For years I was adamant that I didn’t like ambient, I think because I’d only been exposed to very boring drone stuff. Then I discovered Solar Fields / Carbon Based Lifeforms and it changed my musical world.

I’m quite horrible at self-promo so sadly it’s just gathering digital dust, but after 20+ years of writing dance music for myself and others, I decided to get heavily into writing ambient / chill. Made a load of trippy animation videos and setup a youtube… if you love Solar Fields, without meaning to sound bigheaded I think you’d enjoy them.

Ambient / Chill by Ain

I love anything by Solar Fields for tasks requiring concentrating, it’s especially good for reading scifi.

Whenever he releases a new album though I have to listen to it a few times, before I can have it on in the background… It’s very beautiful and intricate.

Yep has to have no lyrics or I get pulled into the song!

Steam doesn’t kick me out of my single player games when my internet connection drops for a split second. I quite like that

“Don’t say things about someone behind their back, if you wouldn’t be prepared to say it to their face”

I don’t get the hate for kale. Never would buy it after decades of reading how horrid it is… Decided one day to try it and found it’s actually refreshing and tasty, aside from the health benefits

C-c-c-c-combo breaker!

I wonder how many people who comment that in a broken comment chain know the origin. Figuring out those ultra combos and then memorising them, good times.

Just checked the wiki… 1994, fucking hell. Incredible graphics for the time too.

Well, I can confirm I’m using it to write this comment, very smooth experience for me.

I’m using the free version, so far any ads I’ve seen are not intrusive and tbh fairly rare

Terry Pratchett isn’t re-editing anything, he sadly is no longer with us.

This was about to be my response. Sometimes, when a 5.1 surround mix is forced into stereo output, it causes the ‘speech’ channel to sound quieter than it should.

Try sticking to non-surrounds sources OP if you don’t have surround setup

Say what? They have completely out competed our native red squirrels here in the UK. We have shit loads of grey squirrels, hit us up if you want a top up

SLS is in SO many products. Switching to a shampoo free from sulphates cured my dandruff and halted my hair loss.

Surprise, not rubbing surfactant into your scalp makes it healthier haha

Yeah, not trying to make excuses for him as he’s probably just a vile POS but this is like mental breakdown territory.

Maybe he personally lost someone close to him on 7th Oct and now he’s taking it out on someone he perceives as ‘Arab’. Even if that was the case though there’s no excuse for this kind of hate speech, go grieve in private or with family / friends.

I hate so much that there are people like him out in the world. Many of us are desperately trying to find ways to come together and they make it so much more difficult.

One day, you’ll realise it was deep minimal organic afrotech dubhouse, and come to your senses

Fuck…ing…HELL

Often when a headline has only part of a sentence, it was taken out of context so I watched the video.

narrators voice “it was not taken out of context”

I personally have strong dislike of all fundamentalist religious teachings but the things this guy says are despicable. We don’t have to respect someone’s opinion but we have to respect their right to hold it, and saying vile shit like this only furthers divisions.

Might be a case of ‘build it and they will come’.

I’ve been writing dance music for about 20 years, I think the relentless pigeonholing of genres can get ridiculous, but if it’s within that cast array I might be able to help… Before someone else wildly disagrees :)

Yeah this isn’t the flex she thinks it is, surely. “Ah but you see, no-one saw the ads you paid for!”

That’s awesome. Wish it was standard practice!

It’s quite scary to think that not only are kids not being taught logic, but many are being taught anti-logic; magical thinking etc. It blows my mind that right wingers screech about ‘grooming’ and indoctrination while they’re teaching their kids divisive skybeardguy nonsense. Literally grooming them to be religious.

Imo this is why they pushback and create false equivalence, because they know they’re losing their sad little foothold. Notice how whoever is downvoting comments in this thread has nothing to say.

Some ex ellent additions! Seeing as we’re all now well aware of each others’ religions, maybe they can replace the pointless RE (religious education in UK) class with a ‘Life Skills’ class.