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#62

Agreed. I dont actually listen to a lot of new stuff, just some here and there. I’m quite happy diving thru ole midwest & japanese classics. That said Linekraft is extremely my shit & one of my favourite modern noise artists.

Right now the trend seems to be more about VST’s, anime aesthetics and either super misogynistic torture porn or the complete opposite, ultra woke political trans activism. Then theres the actual tape scene doing exactly the same thing everyone has been doing for the past 30 odd years.

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#63

to some people it was cool.

I don’t keep track of cool so I have no idea now.

“Noise bro” as a label emerged because somebody did a thing, other people copied that person, yet other people copied those people, and so on.

#64

This is what happened to me when I first saw Vlad demo the prototype Lyra 8. Immediately put myself on the waiting list.

I used to watch sonic state with the new moog, arturia etc synth reviews and then vlad came out of nowhere. Blew my mind.

I actually wanted the Erica fusion system as I saw that first. They were so off piste of the norm, fuckin loved it.

I like it when someone goes against the grain as such being different. It’s interesting!

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#65

I’m gradually replacing all my Elektron gear with Soma and Erica gear. They are definitely both pretty fucking innovative right now.

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#66

…i also slimmed out my swedish gear to the essentials…takt, tone and m:s had to leave…
but two heats, two ot’s, a cycle and an a4 will stay forever…
never hit a stage without ot and heat, hardwired to the cue’s…
and only next new swedish machine would be the machinedrum meets sid meets monomachine in a digifootprint…anything else they can’t sell to me no more…
thanx to bitwig… :wink:

while hell yeah…russian flavour is hardly missing here these days…
lyra was too much talkin’ to whales…
pulsar is too expensive for what i would love to do with it…
but enner will do that trick…for me…

no noise bro here…
but post industrial dub meets kind of melancholic eclectic electric trick pop will eat itself…
defines me since day zero…

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#67

This was from a time here when there were noise shows put on by multiple venues and sometimes there were scheduling conflicts, plus a mix of interpersonal issues and not so serious joking around, which included some stereotyping. The “academic noise” vs “noise bro” war is no longer happening here - that’s why I used the past tense. It was funny and dumb at the time.

If you weren’t there, you don’t need to feel defensive about it. If you love to flip the table after your set, keeping doing what you do

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#68

I’m gonna start a label where only fun and happy noise made by people who don’t take themselves too seriously is welcome.

Gonna call it queef records.

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#69

holy flippin woah! i will be having that.

#70

Also, our noise scene had a fair number of players who used Ciat Lonbarde devices that cost just as much as Enner today if not more.

Peeps who could play with cheap pedals/devices were also welcomed.

How dreary the scene would have been if there was a Price Police on patrol.

#71

That cheap gear everyone used because it was cheap is really expensive now.

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#72

I don’t care how much people pay for their gear, but if I’m paying to see a gig, I’d prefer it if they weren’t all doing the same bloody thing with their gear, cheap or not.

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#73

Our expectations here were the same.

Use whatever the hell you want, just make some damn effort to be original and don’t just be a copycat

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#74

i didn’t realize you’d be able to… …sing… into it as well. (onto it?)

…and finally a nice 2-player synth option.

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#75

Yeah has external audio input as well as piezo pickup.

Looks like there will be a choice of color:

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#76

Wouldn’t be soma without a choice of different colours.

Both look great, but. I think I prefer the green.

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#77

The red one should match my red Casiotone CT-S1

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#78

Is this the final design? It looks bat shit mad.

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#79

yeah, i like the dark wood edges

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#80

yep. confirmed by Vlad in the youtube comments

#81

I wonder if Vlad ever corresponded with Pete Blasser. Seems like the two might get along.

Blast from the past photo of a Blasser instrument:

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