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    SHXCXCHCXSH - Kongestion - Avian - 11/3/2022

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    SHXCXCHCXSH - Kongestion out on Avian 11 March

     

    ttps://avianstore.bandcamp.com/album/kongestion

     

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    SHXCXCHCXSH - Kongestion 

    Swedish disruptors SHXCXCHCXSH return to Avian.

    Following on from 2018’s SHULULULU EP, the duo are back channeling their sound-design focused experimentalism into a brace of characteristically high energy recordings. Melding contemporary explorations in rhythm and texture with more traditional club tropes, Kongestion places recognizable leitmotif’s from the dance music continuum in the context of the pair’s inimitable production prowess

    A1 Kong and follow up Onge offer two takes on a similar template that marry a stepping kick drum pattern with dense, ever-shifting granules of processed white noise. The mentasm sample, that will become a recognizable device across the EP’s course, provides it’s own twisted energy – front and center on the former, and sunk – but no less effective, on the latter. With Nges SHXCXCHCXSH draw on their beatless material for inspiration, inviting a more musical sensibility into the work. What begins life as a staccato, monotonal recording develops slowly and organically into an emotive patchwork piece – drawing on the mentasm, but this time twisting it further and introducing a bassline and shuffling hats. Relentless rhythm track Gest follows – a dense, thorny construction that segues neatly into Esti, another more caustic composition that places it’s focus on intricate, delay-driven sound design with ghostly lead tones that operate just below the surface. As the record approaches it’s close, the duo showcase their range with Stio – a pulsing, meditative ambient cut. Final track Tion wraps up the EP neatly, acting as a fulcrum for the themes explored so far. Bending the mentasms into a hook, the artists create a wall of undulating sound, broken by sporadic kick drum hits and propelled forward with percussive strikes that run through the track before dissolving into soft reverb tails. 

     

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    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    Midnight Mass - good Stephen Kingish horror, a bit of a slow burn, but kind of worked and good performances from the actors. The boat scene was intense.

    Brand New Cherry Flavor - I think the first Rose Salazar joint I've seen where she's not an animated character. She does a good job in it. Weird, but could have been weirder IMO. I don't know if they were going for something Lynchian. But do like the urban horror kind of vibe.

    Arcane - caught a trailer of it and got intrigued by the art style and animation and it delivered and then some. Was very impressed. All I knew before is that LoL is some online game and show works without any knowledge of the game. The aesthetic pleased me, part Bioshock art deco and Dishonored painterly art. Facial animation were top tier as well as voice acting. Recommended.

    Foundation - have not read the books. A pretty expensive looking show but it lacked the je ne sais quoi that would have elevated it to top tier. The Terminus story line kinda dragged and the Empire storyline was way more interesting (which I understand deviates from the book among other things). As it is its an OK pretty scifi show with some dumb shit but I love scifi that I gobble any shit.

     

     

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    New Tool record end of year?

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    On 10/2/2021 at 5:59 AM, beerwolf said:

    Very excited to get the chance to see them. Boy those Tool Army dudes (as posted by zero) are really unhappy. For a band that aren’t exactly prolific, I’ve always wondered about that whole Tool Army subscription shenanigans. But I guess if Aphex had a similar thing I’d also pay up, but he releases a shit load more music than Tool. (4am post, hope it makes sense)

    Tool has such a rabid fanbase that they can get loads of people to pay through the nose for all kinds "exclusive" shit. And with them being a hot ticket band getting a chance to get tickets early before all of them going to scalpers they will be signing up for the special club. I guess Tool gets most of their income from filling out arenas on tours. 

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    Dune

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    Was good half a movie. Now just get part 2 done,pls. Liked the aesthetics, this part seemed more like a setup of the setting and the players for the proper second movie. The ususal Zimmer zwap-boom type of soundtrack. Can the man still compose melodic themes? Rebecca Fergusson ❤️

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    UFO'S

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    The whole UFOlogy and UFO religion is a well researched phenomenon among those studying comparative religion. Depending on how you define religion it has many hallmarks that could be considered religious. Instead of angels and gods, you have benign aliens from space who will save us etc.

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    The Ig Nobel Prizes are amazing

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    4 minutes ago, dingformung said:

    This place makes me sick and makes me revolve into old patterns and I simply can't do any good decision while I'm here. I need to move to a different place. Germany is boring and expensive, probably even more so than the US (except the US is more expensive). I'd be a good US citizen if I was rich but I'm not. I should move abroad, probably to South America because I only speak German and English and they have German breweries but even though I drink a lot of beer I don't like it because it tastes like piss. Asian beer is okay, Asians seem to have a better taste in everything compared to Western cultures so I should probably move there but I'm an unskilled motherfucker. I don't even particularly like my family, they are all assholes, including myself. It's all fake. Everything. This text is a parody of what I'm truly feeling. It's a joke. I don't want to be here anymore. I have to do something with my life, my time is running out...I'm 27 years old and this is the best I could come up with? This is not even funny anymore, it's sad. It's pathetic. I've wasted so much time and energy on being an asshole. I only make wrong decisions. I spend my money on silly things like expensive but low quality food. All I want is a lot of sex with beautiful people but I'm not attractive enough to get it and not rich enough to pay for it. And after all, it always leaves me with a feeling of lack and inadequacy when I'm lucky enough to get it. I only get successful when I start a new and exciting project and I'm not good at doing things. I'm not a good person, I don't have any friends. Nobody would even care if I died. That's how it is.

    I don't want to be here anymore.

    The only kind of love I seem to be able to get is God's love, but it sucks. It's the most unsatisfying and stupid kind of love imaginable. It doesn't even help me to develop a better life. I'm too angry and selfish to appreciate it anyway, but it's not my fault, nor can I change it. God isn't even a real God, he/she/it is some 5-dimensional being probably gaining satisfaction out of controlling my life and playing with my desires, fuck this demon/whatever he/she/it is. I'm being a bit too harsh, but I'm not a good person. I don't want to be a good person. I shouldn't have to care about what other people think about me. But if I don't care about what other people think about me then why should I care that nobody cares about me? I'm trapped in my own mind, all this meditation stuff about viewing the mind as an object without identifying with it is just a cruel joke and boring as fuck.

    I'm going to die out in the lonely wilderness soon and nobody will ever find my corpse or even notice that I'm gone. It's like, what the fuck am I doing with my life? Do you know how sad it makes me when someone says "Oh, you're so funny!" If you think so, why don't we go for a walk on the beach together? Why do people make such stupid statements all the time?? People are stupid, they say things that don't help anyone at all and they ignore reality. There probably aren't even real humans except of myself anyway, they are all illusionary epiphanies or manifestations orchestrated by this being that won't reveal his/her/its real identity to me no matter what I do. Death seems to be the only escape but I don't want to die.

    Everything is fake and the only thing that matters is money, even though it doesn't have to be like that. And sex of course. I don't want to be here anymore. Existence could be completely paradisaic but greater forces prevent it from being so, for no reason at all.

    If existence emerged from non-existence, why didn't it choose to be perfect?

    I'm going to go for a walk in the forest.

    I wish I had never been born!

    Sir, this is a Wendy's 

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