Thanks! and thank you for that fun sample. It really is a clever bit of remix fun you did.

Quote: duckett Thanks for this- it reminds me of why I hate digital radio tuners ;)

I remember when I got my first digital tuner (aargh!!!!) glad I’m not the only one who hates them. Now you get great reception on 10 lousy stations where before you had the choice to get lousy reception on maybe 20 stations, some of which were at least weird. And let’s face it, I’ll take weird over lousy any day ;-). Now we have the Internet where the sheer quantity of transmission is so overwhelming that I can be bothered to tune in. Oh well, call me old fashioned :-).

You know, in the same vein, while nothing beats a tube-type shortwave, there is great joy to be found in a simple radio shack shortwave radio—theremin sounds,
sonic adventures, frequency fun.
It’s not “quite the same” as that old tube crackle (and that amazing reception clarity), but it’s worth the price of admission—especially because admission is cheap. internet radio has outmoded it in part, but what quaint and wonderful technology delivery it still can be. So much variety, and so much fun.

The great thing about our current mysteries is that we see so many of them for which solutions are in progress, but we are so far from solving so many things. I’m eager to see how far we get during my remaining time, but thrilled to have seen a moon walk, the revival and re-fade of argyle socks, and the confirmed discover of distant planets.

You’d think I get paid by the letter reading this extra description—and in my work, it’s funny, because my particular band-wagon about legal writing is “shorter is better”.

I am a huge believer in the power of whimsy—and letting the mind travel down its own paths. I think that it’s not incompatible with mental discipline, but perhaps even a necessary prompt. But I am no scientist—or even pataphysician, but a simple believer in getting lost in thought.

I kept trying to build a melody around “dark axe” samples, but they all came out too echodrone/goth. Then I realized it would be a great gravel bottom.
I enjoyed sampling your work, and
enjoy the part about listening to a song not only to enjoy a song, but also to listen for parts my synth might love to sample.

“I kept trying to build a melody around “dark axe” samples, but they all came out too echodrone/goth.”

… maybe there’s a part of your personality that needs to be liberated ;-) …

:)

I am old enough to actually have an inner Robert Smith and an inner Ian Curtis, but thus far I do not have an inner “She Sells Sanctuary”.

I keep hoping that my inner Durutti Column will surface and
make me a guitar player.

Thank you so much for reviewing this on xmas day, and here it is january before I reply.

I am glad you join me on these odd hops I take.

Congratulations, too, on your song on the calendarsongs.com project compilation—richly deserved, as your mixes are so beautiful.

I love Grundig radios! I was in Radio Shack the other day and saw a huge one, and I almost….

Thanks for reviewing this, and for sharing your telescope memories. Mine are all about small refractors and reflectors from xmas catalogs, until I was an adult and got a massive reflector (i.e., a few inches), which I eventually donated to Los Angeles County’s Glendale Community College, where I think it’s now a student fun gizmo for night skies.