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Hi 'Cooler. Everyone alright?

I'm off to Hackney to look at two more studios. At least one of them has to be good, right?

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Your studio will find you, Gooblar. I know it.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I've been listening to the Slipstream now, and I'm sorry, it's just kinda boring. It's not even that it's "poppy" - it's just kind of generic sounding and not really there for me.

Weird, I thought the two albums would sound the other way around.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

This makes me want to listen to Space Ritual and I've no idea what happened to my copy, I think it was actually on cassette so lord knows where it went.

Not that you're dropping any hints or anything...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not actually - I'm going to buy the fucker again.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

It might be on the way anyway

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Re that HMV thread on ILM, where do you all buy your cd's/vinyl/Tapes/78's these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

HMV, mostly! Hah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

No local indie shops then? or do you just hate them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

And pick up Warrior on the Edge of Time while I'm at it. Which I still don't have.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

We've had this discussion before - my nearest indie shop is Rough Trade and it's just too bloody hard to find anything in there, it's so sectioned out by increasingly complex genres. I don't want to have to look through Psychedelic, 70s, Prog, and Spacerock to find Hawkwind - I just wanna go to the H section.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Did I tell you I got "Space Ritual Vol 2 - Sundown", or whatever you call it, in a car boot sale for £2?

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

no indie record stores south of the river???? whaaat?

actually none in Oxford now that Vinyl Frontier and Polar Bear have both closed. the record store is, it seems, brown bread.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

There are no record shops in Streatham, fullstop. This is probably a good thing. If I want to buy CDs, I have to make a trip from work. Closest are the HMV in Covent Garden and Rough Trade.

I suppose I could walk over to Soho during a lunchtime, but generally I can't be bothered.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

So that's why people always slag off Rough Trade. My friend wouldn't go in there when he lived in Essex. It scared him too much.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

There (used to be?) a really good second-hand LP shop, in a 'square' where the fire-station cafe is. It was a downstairsie, if I remember correctly, and I do.

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I have an orgone accumulator.....

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Do you?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I love what's being charged in this one:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/toolsforwellnesscom_1937_26804069

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/inventors/1/8/M/_/orgone.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Got the job! It's still here at the same place so still with Beryl, but a new job that no-one has done before.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah, congrats, Dr. C!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Do you?

No. I don't even know what it is.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

yes, well done!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Thx! I'll have to do some bloody work soon though.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Kerr, and go and read up on some Wilhelm Reich, it's really wonderfully ridiculous stuff.

A Pyramid Shaped Orgone Accumulator!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

They are these sort of metal boxes that people sit in, and they get warm - Reich claimed "through orgone energy!" (though Einstein debunked - through convection) - and hippies claim they have all sorts of healthful effects - though overuse can lead to priapism, as it's supposedly harnassing the sexual energy of the cosmos or something - orgone is derived from orgasm.

It's wacky wacky sci fi stuff - William S. Burroughs was really into it as well.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/imageKV9.JPG
http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/image2IC.JPG

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/johnnypyramid.jpg

You could make all the Shimura Curves have an hour in that before you next do a recording.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Erm.... no.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

probably a better idea to put the recording device inside it.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Or use the crystal to power your guitar

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I bet M@rissa M@rchant records all her work in an orgone box. Nuff said.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Moshe Daniel: author, Kabbalist, alchemist, naturopathic doctor, singer/songwriter: My Idea Of Hell.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is he on the next madonna album?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am going home early tody - except I'm not going home, I'm going down the pub for the Finn's leaving do.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

you having cheese and wine?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno if you're here or not Kate but check your email.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Just been digesting the Magpie's nest email for this month, it's going to be good. We have blues and american folk from [Removed Illegal Link]. The frets player, I'm assuming, is related to David K.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

Just been digesting the Magpie's nest email for this month, it's going to be good. We have blues and american folk from the groanbox boys and more north east folk nepotism with faustus. The frets player, I'm assuming, is related to David K.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Well done Dr C - I'm glad you won't be parting from Beryl though.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 16 March 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that's on the 28th March, isn't it? I just got that email, too. Looks good.

I don't wanna go dancing by myself, though!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

I need to do a rundown on NOWDASISTVATIKALLKRAUTROCK VOL1, but I have a conference call.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, sod conference calls. I want to know what you liked best, so I can work on Vol 2 this weekend!

This morning I am mainly upsetting myself with how badly DDBs age. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

haven't started yet but I can't believe I have gone through my life without hearing Ruckzuck, pure techno.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ruckzuck isn't techno, it's ... I don't know. Kraftwerk doing krautrock with a flute.

The college radio station I used to listen to when I was, like 16, used to use it as an instrumental backing for when they read out local gigs and events listings. I knew it for years and loved it without ever knowing what it was -didn't find out it was Kraftwerk until I went to a Kosmische night and asked the DJ.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! Congrats Dr C!

Two studios yesterday were pretty shit. The more I think about it, the more I like the one with the tiny live room I saw first. We'll see, a couple more next week.

K8, I'm just waiting for confirmation from the bandmates, but we're 95% confirmed for ilxorpalooza.

That "see the dalai" or wahtever song is teh roXor.

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Go for the studio which gives you the best feeling, like the one that makes you feel like you could actually be creative and comfortable there. You're going to spend enough time there...

Actually I remember the last proper "live" studio I recorded in (not since NYC, which is like 10 years ago, but I've been in every shitty studio from the Meat Packing District to Williamsburg) was Kurt Ralske of UVS's studio. That was lovely, huge live studio, nice control room, hanging out/chilling area with big leather sofas. It was different from a lot of the real workmanlike studios I'd recorded in previously, in that it had that chilling out area, which wasn't just a waiting room or a kitchen. Because it's actually really important to just kind of sit around with your bandmates and TALK - about how you want the music to sound, about directions you want to go in, that sort of thing. Which is often as important as doing the recording.

He said a lot of bands he'd had in had the same reaction - for example, it would be the first time a lot of musicians had actually heard the *lyrics* to the songs they were doing, stuff like that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's exactly what I like about that first place. Aside from the small room, it has everything else we want--and I felt totally comfortable there. Great vintage mics, lots of amps, everything clean, organized, and easily found, nice big chillout area with couches and tv and stuff (way bigger than live room lol), and a totally easy-to-talk-to/work with engineer. I haven't felt like I would want to spend more than a few hours in any of the other places, let alone 5 days, but this place felt totally cool.

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

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