polyphia (skrillex but it's djent)

[cruising for burgers]

this shit is disgusting yet it's a sensation right now... the mix of idm electronic sounding drums with those djent guitars is cheesy af... apparently the guy is 'very talented'... so what...

Edited February 22 by cruising for burgers

[ignatius]

to me this just sounds like new generation of shredders who listened to joe satriani and steve vai and some prog and frank zappa and other stuff.. 1 part scientology cocktail party music and 1 part music theory nerd 

[cruising for burgers]

16 minutes ago, ignatius said:

frank zappa

u my friend, are canceled! 

[ignatius]

1 hour ago, cruising for burgers said:

u my friend, are canceled! 

lols why? i love some zappa. i don't get why these people can't have a tinge of zappa in what they're doing.. it's just they are missing some of the other parts of zappa that make him whole.  same for some prog weirdness. i love some weirdness that's got some prog in it.. doesn't mean it can't all go horribly wrong by my tastes... 

[auxien]

never heard of them. that Neurotica track is a bop, could hear that with some lame ass singer on it, but it's catchy. cheesy af too but that's fine.

other tracks are shit. is this djent? i can catch some djent influence here and there in the techniques, but really this is just YouTube/TikTok guitar showoffy prog crap except they put drums and keyboards under it. 

[cruising for burgers]

9 hours ago, ignatius said:

lols why? i love some zappa. i don't get why these people can't have a tinge of zappa in what they're doing.. it's just they are missing some of the other parts of zappa that make him whole.  same for some prog weirdness. i love some weirdness that's got some prog in it.. doesn't mean it can't all go horribly wrong by my tastes... 

oh ok zappa very good

polyphia (pedophilia) very bad 

still weird to use them on the same thread though...

anyway, not gonna put my hands on fire but I'd not be surprised if zappa WASN'T a big influence on them...

Edited February 22 by cruising for burgers

[usagi]

I feel nothing.

[mcbpete]

Sounds like good music to pick car parts for in Gran Turismo

[ignatius]

1 hour ago, cruising for burgers said:

but I'd not be surprised if zappa WASN'T a big influence on them...

yeah.. probably right.. to me it's way more joe satriani sounding and like music theory jazz prog nerdouts. they all have degrees from berkely college of music and out shred each other or something. 

[T3551ER]

50 minutes ago, usagi said:

I feel nothing.

this. As a guitarist who also likes IDM drums although I recognize the technical skill, I was utterly unmoved by this. going to wade into sacrilege territory here but it's the same with Steve Vai. Incredible talent, but give me B.B. King slow, mournful heartbreak solos over 30 triplets per second with 0 soul any day of the week. 

[cruising for burgers]

even this guys are cooler than them... some come to daddy vibes @2m20 on this first video...

 

penis size doesn't matter...

Spoiler

I mean, number of notes per second...

 

Edited February 22 by cruising for burgers

[T3551ER]

This popped across my feed the other day - incredibly technical, but, like... I dunno, you can feel the joy on the room: 

 

 

Also, digging a little deeper, this dude.. kinda rules. 

 

 

[Limo]

The Polyphia people may be virtuosos (and kudos to them for that) but in the end they’re playing the same, extremely bland chord progressions that are all over current pop music.

The two Japanese gentlemen @T3551ER links are much more adventurous (and therefore more fun to listen to).

 

[ignatius]

15 minutes ago, Limo said:

The Polyphia people may be virtuosos (and kudos to them for that) but in the end they’re playing the same, extremely bland chord progressions that are all over current pop music.

The two Japanese gentlemen @T3551ER links are much more adventurous (and therefore more fun to listen to).

 

yeah.. there's something lacking. i think lsd and weed and trauma would make their music more interesting. 

[Limo]

3 hours ago, ignatius said:

yeah.. there's something lacking. i think lsd and weed and trauma would make their music more interesting. 

Let's start with some basic compositional skills.

[Real Human Bean]

Mr. Bill Ableton Live Glitch Tutorial in band form.
 

3 hours ago, ignatius said:

yeah.. there's something lacking. i think lsd and weed and trauma would make their music more interesting. 

Zappa was sober as a nun. Some people just have bad aesthetic sense.

[cruising for burgers]

Steve Vai was only good to transcribe and play zappas's guitar...

[cruising for burgers]

1 hour ago, Real Human Bean said:

Zappa was sober as a nun. Some people just have bad aesthetic sense.

yes!

still, why do we (the ones who've been posting on this thread) all think that these dudes have bad aesthetic taste? do they though? their fans would say otherwise... is there such a thing? 

“Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”

Edited February 22 by cruising for burgers

[hello spiral]

this is stacking and unstacking cups really fast: the band

[cruising for burgers]

you're an elitist spi

[Real Human Bean]

18 hours ago, T3551ER said:

 

 

Squarepusher if he wasn't mentally ill type beat.

[Limo]

13 hours ago, cruising for burgers said:

yes!

still, why do we (the ones who've been posting on this thread) all think that these dudes have bad aesthetic taste? do they though? their fans would say otherwise... is there such a thing? 

“Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”

No, I said their music was boring. And then I voiced the suspicion that unlike Japanese Guitar Squarepusher above they don’t really know how to compose music properly.

Which is fine, if they want to do pop music, where brain dead two chord dirges are de rigueur. Except that their displays of technical prowess rather retract from the poppiness. Which makes me wonder who the audience for this music actually is.

EDIT: and if you want pop with virtuoso stuff, just stick to Japanese Guitar Squarepusher (Ichika Nito, apparently): 

EDIT 2: and he does djent-ish metal, too!

 

Edited February 23 by Limo

[Wunderbar]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnChQucgW1a/

 

" i write beyond my current capabilities"

what does that even mean.

19 hours ago, T3551ER said:

 

 

Do you reckon these guys go all technical on their girlfriends pussy doing trills and stuff instead of pleasing her.

[cruising for burgers]

he looks like he's out of an anime cosplay convention...

Edited February 23 by cruising for burgers

[d-a-m-o]

Here's the antidote to this shreding wankfest :