#Space Machine

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the two lutinos FINALLY are starting to shed out their piss blankets and look like normal rabbits that clean themselves again :)

[cowgirlbootgirl]

just me and my omnichord tonight

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[hdrnfsh-of-the-great-water-fuzz]

I am very bored, haven't utilized the fact that I have a Void™ to yell into in a while, and want something to do.

So now you lot get to learn about Space Machine.

I actually haven't listened to Space Machine in a while, so this post's accuracy may be a bit spotty, but I don't care. Space Machine was a musical project by Maso Yamazaki, better known for his harsh noise project Masonna. I've heard a few different stories regarding why he started up Space Machine as a project - I've heard he once hung out with Merzbow for a while and liked his analog synth collection so much he wanted to start his own, I've heard he already liked analog synths and wanted to incorporate them into Masonna, and then eventually decided to focus entirely on them as Space Machine, but the one I've heard the most is that the things he'd do at his live shows as Masonna kept hurting him (see here for an example of what I mean(WARNING: VERY LOUD)), so he decided to put Masonna on hold for a while and focus on vintage analog synths in the meantime. The music he created under this name is absolutely phenomenal and if you like electronic drone music I highly recommend it. Picture the soundtrack to a blinking wall of lights, like the sorts of "futuristic computers" you'd see in older sci-fi. That is what this music sounds like.

According to Discogs, there were 10 total releases under the name Space Machine. The big three are full-length albums. The first is titled Cosmos From Diode Ladder Filter, and the other two are simply numbered instead of titled, being called 2 and 3, respectively. I have yet to give 3 a listen, but I can compare the first two albums a bit - in general, Cosmos From Diode Ladder Filter feels like it has a lot more going on than 2 - there's less reverb, from what I remember, and while Cosmos feels like it's more about the sound being made by the synthesizers, 2 feels like it has far more focus on the space within the sound created by those synthesizers. I prefer 2, but Cosmos is also really really good. I would also recommend the Modular Series, which I'm about to get into.

The Modular Series consists of 4 different releases, each of which was, originally, a one-track CD. They are numbered in order of release: 101, 102, 201, and 202. 101 and 102 are live recordings alongside another musician - 101 is "Dimension Degenerator", which was recorded live at Penguin House on February 25, 2004 with Hiroshi Hasegawa (best known, to my knowledge, as a member of C.C.C.C., and also releases music as ASTRO and under his own name. He's also a member of a duo called Pulse Detonations iirc) on additional electronics. 102 is "Orbit Vector Generator", and was recorded live at Cafe Futuro on April 30, 2003 alongside Makoto Kawabata (best known for Acid Mothers Temple now, though I know him for Mainliner) on guitar. 201 and 202 are solo studio recordings, titled "Space-Time Echo" and "Zone Of Avoidance" respectively. The cover of each one was designed to look like a modular synth unit, which is also just really cool.

Before I move on, I have to briefly discuss 3 so that the next section makes sense. 3 is around 38 minutes and 6 tracks of studio recordings, followed by a single ~40 minute live show, with Makoto Kawabata on guitar and Nakaya Kouichi playing additional synths and theremin.

One of the other three releases under the Space Machine name is actually a repeat of everything above here, and there are two versions of it. The Space Tuning Box is a compilation album featuring the 11 tracks of Cosmos From Diode Ladder Filter, with the entire Modular Series tacked on to the end. But then there's the Complete Space Tuning Box, which is, get this: the entirety of Cosmos as a single, longform, 52-minute track, the entirety of 2 as a single, longform, 45-minute track, the studio tracks from 3 as a single, longform, 41-minute track (I remember there being silence at the end for some odd reason, there really is only around 38 minutes of music here), then the live track from the end of 3 as it's own track, and then each part of the Modular Series, with each one as it's own track. Both versions of the Space Tuning Box, original and Complete, are available digitally from the Bandcamp page of a record label called Urashima, if I've managed to capture your interest enough to the point where you want to hear the music.

The other two releases appear to be lost to time, yet their existence is logged on Discogs. The first of these, a track titled "The First Week", was a very short (2 minutes or so) live performance that was available from a website called Poweracoustics.org. I've been to this site, and found the page for the track, but there's no download link. Perhaps it was removed by whoever runs the site? No way to be sure. The other release I can't find is an album called The Website Concert Series Vol. 1, which was released slowly, by way of one track being uploaded to Maso Yamazaki's own website each month until the complete album was available. I attempted to visit this site, but all I remember being met with was a wall of text in Japanese, which I can only assume was some kind of error message. A shame, that - the album, according to Discogs, had two more live tracks on it, one with Hiroshi Hasegawa and another with Makoto Kawabata, alongside 8 otherwise unreleased studio recordings. I would have loved to hear it.

And that, as far as I know, is Space Machine. Thanks for uh... letting me ramble? I dunno. Like I said, I was bored and couldn't think of anything better to do with my time. I just hope this post gets someone out there to give Space Machine a listen.

[wonkyjaw]

Quilt update. This is split somewhere in the blues and I have to sew that together and then I have to add one more yellow row to the top. Then the quilt top is finally, finally done.

[just-a-space-rabbit]

Space Themed Claw machine ✨

Super happy with the result of this one! :D

Have been wanting to make an arcade claw machine for a while now and finally got around to do it. and I love the retro pastel sci fi vibe. I might make a little series of themed claw machines if anyone is interested and/or have ideas. But no promises! 👀

[technological-existentialism]

Some photos I took of the Columbus Module at the National Space Centre

[deadhaven]

Especially the lies.

[stil-lindigo]

prodigal son.

a sort of epilogue for God of War Ragnarok, since I miss these two so much.

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By midmindsarts

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el_stitch

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getting into the sentient ai fandom and noticing a parallel in the slasher fandom: fans put a mix interacting together and its kinda funny ngl (on both accounts)

oh look they're at the same park

[lorenzonuti]

Radical attachment.

[t4tcomputersex]

i love spaceships i loooove spaceships. the vacuum of space is so unforgiving and harsh and can kill you so quickly. and there's a big beautiful loving machine holding you safely inside of it and floating along through that making sure you are okay. i love spaceships