>Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.
>For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.
>In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.
>I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.
>I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
>I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.
>decided to build a studio at the time when recording industry started dying >didn't take the points when they were available >now he's in debt up to his eyeballs >he and his wife have to live in a room in his studio (poor heather) >serious gambling problem >spends his days recording trite music he hates by bands he thinks are shit don't end up like steve kids
Zachary Anderson
>debt up to his eyeballs Really? Yikes. I'm no fan of the guy, but it sort of pains me if he's in those straits
Connor Harris
>"I believe that the so-called shoegaze movement of bands is essentially just a gang of pretentious art school kids trying to create noise, but they're putting emphasis on some sort of cool, mysterious, sexy factor by obscuring the vocals and creating some hazy, druggy "atmosphere". Every one of these bands seem to have this woman in the front, acting provocatively on stage, wearing tons of makeup, and making some type of peculiar moaning tribal sex noise instead of singing legible lyrics. Underneath all the noise and obscured vocals, it's just your basic pop-rock, just pure bubblegum pop that's been peddled on your local radio station by the record company for the past 50 years. Same song structure, same basic premise at the core of it. But since there's a loud reverb-laden guitar it's so deep, so original, so creative.
>When people regard a group like Slowdive or Lush or Jesus and Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine as the pinnacle of noise, or call these groups innovative and challenging in any way, I throw up in my mouth a little. People regard this mindless pop as noise, instead of listening to an actual noise group like The Jesus Lizard or Girls Against Boys. This shit is the reason that the development of British music has stagnated over the past 15 years, and will continue to do so."
Just how many scenes of music can one man BTFO?
Lucas Martinez
He's kinda right but still
Jacob Walker
damn
Jack Morales
I feel bad for Steve sometimes too but he did all of that to himself. A few years ago he went on tour overseas and got into a high dollar poker game and lost his ass big time and had to have his wife Heather empty their joint bank accounts to cover the game. Then he and one of his friends cooked up the idea to start a Kickstarter to recoup the lost cash. They went on on the Electrical forum and asked for donations to "pay off Electrical Audio's mortgage" instead of telling the truth about what happened.
Long story short, some of their friends caught wind of their scam and threatened to go public with the damming info if they didn't cancel the Kickstarter campaign.
Noah Anderson
>filename lost
Noah White
Wow, what the fuck? I thought he was more honest than that.
Ethan Cruz
No, he's gotten pretty scummy in the last ten years or so. The main problem's his gambling addiction, it's completely out of control at this point.
James Rodriguez
i wanna say you're lying but i've listen to some interviews of him talking about poker nonstop...........
Jack Reyes
Oh wow. How come you can't find anything about this online? or was this all hush-hush?
Jonathan Smith
shoegaze i believe draws on the possibilities of drones which have been used in india and other culture for thousands of years. also wall of sound
Adrian Sullivan
I was an intern at Electrical for a short time, that's the only reason I know anything abut it at all.
I found one mention of his supposed gambling addiction dating back to 2007. Cloud Nothings also claimed he was playing computer games in the studio almost the entire time while recording their album.
Luis James
How is this man full of shit about 99% of everything but he's actually has the best advice around when it comes to drum machines?
>The main trick I used with the 606 was (as mentioned) using the accent function to emphasize the rhythm shape. Another way to make an accent was to have the snare and the tom hit on the same beat. With these different kinds of accents, you can make a simple rhythm breathe a little bit. In recording, I would use an equalizer to open up the low-end, but that, a Memory Man and plate reverb were about all I ever had to use.
>When I first got the 606 I carried it around and listened to it like a walkman, and over the course of a day I would gradually build and re-build a rhythm until it was satisfying to listen to on its own.
>One little-mentioned oddity about the 606 was that as you turned the tempo knob higher, the decay of the sounds shortened slightly (pitch stayed constant), so I tended to use slower tempo settings programmed in double-time, because I preferred the longer tones. I discovered this during the headphone phase by programming single hits and turning the tempo knob.
>Another trick I used often was to make the drum pattern in segments of say, four bars, with different accents or minor variations of the rhythm in each segment. Then I would make a loop of an odd number of these segments, three or five, so the accents re-appeared in a less-predictable pattern. It kept the simple rhythms from being dull and repetitive.
>Drum machines can be cool instruments with a lot of character. I was always disappointed when I heard one being used clumsily, which was most of the time.
Joshua Adams
How is he in real life? Is he an overrated meme producer?
Ryder Gutierrez
wtf I hate steve albini now
Landon Jones
He's ...Steve. He's probably one of the most two-faced individuals I've ever met. I didn't intern at Electrical for very long, but it was striking how he'd treat clients to their faces vs. how he spoke about them when they weren't around.
lol, here's Steve apparently not really caring about $7000 being tied up and virtually gone when the U.S. government shut down Full Tilt Poker a few years ago. He's pretty far from a regular person as far as his gambling problem goes.
Daniel Ward
Gambling is one hell of an addiction
Adrian Powell
I really ended up only feeling bad for his wife, he's just a typical selfish addict.
Sebastian Young
Vintage drum machines have imperfections. Ex. you sample several different high hat hits they will sound slightly different based on the noise source. Ex2. Microtiming imperfections causing patterns to groove.
Jackson Smith
>There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it. apparently he found a way. Simply belittle and make fun of them.
who gives fook what ya think about his vices m8? i ain't tryna fuck him, just wanna listen to his music.
Wyatt Rogers
>30 replies, 10 posters. and 2 dubs
>just wanna listen to his music. he hasn't been relevant in 15 years
Samuel Morris
It was just a prank bro
Aaron Gutierrez
a lot of what albini does in music revolves around the ideals he advocates publicly. it is not out of line to discuss the fact that he does not live what he preaches if that is true
Camden Roberts
>we're not going to start acting like assholes simply to avoid going broke >like a messiah walking among his disciples fucking hell
Anthony Lopez
three sevens confirm
Carter Gutierrez
>caring this much about trips
Ryan Williams
bruh
Hudson Turner
ayy
Ryan Phillips
poker
Jaxson Martin
...
Jaxon Lee
He never said this, it's just a copypasta that's been attributed to both him and Scaruffi
