[Celebrity Deaths]

1 minute ago, Rubin Farr said:

 

May her memory be for a blessing. I was just about to post about this though not this exact tweet

[WAPP480]

6 minutes ago, X4creek said:

it's impressive how much i don't care about this rollout lol if there was anything else happening that i care about id definitely pay attention to that instead

I hear ya and am pretty much there with you. If there hadn't been the delay b/w The Tuss and Syro that there was, there might have been better momentum and therefore more interest for me in whatever RDJ's up to. There's fortunately a ton of music that isn't WARP's legacy acts I care much more about. Obv, Ae is an exception b/c they're my fave ever and overshadow their peers in IDM.

[WAPP480]

 

6 hours ago, jules said:

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[Watmm, lets have your Jungle]

Here's a set from Nia Archives:

 

[Pangaea - Changing Channels (Hessle Audio)]

Very excited. Pangaea is an incredibly creative producer, certainly one of the more original big names

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[Steve Rachmad]

This mix rules:

 

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Just wanted to bump this because I love both Steve Rachmad's productions and DJ sets. Gotta be one of my favourites outside of the more obvious names/North American DJs, but also even more generally

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[DUBSTEP::::::::::]

 

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Almost twenty years old, but the only thing making this sound "old" to me is the sound quality of it being a pirate radio era rip

[Wisp's last.fm is being overtaken by shit zoomer pop artist using same artist name...]

If the other Wisp is more popular, I don't have a problem with the pictures of that one dominating the pictures on last.fm

[RIP to our friend, MIXL2]

Never knew him well but certainly felt his aura around here residually and I'm sure I've appreciated some of his posts here and there over the years. May his memory be for a blessing to all who were touched by his presence. Baruch dayan ha'Emet

[Galen Tipton - Brain Scratch]

Check it out here: https://o0o0o0o0.bandcamp.com/album/brain-scratch
Twenty vignettes from twenty seconds to four minutes long, totalling a little over fortytwo minutes. As saccharine, psychedelic, and playful as the album art might suggest. Definitely a case of the cover art being a really good fit for the sounds within, in this case done by Joe Aquiare, aka brainFOAM. Drawing influence from ambient, hyperpop, sound collage, bubblegum bass. If you like really carefully dialed in sound design/soundfonts, etc. you should really enjoy this. Though if you thought Iglooghost was too sugary for you, stay clear of this one. But whereas you can dance to Iglooghost, that's not remotely an option here. The album doesn't really sound like much else other than other things by Galen Tipton and I suppose, to a lesser degree, some stuff on Orange Milk.

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[Should More Artists Add Vocals to Their Tracks?]

It obviously greatly depends on if it fits/works for the piece in question. Electronic music is an incredibly wide range of music. It wouldn't be intelligible to refer so broadly to "acoustic" or "amplified" music for this sort of question, would it?

[Whats your next generation of groundbreaking electronic music?]

This is a tricky matter, because although of course Autechre, Aphex Twin, Pan Sonic, and other artists making avantgarde things either more or less rooted in existing dance styles, even a ton of the "normal" techno, jungle, trance, hip hop music (among others) were themselves groundbreaking. Sampling had been used in music since the time of musique concrete, but it wasn't used in the way we're used to until the development of samplers that it became widespread in popular music. A similar story exists with the use of synthesizers, though of course there was a brief era of Moogsploitation between the academic use and more widespread adoption in the 1970s. The story of the Roland TB-303 being originally intended as a surrogate for a bass player before falling out of disuse before being happened upon in pawn shops is oft repeated and at this point a lot more known, but I repeat it here because although early Chicago house continued the legacy of looped drum parts in late era disco music and sequenced basslines by the likes of Giorgio Moroder, it was in its own right very much a new thing. Perhaps a decent number of so called "intelligent dance music" artists were innovating less than they are given credit for, since they were merely combining experimental approaches sometimes reminiscent of the academic electronic music with that of dancier styles. Certainly, Autechre's use of Max/MSP is something quite different, even from other artists who used the same program. So, yes of course people using artificial intelligence in their creative process are doing something heretofore not conceived of, but so have been the earliest people in various new musical developments of the 2000s and 2010s like dubstep and hybrid trap.

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