No Russian

 For some reason we've been going through a phase of getting Russian stuff, like last week we picked up from the boot sale a haul of records from the old Soviet Bloc. This Wednesday we also got a book on Cacti also in Russian. From the 70's and with that old period charm of poverty and despair that a failed ideology creates. Nevertheless it has its charms, and for some reason zero copyright info in the inside label. So will have to get my big scanning hat on and upload this.

You'll want to know the records, and as I've a backlog to hack through I've only done two at the moment. One is based on Chinese Horoscope and is a mix of rock, pop and some odd electronica. You can find its discogs link. Here My personal pick is the weird one about a dog.

The other so far listened to is Free Jazz which is pure Wire readers style wankery. But it has a few saving graces in that there is some nice flute bits before the piano and brass overwhelm it.

If you care it can be found here My personal pick is either B1 or A1. Also note. This seems to be non Russian looks like its one of the Baltic stats either Latvian or Lithuanian. No Cyrillic for one. Oh one last thing the sleeve it came in is for something else entirely 

I'll add more in the weeks to come. 

Vavra set up.

 Just a few bits on setting up Vavra VST, the Waldorf Q emulator in your DAW.

You'll need to put the dll file in a separate folder and add in the bios files for this as they are supplied as Midi files for some arcane reason. 

This is all.

Skyfire

 We found a lot of Russian records tossed out and logging just what they are has been a bastard, so forgive me if this is a short review of no 83 the Skyfire Puzzle.

The Skyfire Puzzle is kinda like the shark jumping episode of Happy Days, you know from here on it's all downhill from here. To put this in some sort of context, the boys are trained up for some fictional space shuttle program down at Cape Canaveral, in order to work on a case involving sabotage and foreign powers. Its a good story, and along with the desert phantom case are prototypical versions of the later casefiles series. 

Frank Hardy gets a love interest that isn't Callie Shaw, though its pretty tenuous if they're an item. Oh and the Van has a fucking modem circa 86 that can be used to analyze video, from space. 

That's right the boys are in low earth orbit due to signing up for the Skyfire shuttle program. 

There are no differences between the two books but you can read the UK edition here and the US edition here. Note, I had to add in a paragraph which was missing from original scans. The joys of having every UK edition of the original series.

Emperor's Birthday 24

 My birthday today normally comes with a gift, so here is Sony Vegas 13 up on Archive.org from "Sony" themselves. Seeing as I lost the key for my original this is a dogsend. 

Boot sale gods have smiled on me with a good amount of porn / old dance magazines and some vinyl for £20 records are.  John McLean Declaration of Love on Ariwa. Five Star, Depeche Mode People Are People Mute, Some rap comp on LB Bads LaRhon label, and finally Sly and Robbie Land of Rydim. 

Magazines are:

Your Choice Magazine 1st Issue Nov. 82. 

Free! x4 with MC Pugwash on the cover in a Father Christmas outfit.

Touch Magazine x 6 and as a note from here on out not safe for work

Rustler 130 UK Edition x1. June 85 if counting on from this is correct.

Experience Busting Out vol1-1.

Vibrations Vol 9-9

Exposure vol 12-8

Last but not least Claudia 12e Jaargang nr.1 Which is both Red hot and Dutch. 

As well as a box of slides and a stack of cds and videos. Which'll keep me busy for weeks to come. 

Junk Trip Dartford

 Seeing as the bootsale is off due to high winds, we decided to look around Dartford instead. 

Its one of those towns that I like, if you are in Derbyshire then Buxton has a similar vibe to it. Just a nice chilled out and laid back town. Tried to redeem some MC D winning" simps" and ended up winning a free coffee which I'll have to redeem later.

Otherwise not a bad trip out. Got the special edition of Leftfield Phat Planet with the extra mixes and the Aaliyah more than a Woman cd (Masters at work mixes ftw). We also have a version of Marc Almond's Black Kiss single mixed by a Mark Schneider, possibly this guy. 

Nothing will top last weeks mad anti racism cd by Genie called Attitude, though, full on tracker style afro dance / house with a good side order of bat shit insanery. The alt channel has mixes up if you want a look. In fact I recommend all bad music fans to at least check out the slow pop mix. 

Plus a sub, too. You're welcome. 

Heaven.

This is something I've been wondering about the past few weeks. As you may know, I don't believe in a religion, but do believe in a heaven or so. True there's no god there or at least, if there is, a kind of Shinto type of situation where everything houses a god to some degree or  where god is dead, but its essence is infused in the land itself.. There is a hell to go with it for those that have pissed me off in life but for what its worth, I get a heaven with my family / pets back and runs Spring to Autumn with a permanent Med climate. Think So Cal or the Balearics if European with a cold night and warm days with cooler days / warmer nights in the off season. I grow cacti and would definitely want them to grow outside.

Which gets me thinking about the Bible and its version of events. They can describe hell to the nth degree but the best they can come up with is a sort of item world from Disgaea 5 where its a house with endless houses inside. Or a promise of eternal life stuck inside church with god.  Its never explained well what there will be awaiting the faithful, save for vague promises of riches in heaven, eternal life and one of gods matryoshka doll rooms. 

Presumably heaven is some sort of Christ based TARDIS, where you get to spend it with the non doctor.  The Mormons at least let you have celestial sex.  So you better hope you'll get to spend it with classic era Jesus rather than later Chibnall Jesus, where everyone is woke. Unless that is your fetish. Me, I think I'd take my chance with my heaven, at least they'll be people I care about there.