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I cannot believe that SOMEONE thinks Sennheisers are uglier than Grados.

Hi Astro Cortex You seem to be a FAX collector. I have two questions for you: 1) what are the ten most valuable FAX CDs? 2) I have 'just the disk' a CD. It is black with a red triangle in the centre. The word 'silence' is written under the triangle in white and in the usual FAX-like font. There are eleven tracks on the CD. Can you identify this CD for me? edit: oh, and I'm very excited...: I got these: Lunar Civ. Abet thank you guys!

will provide them within a day or two hopefully. basically the texture of the shiva logo is similar to glossy paper and looks like professional printing circa 1995. though though shiva inserts DO look a little cheap. it is placed where one of the purple stickers should be. the vinyls are the regular yellow but there is a more uneven dye concentration than my other three copies. specifically there are reddish streaks on a few areas.

Okay I have a copy of Twisted vinyl 2x12" yellow. All stickers normal except one of them has a sticker from the TIP orange compilation. I am getting excited about this one because I have a suspicion that the sticker could be an 'allusion' to his 'hinted at' ambientish 'Angelic Particles' present on the CD version. Does anyone else have a copy like this? The sticker looks cut with a machine and place over the original at the Factory.

visine is indeed very helpful and knows what he is talking about. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I just had my second trade with visine. He delived me a rarity in NM condition and another valuable item I've been after for awhile. Totally trustworthy down to earth guy.

I thought somehow I saw a subliminal message of: 'Crop Circle Jerk' in there

As we have a celebrity here and a very well respected musician I thought - shit, why don't I ask him what kind of Trance he listens to. Colin?

I said no crack houses!!! j/k

Ok, I am a Posford nut, however, and I seem to be in the minority here, but I think LSD is one of his most SHITE tracks.

Suppose I had a wad of cash like those mafia guys - you know, no wallet just like a WAD of like 4K or something. Where would be some good (perhaps obscure) places to go find rare Goa Trance CDs. I mean a physical, geographical location, and NOT a Goa crack house. Something original..ish...

thanks!

bump...still alot of fabulous stuff here...now that I've learned a bit more!

I don't know if you are a technically minded person Stalker, but your comment about the majority really reminded me of 'Brownian Motion' BM is an utterly FASCINATING subject applicable to things such as: SOME OF MY COMMENTS HERE especially the 30th remark. Basically there is a way to deduce, using certain principles of BM (Brownian motion describes 'randomness' in a way; for example the movement of smoke through air) I would be able to deduce whether or not the 3.7/5.0 situation is fraudulent.

'Placebo' was the first Goa Trance tune I ever heard. I wasted around 500-800$ on shitty electronica before I discovered real acid enveloping, crescendos, and 'connoisseur' grade knob twiddling. I still have the tune practically memorized and I haven't heard it in several months. edit: anyone with an absolutely MINT copy: I will trade something nice for it.

true.

Well, that's a start. But, it is a given more or less that each channel has a Zx1 vector I assume right? Each component in the channel vector being a 'bit' (0 or 1) of course. Begin conjecturing ramble: Next I guess we need to interpolate the meaningless bits into an adequately precise analog fourier series and then find the closest digital fit to that series. This is an elaboration on what you mentioned, as is: now we take the digitally measured frequencies (from the original gear of reasonable facsimile) and find the fourier series associated with the rhythm components of the composition. Separate out the rhythm constituents from the total series as suggested. Perform operation F(X) where X is the rhythm vector corresponding to the digital fourier series and F is a 'complicated' timestretch operation. similarly perform operation G(Z-X) = G(Y) with G being probably a different 'complicated' timestretch operation. I suspect we can add a variety of constraints onto F,G to simplify the goal but this is where I start having to pick up a book....perhaps way earlier..

You are too funny. The name + Avatar Combo made me shit myself

LSD / Alpha Centauri - Test Pressing with child-like writing on it as a 'certificate of authenticity'

Do you happen to know if 'Dark Jester' is a Posford pseudonym? Also, if you have the complete(st) list of his Discogrophy can you forward it to me through Discogs? Looking forward to an account of Inferno (15-20 or whichever ones it is) BTW.

Hi Johnny Heron, It is difficult to know if you are a serious musician. Your English needs improvement. Please ask a translator for assistance. If you are just fooling around then I just wasted 90 seconds.

Yeah, the book refers to Matlab. I am mostly interested in the theory behind it.

Your name and topic title made me recall the GEICO commercials aired in North America where the cavemen dudes are bitching about the guy being condescending about their 'kind' Narrator: It's so easy, even a CAVEMAN could do it! Caveman: man, that was REALLY condescending

Like I mentioned above, it is a way to preserve the uniqueness and finiteness of the .wav downloads. Only those people with the proper 1024 bit signatures can authenticate on the website. All other copies can be recognized as forgeries.

This is messy and has some logic holes but it gives maybe some idea what I have in mind: i) reserve 1024 'single bit' addresses somewhere inside the track. ii) these 1024 bits will be one half of the bits used to verify uniqueness of the copy. iii) purchaser is provided with a 1024 bit number like a password sort of thing. iv) the first 1024 bits are uploaded by sending the music file. The second 1024 bits are provided by the owner. v) verification of uniqueness is done by concatenating the bit strings into a 2048 bit number. The 2048 bits are hashed and compared against the label's database. vi) transfer of ownership of the copy is done through a mechanism controlled by the label. The original owner must 'cash in' his 1024 bits. The new owner then receives a new 1024 bit number and claims ownership. The original owner cannot claim ownership since he does not have the new 1024 bit number and thus cannot get his copy verified anymore.

We are sick I tell you! I am trying to wean myself off it a little but...