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I guess it started when I was a little kid. Anything electronic was of interest, naturally. Computers really did it though.. C64 was the first one I got my hands on. Then, Amiga 500.. I know many of you guys are older and have experienced older machines. Hey, maybe we have some kind of uber.. person here who has played with really old stuff.. like PDP-1 or TX-0.
Anyway, that was awesome, anything you could do and see was awesome. You just want to know how it works, how all the bits and things work. How does it all function with the usage of 1's and 0's. How is it possible.. how would you go and make yourself and assembler, how would you make noises come out of that thing. How does the memory work, what about registers, accumulators, transistors, vacuum tubes..
Then, I also got into electronic music. That was it. You would automatically combine those two together somehow. LIke this is the soundscape of what I feel, but within music as well.
And I'm not talking about that crap you hear on MTV, no no no.. some real electronic music, some experimental stuff, some dark beats ... it's like cyberpunk, a new reality, you can realize your cyberdreams, your fetishes. I also dig the old party atmosphere, especially those really good warehouse type of places, a little bit cold, dark, some weird lights, weird looking people, LOUD music, general weirdness. You either absolutely love it or just don't get it and it's not for you. But something clicked right then when I was in my first real party. Maybe 2 to 300 people, real underground party, definitely illegal, definitely dark, definitely industrial techno type of atmosphere. It just made sense. It can't be explained, you either love it or don't. It does not need explanation, you can't rationalize it. You only feel it, and it feels weird but safe at the same time.. it's like a really good computer game but you're in it.
So that took off well in the .. mid 90s I guess. I really miss those parties, can't find a party like that anymore. But you can still have the music so it's all good.
I was totally sucked in into this cyberpunk type of world, I don't mean like Gibson's stuff, dystopia etc.. just extremely cool technology, all around art. It's like you can visualize and feel the networks, cables, routers, you can see the packets fly. And it's not boring, it's not a cable mess.. it's all kinds of colors, all kidns of futuristic structures.
It's as if you'd imagine Matrix, but in electronic mode all the way, and way before that movie came out. And all the people who are into the same things, you just click with them. You don't have to explain. YOu mention maybe something you're interested in, be it music, or the way you talk about computers. You instantly know if you have a soul mate there, if you carry the same style and vision. You don't even care who that person is, you're going to be friends.
You either read cyberpunk in your early years or you didn't. You either played with computers or you didn't. You hated star trek, star wars was OK though. But the world of techno, binary, networks, darkness but not hopeless or sad, new frontier, exploration.. if you were into that, then you are my friend. Because it made sense then, it makes sense now.
I loved the demo scene too, in fact, I'll go and watch Mindcandy DVD right now. So long.
I guess it started when I was a little kid. Anything electronic was of interest, naturally. Computers really did it though.. C64 was the first one I got my hands on. Then, Amiga 500.. I know many of you guys are older and have experienced older machines. Hey, maybe we have some kind of uber.. person here who has played with really old stuff.. like PDP-1 or TX-0.
Anyway, that was awesome, anything you could do and see was awesome. You just want to know how it works, how all the bits and things work. How does it all function with the usage of 1's and 0's. How is it possible.. how would you go and make yourself and assembler, how would you make noises come out of that thing. How does the memory work, what about registers, accumulators, transistors, vacuum tubes..
Then, I also got into electronic music. That was it. You would automatically combine those two together somehow. LIke this is the soundscape of what I feel, but within music as well.
And I'm not talking about that crap you hear on MTV, no no no.. some real electronic music, some experimental stuff, some dark beats ... it's like cyberpunk, a new reality, you can realize your cyberdreams, your fetishes. I also dig the old party atmosphere, especially those really good warehouse type of places, a little bit cold, dark, some weird lights, weird looking people, LOUD music, general weirdness. You either absolutely love it or just don't get it and it's not for you. But something clicked right then when I was in my first real party. Maybe 2 to 300 people, real underground party, definitely illegal, definitely dark, definitely industrial techno type of atmosphere. It just made sense. It can't be explained, you either love it or don't. It does not need explanation, you can't rationalize it. You only feel it, and it feels weird but safe at the same time.. it's like a really good computer game but you're in it.
So that took off well in the .. mid 90s I guess. I really miss those parties, can't find a party like that anymore. But you can still have the music so it's all good.
I was totally sucked in into this cyberpunk type of world, I don't mean like Gibson's stuff, dystopia etc.. just extremely cool technology, all around art. It's like you can visualize and feel the networks, cables, routers, you can see the packets fly. And it's not boring, it's not a cable mess.. it's all kinds of colors, all kidns of futuristic structures.
It's as if you'd imagine Matrix, but in electronic mode all the way, and way before that movie came out. And all the people who are into the same things, you just click with them. You don't have to explain. YOu mention maybe something you're interested in, be it music, or the way you talk about computers. You instantly know if you have a soul mate there, if you carry the same style and vision. You don't even care who that person is, you're going to be friends.
You either read cyberpunk in your early years or you didn't. You either played with computers or you didn't. You hated star trek, star wars was OK though. But the world of techno, binary, networks, darkness but not hopeless or sad, new frontier, exploration.. if you were into that, then you are my friend. Because it made sense then, it makes sense now.
I loved the demo scene too, in fact, I'll go and watch Mindcandy DVD right now. So long.
Damn that gave my chills to see that again..
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