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· @edje · (edited)
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PIFFLE or NOT: You Decide!
Learned a new word today: **Piffle**. Earlier this week I shared an album with a HIVE newbee @themagus (a long time Steemian that I lured into our community: Give him a warm welcome!) asking his view on the material. His response included the word: "Piffle" and he used it to give his unqualified opinion - as he wrote himself - about the album.

<center>![](https://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/wp-content/R/WifflePiffle2.jpg)
<sup>"Wiffle Piffle" published by Michael Sporn ([source](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6146/5974574952_3d81c4fd8e_b.jpg))</sup></center>

"**WOW!**", I thought: "**How different opinions can be!**"

Not that this album is gonna be near my favourite ones, but I for sure think it is interesting enough to listen again.

But, one opinion is just one opinion, therefore I thought: "**Why not ask the HIVE community? We have quite a few professional musicians here, and many more music fans! Would love to get more feedback!**"

My Request to You: **What you think of the Album?**

<center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GWxEOqSHeCg" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>

I would not easily discover this producer and album myself. It was Spotify - based on whatever auto select rules it uses to figure out the next track - to push Clark and his Iradelphic through my speakers. In fact, it was track number 6; Maybe the most accessible track of the entire album. Based on that one, I started at track #1. A few tracks down, I though: "**Need to Skip the Rest!**", but I opened my mind a bit further and forced myself to continue listening the remaining part. 

> It's always interesting to try and take in something that we generally would not listen to: @luciannagy recently wrote an interesting post about opening our minds *([post](https://hive.blog/engrave/@luciannagy/cryptonian-artistic-perspective---think-global-not-local))*.

The reason I wanted to skip listening to the remainder of the album, was the incoherency of the entire album (at least what I already heard) and all the chaos I was hearing in a few of the tracks. Though I do like none-standard music a lot; Love many of the electronic experimental stuff out there; This one needed some extra effort to consume. That said: At the end of it all, I think within all the chaos, there is something that pleases the ears. Well, my ears at least :)

### What you Think?

<center>![](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6146/5974574952_3d81c4fd8e_b.jpg)
<sup>published by ODISIE at Flickr ([source](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6146/5974574952_3d81c4fd8e_b.jpg))</sup></center>

I was totally surprised Spotify brought my to an album of Aphex Twin straight after this one! "**Really?**" Aphex Twin is one of these artists I appreciate very much and a lot of his work I really like! Then I found *[this article](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16468-iradelphic/)* at Pitchfork and everything fell in place. Clark is linked to WARP. Those who know a bit more about electronic music, they will know WARP is Aphex Twin and Aphex Twin is WARP.

# <center>Embrase the Open Mind</center>

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@edje ·
the birdies...
https://twitter.com/hggnooo/status/1252959157604450304?s=20
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**Please use tags that describe your post.  The "hive" tag should only be used for posts that are specific to hive, which this post is not.  Please remove the "hive" tag and use only when appropriate.**
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@edje ·
Thanks for your comment: Corrected the tags accordingly. 
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@themagus ·
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Damn, I was looking forward to the community response ....
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@edje ·
Yeah, me too!!!
At least some bot responded, but not to my question :)
Owww, and got some cool rewards by various curator groups! But still, no response :(
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@themagus ·
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So I wanted to introduce you to my nephews type of music and he uses me as a sounding board ...now you know how dangerous that is...tell me what you think..

https://soundcloud.com/psytoplasm/psytoplasm-live-set

https://soundcloud.com/psytoplasm/cpu-melt-down

{drums fingers on desk... impatiently stalks up and down man cave.. yawns...clicks refresh}
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@edje · (edited)
HaHaHa....hope you didnt destroy your keyboard with all the refresh clicks!

Your request: This gonna be tricky since it'll stay on the blockchain forever!

This music style (GOA, Psy Trance) is not my favourite, but I would listen to it for some time (probably not more than 15 to 30 minutes) when being on some dancefloor, outdoors, when its dark, surrounded by my friends or just cool party people and still having energy. Therefor difficult for me to comment on the music itself. I do like the variation they have in their track and the - for me at least - somewhat chaotic collection of little sounds (I think that makes it for me dynamic).

The set recording, I listened the first 15 minutes or so. Record wise I think ok. Mixing can be improved I think, quite rough and using the breaks which is from a technical perspective the easiest trick there is (note: I'm not a DJ, mixed two times two records in my whole life; I have not more than super amateur knowledge of DJing disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer hahaha). That said, I think many people on the dance floor not necessarily find it a problem when mixing is rough and technically not challenging. Hey, numerous high paying artists are using Abelton and the likes to auto mix :) If you like, I'll listen the whole set (this weekend) and see if I can get some more feedback out of that.
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@themagus ·
fantastic response...much appreciated. I will google Abelton to learn more.
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