux desktop has come a gigantic way in the past few years. Well recommended! If ya wanna try it out, get a 1GB (min) usb stick and http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ and try it out on a bootable pendrive.

  2. I guess what's debatable is whether it's artsy or not. The artist seems somehow reduced to choose whatever they think best from a pool of randomly generated noises, so even if they didn't really design those, they chose whichever arrangement of sounds they thought best. And the act of choosing can't possibly be random, they will cherry pick whichever fits better with their understanding of music.

     

    Not being familiar with the process itself, I'm just guessing what's randomly generated are pools of noises, but the overall flow & story of the track is under the artists control and there's nothing really random about it. Those two are of equal importance, to me, in music.

     

    There's more than one aspect to music creation. I personally enjoy some of the dark stuff, given the right moment.

  3. Dunno, but apparently the weatherman said it was the hottest day in April since 1949.

     

    Funny how that happens every single year! Not long now until people start mentioning "drought" and "heat wave" at (25-27 degrees tops)... actually it ain't too bad out there today, might go for a pint. No many pubs with gardens to be found in southwark though.
  4. I originally got into music through Mike Oldfield. Not just listening, but listening. I spent all my time listening to Tubular Bells II, Platinum, Ommadawn, Crises etc on my crappy JVC walkman. I got into electronica via The Songs of Distant Earth. The first time I "got" what Amarok is about was one I will always remember, particularly the last couple of minutes.

     

    I learned to play guitar by patiently dissecting In Dulci Jubilo's guitar solo; the flute with Portsmouth. The ideas of harmony I have in my head and I put down as bsf tunes I owe more to him than any actual trance music.

     

    And fuck yeah, his old live videos kick awesome arse:

     

     

    He's my idol, if I ever had one.

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