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offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-18 17:52 [#02259586]
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Does it make you feel good or bad to be different?

I mean, to be fair, when you really think about it, not that
many people like AFX. He has had his moment, but that moment
has pretty much passed and I wouldn't say he was mainstream
(feel free to disagree with me on this). Least of all like
AFX as much as peeps on here. And even fewer make their own
electronic music.

Does it make you feel good that most people are stupid
mediocre drones, with no volition of their own and
(presumably) we are not? I guess I would say I am less of a
drone than most, but I s'pose as long as I live in Britain I
am still the same as everyone else to a certain degree.

What I am really asking here is do you feel set apart from
most people in the street and, if so, how do you feel about
that?


 

offline hexane on 2008-12-18 17:58 [#02259588]
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no


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2008-12-18 18:11 [#02259590]
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it would not be reasonable for many people to like someone
who is nothing but an insignificant ginger-haired pimple on
the ass of electronic music.


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-18 18:19 [#02259591]
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whitney houston


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-12-18 18:22 [#02259592]
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not suoh yen tihw


 

offline cyrstal dude from LA all day! (United States) on 2008-12-18 18:32 [#02259593]
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i am pretty much th esame as all my dipshit friends.

i don't think most people would think we were that weird.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-12-18 18:45 [#02259595]
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being different certainly makes life more difficult.

whether this is good or bad is your opinion.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2008-12-18 18:54 [#02259596]
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I just think its an alternative. Music is meant to be
appreciated, it does make someone different, but not by very
much, not on like any different level or anything.

People's level of appreciation goes into whatever THEY like.


Like AFX's Midievil Rave shit is like hardcore music for me.
Like Dragonforce or some wierd Fusion/Metal type stuff
people listen to to get that feeling.

Midievil Rave 1 is such a good song to play when you're
feeling in that psichzophrenic/psychotic/nobody gets it -
mood.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-12-18 19:09 [#02259600]
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a brick to the face is often another remedy to that mood.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2008-12-18 19:21 [#02259605]
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yeah that'd hurt and certainly make you wisen up.


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2008-12-18 19:39 [#02259618]
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No


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-12-18 19:44 [#02259626]
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i'm more going for the hurt and/or accidental coma.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-12-19 07:46 [#02259679]
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everyone's different for some reason but for a matter of
senses.


 

offline yoyoyoyo from Sweden on 2008-12-20 07:26 [#02259906]
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nice outfit


 

offline cuntychuck from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2008-12-20 07:32 [#02259907]
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very different


 

offline rad smiles on 2008-12-20 07:41 [#02259909]
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we're all pink on the inside


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2008-12-20 07:45 [#02259910]
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if anyone else was in my shoes they would have turned out
just like me, so im no different to anyone else.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2008-12-20 08:52 [#02259913]
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do you ?


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2008-12-20 09:40 [#02259919]
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i realise every day more and more that we are just another
market niche.

we're white (mostly), male (mostly), we do drugs (or have a
history of drugs where we went off the rails and now only do
it occasionally), we download torrents, we know what 'vst'
and 'flac' means, we are partially metrosexual, we are
existentialist atheist / agnostics, we've seen too many
films and spend too much time thinking introspectively. we
also like aphex, squarepusher and boc because of their
'lush' tunes, which we say ironically

also we are awkward dancers


 

offline noseburger on 2008-12-20 09:55 [#02259924]
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Speak for yourself

Also? Some people think linkin park is alternative and
experimental. Its all perspective Really who gives a fuck.


 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2008-12-20 11:38 [#02259951]
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fucken a.

tractern

i know less people that dig classical/sympony/military bands
than i do people who like electronic music.

fuck worrying if people think or even care if your
different. you are not, your just like everyone else is,
insignificant.... now fuck off outside and go find ur pagen
vegan to tight to pay for anything free dumpster butt hole
diving dinner.



 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2008-12-20 11:47 [#02259960]
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can you tell me what it feels like to hit the nail?


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2008-12-20 12:00 [#02259976]
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it feels like ham sandwiches and honey


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2008-12-20 12:04 [#02259980]
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mmmmmmustard honey sauce


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-20 12:10 [#02259981]
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haha- bless you. do you think that's insulting? It's just
describing what I am about. =)

Eventually I might agree with you, but until then I will
carry on knowing that I am different. I don't mean that I am
better than anyone, just different. And I think there are
many the same as I, just most people are not.

You sound so angy, man. You must be really unhappy. =(


 

offline rad smiles on 2008-12-20 12:13 [#02259982]
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im angy


 

offline yoyoyoyo from Sweden on 2008-12-20 12:14 [#02259983]
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im the special one


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2008-12-20 14:04 [#02260021]
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Watchu know 'bout bein' different?


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-21 20:27 [#02260225]
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Please don't feel I am backing out of an argument, but I am
not going to say how I think I am different.

I started a long post about it, but then realised it was
self-indulgent silliness. I don't know how to present it in
a way which sounds good.

Mebbe another day pal, yeah?


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-12-21 20:37 [#02260226]
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you missed it.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2008-12-21 21:52 [#02260230]
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Think Different

BTW does Steve Jobs have cancer or something? :_-(


 

offline Fractal from New Metropolis (Slovakia) on 2008-12-23 16:44 [#02260499]
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maybe WE are a lil strange for some people, cuz they dont
understand the SENSE of this musical style, that we are
listening to and living in.. but I KNOW they recpect and
like me for it, cuz they are inteligent too. :))

ps: i made myself a GESCOM T-SHIRT, and some friends were
asking me: " whats that LOGO, man?"
i cant tell them everything about it, but they know tht im
listening SPACE MUSIC, and thats enough for them ( again a
respect theory)


 

offline Fractal from New Metropolis (Slovakia) on 2008-12-23 16:52 [#02260503]
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my people like some "IDM= SPACE MUSIC" artists at all for
example: (the Eased Up tracks not the heavy ones)

THE FLASHBULB, LUKE VIBERT, BOC, PLAID, JAMIE LIDELL,
MU-ZIQ, ...

ps: Richard sounds agressive for them, I think


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-23 16:54 [#02260505]
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Thank you! Someone finally agrees to some degree!

What I am talking about is more about lifestyle, rather than
music preference, but I guess to poeple on here these things
can sometimes intermingle.

Cheers, Fractal! X


 

offline Fractal from New Metropolis (Slovakia) on 2008-12-23 17:05 [#02260510]
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in my opinion the lifestyle you are pointing is about
interests about Future Technical world, to look forward for
some inteligent solutions for mankind through music and not
only through Music ... (f. e. KRAFTWEKT - NEON LIGHTS, in
that time nobody knew bout Neon lights :) )


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-23 17:19 [#02260513]
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Yeah, that is part of what I am going on about...



 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2008-12-24 02:09 [#02260558]
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being different from society often manifests in some
sort of outsider, no, actually insider music.
punk, rasta and straight edge hardcore music can
give you so much when youre into that movement for
example. but, to the actual question...:
you are different, when it makes you feel good and you
think you do the right thing or just your personal thing.
and just like everybody you are happy to be different,
when you get respect from your niche or feel related.
(i dont think the point of being different is being alone)
so, its good basically :P



 

offline cx from Norway on 2008-12-24 05:24 [#02260575]
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tbh i don't i'm that different.
i speak to people and i can't really see any radical
differences between me and any other joe..
we all have different opinions, ideas, we value different
things, but that doesnt mean we can't relate.
i think everyone can relate to everyone else, in some way or
another, even if it's remote..
communication is key as well, id rather not go around
thinking im so damn different because of something shallow
like enjoying an autechre track, but rather embrace what all
of us have in common, and how we can all relate and function
as a whole.


 

offline CalumDamit from United Kingdom on 2008-12-24 05:26 [#02260577]
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HIGH SKOOL MUSICAL FTW


 

offline cx from Norway on 2008-12-24 05:27 [#02260578]
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HOWEVER, i would like to add that some people are of course
better to talk to and be around, i dont mean that we should
all join is some metaspherical emo-soup with people who are
radically different to ourselves.

but i do think some of the hatred, prejudice and
narrowmindedness could go. we're not all THAT different.


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-24 11:51 [#02260653]
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I see my differences as being deeper than music prefences.
And for the record, I got on with people I interact with
fine. :) I don't act snobbishly toward anyone (well, a few,
but it rarely happens). If there is anyone I don't like for
whatever reason I would just not talk to them.


 

offline rad smiles on 2008-12-24 16:32 [#02260668]
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have u seen hsm3 yet? killer. best one yet.


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2008-12-24 19:54 [#02260683]
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This Thread COMPLETELY MADE ME THINK OF THIS:

It's Saturday by King Missile

I want to be different, Like everybody else I want to be
like
I want to be just like all the different people
I have no further interest in being the same
Because I have seen different all around
And now I know that that's what I want
I dont want to blend in and be indistinguishable
I want to be a part of the different crowd
and assert my individuality with others
who are different like me

yeah "different" to me is such a subjective word. bent and
melded to fit someones own personal idea of what is/isnt. to
be truthful - were all different and in so many ways
individual.
i love my individuality, its taken me a long time to realize
my own self-respect.

i ask the question - would it be better to be a collective?
maybe for once, we could all work together for a common
goal. Is unity a utopia or hell?

im not sure. as i think more of it - the factors alone are
mind boggling.

GOOD THREAD



 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2008-12-24 19:56 [#02260685]
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merryy fucken xmas


 

offline Fractal from New Metropolis (Slovakia) on 2008-12-27 04:09 [#02260939]
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We are different cuz we know how to Dance to AE :))


 

offline MutterMenace from Groton (United States) on 2008-12-27 19:04 [#02261036]
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I threw on some acoustic Opeth music last year for Art
class, and a kid beside me told me that it sounded very
similar to Dave Matthews. At that moment I was happy for
being "different" because the kid I was beside was clearly
an idiot on many levels and to want to be somebody you're
not (especially if you don't like that person) is a complete
waste of time, so like what you like and don't give a fuck
of what people say otherwise.


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2008-12-27 19:10 [#02261040]
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I'VE NOT PARTAKEN IN THE ACT OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION WITH A
DEDICATED SERIOUSNESS TOWARDS A GRETA DRUNKERDNESS FOR SOME
TIME, I THINK IT MAY HAVE THE BETTER OF ME.

THINGS ARE SPINNING.


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2008-12-28 03:46 [#02261070]
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anyone made the "different to be good" wordplay yet? i'm
sure it'll get at least a couple of laughs out of you geeks.
no?


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2008-12-28 03:50 [#02261071]
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where there's smoke, there's fire. no matter what he told
the press, he just looked unhealthy the last keynotes. i'm
sure the moment is near where he has to put focus on his
health before his company. and i mean "near and past that
point".


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-28 07:32 [#02261096]
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Really? How would that be?

I have discussed with my friends many a time how one would
dance to such crazy music...

'S a good question- how do you guys dance to AE. or SP for
that matter?


 


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