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Do I need my 3D glasses for this one?

And the most important thing: whatever you do, make sure you enjoy it. Don't put yourself through hell!

I wonder who has the largest FSOL collection in terms of physical releases. If I hadn't given up the collecting a few years ago I'd definitely be on for it, but I haven't seen rontxo's collection. I'm still missing a fair few '91/'92 12"s and pretty much all the remix 12"s from the past si...

I used to have an iPod, then it broke and I went back to my discman. Which is more convenient as it means I no longer have to rip CDs to my computer.


My laptop isn't quite as fancy as having a remote.

Do you guys really spend most of your spare time in front of the computer? No sitting back in a comfy chair, reading a book, lying in bed, or anything that's not staring at a screen frying your eyes? Jeez. More than a couple of hours at a screen and I start to go mad and long for something tangible ...

Pandemonium wrote:Listening music on a CD player, lats face it, its becoming extinct.

Still the largest selling format for music around the world.

The only music I listen to as digital files regularly are my own work-in-progress tracks.

Partially because I fucking hate sitting at a computer.

mcbpete wrote:I've got a copy Papua New Guinea from an Ibiza chill-out compilation CD, I think that's about it.

Hey cool, which one? I've been after that track for years!

Eerie Query = A Corner
Polar Rinse = Journey to the Centre
Tinted Love = a Polemical track, can't remember which one.

Yeah, the best thing to do is experiment until you get a sound that you really like. I don't think music theory is of much use unless you have really specific ideas to start with that you want to translate into music, so just get some free software - Reaper is a decent DAW, Audacity is great for edi...

As I think I mentioned in another thread, Long Shadows is a remix of Paths by Robert Miles that was obviously not released because they decided on the Cosmic Jukebox remix instead. ISDN/Lifeforms material is really tricky, because stuff like Dirty Shadows originates from around the Lifeforms era, ev...

It features Distant Memories and She Fell Backwards/Stark Tower, which makes it rather interesting in terms of content, helpfully placing these around the ISDN era. A fair amount of unknown stuff in there. Not a great quality bootleg, from memory. I'm sure it's around somewhere...

Licensing costs, selling for just a couple of pounds each but probably paying just as much in licensing to cover royalties for all the music on them. Shame, really.

Long Shadows is 2001.

Bit different from your earlier ones, that.

12 Hour kiss was just four of the 3 hour ones from 1993 pasted together which Kiss ran in 1995 for reasons unknown, so it'll probably be somewhere on one of those too, then.