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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

RIP! He is in Cosmic Cycles now fs!

David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Solenoid is available on Subvert now! www.subvert.fm/solenoid-1. I posted a IDM/waltz track that was only ever available on vinyl in 2003. "Pendulum" finally gets first digital release ever, 23 years later!

subvert.fm

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

commonlanguage.bandcamp.com - I have a new Solenoid 12" record coming out, and today it's Bandcamp Friday (they waive fees for artists)

commonlanguage.bandcamp.com

Middlemarch, by Solenoid

4 track album

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I am playing an early (5-9pm) fundraiser for the excellent Synth Library on Black Friday 11/28 (I'm on at 6:30). It's ALL AGES and features a synth petting zoo & raffle. Please come and support SL, and introduce family/friends to the fun of synthesizers!! www.synthlibraryportland.org/events/black...

synthlibraryportland.org

Black Friday Benefit for Synth Library Portland — Synth Library Portland

Our biggest event of the year! Do Not Miss It! Bring Friends! We’ll have a curated lineup of great performers to come see. Come out to show your support, win raffle prizes, hang out as a community,...

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

About 15 years ago, I went entirely open source for contract illustration and design, and once I got over the learning curves for the open tools, Adobe is just a non factor in my life. Glad to hear you're going for it!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Sounds great.. tuff & punchy drums!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

👏 ...and Five more years til the 50th, yeah I hope you unearth more tracks

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The City was a nightclub in Portland from the 80s that had its last years on NW 12th. I kept a copy of their short-lived zine in one of my old records from back then.

The City (Portland club) zine from Oct 1989

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I lucked out in buying the cassette back then, not realizing until later how special that growing up hearing Carnage Visors was.

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

No, I think that after learning OSs that change with little retroactive use of past understanding/jargon/shortcuts, older people just call the new designers' bluff and have zero enthusiasm to learn. Whatever you learn is useless in 5 years (besides a younger generation scoffing at you), so F it!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I should use this to convince Sylvan to wear his sunglasses more often

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Me too.. there was a nice transition into drum machines that Dunbar just slid into easily

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Its part of a Record Store Day all-day event, and @alysonprovax.bsky.social has new artwork on display!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Solenoid live 101+202+303+606 (real!) hardware set this Sat afternoon at 2:00PM(!) @Mint Gallery Records (pdx usa)...followed by Strategy live hardware set at 4PM celebrating "A Cooler World" album tape release !

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

There are wacky boats in the background!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Hmm, bsky didn't like 6 drawings at once.. here's the other two, Thinking Spell and FLX

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

These are drawings from the Modbang event in Portland, 2025-03-28 -- Brother vs Robot (VJ), Akemie, Thinking Spell, FLX, and Vulkauf @brothervsrobot.bsky.social

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Oof, no one was buying vinyl any more at the time I bought that when it came out in the 90s

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The bside of the US 12" is a nice moody space disco track too

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I have had my 1200 (and bought another 1200) where the bearing on which the tonearm pivots gets bad and the arm doesn't track properly (stiff, skips). It was hard to get an original 1200 tonearm replacement 15 years ago. I'm curious to know if you can get one now, or if the new tonearm work.

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We names our kid Sylvan Lloyd .. later it was realized how much it sounded like "Solenoid". But also that his first name was nearly an anagram for "vinyls" (which irks me greatly). I used to think of myself as "not a total idiot", lol

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I like a good wacky upbeat, dual mic technique

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I'll check out the Moin project thanks!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I'd had only one DS and was always meh about that 2010- era of dark ambient drone etc (I found the hype hard to get past sometimes ugh) Most of it wasn't doing anything new (I'd already been collecting since the 80s), but the Quarter Turns 2lp feels like a cohesive peak for 2008-2018 era.

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Crossroads had the remaining stock/collection of someone who'd done online distro in the remaining years of a terminal illness. Besides all of the Ike Yard represses, I found new copies Quarter Turns and several early Demdike Stare 12s (& 2010 era dub and drone).

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I always wondered if the *exact* missing A/B of a 2lp set isn't sometimes reunited with the original C/D disc via discogs. Imagine having one with the same handwriting or pen marks meet its' partner 20 years (and maybe an ocean) after being separated!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Can't wait to see what you curate and release!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

SACREMENTOSECONDPEACESIGNFIRSTGRADEIWANTTOSUCKYOURBLOOD

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Btw, Thank god we are finally on a SN platform worthy of topics like these! Whew

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Dj Ice Tits reminds me of that old alternate to "colder than a well digger's ass", which was "colder than a witches tit in a brass bra"

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Cotton Bass" -- probably a DJ Icey miami style remix of the classic Cotton Club track

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I had them set up a colony in the alarm clock by my bed one spring. I lowered it by the cord into a bucket of soapy water and left it for a day. Dozens of ants floated out. I'd first seen them crawling in front of the red LED numbers. I think they were attracted to a nearby glass of water.

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I built his PAIA ring mod (into an old mickey mouse shaped AM radio) in the 90s. It was a good intro to audio circuits.

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Its named the same as the 80s "Bass Invaders" by Maggotron, and even has DIY sci-fi comic art in common, but its someone else?

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

For the naive- it is acoustic, there is no electricity :)

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I really hope you can buy a place someday (if you want to stay in pdx and) if somehow possible!

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It took 2023-24, but I got all my releases' small label audio OFF of Spotify. It just aint worth it. I'm not motivated by the money (luckily) and I didn't want to enforce the "ubiquitousness" of Sp0tify for others by accepting it by default.

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David Chandler @davidmchandler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Oh she died today? Oh man, that's such a loss to the music world, oof. Hey, I suggest the Barry Reynolds one from that time period (cover is bluish w his face). He was her collab/songwriter for some of that LP, plus he recorded at Compass Point during that crucial Grace Jones Nightclubbing period.

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