this is such an unfathomable loss. I haven’t posted here in a long time but I keep tabs. everything I know about recording and ethics in art is from Steve Albini. he was my single greatest mentor and I never even worked directly with him. The absolute wealth of information that he happily and ...

No bleed

we lost Mira Calix, who was a very foundational and important figure to Warp Records, and by proxy to the London electronic music scene, throughout the 90s til now. married to Sean Booth of Autechre.

The only thing that has *ever* consistently worked for me, in the way of inspiration and actually writing songs, is writing songs outside the company of a DAW or studio. I've never had luck trying to pull ideas out of nothing, it's always been something that's come to me when I'm doing something ...

I really like the one with the cannabis rex speaker in it. They're selling a sonic blue one with that speaker right now that I've got my eye on. Standard speaker is fine too although a bit more icepicky.

a properly mastered vinyl record can only ever sound as good as a properly mastered digital file of the same source material. i actually don't really know if that's controversial among this crew

my main guitar has some really really light but specific scratches that i put in there by accident, dont remember how they got there, i think i was trying to scrape some shit off the body with a pick but the pick ended up scratching the finish in a weird way that i havent seen on any other guitar ...

I had bought a used pair of T7V's that had broken potentiometers on the back that needed to be replaced, tried to contact them to source a replacement but they were impossible to get a meaningful response from.

a few come to mind:

unknown mortal orchestra (longtime favorite)
oh sees (consistently good although too much output to keep up with for me)
parquet courts (still digesting the new album but wide awake is one of my favorite albums of the 10's)

I'll vote crap due to the incessant clickbaiting.