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I’m so glad I never pursued Oracle DB as a career, I was considering it at one point in the early 2000s, even went to school. I would have been making a good $100k+ a year instead of struggling along, but at least I still have a soul :P

stealing IP’ is the weakest one in my opinion

Tell that to all the artists who are finding themselves in the training data, a lot of musicians are now finding themselves in those data. Calling it stealing IP is a bit of a misnomer, since that only really cares about the copyright holders, they are outright stealing culture from us

Isn’t that just bonkers? You can barely get a meal anywhere for two people under $50 now, I don’t make that kind of money either and never did, that’s groceries for half a week at the very least.

I’m sure this is partially what these ID laws are about, they know their product is harmful to not just kids but EVERYONE, but they don’t want EVERYONE to stop using it, so what’s the answer? Ban the kids

Nice :) I’m also a big fan of the new natural lawns people are doing, yes the supermarket is a nightmare now, they have reduced the choices a lot, upped the prices, the quality is not consistent at all, half the times the produce or item I want is out. These are all things they told us would happen under communism lol

Yes that is perfect, and honestly the more worthwhile and rewarding experiences are to be had without stuff; sing to yourself everyday, see what the chipmunks are doing today, read a little, find some new recipes, play a little music. All things that slow the frenzied pace of modern life down a few notches :)

True enough, I am just hopeful that will catch on more and more I suppose, people are capable of doing so much but somehow they’ve offloaded all the good stuff little by little. I am pro people and I refuse to believe that is not a winning strategy for taking our lives back

I don’t right now :( I have a small mini system that has a tape player but I don’t trust it, I’ve been meaning to buy a proper nice cassette deck like a Nakamichi, Denon, Tascam or something like that, like the old component stereo ones with decent transport mechanisms and play heads, but I keep putting it off for other things I guess. I don’t really wanna risk mangling them as some of them have recordings of music I made ages ago lol.

That makes pretty good sense to me. I think that’s part of my attraction to 80s new wave and synth pop so much, it was a time of such androgyny and gender line blurring, not needed to be defined, maybe part of it was for band image but it was still there, and a lot of the songs had more hopeful messages as well. It’s so poppy and fun to dance and sing along to as well :) So I totally get where you’re coming from, music is so powerful in that way how it can really transport you, and even choosing which medium to listen to it on makes a big difference in the mood which is a cool effect

I’ve semi-recently re-discovered my love for singing so Madonna, Tina Turner, Donna Summer, Steve Nicks, Cyndi Lauper, Blondie, Pat Benatar/the GoGos, The Bangles, Tiffany, Bjork, Siouxsie, Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, Bananarama etc. are all some go-to’s, so many amazing, talented ladies.

Haha weeeell, I don’t listen to it so much anymore, it’s a tad noisy for me these days, but that’s rad that your Dad is a fan, any fan of EN seems like they must be a pretty interesting person, it’s so visceral and raw

I don’t know about you folks but I am just tired of this whole business, I do not really need any new products for anything anymore, most of the food I buy are raw ingredients to prepare meals and snacks myself because these companies have shown us time and time again they cannot be trusted. I will not watch your ads, I will not buy your products, I will not listen to your bullshit corporate promises because you just keep lying to us about everything, so go fuck yourselves

How about just fix your god damn product so people won’t constantly sue you? Business nowadays is just completely asinine

Right, I mean, that’s what the idea is in theory… who knows, it feels like it should be right but maybe the heavier ones warp more. Then there’s all the funky clear and color ones which are even more expensive

Wow that is a very diverse selection indeed and your media divide is a bit fascinating lol. Any reason, do you find female singers sound better on vinyl or is that music you are willing to pay more for?

Yes :) Most of my music collection is flac and mp3 I have collected through the years but I have some cassettes, CDs and vinyl as well. I wanted to be a dj for a while so I have some electronic records, mostly from a local record label in the 90s called Drop Bass Records, that is pretty hard acid/hardcore techno, but I have some other electronic music as well. Recently I bought a re-pressing of the Fires of Ork and Dreamfish, two ambient albums, also from the 90s, which incidentally is where I learned about the vinyls weights and such. :) I have some other from Panabrite, Bluetech, and I have some records that were my folks, Simon and Garfunkel, Creedence, Beach Boys.

I don’t listen to much metal these days, I guess mostly new wave, synth pop, electronic, alternative, getting back into some industrial though as far as heavier music, Skinny Puppy is always a favorite, I kind of poo-poo’d VNV Nation when they came around before because I was more into industrial like Einsturezende Neubauten, but they have some good stuff as well, and Covenant, Frontline Asssembly, Front 242, Thrill KIll Kult :)

I guess I should listen to some new music, but honestly I have a lot I haven’t listened to yet and haven’t really found myself wanting lol. Sorry for the wall of text.

I forgot to mention as well that the thicker/heavier vinyl is also less susceptible to warping, sounds like you have a lovely setup though :) and nice records!

It’s mostly a matter of quality, vinyl records are weighted in grams, heavier being thicker records. The thicker vinyl allows the vinyl cutting lathe to cut deeper into the record so it is more durable and will last longer. Usually for things like special editions or that sort of thing, they will have heavier vinyl for collectors, where as a normal pop record you buy at a store will be a thinner, quicker cut record that is not as durable to more and more replays but is cheaper to produce. I’m sure someone has a more detailed explanation but that’s my understanding.

Ah, I’m sorry if I ever made the impression that I thought this was somehow Indian music, there are other producers have infuse more Indian elements into their sound, but I know it’s heavily from things like american disco, house, techno, german industrial, berlin school, etc. It’s just the music they played at the beach parties there, the name probably sounded cool and ethnic to someone and it stuck I guess, as these things go. I do think the area is very beautiful though, I would love to visit India some day as a whole not just there. Thanks for sharing your perspective and the music

OH! I just thought of something of interest connecting these worlds, here’s an album from an indian artist from the 80s that uses an instrument that is used in a lot of other techno and later music, the roland tb-303, which was original meant to replace a bass guitar. This album was recently re-discovered, it was way ahead of it’s time

Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHEWnFgUCwM

You can’t take it out of the conversation, that is the entire conversation; it is not a choice it is there all along, there are people who want to make you think it’s a choice, but it’s not. The only choice involved is listening to yourself and who you are because there are a lot of people who would have you deny who you really are, then you become miserable and sad and just consume, I was there. If it was it’s not a choice anyone would even gain anything from making in this society, as far as we have come there is so much more to be done as far as people’s views on the whole LGBTQIA+ spectrum

Interesting that you say that, I think most of the people visiting were from Europe, that specific genre of electronic music was never really popular in America at all for some reason. I’m not sure what else to tell you about it, you asked what it was and I told you, I’m not here to argue the authenticity of it ugh

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Hack a Day, Metafilter, used to be Boing Boing but they started a lot of advertising sadly

How old are you? It happened in the 60s to 90s… It’s not Indian but has some Indian music elements to some of the songs, the music in named after the beach where they had the parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_trance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cciUE5aefU
https://www.gqindia.com/entertainment/content/the-incredible-true-history-of-goa-gil-psychedelic-trance-and-the-end-of-the-hippy-trail

Yes I read about this as well. https://japandaily.jp/the-johatsu-japans-evaporated-people-who-vanish-without-a-trace/
Perhaps that’s what you’re thinking of? I don’t know about the accuracy of it.