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My housemates new cat is lovely, he approaches me when I come into the house, and he'll come in my room and sit down for a second, but then leave again. When I try to stroke him he ducks or walks away pretending to be interested in something else why wont you let me love you kitty

And yet default ambiguous watmm snark is deeply unfunny.. but if you mean that sincerely, I do think it's a massive component for me - I think it's hard to express emotions directly without including all the contradictions, and I think humour does that really well, although I think what Zizek says about people only being able to express emotions at a distance, either with irony or self-deprecation or whatever these days is probably true - some older music sounds way too earnest these days, to the point that it feels kitsch And yet you didn't.. but taking your comment in better faith than I think it was intended, there's probably something to that - but maybe you're not gonna enjoy some aspects of a *music forum* very much If I had to choose, I'd choose love and horses. Separately

Yeah it's the Goldilocks story

Actually truest point so far I think, it’s hard to accept when something you love changes into something you don’t understand

Actually probably true. I hope that’s true, it’s probably easier to make good music if you don’t care about praise and criticism

Sometimes I hear voices speaking with no visuals, the other day nodding off in a taxi, a non present voice said “he’s doing what he wishes, and he wishes to be authorised”. I have heard pieces of music too like this one I recreated when I woke, but had to do it quickly because music from dreams quickly fades: but it’s not weird to not hear sound, some of my dreams don’t have sound because they have telepathy, some are just images… some people don’t dream or remember their dreams at all

I like Hiszenkeny melodically but I feel like he got better at the physical sound of the orchestral stuff later. My fave of those tracks is Aaron, something trippy and empty about it. Would be nice if he did a fully ambient album, I feel like he could explore more in that area - it might add another dimension his work overall, like I feel like drukqs wouldn't be the same if Aphex hadn't made SAW2. We can only hope though. I heard he did a quiet set once, would be curious if there's more material we've not heard, or he used other versions of the hardcore stuff edit: actually listening to Hiszenkeny again, I really like it more than I remember

A few I can think of, there are probably more here and there

Actually a good parallel - the first guy is inward focussed, on his feelings, wind in his hair etc., Conan is outward focussed - murder and rape. So I guess Conan would vote for innovation and ambition. Because murder and rape is innovative in this analogy.. um..

Here's a great example - trying to be innovative, but the true emotion comes through unintentionally

I cheatingly rationalised in my head that intuition etc. would happen automatically if you focus outwardly anyway, without your knowing - you can't help your inner world coming through in everything you create, whereas like Zizek says, if you look deeply inside yourself, you find shit.. but obviously I'd say that the two values are intrinsically linked - you can't test or get excited about your experiment without observing how it reflects emotionally, and you can't express your inner life without innovating, since if you only use vocabulary that already exists, you don't get emotion, you get someone else's description of your emotion.

Pretty self-explanatory question, but I was curious what you would say, if forced, what your higher values are in music creation. I realise it's like one of those "would you rather" questions, and probably most of you would say some mixture of both, but - gun to your head - which would you choose?

Among hundreds of people running around in circular motions, in a shallow ocean, at night, carrying and throwing footballs to each other and laughing and feeling inspired like kids

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banging, when the break kicks in, yeah! eq'd out some of the low end and it sounds harder

Yeah this is kind of a downer to think about. Maybe harshness is the way of the world, but I think it would be cool to foster an environment of encouragement and appreciation, because I do believe that creativity and fun comes more from that. Like if we adopt this critical mindset to Aphex, maybe we’ll apply it to ourselves in a way that will stunt our growth. It’s still possible to be critical in the sense of being objective with ourselves about whether the music is being what we intend or feel though.

The ayes have it the AYES have it unlock

I'm wondering if the sequence of his earlier releases, like ICBYD, RDJ and drukqs, gave people an expectation of development because of the progression from more harmonic, more straightforward rhythm, less nuanced sonic qualities, to the opposite, which meant they expected Syro to continue in that direction, where in some aspects, Syro and Analord mixes elements of drukqs with elements of older stuff (while I do think Syro also has some elements which are genuinely new) Would also be interesting to see a detailed analysis of the change in the average frequency spectrum of each album as well as including how much variation occurs in each spectral range, because I feel like that is something that followed a progressive change which Syro etc. deviated from

Frustrating to have to think about it like this, but I tried to answer in good faith.. this is gonna end up like the Snares thread isn't it There's something Zizek says about disagreement between right and left wingers, where not only do they disagree on points of policy, they disagree on the entire frame - like they have a completely different definition of what the debate is even about - it's like the topic here, framing music as being about "ambition" or "experimentation" and on the other side "emotion" or "personal exploration" - like, it really would have to be a discussion of what makes you feel excited about music in the first place, which could never really be a debate, because they are totally different ways of understanding what music is meant to be

Oh my god so fucking crazy on MDMA when I saw him at Brixton Academy (I think that's where it was) when it started strobing towards the end and his looming silhouette felt like it was rapidly approaching Though I wasn't on anything when he played electrowerks, the mosh pit was just an overwhelming mass of limbs and bodies, so good!

...? Maybe you just don't like his music, which is fine, but I don't know how you could ask for more varied music without him being a completely different person - like the weird way hears melody has some continuity, but to me that's because he's exploring emotional territory that resonates with him personally - and me too, but maybe those types of emotion don't resonate with you personally you so they just sound "the same"? Kind of like when parents say metal is "just noise"? Very true

I cringe at stuff I'm currently posting, before I post it haha

Is this like when some people hate broccoli because some people have a genetically different sense of taste?! It's so different-y to me! Cool that you got into it though! I would get that if Snares or Aphex made some kind of super "tasteful"/"vintage" house music or something, but it all sounds really fresh and unique to me, sure they have presented it (not all of it) as Traditional Synthesiser Music and Analord, but that sounds a little tongue in cheek to me, considering that Snares makes unorthodox stuff that rushes past all the individual sounds and Analord has "Anal" in it, and also has really weird melodies and textures. The yoyo tricks thing does make some kind of sense and does make your point of view clearer to me, they both may try to be "impressive" in some way, which can be pedantic and probably is not the best dominant tendency to have for a musician, but at the same time, all performers probably do need an idiosyncratic dose of interest in impressing people, which while maybe distasteful, is fine by me if the way that they do that is by making stuff that they are genuinely excited to make, which is the vibe I get.. sorry to say this but I get more of the boring "virtuoso" vibe from some of Squarepusher tbh (though to be clear I absolutely love some of his stuff) Like Dali - he had that tendency to be showy, but his paintings can still create uniquely seasick/horny vibes that are unique to him (even if Dorothea Tanning was better imo)

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