Synthgirl

Thanks! I never posted until now for a few reasons; one was shyness for sure. I have always been one to avoid confrontation, and I always was a bit afraid of incurring someone's wrath when I said that I don't really care for Radiohead. I'm more mature now, and way less self-conscious about musical taste and opinions. And I'll absolutely check it out! I've been on a major prog kick lately.

Hello!

Thank you! Glad to be here!

gandhara

Welcome!! I noticed you had Italo Disco in with several unrelated genres hahaha!! What are some favorite Italo songs of yours? :P

rubber soul

WHAT!!!!? You don't like Radiohead? For shame


Welcome to the madhouse anyway

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Trollheart

I'm not a Radiohead fan either. Difference is, I don't care. Anyone who disses on my music taste can suck it.

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innerspaceboy

Welcome Alexandria! We're so glad you finally decided to greet us! You may have set a new record for the forum!

I'm wild about ambient music so it's always a real treat to see fellow members enthusiastic about the genre. The ambient portion of my digital library comprises over 60,000 recordings and the majority of my vinyl collection are ambient, proto-ambient early synth, and experimental electronic LPs.

I blog actively and have a member journal here mirroring my WordPress blog, which I've just recently published as a book. Feel free to check out my features.

We look forward to your content. Happy new year!

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Comus

True OGs will remember my Radiohead sucks, and so does your taste in music shirt that was my avatar for awhile.

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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. And dang, what a collection! Is that all locally stored or on a streaming service?

How could I forget? I remember feeling very vindicated that there was someone else out there who shared my distaste for them, haha. Though it was less a super intense dislike of their music for me and more fear of their fans raking me over the coals for saying that they weren't that great.

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.

innerspaceboy

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.

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.

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!

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Comus

Holy **** I had forgotten about that:

https://www.musicbanter.com/album-re...ar-2009-a.html

For clarification I found the image, but made up the album review.

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Synthgirl

Haha, I gotcha. The review is absolutely brilliant, feels like a hilarious time capsule of the era where indie hipsterdom was at its peak.

I remember a lot of classic MB threads. I was there (in spirit) for RockGuitar101, Kobe Kai, The Virgin, I always got some nice chuckles out of those threads even if I didn't participate in them.