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i was mad into caperwave until the government realized the music was just a front for an elaborate train robbery scheme

i don't listen to this album much but the title/alias are like, the aptest description of early RDJ that I can imagine and portreath harbor is in my top 10 fer shar

Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? with Devo I often get this vibe, like "man these dudes must think they're sooooo smart". But they manage to pull it off (on the first few albums, anyway), through a combination of extreme self-confidence & genuinely clever musical arrangements. Particularly on the debut, there's this constant feeling of pure aggression lingering just below the facade of aloof geekery, which devolved into genuine nerd fetishism within a few years. It's like a musical punch in the face that feels much less serious than it actually is And for the *relative* lack of synths, atmospheric effects, or wildly unconventional song structures (beyond some non-4/4 timesigs here & there), there's a ton of visuality here, from the jerking conveyor belt of "Satisfaction" to the self destructing robot guitar chug of "Jocko Homo" to the near death trapeze act that is "Shrivel Up"

Children of Dune also someone's mailing me Be Here Now. Not sure how much of it is gonna be insightful & how much will be drugged out hippy talk but it's written by a guy who changed his name to Ram Dass so iunno

nah, i wasn't trying to sarcase ya or nothin. I really meant it. Buying big at a lower price per volume is the way to go.

i had to go way in debt to buy a bag of flour so it'll be at least three days before I'm back in the blue good tip though. I was planning on making my next grocery purchase some article of meat

daily living budget is $3 so it'll be a while before I make sum pulled pork

It's kinda melodramatic (especially in the first few episodes), but the atmosphere is amazing. It often goes several episodes at a time just focusing on the human characters, building up the tension, so that when an actual titan shows up you'll be all like ahhhhh fuckkkk Also the way it's animated captures the sense of scale quite nicely

Attack on Titan, that giant anime that all the tumblr kids are into

well see now that just makes it even more appealing i'm gonna go shave all my hair off & make an album review vlog & get all the free pizza I want

I'm not sure if it's his main source of income, but with 1000+ monetized videos at tens of thousands of views a pop, I'd say he's probably making a decent chunk of change from essentially just geeking out about new indie music releases

Dunno about the reviews but man it'd be sweet to have Anthony Fantano's job

I like Everything towards the end when the hyperactive sugar-rush synth kicks in. I dunno, I just thought that particular part managed to capture that sense of euphoric post-depression happiness he was probably going for

Hey this is actually pretty good so far Although I'm not sure why he wrote a song about trying to find his weed

Watched Waking Life the other day I actually tried watching it a while back when I was fricked out of my mind on edibles (homemade doughnuts with chocolate sourcream filling yo), but it felt too wordy & on the nose. I wanted something more abstract, so I ended up listening to drone music for several hours until I understood the meaning of life But anyways, on sober viewing it does make for a nice little collection of one man's DEEP THOUGHTS. As a movie movie I'm not sure how I feel about it - the plot is basically just a framework on which to lay a bunch of philosophical monologues, but there is a sense of honesty here, that Linklater truly wanted to communicate these abstract feelings & not just sound smart to stoned college students. The visuals were fun as well, although sometimes it looked like all they did was use the cutout filter in Photosohop

Woo boy I was high on some purity ring when I made that post (but I stand by it) anyway, been revisiting the Aphex canon lately because I'm finally getting around to buying physical copies of everything. The Windowlicker single really is like a nice easily-accessible rundown of the drukQs era for people who aren't in the mood to take in a super-dense double disk album of computer music. You've got the title track, which imo is one of the few true extensively-produced pop tracks in the man's discog (most of his poppy stuff being sparse/repetitive, and most of his extensively-produced stuff being kinda nuts). Then you got [crazy symbols], which is simultaneously weirder and funkier than a lot of drukQs. Nannou is...kinda like the piano pieces (at the very least it shows his experimentation with organic sounds), and if you're lucky enough to own a version with the demo/endroll mix you even get a taste of those coupla oldskool idm tracks he snuck onto the album

holy gfucki im a what did they do to this cookie

listen closely children for i am the teller of light i have been this is a tale from realms past, mystic regions that now only exist as myths, stories, and songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uUVrX8vgw0 ptolemy lives on in a billion billon bio lifestimes ago in the time of the godempereror of ptolemy steped down over the montains he was fractal he was of dimensions unseen transformers noise blue lights ptolemy stepped down over the mountains and he ate your dream i am god i have seen the blue death of the red surf in the island worlds of vectin iv annd i am the sacrab i am the ten headed goat of the mountain i am ptolemy i am the bone machine skeleton returns to hell again

people i am at 96% here purity ring by lofticries (i know i know it's popular hipster song but dance with me here) now for real tho i have not heard a single other track by this band, but jeez what a representation of an era. specifically the 2012 era of electronic music. ysee there's all these nutty weirdo sounds floating around on the net, wit the vaporizerwave & the peesunk and the guys putting ambient analord words 7 up on soundcload. Yer part of this yknow and well it's all well and good but it doesn't groove yknow. and here comes purity ring with there beats & their big pop structure 94% and they apply the weird arpeggio squares to it and the cloud songs and the voices so low sampl 88 and dropping sir and they make all of this fun, like, "yes, i was part of the pop movement all along, all i ever wanted all i ever needsed is heerrrreeeee in my armmmmmsssss and it feels like they took the baceteria on the skim of the internet technosphere and made it human too often electronic music is looked on as something silly to be danced to or dop drugged to and it's like "haha techno yer so goofy" but the ones who take it seriously as art, they're even worse like "nah technos beyond feelings and culture and politics, it's logical it';s TECHNICAL FOR CHRISTS SAKES it's a reall man's genre 78% and they go on like this and it's all well and good but it becomes like this little world a little musical man cave to run off to and oh my god it's so weird how can anyone cry to this but you can I BELIEVE I NTECHNO it's not just space music space music is not just a joke music is emotions is me musioc is emotions is me 666 4 percent and feallling

The vibe of this new track actually reminds me of the better parts of With Teeth in terms of it's flowing structure & less intense vibe

probably cuz it isn't in yo face enough but f'real this one actually covers some new sonic territory (kinda), & T.Rez addresses the whole "i'm a middle aged dad now & not a suicidally-depressed drug addict, but I still wanna talk about my feelings" theme in a way that doesn't feel like he's trying to remake TDS

little kids probably just look as music as COOL SOUNDS and it isn't until they get older that they start to focus more on specifics like melody or cultural context. Someone coming to electronic music as an adult is gonna care more about a good tune, whereas someone who was exposed to it at a young age might have more an appreciation for texture & atmopshere. JUST MAH THEORY THO...and I'm not saying one's better than the other that's just how the cookie tear Fo examps Everybody likes Fingerbib because it's a real pretty jam that would still sound pretty on a piano SAW85 requires a little bit of techno appreciation but it's sitll funtimes for most SAWii is gonna have some more casual types going "jay chris it's all just three notes whatup" And someone who likes Aphex Airlines is bound to be pretty well balls deep

oh fer sure. I mean right now even there are people making enthralling music for actual albums on actual labels, using the same ideas floating around the net. Really I'm half talking to myself with this stuff. I often catch myself wanting to send an idea off into the wild before it's had time to bloom, or even worse wasting far too much time absorbing cultural fluff that isn't even entertaining to me. The internet is a great boundary remover, but sometimes it feels like one big boundary in itself, turning us all into some sort of inanity spewing pop culture recycling self-destructive golem. Is this what the human hive-mind looks like? Reddit memes & Facebook?

yeah as i've said in previous threads over-saturation & releasing underdeveloped ideas is a thing that happens a lot on the internet. I mean it's really cool that anything can happen & you find exciting new content all the time, but going forward I would like to see more traditional distribution channels maintained - full-length, thematic albums developed over many months & not just "made this an hour ago gonna pop it on the cloud". Slow-moving, atmospheric feature films & not just jump-cut comedy youtube shorts. Books & not just blog posts. Honestly now that I think about even with ridiculously prolific artists I like (Tonetta, Jandek, Lil B), I only bother to listen to a small portion of their discog. The good stuff just starts to seem a little less magical when I'm confronted with dozens of similar sounding experiments & missteps that led up to it

vaporwave has transcended, vaporwave is a text-based genre vaporwave has transcended, vaporwave is a text-based genre vaporwave ha-ha tran sssssssss, de-tec-wave, de-tec-wave vapORwave ha-tech tra ssssssss, tra-ded gen, tr-tra-ded gen *sound of a dog eating it's own feces slowed down & looped until it has become effectively percussive* *coupled with the poignant echo of a once powerful pop single being played over the speakers at zellers* *an american woman is talking about chicken strips*