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    • PeterP
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      @derivative666:

      If the year ended today my top 15 would look like this in no particular order:

      1. Hesitation Marks- Nine Inch Nails
      2. Earth Rocker- Clutch
      3. The Wild Feathers- The Wild Feathers
      4. Tomorrow's Harvest- Boards of Canada
      5. Kveikur- Sigur Ros
      6. Trouble Will Find Me- The National
      7. Allez allez- The Night Marchers
      8. Fain- Wolf People
      9. Is Survived By- Touché Amore
      10. Pain is Beauty- Chelsea Wolfe
      11. mbv- My Bloody Valentine
      12. …Like Clockwok- QOTSA
      13. One of Us is the Killer- Dillinger Escape Plan
      14.Sunbather- Deafheaven
      15.Mechanical Bull- Kings of Leon

      "Obstacles are stepping-stones that guide us to our goals"

      i fucking love end-year lists. yours is quite good, d666! now ill probably have to come up with my own..

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      • Finn666F
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        Max….. Currently working on spring dates.

        if you guys come to switzerland or maybe even germany…let me know! 🙂

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        • PeterP
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          inspired by d666, heres my top 15 if the year ended now:

          1. the ocean - pelagial
          2. haken - the mountain
          3. clutch - earth rocker
          4. witherscape - the inheritance
          5. anciients - heart of oak
          6. steven wilson - the raven that refused to sing (and other stories)
          7. in vain - aenigma
          8. thrawsunblat - wanderer on the continent of saplings
          9. gorguts - colored sands
          10. karnivool - assymetry
          11. qotsa - …like clockwork
          12. persefone - spiritual migration
          13. dillinger escape plan - one of us is the killer
          14. black crown initiate - song of the crippled bull
          15. audrey horne - youngblood

          enjoy ^_^

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          • derivative666D
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            Thanks for sharing

            "Obstacles are stepping-stones that guide us to our goals"

            "honorable mention to the bearded giant aka derivative666 for being a stand up dude & not changing with the seasons since i've been around these parts" Monday

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            • derivative666D
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              Kings of Leon have become my guilty pleasure they are fucking outstanding. I don't care that the newer stuff sounds like Maroon 5.

              "Obstacles are stepping-stones that guide us to our goals"

              "honorable mention to the bearded giant aka derivative666 for being a stand up dude & not changing with the seasons since i've been around these parts" Monday

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              • riffblaster generalR
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                http://pitchfork.com/advance/235-grand-blood/

                Full album stream up at pitchfork.  please enjoy at maximum volume!

                PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                • derivative666D
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                  Thanks nate

                  "Obstacles are stepping-stones that guide us to our goals"

                  "honorable mention to the bearded giant aka derivative666 for being a stand up dude & not changing with the seasons since i've been around these parts" Monday

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                  • natehateN
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                    happy birthday to the boss

                    don't you know there ain't no devil? only god when he's drunk!

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                    • mclaincauseyM
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                      World Boogie is Coming by the North Mississippi Allstars has vaulted to my favorite of 2013.  It's a respectful, loving tribute to, and continuation of, North Mississippi musical traditions such as Hill Country and Fife and Drum Blues.  The latter is possibly the oldest blues tradition, and one that's almost dead, since Otha Turner passed.  His granddaughter (Sharde Thomas) carries the tradition on, I think she may be the last fife player left in the tradition, and she's on a cover of one of his tunes.  What a fucking brilliant album.  A must for blues fans, but accessible enough that anyone who like blues-derived music of any kind (e.g., rock) will probably fall in love.

                      Seeing these boys play tonight.  It's been a few years.  It used to be such a routine to see them, I will never appreciate a NMAS show like the one tonight.  Go see them if you can.

                      Here's an example of what they do:

                      Think it, be it.

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                      • gbougardG
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                        @mclaincausey:

                        World Boogie is Coming by the North Mississippi Allstars has vaulted to my favorite of 2013.  It's a respectful, loving tribute to, and continuation of, North Mississippi musical traditions such as Hill Country and Fife and Drum Blues.  The latter is possibly the oldest blues tradition, and one that's almost dead, since Otha Turner passed.  His granddaughter (Sharde Thomas) carries the tradition on, I think she may be the last fife player left in the tradition, and she's on a cover of one of his tunes.  What a fucking brilliant album.  A must for blues fans, but accessible enough that anyone who like blues-derived music of any kind (e.g., rock) will probably fall in love.

                        Seeing these boys play tonight.  It's been a few years.  It used to be such a routine to see them, I will never appreciate a NMAS show like the one tonight.  Go see them if you can.

                        Here's an example of what they do:

                        I'll definitely check this one out

                        I just bought Memphis by Boz Scaggs, lovely

                        Also, this morning, I bought a used pair of JBL 80t speakers to go with the McIntosh 250 power amp I got a couple of weeks ago. This set is nice, and will be even nicer when I get a preamp so I can hook up all my music players.

                        I blasted the set with Dub Experience by Sly & Robbie at maximum level and it was wicked to have some organic sounds again as I've been listening to music using ipods and computers and wireless speakers with distorted eq's for a few years now….

                        I'm playing Lee Perry's Super Ape at the moment and it is pure joy.

                        I'm happy that I found out about qobuz.com which sells lossless audio files rather than 256kps files on Amazon and iTunes. They also sell studio master quality stuff in 196/24bits quality for some albums like Thriller or the new Daft Punk. Very nice change from iTunes (what the fuck are they waiting for to sell AIFF files, for Christ sake???) even though they dont have everything (they now have my catalog, though!).

                        There is another site in the US called HDtracks.com with a bigger selection, but you cant buy from them when located in EU (that sucks).

                        So I've embarked on a re-ripping mission for my 5,000 CD's in aiff or flac and it sounds a bit better. But what a bitch having to re-rip cd's... I need an assistant or a slave because my 13 year old daughter does not want to do it for her dad... Ungrateful kids...

                        Sly Dunbar bigs up IH on YT
                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2OM738mKY
                        Sly & Robbie A Run Tings
                        Gregory Isaacs Liveth 4 I-ver

                        Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
                        Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
                        Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
                        Ric

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                        • mclaincauseyM
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                          What are you using to rip?

                          I try to keep everything as flac unless I'm ripping a CD. My workflow is to use iTunes set to rip anything put into an optical drive to wav and my NAS hosts my iTunes directory. So if the cd is on gracenote, it's as simple as putting a disc in. Still a pain, but not bad. Traders would frown upon this because it's not using EAC but fuck it I don't trade anymore.

                          Think it, be it.

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                          • gbougardG
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                            @mclaincausey:

                            What are you using to rip?

                            iTunes, but I should investigate more hifi applications. Those are a bitch because they cost mucho dollares, though…

                            @mclaincausey:

                            I try to keep everything as flac unless I'm ripping a CD. My workflow is to use iTunes set to rip anything put into an optical drive to wav and my NAS hosts my iTunes directory. So if the cd is on gracenote, it's as simple as putting a disc in. Still a pain, but not bad. Traders would frown upon this because it's not using EAC but fuck it I don't trade anymore.

                            This file ripping community is yet another bunch of anal retentive males living alone or with cats everywhere in their apartments… I was a bit like this with my record collection way back when, and the guys I bought the amp or the speakers are like this too... Harmless but a bit boring to spend an evening with these types...

                            As for format, I use either wav, AIFF (I like it better than Wav for some reason) or Flac / Alac (I use a mac and itunes doesnt rip into Flac)
                            I have a brand new Askell & Kern audio player that is slowly growing on me and is elbowing our my 6 or 7 ipods (classic, touch, nano, I have had them all) because:

                            1. it plays all formats including audiophile formats,
                            2. you load it with files like a hard drive and dont need itunes or similar applications
                            3. it has 2 micro sd card slots, thereby expanding its own 64gb capacity to 3 times that (and soon there will be 128gb micro sd cards!!!)
                            4. it is not an idevice which is nice for a change (I still use an ipod touch at the gym, the A&K costs too much to risk dropping or sweating on)
                            5. sounds better

                            The cons of the A&K are:

                            1. price
                            2. takes forever to boot and shut down (it's the Windows thing)
                            3. for some reason I dont get all the artwork transferred from the computer (I dont really care although it is prettier with covers)
                            4. OS is not as user friendly and intuitive as a ipod touch
                            5. touch screen is way smaller, but more than sufficient for playing music
                            6. doesnt do computer, email, zillions of apps, only music... to me it's almost a plus

                            Sly Dunbar bigs up IH on YT
                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2OM738mKY
                            Sly & Robbie A Run Tings
                            Gregory Isaacs Liveth 4 I-ver

                            Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
                            Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
                            Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
                            Ric

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                            • mclaincauseyM
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                              Yeah, they're anal but if you're a part of a trading community you should be anal. Introducing degraded copies when pristine ones are available needlessly introduces entropy into the community archives within a few decades this could destroy recordings. If I were still being anal I'd use EAC in situations where I had to rip non-copyrighted material I intended to trade, then flac up the extracted wavs. AIFF and wav are just containers, they are sonically identical because they are both encapsulated PCM streams. Wav is a better option if you care about cross platform portability, aiff is more of a Mac thing. I don't think apple lossless is truly lossless, and if it is it is still a proprietary standard. So that's why I prefer flac/wav. YMMV

                              Think it, be it.

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                              • mclaincauseyM
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                                Here's what went down last night. Spoilers follow, if you're catching the tour you likely will get a similar set. I have the recording, PM me for the Dropbox of wavs.

                                Xcel Energy Center, St Paul, Minnesota
                                September 28, 2013

                                Set - 1:59:10
                                –---------------------
                                01. Copy of A
                                02. 1,000,000
                                03. Terrible Lie
                                04. March of the Pigs
                                05. Piggy
                                06. All Time Low
                                07. Disappointed
                                08. Come Back Haunted
                                09. Find My Way
                                10. Satellite
                                11. I Would For You
                                12. Survivalism
                                13. Running
                                14. A Warm Place
                                15. Somewhat Damaged
                                16. Wish
                                17. Only
                                18. The Hand That Feeds
                                19. Head Like A Hole

                                20. Encore Break
                                21. Even Deeper
                                22. Trent Band Into
                                23. In This Twilight
                                24. While I'm Still Here \ Black Noise
                                25. Hurt

                                SAMPLE TYPE

                                16 bit 44.1 kHz (Downsampled from 24 bit 96 kHz)

                                SOURCE

                                Core Sound HEB 4060 (Base Rolloff On) > Sony PCM-M10 (Mic In)

                                LOCATION

                                Rail - Right Side

                                NOTES

                                Taper: JB
                                e-mail: radioheadusa@comcast.net
                                Web: http://home.comcast.net/~radioheadusa/
                                date of seeding: September 29, 2013
                                Other Version: 24 bit 96 kHZ is available on Dimeadozen

                                Info file
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                                Think it, be it.

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                                • gbougardG
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                                  @mclaincausey:

                                  Yeah, they're anal but if you're a part of a trading community you should be anal. Introducing degraded copies when pristine ones are available needlessly introduces entropy into the community archives within a few decades this could destroy recordings. If I were still being anal I'd use EAC in situations where I had to rip non-copyrighted material I intended to trade, then flac up the extracted wavs. AIFF and wav are just containers, they are sonically identical because they are both encapsulated PCM streams. Wav is a better option if you care about cross platform portability, aiff is more of a Mac thing. I don't think apple lossless is truly lossless, and if it is it is still a proprietary standard. So that's why I prefer flac/wav. YMMV

                                  Nothing against anal stuff! What is the Mac equivalent for EAC you would recommend?

                                  Sly Dunbar bigs up IH on YT
                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2OM738mKY
                                  Sly & Robbie A Run Tings
                                  Gregory Isaacs Liveth 4 I-ver

                                  Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
                                  Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
                                  Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
                                  Ric

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                                  • mclaincauseyM
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                                    I don't know. I never extract for trading. iTunes has an error correction mode though!  I'll look into it and post back.

                                    Think it, be it.

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                                    • WinchyW
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                                      I think it's possible that Snowy and I are the only Drum & Bass fans here but i'm gonna post this anyway. Doc Scott relaunches his excellent 31 Records label with three super tracks from Overlook…

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                                      • nemesisnow1200N
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                                        Purely for Geo,,

                                        Raw and unwashed ,,,,,,my fekkin arse!!!!!!

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                                        • xtcclassicX
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                                          @mclaincausey:

                                          Here's what went down last night. Spoilers follow, if you're catching the tour you likely will get a similar set. I have the recording, PM me for the Dropbox of wavs.

                                          Xcel Energy Center, St Paul, Minnesota
                                          September 28, 2013

                                          Set - 1:59:10
                                          –---------------------
                                          01. Copy of A
                                          02. 1,000,000
                                          03. Terrible Lie
                                          04. March of the Pigs
                                          05. Piggy
                                          06. All Time Low
                                          07. Disappointed
                                          08. Come Back Haunted
                                          09. Find My Way
                                          10. Satellite
                                          11. I Would For You
                                          12. Survivalism
                                          13. Running
                                          14. A Warm Place
                                          15. Somewhat Damaged
                                          16. Wish
                                          17. Only
                                          18. The Hand That Feeds
                                          19. Head Like A Hole

                                          20. Encore Break
                                          21. Even Deeper
                                          22. Trent Band Into
                                          23. In This Twilight
                                          24. While I'm Still Here \ Black Noise
                                          25. Hurt

                                          SAMPLE TYPE

                                          16 bit 44.1 kHz (Downsampled from 24 bit 96 kHz)

                                          SOURCE

                                          Core Sound HEB 4060 (Base Rolloff On) > Sony PCM-M10 (Mic In)

                                          LOCATION

                                          Rail - Right Side

                                          NOTES

                                          Taper: JB
                                          e-mail: radioheadusa@comcast.net
                                          Web: http://home.comcast.net/~radioheadusa/
                                          date of seeding: September 29, 2013
                                          Other Version: 24 bit 96 kHZ is available on Dimeadozen

                                          Info file
                                          View Info file (0.97 KB)

                                          Pretty much what I just saw in St. Louis tonight. Wow, what a show…

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                                          • mclaincauseyM
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                                            Glad you enjoyed!

                                            Yeah I don't expect much variation, they're not that kind of band. This was a top shelf show. Even with a couple of "first night of a new tour" hiccups.

                                            I can't stress enough, even if you're not a big fan of this band: go see this tour.

                                            Think it, be it.

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