January 2012
5 posts
The history of, and central problem with:... →
December 2011
5 posts
November 2011
11 posts
FROM THE CHAIRCRUSHER
What is interesting to me, and why I’m somewhat interested in the academic study of IDM — other than the fact that I’ve participated in the phenomenon since very close to the founding of the mailing list — is that Techno and House and Hip Hop arose, contemporaneously, before the Internet, and IDM happened after. It wouldn’t exist except for the Internet. It...
REVIEW SESSION
OK, so the year is almost over. At the end of this month, Automation will release PRESUMED DEAD, a 2xcass+book that will take you to a distant tundra and leave you there forever to become bones. But before you are bones! Let’s get caught up on what’s been happening in the story so far:
TINY CREATURE full-length cd which I am now selling direct on Mustfinish.com or you can digi...
The Somnambulist Remixes
wearegoldengardens:
The Golden Gardens Somnambulist Remixes are currently available to listen to at the Automation Records Bandcamp. Both Aubrey and Gregg contributed remixes, as well as Cex, nonon, HAIR, Teras and Phantom of the RIAA.
Cex - Cut Wrists
song-lyrics-and-meanings:
Full song lyrics: Cex - Cut Wrists The sky took away Something that you said that you never wanted And doubt spread all over your body A painful source, yeah, the confidence died You’d kill yourself To bring curses and poison all raining upon us But your plan was spoiled At the last minute, by critics who panned your suicide And s…
Full song lyrics: Cex - Cut...
October 2011
6 posts
NEW NIN TING
The other day this was sent to the IDM-l, apropos of nothing:
My name is Erik Higa. I am a member of the N2O/Digital Bombing Crew which includes R.A.W. and General Malice. I’m known as DJ Shelter and have been uploading and posting my tracks on the internet since 1999. I have been working on a hardcore techno album which at this time is very near completion. Trent Reznor was the head of a...
September 2011
5 posts
“Obviously one thing that recorded music is not lacking is scarcity—fire up...”
– Maura. (via marathonpacks)
amazing. and so very true. (via cantwaittogethome)
Watch
August 2011
15 posts
The Perfect Song →
looking for examples of my writing to send to a magazine I want to write for and wouldnt you know, google remembers things I have completely forgotten about
INTERVIEW AT SPLICETODAY →
Da Mystery of the Chatterboxin
1 tag
Hey Cex can I use your song Cal & Brady Style in...
Yes but if you get a lucrative job I want lunch.
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How do you decide which order on the album to...
I have a bad habit of putting something that doesn’t quite fit with everything else first, something I can’t bear to leave off but which seems to interrupt the flow going anywhere else. Second song is usually the one with the most instant gratification. The last song has to be something that will stick— I always pick that one with the idea that the person has put this album on...
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can you recommend some albums you've been diggin?
____mostly superfrosty alien shit atm:
Mark Fell MANITUTSHU
Surgeon BREAKING THE FRAME
Mika Vanio LIFE …IT EATS YOU UP
Keith Fullerton Whitman GENERATOR
Phoenecia DEMISSIONS
Lil Jabba SWISHER
been revisiting Squarepusher ULTRAVISITOR a lot lately for some reason
(not some reason, I’m in a speedy mindset)
+really amped for that new Gescom EP
I pick truth
what the internet?
needstobeheard:
My video up for Cex’s “Cal and Brady Style” has become a hub of some very strange internet behavior
Seems a famous starcraft net caster linked this song… and now his followers are swarming my page. I’d make a starcraft joke, but I’ve never played starcraft.
“The system was not without its shortcomings. Creative thinkers tended to work in...”
– Jack Vance TO LIVE FOREVER (1956)
Glarks are people who decline to participate in the Fair-Play Act, which basically aims to reward public service with extended life.
Takayoshi Sato
“Only people who create artworks that redefine the world should be called Artists. The word was too honorable to simply call yourself an artist. That was my definition of Art and Artist: very very honorable things.”
from this interview
Skrillsex
inb4404:
I found a stash of Skrillex/Deadmau5 gay erotic fan art while browsing the /y/ (Yaoi: “boy love”) board on 4chan. Please enjoy responsibly.
LIL WAYNE FANFIC I DID ON TWITTER WHILE AT WORK
UFO hovers over Young Money hq, Lil Wayne’s furious alien father beams down. “You were supposed to SUBDUE this planet, you lazy slarfnot!!
“WHY do the earthlings still have so many defensive capabilities? WHERE are your mining operations? WHAT is this gibberish on your arms?”
(whiny wayne voice) “But daddy i’m the greatest rapper alive! I got millions in the...
July 2011
24 posts
“Money lost, little lost.
Honor lost, much lost.
Pluck lost, all lost.”
– Jack Vance, THE KILLING MACHINE (1964)
HEY
have you ever used Google Checkout?
will you be bummed if MF switches over?
OR do you think is it time to get serious about buying cassettes with bitcoins?