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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

8 months

attn: NYC

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

29 days

RFK looks and acts like Leland Palmer

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

@scottastevenson @sk33mask you’re the CEO of an AI company and file management is a bridge too far???

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

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Naucke sent me this photo and it’s been haunting me for a day or so

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

5 months

RIP Steve Albini, a man who stood on his principles and never took the bag for the sake of the bag

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

10 months

on the other side of the streaming argument, you should absolutely be pissed at every arm of the vinyl mfg industry for never reinvesting in itself to be better + for non-stop price gouging. Records do not need to be $25-30/ea. They also don't need to be made from toxic materials

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@MineralDisk

1 month

This guy did exactly what Spotify does but instead he gets felonies

helienne

@helienne

1 month

A music producer was arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple felonies for allegedly scamming more than $10m in royalties using hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 months

what the fuck is this

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 month

this record was very fun to make and I’m glad people still listen to it

David James 🍩

@funkentechno

1 month

Does It Look Like I'm Here? 🌬️

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

Listening to a now canceled indie artist refer to his then girlfriend by her name and then pitchfork album score

Alex Moskowitz

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6 months

what was your indiest moment? mine was probably seeing andrew bird play that free show in prospect park in like 2011

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

11 months

My greatest fear is AI generated Zappa content

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

i think a lot about the degree to which music and arts in general have been debased in my lifetime. it's almost like people with power and money would rather buy your farm than let something potentially subversive and/or culture shifting occur with tons of public visibility

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

how bout that new laurel halo

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

it's really odd that basically every record label has had to pivot to all competing with each other for a sale on the same day because theres only one "benevolent" platform that doesn't take fees for 24 hours once a month

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

11 months

- pay someone to pay a streaming service to pump you into the algo. - pay someone who claims they have editorial and streaming reach (30% chance it works) - have a ton of instagram followers who will like your post but never listen to the record and definitely won't buy it.

Dagoretti Records - Great Corner Sound

@DagorettiR

11 months

I honestly have no clue how to promote a record in 2023. Call me old, but I'm utterly perplexed.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

I think quietly putting out a small pressing of a record every few years and just not engaging this nonsense at all is gonna be the way to go

raihan

@raihan_

6 months

artist: *puts out a new album* fan:

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

every time I walk thru this cemetery something crazy is going on

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

@scottastevenson @sk33mask i think it's going to get a lot more annoying and time consuming pretty soon!

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

ok Viper is actually the scariest rapper ever

Man accused of kidnapping woman, holding her against will for 4-5 years at SE Houston home

A man has been arrested, accused of kidnapping a woman and holding her against her will at a southeast Houston home for several years.

www.click2houston.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

26 days

a lady with a Jesus pamphlet came to the door and asked me if I wanted to live forever and I said “not in this economy!” and she said “fair enough” and left with her pamphlet

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

27 days

kamala said nothing about healthcare reform, tax reform, apparently supports continued genocide, said "guns aren't going anywhere" and didn't offer any solutions in the way of inflation. the other guy said haitian people ate a dog. this is the best we can do

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

30 days

ever meet an "artist" who dresses like a Dune character and somehow has an apartment in Dumbo Heights but doesnt ever seem to really work or talk about work?

peretsky

@la_meme_young

1 month

Young ppl, please do yourself a favor before beating yourself up for not achieving or owning xyz compared to your peers, google what their parents do for a living. The game is rigged, the quality of your work is no worse than theirs, and you’re working harder under more stress.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

11 months

please do not disrespect the andre 3000 flute album on my timeline

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

all the clouds went away so I can marry the love of my life today

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

So much gratitude to Ghostly and Heba! Thank you @Pitchfork for awarding this record "Best New Reissue"

Emeralds: Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Expanded Remaster)

Read Patric Fallon’s review of the album

pitchfork.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

10 months

i have like 10000 things i need to listen to from this year but i jammed that Chlorine record about 50 times.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 month

I’m surprised mark fisher didn’t think much of the 00s USA noise/abstract boom. In hindsight it seems significant

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

10 months

cds are the most sensible format tbh

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

What happens when they demonetize everything under 5k streams? What about when they bump it up to 10k?

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

I wonder if it’s UX or simply the phenomena of being “on brand”, but a lack of competitors for things like Bandcamp, Discogs, Reverb etc is a big reason why things go haywire when you get news like the kind we got today

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

11 months

Thank you London, we missed you.

Baba Yaga's Hut

@byhut

11 months

Emeralds. What a joy to have them back. @stevehauschildt @MineralDisk

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

RIP Iasos - you were a real alien and true enigma. I will miss your newsletters and updates

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

One part of my creative process is naming tracks that don’t exist, ordering them as they would fit on sides of a record, naming the album and having no music recorded

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

I will not be performing at Labyrinth 2023. It’s my hope that I can return to Japan and play again soon! Thanks for your understanding 私はラビリンス 2023 には出演しません。すぐに日本に戻って、また皆さんの前で演奏できることを願っています。わかってくれてありがとう 🌲 🤍

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

Glad to see Pitchfork still gets basic laws of nature incorrect from time to time. This album is the 10 by which we measure all other 10's, no debate to be had

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@ericrennerbrown

1 year

Pitchfork not giving Dark Side of the Moon a perfect 10 for the Sunday Review is my villain origin story

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

14 days

Happy Birthday John Coltrane, the greatest musician who ever lived. It's a shame that he is no longer with us and that we got stuck with Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and two George Bushes. They'll never hear him playing his horn in the heavenly realm bc all 4 of them are going to hell.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

this is amazing because musicians don't really make any money because of ultra-low streaming royalties, so where do they think the $$$ will come from?? This is the dumbest ass feedback loop ever

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@jacquesgreene

1 year

oh, nice

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 months

will the memes of Kamala Harris holding a Merzbow LP still be funny if she gets elected and completely flattens Gaza?

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 months

i remember anticipating an intense Wolf Eyes set at No Fun Fest in 2006 and got a great spot up front, distinctly remember a Dilloway boot on my skull and precisely everybody screaming in pure hysteria. it was amazing

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 months

- incapacitants - aaron dilloway - kevin drumm - voice crack - C.C.C.C. - the haters - skin graft - pita - small cruel party - hands to / yeast culture - john wiese - surface of the earth - raionbashi - yellow tears - LAFMS + extended i can keep going

Matana Roberts

@MatanaRoberts

2 months

alrighty... i asked this in that other space and the list is pretty amazing, what say you over here? Fave Noise musicians/bands/sound artists etc

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

Big takeaway here is the dude is using like five gizmos a day, which is really funny to imagine but also having his mind blown at the prospect of file management is equally funny.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 month

Super wild, deep respect to Godspeed You Black Emperor always

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@staticbluebat

1 month

GY!BE are good for forcing every media outlet that wants to report on the new album to show their hand

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 years

@davehill77 seems like a secure adult male

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

New Boot Boyz just dropped

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

8 months

we don't talk enough about why it is that publishing entities (record labels, publishing houses etc) expect their creators to do all of the groundwork "building a digital brand" when that's the nut they're supposedly in the business of cracking

rebecca jennings

@rebexxxxa

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I wrote about the soul-sucking labor of self-promotion and "audience building" that basically every artist/journalist/creative worker has to do now ... unless they are very lucky

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

10 months

it's gonna be so funny when Spotify starts charging $5 for you to download your Wrapped infographic.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 years

@nscorp @USATODAY says the newspaper owned by blackrock and vanguard

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

you can hear the complete disregard for making a paletable product built-in to the new cindy lee record and it's really refreshing. i cant imagine listening to or looking at the album art of this record inside the prison cell of the spotify ux either. funny how that works

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

the smoothing of everything. brand loving capitalist brainwashing has made it so most people can’t bear to be adventurous. The people who won’t go out of their way to listen to this love their brand more than they love the music. Fuck em

Skye Butchard

@ohayeitsskye

6 months

Seen a few people say they haven't/won't listen to the Cindy Lee record because it's not on Spotify (even though it's free on YouTube). Madness! The smoothing of tech and removal of options outside of streaming is doing serious harm to people's curiosity.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

Runners up: - vegan potluck food at a microphones performance - das racist dude cross-eyed drunk hopping into a cab I was in with no shoes on repeatedly asking me for a cigarette - Ariel Pink soundcheck meltdown

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

@ghostly is working on a deluxe reissue of “Does It Look Like I’m Here?” and to celebrate the announcement, here’s a live video of us ripping “Genetic” at the peak of our powers

Emeralds - "Genetic" Live (2010 Tour Video)

This video has been added to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Emeralds "Does It Look Like I'm Here" album. This footage was recorded in various locations...

www.youtube.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

5 months

one aspect of death that has always perplexed me is that we finally see the big picture once the story is over. Steve Albini has been fundamental in so many ways that it’s completely overwhelming to think about

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

Lots of record labels switching to yearly payouts, which is extremely unhelpful for artists. What does a record label look like in 10 years if streaming continues to debase streamable media? Likely vanished bc they're starting to look like Uber Eats-eqsue transaction fee brokers

Daniel Bachman

@AlmanacBehind

1 year

Feel like I hear TONS of people speaking these days about how US artists/musicians/writers shouldnt expect a living wage for their work. What if instead of shaming people asking for fair compensation we advocated for governmental/institutional assistance. Creative labor is work💯

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

10 months

Thanks to all who supported my work in any way this year. I released my fifth album, "The Notional Pastures of Imaginary Softwoods" back in February, you can check it out here:

The Notional Pastures Of Imaginary Softwoods, by Imaginary Softwoods

11 track album

imaginarysoftwoods.bandcamp.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

10 months

on the second or third date with my now fianceé, she choked on a potato chip while we were waiting for falafel wraps. i didn't know what to do, so i karate chopped her throat to break the chip. she looked disturbed and then laughed at me. it somehow worked and the rest is history

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

@Bandcamp will be hosting a live listening party for the reissue release of "Does It Look Like I'm Here" on @Ghostly this Friday at 12pm (EST). RSVP here and please join us!

Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Expanded Remaster), by Emeralds

19 track album

emeralds.bandcamp.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

my dad complained that the live resin carts i got him were kinda mid while simultaneously talking about how hes been looking for his lost wallet for 25 min.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

16 days

if a record label is approaching your work with fear about sales and trying to cost cut everything, how can you expect them to do any good if they don’t have faith in the thing they’re supposed to represent?

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 month

Cannot wait for the Sarah Squirm SNL skits as Kamala’s daughter

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

more context: he was explaining that a breakup would be catastrophic because she had consistent high scores and a BNM (they did break up and I think she helped cancel him)

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 months

next level bad art direction that hopefully won't tarnish the legacy of the greatness of the music contained on these two lps. very good music.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

Very pleased to finally announce this. Humbled and stoked to make my UK Softwoods debut 🌲🤍

bleep43

@bleep43

1 year

Join us for our first event at The Baths, where the combination of artists, space and audience promises to be another memorable instalment in our series of deep listening events.

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John Elliott

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11 months

its late 2023 and im somehow sharing a review for a (very great) festival Emeralds performed at in Portugal featuring all-new material. Thanks @theQuietus

Cosmic Dance: Semibreve 2023 Reviewed | The Quietus

Thomas Ankersmit, all photos courtesy of Adriano Ferreira Borges / Semibreve 2023 Brazilian artist Pedro Cunha’s Deep Dive is a virtual reality experience from the perspective of a fish. The instal...

thequietus.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

TONIGHT! Emeralds at Semibreve. @SemibrevePT

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

Pitchfork was really back on the upswing in recent years with its writers. Sad to see more corporate union busting. Thanks to all the writers who will go on to bigger and better things.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

7 months

a younger artist told me that 2007 is the new 1977 last night

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 months

"Acre Thrills" is gonna live forever i think

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

7 months

Very saddened to hear that Chris Wiersema has passed away. Not only a very funny and great guy, but a lynchpin of the midwestern underground representing Iowa City

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

"well...at least that some of that money he used to destabilize a county that doesn't want to use central banking went to a Buchla Skylab"

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

5 months

RIP David Sanborn, inventor and purveyor of that big city SNL saxophone styling. Here a vid of him jamming with Pete Ubu at rock bottom

Pere Ubu - Debbie Harry (Blondie) - David Sanborn - Waiting for Mary...

See also : Blondie in "Rolling Stones : Start me up" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2bAj0UaxDU - Waiting for Mary : lyrics : "Welcome to Mars!It's open a...

www.youtube.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

too many TV series about the plight of the ruling class which try to humanize their pathetic struggles and incompence

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

6 months

@itstheextreme Fully synthetic fracking of underground scenes. Super dumb era

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

5 months

On each Bandcamp Friday I light two candles - one for “the industry” and one for PayPal

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

8 months

did anyone ever try the world cup '94 acid??

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

RIP Little Howlin' Wolf, an enigma and an original.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

one of my favorite albums

Boomkat.com

@boomkatonline

9 months

Dorothea Raukes’ glorious, pulsating 1981 kosmische comet as Deutsche Wertarbeit returns to orbit with six cuts of cascading arps and optimist synth fanfare RIYL Conrad Schnitzler, Kraftwerk, Pyrolator

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

streaming algorithms are a great example of this: a device which hyper-refines palatable things you already like until it turns into soylent. I was lucky enough to accidentally encounter a Kevin Drumm LP at the same time I had a huge bag of mushrooms in 2005. Wild night

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 months

it was always rumored that my aunt would party with Peter Laughner and that he left a dumb note in her yearbook. Glad I can now confirm that.

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

thee best California punk band

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@EdSunspot

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Full page magazine ad for Chrome "Half Machine Lip Moves" from 1979

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

10 months

New Organic Dial EP is out now on @ninaprotocol - check it here:

Organic Dial - 𐄢 𐄢

Recorded and Mixed by Organic Dial 2018-2019. Mastered by Andrew Veres. Cover Photo by Nathan Melaragno Published on Nina.

www.ninaprotocol.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 months

hit me with that horse neigh one-shot

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

1 year

shame on you Dean for comparing us to Moby but thanks for putting us in your @bandcamp list

The Best Reissues on Bandcamp: July/August 2023

From Latin rock to experimental synths, here are the best new oldies.

daily.bandcamp.com

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

9 months

wasn't easy to listen to, wasn't sure how i felt about it at the time, but my "idea" of what was posible with music and sound was permanently changed after that. Publications which boost these possibilities are rapidly disappearing, the technology points in the opposite direction

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

8 months

I will be bringing some of the new Imaginary Softwoods t-shirts with me to NYC March 16th for my performance with @kamransadeghi_ at Public Records

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 years

this dudes brain doesn’t have the capacity to hear all of a Steely Dan track, the same way that dogs can’t see the full color spectrum or whatever. His brain converts Tom Waits to Steely Dan due to low bandwidth

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John Elliott

@MineralDisk

2 years

Meddle thru Animals is an untouchable run, anything before or after isn’t really even close.

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