omg y

I think it's time we had a talk, son...

I don't know, my frustration with the slow pace of fj comments has gotten to that point again. It doesn't even have to be skype, which crashes on me all the time now. Facebook chat is the superior alternative, I think.

Alright alright, I'll get on facist book

Did you mean to type fascist book? I'm going to assume you did and continue to laugh about that.

I meant to, it has been used in my circle of friends for a hot second now

guess who

It was Tales of the Inexpressible by Shpongle.

Here's the thread for the youtube and DL links /music/164943

thx pretty

np bb

Good on ya, Finland. I should've known the music program was named after someone.... Anyway, this is nice. Speaking of orchestral stuff, I've been playing Halo 5 lately and that was a really sweet score. I'm probably gonna give it a full non-game listen sometime in the near future.

Man, I don't even have an xbone. I'll probably take a peek at the new soundtrack though. I heard it was done by a gook this time around.

That it was. You even play as a black guy for most of the campaign. Halo is so diverse these days, I tell you.

God, why can't we just be a green man like we've always been? That wasn't enough?

We live in a unique, diverse country, it isn't just all green people anymore. You have to realize that, young one.

I've got an album for you. I don't know if you'll be as much of a fan of it as I am, but I imagine it'll sound pretty intense on a nice set of speakers. I'll hook you up with a dl if you like it.
COH - Strings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHUH9XgdkBA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajzKnkULtdM

I've seen you mention this guy before, so it's probably pretty neat.

I'm going to have to check it tomorrow though (which is probably better because then I can play it really loud) because I'm really tired and I feel like I'm about to pass out.

I'll report back tomorrow with my findings. Night.

Well that works out. The louder I play his music, the more I love it.

These are both pretty pretty. I like the atmosphere they create. The second song was a little annoying at first cause I thought it would be that loud **** all the way through, but it had some nice switch ups to keep it dynamic, so I probably ended up liking that one better after all. I like that melody coming through at points in both songs though, nice theming.

That was somehow very appropriate to the mood I'm in, mostly because of how I feel about the weather right now

I just rediscovered/discovered the other day that this is a ******* amazing song to play really loud www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7g2i58B_vM

Oh man, you just reminded me I have 2147 to listen to.

I'm still not the biggest fan of Aegri Somnia. His tracks still sound like collections of sparsely arranged noises to me. They'd benefit from being more filled in with some sort of feature that binds them together if you're going to listen to a full album of it. Maybe one day I'll understand him.

I haven't listened to the album that much tbh so I can't really counter your argument with any real knowledge atm. I really don't even listen to the very little dark ambient I have too often because I have to be a certain mood to hear it, and I'm rarely in that mood I guess. That said, there are a couple of Cryo Chamber releases that I have my eye on for that day when I'm ready for some more dark ambientish stuff. Perhaps soon since the cold is choking me and for some reason dark stuff suits that well.

I don't listen to it that often either but I love it when I do. I probably still listen to it more often that you I'm guessing, based on the fact that I have over 2 days of it and I've listened to most of that more than once. I've been listening to a couple different Combative Alignment releases tonight and it's just like coasting along a river of sound for a couple hours. Not his music specifically, but that's how I feel about ambient music in general.

2147 just started and it's great so far. He's got that hopeless future atmosphere down.

That's kind of why I feel ambient is best enjoyed driving at night. That's when I get most excited to put an ambient album on.. with no distractions, just the road and the music. Sgood.

A couple more playthroughs of 2145 and I'll be ready to move on to 2146. Then 2147 after that. Sabled Sun is definitely a good'n.

I like to listen to it with headphones at home. My car is way too noisy to really listen to ambient. I remember liking 2145 more than 2146, but I've only listened to each of them once that I can remember. I should listen to them back to back. Maybe tomorrow night.

Now you've gotten me in an ambient mood

Curse you!

I'm in it too, but I have to cut myself off or I won't sleep tonight.

That's interesting, it's doing the opposite for me and making me get sleepier and more relaxed.

Now I'm 2 seconds away from rashly buying this ambient album on bandcamp I'm eyeing, ugh you JERK

On a side note, if I buy a 24-bit quality album on bandcamp but still dl the aac files, is it still better quality then buying the regular version and dling the aac files? I'm assuming yes, but iuno

I don't think so, I don't know if AAC even does 24 bit

Whatever, who ****** cares. As long as it doesn't sound like butt, I'm good. And the less space I can take up on my ipod the better. And it's 5 euros cheaper for the normal version.

I don't think it would make a difference unless you're listening on some high end setup and being a picky grouch. 24 bit would really only make a difference if it was something like classical music where you have super soft sounds and don't want to hear a hiss when it gets that quiet.

Bandcamp faq basically just said it will downsample it if you dl it in a non-losless format so I'm all set now.

yeah, you'd only be getting 24 bit with wav/aiff/flac sort of files.

And as we all well know, those are space eaters. ultrablue's all about conservation

ultrablue for president, 2020

I'd go for those in come cases if I actually had a nice setup. I just got this album by COH where there's some cool high frequency stuff that just gets completely cut out if you convert to something under 320 mp3.

I honestly think aac is equal to 320 at least. I think I read that somewhere. Maybe it was just apple propaganda though.

I definitely never regret always going for aac (on bandcamp) though, so that's saying something. Or I could just be a stubborn fag.

I just looked at some of the ones you've sent me and it looks like that's accurate as far as frequency range.

I WIN

HEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, BUDDY

HOW GOES IT????

many months have passed
many places traveled
many tears and sweat shed
and many memories made

How are you?

I believe it!

I'm good, not too much interesting going on here, how about you?

So I have some pertty cool stories been to 6 countries and they all have some cool stories

like this one
/backroom/1432200#1432200

Holy **** , IVs and **** ? How ******* drunk were you omg lol.

I had 3 drinks in about 5 minutes but little did I know that it was the equivalant of 12 shots
On top of all the beer I had prior

Dim sun, you party hard lol. But I suppose you need to sometimes, eh? Though maybe not quite that hard lol

Yeah maybe I have to go to the military version of AA because of it I think still.
I was almost as drunk when I was in Thailand

Do you think you need it something like that? I only ask because I have a friend who dealt with some issues with alcohol this year so I know it can be serious business first hand.

Or you think they're just making you because formal stuff and what not?

What happened in Thailand?

It's just a formal thing
after over 2 years of being in the military this is my first paperwork so it's not a problem

in Thailand I ****** a girl and don't remember getting back on the ship

Geeze, man. That is quite crazy indeed haha

yeah just a few stories I have saved up

Perfect for your future novel haha

now if only I could write

I'd pen that for you but I'm out of practice writing stories these days. I just write raps and poems when I do.

well I can tell you some of my stories
Been to Thailand, Oman, Djibouti, Jordan, Brunei, and Hong Kong

Sounds good, bro, but we shall save them for another day for the moment because it's late as **** and I need bed now haha.

Night!

Don't worry dude
Be sure to not be a stranger

hi

I have some stuff to show you

That was pretty sweet. It went in totally I different direction than I was expecting, I thought it was gonna be some more Roly Porter type stuff with that introduction.

Almost gives me similar vibes to this album which I've been bumping lately

projectmooncircle.bandcamp.com/track/this-hush

It's kinda like Vatican Shadow's stuff but not as dark, I think it's pretty cool.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! I never have a clue what artists I like are up to so this is a pleasant surprise. I'll check the rest of this out soon.

It's a pretty varied album, got some like dnb type beats on a song or two then just some straight up quiet piano songs and stuff. I had never heard of Memotone or Soosh before this so I guess I should check some of their solo stuff out soon,

2 what hmm??? 2 WHAT?!??!?!?!?!?

Hi

When's your Thanksgiving odyssey?

Dude you clearly need some more originality.

I'm already here. Had some nice Memphis barbecue yesterday and today went to a blues museum, a gibson guitar factory, and Graceland for some Elvis molestation. There were these tablet things they gave you as tour guides ( ************* John Stamos was the guy talking to you the whole time on it, that gave me a chuckle) and at the end you can leave a comment on what you thought of the tour, so Elvis' grave is actually there and one of the comments was "dat ***** actually buried here? omg"

Highlight of my day I tell you.

When have I yo'd twice in a row? I'd say that's an original act.

Were you the one who left that comment?

lol I wish. My dad was the one who pointed it out to me, he was like "What does this mean?" Adorable

Did you make a comment at the end? If it wasn't "Thank you for the tour, Mr. Stamos. If I had to **** a guy, I would pick you." I'll be disappointed.

If only I was as quick witted as you are, friend. Maybe I should have said "What a jip, I thought we were gonna get to see the toilet that he croaked on!"

Sadly I left no comment at all

I think that's a fairly standard comment to make after being addressed by John Stamos.

I guess I was too in awe of his rapturous voice echoing through my ears to think straight.

"And don't forget to browse your tablet for more multimedia content." Oh yeah Johnny baby, give it to me.. uuuhhhhhnnnggg

Haha that's a great description. Also, I'm loving these song titles. The music's a little too un-progressive for my taste I think, but it's still not bad.

It's all atmospheric, so there's not too much in the way of structure or development. It's cool stuff to set or hold a mood. You could kinda say the same thing about Vatican Shadow, there are a lot of loops. Prurient is the most song-oriented alias of his that I've heard so far. He has others besides the 3 we're talking about right now, but I think Prurient is his main one.

I guess it depends on how obvious the loops are. For example, Geotic, at least the newer albums cause I haven't listened to the older ones yet, is pretty much all loops, but they last long enough and the songs are short enough that it doesn't really bother me. When it's a shorter loop that lasts for awhile with little progression it kind of bothers me a bit more. Like the first 4 minutes or so of Rue the Whirl by BoC is an example of that.

I was listening to Zoetrope earlier today and it's pretty static the whole way through, but it just sounds so nice. I don't have any problems with nice sounding things. Vatican Shadow's loops are mainly the percussion. There are occasional changes in the loops, but there are also some really subtle changes within sections, which is a nice detail if you really listen. I kinda like the format of it though, a crunchy, distorted drum loop and really serious sounding synth pads laid over it.

I definitely like Zoetrope. There, it doesn't bother me. I'd say Rue the Whirl, Basefree, and a couple of Old Tunes are the only BoC songs that really sound repetitive to me. And yeah, it often has to do with the beat. Rue the Whirl would be great If that first section was just shortened by like 2 minutes or so.

The Force Awakens is looking pretty good.

This new sith lord might be the most powerful yet! Who else can bring down a whole congregation of dancing folk?

The Dantooine square dance festival will have to be called off!

I got the new OPN the other night. I'm liking it a lot. How bout you?

I didn't know they did square dancing, I thought it was dodecahedron interpretive slam dancing.

hi

hey

hola

caw caw

I saw ravens when I was in London, they just let them wonder around inside the Tower of London.. They are big ass birds, I was like 5 feet away from this one.

I know you probably posted a crow, but **** you it made me think of this neat picture I took

It's an AMERICAN CROW, you fish & chips loving tory.

YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS, YOU BACON WRAPPED YANKEE

study abroad in England

Yeah, I am. I applied to study abroad 3 times and they kept coming up with deadlines for me to have missed.

That stinks. I was only there for like 8 days, but it was enough to make me wish I had tried to do a whole semester there or maybe somewhere else in the UK or Ireland.

Because English speaking countries are clearly the best.

Obviously, it's the language of America after all.

You got that damn right

soundcloud.com/fang-bomb/imaginary-forces-begotten

That is some quality spoop, friend. Though not exclusively spoop, it gets less as it progresses.

That's some good sound there, I tell ya hwat. It reminds me of Lair of the Shadow Broker, which was some of my favorite Mass Effect music.

I'm on a Dominick Fernow trip tonight, going through all his musical aliases that I have. I just listened to all my Prurient stuff and I'm on to Vatican Shadow right now.

Ah interesting, if it's all that guy I definitely enjoyed the Vatican Shadow song than the Prurient stuff you showed me before. More my style I think.

Vatican Shadow's all instrumental as far as I know. There's also Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, which is atmospheric sort of dark ambient. It makes me think of spooky stuff going on in the jungles of unmapped islands in southeast Asia.

Mophono you actually showed me like last year I think at some point. Definitely something I've had written down to check out fully for a bit now. It's certainly Flying Lotus-esque but also reminds me a lot of The Gaslamp Killer, or at least Breakthrough.

Digging the Roly Porter. You know, it honestly kind of gives me some Woob vibes. It sounds very cinematic and the such. Yes it's got some harsh sounds but, there is kind of this grandiose epic feel behind the whole track. I'll definitely download it later this week after this CD I preordered gets here and I listen to the new Shigeto EP which I kind of forgot came out on Friday until earlier this evening.

Yeah, Mophono was on a track on Breakthrough. He definitely fits with that sound.

**** , I forgot too. Gotta check that out tomorrow.

Yeah I'm thinking I'll get it before my shift tomorrow and listen to it will I work as I often will do with new releases lately.

Oh, also last night I ordered a cassette. Mostly because it was the only way to get the digital version as well, since there was no release of the digital on it's own. So that's something I've got on the way lol.

Do you even own a tape player? I have a few cassettes but I haven't listened to them in a while because most of my tape players are broken in some way and I'm afraid the one in my car will eat them.

I still have an old boombox from when I was a kid so there's that. My dad also has a whole stereo system with all the works; cd, cassette and record players, so if my old piece of **** doesn't work I can use his stuff. That has better speakers connected to it anyway.

Actually, my dad has a similar setup. I've never tried the tape players in it. I should try them out (when nobody's home, one of the tapes is Secret Apex).

Good idea, you don't want your parents to know how underground you are

"Sorry mom & dad, you're just not underground enough to listen to my imported noise tapes from Finland."

Haha I'm imagining that being a parents worst nightmare. "Oh no it's alright, Timmy smokes weed and brings home hookers, just normal teenage stuff, no worries... But I tell you.. God forbid that boy brings foreign noise tapes into this house... I swear I'll kick that little **** to the curb, so help me god."

God... what have I become?

A true underground white night. I salute you.

I just found this guy earlier tonight. I didn't even realize he was on SMM: Context until a couple minutes ago. It's some nice ambient with a kind of unsettling undertone to some of the tracks. It reminds me of Substrata by Biosphere in that way.

Sorry, my computer crashed. I like it, mane. It definitely is kind of like... far off. Like I get a sense of great space and distance when I hear tracks like this. It's a cool feeling.

Just to share with you some **** , here's my latest ambient purchase klammtapes.bandcamp.com/album/galina-ozeran-seasons

It's more live instrumentation then the stuff you've shown me tonight, and it's based off the 4 seasons (obviously as you can tell by the name).

Bleh, way too early for me. Black Friday is my official first day of Christmas music. I call it Gold Friday though.

I just listened to all 2 hours of it and I'm downloading Silver & Gold. I think it was the fact that it snowed today that put me in the mood.

I already have the new Christmas album I'm gonna listen to this year lined up. Silver & Gold I can wait on for another year or two. I only listened to the first Sufjan one like 3 times last year so I still got some catching up to do with that one once it's time.

Sounds like your life doesn't have nearly enough Christmas in it.

Maybe I need it. I'm sufficiently miserable after the ******* at my work put me to work 6 days this week without even asking me if I could. I'm kind of just slumped over the computer atm listening to Boards and feeling ho-hum.

Well that wasn't very bueno of them. Let Sufjan soothe your soul with his angelic voice, singing songs of our lord and savior.

I can't break my vow though. Besides, I'm still trying to get into the Halloween music spirit.

Is there? I skimmed through, cause I don't even remember everything I've shown you.

No, not really. It's all garbage.

Now there's themagicwizard I know

Sounds p good, what did you make it with?

I used Logic and a bunch of samples from youtube videos that my friend sent me. We trade random audio files and make songs with them.

I meant the soundtrack

I haven't listened to it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=66dJoVawkb8
I'm mostly kidding. It's this.

HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA oh man. This is the EXACT type of **** they play at this Greek themed restaurant that I go to all the time. That's amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if some of this is actually in their playlist or whatever.

You should go and take some field recordings there.

If I worked there I might. I still haven't done it at my work cause I have no idea where the music switch is.

Sounds like something you should find out tomorrow.

But I ain't working tomorrow. Also **** them. They just made it harder for employees to take days off. It's becoming more and more apparent that I should quit and get a real job in my field. If there is one out there somewhere. Pizzas have run their course though I tell ya.

Settle down, pizza slave.

Your suffering has really put me in the mood for a nice hot pie.

How about a cold pie? You pie racist

**** no, you philistine scum.

HEHEHHAHHAEHHHHFGGHKHG

Alright, alright, I'm going to bed now.

DUDE, SHUT UP I STILL HAVE AN HOUR AND A HALF LEFT OF MUSIC LISTENING TIME, GOSH

But actually it's probably good advice because I felt pretty tired all day working. Gray, miserable fall weather makes me feel lethargic like that. Luckily I have the new Emancipator album which mirrors the weather, but in a lovely way. Seriously, it's pretty dang good. I'm actually surprised because I was wondering how much more he could do with his music, but there are a lot of fresh ideas on this album. Not to mention he finally is making use of other live instruments besides violins and guitars. Stuff like flutes and clarinets and **** .

Don't let me catch you up again that late, young man.

I'm going to

You complete and utter bitch.

Such anger, my my my!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxH8YFrN5co
I had turn my stereo down as I was leaving for class this afternoon so my neighbors wouldn't report me to the government.

Welcome to the life of themagicwizard

I'm listening to Seven Seas right now. It still sounds like Dusk to Dawn, but with a step up in production as far as variety of sounds.

I already think it's better than Dusk to Dawn. He's always kept that same similar sound, but like I said, there are a lot of different things added into that with this album. Land & Sea is a perfect example; featured female vocals (which he's done a couple times before, but not in awhile) and flute. Not anything groundbreaking in general if you look at it out of context, but combined with the signature Emancipator sound it's such a refreshing good song to hear. Love it,

Dunno if you ever listened to Soon it Will be Cold Enough, but that's still the best one for me. Perfect wintery vibes. But good for any season really.

I have it on my hard drive somewhere, I'll check it out.

Have you gotten to any of those 6000 albums I threw at you yet? I'm sure I have more if you're not backed up far enough yet.

Not yet, maybe at the end of the week. Like I said, I've been immersing myself in these new albums that came out this past Friday first. But I'll probably dl Hidden later tonight (even though it's not one you're talking about), and then maybe I'll get a Jacaszek album at the end of the week. My pace is a bit slow unfortunately cause I like to listen to things multiple times before getting more new **** I guess.

But I shall certainly let you know once I take another step into being a magicwizard prophet.

I'm more a proponent of the rapid fire, listen to it 3 times in one day and pile more on immediately style of album exploration.

God bless these young kids and their fast living smart phone instant gratification ways!

Get with the times, OLD MAN!!! Nobody sits around and listens to anything because they LIKE it anymore! Quantity is the name of the game here in 2015!!!

I'm so lost. Time to go download 100 beat tapes and 50 Greek movie soundtracks!

I almost bought a Greek movie soundtrack at Goodwill a few days ago. I didn't because I already had downloaded it a couple months ago.

Was it good at least? I did a project on Greek cinema a couple years a go for a Sociology Film class. They weren't too different from other European cinema if I recall; well if you don't include Dogtooth that is.

I haven't watched it, I just have the soundtrack.

lol amazing. I've only gotten back into reading consistently this year. Being an English major sucks the will to read anything for fun out of you. But now reading at work is something that got me back into reading more. So that's why I felt the need to go ham at the bookstore, naw'm sayin.

Yeah, I was feeling the same way with piano for a while when I had piano classes I had to take. Now that I'm done with them, everything's gravy again.

And as we all know, gravy is fattening and scrumptious.

It's definitely a jammer. Do you agree with me that Glow Up sounds like Baths? I can't help but think that every time that song comes on

The beginning of it sounds like Corsair from Geogaddi. The BoC vibes go further than that too. Glow Up is my #2 track on it. Yeah, with the vocals it does sound a little Bathsy.

I feel that. There are more BoC vibes on the whole album than I anticipated. Honestly from what I remember listening on the other EP awhile back and because of his association with them, I thought it would be more like Limalo, but its actually got a lot of different sounds on it. My favorite track I think is still Raw Light Overture. Perfect cooler weather jam, for some reason I can't explain.

I showed him to my friend who lives in Austin and also makes electronic music. They should meet up and produce some laid back bangers.

If it helps Botany put out some more albums sooner I'm all for that shiz yo

I've been checking out more stuff by Jacaszek today and yesterday. If you listen to Glimmer and want something else by him, listen to Treny. It's another great album.

Checking out some of the previews on itunes and digging it. Lament is awesome, it sounds like it could be in LOTR.

It's great, the last track surprised me. I thought the vocals in it sounded a little bit like something Lusine might do, but in a sad, Jacaszek way.

HAH! Absolutely! lol that's kind of amazing. I'm really liking all of this. Yet another album to add to my themagicwizard recs list.

I'm going to keep pelting you with them. There's too much good music to do anything else.

Not sure if you're a menace or a saint...

A menacing saint. Cower in fear of my merciless charity!

Ilúvatar help me. My sides are no longer bound the confines of Arda.

Thickness view

That thickness... you should get it/read it and we could be Lovecraft buds.

Yeah, The Hobbit gives you a bit of an idea of the world it's all set in, then the LotR trilogy slams you in the face with lore and tons of cool stuff. The Silmarillion is also excellent if the trilogy didn't already drown you in a sea of lore. I actually read it before I read LotR, so that probably says something about me.

Yes The Silmarillion was the one that was there that I remember seeing. There were actually a few copies of it.

Damn you already got that **** covered. It crossed my mind to get it for a brief second but then I figured it would be really ******* expensive and I didn't even look at the price on the back. I was getting other already so didn't want to add to the load.

I did get a new Halo book though. I think it's pretty new if I'm correct and I'm pretty sure is it's own story. I was really trying to find one where I wouldn't have to have read others in the series beforehand, since the Halo books have grown in number so much since the last time I read them I don't even know anymore what follows what. It's called Last Light. Also, it comes with a code for Halo 5 bonus content so that insentvised me to get it as well lol

Damn it, I just got the last one in the Forerunner trilogy. I'm not ready for new ones yet! They're publishing them faster than I'm taking 2 year breaks between reading them!

Lovecraft would be perfect for those long winter nights. I'm probably going to read those 2 books again soon.

Yeah there are so many out I can't even handle it. As long as it doesn't reference 50 odd weird things from other book stories, I'm pretty excited to get into it. Haven't read a Halo book in many years.

Those look like they'll keep you busy for many months methinks. My book pile was dwindling down, so I got 4 at that bookstore so now it's hefty again. There's nothing like looking at a fresh pile of unread books I tell ya. Well, as long as they are good books and not The Technical Manual on Routine Active Maintenance.

I have a pile from last October that I've gotten almost all the way through, but I've rebuilt it with a steady trickle of book purchases over the course of this year. I think I've read 12 or so books since then, which is unprecedented for me. This lax senior year schedule is murdering my book pile.

LOL dropping all this Tolkein Knowledge on me. I saw at the book store I was telling you about that's at the beach, they had some of his lesser known works, as well as LotR. I was hopping they would have the Hobbit in the same publication that the neat looking LotR books were in, but they did not so I didn't get any of it. I feel like I wanna start off with the Hobbit and then move on to LotR since chronologically it came first. Then his other **** after all that.

OH and talking of that store reminds me. I took some pics of something you might find interesting. I saw it, laughed and then immediately thought of you.

I do have a lot of stuff from you to check. I should start archiving it in a notepad doc so I don't forget lol.

Sure thing, boss. Just lemme upload it and then I'll pm you that nifty string of characters you so desire

You're the best, m8e

Aw shucks

It's actually been in the back of my mind to check it out at some point ever since you showed me Diamond Mine. I'll definitely get to it soon. Just gotta prepare myself for the floodgates opening this week with three new releases on Friday.

But I'll pay King Creosote a visit soon after that prolly.

It's like Diamond Mine but not soul crushingly depressing. It's actually kind of happy.

Yeah, I seem to recall that when I checked out some of the itunes previews. It's all good, happy folk is just as nice as sad slit your wrists folk.

It's not totally happy, there's still that bittersweet vibe.

All that abysmally sad folk is like a test of your emotional stability. Sufjan's new album and Diamond Mine are pretty high level.

What are these Friday releases you're on about?

A mix is nice. The Mountain Goats are a perfect example of that I feel.

One is a metal album. Then there's milo's newest release; that guy is prolific as **** . And then apparently Emancipator has a new one coming on that day which is still shocking to me cause I seriously heard nothing about it till a week or two ago and I follow him on facebook so I figured I would've heard of it sooner. He just barely promotes his own **** , he's too busy pumping up artists on his label. But I know about it now anyway, so it's cool.

God damn it, I already have another Emancipator album I have to get to. He really needs to consult me before he releases new stuff.

That's how I feel. He just doesn't think about notifying the most important people in the music world, people like us. Gosh

I haven't actually gotten anything off of his label yet, but it's got some pretty cool stuff on there. And he's putting out the new Nym record which is sweet. Looking forward to that one

I'm in a slump as far as listening to albums this week. I downloaded a bunch of new stuff including Monty Python movie soundtrack albums.

Another thing I downloaded also happened to be by a composer from................ Poland! More gloomy slav music.

Thank you for always supporting my glorious people. It will mean a lot when we take over the world in the near future.

They should call you the soundtrack master. Is it accurate to say you're listening to like 50% soundtracks lately? I don't have a problem with it cause soundtracks are usually sweet, but I just don't want you to overdose.

I don't know the exact percentage. It definitely seems high, but I'm not sure if I'm in the danger zone yet.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTWP-2T9fRM
This is the soundtrack in question. The film series it was written for sounds really interesting so I plan on watching it soon.

The Decalogue (Polish: Dekalog, pronounced [dɛˈkalɔk]) is a 1989 Polish television drama series directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski[2] and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner.[3] It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the Ten Commandments.[4] Each short film explores one or several moral or ethical issues faced by characters living in modern Poland.

I found out about the guy from some music of his that was used on the website for that great Polish painter who you've probably heard about, Zdzislaw Beksinski. He did those really incredible, surreal paintings.

Yeah definitely heard of him, in fact I bookmarked his website long ago in case I ever wanted to buy some prints. And yeah, some of this definitely sounds like it fits in with his art. I know nothing about Polish television/cinema so that series could either be pretty cool or pretty lame if Polish tv is lame. But again, I have no idea lol. I only say it could be lame because I have trouble connecting to foreign productions sometimes for whatever reason, even when I think the movie or whatever will be cool. I think it's partly all the subtitles.

I've heard really good things about it, so I have high hopes.

I hope my people don't disappoint you, friend.

I haven't been this excited to share something with you in a hot minute, but this just came out the other day, and I think you might really dig it. I just gave it a full listen today and it's pretty ******* sweet.

botany.bandcamp.com/album/dimming-awe-the-light-is-raw

You might recognize the name, because he's featured on the last Limalo album (which I guess came out exactly a year ago). I kept an eye on his **** , cause he only had one EP out for $7 and I was like no thanks, too expensive for 5 songs. So, I've been waiting for this full length since I heard it was announced and I don't think it disappoints. It's pretty cool, has a lot of different sounds to it. Almost Baths-like at times.

Oh man, Jotu is sick. I ******* love that popping sound.

Oh **** yes. And then listen to Raw Light Overture, that **** was like PERFECT for today cause it's been like cloudy and drizzly all day, like fall is saying "I'm here ******* " and I heard that song and I was like this is just what I needed today. And then Birthjays comes on later and it's like this beatless BoC like song. So sweet.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFKsE0T8iY

Have you ever listened to Fine, Thanks by Shlohmo? If you like Birthjays then that would be a jizzfest for you.

You'll probably hate me for telling you that I still haven't heard a Shlohmo release all the way through. But I'm checking some of the songs on that now and they are all pretty jizztastic. The artwork is pretty creepy, but the music is sexy. Not that creepy artwork is bad though.

It's my favorite Shlohmo release. Even above Bad Vibes, which is excellent. It's about 30 minutes of Shlohmo's best atmospheric, lo-fi oddball stuff. You should fix that problem by listening to it.

Well, know I've got two themagicwizard recs to add to my list in one night! After the September 25th floodgates close, I'll open themagicwizard floodgates

And those 15 others I've dropped on you over the past few days. Now I have some groovy tunes to check out from you too.

If you bought/plan on buying that Botany album, could you help out a poor old scamp and send me a string of characters leading to the relevant media files?

now*

But alas, all true Polaks just listen to polka. My Grandpa apparently would blast polka for the whole neighborhood to hear on the weekends.

I may have showed you this before, but this is the most pure deep sea songs I've ever heard in my life. And well, it helps that it's by one of my favorite bands of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjzinCswW08

I dig this, mane. Thanks for sharing.

I almost bought a polka record today at Goodwill, but I already have some. Instead, I got some klezmer music and an uber American record of patriotic songs "for young Americans."

Speaking of oceans and Polish people, I have another thing for you (I've also met this guy). Ghostly again, to boot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUKRY6LkYNc

And this Tim Hecker song. The piano just sounds like drops of water falling on waves:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gr6dmk-DN8

If I haven't thrown enough music at you, here's some more. This album usually makes me think of snow falling, but I'm listening to it with this oceanic mindset right now and it totally works. All those gentle undulations (for most of it)
zijnzijnzijnzijn.bandcamp.com/track/sirens-screaming-from-distant-mountaintops

And with that, I'm off to bed.

Boy howdy, look at all this cool stuff you sent me. I'll report in tomorrow with my reactions.

Night!

Dobry wieczór, dupku

LOL that's funny because "dupa" is one of the Polish words I actually know already hahaha

And you thought you had me. Actually I now dobry too. So fug u.

Heh, I actually knew how to pronounce wieczór without looking it up... It seems like greetings like that are pretty much the same in slavic languages.

I wasn't trying to trick you or anything, I just wanted to call you an ass in a colorful new way.

Well, how delightful of you. I feel so honored to be insulted in a myriad of different languages!

How's it going?

Pretty good. Listening to/downloading classical tunes. I listened to Theo's album earlier and it was pretty sweet.

It seems like it may be the most decent album of all so far, so I'll get to it sooner rather than last minute as usual.

I thought the last 2 were pretty bland. The one shib posted was pretty good though. I'm going to have to consult the mystics on which album I'm going to post next week.

Yeah shib's was not bad. I expected better from him though. Well, then again, maybe I didn't.

I'm sure it will be, if nothing else, more interesting than everything so far. I didn't even know these "not too strange" rules were such a big thing. I'm pretty sure I know which album I'm picking and it is a bit strange so I dunt giv a fuk.

Not too strange is one thing, but it doesn't have to be uninteresting. I wouldn't say Lusine is strange, but he's great.

I'M NOT PICKING LUSINE, GOSH. I KNOW YOU WANT ME TO BUT I DON'T WANNA, YOU CAN'T MAKE ME.

**** YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I was just using him as an example. You should totally pick him though. I could've said Bonobo or Caribou or Groundislava or whoever. But I didn't.

I will never ever pick Lusine because you called me dupku. That hurt, bro :'''''(

Speaking of an ultrablue artist, I just heard that Nym is releasing his new album on Emancipator's label. First single sounds purty good yo locirecords.bandcamp.com/album/convex

Now playing: watching youtube vids.

Hans Zimmer should just put out an ambient album, sans a movie to go with it. Just straight up put out some electronic ambient masterpiece

I just found out there's a deluxe edition of the soundtrack with 13 more tracks.

It seems like a lot of his soundtracks rely on recurring themes that he just presents in slightly different ways over an hour or so. I bet he could pull off a more varied album with no problem though.

Absolutely. Did you know that he did the instrumental stuff on the Lion King soundtrack? So, everything besides the Elton John written singy songs.

That score is the ******* **** though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_U4in8WeS0

He also did The Simpsons Movie, Muppet Treasure Island (a personal favorite) and uh... Ch... Chappie...

What a guy.

What a saint, doing movies that themagicwizard loves and ones that themagicwizard hates as well. Such a true role model, not showing discrimination in any regard!

Imagine if all movies were categorized according to whether I loved or hated them.

Think about it this way: in a parallel universe somewhere, they are!!

I hope the multiverse really does exist in an infinite state so that's true.

Maybe that'll be the next Christopher Nolan movie, with sick beats courtesy of Hans Zimmer of course.

It even had a Thom Yorke song over the credits

I hope he makes another one that lives up to The Prestige. That movie is the **** .

I'm glad you think so, cause I really like that movie too and I know like no one who has seen it. I think it somehow flies under the radar in comparison to most of his other movies.

I think people just talk about Inception and the Batman trilogy for the most part. I wish he'd take more risks and do more stuff like Memento. Not just like Memento, but you know what I mean.

Yeah, I agree. You ever seen Following? I've always wanted to but never got around to it. I think it's his very first film

Yeah, I have. I remember it being pretty interesting. He also had a short film from before that called Doodlebug. I haven't seen that one.

The quest to view every Christopher Nolan film shall be completed, I swear it!

I'd tell you that this bumps hard in the whip, but I only got it just last night so I haven't actually bumped it in the whip. But I can tell it will definitely bump hard in the whip. groovebunnyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/grindstuff

Awwwwwww sheeit, I've been due for some new Damacha. I'll check it out tomorrow.

In return, check out SMM: Context from Ghostly International. It's a compilation album on the ambient side.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY2YlB61uBU

Good night

I checked it out and listened to some of it last night and some on the beach today. It was pretty fantastic. The song you linked was definitely one of the best tracks. I think you showed me that artist before if I'm not mistaken

Jacaszek is the resident sad polak of Ghostly. He's also amazing, kind of similar to Tim Hecker. I'm about to check out more of his stuff because what I've heard is so beautiful. Listen to his album "Glimmer" when you want something sad and elegant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkf-mdBa-Lw

No yeah, you definitely showed me this before, the album maybe not the song, and I remember him being Polish. Definitely great stuff. See how great we Poles are?

Also, forgot to mention that I was watching this with Context replacing the sound, and it was pretty sweet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfjDrudlqz0

Whenever I find out an artist you might like is Polish, I make sure to mention it. You filthy slavic nationalist...

One of my Polish friends was just showing me some old Polish revolutionary march anthems from the 1800s. The lyrics are brutal as hell. Better than any metal lyrics I've seen.

I was thinking it had an oceanic vibe when I listened to it a few days ago. Good combination. I love deep sea stuff too.

Damn, this is the **** . I may get this before the weeks end. Thanks, brah.

Night

LOL this is what they would play if Matt Damon was a cool guy and his planet wasn't a piece of **** and the movie ended early because of it.

wuzzup maaaaayne

Oh you know.

Relaxing, music, eating honey roasted peanuts, watching youtube. The usual after a long, slightly weird day at work.

sup witchu

I'm jsut hanging out misspelling words.

Art thou drunk? Or art thou just a strange lad?

Just a strange lad, it seems.