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I would be very interested in the ANKI megadeck. I have spend quite some time cleaning up and testing out different ANKI decks in Chinese and i need quite a motivated day to extend or create new ones.

I had a similar "local celebrity" experience while traveling with another dutch person around Hubei, people would ask us for pictures at stores because we where the first foreigner to ever be there. Interestingly i thought it was quite positive as i felt the interest of people was a mix between curiosity and excitement to show of their culture while my friends experience was quite negative as he thought the interest was coming from prejudice or negativity.

Great example of how 2 people experiencing the same thing can have very different take always and how what you bring to a place is usually what you get back from it.

Plaid. Every album so far has been on the edge of the music landscape as it released. The last album, among other things, combining real and physical modelled instruments in electronic soundscapes against a AI/generative backdrop, The previous one incorporating gamalan structures and rythems among advances in sound design. Back in the day they where also using generative rytems, virtual voices, all kind of digital sythesis techniques when they just became aviable.

It's one of the few artist in the electronic frontier that imho manages to consistently make musical songs with state of the art tech. In contract to newer stuff from for example Clark or Amon Tobin where it feels the intresting sounds are the song instead of intresting sounds making the song.