i had to spend the last few days waiting for files to copy around all over the place. but i've now got everything filed and cleaned and reconstructed and recompiled and backed up and reburned and am just about to reinstall windows, which should launch the install script. i expect some minor issues to appear, but i also expect to actually get some tracks down within a day or two.
here i go...
Thursday, April 24, 2014
i got tricked by the abridged version having more hits and coming up first. i want this here, not there.
i forgot to list this as an influence on a track of the day from a few days ago. it's sort of glaring, as the track in question is actually very much a post-punk reworking of the end riff of this. it's a simple riff, but it was always a lot of fun to play.
echoes - and the idea of the side-long track, in general - was also a big influence on the longer pieces (i call them 'symphonies', with tongue somewhat in cheek), going forwards. the merging of blues riffs into larger, quasi-symphonic and sort of electro-experimental pieces is something more specific that i do fairly often, and that stems directly to floyd.
(relevant tracks: idiotic, all symphonies)
i forgot to list this as an influence on a track of the day from a few days ago. it's sort of glaring, as the track in question is actually very much a post-punk reworking of the end riff of this. it's a simple riff, but it was always a lot of fun to play.
echoes - and the idea of the side-long track, in general - was also a big influence on the longer pieces (i call them 'symphonies', with tongue somewhat in cheek), going forwards. the merging of blues riffs into larger, quasi-symphonic and sort of electro-experimental pieces is something more specific that i do fairly often, and that stems directly to floyd.
(relevant tracks: idiotic, all symphonies)
obligatory "influential on track of the day" post.
i'm trying to avoid linking to these ancient demos from the mid 90s, recorded when i was 15 or 16 (and demoing tracks i wrote when i was 13 or 14). i mean, the stuff that's up is up because i like it. but there are objective problems with some of it (the vocals on some of it give the term lofi a whole new level of depth).
i've always loved this record and have never really understood why it tends to be separated from the other pumpkins masterpieces. i'd even go so far as to say you can't really understand siamese/pisces (which corgan should really re-release as a double record) without getting into this first. it's a pre-req.
it was the psychedelic portions on the second half of the disc that i found really imaginative. you can hear a very direct influence on the guitar playing....
(relevant tracks: the boogeyman, screwed up, wish, nope, teenage jesus, stress, others)
i'm trying to avoid linking to these ancient demos from the mid 90s, recorded when i was 15 or 16 (and demoing tracks i wrote when i was 13 or 14). i mean, the stuff that's up is up because i like it. but there are objective problems with some of it (the vocals on some of it give the term lofi a whole new level of depth).
i've always loved this record and have never really understood why it tends to be separated from the other pumpkins masterpieces. i'd even go so far as to say you can't really understand siamese/pisces (which corgan should really re-release as a double record) without getting into this first. it's a pre-req.
it was the psychedelic portions on the second half of the disc that i found really imaginative. you can hear a very direct influence on the guitar playing....
(relevant tracks: the boogeyman, screwed up, wish, nope, teenage jesus, stress, others)
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
it's funny.
i've basically arrived where i have in life by convincing myself of the single axiom that existence is meaningless, and this makes conventionally interacting in society entirely worthless. centring your life around anything related to property, status or wealth is just throwing your life away to utilitarian/capitalist excesses. yet, even this is not rational: if the aim is maximizing pleasure in the short amount of time we have to do it, doing loads of drugs makes more sense than working in an office. rejecting hedonistic capitalism within the context of this futility of breathing leaves only the individual's whimsical fancies as remotely meaningful goals (i skipped some steps there). art for art's sake (or knowledge for knowledge's sake) is consequently the only worthwhile pursuit (any other existence would and should rationally end up with a quick suicide, as it would be the fastest way to lessen the amount of existential torture brought on equally by slavery and boredom), and capitalist society is merely an obstacle to avoid.
if mortality could be abolished (and i'm ok with existing in software), the entire calculus would change. this ought to present the individual with a hobson's choice to pursue immortality at all costs, as the worst thing that could happen would be to die trying to abolish death. unless failure is certain, of course, in which case why waste the time? unfortunately, i'm convinced that this isn't feasible in my lifetime. death remains the only concrete reality worth planning around.
so, faced with the certainty of all of this meaningless, the only thing that can actually motivate me to get out of bed and pursue these goals is the certainty that i have a finite amount of time to complete them in, bringing me back around again to where i began.
"yeah, well, i'm 30% of the way into paying off a high interest loan to get a piece of paper to allow me to pay property taxes, and that requires me to spend 75% of my time living for somebody else (and maybe more if i'm married). so, you lose at life."
it's actually not so bad for me if people actually continue to think that. i mean, there's two ways forward from where we are: full communism or state-driven social darwinism (popularly, if somewhat incorrectly, referred to as 'fascism'). we've been leaning towards the latter for decades. and, if that's the unalterable future, i can't benefit from winning the argument.
i can snicker about it on my facebook page, though.
i've basically arrived where i have in life by convincing myself of the single axiom that existence is meaningless, and this makes conventionally interacting in society entirely worthless. centring your life around anything related to property, status or wealth is just throwing your life away to utilitarian/capitalist excesses. yet, even this is not rational: if the aim is maximizing pleasure in the short amount of time we have to do it, doing loads of drugs makes more sense than working in an office. rejecting hedonistic capitalism within the context of this futility of breathing leaves only the individual's whimsical fancies as remotely meaningful goals (i skipped some steps there). art for art's sake (or knowledge for knowledge's sake) is consequently the only worthwhile pursuit (any other existence would and should rationally end up with a quick suicide, as it would be the fastest way to lessen the amount of existential torture brought on equally by slavery and boredom), and capitalist society is merely an obstacle to avoid.
if mortality could be abolished (and i'm ok with existing in software), the entire calculus would change. this ought to present the individual with a hobson's choice to pursue immortality at all costs, as the worst thing that could happen would be to die trying to abolish death. unless failure is certain, of course, in which case why waste the time? unfortunately, i'm convinced that this isn't feasible in my lifetime. death remains the only concrete reality worth planning around.
so, faced with the certainty of all of this meaningless, the only thing that can actually motivate me to get out of bed and pursue these goals is the certainty that i have a finite amount of time to complete them in, bringing me back around again to where i began.
"yeah, well, i'm 30% of the way into paying off a high interest loan to get a piece of paper to allow me to pay property taxes, and that requires me to spend 75% of my time living for somebody else (and maybe more if i'm married). so, you lose at life."
it's actually not so bad for me if people actually continue to think that. i mean, there's two ways forward from where we are: full communism or state-driven social darwinism (popularly, if somewhat incorrectly, referred to as 'fascism'). we've been leaning towards the latter for decades. and, if that's the unalterable future, i can't benefit from winning the argument.
i can snicker about it on my facebook page, though.
Monday, April 21, 2014
i'll be back on this again soon, finally. aim: uplift with live guitars.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/stuck-in-the-middle-of-an-alley-closing-in-on-all-sides
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/stuck-in-the-middle-of-an-alley-closing-in-on-all-sides
script successfully reconstituted, precisely how i left it.
i need to double check a few things and do some more filing but i'll be back up tomorrow or the next day.
the point of a script rather than an image is that it's dynamic. burning a dozen discs would defeat the point. i'd might as well just ghost it if i'm going to do that.
but i'm going to have to start backing it up more regularly.
i need to double check a few things and do some more filing but i'll be back up tomorrow or the next day.
the point of a script rather than an image is that it's dynamic. burning a dozen discs would defeat the point. i'd might as well just ghost it if i'm going to do that.
but i'm going to have to start backing it up more regularly.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post...
this i something else i was listening to huge amounts of in 99/00 and had a huge influence on me, insofar as the idea of merging guitars with electronic music is concerned. it's a shame that the live dynamics are a bit weak...
(relevant track: book it!, entropy, ignorance is bliss, curious george, gravity's rainbow, a commercial break, all symphonies, all tetris material)
this i something else i was listening to huge amounts of in 99/00 and had a huge influence on me, insofar as the idea of merging guitars with electronic music is concerned. it's a shame that the live dynamics are a bit weak...
(relevant track: book it!, entropy, ignorance is bliss, curious george, gravity's rainbow, a commercial break, all symphonies, all tetris material)
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post...
this was in the changer most of the fall of '99 and had a big influence on what i was doing for the next little while. it's partly the synth tones, and partly the atmosphere...
outstanding record, btw. i can't count how many nights it was coming through the speakers around 3:00 am. perfectly atmospheric. i just wish i hadn't lost my certificate of provenance...
(relevant track: book it!, entropy, gravity's rainbow, ignorance is bliss, curious george, rabit is wolf, all symphonies after 1)
this was in the changer most of the fall of '99 and had a big influence on what i was doing for the next little while. it's partly the synth tones, and partly the atmosphere...
outstanding record, btw. i can't count how many nights it was coming through the speakers around 3:00 am. perfectly atmospheric. i just wish i hadn't lost my certificate of provenance...
(relevant track: book it!, entropy, gravity's rainbow, ignorance is bliss, curious george, rabit is wolf, all symphonies after 1)
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post...
i actually wrote the guitar riff to book it! by jamming over this while it was going on loop, creating a sort of tangerine dream effect. it's something i do quite often for fun over all kinds of electronic music. sometimes, it releases emotion...sometimes it creates songs....
(relevant track: book it!)
i actually wrote the guitar riff to book it! by jamming over this while it was going on loop, creating a sort of tangerine dream effect. it's something i do quite often for fun over all kinds of electronic music. sometimes, it releases emotion...sometimes it creates songs....
(relevant track: book it!)
might i dare?
i don't claim much influence from the beatles, despite the absurd amount of time i've spent listening to them. it was just always so clearly before my time. i mean, i listen to the beatles the same way i listen to debussy. it's music from a past era....
here, though, the ending chord is sort of an obvious nod.
(relevant track: book it)
i don't claim much influence from the beatles, despite the absurd amount of time i've spent listening to them. it was just always so clearly before my time. i mean, i listen to the beatles the same way i listen to debussy. it's music from a past era....
here, though, the ending chord is sort of an obvious nod.
(relevant track: book it)
Friday, April 18, 2014
deathtokoalas
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post.
this is a sort of a landmark of electronic music that all the kids should know about and that was a big influence on me around the turn of the century.
well, the story is that my dad bought a record player some time in mid 99. my step-mother thought it looked ghetto (she didn't want people to think we were that far behind the times) and wouldn't let him set it up in the living room. he wasn't happy about that for a long time, but the record player ended up in my bedroom (along with his drum kit, i might add). she was half-right: he never used the kit or the record player and was never going to, he was just being silly. but i did...
thankfully, he knew what he was doing regarding which records to pick up. oldfield. floyd. jarre. tangerine dream. heavy string and analog synth driven stuff where the harmonic distortion really justifies the older technology.
so, i went on a 70s synth kick that summer.
(relevant track: missed connection, book it!, all symphonies)
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post.
this is a sort of a landmark of electronic music that all the kids should know about and that was a big influence on me around the turn of the century.
well, the story is that my dad bought a record player some time in mid 99. my step-mother thought it looked ghetto (she didn't want people to think we were that far behind the times) and wouldn't let him set it up in the living room. he wasn't happy about that for a long time, but the record player ended up in my bedroom (along with his drum kit, i might add). she was half-right: he never used the kit or the record player and was never going to, he was just being silly. but i did...
thankfully, he knew what he was doing regarding which records to pick up. oldfield. floyd. jarre. tangerine dream. heavy string and analog synth driven stuff where the harmonic distortion really justifies the older technology.
so, i went on a 70s synth kick that summer.
(relevant track: missed connection, book it!, all symphonies)
Since1987
wtf?!?!?!?!?!?
deathtokoalas
i'm not entirely sure exactly why you're so surprised.
daniel payne
Well it is one of those universal tracks i remember Dj-ing one night on the Decks playing oxygene IV at 45 instead 33 But worked on the dance floor
But strangely worked on the dancefloor Btw it was accident that it got played at the wrong speed
nick ashmore
are you for real mate (Dj-ing) lol where and what have you really done that was yours. do you produced
deathtokoalas
indeed. we should all stop dancing to our favourite songs at bars because it threatens nick's perception of his penis size.
it's really the bar owner you need to blame, you know. could he not have found a nice bluegrass ensemble, so we could all marvel at their musicality while not getting smashed and singing along to bon jovi?
nick ashmore
that's fair i did not read what daniel said right in the first place. I thought he was saying the song was crap. and i bet a koala would kick you arse lol :)
geoff hill
Ohh so true
brianboru62
You should listen to Tangerine Dreams Halcyon more often in one ear and lip up fatty by Bad Manners in the other ear a trip in a trip
ubiquitous saturnine pics to lure one into a false sense of 'being there' stuck in the Jarre
lorne mcneil
well said/ it was a land mark in synthistsers /faze varience ,and imagination :)
Warris
im a bit jealous, i would love to have a record player so i could buy vinyl my favorite artists make :)
Luis Alberto Deveaux
Ferry good:-)
Scott Mantooth
one of the many amazing albums i have of this artist...was thought to be really weird in high school (decades ago) since i loved classical and music like this...of course Vangelis, Tomita, and Kitaro were also fairly included in that select group
deathtokoalas
i find the more explicitly "new age" stuff tends to kind of drift off into a sort of aimless ambience, whereas the prog stuff (like elp) tends to get aimless in the opposite direction. what i like about the stuff i cited (tangerine dream is an exception, as their discography is spotty) is that it hit a good middle ground in integrating the synth aesthetics into more developed writing styles. you get those awesome synth sounds and developed musical structure, rather than one or the other. put another way, i think i can't really get into stuff like vangelis for the same reason that i can't really get into rossini.
i know a lot of it was not well received at the time by "serious music critics" who largely interpreted it as pop music masquerading as classical music, but i think they really missed the point. what is currently called the classical (or neo-classical) music of this period is really pretty boring because it tries to stop the development of music about the year 1850. i mean, maybe the stuff is a little harder to play. but it exists in a vacuum. it's not trying to create a 20th century artform, so much as it's rejecting the industrial revolution.
i think that future generations will reject the critics of the period, and conclude that the actual "classical music" of the mid-to-late 20th century was being created by a motley collection of jazz fusion, minimalist, post-punk, experimental, industrial, electronic and progressive rock musicians. this is the serious music of the era. the neo-classical stuff is not.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post.
well, it's a remix of it. there's a long story at the bandcamp page. short story: i know the track has a highly personal aspect to it and i'm sort of missing the point, but, after five years (which saw me go from pre-teen to young adult), i was expecting something a bit more substantial than a few power chords and some reverb floating around in the back, idiosyncratic verses or not. i'm not falling into the "writing for me" fallacy - i know it's absurd - but all the delays and marketing and projections of genius made it...
...anti-climactic. to put it lightly.
but i was encouraged by people at alt.music.nin to remix it, and consequently took the position that the best thing to do would be to approach it's flaws, as i saw them. i didn't really want to reinterpret it outside of the context of the full record (which actually hadn't been released yet); rather, i wanted to exaggerate it to what i felt it could have been. so, it's the same basic concept, it's just taken to a greater extreme....
(relevant track: the day inri messed the world up)
well, it's a remix of it. there's a long story at the bandcamp page. short story: i know the track has a highly personal aspect to it and i'm sort of missing the point, but, after five years (which saw me go from pre-teen to young adult), i was expecting something a bit more substantial than a few power chords and some reverb floating around in the back, idiosyncratic verses or not. i'm not falling into the "writing for me" fallacy - i know it's absurd - but all the delays and marketing and projections of genius made it...
...anti-climactic. to put it lightly.
but i was encouraged by people at alt.music.nin to remix it, and consequently took the position that the best thing to do would be to approach it's flaws, as i saw them. i didn't really want to reinterpret it outside of the context of the full record (which actually hadn't been released yet); rather, i wanted to exaggerate it to what i felt it could have been. so, it's the same basic concept, it's just taken to a greater extreme....
(relevant track: the day inri messed the world up)
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