Cryptowen

people i know irl keep falling into two groups -horribly uneducated -sounds like a friggin TED Talk and both of those options to be are like ahhhhhhh

I normally don't notice stuff like this but that really stood out to me in this episode. In the opening scene there was this one old lady who was just sort of moving her arm 30 degrees every 5 seconds & it was lol

also i made another weird drugged out poem, but this one seems to have more of a positive bent

zardoz first movie i've watched so far this year

according to the internet i'm 0% autism the other day a dude was like "hey man wanna go train at the gym" & I was like I FUCKIN HATE TRAINS

I went on a long walk in the woods last week & I'm slowly processing all the photos I took

Devil's advocate - I listen to a lottttt of tracks I find myself hardpressed to come up with a good comment for. No glaring technical issues, not boring or "wrong" in any obvious way, but at the same time not particularly exciting or unique. A perfectly mediocre track. And I try to avoid going "yeah man it's a'ight, not my thing" or "reminds me of *genre artist*" all the time That said, in the run of a day I'll still come across at least a few tracks on here or on SC that grab my attention positively or negatively

i did drug & wroted some thigns also i drew thies other days

I think there's a good argument to be made for how a lot of current niche electronic genres are evolved out of Youtube Poops & other weird internet jokes.

social commentary isn't some sort of horse race but yeah i've been meaning to watch the comedy since i first saw the trailer way back when

compson that tree footage is surprisingly trippy for something so unaltered and happycase i really like #1 & #3 in your last post and this is a skeleton djinn who occasionally shows up in dreams to offer words of encouragement or coded messages. I've transcribed the skeleton's words in many comics but usually they don't go online because it's mostly incoherent and for those of you who steer clear of ekt i have a new album out & this is the cover http://forum.watmm.com/topic/77039-can-ur-minds-ebhen-handil/

I had a dream last night that the new autechre album was actually a blue grass album recorded in a barn, except instead of a bassline or percussion the two autechre guys were standing next to the banjo player constantly revving chainsaws for two hours. They were both swinging the chainsaws around in a showmanistic fashion with this look on their face like, "oh man this is lush" this is weird because i'm pretty sure i've never actually heard any autechre records

thanks guys! (i should mention the video was originally intended to be a promo for my next album but it probably won't be done in time for the new year's release date) yeah actually, kinda. The background in that one is made up of a few layers (from lowest to highest): -clouds (same clouds used in all the other ones for consistency) -more clouds (different) -photo of some hills i took in the summertime -blown up section from a photo i took from inside a car -colour adjustment layer

Bunch of concept art for a video I'm planning for this track - http://soundcloud.com/cryptowen/sea-org Not sure if any of this will end up in the actual video but it sort of gives me an idea of the visual direction i want to take

Carl gets really fat & spends all day in his room at the prison trying to become the next big producer of the current (zombie-themed) online techno microgenre, & rick's all like "son I'm disappointed in you", & carl's all NO DAD I'LL MAKE IT BIG, YOU'LL SEE, YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND Z-PUNk

I had noticed this kind of music as a trend for going on two years now, but only fairly recently became aware it had been designated its own genre Actually I really first started noticing it about 3 years ago when I started experimenting with taking my own tracks resampling them into new tracks (without being aware of OPN or Clams Casino or anything like that), & a lot of the sounds I discovered there were kinda sorta like what I would soon start hearing from the vaporwave people, so I have to wonder if there might have been some "everyone inventing the telephone at once" thing going on Doubt I'll ever actually do anything in this genre. As much as I like the sound of old media being chopped & looped all funny like, the idea of taking someone else's tracks & editing them into my own tracks feels kinda like, iunno, home invasion

My mind is being ogre-loaded with shrek puns

look at these crazy letters man they like form waves & stuff

Heavily modified video clip I shot back in September I was in a pissy mood when I made this next one lol made just now while listening to Grimes photo manipulation

That's some buffalo-grade spergin right thurr

once again luke viia comes into a thread & says pretty much exactly what i was thinking

I don't mean to suggest that everyone will be forced to adhere to the current genre of the month, just that genres will continue to emerge & mutate long after the idea of big name artists has faded just make music yo, don't be all like "oh i gotta sound like this genre" or "oh i gotta make something that sounds different & unique" (because that's just as bad), it really doesn't matter who ends up getting popular for what, most people & most music will all be part of the same soil in less than 100 years, & only the 10th dimensional super-consciousness will live on detached from time (spoiler 10th dimensional super-consciousnesses don't give a shit about what was aoty in 2013)

Pretty sure most of it is made by the same kind of people as in YLC & receives roughly the same amount of attention i think that's the way music's gonna go - less one artist or album becoming popular, & more one particular sound that gets bounced around for a while by thousands of amateur producers with some tracks going kinda viral on the net & a select few *show playing* artists getting indie label attention

I think I made a big rambly post about this a while back, but I'm actually a supporter of the nostalgia/sampling trend in current indie electronic/hip hop/pop. To me it suggests a new generation of producers (which I guess I would place myself & about half of Soundcloud/Bandcamp into) who've been given easy access to technology & information musicians of the past could only dream of, but also a prevailing sense of everything having been done before & done to the point of over-saturation. In an attempt to express ourselves we've, consciously or not, turning to the past, studying it, breaking it down & putting it back together (literally in the case of vaporwave), trying to move beyond previous conventions of genre/harmonics/song structure & create something new that could not have been envisioned before its creation. And I think it's slowly inching towards that goal, because some of this stuff does sound pretty weird when you look at it objectively It seems new releases that fall on the more conservative side of things are called derivative of past artists, & more experimental output is called soulless irony lacking musical value. This doesn't really surprise me because that's literally what happens every time music does anything