I remember you posting about that a while ago. Very cool!

Thanks for remembering!

The real excitment came with the framing - as a British size there are no frames available in the States to frame it properly. Jo-Ann's quoted me $530 discounted to $220 for a custom frame, but I thought I'd dig around online. A discount frame supplier in England can ship a ready-made frame for $60, but I kept digging and found a winner from IKEA online.

The IKEA frame is sold as a collage frame that holds 15 5x7s. It just so happens to be the exact size of my oversize art print. Their price? $19.99!

Even with $10 shipping, I'm saving a fortune.

Introductory Nomenclature
 

Just arrived from Ann Arbor's Ghostly International label - the sky blue limited edition reissue of Telefon Tel Aviv's majestic debut, Fahrenheit Fair Enough.*Fahrenheit*was originally issued by Chicago's Hefty Records, and fit smashingly alongside their other downtempo and IDM recordings.*

Ghostly International is home to Tycho, Gold Panda, Com Truise, and other crafters of what*Sundae*Club playfully dubbed*"Technostalgic*Tunes". And*Fahrenheit*is no exception. Here, Telefon Tel Aviv expertly*weaves*together sparse melodic fragments and the occasional jazzy licks with intricately complex abstract glitch patterns. What results is a marriage of the warm, nostalgic instrumentation one would expect from a band like Boards of Canada seamlessly fused with the atonal mechanical rhythmic constructions of Richard D. James.*It is a wonderfully satisfying record which*warrants repeated listenings both active and subliminal.*

This limited edition release also includes a digital download which features additional*Archive '99*material capturing more of the best sounds the artist has to offer.

A review from the BBC called the album,*"Gorgeous, yet completely devoid of cliché... a quiet, unpretentious beauty of a record."*Fahrenheit Fair Enough is certainly some of the finest downtempo IDM music released this year.

http://i.imgur.com/WUtq5nAl.jpg

Survey of Shoegaze, Noise-Pop, and Early Dream Pop Classics
 

Aim: To better acquaint myself with drone-like and ambient music staples of the rock idiom. These albums were often characterized by monorhythmic percussion, heavily layered instrumentation, and supersaturated guitar effects. Vocals were routinely deadpan with lyricism lost amidst waves of guitar feedback (in the case of male vocals), or, in the case of female singers, presented as ethereal musings transcending language and literal interpretation. Key genres include shoegaze, space rock, noise rock, and selections of post-punk and minimal/no wave. This strong ambient quality makes shoegaze a sensible bridge from my more familiar territories of The Berlin School and 20th-century classical musics into the less-familiar realms of rock and pop. The largest deterrent I’ve encountered in rock is the egocentrism and hypersexualization of the iconic rocker “frontman” and I hope that through the heroin-inspired apathy and social disconnectedness of shoegaze that I can find a more amiable listening experience.

Albums will be surveyed in their entirety, as these are not genres built of hit singles, but instead of album-length works created in the spirit of “taking drugs to make music to take drugs to.” My explorative starting point will be The Scientist’s Shoegaze volume of RYM’s Ultimate Box Set series, which offers a chronology of shoegaze, beginning with Cocteau Twin’s ethereal masterpiece, Treasure from 1984.

Further listening suggestions are welcome.

http://i.imgur.com/5CtrA8Bl.jpg

If you're looking for rock for ambient nerds then maybe drone metal or some forms of doom metal might help. That **** is about as far from rockstar **** as it's possible to get. Lot of it doesn't have vocals either. *shrug*

Earth - "Seven Angels"

[QUOTE=The Batlord;1784386]If you're looking for rock for ambient nerds then maybe drone metal or some forms of doom metal might help. That **** is about as far from rockstar **** as it's possible to get. Lot of it doesn't have vocals either. *shrug*

Thanks, Batty. Earth 2 is definitely the gateway drug of drone metal, or at least the most accessible specimen of the genre to the best of my knowledge. I've approached it a few times but it hasn't grabbed me yet. I'll give the others you've linked a listen as well. And thanks for reading!

Do you know this https://www.discogs.com/Other-Music-...elease/1989363

Yeah, early Earth is kind of sparse and no frills, but the other **** I put up has all the tempo with extra **** thrown in to grab your attention. I can only listen to Earth when I'm in a certain mood, but Bongripper and Ufomammut are anyday kind of bands.

Fantastic! Right up my alley - thank you! :)

I've known that album and been about it for so long, but I have no idea when and how that came to be