#Astigmatic records

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Club 32

25.09.2024

Intro 00:00 The New Human–Dial It In 01.10 Luke Sanger–Morning Person 03:08 Zeptosphere–The Trap (Wermonster Remix) 07:22 Musette–Cumbia De Giza 12:24 Błoto–Autentyzm 15:14 Hainbach–Encore Elektrik 21:06 Veryan–Needles At The Bottom Of The Sea 25:44 Klaus Morlock–Night Mist 30:19 Ginger Root–Giddy Up 36:09 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi–Treasures 39:33 SiP–Hula Rock 44:30 N Λ Ṇ D–Unnatural Composition 46:01 The Smile–I Quit 51:26 Bendu–Heart Air Balloon 56:43 Wealdham–Willows 1:01:16 Anadol–Her Şeylerin Arasından Göründü Bana Bir Ceylan 1:06:48 Outro 1:09:19

[burlveneer-music]

Uniri - Infinite Reflections - with two synth players backed by a live rhythm section this would have been called "nu-jazz" at one time, but this is on a whole other level

Uniri translates as ‘one unified dream’ and is the key driving motto of the project conceived by Chiminyo (Cykada, Maisha), the band's founder and head honcho. The project materialised in his private studio, where he invited fellow jazz musicians Amane Tsuganami (Jorja Smith, Maisha), Al Macsween (Nubya Garcia, Gary Bartz, Kefaya) and Luke Wynter (Nubyan Twist, Golden Mean) to spontaneously compose together. Hence, despite this being the band's first album, it wouldn't be right to call them rookies. The result of Uniri's collaborative work is the psychedelic, rhythmic album Infinite Reflections, packed with cosmic and warm synths, which neatly balances hip-hop beat and jazz composition. It's safe to say this music is even more appealing when played live, although it's equally suited to the club dancefloor. Amané Suganami - Prophet Rev 2, Moog Mother 32 Al Macsween - Prophet 6, Moog Subsequent 37 Luke Wynter - Electric Bass Chiminyo - Drums Cover Art: Ricky Byrne Graphic Design: Animisiewasz Photo: Jordan Rawi

[musicollage]

EABS meets Jaubi — In Search of a Better Tomorrow. 2023 : Astigmatic.

[donospl]

Co w jazzie piszczy [sezon 2 odcinek 17]

premierowa emisja 15 maja 2024 – 18:00 Graliśmy: Christian Mc Bride, Edgar Meyer “Bebop, of Course” z albumu “But Who’s Gonna Play The Melody?” – Mack Avenue Records Raw Fish  “Stroganina” z albumu „Crudo” – Loumi Records Andy Milne and Unison “Purity of Heart” z albumu “Time Will Tell” – Sunnyside Records Alec Goldfarb feat. David Leon “And the Red Light was my Mind” z albumu “Fire Lapping…

[schizopositivity]

its funny whenever i explain visual snow syndrome to people irl they always ask "so youre seeing it right now?" like yes, i said i always see it so of course im seeing it right now. they also usually ask "how do i look with it?" like how you always look to me lmao, i cant not have visual snow so i cant tell you how you look with it vs without it, i have a filter of moving specs over my vision at all times, its all i know, you dont look "weird" unless you want to clasify literally everything i see as weird.

[otvlanga]

People with glasses are so weak like I was trying to flick my boyfriends forehead and I accidentally missed and flicked the arm of his glasses and they FLEW off his face into the street. That man is blind as a bat I could’ve killed him right there and all he would see is blobs. It’s so funny

[whatyoullneversay]

once i made a joke like this about driving at night without my glasses. my father was not amused.

[asparklethatisblue]

last week I saw a bat fluttering around my neighbourhood, which is amazing cause my vision sucks and I have astigmatism which makes it especially hard to see things near light sources (i see lights super blurry so obviously small black objects in the dark near a light source are harder to see)

and yesterday I was walking to the store, determined to try and spot a bat where I’d seen one before. And!!! One flew right past me super fast quite a bit away! Also I did see TWO bats flying around together where I’d seen the very first one a bit ago! They were so fast I could barely see them, but it was definitely two, and maybe they were doing some sort of courtship behaviour? I don’t know that much about it, but it’s definitely mating season. So I was stood in the most unlit part of a pathway, trying not to cry cause I was so happy. I wish I had a recorder to hear their songs, because males do sing to woo their mates, but the cheapest recorder i’ve seen is 200£ or so. I’m 90% sure it’s pipistrelles of some kind, because they fly extremely fast and acrobatic, and are really common in the UK. Just based on speed and location that’s the most likely species, but there’s more than one kind of pipistrelle. It’s cool though, because it’s one thing to know on paper what sort of environment bats enjoy, and what it looks like in real life. The bats I expected to see are in the most tree dense part of this entire area, the one that flew by me was more or less out in the open by a very well lit street! They don’t have areal predators at night, and it was past sundown, so maybe it is fine? I did read that very bright streetlights disturb then. But then again in America there’s bats that straight up live in the middle of a big city!

anyway. I think whatever caused the mental breakdown the other day is quieting down and I’m just happy there’s bats here! I doubt my landlord would let me put up a bat box, but that’s ok, I know there’s a few around here and even though I can’t volunteer to help with bats in general (i need a car, the region doesn’t have reliable enough public transport) I can still see them!!

[maddeningmentalmess]

ethel the ring, the great dark, and proximity to god

after a long day of mundane work and classes, while walking something called me to listen to Punish. i listened to it once through my earbuds but it wasn’t enough. I had to blast it in my car during my usual commute. i turned the volume up and drove watching a near-full moon and fading pink clouds in a darkening sky. i started to think about the mysterious “it”. 

craving for more, i started listening to preachers daughter. I turned it up again as i got onto the freeway. my astigmatism made stars out of LED headlights and my voice was tested to its limits while singing. i’ve been congested and sick for the past few days and my headache threatened to turn the music off. but i didn’t want to stop feeling. i noticed myself wishing to come across traffic and red lights so i could listen to the album through my shitty car speakers until it was through.

i parked my car in the driveway as “thoroughfare” started playing. all i wanted to do after i took off my boots was find out what “it” is. i felt dumb or out of the loop and desperately wanted to know what “it” is, what is happening to every-body. i kept thinking if "it" is happening to every-body then why do i feel alone? i don’t like feeling unintelligent, not knowing is a fear of mine. looking at the tumblr made it worse, i don’t know all of these philosophers and architects and old french people. i felt so dumb. my last resort was to check reddit. this was hard for me, i really wanted to figure “it” out on my own, and this felt like asking for help.

if “it” is happening to every-body why don’t i know “it”?

i’ve never ever been a religious or spiritual person. when every comment under questions from others curious to discover “it” was to watch the video “the ring, the great dark, and proximity to god” i felt wary. when i saw the rings compared to the circles of dante’s inferno my hesitancy died. dante’s inferno has hovered behind or loomed large in front of my favorite pieces of media.

i had to replay parts of the video multiple times to really listen and not just hear. at first i thought there was no way that it could have ever happened to me. i thought i couldn’t have possibly ever felt it. when i started truly comprehending, it clicked. i felt so thankful that music is my path to the veil. when she said that “it” can be felt in grand, big songs like Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine, i got it. 

i don’t know when i felt it the first time. but i remember when i was conscious of an "it", and that i felt it. it wrapped around me and laid on top of me like a weight while i floated. complete comfort and strange sensations i’ve never felt. of course, i had never heard of anyone else feeling anything like it.

i did not understand how people could call it being stoned and being high at the same time. stones are heavy and being high is so light. i was listening to a record and i melted. i can’t see images in my mind. but i could almost see the music. all of it, everywhere, around me, above me, within me, approaching me.

when the feeling was over i wanted it again so badly. i was just waiting for the next time i could go there. i waited until i could truly sink into it again. it was at the beach and i had headphones on. when i came to, there was a bright red line across my thigh where the umbrella hadn’t covered me.

as i write this i realize that i had felt it before. Listening to songs like Abstract (Psychopomp) by Hozier or The Bomb by Florence and the Machine completely sober and feeling something that i couldn’t explain. I could never quite describe the feeling I got when listening to those songs, it was in my chest and stomach and heart and body. it felt like my heart was sinking, and twisting, and floating, and imploding, and unfurling. 

if that feeling truly is “it” i hope that everyone finds it. but be careful or you might get lost in it.

thank you @mothercain

[the-unrelated-theorist]

I just noticed something.

This is Reaper Bird.

Astigmatism becomes Reaper Bird's face, and the legs become the beak.

So if you look at Astigmatism in a certain way, their legs could actually be seen as a pincer-like mouth that opens horizontally.

Kind of like, uh...

And Astigmatism is a Core monster.

Taking this a bit further:

Whimsalot is a knight, and Final Froggit wears a crown. Final Froggit also has cross-shaped (or star-shaped, or SAVE-point-shaped) eyes, and the dots on its tummy and the face under its tummy almost kinda look like the Delta Rune.

All of these are Core monsters. All of them group together to form Reaper Bird. And all of them achieved some form of enlightenment, which made them "stronger monsters".

And Reaper Bird is the only Amalgamate (aside from the Memoryheads, because it's not clear to me whether Alphys made them or not) who is not represented in the Deltarune graveyard.

So, what does all this mean? I have no clue. I don't even know if it does mean anything. But it's really dang weird, innit?

None of these are my pictures. I just pulled them from Google, because my PC is giving me trouble trying to play or record or screencap anything.

[milkhater3000]

Thinking about the time I diagnosed myself with astigmatism based on Instagram posts, of all things, and then I randomly found out one day while looking at my medical records that I've also been officially diagnosed, but they just didn't tell me

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Club 30

11.09.2024

Invisible Club 030

A new intro and outro for the show and a new idea. I was listening to last weeks episode while out walking and thought wouldn’t it be nice to know how many tracks were left on the episode so that I knew when to head home. So that’s what I did.

Intro 00:00

Analog Sweden Records–Animoid Underground 01:17

Dark Fidelity Hi Fi–Movement 05:24

The New Human–Thought Patterns (Fragile X remix) 08:39

One Half Of Bent–Willow 16:19

Tycho–Restraint 21:24

Mamman Sani, Tropikal Camel–Touareg Spaceship 24:25

Lifting Gear Engineer–Scan 28:10

Bonobo, Jordan Rakei–Shadows 32:12

Minerva–Oligarch 36:52

Wealdham–Echelons 40:34

Veryan–White Crane Spreads It’s Wings 47:14

Flying Lotus–Garmonbozia 50:19

Sunwarper–Soundtrack for a Rainy Day (Imagined Landscape II) 53:41

Tegu–2×10 55:34

Gianni Safred–Automatic Age 59:54

Błoto–Farmazon 1:02:23

Outro 1:04:29

[burlveneer-music]

Błoto - Grzybnia - absolutely banging new album from Polish jazz fusion group

Błoto’s bold 2020 debut brought forth three albums in just twelve months. This prolific creative burst, followed by an ongoing tour and involvement in other projects, meant that fans had to wait over three years for the next release. During this time, new ideas took shape, and the vision for their fourth LP crystallized. The wait for Błoto's new album is nearly over. As always, autumn signals the arrival of Grzybnia (Mycelium). CREDITS: Wuja HZG - Bass guitar, Moog Little Phatty Stage I, Percussion Latarnik - Piano, Moog Minimoog Voyager, Nord Stage 3, Junost 21, Percussion OlafSaxx - Roland Aira System-1, Roland Aira TR-8, Saxophones: tenor, soprano, Percussion Cancer G - Drums, Roland SPD-SX, Percussion Special guest: Kwazar - flute [B2].

[ominous-feychild]

sammy headcanons, pretty please,, fun facts or silly headcanons, i need more sammy content in my life

I'm answering these out of order rn because otherwise I won't get to them in forever. I'm sorry to everyone waiting for your asks to be answered... if you even remember asking, WHOOPS--

I mean, technically they're not headcanons because I'm the writer and I just make any "headcanons" just straight-up canon, but! 🤣

Due to his very specific and special brand of magic, he constantly has plants growing around and on him. It's worse around dirt, so he used to make an effort to completely avoid dirt in order to hide his magic.

The growth rate of plants around him exponentially changes depending on his emotional state! If he's happier, they'll grow at a faster pace. This is another reason they did not grow very often before RFtA. Oh, whoops, that's sad, isn't it? 😉

The growth rates of the plants increases dramatically as he gets stronger throughout the series.

If he sits in a pile of dirt, it would take less than a minute for the plants grow over his lap and anchor him to the ground. Later in the books, they'll grow so fast that they'll basically encase his entire body with that much time. Don't worry, though! They wouldn't cover his eyes, nose, or mouth because they love him! Also, he could literally just magically move them off of him, haha. They'll just be sad their father abandoned them. 🥺

Sammy is constantly basically-freezing cold and wears jackets and sweaters as often as possible. It makes him stand out considering the climate is so hot.

He purposely wears oversized jackets with floppy sleeves. It's one of the many ways he makes himself look smaller/weaker in order to make people underestimate him so he can manipulate them. I'm sorry, it's next to impossible not to get depressing/dark with him!!!

He is smol boi,,, so smol,,, 4'8,,, (but you knew that, lmao. That's for anyone else who didn't know.)

Sammy has heterochromia. One eye is pale blue, the other is dark brown--almost black. Although this is uncommon in most people with heterochromia, Sammy's blue eye is more sensitive and has an astigmatism. He was not born with it.

His real-world ethnicity is equivalent to Latino.

He has ADHD and dyslexia. Yes, kinda like the PJ demigods. No, that was not intentional, haha.

However, he may or may not have been inspired by Leo from HoO... JUST POSSIBLY!!! Hey, man, he's a YEARS-old character. Besides, I bet you wouldn't have been able to figure it out if not for this!!! Yw for exposing my dirty secrets.

In a real-world AU, he'd still have grown up on the streets. Instead, he'd get sponsored by a college by (half) accidentally stumbling on revolutionary medication and treating an otherwise-incurable disease in someone he didn't know was important. Everyone would then be incredulous to find out he couldn't/can't read and literally just figured all that stuff out by himself. #JustSavantThings

If he ended up in our world, he'd be terrified of being caught in a recording (of any kind).

If he grew up in our world, he'd love podcasts and music. However, tragically, he wouldn't listen to them too often because they'd distract him from focusing on everyone else around him.

Less fun, but still facts:

He's unaware of this, but the person he thinks of as his mother was an adoptive parent; not biological. Didn't make her any less important to his life or who he is as a person, but does come to bite him in the butt when he finds out the truth!!!

Sammy is plagued by migraines. He's just long-since used to living with them. However, he's able to use his magic to shut off the pain during emergencies. He's just... not aware of it for the longest of times.

Related to the ADHD: he is a MAJOR stimmer. However, he's too used to controlling himself to allow himself to except for when it serves whichever act he's trying to sell.

I lied. He sometimes allows himself to stim in moments where he's trying to "reset" his brain, aka change the subject or give himself a moment to think. It's not entirely conscious though.

Sammy's magic is unique. The only others with it are his family members. Guess that's a little bit of a spoiler, but oh well, haha. It's not too hard to figure out, and it especially won't be when I explain my magic system more in-depth.

He develops anger issues midway through the first book. At the same time, he gets a massive increase in power. Are those two things related, or just a coincidence? Yes.

He doesn't actually like plants. He feels pretty neutral about them. However, the fact that they're the most ethical and effective way to use his magic makes him keep them around. His joking about liking them is a deflection to avoid explaining he likes having a way to defend himself readily available.

He starts to lowkey hate plants as his magic spikes in power. Due to it occurring at the same time as the onset of his anger issues, the "plants growing over him" thing suddenly goes from "occasionally grows over him" to "basically always on him" and he can't cope with the frustration.

It's especially bad when, later in the series, Sammy runs away from the Knight's College ("flight risk" foreshadowing fulfilled) and he's basically unable to get away from dirt. He gets very angry with them never giving him a break.

Sammy is deeply insecure and thinks he can and has only caused problems in others' lives.

He has a good reason to feel that way, though obviously it's not actually true.

As I've mentioned before, he's a major social manipulator control freak who panics whenever he feels he's lost control of a situation.

He pretends to buddy-buddy up with the villains he can't otherwise beat in order to destroy them from inside. However, this makes his "alliances" seem VERY wishy-washy and focused on his own survival.

Despite that, after the beginning of RFtA, Sammy is incredibly self-sacrificing. He'd rather sabotage his own survival chances in order to help others rather than leave them to rot when he otherwise could've helped.

This is related to trauma in his past.

The only people he won't try to convince he's on their side is the people he cares about. He cares too much, his brain short-circuits, and he just gives up because "he deserves it, anyways".

He hasn't sincerely cried for a long time. Not from lack of emotion, but because he's numb to it.

No matter what, Sammy is one of my few characters who will never purposely kill anyone else. Even the people who hurt him the most, even though he'll hold an incredible amount of rage, he can't bring himself to hurt someone else--much less kill--outside of a life-or-death situation. He's a pacifist who enters fights in order to end them as quickly as possible.

Despite his manipulative tendencies, I would call Sammy a good person. One of the "best" people in all of my writing, honestly. He just got dealt a REALLY shitty hand in life.

Sorry I'm sharing some things you already know, Letters! I'm sharing them with the rest of the world, haha!

Tagging list: @honeybewrites @the-golden-comet @illarian-rambling @ashirisu @urnumber1star

@aalinaaaaaa and ask and ye shall be added!

[donospl]

EABS „Reflections of Purple Sun”

Astigmatic Records, 2024 Wielowątkowym powrotem do źródeł naznaczony jest najnowszy album zespołu EABS. Kwintet oddaje nim hołd Tomaszowi Stańko i jego kultowej płycie „Purple Sun”. Album dostępny jest na Bandcampie Szósta płyta w dyskografii EABS nagrana została bez udziału muzycznych gości, w podstawowym składzie grupy. Chętnie sięgający w swojej muzyce po kultowe,  historyczne dzieła EABS,…

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #258

Today was a lazy sort of Monday, because M and J had the day off of work.

M has this new game called Fear and Hunger 2. It's some kind of survival horror game. He seems to be enjoying it, but I think it's a bit too dreary for my own tastes. Salt and Sanctuary is surely bleak, but I feel like this game takes that bleakness to a new and wholly unnecessary level.

To each their own. I'm sure some people really like this game. And to be sure, watching it be played is fascinating in some respects. But I don't think I'll play this one.

I wanted to play Dead Cells today, but I ended up getting caught up in other things, which wasn't necessarily bad. And then J wanted me to take him to Great Barrington today for another flying lesson, and that was pretty cool. I drove us up there, because it was still daytime and therefore safe for me to drive. But by the time he was all done, it was getting pretty dark. I've got astigmatism, so even with glasses, all of the shining lights in the dark become infinity porcupines that shine in every direction, significantly obscuring my vision in the process. Kinda like this:

...J and M don't have this problem. So they are the ones who drive at night. It'd be unsafe if I tried to do it.

J got some nice pictures of the scenery for you on the way there. Here are some of the best ones, but they're all out of order because J's phone sends them to me weirdly:

...I think I might be slowly coming out of whatever funk I've been in, on-and-off, for the last... while now. I thought a little more today about making a new music box, and I guess that's encouraging. I might see about getting another music box in the key of F, and another one in the key of C, just to see if I can fill in any gaps when it comes to some of the notes in between octaves. It'll be good to try to figure it out, methinks. It'll be good to maybe try to record more notes...

I think for now, though, I'll stop writing. I wanna see about actually getting to bed on time. This whole Russian-Roulette-Bedtime-Schedule-Thing I've been doing lately seems to be really messing with me, so I gotta do something about it, because I don't enjoy feeling like hot stinky garbage.

I love you. Stay safe out there, okay? I'll write again tomorrow.

Your friend, Lumine