omar_alt

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by omar_alt 2mo ago
This is interesting as I would assume multiple passes from each output would result in further multi generational loss akin to tape trading of band demos, soundclashes and dj mixes from pirate radio
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by omar_alt 5mo ago
Oh great let’s have even more noise pollution because pedestrians won’t get out of the way of cyclists who are trying to beat their personal best time on their commute to work.
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Music Criticism Lost Its Edge(newyorker.com)
3 points by omar_alt 1y ago|2 comments
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by omar_alt 1y ago
https://archive.ph/tPX4i
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by omar_alt 2y ago
If AWS has such a high turnover of staff how does this affect the suite of new services that companies build their infra around?
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by omar_alt 2y ago
I recall a CD of mine had hidden audio before track one circa 1997, a coffee table jungle breakbeat on a Symphonic Black Metal album: https://www.discogs.com/release/373044-Arcturus-La-Masquerad... Also on the topic of
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by omar_alt 2y ago
What is the maximum bit rate for mixcloud mixes? The audio quality of anything I upload sounds terribly degraded especially when I share it with someone who is not signed in
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by omar_alt 2y ago
I find this argument interesting though I have found that the same Jungle music I listened to in the 90s is now cutting edge again similar to around 2007 when 80s Italo House was considered the most stylish and hippest thing to listen to.
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by omar_alt 3y ago
One out of ~10 international shipments of records I had in the last year one was from FedEx and they sat on it in their out for delivery warehouse in a nearby town for two months with the usual pass the buck/pillar to post treatment. T
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by omar_alt 3y ago
Yes wanting to preserve musical history or be able to recall something you once liked probably falls into the rockist vs poptimist debate. Even listening to tracks in the order they were intended is either radical or primitive to the defend
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by omar_alt 3y ago
At the time this was declared as a user base driven acquisition where Conde Nast assumed that the largely 20 to mid 30s male readership of Pitchfork would graduate to one of their traditional style publications once they came of age. Clearl
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by omar_alt 3y ago
> heck maybe even virtual artists that they can spin up in-house so they don't have to pay anyone: the perfect 360 artist, geeze. Spotify would love to direct the listener just to in house AI music that does not pay royalties to the
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by omar_alt 3y ago
I was going to say it read like a puff piece about a corporation that makes most of its money from legacy back catalog
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by omar_alt 3y ago
I enjoy reading posts about second hand Thinkpads outliving modern laptops but it is ironic to put a blog post on lo-tech frugality behind a paywall.
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by omar_alt 3y ago
Like London there might also be a diminishing demand from under 25 year old young adults wanting to go to nightclubs in Berlin. A taxi driver told me for weekends he would work a mile radius picking up people to and from Fabric nightclub, n
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by omar_alt 3y ago
Kulee Baba and The Bear are also great fully formed tracks from those bootlegs
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by omar_alt 3y ago
Yeah I imagine those tape versions will add more to the fan version. I have listened to the lo-fi original for many years
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by omar_alt 3y ago
Rather delighted to a hear high quality copy of would be hit 80s song that a tape engineer erased by accident
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Recovering Steely Dan’s second arrangement(expandingdan.substack.com)
72 points by omar_alt 3y ago|8 comments
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by omar_alt 3y ago
Concert tickets are also increasingly expensive as is merchandise and travel. Could it be that the least well off demographic doesn't want to pay a premium for drinks when it means more queuing and inevitably a bathroom break during th
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by omar_alt 3y ago
I wonder what would be a good Steve Albini type plugin to get one of those increasingly rare young bands to sound like they had just recorded Rid of Me or Surfer Rosa? ;)
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I don’t think you can spend much emotional investment on those songs. Modern music uses less words and notes than previous decades as well as avoiding melody, time signatures, triple eighths, codas
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I can’t think of a song chorus or a phrase that has endured in the last decade. If it was a gameshow question to complete the lines from these contemporary songs how many would struggle?
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by omar_alt 4y ago
The thing I noticed was that the price of an average record skyrocketed in price but the demand for an adequate turntable has not been as noticeable.
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by omar_alt 4y ago
ZZ for me as well and I mapped :WQ to :w !sudo tee % >/dev/null
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I paid £200 on an electric desk for working at home which has been a great investment.
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by omar_alt 4y ago
My Sony Bravia never connected to the internet and has never been used to login to netflix or youtube. Though I use it regularly as a screen for a media center it isn’t smart enough to stay on for more than three hours at a time without me
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by omar_alt 4y ago
I’m just thankful the closest I got to Adobe was installing Acrobat reader on a PC when I was a humanities student. After switching to software development I have never had to use Creative Suite or Creative Cloud.
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by omar_alt 4y ago
As much as I appreciate my x220’s god knows what they would be like if I hadn’t replaced the stock OS. Thank god Ubuntu aren’t shipping Lenovo Vantage just yet
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by omar_alt 4y ago
It just shows that ten years some plugins have come and gone as have many GUI text editors however Vim endures

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