Good-looking fella as well.
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@manches listening to this through a few times while a sit in the garden. You have an excellent way with texture, I can’t really think of anything that has quite the same feel but you manage a richness that I prize in music but don’t find often enough.
The sky is all orangey out here and it seems a fitting accompaniment having this eerie yellow-coloured tinge to everything around along with an indistinct flowery perfume while I listen.
I will definitely need to go back through your other stuff on bandcamp, I don’t know why I haven’t before. Don’t tell anyone, but “The Emperor Apparition” was my favourite track on the sampler 
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It’s tough to sound distinctive these days but he’s got a very unique ‘voice’ to everything hasn’t he? Big fan of that.
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I’m a bit moved by this! Thanks so much for this extremely high praise. I can get a bit obsessive when it comes to tone and whatnot, so it’s really lovely to read that. 
And @McGarnagle the trick is to try to copy people exactly but have your lack of musical ability ensure that it ends up bearing virtually no resemblance to the thing you tried to ape 
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Great writing, this 
And yeah, there’s such a sense of time and place to his compositions - really evocative music.
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Doing a series of ‘retrospectives’ on the label pre-launch catalogue which missed out on the promo cycle. First one here.
https://twitter.com/Dis_state/status/1026762876688719872?s=19
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Just finished a listen of this now. Amazing piece of work from back to front. When that soaring (guitar?) type thing comes in on Never Gonna Give EU Up <3
Gets me every time.
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Thanks dude!
Yeah, that’s a guitar! Played with an ebow and a slide and run through a shitload of reverb and some distortion and stuff, but underneath it all, it’s a guitar. 
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I figured it would be - it just sounds so ethereal and odd I started to question myself. It’s majestic anyways.
I really need to get an ebow. And learn to actually play the guitar. Probably in that order.
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Fake Real Warm was a great album with that lovely autumnal feel to it but its not on his bandcamp fyi!
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Pfft. I never really have! That’s part of the reason why I smother everything in effects. I’m never gonna have the raw chops of say, a @Bamnan, so I disguise my shitty playing beneath an army of pedals 
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Hah! Well I’m even worse and have fewer pedals and it’d probably be cheaper to get better…
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You gotta know where to look
https://bricolagecollective.bandcamp.com/album/fake-real-warm-bc013
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my chops are distinctly average but thanks
all about finding the right marriage of melody and rhythm for me
You’re my link checking cuz
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Mate, your chops are proper 
All those jazzy leads and stuff you casually flick off make me feel like my hands have been replaced with giant cartoon hams.
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Yeah, I found this the other day and it was more excellence 
I wish I had paid more attention to the track titles at the time so I could heap praise on it with more specificity, but the whole thing had the same rich, immersive warmth.,
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aww
The secret is none of them are really all that complicated, usually I just work through and refine a few bars until the movement of notes feel right and then move on to the next bit. I don’t really do leads/“solos” spontaneously very often unless I’ve got a shit load of distortion on to mask all the errors
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Thanks again for the extraordinary praise! I’m very proud of that album. First time I’d put together something of that length and still felt “yeah this is right” months after I’d finished with it.
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We put out a single and remix yesterday by Sunbane (aka @SunnyB ). Main track is kinda futuristic house and is a teaser for an excellent album releasing end of September. It’s very very good. Available on Bandcamp and the usual streaming services
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