- Baltimore, USA
- Joined on October 10, 2002
- http://www.instagram.com/scott_not_astronaut/
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I'm 42 years old. Got a big head, little ears, questionable attention span. I collect house, ambient, IDM, piano anthems, Italian house, "nice" techno, “nice” electro and more. I got into the scene in 1997, got turntables in 1999, then went on to spin many hours on college radio, and occasionally in person, too. During the Discogs V2 years I was also a rather active moderator. Much has happened since then, but in summary it's a safe bet that I'm still not cooler than you.
Besides music, I also like soft hooded sweatshirts, tea, tomatoes, crossword puzzles, the word "whilst", and parking at the very very tops of parking garages. I am also a cancer survivor, cat owner, coach, and trail ultrarunner.
Besides music, I also like soft hooded sweatshirts, tea, tomatoes, crossword puzzles, the word "whilst", and parking at the very very tops of parking garages. I am also a cancer survivor, cat owner, coach, and trail ultrarunner.
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I suppose the guys from the Regelbau gang are behind this unmarked release - if so, what to say… they still never miss. Four different slices of deep sparkly house with well-built grooves underpinning everything. Fun to mix and blend. One of my...
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The D:Fuse "AM Sunday" remix is a sunshine-y sentimental favorite from the heady days of early 00's progressive house. Just has all the ingredients I like, a steady sparse groove, a poignant and lilting melody, great pads, and some gentle little Fx...
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It’s been, shockingly, 19 years and 20 days since I last left a comment on this very page about how much this record kicks. I just now dropped it again at a backyard BBQ and it still fits like a glove. Those zings and claps, the organ stabs, the...
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Probably the one single record that I’d tuck under my arm before dashing out of a burning house. Four gorgeous, nostalgic, futuristic tracks with “Eau Rouge” as the very best. Quirky, clappy, so fun to blend into the mix, sounds great fast or slow....
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The title track “Air Castles” is great sky-high trance with a clean pulsing beat. Little bit of an IDM flair in the way those melodies and twitters keep intertwining. One of my favorite bargain-bin finds of recent years and gets played often.
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Three superbly layered and blissful little compositions that have kept me company on many a long run this past year. Serene atmospherics with lightly glitchy electro/IDM rhythms, right up my alley.
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Hard to pick between the “Truckin’” mix which has that mellow 45-on-33 sound and the fast and colorful “Speedin’” mix on the A side, but the A side probably takes it. A poignant and reverberant string melody goes floating overtop of a mish-mash of...
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Many great adjectives come to mind for this album… smooth, clean, otherworldly, thumping, and also just plain cool. Has some retro and some futuristic touches of electro, trance, and Berlin-school all mixed together wonderfully. Every track is killer....
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Ever since hearing "That Day" as the opening track on an old Pete Moss mixtape, I hunted it down and kept it glued in my bag ever since. Great shuffle and wonderful moody keys on this track make it something really special to me. Some kind of X factor...
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Hit the B-side of this for a very nice bubbling chill-out cut, very much in the steady and soothing progression of a classic Tangerine Dream album like Ricochet, but with some extra zip and stutter in the rhythm section, as befits early 90's trance....
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For a blissed-out, heat-hazed drone experience that's not too slim and not too overdone, head straight for this LP. An ambient favorite of mine that I come back to often. Simple, sweet, and very serene. The A1 track is my favorite, colored with shades...
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Still holds up great so many years later as a hair-raising piece of thrumming, clacking, skittering, syncopated progressive madness. Even though I'd owned and played it for a few months, one of my favorite clubbing moments was hearing this on a giant...
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I love it when a three- or four-tracker has great variety on it... the B-side has the lilting drum'n'bass of "Elisa" and a thumping techy workout with airy scattered chords and stutters in "Song of L". The A-side track is the prize here, a swimmy...
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An absolute trip of an EP, covering four diverse moods succinctly in four wicked tracks. "Null 212" is such a fun propulsive track with a break in the middle to die for. Pressed at 45, so suitable for wrong-speed playback trickery too. Electro is only...
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The textures on Pauline Anna Strom's Plot Zero and Spectre LP's from the mid-80's were unique, simmering away in very dusty and liminal moods. Now over thirty years later she flips the script with this joyful and immersive LP. The cover absolutely...
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Van Bellen brings forth a really cool remix in his typical style, with cyclical chugging percussion and gently undulating curtains of melody. Super fun and extra long breakdown towards the end after which you slam right back into the warm thrumming...
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Can’t believe I’m the first to drop a comment on this stunner from these amazing 90’s producers. Two warm, huggable, danceable, super-detailed Detroit/electro cuts with straight kick drums and wittering little fx details zooming off into the corners...
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One of my absolute favorite albums from my favorite musical year of 1994. Like a lot of techno of the time, the sound and percussion palette is pretty raw and pretty similar throughout, but what a mastery of rhythm, spaciousness, composition and...
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Wrong-speed banger alert on this bargain bin find. Take both sides down from 45 to 33 for some 95 bpm syrupy sweet chill-out room cuts. Especially on the B-side track, the melodies shiver with a cold movie soundtrack sheen and the percussion crunches...
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My favorite musical surprise of 2020... an awesome half hour of serene aquatic ambient to get lost in. The Lostboi tracks are emotionally punchy but simply composed, breathing in and out with generous amounts of reverb. Torus starts with "Enter The...
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