How's it feel to be The Man?
 

UPDATE: Sorry if I'm a bit scarce of late - it's been a real crazy couple of months.

No music this time - just old man fuddy duddy news.

At the start of the summer all was as usual. I was my typical anarcho-syndicalist collectivist Creative Commons techno-utopian self without little activity on the Federal radar.

And then I proposed. Suddenly, I was becoming an institution of sorts.

And yesterday, I signed 144 pages of a mortgage agreement with over 100 data points pulled by various credit bureaus and Federal agencies to make sure I was really me and not some bearded yahoo who escaped from El Salvador and was hiding out until the coup is complete.

So in a few months' time I've gone from anarchism to a tax-payin' home-ownin' man of the town. Never in a million years would I have called this one.

My converted 1920s hotel post-collegiate apartment was affectionately known as "The Lair." I soon upgraded to my current residence - a 2nd story flat in an old house which we call "The Manor." Clawfoot velvet furniture, Victorian antiques and vintage sound equipment in every nook and cranny... we'd really done everything we could to make our first apartment together like a home.

Our new house is much in the spirit of our shared tastes - a bungalow built in 1926 with gorgeous hardwood floors throughout, great mantle and bookcases and an updated gas-lit marble-framed fireplace (above which I'll hang my favorite H.G. Wells painting).

It has all the charm of a '20s bungalow plus all the modern amenities to make it comfortable - new windows, new tear-off roof, new high-efficiency gas furnace, new hot water tank, new electrical, new copper piping, a shaded porch and garden, and all that.

We'll need a proper name for the joint, but I'll have the next 60 days to work that out while the bank does it's thing.

Man, it's been a busy three months.

I have no idea how appropriate this is for your home, but how about "Inner Space"? It'd make a nice plaque on the doorway.

An excellent suggestion. Thank you! Regarding its origin, the phrase "innerspace boy" was uttered in a stream of consciousness spoken word lyric by Karl Hyde of Underworld in their best-known anthem, "Born Slippy.NUXX."


Inner Space was the name of krautrock legend Can's recording studio as well as the title of one of their LPs.


I also recently discovered that the term was used in the title of Stephen Hill's book about his Hearts of Space radio program - The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music.


Thanks again, Frown! Any other ideas?

I'm rather fond of the sign "We shoot every third [insert annoying caller -- salesman, Jehovah's witness, pre-pay power agent ---]: the second just left!" :laughing:

I'm fond of this novelty tee as more of a passive-aggressive approach -

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Electronic Meditation
 

Settling in for tonight's marathon - Tangerine Dream. (There'll be another night solely for Klaus Schulze.)

Pictured are my TD LPs as well as the magnificent 178-disc FLAC+LOG HQ Dream Pack.

If you're looking for a lossless archive of their work, The Dream Pack is unparalleled. It includes all soundtracks, solo works, albums, remasters, live albums, Bootmoon sets, and singles released between 1970 and 2009, plus an Accuraterip log verifying the integrity of each rip. The discs are organized first by category and then by date of release. This is archival audio done right.

I'll likely showcase other large libraries in the days ahead. Each are the finest digital archives available to the public for their respective composers. Stay tuned!

The Psybient DVD Pack
 

Project of the Day: Constructed a Visual Map of the contents of the Psybient DVD Pack - 8 audio DVDs compiling every major recording of the psytrance genre.

While the uptempo psychedelic album, Twisted by Hallucinogen is perhaps the most popular of these 372 albums, I personally prefer the more ethno-ambient stylings of Shpongle or the intelligent d'n'b sounds of Big Bud.

Regardless, this archive expertly encapsulates the psytrance genre into a well-organized portable 35GB archive.

Journey Inward into Jazz
 

Tonight's audio excursions - The Intelligent D'n'B sounds of producer LTJ Bukem. This library comprises the 94 LPs released by Good Looking Records including the Earth series, Ingredient Steps, Logical Progression, Looking Back, Points in Time, and an array of jazzy, downtempo artists working under the GLR label.

Now listening to the double disc that started me off down this path in 2000 - the intimate and jazzy solo session, Journey Inwards.



The album isn't on Youtube but there is a copy on Soundclound. Enjoy.

A bit of rope for the web
 

Today's listening library - The first 150 releases on the epic Ninja Tune records label. I've several of their stand-out classics on vinyl - like Skalpel's self-titled record of Polish jazz unknowns, and Cinematic Orchestra's film-score-styled Motion LP.


Also enjoying the 2014 official release of Fripp & Eno ‎– Live In Paris 28.05.1975 (Opal Records ‎– DGM3101)



and DJ Food - Raiding the 20th Century ~ Words & Music Expansion (Ninja Tune Internet-only release from 2005).

Tonight's Nugget of Joy -

This weekend my fiance introduced me to the swingin' sounds of Man or Astro-Man?, who I'd previously only known as the-band-who-wrote-"Satellite of Love" (cheers to the MSTies out there!)

I dug their instrumental surf sound and their use of obscure sci-fi samples, but I was totally sold on them once I heard their more experimental LP, A Spectrum of Infinite Scale.

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While fans might favor the album's absurdly long titles such as "Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick" and the album closer, "Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage," I instantly fell in love with "A Simple Text File."

"File" is a moment's pause from the surf guitar and sci-fi sampledelica, instead giving an Apple ImageWriter II printer center stage. We are treated to the sound of the printer printing a text file and it is wonderfully entrancing stuff! Anyone who has ever operated a dot matrix printer will have their mind racing back to those bygone days of screeching printer heads and their curiously rhythmic tonalities. And just what does the text file say? The listener is left to ponder that question as "Text File" plays out.

Here it is for all to enjoy.