Comments on Profile Post by roshambo123

Here's a hug.

One year, I passed on both Radiohead and Sigur Ros. Kick myself for that one on occasion...

One year I passed on Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Not long after, he passed on me :(

We assumed Sasha + John Digweed would start playing at around 11pm. Turns out the gig started at 4pm and finished at 11. We pulled up in $60 cab rides to see everyone leaving.

Aww man that sucks, missed them once in 03. I was there but got so wasted i missed it all.

We have decent excuses. My friend was distracted navigating a minefield of family obligations and I had broken up with my ex earlier in the day and was not really thinking straight either.

Sorry to hear about your breakup. Maybe Communicate disc 2 will make you feel better. I know i’ll fire that up tonight been a minute.

Ah, one of the CD's I scratched up greatly with much play. It lived in my car during high school. I think GU Oakenfold NY and Northern Exposure East Coast were the first prog CD's I bought.

It's a bit sad that no matter how much audio gear I buy, nothing will sound as good as the shit stereo in my 1998 Corolla with the windows down driving on Maui.

I have most of the GU collection up to 27 i think. Also some side releases haha. Gu13 disc 1 is such a trip, a real journey. GU19 had diggers in top form on both discs.

Digweed Hong Kong and Sasha Ibiza. Those are the ones.

Listening to ibiza disc1 now, this takes me back. HD600, tube amp and marantz cd6000… bliss.

Still have a lot of livesets as well from 01-05 but roon is being a bitch atm. Won’t even find my communicate rip.

That may be the only CD where I remember exactly where I was when I put it on for the first time.

I actually have a hard time with these old albums because the nostalgia gets too heavy. They are still amazing though.

Yeah man, some guy at work said check this out. I was instantly done with trance lol.

Btw Airdrawndagger really stood the test of time imo.

Hardest part for me is the loss of faith in technology as the savior god from the machine. Circa 1999 it promised Utopia and prog was the soundtrack. Technology still surprises me some days (a friend had a hole in his retina treated with a laser last week) but living in a cyberpunk society is as depressing as Bladerunner made it out to be.

Exactly. Humans can already be classified as cyborgs with their faces glued to a phone. Head in the sand, no soul, no passion and devoid of meaning.

The larger thing was realizing that technology doesn't scale infinitely and can't solve all problems.

I was too late to check the last James Brown and Prince concerts in the early 2Ks. Janelle Monae was my redemption.

That zone between realism and despair gets murky. If we despair, then ... well, the monsters have won.

My makeup concert is Opeth/Mastodon on Wednesday. Hopefully work doesn't f**k me over.