In the eyes of many, michael had been at the forefront of some of the most cutting-edge experimental and live electronic music to come out of the scene in his area, A lot of maturity is shown by someone who makes music like this, even more by his graceful retort. Why don't you try focussing on your own healing and/or musicmaking before piddling all over this album with this inessential rubbish? No wonder he got so pissed off. You know nothing about Michael and just between you and me, I have listened to some of YOUR music, and to me it spoke nothing short of volumes of insipid, tryhard rubbish. go fuck yourself

I posted this before I read the issues surrounding the 128 CBR.. while I can listen to 128's I really feel quite bad I ever mix them :)

Nice release, a bit sad for the 128 though :)

A lesson for all producer to export lossless copies of their tunes often!! At least make flac backups.. has CRC error checking ..

Again big props to Mr Roper and Chase :) (4/5 stars awarded)

EDIT: 01st May 2012 ----- READ BELOW -----

Upon reading this months old review, Michael T Roper replied to me via facebook with the following comments:

"Miguel Rupiero
1 May 15:58
dude whats this crap you wrote on archive . org about my 'interpersonal dilemma' release?
yes the good quality lossless files are easier to have when you make sure you backup often blablablabla. Easier still when you have a sane bone in your body....
I'd love you to come down to geelong and tell me what i should and shouldnt do 'right' or 'wrong' to my face, i might just put you in hospital...
-Michael"

To my reply:
"Lol dude take a fuckin chill pill. I'm just saying your music is great and I would be playing it in mixes and over club systems, but alas I cannot due to the poor bitrate. 128 is ok for personal listening aka bandcamp preview streams etc. But for club system no way. So I was actually very sad I can't play your tasty music in my own output of mixes etc. As for Chase, I love everything on there and have been friends with the owner for a long time. I also believe there's no time in our lives for bullshit. I say it like I see it. Don't physically threaten me on FB, it's actually a recorded threat. I don't have time for hate, but enjoy it yourself!"

His reply:

"Michael Thomas

go and get raped by your mummy lawyer's friends.

hurts donit."

Clearly this guy is a little unhinged, I don't even have a mother. So, while my original review states 4/5 stars, I have to note here my review is now 1/5 or 0/5 stars considering the personal threats I received, in relation to just reviewing this album. It's not that bad a review I thought either.

So yeah, download this at your own peril, the guy might be crazy enough to stalk you if you post a review he doesn't like.

0/5 stars

edit: thanks for the reply man, my grandmother and cat were busy dying around the time you replied so no time to notice replies. Thanks for that dude. I didn't mean to offend was just commenting on quality and yes I do know how easy it is to lose wav files especially for old stuff.

As for 'mommy's lawyers' she didn't have any, she died in 2010 from lung & brain cancer. So I don't know what you are talking about. As for appearing condescending, I honestly didn't mean this. You should take it as a compliment when people start hassling you for higher quality of releases for recorded mixes, live sets etc.. it means they like your music! I just have issues mixing 128 CBRs, I will however if it is the only available format. But it really does make itself known when messing with gain/pitch compared with lossless, you pitch/gain compression artifacts a lot more.

Anyway thanks for the clarification. Please be aware I have been sick with life-threatening medical conditions and been watching my three closest family members dying from 2010-2012. So I really didn't have time/want to discuss your interpretation of my review further.

At the time you wrote this review, I was dealing with a great deal of shit and your well-intentioned comment/review about 'the lesson' came across as condescending and disrespectful. Why wouldn't it have? Somewhere over the years I lost track of the original wave files out of my own choice to withhold sharing it with the public for so long. An innocent mistake which I had no control over and which i regret.

In the past I have lost quite a lot of music i slaved and labored over for an EXTREME amount of time, due to things beyond my control ie bouts of madness; not checking backup cds straight after burning to check if it was a shitty burn/defective cd etc..

I know more than anyone how disappointing it is to lose a piece of music or anything you loved dearly or worked very hard to make. Not quite conscious of what nerves and buttons were being pushed by your comments/review, weary and war-torn from dealing with too much crap, I snapped/lashed-out at you and I am sorry. It prompted an immediate knee-jerk reaction for this beaten up old battler. I hope you can see underneath the asshole that I sometimes have become to protect myself due to the amount of hard times I have seen in my life recently. I do, and I consider myself to not actually be such a bad guy.

Listen to this music closely, (even if its shitty 128 kbps) and you will be able to *feel* and resonate with that, and who I really am deep down and who we *all* really are deep down inside. And I truly believe that making music with feeling can really open and free up those blockages. Its testament to a man wiser than I who once said " Neural networks are formed when we allow ourselves to feel"

Anyway, I will finish this up by saying that since making a large effort to apologize for my abusive comments and rectify the matter with you in private, you have not responded. So hugs and warm embraces to you, my brother. I hope that your effort to try and make me look foolish and punish me by posting our private conversations online like this, will bring you some pleasure!

-Michael