A shifting baseline (also known as sliding baseline) is a type of change to how a system is measured, usually against previous reference points (baselines), which themselves may represent significant changes from an even earlier state of the system.

The concept arose in landscape architect Ian McHarg's 1969 manifesto "Design With Nature"  in which the modern landscape is compared to that on which ancient people once lived. The concept was then considered by the fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly in his paper "Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries". Pauly developed the concept in reference to fisheries management where fisheries scientists sometimes fail to identify the correct "baseline" population size (e.g. how abundant a fish species population was before human exploitation) and thus work with a shifted baseline. He describes the way that radically depleted fisheries were evaluated by experts who used the state of the fishery at the start of their careers as the baseline, rather than the fishery in its untouched state. Areas that swarmed with a particular species hundreds of years ago, may have experienced long term decline, but it is the level of decades previously that is considered the appropriate reference point for current populations. In this way large declines in ecosystems or species over long periods of time were, and are, masked. There is a loss of perception of change that occurs when each generation redefines what is "natural".

Shifting Baseline

73 Percent

https://acidwaxa.bandcamp.com/album/twenty20-volume-2

Twenty20 Volume 2

B U Y

Roy of The Ravers - Roller Ghosts

Allow me!

TRANSIT

buy my beats

This EP has been recorded using only AVP Synth MAD-5 Midi Analog Drum computer for all the drums/percussion parts (www.avpsynth.com) and a midied soviet synthesizer named Ritm-2 for all the synth lines multitracked in DAW using a few external effects.

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Enotherapy

A few of my favourite electro/acid tracks from the last year or so.

J. Shinra - Gritti
J.Shinra - 1111
Cignol - Boston Dynamics
Saturated Color - Junkie
Caron - Reflection
BinOhm - Train Wreck (RX Mode Remix)
Serge Geyzel - Quentin Physics
Umwelt - Parc Expo Hall 2 (Live version)
Random XS - Give your Body (Delta Funktionen 3am Mix)
Reptant - Timeblind
Reptant - Ghost in the filter

Electro+303 Mix 180420 pt 1

Available on CD and DIGITAL here :
https://lesdisquescockpit.bandcamp.com/album/sassarara

01. Chromophor - Eigenlicht
02. Unité November - Manifeste
03. Noise&Noise - Nietzsche’s prothesis
04. Chevalier - Fumar mata
05. Noamm - Bipolar Machine
06. Blackploid - Patrol
07. DarkProphet - Sirius
08. Ticco Ross - Maschine 313
09. Poladroïd - Go Johnny Go
10. Alek Stark - A box full of voices like this
11. Kafkactrl - Not yet arrived
12. RT759 - Vagrant
13. Datawave - Electric Love
14. Dimension Arachnida - Anops Adelocosa

Gfx : Robb

SASSARARA

PREVIEW : VA - SASSARARA (LDC_13)

The Madrid duo UHF (David Aragón + Milford) board on “Endless Illusion” with the mission of distorting our reality with the blow of a break and show us a crystalline future through a solid mantra of evolving synths and pads surrounded by ethereal melodies. 

credits:

All tracks mastered by Daniel Kyo, Berlin. 
Artwork by Dani Requeni. 
València, 2020. 
All rights reserved. 
www.hypnoticacolectiva.es
https://hcrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-resistencia-special-edition-xv-aniversario-hc-vol-2-hcr-d008?fbclid=IwAR3Tk3g1iPq_QUDkrFrLkjOxvzyWeROsNqLQwm6Gs2vx7zbRXOQ-OF8Yeyk

La Resistencia XV aniversario HC / Vol. 2

Endless Illusion [HC Records]

Nastia Y - Garfield

Basic System is from Rotterdam 
in The Netherlands, a city that 
has a strong connection 
with the true spirit of electronic 
music.