Linkin Park is back!

And despite of everything – the controversy around their new vocalist, the departure of band members and everything else that has happened – I’m very happy about it. Their early albums have been an integral part of my youth and I’m so glad that they are still around.

The Emptiness Machine as the first single is an absolute banger. Jury’s still out on the rest of the album though - I guess it takes time to really get into it after such a long time. Some of the more Emily-forward tracks are definitely stuck in my head now.

Slightly unrelated: I should get a proper tool for cutting my labels, these wonky hand-cut ones aren’t great…

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Sometimes you just get lucky! 🤩🍀

Recently I found this stack of sealed discs at a yard sale, and while the Sony MDW-74B are certainly not the most exciting discs in the world, they are super solid and have never let me down. And I’m unreasonably excited that I only paid 1.50€ a piece 🥳

These make a nice addition to my collection, and while I have enough deleted discs to get me through the next few years, it’s always good to know that I can bust these bad boys open if I need any.

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I did a thing! \o/ and the thing is that I bought a printer. I never needed one, but now I felt like it was time to do that so I could print some nicer labels. For the @masterbootrecord #HARDWAREZ disc I’m still trying to decide which one to go with - the plain album cover cropped, or the one generated with the MiniDisc Label Creator?

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Congratulations @[email protected] on the release of HARDWAREZ 🖤💾💽
Great stuff as always, and the record sounds and looks great played off of this Maxell XL-II 80 Pro. Looking forward to catching you on tour in November!
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Good morning Minifriends! Let’s talk some more about the clear disc that you saw in my previous post.
Over the past weekend, I returned to Euroblast Festival in beautiful Cologne once more, and great times were had as always. Euroblast has been a fixed point in my life since I first went in 2012 . It’s such a wonderful event full of people who are extremely passionate about music and who like to share their passion with others. I have so many great memories of these events, and that inspired me to revisit the bands that I was super into around a decade ago.
I made this disc to celebrate the Djent wave of the early 2010s, where bands such as Periphery, Tesseract and Animals as Leaders fused the song structures of Progressive Metal with the lower tuned guitars of metalcore and some elements of ambient and even jazz. This wave completely swept me off my feet when it broke, and the music of that era still deeply touches me.
None of the bands of that era played the festival this year, but in terms of fresh blood, OU from China (last slide) really stood out with a very fresh and innovative sound. Avralize was another surprising new band for me, go check them out!

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Hellooo again! I know I’ve been off the air for a while - sometimes life gets in the way of the fun stuff, but now I’m back listening to some tunes on the spinny rectangle, on another commute going 300km/h aboard the wonderful ICE 3neo.

Please marvel at the beauty of this MZ-R500! I’ve long debated taking this outside with me - I found this last year in near-mint condition, in its original box, including all of the paperwork and the accessories. Quite the find, and not all that expensive. I often find myself wanting to keep these units locked up at home so they stay pristine - but let’s be honest, what’s the point of that? I’d rather give this unit a new life of being loved and enjoyed. And the R500 is such a good machine, too - not the most high-end one, but a very solid and refined workhorse. I imagine that loads of people got their start into the MiniDisc world on one of these babies.

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