@TheVinylApe2 I agree - for me, those two distinct halves of TT's output may be very different, but they fulfil different needs very adequately. If I'm at home and need an album I can enjoy with just the right amount of active listening, "The Party's Over" or "The Colour of Spring" gets the shout. If I'm at work and need something to draw my concentration away from the office chatter, without being too distracting, the later two (and Hollis' solo album) are perfect.

@FedericoAgueraCanavate An unrecognised classic. I love how he was able to marry the symphonic and electronic sounds on Side 2!

I've had this for a few years, and the jury's still out on it. The discographies of both Huygen and Neuronium are not short of albums that easily draw you into their inner sonic sanctum, but this is something of an outlier. It's fairly short - only a fraction over half an hour - and it's quite unique in that it was on a major label (Jive Electro), not very "psychotronic" and Huygen provides semi-spoken vocals over half of it.

#nowplaying #vinyl #neuronium #electronicmusic #electro

@mrowster It certainly wouldn't surprise me if, at the same time Japan tried to improve vinyl, the US were trying to cheapen it 😆 There was a video I watched on YouTube ages ago that compared US to UK and German vinyl, and he literally said that while most UK pressings were on virgin vinyl, US pressings were "street-walker vinyl". I'll have to see if I can find it.

Currently spinning "A" by Jethro Tull. Not an LP that gets taken off the shelf regularly, especially considering the strong folk-prog trio that sits beside it, but still so much to enjoy. My copy came from a charity shop in Atherstone, and is a remaindered bargain bin copy from the US. It looks and sounds LUMPY. Don't know what they used to make it, but it certainly wasn't vinyl: bits of old Bic pens, discarded UPVC window frames...?

#nowplaying #music #jethrotull #progrock #vinyl

@crankyoldbugger Now there's a track I haven't listened to in *years*

[heads to Discogs to price up copies of the Risky Business soundtrack]

@philkindermann It's definitely worth checking out if you can stream it for free somewhere. Side 2 *can* be a bit of an acquired taste in places, but the 20min title track on Side 1 is...

@philkindermann Totally agree - it may not be a genuinely live album, but the music is mesmerising from start to finish. I'm kind of glad Baumann came back to the fold to record "Stratosfear" (the album that got me hooked on TD) but I'm also kind of intrigued as to what they could have accomplished with Michael Hoenig. His "Departure from the Northern Wasteland" LP is as good as any TD album of the time IMO

25 years ago, when I was getting heavily into #TangerineDream, I had copies of all the Pink Years stuff (because collector) yet very VERY rarely played them. Just didn't get on with them. Today, I play them more frequently than favourites like "Rubycon". I suppose, given how much my life has changed since, I can appreciate music that allows me to just zone out and languish in near-complete nothingness for 45 minutes.

#music #vinyl #nowplaying #krautrock #kosmische #spacerock #ambient

One whole week to get a new laptop set up and stable; must have re-installed Linux six or seven times. No WiFi drivers for my card yet, so getting around it with a USB Ethernet adaptor... still, if it keeps me away from Windows 11 and all its data thievery... 😜

@georgetakei - @DaveGorman did a brilliant routine about this in his "Modern Life is Goodish" show. Found the clip on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcnXest1oog

Q: Why will you never find a working computer in a Cider Mill?

A: Because they've taken all the cores out

#comedy
#dadjoke
#cider
#somerset

One down-side to making digital copies of vinyl is that the stylus can be influenced by loud noises several feet away. It doesn't affect the music, but you can hear it when the music's quiet or between tracks.

In the spectrogram below, taken when the stylus was in the run-out groove, it's possible to both see and hear my dog barking!

Not difficult to remove if you have iZotope RX though.

#nowplaying the purple #vinyl edition of "Fauna" by #Haken. The purple doesn't quite show up when you have a dark platter mat underneath.

"Elephants Never Forget" is an awesome piece: it's almost as if they shift between #Queen, #Muse and #GentleGiant at will. As for Ross Jennings: what a set of pipes!

In what universe is Helen Joyce and #SexMatters a "Human Rights" charity?! Unless you count them as a lobby group for the *abolition* of human rights which their cabal of middle-class conservatives don't like.

Typical one-sided journalism from the #Torygraph

#nowplaying the #vinyl reissue of "Coffin for Head of State" by the musically-immortal #FelaKuti

Fela in fine voice, pulling no punches as he recants his observations of government/business practices and their effects on working-class Nigerians, culminating in the story of his march on Dodan Barracks carrying a coffin representing his late mother. Powerful stuff as always - a half hour of red-hot #Afrobeat with an important lesson weaved within.

#spongebob #memes

In a parallel universe somewhere, Rick Moranis was cast as the T101

"Okay eh, so you're, like, Sarah Connor? Beauty. John's here, we've got the Harley out back, and we can get you away from that liquid metal hosehead that's trying to kill you. Oh, wait, there was a line I was supposed to say... oh. yeah: "come with me if you want to live". Beauty."

#rickmoranis
#theterminator
#comedy
#aiart
#midjourney

New #vinyl arrived yesterday: "Les mots bleus", a #FrenchRock classic by Christophe. #JeanMichelJarre wrote most of the lyrics, thankfully in a way I can comprehend without having to use Google Translate! Didn't see the Paralympics closing ceremony, but I heard that he played some of this in tribute.