gmanyo
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What is it like balancing kids and music? Did having children change your view of creating music, or how you prioritize it? Would you consider your main job to be raising a family, and that music supports that, or does it work differently?
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not really, most people don't have a clue. it's not like we get recognised in the street Have you ever been? What's the strangest story you can remember about someone recognizing you?
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Can I name some of your gear?
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Have you ever thought about doing a total 180 with an EP or even just a single where you some entirely different genre, or just a new style, like only recordings of acoustic instruments with live players?
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oh yeah basically we're exclusive to warp, but we can do stuff with mates as gescom (but we can't do solo stuff or use any other names, particularly our own names) mark just didn't know so he put my name, and we couldn't put it out then even if he changed the name.. it was my fault for not saying happened w/kouhei as well but that was already produced when i found out (oops) This seems ridiculous You're one of Warp's top acts and they can't give you a little bit of freedom? they pay us for it, and it wasn't too important at the time we negotiated it This still seems a bit weird to me. You can't do solo stuff under different names? It's only Gescom? I mean I understand them having rights to the "Autechre" name, maybe even having rights to all your stuff that you did together and without anyone else, but not being able to do solo stuff seems a bit ridiculous to me. idk maybe I just don't understand the music industry. Is it that if you pressed the issue they'd probably let you but you just haven't wanted to yet? Also, the only piece of hardware I own is a cheap keyboard that I use as a MIDI controller, but please don't name him, he's insecure about that kind of thing.
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I heard a friend say that 10ish years ago you played at a venue called the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. Will any shows in or near Columbus happen again? Every cool electronic act seems to be going towards Europe these days, and I can never get a chance to see them. Related but not entirely: do you ever do house shows, and have you considered doing more?
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wtf are orbs? quote of the day
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Are there any super unknown artists that you love that you could share? Some artists who you think have value but that have like <200 soundcloud followers or whatever.
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Are you going to retire these accounts after this thread and go back to being Troon and LUDD, or do you plan on posting occasionally under these aliases?
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Have the recent net genres (witch house, future bass, vaporwave, etc) caught your interest at all, and will they possibly (or have they already) affect your music? How do you feel about them? Have you ever thought about trying to do things with the artists from it, like Fatima al Qadiri or Vektroid? Or even Oneohtrix Point Never?
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damn that blank banshee track is hot. way better than any of the stuff ive heard from him before.
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I mean, I guess I think that these guys might not be "vaporwave"; music is music, genres are genres, whatever. But they are making forward, as opposed to lateral, movement with the style in my opinion, along with a few other people I've heard like Jono Mi Lo. Also, Internet Club had that release as Monument XIII that was pretty much vaporwave, and not at all like the Saint Pepsi style with catchy beats and stuff. Not that I think that other stuff is bad, I just really think that there are some people pushing the ideas forward as opposed to just making slowed down catchy stuff, which is typical of Fortune 500. But others may feel differently; perhaps the combination of Vektroid and Lopatin-era vaporwave with catchy hip hop beats in order to make it more listenable and accessible is actually bigger forward movement. Also, when I said "hardly even vaporwave", I really just meant that very few people make what was originally considered vaporwave and even the people who I think are making it aren't really making it, at least as far as I've seen. This kind of makes sense though, because vaporwave is a pretty specific sub-genre; to keep making the same stuff could get old fast (although I would probably still like it lol). Side note: the avatar is more inspired by Future Bass and Grime music, acts like Fatima al Qadiri. In no way do I intend it to be original, I just think it's cool. I don't even really know Future Bass music, I just like some Fade to Mind and Jam City shit.
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*imo
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The various avatars of Internet Club are (is) the only ones (one) doing anything interesting with "vaporwave" anymore, and it's hardly even vaporwave at this point. http://wakesleep.bandcamp.com/ actually this is pretty cool too: http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/track/96-galant
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GMANYO ITS UR LAST DAY AS KNOB TWIDDLER, HOW DO U FEEL? G: WOW I AM BEING INTERVIEWED OMG IM FAMOUS LOL
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http://forum.watmm.com/topic/71640-music-that-you-like-ironically/
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Million Dollar Extreme's Youtube account got pulled down
gmanyo replied to gmanyo's topic in General Banter
I know, I couldn't believe it either. I was in the chatroom about an hour before that, had to work through the actual talk unfortunately. There was this lady talking about einstein and milk and equations for things rising in fluids, it was really funny. She said that einstein got judo chopped. -
At last, I have some peace. Allofthetrash sent someone just a few of her old videos to be reuploaded in a compilation. Seeing it sort of just makes it hurt more that she's gone though. http://youtu.be/n7NfixtUjPM
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I'm with the iPod people. In my opinion, Apple has the best UI out of any players ever, hands down. The iPod touch is incredibly convenient, and those classic style iPods are hardy as fuck.
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if u saw an innocent duck crossing the street would u hurt it?? then why do we hurt eachother? think b4 u act
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http://youtu.be/4pd0kF4VF4w
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SPF 420 is fun, I got to chat with XXYYXX at the last one although I missed the real show. It feels kind of like a bunch of people late to the scene thinking that they're super cool or whatever, but that kind of diminished when they started saying "we're not vaporwave, we're just trying to have fun" and admitted that it was just something fun to do. Too low quality as well, the sound is literally shit. Best set I've seen there personally is DJ Paypal's.
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I don't mind it to much, but most of the Fortune 500 and AMdiscs stuff is pretty cheesy. It's the stuff that supposedly "killed vaporwave". Saint Pepsi is nice though, stuff I can play in a room full of people and nobody will get mad at me, but I still like it.
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I really don't see this as being much of a problem as everyone else does. The music perfectly represents emptiness on an emotional level. I like ironic music. Like I said, I don't have to think about this music to like it, I just like it. I "get" it emotionally. In fact, I don't even love pure retro; it's fun but it really just steals whatever emotions were there before, or more accurately it creates feelings of what we remember the past was like. It's fun stuff but that's about it for me. I'd go so far as to say that I prefer my music to stray away from the nostalgic. Nostalgia is a nice thing to throw in the mix because it taps us at such a core level and can open the mind to complex emotional landscapes, but if it's nostalgia for the sake of "remember when we were young" then it does little for me. Referencing broken VHS tapes reminds me of the deterioration of technology and losing touch with the past. Groovy 303 funk lines at dance parties remind me of...groovy 303 funk lines at dance parties. Which, don't get me wrong, I like, but not on a same core level. One could argue that the "fun" stuff is important in its tongue-in-cheek lightheartedness, like watching shitty kung-fu movies because they're badass. But I still feel more strongly about the other stuff. Maybe it helps to have really lived through the era being lived to and in that case more diverse meaning is ascribed to a given work, although I feel like I've absorbed certain ideas through culture; commercial 50s music also feels empty and materialistic to me, and thus has more value. Boards of Canada is a great example of a band that injects more than just nos Related genres don't evoke nostalgia at all, although they do have referencing. Future Bass is literally the opposite of nostalgic, using a future-as-imagined-by-the-media mixed with anything current and "badass" like energy drinks to make political/social satire and show how technology separates people (and yeah, some of it is just nice music). New vaporwave-ish stuff from people like Jono Mi Lo and E+E sounds like the future crumbling apart. And there's other stuff too. None of this is nostalgic in the slightest, unless you consider it nostalgia for current pop culture. Nostalgia is great and all, but by itself it can be boring. I might argue that anything that makes you feel a certain way is actually making a point, even if you and the musician don't quite know what it is, which might be a point against what I just said, but w/e.
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imo vaporwave is extremely similar to Andy Warhol's art. The same semi-ironic-portrait semi-glamourization of the "lowest" art possible.
