Old school turntablism is so fascinating to me. There's just something to it that isn't the same with Serato and all the digital setups. The record collecting and scouring for samples, the sleek look of a full turntable with a big old 12 inch on the platter. It's so cool. That said, I can't afford that so I'll have to settle for getting my old Numark controller out of storage and trying my hand at this again.
I circled back to playing Demon’s Souls after beating Bloodborne, and I beat the boss in two tries that made me ragequit the game for months. Funny how playing more FromSoftware titles makes you better at them.
Wish there were better places to dig for records around me. All the places that sell used vinyl just have really useless or popular stuff. Can't find any of those hidden gems. Anyone experienced in the looking-for-obscure-records department? Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
Record collecting is by and large a collector’s market. It you’re looking to find something obscure/out-of-print, the only real guarantee you’ll be able to find it is when it gets reissues, and the collectors sitting on them get ride of their copies they were hoping to increase the value of. Otherwise, you’re gonna have to buy online.
To answer your question from the Session thread and close the loop on it, no I did not study ethnomusicology in the most strict sense, but I have read a couple of textbooks and listened to the audio companions that are frequently used, and watched full-semester recordings of university courses with my free time. @lime treacle My personal thoughts are a little more nuanced than what I've said in the thread, but I'll save it for another time. I'm looking into some of the resources you linked.
Full random, I guess this is the appropriate place. Finnish is a goddamn b¨tch language to learn. No indo-european roots, so nice start-from-scratch situation if you speak one of its many grand-children languages. Been going at it for 8 years now - as a hobby, not within any kind of framework or studies - and I'm at that point where i understand most of the content if I have to read it, and 65% of the content if I have to listen to it. Writing it is getting there. Speaking it though. Pfffiou. With the million grammatical rules it has, no way to compute all that in a spontaneous way. Got to acquire shit tons of automatic responses and conversations flows. In the process of doing that. Also, why Finnish one may ask? Keeping it simple : if you once do an exchange student in your 20's and decide it's a good moment to get into lovely couple stuff, you may have to deal with the consequences later in life
My cousin is learning Finnish right now and has said similar things about the language. Super cool that you've been learning it though. What has been your primary method of learning?
Virtual high five to you cousin ahah It's been kind of all over the places Initially, just one app, kind of similar to Duo Lingo stuff, but made by a Finnish company specifically for Finnish learning. That helped with acquiring a basic vocabulary over time Then I used this website a lot (https://uusikielemme.fi), that contains tons of stuff related to the Finnish grammar. Just wrapping my head around the different rules took years, for real. It's a looooot to digest lol Meanwhile, I started watching simplified finnish content (cartoons, simplified news, english shows with finnish subtitles) And then later, more elaborated contents : normal news, movies, etc. It's super tricky because spoken finnish is VERY different from written finnish in a lot of ways, so at first, you don't understand anything, and you think "shit, but all that stuff I studied?!". Luckily, one of the main news channels in Finland offers a subset of content with spoken language subtitles, so that helped a lot. But that was a second huge learning curve Nowdays, I continue all that kind of in parallel, coupled with also texting/writing in Finnish whenever I can I'm actually spending a very study-heavy October, as I've got some deadlines related to that in November (that I've set for myself, and also official). So I'm nerding out a lot on the computer, which also allows me to be much more active online than usual
I’ve been revisiting the earlier Opeth records for the first time in a while, and I realized I sometimes forget how far Mikael Åkerfeldt has come as a singer. He has so much more confidence in his voice now, not only in performance, but the parts he writes for himself. Very cool.
I've been listening to a ton of jungle music and there's something almost nostalgic hearing this music despite never really being into this genre. I had a very brief and uninitiated foray into it in like 2015 when I heard that Sssnakepit by Enter Shikari had a quote "jungle inspired intro." But that's about it. I really like this stuff. If anyone else knows anything good in this genre hit me up.