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Originally Posted by Synthgirl
Thank you for the welcome! It looks like our tastes in ambient and electronic stuff overlap a lot, as a young kid my uncle was a big Hearts of Space listener and I think growing up hanging out with him primed my ears to get into ambient, new age and electronic music in general.
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Smashing!
Hearts of Space holds a very special place in my heart. I've archived all 40 years of their continuing transmissions, (1,333 to date), and I have a special vinyl pressing of their first-ever broadcast.
As such, it was an absolute honor for me to directly influence a HOS broadcast in 2022. I had been contacted by a Seattle-based ambient composer who releases titles under the name Terminus Void. He praised my blog and asked if he could send me his debut release. I enjoyed it thoroughly and encouraged the composer to send his album to HOS host Stephen Hill. He followed my suggestion and was featured on PGM No. 1314, Stellar Quest! And as a direct result of that transmission, he received offers from two prestigious major record labels to produce and distribute his next album. We couldn't have been more pleased to have exposure to a global audience of discerning space music listeners! I made sure to include my reviews of his first two albums in my book to engage future listeners as well.
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Originally Posted by Synthgirl
And dang, what a collection! Is that all locally stored or on a streaming service?
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Thank you! I've never used a streaming service. Every few years I try searching for content from my archive on commercial streaming networks and have been universally disappointed with the results. Thankfully I enjoy hundreds of thousands of lossless archival recordings from my archive hosted on my own personal media server accessible from any web-enabled device commercial-free. I recently spent 80 hours on a 20TB expansion of my library. I understand that there are collectors with substantially larger collections but I am quite discerning about what enters my archive and I'm pleased with what I've built.
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Originally Posted by Synthgirl
Wasn't it also you who made that fake album art where it was Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Animal Collective and MGMT mashed up? That thread was absolutely hilarious.
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I am a passionate archivist of mash-ups, copyleftism, plunderphonics, sampledelia, the cut-up technique, and Dada/Surrealism in all forms of the arts, but particularly in regard to sound art. I'm especially interested in pioneering works from artists and authors like William S Burroughs, Marcel Duchamp, Dickie Goodman & Bill Buchanan, John Oswald, and the turntablists who followed transforming and refining mashup culture to an act of pure art. The Kopyright Liberation Front, Avalanches, and other masters of plunderphonia are well-represented in my physical and digital libraries with exhaustive catalogs of their work. Feel free to recommend any of your favorite mash-ups if the mood strikes you!
