Various Things...

As was noted in the previous thread, Grindhouse has moved outside our little circle. Case in point: Radio Slave’s “Grindhouse Tool” (which, although it doesn’t have enough ’verb on the foot, follows the tenets of the faith rather closely). This is obviously minimalist Grindhouse. I’ve been listening to the track for like five and a half minutes now and it doesn’t appear to be anything but a drum beat and some verby sounds, which I personally think takes the concept a little far, but what the fuck do I know?

I can’t find a link to the Dubfire remix that is causing all the hullabaloo, so please do provide it if you have knowledge.

In other news, we’re probably going to postpone Kombinat’s release a little bit, as I optimistically forgot Adam was going to Japan in two weeks. While we could probably release before he went, he wouldn’t be here if something should go awry, and you really don’t want me poking around in the code trying to fix things. I can code in the same way that I can cook. It gets the job done but it isn’t pretty and it doesn’t taste too good.

What we do have coming in the next couple few days will amuse some and amaze others, and make about six people really happy. More on that maybe later today.

Next, our new commissioned banner is running on KvR starting today. It gives me a case of the giggles every time I see it, but some people don’t get it. You be the judge.

And finally, for some reason I got on an Old School (har har har) IDM kick. I actually had to re-buy several records that I had lost when a CD wallet got misplaced/stolen, and these included the Sgt. Pepper’s of IDM, Tri Repetae. I haven’t listened to this album in several years, and frankly I didn’t like it that much when it came out. For some reason, it is really appealing to me now. I think, in my advanced age, I’m able to appreciate the subtlety of the album. Dunno. But IDM is a genre that moves rather slowly, so it doesn’t sound dated at all, compared to other forms of purely electronic music. Or maybe they made it so advanced that it is actually current now?

Who knows? Anyhow, I was going to post a thread-starter on IDM production techniques, but the exact wording hasn’t come to me. Perhaps later today.