Frank Aerror

I agree with him, but the reason vinyl has returned is that artists need to earn money and selling things is the only way (right now at least) and vinyl is more durable than CD (which is also plastic). I have had to buy vinyl simply to get the music from some local bands :)

That said, if people would start buying digital from sites that actually offers the artists a good deal - or let me refrase a reasonable deal - I am all for that. The music should be downloaded. Bandcamp is one of those places - so I buy digital there. When you compare with streaming vinyl again seems quite healthy and environmental, but like this guy and everybody else I often listen to music on Youtube. Not Spotify though as they have raised the abuse of the artists to new levels.

Thanks for the link! That was interesting to watch!

ivan zlax

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:08:52 +0100

One of my favorite labels:
https://www.discogs.com/label/3519-Utility-Plastics
They chose the technical way of utilization of polyvinyl chloride:

Richard Turner - Utility Plastics vol. 03 - A - Untitled
by psychoteror on YouTube

hEARt PhoniX

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:19:31 +0100

Wow. A very well done overview and expansion on the vinyl vs. discussion. It sums up a lot of what I have been thinking (vinyl is "hifi" without being true to the original) and expands on the environmental impact even deeper than I ever cared to. And the additional health impact ... I hope he succeeds in creating awareness!
I don't own too many records and don't own a record player ATM. I am planning to buy one, but mainly to create flacs from those records that are not available in any other format. Which is a thing especially for some small and indy labels that specialize in what I like to call "bibliophile" editions. Hand printed covers, coloured singles, a cover made out of metal plates or furry fabric ... But that again is something I really treasure and what does set the physical domain apart from the digital.

Frank Aerror

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:03:09 +0100

Nick Farr wrote the following post Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:35:11 +0100

Get yourself one of those end-of-the-world-and-I-feel-great kind of loves.

Dave Angel - Arrival

Frank Aerror

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:49:45 +0100

Dave Angel - Arrival

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Muiden castle

Frank Aerror

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:43:59 +0100

Muiden castle, Muiden / Amsterdam, Netherlands

Travel

muppeth

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 18:56:00 +0100

Yeah very cool one. Been there few months back.

Frank Aerror

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:18:24 +0100

Amsterdam is awesome! Unfortunately we didn't have had enough time to do everything we wanted to do (including visiting you) but I'm sure we'll come back sooner or later 😁

Did you know that the castle was built by the duke of bavaria? I was pretty surprised by that fact.

Frank Aerror

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:42:40 +0100

Zaandam, Amsterdam

Architecture Travel

Fracture presents: Turbo

Frank Aerror

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 08:55:10 +0100

Fracture Presents: Turbo (APHALP003) (Power Play)

Pre-order 2 x 12" LP: http://bit.ly/APHALP003

Fracture Presents: Turbo
Various Artists
APHALP003
Limited Edition 2x12” Vinyl LP / Digital
http://www.astrophonica.co.uk

Released: 25th Oct 2019

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Syndrone - Mtwat

Frank Aerror

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:30:15 +0200

Mtwat

Mtwat · Syndrone Triskaideka EP ℗ Clone Released on: 2001-01-01.

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Ok Kid - Gute Menschen

Frank Aerror

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 18:07:20 +0200

OK KID - Gute Menschen

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burning water

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:31:27 +0200 from Diaspora

Sehr fein.

Jami anyone?

Frank Aerror

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:42:32 +0200

'ring:f68e30f918848fb208748067eba74dfe0f6a6943' Find me on the Jami distributed communication platform:

Tags: #Nomad

*via Nomad client (Source) Jami

Jami - the distributed and open source communication platform

Communication Messaging Chat VoIP FreeSoftware Decentralised Distributed Network

Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Matrix

Frank Aerror

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:45:09 +0200

Ryoji Ikeda - data.matrix

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hEARt PhoniX

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 05:12:22 +0200 last edited: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:24:41 +0200

I did not expect this. This is an event that I could point to when asked about the magic of the advantages of digital communication: limiting isolation.
I usually am alone very alone even knowing the name.

I have got the landmark CD series 20'' to 2000. I could bot afford it at the time and held out until it was almost gone. Today I am so glad to have done it. It's proudly on display, the sound safely stored as flac and accessed regularly. A great starting point for further explorations, still.
Did you know that was the first digital sound storage medium that the MOMA added to their collection? That it was done by a small label Raster-Noton in Chemnitz? Today this label is two labels ...
This series was kind of a collection of cutting edge who is who back then ...
And that's how I "met" Ikeda. And yes, I did actually listen to the CD beyond just liking the conceptual idea. (A friend used it to successfully convince martens not to continue living in their attic ...)

So ... thanks for posting Ikeda. Now I feel a little less alone with my love for such strange sounds.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-20-To-2000/release/1885879

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Frank Aerror

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:13:54 +0200 last edited: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:18:20 +0200

I know at least three (maybe even more) people in LE that know and appreciate this kind of music.
As a former citizen of Karl Chemnitz Dorf I do know well about Raster Noton and some of the involved persons. I also remember one of the first (if not THE first) Electric Campfire events that Raster Noton held in Chemnitz (around 2003/2004 I think). My friend Andreas did an interview with Carsten Nicolai for his radioshow "Klangerzeuger" on the local radio station Radio T.

Did you know that was the first digital sound storage medium that the MOMA added to their collection?

Nope, I didn't know that but I do know that Nicolai has strong connections to the (modern) art scene because of his graphic art works beside Rater Noton because back then this kind of music was not considered as art.

Trust me, you are not alone with your love for strange sounds

hEARt PhoniX

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 03:42:32 +0200

Thank you, I am the only one I know directly who loves such stuff ...
Raster-Noton have separated some time ago, now there's Raster and Noton.

Wow.
And I had no idea you are from Chemnitz. I sure know Radio T, but not that show. Until 2004 I was very much involved with Radio Blau in Leipzig and we certainly met quite often with Radio T and Coloradio (Dresden). Radio Corax (Halle) were creating their first shows on our frequencies.

BTW
I do have even more connections to Raster-Noton in my life ... There once was a band called AG Geige. They were very absurd, minimalistic, diletantic. There once was a portrait on DLF just weeks after Nov 9 1989 and ... I was mesmerized. As I had grown up in the West, I had known nothing about the GDR culturally.
When I moved to LE in October 1992 I certainly was eager to go to concerts. The first gig I went to was Danse Macabre Festival, with Das Ich. But after about 5 hours waiting in the cold it was canceled. All I took home was a taste of reality ("Close the doors, get out the iron bars - Nazis have been sighted outside!") and a cold.
So my real first concert became ... AG Geige. (Or my second, but I believe Christian Wolz was later).

Wikipedia on Frank Bretschneider:

In 1984, inspired by science fiction radio plays and films, he began experimenting with tape machines, synthesizers, and modified guitars. In 1986 he formed the band AG. Geige (German: work group violin), which was influenced by the Dada art movement, The Residents, and Soviet science fiction. AG. Geige disbanded in 1992.

In 1995, Bretschneider and fellow AG. Geige band member Olaf Bender founded the Rastermusic record label. In 1999 this label merged with Carsten Nicolai's Noton label [2], to become Raster-Noton. Bretschneider has released material on record labels such as 12k, Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux, Fällt and Bip Hop.[3]

I still love AG Geige very much.
BTW ... if you know tge band Kraftclub from Chemnitz ... some members are children by former AG Geiges.
And that concert that was organized as a reaction to the Nazi rallys in Chemnitz was also initiated and orgnized by ex AG Geige members, the Kraftklub parents.
That made me treasure AG Geige even more.

This one combines my live for AG Geige and The Beatles. As "Heinz&Franz" they also did a ... strangely unforgettable Led Zeplin cover of Whole Lotta Love. Two years ago I found an mp3 of that cassette release and heard it again for the first time since about 25 years.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Celebrating-The-Eggman-A-Tribute-To-John-Lennon/release/2924363

Frank Aerror

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 11:42:50 +0200

And I had no idea you are from Chemnitz.

I started a occupational retraining in 2003 that made me move to Chemnitz.

I sure know Radio T, but not that show.

Now that is impressing to me. I don't even think that most citizens of Chemnitz know Radio T.

I never found listening access to AG Geige but I think I also was too young to really understand it.During my time in Chemnitz I learned that the network around AG Geige / Raster Noton pushed subcultural life in the City. I would even go so far and state what Underground Resistance is for Detroit, is AG Geige / Raster Noton for Chemnitz and at the same time: A prophet has no honor in his own country.

But before we continue to write down our extended music-influential CV's, let's agree to meet next time I am in LE or you're in NO ;)

Frank Aerror

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 11:56:55 +0200

Ps: Kai Grehn / Alva Noto - Gaia125

Label: Major Label (2) - ML 141 • Format: 2x, Vinyl LP, Album, Limited Edition • Country: Germany • Genre: Electronic, Non-Music • Style: Radioplay, Spoken Word, Poetry, Ambient, Field Recording

hEARt PhoniX

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:27:44 +0200

Wow.
Ordered.

And yes, we should possibly meet. :) Either here, there or in between.

Bruce Sterling - Speculative Architecture

Frank Aerror

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:13:33 +0200 last edited: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:32:09 +0200

Bruce Sterling on the next 50 years of climate-wracked maker architecture

Bruce Sterling’s hour-long lecture to the Southern California Institute of Architecture is pretty good vintage Sterling: a seeming grab-bag of loosely related futuristic, ascerbic observation…

Architecture ScinenceFiction Future BoingBoing

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Frank Aerror

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:03:16 +0200 last edited: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:51:08 +0200

I like how enthusiastic and at the same time critically realistic Bruce is.
Thanks for the list @ivan zlax , I never heard of solarpunk before but I spotted one book in that list that I am actually in the progress of reading right now (Walkaway by Cory Doctorow). I'll check out if there are books off that list available at my library

ivan zlax

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:07:19 +0200

@Frank Aerror

I never heard of solarpunk before

I could recommend it in this case: https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/05/27/what-is-solarpunk/

Frank Aerror

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:22:24 +0200

spasiba @ivan zlax :)

Pixelfed

Frank Aerror

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:09:06 +0200

aerror on pixelfed.fi

pixelfed fediverse

Coaxial - Coaxial (Full Album)

Frank Aerror

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:59:24 +0200

Coaxial - Coaxial (2006) Full Album

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Dietmar Wischmeyer bei Beste Gäste @ Eckenga 30.3.2019 (audio)

Frank Aerror

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:58:57 +0200

Dietmar Wischmeyer bei Beste Gäste@Eckenga 30.3.2019 (audio)

Kabarett Society

Pommes Podcast 023 - Madera

Frank Aerror

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 23:54:15 +0200

Pommes Podcast 023: Madera

music podcast

Fairphone shipping policy

Frank Aerror

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 03:48:55 +0200

Dear @WeAreFairphone
Why is it no longer possible to order spare parts from you to Norway?
Best
One of your loyal norwegian customers

Fairphone Norway

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hEARt PhoniX

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:36:34 +0200

[sarcasm]Maybe Norway should get their shit together and finally implement something like a postal service.[/sarcasm]

Frank Aerror

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:05:39 +0200

@h.EAR.t Fairphone has been shipping with DHL earlier so I dunno what might have changed since my last order?!

hEARt PhoniX

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:01:37 +0200

Maybe some experimental feasability tests for a postal service?
But sorry, that was pure sarcasm. Maybe it's some buerocratic thing, no idea. It's just ... bad.
Maybe a proxy will be necessary. I just hate this *don't ship to here and there* when we should be all connected.

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:00:23 +0200

@h.EAR.t That would be like reversing progress. Now we've spent decades to tear the postal service apart by privatizing it, laying off people and raising prices to make sure nobody uses it.

WeAreFairphone

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:57:08 +0200 from ActivityPub

@aerror Hi Frank, this is the account of the community of Fairphone users. The company account is @Fairphone but it might be just a cross poster.
I suggest to contact them via https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/requests/new or by phone.

Frank Aerror

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:03:28 +0200

@WeAreFairphone Thank you. I already sent a mail to @Fairphone support but thought it could be useful to other people to have a public statement on the Fediverse.

WeAreFairphone

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:19:57 +0200 from ActivityPub

@aerror @Fairphone Yeah, when you get a response, feel free to post it here, too 👍

Frank Aerror

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:47:00 +0200

@WeAreFairphone It turned out that I was too stupid to find the right shipping option but anyway, here's the reply I've got from @Fairphone

To place an order that ships to your country, you first need to change your country at the top right of the webpage.
We are aware it was not clear enough, I apologize for that and thank you for your feedback! This is the way we can learn and improve.

Venetian Snares - Második Galamb

Frank Aerror

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:17:06 +0200

[HQ] Venetian Snares - Második Galamb

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Madera - Bermuda Mixset

Frank Aerror

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 02:16:52 +0200

Madera – Bermuda Mixset @ Gieszer 16, Leipzig (Dez 03, 2016)

Full Vinyl Mixset @ Bermuda Leipzig 03/12/2016
Enjoy!

01 (Intro) Heiko Laux - Savannah
02 MRSK - Venger
03 Trevino - Black Cat
04 Obsolete Music Technology - Lone Passenger
05 Skudge - November
06 Woo York & Exploit - Glory
07 Trevino - Eclipse
08 Tessela - With Patsy
09 Anthony Parasole - Heartbeat
10 Floorplan - Eclipse
11 The Traveller -‎ A100
12 Mark Broom - Stunned (97 Mix)
13 Robert Hood - Omega (End Times)
14 Mono Junk - Channel B
15 Etapp Kyle - Prizma
16 Monolake - Plumbicon (Sleeparchive Interpretation)
17 Daniel Bell - Acid Phreak
18 Todd Sines - Can’t Keep Up
19 Bernard Badie - Beat Down
20 Makam - Freakin‘ Sex
21 Head High - Keep On Talking (Dirt Mix)
22 Stenny & Andrea - Sea (The Time Gate)
23 J.Tjin - U U U
24 DVS1 - Ecks
25 Boston 168 - Vapor
26 Peter Van Hoesen - Axis Mundi
27 Luigi AcidMachine - Improbable Concept
28 Trevino - Moving Target
29 James Ruskin - Time & Place
...

check also:
www.soundcloud.com/varifocus

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ivan zlax

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 10:11:00 +0200 last edited: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 10:15:46 +0200

Full Vinyl Mixset

I also used to have a vinyl collection, i especially liked the european minimal techno from the 90s. Check this out:
https://www.mixcloud.com/is3/digitizedcompressed/
This is 37 tracks in 1 hour mix, i recorded it 10 years ago.

01 Heiko Laux - Ornaments [KA 69LP]
02 MD Jr. - Bust Out [3B 14]
03 D.Diggler - Journey 25 [RSP005]
04 Metope - Rabum [Areal022]
05 Ultrahigh - The Curse Of The Magnetic Nuns [FIM 100]
06 Laurent Garnier - Coloured City [F 086, 137.0086.30]
07 Misjah & Groovehead - Psycho City [X-001]
08 Robert Gorl - Yip Yep [db 49]
09 Steve Stoll - I Erupt [COM018-6]
10 8-Bit Science - Class A Comp. [TROPE030]
11 Thomas Schumacher - Supreme Funk [12SPIEL10]
12 Stereo Jack - The Pace [BASH012]
13 Boriqua Tribez - Lascivo [Super026]
14 Kopfuss Resonator - Give Her The Fuck [LR 002-12]
15 Oliver Ho - B2 [META07]
16 Jeff Mills - The Lovely Assistant [PM-006]
17 Michael Burkat - Noisy [audio 27]
18 Andreas Kremer - Pussy Shuffle [EI1214-6]
19 GF - Planet Two [KKT 048]
20 Basic Implant - Wave Surfers [audio 19]
21 Andreas Kremer - Wuestenskorpion [DV006]
22 Steve Stoll - In To Out [DJAX-UP-362]
23 The Modernist - Dali Bop Horizon (Auftrieb Mix) [7243 8 84683 6 7]
24 Michael Burkat - Sex With Jenna Wade [audio 25]
25 Andreas Kramer & Kay D. Smith - Insektenjagd [CR12020]
26 BK & Andy Farley - Step Away (Endorphin Mix) [NUKP 0349]
27 Adam Beyer & Henrik B - Year Of Reflection [ill1208]
28 The Advent - Panther [KR005]
29 Component - Losing It [KSQ024]
30 Invexis - Calypso [COMP 31]
31 Adam Beyer - A [DC21,5]
32 Toni Rios - Pandemonium [DELRED023]
33 Marco Bailey & Tom Hades - Bogota [audio 32]
34 DJ Amok - Spiral Pattern [HIGHBALL 03/015]
35 The Advent - Mangina [KR014]
36 Speedy J - Bugmod [12 NoMu 92]
37 Gilgamesh - Trescore [FRGcore]

burning water

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:49:09 +0200 from Diaspora

Madera ist ein feinerle.

Frank Aerror

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 14:39:02 +0200

@ivan zlax Thank you. Much appreciated :))
@burning water ...und wat fuer einer!

Frank Aerror

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 14:41:10 +0200

@ivan zlax "..used to have.." you don't have it anymore?

hEARt PhoniX

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 15:48:23 +0200 last edited: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 15:49:19 +0200

LoL
At first I wanted to scold you. Thought you had been to L.E. and this was a recording of your set. I know that place (from the outside). Have not been in that area for ... quite a few years now since we moved to another part of the town. I think I kind of went past Gieszerstraße just a handful of times since about 2010.
But I am way more comfortable by myself, embraced by the sound from my headphones, and always preferred real live events to DJing. Quickly feel uncomfortable in such spaces where you are expected to dance etc. Radio DJ-Sets are something else, of course. :)
But here & now that set is working quite OK! Thanks.
And quite nice that the tagging has been well done and I cansee what is playing in case I want to do my own research.

ivan zlax

Sat, 24 Aug 2019 18:05:28 +0200

@Frank Aerror

"..used to have.." you don't have it anymore?

Do not have. 5 years ago during hominidization i gave away all the valuables i had. I gave away the entire collection of discs. Compact and vinyl discs, and some rare magnet cassettes. Among other releases, i had this:
https://www.discogs.com/Time-Machines-Time-Machines/release/102263
https://www.discogs.com/Time-Machines-Time-Machines/release/59116
https://www.discogs.com/Time-Machines-Time-Machines/release/1085561
(all three variants: 2xLP, official CD, pirate CD - very rare record)
It was 357 releases in my collection (i saved discogs virtual collection), i have collected it during distribution releases of my label. I also had a small collection of money (real Transnistrian rubles, Antarctic dollars, etc), musical instruments (i had working Polyvox synth and other stuff) - i gave it all away.

Frank Aerror

Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:55:06 +0200

@h.EAR.t I haven't been in LE for a while and I hardly know any locations there.
@ivan zlax What does "hominidization" mean? I tried to find out but the internet wouldn't give me a consistent answer. But I have huge respect for you.... I mean it must have hurt to give everything away.

ivan zlax

Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:00:39 +0200 last edited: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:09:06 +0200

@Frank Aerror

What does "hominidization" mean?

Until that moment, others were trying to make me human. Hominidization is self-awareness as a soulless animal. From the moment of hominidization, i directly and openly say how i feel. I don’t feel like a human, i don’t feel any soul in me. I feel like an animal, a primate, a hominid, a hominin without any soul. And since then i live very well. Much better than when i had to pretend to be human.

I mean it must have hurt to give everything away.

It was not hurt, it was funny. I previously mined 600 bitcoins. Then me accidentally formatted home partition where mined bitcoins sotred and decided not to restore the partition then it cost several dollars at the moment. For some time it was painful (then i was still pretending to be a human) when the rate growth to $100. It was sad once. And then only rejoiced, it was fun.

hEARt PhoniX

Sun, 25 Aug 2019 17:34:41 +0200

If you happen to be ... you sure know what to do. :)