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my library 📚: thoughthazard.neocities.org
sometimes: White Owl Records, ‪Bruiser Mag, whatever else i feel like.
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thank you my friend! hope all is well
September 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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July 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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It's Not The Archer, It's The Arrow, by Talker
4 track album
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July 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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+4 more local ones in philly. shoutouts digicams from early 2000s. i got a 2000 sony cybershot off ebay but i gotta track down a battery charger to take actual pics from it. maybe ill finally develop these film rolls
June 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Preorder and Talker's track "Overstayer" available now on Bandcamp and streaming:
talkr.bandcamp.com/album/its-no...
It's Not The Archer, It's The Arrow, by Talker
4 track album
talkr.bandcamp.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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2/2
ack: Do you feel influenced by that dub style that Basic Channel and Wackies are known for? Talker: I don’t want to say that my style is a dub style, you know I’m not doing Basic Channel or Mala or Augustus Pablo style stuff. But the notions of using sends and returns, using delays for syncopation, cutting things in and out, deleting space – I totally use all of these techniques. I wish I had a mixer setup – I’d love to do more by hand, but I bought a faderfox so that I can midi-map my sends and use my hands instead of drawing in the automation, since drawing it in doesn’t sound as good. I almost feel like using dub techniques is timeless – it’s the same way with chopping an amen break. I don’t think we’ll ever figure out how many ways you can chop an amen break. Jack: Are there any other techniques you rely on besides dub techniques? Talker: I’ve got to give a shout out to Lucas Marchal (@dc11). He’s been such a massive help for me with his modular demo videos. They’re super in-depth and I think they’re really transferable to the DAW too. While I was making the EP I’d message him for routing tips and troubleshooting questions. He’s been super helpful in providing techniques. J: Can you share one? T: Sure – Not to get technical, but I have a thing set up on the modular that I might as well hardwire at this point. The voltage multistage has two rows of CV and I’ll feed the modulation row into this basic Doepfer 4 stage sequential switch to make this buchla style subsequencer. I’d set it to three stages, and then maybe I’d have like a 7 step sequence playing, and then I’d feed it into an attenuator, and then into the make noise function for a simple envelope. I’d feed that into anything – usually it would be the filter amount on my main voice. So if the two sequences align it would just bump the filter amount. And at the same time I’d have another envelope triggered every like 13 steps from PAM’s, and I’ll send that into the aux on the metropolis so it’ll change the octave. I can turn up this potentiometer and it’ll just pitch it way out of tune and make it go crazy, and with the filter opening up it just explodes for a quick second and then closes all back down to normal. J: Woah – and what does that do? T: It just – it adds that extra layer of unpredictability. I can hook it up to whatever I want and it will play itself in weird ways. If you’re listening to a completely static loop it gets boring, but if it's bumping around and clashing into itself in these ways it's more interesting. J: The title of the EP, It’s Not The Archer, It’s The Arrow – I thought it was a typo when you sent it to me, because I’m like – wait – it is the archer though. T: (Laughs) Yeah it was a typo originally. I had it backwards, and then when I went back to it I thought it was funny. And like – you’re a gear head, I’m a gear head – there’s always this notion that just one more piece of gear, just one more synth and you’ll finally be able to write the track. J: Guilty. T: Me too. So the title kind of plays on the gear acquisition syndrome that everyone falls into – that I fall into. I’ve always liked the notion of poking fun at yourself. The typo made me laugh, so I decided to keep it. Talker - It's Not The Archer, It's The Arrow releases July 3, 2025.
June 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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March 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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tapped out after 40, so i didn't get much further than you. i'm not even familiar with the source material other than apparently this movie has jack shit to do with it, so i feel bad for the people who liked it and had to sit through this
March 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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$320 million dollars budget on a 128 min runtime means $2.5 million United States Dollars being set on fire on my screen per minute, which the KLF could only ever dream of. By 40 mins I had seen $100 million being flushed down the toilet. they couldve given me $1m to make something equally bad
March 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM