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YouTube video by Anal Device Éliane Radigue - Opus 17 (Full Album)

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This is a very intellectual take and I am here for it

"Fear not of men because men must die/mind over matter and soul before flesh" - Mos Def

Classic!

Saddened to hear that the world has lost Eliane Radigue. She was one of the biggest influences on my journey through minimalism and toward naturewave. Her music changed my life thoroughly. What a joy that she shared her way of hearing the world with us.

Screenshot of ditto in a Pokémon trading screen with text saying “take goo”

take goo

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On April 29, 1986, I stood on the corner of Fifth Street and Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles and watched black smoke pour from the windows of L.A.'s Central Library. The big library, which I loved, and in which l wrote my first novel, was a victim not only of arson, but of years-decades-of neglect, political bickering, and short-term think-ing. Ironically, by the time of the fire, the building's long-needed renovations had finally been scheduled. This year, those ren-ovations, made all the more urgent by the fire, will be com-piete-Just in time for another, broader library crisis. All over the country now, public libraries are in as much danger from shortsighted budget cuts, political expediency, and neglect as the old firetrap Central Library ever was from fire. The L.A. Library fire was a metaphor for what's happening to libraries in Some libraries have al- ready been closed. Others have had to cut hours, staff, services, and acquisitions. This is not sensible! We Americans of the 1990s are sending our unskilled and semiskilled jobs away to low-wage countries just as fast as we can. We're hoping that the long-term result of this will be to stimulate enough of an increase in trade to create new, better-paying jobs. Of course new workers will need more education to get those jobs, and displaced workers will need job-market information and retraining. But meanwhile, we're saving money by cutting school budgets, closing school libraries. raising university tuitions and fees, and diminishing or closing public libraries In my most recent book, my main character, who lives in a poorer, dumber near-future time, writes, "Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability." And "Civilization is ... a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptability." Just so. And in the present time of great change, public libraries, like public schools are among the best tools of adaptation and civilization that our society has. Public libraries in parti…

In 1993, Octavia E. Butler wrote a defense of public libraries.

“Public libraries in particular are the open universities of America. They're free; they're accessible to everyone… I'm a writer at least partly because I had access to public libraries.“

DESTROYER, by Nyoka Shoje 19 track album

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black_ops returns to @campradio.bsky.social tomorrow
6pm uk - 7pm cet

"Without love, you are nothing at all." - Karen Carpenter

YouTube video by Shield Maiden Age Of Ouroboros - Neologism (Official Video) Ritual Industrial / Field Recordings

Age Of Ouroboros - Neologism (Official Video)
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Vapor Talks #11: Room 208 The Bay Area-raised, Berlin-based producer creates atmospheric soundtracks for imaginary cyberpunk films

Recently found out about this great series from zensounds called Vapor Talks! They have been doing in-depth interviews with folks from the slushwave and ambient side of the scene including this new one with @room208.bsky.social

www.zensounds.de/p/vapor-talk...

That's rad! Yeah I used to buy a ton of stuff from there when I lived in Houston, as well as trade stuff in. It's very possible that at least something I traded for more records at some point is still in there. That and Sound Exchange were my regular spots to check out new records.

Awesome record store! I think the owner Chuck was in a noise band way back in the day.

Shield-019: ᚾᛖᚹ ᚷᛖᚾᛖᛋᛁᛋ
From a recently unearthed master recorded twenty years ago, one of my very earliest studio sessions recorded by Paul of Slow Fidelity in our wayward youth.
RIYL Coil, King Tubby, Whitehouse, RZA etc
CD and cassette available here: shieldmaidenstore.bandcamp.com/album/--5

Shield-013: DESTROYER
DESTROYER was created during the lockdowns and stands as one of the most diverse releases recorded under the Nyoka Shoje name. This is the first time it has been released physically.
CD and cassette available here: shieldmaidenstore.bandcamp.com/album/destro...

P O O L / H O U S E / / P L A N T / S H O P P E

New interview with @hiafr.bsky.social and @ballerassmf.bsky.social ! I had a really fun time talking to these guys and there's a lot here. @freshwatermedia.bsky.social lore dump!

For me, when he started doing everything on the computer (2000s era) is where his sound loses its charm. I like his older work where he is mostly using physical synths/metal sounds. I think he's been on a steady progress toward automation for years, AI being the most recent development. Sad to see.

The exact same thing could be said about vaporwave.

Bad Bunny halftime show was dope. Probably the best one of those that I've seen, it just was really good vibes.

The Guardian in ship form, racing vertically

THE GUARDIAN LEGEND
COMPILE 1989
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I think it was originally a digital only release as a monthly subscription type of thing on No Part Of It, and after that had come out I offered to do a CD because I thought it should get a physical release. And very nice weather today yeah!