Sometimes when you go searching for a favorite artist's newest album, you get a rude surprise. We lost the best thing since Daft Punk. :( Starcadian's music is available on Bandcamp, Spotify,...
Sometimes when you go searching for a favorite artist's newest album, you get a rude surprise.
We lost the best thing since Daft Punk. :(
Starcadian's music is available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Music. For my money, very few synth albums past or present can keep up with Radio Galaxy. Infinite repeat material, but it's weird now, his passing completely changed the vibe of the album. All of his records were straight killer, no filler.
I'm sad we'll never get a Netflix series in the Stranger Things meets Star Wars vibe that came out of his head. He was a video producer by day and that fledgling cinematic universe was all over his music videos. I'm going to link them in release order.
He was one of the top artists in the very first r/listentothis bestof. Even popped by the bestof thread to thank us for promoting him, one of the few artists to ever do that. Still remember the name of his reddit account. From what I can gather, his next album was at least past the halfway point, he was starting to release singles. We may get one final posthumous release from him, I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. His final reddit comment from 4 months back:
all recorded up, working on the magic layers right now, taking time because it's on another level, so head down and off the internet until it blows minds, prooobably this year?
There's a GoFundMe for his family. He was expecting his first child when this happened. This is the sort of thing that makes me want to pick a fight with God on an idle Tuesday afternoon. :/ Artists this exceptional remaining obscure while AI slop tops the charts still makes my blood boil.
Man, what a tragedy, and he was killed in one of the most preventable interactions between bicycles and cars: he was doored. It happens when cyclists are pushed to the edge of the lane by traffic...
Man, what a tragedy, and he was killed in one of the most preventable interactions between bicycles and cars: he was doored. It happens when cyclists are pushed to the edge of the lane by traffic that's too fast or trying to claim the lane, and it makes it far to easy for the cyclist to run into a car door when someone doesn't look before opening it. It's a tragedy, and a completely preventable one.
Many years ago in New York was the last time that I rode my bike. I was rolling slowly down a hill next to a like of cars, not lane splitting, and a car started to pull out in front of me. I...
Many years ago in New York was the last time that I rode my bike. I was rolling slowly down a hill next to a like of cars, not lane splitting, and a car started to pull out in front of me. I squeezed the breaks and went over the handle bars. The driver realized I was there and nosed back into their lane. I picked my self up, went into work, and got bandaged up there.
I enjoyed cycling, but I'm amazed that other people ride around on the streets in US cities. I'll probably never ride again.
I'm not sure it really is a preventable interaction in the context it occurred. Looking around where it occurred, the streets are a mess. The intersection is of two busy one-way streets. It's not...
Man, what a tragedy, and he was killed in one of the most preventable interactions between bicycles and cars
I'm not sure it really is a preventable interaction in the context it occurred. Looking around where it occurred, the streets are a mess. The intersection is of two busy one-way streets. It's not quite clear where street parking is legal, but there is a combination of just-off-street back-in parking, in-street restaurant seating, cars seemingly parked legally and illegally, construction equipment blocking parts of the side of the road, and some bike lanes on the cross street that seem to appear and disappear, are at times cut off from visibility to drivers, and seem to end by suddenly appearing to drivers and then immediately being cut off by a one-way to one-way left turn. Some of the photos in Street View have cars crossing the intersection in both directions, and pedestrians crossing in all directions all simultaneously in the intersection. If the article's statement that the cyclist was thrust into oncoming traffic is correct, given the one-way streets, the situation seems like it was even more complicated. But in any case, opening a door in this context seems like it would require looking in all directions at once at all times, and being aware of potentially hundreds of different moving objects, not all of which might be visible from any one glance.
Too often, bicycle policy in many cities around the world is built around creating conditions that require humans to always have perfect, superhuman awareness, consistency and reactions, and then blaming whatever human is unlucky enough to make a human mistake, rather than actually developing infrastructure that makes dangerous situations less likely despite humans being imperfect. That leads to arrangements where accidents will happen, at some rate, simply because there will be some rate of people making mistakes.
I'd compare it to developments around aviation safety with the "pilots are responsible for watching for traffic and avoiding collisions" concept. When it was realized that increasing traffic, speeds, and plane type differences meant that following this rule effectively wasn't always within human capabilities, rather than continuing to simply point to the rule, there were policy, control, and equipment changes made to actually reduce the likelihood of collisions.
You're absolutely right. The way it's preventable is through proper infrastructure design. In that environment as it exists today, there's too much going on for a person to really handle it all at...
You're absolutely right. The way it's preventable is through proper infrastructure design. In that environment as it exists today, there's too much going on for a person to really handle it all at once. But the roads don't have to be like that. There could be separate bike lanes. Where cars park relative to the sidewalk or bike lane could be changed. Car travel could be restricted.
By the time people are using the infrastructure, a lot of the dangers are already baked in.
That's horrible, poor guy. 44 is too young. I have some memories of listening to Chinatown back in early 2014 that I cherish dearly. May he rest in peace.
That's horrible, poor guy. 44 is too young.
I have some memories of listening to Chinatown back in early 2014 that I cherish dearly. May he rest in peace.
On a lark, I started listening to this and I wanted to say, Thank you for sharing this. I was listening to New Cydonia and I couldn't shake the feeling that this was like a Lionel Ritchie song,...
On a lark, I started listening to this and I wanted to say, Thank you for sharing this. I was listening to New Cydonia and I couldn't shake the feeling that this was like a Lionel Ritchie song, but all that came to mind was The Commodores The Night Shift. That didn't quite fit, then my spouse suggested All Night Long and that was it.
Now, the two songs keep frankenmerging as they bounce around my skull:
... And I know you won't remember
memories in ember
Lighting up New Cydonia
All night long (All night)
All night long (All night)
We're going to party, (Ingwe idla ngamambala)
Karamu, fiesta, forever (Ingwe idla ngamambala)...
I just mean to say that I have really enjoyed discovering his music. What a loss.
Now that sounds like an exceptional idea for a mashup track. I'm dedicating one of my better ear movies to him, his tracks put the idea for it in my head and it wouldn't work without them.
Now that sounds like an exceptional idea for a mashup track. I'm dedicating one of my better ear movies to him, his tracks put the idea for it in my head and it wouldn't work without them.
Sometimes when you go searching for a favorite artist's newest album, you get a rude surprise.
We lost the best thing since Daft Punk. :(
Starcadian's music is available on Bandcamp, Spotify, Youtube, and Apple Music. For my money, very few synth albums past or present can keep up with Radio Galaxy. Infinite repeat material, but it's weird now, his passing completely changed the vibe of the album. All of his records were straight killer, no filler.
I'm sad we'll never get a Netflix series in the Stranger Things meets Star Wars vibe that came out of his head. He was a video producer by day and that fledgling cinematic universe was all over his music videos. I'm going to link them in release order.
He was one of the top artists in the very first r/listentothis bestof. Even popped by the bestof thread to thank us for promoting him, one of the few artists to ever do that. Still remember the name of his reddit account. From what I can gather, his next album was at least past the halfway point, he was starting to release singles. We may get one final posthumous release from him, I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. His final reddit comment from 4 months back:
all recorded up, working on the magic layers right now, taking time because it's on another level, so head down and off the internet until it blows minds, prooobably this year?There's a GoFundMe for his family. He was expecting his first child when this happened. This is the sort of thing that makes me want to pick a fight with God on an idle Tuesday afternoon. :/ Artists this exceptional remaining obscure while AI slop tops the charts still makes my blood boil.
Man, what a tragedy, and he was killed in one of the most preventable interactions between bicycles and cars: he was doored. It happens when cyclists are pushed to the edge of the lane by traffic that's too fast or trying to claim the lane, and it makes it far to easy for the cyclist to run into a car door when someone doesn't look before opening it. It's a tragedy, and a completely preventable one.
Many years ago in New York was the last time that I rode my bike. I was rolling slowly down a hill next to a like of cars, not lane splitting, and a car started to pull out in front of me. I squeezed the breaks and went over the handle bars. The driver realized I was there and nosed back into their lane. I picked my self up, went into work, and got bandaged up there.
I enjoyed cycling, but I'm amazed that other people ride around on the streets in US cities. I'll probably never ride again.
I'm not sure it really is a preventable interaction in the context it occurred. Looking around where it occurred, the streets are a mess. The intersection is of two busy one-way streets. It's not quite clear where street parking is legal, but there is a combination of just-off-street back-in parking, in-street restaurant seating, cars seemingly parked legally and illegally, construction equipment blocking parts of the side of the road, and some bike lanes on the cross street that seem to appear and disappear, are at times cut off from visibility to drivers, and seem to end by suddenly appearing to drivers and then immediately being cut off by a one-way to one-way left turn. Some of the photos in Street View have cars crossing the intersection in both directions, and pedestrians crossing in all directions all simultaneously in the intersection. If the article's statement that the cyclist was thrust into oncoming traffic is correct, given the one-way streets, the situation seems like it was even more complicated. But in any case, opening a door in this context seems like it would require looking in all directions at once at all times, and being aware of potentially hundreds of different moving objects, not all of which might be visible from any one glance.
Too often, bicycle policy in many cities around the world is built around creating conditions that require humans to always have perfect, superhuman awareness, consistency and reactions, and then blaming whatever human is unlucky enough to make a human mistake, rather than actually developing infrastructure that makes dangerous situations less likely despite humans being imperfect. That leads to arrangements where accidents will happen, at some rate, simply because there will be some rate of people making mistakes.
I'd compare it to developments around aviation safety with the "pilots are responsible for watching for traffic and avoiding collisions" concept. When it was realized that increasing traffic, speeds, and plane type differences meant that following this rule effectively wasn't always within human capabilities, rather than continuing to simply point to the rule, there were policy, control, and equipment changes made to actually reduce the likelihood of collisions.
You're absolutely right. The way it's preventable is through proper infrastructure design. In that environment as it exists today, there's too much going on for a person to really handle it all at once. But the roads don't have to be like that. There could be separate bike lanes. Where cars park relative to the sidewalk or bike lane could be changed. Car travel could be restricted.
By the time people are using the infrastructure, a lot of the dangers are already baked in.
That's horrible, poor guy. 44 is too young.
I have some memories of listening to Chinatown back in early 2014 that I cherish dearly. May he rest in peace.
On a lark, I started listening to this and I wanted to say, Thank you for sharing this. I was listening to New Cydonia and I couldn't shake the feeling that this was like a Lionel Ritchie song, but all that came to mind was The Commodores The Night Shift. That didn't quite fit, then my spouse suggested All Night Long and that was it.
Now, the two songs keep frankenmerging as they bounce around my skull:
I just mean to say that I have really enjoyed discovering his music. What a loss.
Now that sounds like an exceptional idea for a mashup track. I'm dedicating one of my better ear movies to him, his tracks put the idea for it in my head and it wouldn't work without them.