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VIDA DE-sign by Michael Buckingham, aka Mick Muttley

Dear friends (yeah really, one of those) I have become a women's wear designer for VIDA! http://shopvida.com/collections/voices/ ...

Sunday 10 November 2019

SubVersion End Of 2019 Highlights: Muttley

Pokemon TCG Trainer Club - www.pokemon.com/tcgo
The Plough Inn, Alvescot - www.tripadvisor.co.uk
Random encounters with old acquaintances
Understanding marriage
Understanding soulmates
Understanding triggers
Recapitulation of the what when where hypercube
Ambient labels being more sharity alike
Less trash media
Mixing with the right people, at the right time (staying offline!)

Sunday 3 November 2019

SV Stop 324: The Maddening Of The Situation

...the maddening of the situation is, that I just don't understand it.

It's very saddening how dead this forum is at the end of 2019. The regulars still post, and yes Jon Ben and Matt, the spirit is still there, but everything just feels, no offense...lifeless? Every time I visit here there's nothing new, and that's depressing, like, no offense again, everything's in a veritable karma coma. Mixes get posted...releases sink. Everything sinks. Everything festers, and everything starts to stink. We know that's not good.

The point is simple: we're all trying our best, and it is good enough. But most of us went elsewhere, and all of us have busy lives. Indeed, I'm mostly offline, or away from social media, because it's become the opposite of social media, it's become Nazist and control freak oriented. People with their happy clappy startup businesses and SEO overloads from the dribbling sociopath masses. I just saw Nicola Sturgeon's bigoted ignorance about the buffoonery of Johnson, putting another spanner in the works of social cocksure activists. This is what a lot of the masses are like unfortunately - Hitler may have been incredibly evil, but he did know they believe without questioning anything.

Braindead generation.

Roll up, roll up, welcome to the braindead generation. You will be fed at least three meals a day. All fats are good. You are "body positive!" Your beautiful! Note I said your, it is strict code to act illiterate. You will engage in bickering matches on Facebook and Twitter. You will troll anyone who's not in your "gang". You are the future. Only your opinion matters. Let's not all be friends, let's be two faced enemies with no real opinion of our own.

I digress :deep breath:

But yes, people do piss me off. A lot. That's why I partially live on the internet, but not on social media. My neighbours are all recluses, and we are all mates. But then, we're old enough to know enough. We know which side our bread is usually buttered. It's the same with people who flocked to SC, but none of us chose to become sheep. Full circle, is now the explanation. Everyone left and went away to work hard on pushing the message. Plurality. Multiple websites, just like the SC blog SubVersion, the subject here.

I don't need a virtual hug, it would be nice to know if friends are still well though, that's the main thing.

I haven't been doing many spoken gigs of late, you can tell.

I love it tho.

New posts added - check em out. www.subvertcentral.blogspot.co.uk

Maybe we could end the year with an aggregated end of year selection list.

Saturday 2 November 2019

SV Stop 323: Ambient Digest Winter 2019

Time flies. A year has passed since my last post. I've been busy making a lot of ambient music, publishing stuff on Bandcamp and SoundCloud, and generally not relying on word of mouth to get stuff out there, because the audience is there always.

Something that made me want to check up on blog reading again was the new album by James Murray on Krysalisound - "Embrace Storms". It's a gallant little swivel through the debris of hum and peace that passes one ide into the next, and another idea into the very ideology of continuum theory.

Other labels that continue to send me stuff have expanded mightily: Silent Season has more limited editions; Sound In Silence is putting out some of the most angelic ambient out there; Eilean is steadfast as is Home Normal, Rural Colours and Whitelab Recs, and Krysalisound and of course Denovali have plateaued in their strength as constabularies of electro acoustic music.

A common theme is representing nearby scenic labels in a scenic way. Much like Ambient blogs and magazine websites, artist newsletters feature more mentions of other artists than ever before - a good thing that does not dilute the message, it just makes the original message more powerful.