UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

The original is a classic. Actually Cameo's early albums were very pfunk influenced!

To those who got 13th Floor Cookies yesterday... what do you think of the alternate mixes on both albums?

...Oh, those bands aren't from Nottingham - sorry for jumping to that conclusion - but the descriptions I've found so far are intriguing.

I put a bid on a purple sparkly Daisy Rock on ebay once or twice but it was not to be. I've never seen one in a shop where I could have a chance to try it, but then the staff never acknowledge my existence and after ten minutes of hanging round wondering whether to ask I get too intimidated by them and all the teenage boys tapping their way through intricate metal solos and leave anyway. And I'd love a shorter-scale bass because my current cheap bass is just too huge and high-actioned and telegraph-cable-like, but the only ones I see are that Epiphone SG shape, which I don't like much.

I haven't listened to the alternate mixes much. I must admit, I just jumped straight to the albums because I love them so much. I often get frustrated by alternate mixes of songs I know really well, because they are not, well, the way I *expect* them to be!

Argh, I hear you about guitar shop staff. But the last time I went guitar shopping, I took Ed and everyone jumped on him offering him service, and he just pointed them to me, ha ha. Actually, that was one of the nicest things about R&V Guitars on Denmark Street, is they're not sexist at all in there - the bloke noticed it was me perving over the Cosmichorus. I often get asked if I need help in there, but unfortunately I can't afford anything in there.

I love the alternate mixes on Marquee Moon.

I just got spam for viagra from Ned Braggett

bizarre.

I have to repost this weirdness

http://www.kropserkel.com/Images/horsehead%20(6).jpg

and this cuteness

http://www.dailykitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/1174019305cats-026.jpg

I had a stuffed horsehead when I was a child! It's not that weird!

(OK, my mum was obsessed with the Godfather for a while.)

If you get small pics when you click that link, just click the pic to magnify it. For some reason the pic comes out small automatically

Have a good weekend everyone.

You, too, Kerr. (I'll be going home to pizza and imagining how good the Hawkwind doc is as soon as I finish transferring some files.)

Am home today. The weekend has already started. Yay me!

Happy weekend, watercoolerers.

I feel I should add that the staff of PMT Oxford have usually been helpful and the guy who runs the computer+synth room is always enthusiastic and friendly. Which is also a bit intimidating in its own way, because it seems a shame to go from feeling like maybe I've managed to fool someone into thinking I know what I'm doing with a proper nerdy conversation about LFOs and pulse-width modulation and then blow it by showing him I really can't play.

On the other hand, I had a very odd experience in a record shop (sorry, long story and one I may have told before). Every few days I'd go into their dance music basement, spend a while looking and almost always buy something. I got chatting to the guy occasionally, because I'd buy crap nobody else wanted from the bargain bin and the "what the hell?" / "weirdassed drill/breakcore" sections.

We got talking about production too because the weird stuff he didn't know where to file or how to price he'd often show to me, and he'd got some sample CDs in or some 8-bit chiptune thing I said I might buy just for sampling. Anyway, I was in there a LOT, spending a lot of money, and I never once took anyone else there or even spoke to any other customers.

After a few years he said, "Shame your friend isn't with you today, I've got some stuff he might like."
"Er?"
"Oh, you know, that guy you're always in here with, he listens to all the weird stuff, and he makes his own music so he buys those CDs with beats on."

I have NO idea how to explain that exchange except that it was just so MALE that anyone would regularly paw their IDM and weird cheap stuff and talk about making music that he completely IMAGINED someone else coming in every week while I stood behind this imaginary customer staring uncomprehendingly at the records and then leaving again, just so as not to think a woman might have any musical knowledge. But I'm hoping there's a better explanation.

Sounds like a typical dance music shop. 13th Note in Glasgow went all elitist and snobby when it became dance stuff only.

That's pretty WTF. I don't know what to say really.

Norman OTM. Utterly bizarre.
Despite reading Muzik and Mixmag all the time I hated going into dance shops TBH. Always seemed really unfriendly and elitist. I tended only to go in when I was with one of my mates if he was after stuff.
I usually just bought my cd's elsewhere. I used to go into 13th Precinct (not note, lord knows why i said that haha) out of habit as it used to be a good indie shop. But eventually it got moved downstairs and then dropped completely and I just didn't like the shop anymore.

I haven't been in 13th Precinct for years. Wonder what it's like now.

Hi everyone!

just got new net...more watercooler from here on out.

Snazzy new look!

It's hard to find threads thesedays.

Search doesn't show them, there is no "show all" anymore, and if it wasn't for my own 'history', I'd lose threads!

I've forgotten what the question was

Hello! I had the weirdest dream (or rather nightmare EVAH). A small baby was pooping orally. His (or her, can't remember gender) blew up so big that it turned see-through.

That sounds horrifying

Well, this was due to the fact that Ophelia had pooped so much it was sticking to her legs (at 4 am). We had to wash her up and take her into our bed. This was the worst but previous nights have been the same. heheh

I haven't been in 13th Precinct for years. Wonder what it's like now.

I fondly remember buying "So Far" by Faust and "Der Elektrolurch" by Guru Guru before it went dance

Morning!

Erm ... I mean, Afternoon!

Afternoon!

It's time for a New Thread

really hope that coding works. I'd only just got used to link! Anyway, if that doesn't turn out, it's here:

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