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He had already done funcrusher plus as part of company flow so I don’t know if FD counts. Even though Funcrusher plus is a group effort it’s not hard to argue he sounds fully formed on that album, it’s an absolute banger and it all just sounds very el-p.

If you want to make the most of your budget I would look at 2nd hand machines. It will mean doing a bit of research based on what’s available to see what’s good. A couple of years ago I picked up a rancillio Silvia and lelit Fred grinder for about £400 on eBay. Which I would say is the kind of set up you are looking for.

One big mistake to avoid is spending the bulk of your budget on a good machine and not enough on a grinder. A grinder has a bigger impact on the quality of your shots than the machine does so make sure to get a good one.

Gen, zero, waltzy got 160 points in 4 games today.

Already in shambles, Mande had to sit out game one as the account he was using didn’t match his battlefy name.

Yeah starting with read let’s go makes the whole experience so much better and as you say it tunes you into the rest of the album. Playing music is math without it makes it feel the start feel a bit abrupt.

I always picture the movie The Andromeda Strain in my head listening to it. The overall aesthetic of the movie and in particular the high pitched synths make me think of the shots of the alien virus multiplying in geometric patterns.

There definitely a bit of a vangelis (BR composer) sound to some of their tracks. Even more so, it reminded me of an artist called Kuedo whose first album severant homages vangelis but with drum patterns. Arena Americanada could easily be a track from that album.

Mb missed it.

This is a truly inspirational life goal that I will steal. But I’ll take Zuckerberg.

Father and son and a couple of others from memory lean into the old school hip hop beats they used on twoism/mhtrtc

Yeah but telephasic workshop remastered with the sound design on HHLL would be amazing.

I love the album, certainly too early to decide if it’s a full on classic but a lot of the tracks are on repeat in my head at the moment.

That said while their earlier albums were always crafted around a theme this and TH feel very much more like concept albums, soundtracks to a story they have in their heads. TH felt a bit cold and one note for my tastes so it didn’t work for me as well but the album feels like it has a much richer and interesting story that gives them a chance to mix up their musical style to suit the narrative.

I mean we can only speculate but the general vibe I get is

Prophecy - the end times are coming

HHLL - the end of the world begins

AOC- hey everybody it’s the end times

Father & son/somewhere/naraka - end time baby, believers vs non believers, saying goodbye, religious revelry - whohoo it’s the end times

Acts of magic/ mem death- all that’s come before is gone

Word becomes flesh> arena Americanada - birth of something new, lots of weird shit happens

The process> platonia - ascension to a higher state of being

Probably completely wrong but that’s the story that plays out in my head.

I struggle to maintain a top 10 because it depends on my mood and it’ll take a while for me to absorb the new album but I basically love every track in the first half of the album (the end of the world never sounded so good) but I have found myself repeatedly replaying tracks 3-5 HHLL > father and son so they’ll go on the list for now - and yes I know there 11 tracks below.

In a beautiful place in the country
Music is math
Telephonic workshop
Julie and Candy
BMX
Everything you do is a balloon
1969
5.9.78
Hydrogen helium lithium leviathan
Father and son
Age of Capricorn

My guess would be music from production music library. These are tracks created for use in things like trailers, soundtracks for video content etc… that can be licensed very cheaply vs commercial tracks. There are literally millions of these tracks so will be pretty hard to find out what it is.

Listening to Hydrogen helium lithium leviathan on a good audio set up is something else. The hi fidelity sound and the sound design playing with Spatial Audio effects is so good and make me feel like I’m levitating too. And it helps that is an absolute banger of a track.

That track makes me levitate, the audio design is next level.

I imagine the main issue for warp is that they won’t want to send out copies of the album in advance of release without some kind of guard against the album being leaked early. So I expect it’s limited to locations where they can send out an employee/associate to physically look after the copy.

Not official but Redbubble sells various designs.

Well I don’t think we’ll be getting a trilogy but based on the album title +tape05, thematically the album might have something of a death and rebirth kind of vibe akin to the Devine Comedy.

Edit: which would make it more of follow on from tomorrow’s harvest.

I’m scrolling through everyone’s choices and I’m like yep to 90% of them. So hard to choose but for me personally music is math is the one. It’s track I listen to when I just want to get lost in music.

Honorable mentions: Telephonic Workshop- best for out of body experiences A beautiful place in the country Everything you do is a balloon Julie and Candy Sixtyniner BMX. the hq version that got recently released 5.9.78 Jacquards Causeway Olson

I’m also convinced (despite the absence of any evidence) that they’ve created a longer version of Reach for the dead and that will also be one of my favourite tracks. I love the original but it feels like it ends too early to make it a favourite.

Edit: To add, not BOC but the hell interface remix of Midas touch would also be an honorable mention.

Nothing to do with laws aside from the odd series that might not comply with local laws eg lgbtq content in the Middle East

99% of series available one country but not another is due to licensing. Given CR license pretty much all content they have on the platform (as opposed to making the content themselves) they will do deals with distributors. Sometimes distributors are able to offer global rights, other times rights might have already been acquired by another platform eg netflix. Other times the content publisher may use local distributors to handle programme sales in different territories and CR will individually deal with each one to buy the rights for that territory, some of which may have already been sold or a platform in the territory is willing to pay more than CR is.

When rights for a show are licensed they do so for a set period of time eg 5 years. At the end of that period CR or whoever will first decide whether it’s worth relicensing (does it generate enough views, does it drive first views etc) if they want to then they will need to negotiate again and the distributor might decide they can get a better offer and pass.

To add to that, subs and dubs for anime have often been licensed separately and sometimes by different distributors, adding another layer of complication. I think Haikyuu had that issue with only the dub version being available for a longtime in a lot of territories. Same with one piece in theUK.

I see what you did there.

Gamesir pro g7 is very good. basically the same price as Xbox/ps5 official controller has paddles, tmr sticks and 1000hz polling but is Xbox layout only. I think a lot of people like the digifly Vader which I haven’t used but is a similar price.