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I dunno, I think Yeezus is way better than most other pop music. I like it. I don't think it's the most amazing thing ever, but it's forward thinking for pop. Whenever you want to complain about the pop music now, just remember: 5 years ago we had T Pain and Soulja Boy.
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END OF LIFE ENTERTAINMENT SCENARIO is probably in my personal top 10 most influential pieces of art. That and Angel. Daniel has a way with music (SO excited to see him in January, 600 person venue). I also had one of the top comments on it for awhile somehow.
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Kanye West likes to dance all over the fine line between genius and the dumbest person you've ever seen. One second he'll have some badass lyric about racism that puts things in a whole new perspective, the next he's talking about fisting some chick black panther style. I love that confederate flag stuff though. edit: lol apparently kanye wants to make vaporwave music videos now
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Yeah it seems interesting to me that the image of the mainstream can so keenly match whatever cryptowavepunk genre is in the underground, but the music is always a nearly complete mismatch. Sometimes I feel like they come from the same source more than one influences the other. Even the artists themselves seem to often be motivated by the same philosophies. I think you can do that frames thing with an Ensoniq EPS if you try hard enough.
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my god that game is fantastic
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That autoreply email from doldrumcorp@null.net from the Blank Banshee Eco Zones video is fantastic. Makes the video way cooler.
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hahaha that song, that's perfect Anyway, I don't really think any of the music is bad per se, I just don't like it very much and think that it is more similar to other forms of music than it is to macintosh plus and the like. And often I like it anyway. I mean I'm always the pretentious asshole who says stuff sucks (I'm known for this among my friends) but honestly it doesn't matter.
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!!!! Read before starting a new thread !!!!
gmanyo replied to Squee's topic in Your Latest Creations
can you make it so that only topics have to be approved? also @cryptowen i think you should expect criticism if you post here. I try to give constructive feedback on every track I post on, although maybe i could do a better job letting people know it's just my opinion and i might be full of shit. -
!!!! Read before starting a new thread !!!!
gmanyo replied to Squee's topic in Your Latest Creations
Thought: I prefer when people create a new topic for each track as opposed to one topic for all of their tracks, because then each topic is about one piece in particular. Updates to that one track could be posted in that track's thread. In theory it wouldn't reduce clutter much on the front page of YLC if people stuck to one topic each anyway, since most people don't have two songs to post fast enough. Then again, it's nice for finding all of one user's tracks, and you can get reminded whenever one particular user makes a song. I still think the format works better as one song (or other creation) per topic though. edit: it would also be cool if the forums paid more attention to and revolved more closely around this subforum. -
that free jono album was for jono mi lo, who tried to lift a cliff bar and ended up in jail for some amount of time way too long for the crime. he's out now though. he makes some pretty cool stuff: http://soundcloud.com/daytime-television/dawn-of-the-new_ugly
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I think I've realized that the difference to me between "real" vaporwave and other things is the feel of the beat structure and intent in how it's made. It seems like many of the artists who try to make "vaporwave" just can't resist putting a hip hop beat under everything they do to make it danceable or accessible, and I think it ruins it for me because it totally changes the feel of the track. I even like it most of the time, but it just wears off so fast because it sounds like something DJ Shadow made in the 90s, just with a different sample source. Vaporwave, to me, is about the over dramatization and destructive parodying of the sample source. It's much darker than the newer stuff. The newer stuff is about making a cool beat from an 80s sample source or internet-era sample source. In that way $hane's Swagot Trilltpe is closer to vaporwave than Saint Pepsi's 80s-style disco, and why I think that the new Torn Hawk is also very similar. Both can be fun music but they are aesthetically different. Some things sort of fall on both sides, like Blank Banshee's newest album. Also note that there's a difference between using a well produced hip hop beat over an 80s track and creating or sampling a hip hop beat as a form of "parody" of the source. haha yes. keatscollective is kind of nice though.
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Yeah maybe, some of the sample material, but definitely not song structure. And I checked his other trax, they aren't quite like that. It shares some samples but the general aesthetic of the music doesn't feel as dark to me as most "vaporwave". Although I guess if you include guys like Saint Pepsi and half of Fortune 500 in vaporwave, then yeah, it's vaporwave.
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This song sounds more like fucked up beats. More Dabrye than Vektroid.
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Doesn't seem like much of a ripoff at all since it doesn't even sample it. It's more like a remake.
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yeah quite a few, esp on the early albums Sorry, can't help but be curious: how short are these? Less than a day? An hour? Any specific tracks you remember doing in a notably small amount of time?
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Have you ever released a track on album that you made in a super short amount of time and just liked? Also, from a long ways back but if you ignored on purpose then do so again by all means, I was wondering if there were any really cool unknown artists that you enjoy that you could share. Possibly even just soundcloud or bandcamp pages that you've stumbled across that you think deserve more listeners than they have.
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what do you guys think of shit like this:
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Don't listen to Skibby, the link isn't real. Skibby's about to get banned when an admin clicks on that.
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gettin pumped I think I'm one of the few people who think that Splazsh is his best work though. Most people either like Hazyville or R.I.P.
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reptile's theme is good. avicii is nothing like skrillex Just listened to Reptile, it's actually not bad. And yeah, Avicii is def very far from Skrillex; I was more just talking about them as part of the new wave of electronic music that's really popular, even more so than in the past with groups like The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. I was just wondering how you felt, coming from a time when pure electronic music was only for theorists and homebrew musicians, to a time where "bloops and bleeps" are widely accepted as mainstream music. communication Collab between you two (bambi and ae)??? (also for any watmmer: has this ever happened?)
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What do you think about the rise of electronic music in the popular realm, both in Top40 pop songs and with electronic-exclusive artists like Skrillex or Avicii? Do you like any of this music? edit: especially knowing that Skrillex and I assume some of these other artists consider you to be one of their major influences. How does it feel to have your thread now be longer than the Skrillex thread?
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What's the most exciting new thing you've learned recently about a way to make music? A new program, piece of hardware, technique, theory, etc. Any cool techniques that you've used in the past that you're willing to share?
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Have you ever tried "sega save bending" to make music, where you take one save state from one sega genesis game in an emulator and load it into another game to make crazy generated music? There was one comp done already here, and we're trying to do another one where we can actually manipulate the tracks afterwards a bit (though it is currently on hiatus, but we'll get to it soon). If you haven't, might you try it? What do you think of save state bending?
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- wouldn't turn up if so - hahah What's the worst thing that ever happened while playing live? once my r8 caught on fire, and my hands were covered in vodka so they also caught on fire, and to put them out i starting clapping my hands together, and all the audience started clapping as well, and some of them started setting their hands on fire as well, as a kind of tribute i literally can't tell if you are serious or not that is amazing if it is real
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do u ever get the temptation to put a bunch of donks on ur track? like "oh man i could just put a mad donk on this snare rush"??