Fake Kyoto FM Number 12. Using instrumental versions of our tracks with added Korg Monotron effects.
The back ground rotating under the orange circle was generated on this BOOK OF SHAPES website.
Other Things
Been reading this Tangerine Dream book and listening to the over 15 albums we have of them, mostly from the VIRGIN YEARS. I think my favorites are STRATOSFEAR, TANGRAM & HYPERBOREA.
I have put Cinnamon Road in all the playlists I regularly use.
Each track has a description "bird like tweets" from a VCS3 then a series of chords... It isn't described in musician terms though, the way someone like Rick Beato would. Hadn't seen this before.
Lots of history and interviews in one place over the years covered. Also with an essay around "did they loose their significance when it became easy for anyone to make sequenced digital synth music?".
Like the book, but need to think about the Amazon review to write.
Tangerine Dream fandom is split between ZIET "no melodies, just textures" and later short "melodies/ techno/ synthpop" and the progression from one to the other. I prefer melody myself. Only just playing Le Parc now, one of their fans least liked albums, but I must say I think it is fine.
He mentions other artists and albums from the same era too that I have never heard. Klaus Shulze was an early Tangerine Dream member, and went on to be a solo artist. I am only now giving his X, Dig It and Moondance albums a listen. Moondance is his most Berlin School like.
Finished Season 1 of Star Trek Discovery. It wasn't easy. I think this is the only trek that I haven't loved the opening music and graphics of. I skipped to the final ship flyby and the tiny bit of original theme music. The graphics and music in the opening was a complete nothing to me. It was just all wrong for something supposed to be 10 years before the original series.
The Grand Tour with new young guys is doing the PR introducing them and about to start. A repeat of what Topgear did. In Australia we had 3 Australian hosts for the local Topgear. It was fine. As was the American Topgear they also showed. Didn't reach the level of the original though, but that is probably just the way it goes.
Expect the new The Grand Tour will be fine too. It is just a TV show.
Mend It Mark's latest is a RAID encloser. He fixes it without any schematics or service information.
Incredibly well done. Having had to repair stuff as a job at various times I applaud his skill. Even with all the support information and schematics it can be very hard to fix stuff.
But did the part fail due to age or a design fault in its application, I wonder?
I once worked as an OLIVETTI component level repair technician ~ 1979~80 for their computer gear that filled the Commonwealth Banks in Australia at the time. The ALI-500 power supply was used in their terminals and this discrete component switch mode power supply caused issues. Even once something was repaired, there was a feedback 1/4 watt resistor that on some not small percentage of the units would get so hot, the solder would melt and it would fall out of the PCB. Caused the unit to fail. I could never see why. A few years later after graduating from University and getting on with my engineering career I learnt that the fix for that the local tech made was to just change it from a 1/4 watt to 5W part! The resistor was under rated for the variations in the units. A design problem with the rating of the original part, and real component variations hadn't been seen by the Italian designers or just hadn't checked.
Daughter now staying with us for awhile, even though working from home here much of the time. Catching up as she hadn't visited for 18 months.
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