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like, hell, i should get back to uploading stuff. so i'll just do that the smoke alarm fucking randomly went off again for like five seconds again as i was working on an album cover. i just buried my ears and hid. it stopped just as suddenly |
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[EP] some comments |
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no politics, no shitting, just straight reviews 1 subproject- I love the SOUND of the distortion. Little stabs poking through. Kick drum pattern doesn't interest me much, but some of the melodic floruishes are nice. It's a well produced track 2 sidegrind beat is cooler. jazzy and upbeat, kinda cheeky and twisted. again, really nice distortion kicks in. Maybe it overwhelms a little bit, but it's improvsionational and jazzy and cool. I like the outro best, small sounds played like that sound great on acid. 3. elon musk TWITTER TAKEOVER generally like it the least melodically and rhythmically in the first half, but some nice sounds in there. Sick little whine at 0:49. Beat becomes more interesting at 1:50 or so. Chirpy birds and lots of percussion. If there's a legit statement in the track I dont hear it, maybe woulda sampled elon musk saying some retarded shit just to bolster the track title. I did that with to a decent effect. aight cool tracks man, legit. |
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subproject is meant for like... speakers, a good large sub, feel it move around the floorboards. like the kick drum pattern -- just a skeleton, really -- starts to grow fur or something the original name of the last track was "cyberpoop" but then i was like: "i don't terribly like that name, i want to re-name it" then i have a mild tech industry theme going on already, and... why yes, this kind of works as a musical narratives to the emotional developments within the twitter corporation. so, essentially, no, not really a statement except i decided it fit perfectly if it makes any sense, a lot of stuff i do, i just sort of do it, then days or weeks i'll later have a moment, "...oh! that's what that was about" thanks for listening. |
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that a) no one buys these anyways b) if you do buy them you can redownload them in the current state whenever, so n) i think i'm actually going to go back and jigger around with a bunch of these. but this one, just hot off the prussians and all |
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nice development of the melody in subproyect through the track sidegrind was some nice free jazz like a robotic john zorn or something elon musk twitter take over sounded like the music for a boss battle nice sampling in the magika plastica & II tracks i really like how you develop your ideas even when its more pure banging like in rebooty, your tracks always seem to be going somewhere and moving wich i really like it makes sense to make stuff an give it a rest for a while before coming back, im always trying to listen to my own stuff as if it was someone else ps: my name is ronald mcdonald |
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syncopation is more than what powers dance music. it's key to consciousness |
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so i've kept my bandcramp in autistic precise chronological order, and last night, kind of, screw it, i'll just mash these into a playlist instead. which is 70% all at once, and 30% continued fussing today i'm listening to again, and, actually, i should move this up the playlist. i spent probably about 100 hours completely tearing apart an sk-1, soaking all the buttons and keys in the bathtub, building an external patch bay / busybox in some wooden cab knicknack that connects with a DB-25 cable; essentially as an art therapy project to distract myself from crippling depression. i have dox ~ then the album, the premise was: 1) modded SK-1 sole sound source but whatever aux fx i want. note each voice has an individual out, drums have their own out, etc, so with my dub stuff obviously some avenues 2) one sample per track, a few are the presets because just cover all the bases 3) record at least one per day, more optional kept it up for a month or so. just an odd thought: if rdj were like, "hi, send me an album" i actually think this would be a solid choice; dodge some anxiety. that it's very much something i built myself, but it's stripped down and focused, and... well, i'm not highly technical jazz keyboardist man, but i do feel like this displays... i dunno, just sort of a plasticity about what's going on with the sound vs. how i play the keys. and there's no movie magic |
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you were always kind to me. and i do miss our friendship. i hope you find solice in your anxiety. take care dan. |
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is that like "please take care, dan" or "please take care epicmegatrax, signed dan?" i know one dan who might say that sort of level to me and no way are you him. so i'm leaning towards this not being about me. no worries carry on |
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it makes sense to make stuff an give it a rest for a while a little of a giggle as it just hit me this statement makes conformal sense. it works on different levels of scale. that music, at its core, is tension and release -- make stuff and then give it a rest for a while just part of sorting through stuff, listening through my things again. i was also listening to today, and yes, this is about as close as i get to... clinical, i think was the adjective someone used for jodey kendrick's +10. except it's all grainy dub and not clinical in that regard... but, heck, rambling here. i just find the whole album a very satisfying exercise in form where i have taken a palette of options -- not minimal, but still consistent throughout -- and then essentially worked them through every reasonable permutation. satisfying like japanese ink painting |
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surgical. that's what i was grasping for. a surgical strike |
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i guess i'd also like to give a strong shout-out to the clark track off turning dragon where it sounds like a point cloud of bouncing ball bearings and i'm just like... *wayne's world* this will be mine fast forward and i've sorted out how to use a couple delay pedals to do that all day. |
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then also, 3:33ish, baby go relax, like, yeah, that was such a wonderful thonk. it's a data-bent roland xp10 808 kit through a tube preamp and then exploded and blown up again; mixed with all sorts of stuff. kind of a personal record of sorts, that i can think of other incredibly strong 808 cowbell moments i've had, but this wins. it makes me think of "tits and acid" by simian mobile disco, that discussing the 808 cowbell before the drop, and my subjective description was, "it's like a roland sound was left in the back of the fridge for too long and it's gone a bit moldy." but, mind you, this is just me talking with someone about why we both love that sound so much, and this is not an insult at all, just trying to dial in the synaesthesia. and he agrees with me that was a sustained vibe, but, yeah, this one cowbell here... very happy with it. i grant a no-hate license to sample it |
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and by "it" i meant the single 808 cowbell+friends that's all "pow, right to the moon, alice" and not anything more. i'll warn you that i have a lot of imaginary lawyers, and they're all complete weasels. |
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I'm just worried Pete thinks I'm you. Not worried if he thinks I'm Kei9, I think he's got us mixed up as I used to live in Latin America. Where life is cheap and if you go to a tutty bar it actually is a titty bar and not some rip off joint run by Russians who will march you to a cash point. Those were the two things I learnt anyway. And NOTHING else. Nada |
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i've never been to latin america. my assumption that i am irrelevant to that whole arc remains intact. again: carry on |
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LESS IS MORE FOR FUCKS FUCKING SAKE POST A TUNE GREAT DONT FUCKING EXPLAIN IT!!!!!! what are doing --steve mcqueen that, oh, alright. if i could keep a lid on it and be all faceless, maybe that would build some buzz. that when people don't have info, they make up stuff much more clever than reality. but reading this again, i think you more mean: just post the tune stop talking and i can do both, thanks? and you can opt for one or both or neither? |
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that, really, i'm just excited sometimes, and, you know, i want to explain it so people can appreciate it too. like, one of the things you can do with music is imbue it with a sense of gravity. like: you're falling and falling and... or, in the case of subProject, it's like there's a gravitational suck upwards; just slowly pulling you the whole track. not that all songs have gravity like that one way or another, it's just one of a bajillion things you can do with music. but yes, good floater this one |
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an AI came up with the title |
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today i was just in a bit of a funk and i spent ages just... reading wikipedia, and i got into looking at monet paintings. and i was listening to first track off rash can now, and... yeah, it's . i didn't mean to lift it. i only noticed hours after unintentional leakage. but i do think back to when i read this quote: He used bright colours in dabs and dashes and squiggles of paint. Having rejected the academic teachings of Gleyre's studio, he freed himself from theory, saying "I like to paint as a bird sings." i kind of laughed, and thought: just skip the painting, it's easier i never got into programming scales, microtonal whatever, i just tried to copy how, like, afx or whatever sounded by ear. and, i dunno, very much a sense of painting, now. tonet |
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would anyone buy any of these? i'm just curious. should i write some blog or something? it's kind of like: whatever i'ma do it either way. but then it's also like: well if i'm doing it... |
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that bandcramp can be kind of a circlejerk: this person bought my album, oh, it's polite to buy theirs. and sweet as this is -- and hell it gets me, definitely -- you realize it's just the same pool of money shafting backing and forth with bandcramp taking a cut each time. so i feel like stumping for someone to buy my music somewhere like zility is, like, just putting money in bandcramp's pocket, that i'd rather just trade our musics for free or something at that point. you buy my album and then i buy yours and we're both slightly poorer; splitting the fee bandcramp takes both ways. so where is the influx of external income to make this viable? and yes, i can hear you laughing now. that'd be nice, right? but i guess it is worth asking, because i feel like, somehow, this is creating value for people, actually, and how much, and who can reasonably pay without it being a blink in their budget in proportion for what they're getting? that, that is where i am really like dfhjgdjfhg -- that, i'm not going to tongue the worms out of tiktok's anus until i get paid. i don't really like making videos. i am not good at being reliable and producing new content three times a day like a professional handler training animals. in the episode of mythbusters where jamie and adam compete to train goldfish, jamie says, "i'll win this, because the key with animals is consistency, and adam is a fucking spazz, he'll yell and make random movements and it'll confuse them." then some other episode, "adam is incredibly good and building vastly complex things incredibly quickly, but he rushes, he makes mistakes, he injures himself, so i'll probably win this one too" and jamie was right in both cases. but then, i do recall, the needlefinder 9000 or whatever did kick his ass next round that last paragraph, yes. if making even beer money off music requires reliable content like feeding hounds at precise times... no, fuck it; i'm fukqd |
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ohh colour of money, right. never seen it bandcamp is just a reliable host with a small url i can give out without shame and without having to fuck around with sendspace vs mega etc. pretty sure i will never make anything close to a living from music, and i get that bandscramp can be a circle jerk at times, but on balance i kinda like it, soz the color of monet i could host a few dozen or hundred albums that got a few thousand downloads before i'd have to go all SBF @ FTX and start borrowing bandwidth from the toaster said more simply, i can host everything i've done in flac, i could help a bunch of other people out too, that was kind of the the idea of riced out records but it was just deceptively easier to just slap stuff on soundclot and have a giggle complaining about all the bots as if this were actually Serious Shit and then suddenly they're flagging for copyright and i can't just bung my silly stuff on there anymore and bandcramp, solid repo really. but dangling the carrot of "...someone might buy it." it's true, someone might. someone really might. maroon 5 is still relevant, so anything's possible |
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nice tracks. i like your music, ive shown it to friends and they also like it. i really dont know how to make a career out of music myself, so i cant comment on that. bandcamp is weird, sometimes random people buy stuff and you dont know where they found you. if i had to guess, you oght to pay for promotion of your links or something and hope for the best, also try to play live and such, marketing amd career stuff. i just like to make music. i do agree that bandcamp is ripping us off charging such fees just to host your music, if you are paying for promotion maybe it would be better to host it yourself |
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that, gosh, it's so tough to drive this home: I've long given up the idea of music as a "job" but from there the ultimate conclusion is that i simply can't help myself, i'll obsess over my trax amyways, particularly if i am in a mood, where, like, if i stop focusing on music I'll punch a hole in the fucking wall. and, hey, I'm not doing this out of some naive attempt to launch a career, but there is a heck of a lot of work into it, belb is the only one to really buy my albums recently and, hi belb: it means a lot to me that you did that; thx. but you have been through so much yourself and... what am i supposed to do, monetize belb's love? fuck this whole bidness model |
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it's good sturfs and i don't mind flingin ya a few bucks. it's like, it may never be a job but once in a while it'll mean you can order some nice ramen and pumpkin croquettes; that's what i did. you put the work in, treat yo self |
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"treat yo self" is like, fuck it, i'm going to buy flavored chapstick -- never mind gender stereotypes. if you want to send me money, i won't say no, it's just kind of like... this thing where i'm supposed to build a fanbase, it feels kind of disgusting when... shit, is this too direct? i still have both my eyeballs. the idea of trying to rope you in as a fan and get you to buy all the whatever feels deplorable. that, if it makes sense, it's like: thank you from the bottom of my heart, and part of how i appreciate it is feeling like your money is better spent on you. |
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if i don't keep on top of it i get a ridiculous number of bandcamp spams. it's useful to keep up to date with new releases from ppl you genuinely like tho, and you can one-click unsubscribe from crap in the emails. i don't think that's intrusive. it's just the bandcamp "attitude" that's a bit icky. i can't even put my finger on it precisely, but it's like there's a built-in listener-as-customer philosophy. and that sux |
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can i get paid $500 to score a porn movie or something? given that i can just blast it out live i could probably do something like that in a day or three. but whatever just an idea |
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so the modded 303 behringer thing i ordered, first bit of gear i've ordered in over a year, was delivered today, to the address i haven't lived at in about ten years. i have to say i feel pretty sour. there will be no acid. merry fucking christmas |
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i'm looking for another job and i shouldn't have bought anything anyways, and no, i simply am not allowed to have nice things. last christmas i bought lewis a raspberry pi 4 kit and he got me absolutely nothing. mum was like, oh, i'll order you some slippers, middle of january. so i thought i'd just buy myself something nice this year, even though i really can't afford it, and now it's entirely probably money down the hole unless whoever lives there now has mercy and contacts the company or such. but it really feels kind of like another slap, like, why do i bother. i may not post much for a bit |
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apparently they got fedex to go ring the doorbell and they actually gave it up? theoretically i may still get the 30thing ~ but just reflecting on this, one of my stupidest, biggest mistakes in music was to record this track as a test, then take a break instead of recording a full track, kind of a roygbiv thing going on where the pulsewidth was just doing something unfathomable |
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good luck with your 303 man enjoy |
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i got it. here it is this track is worth buying for $3.03 |
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it's kind of like earth leakage trip "no idea" but a lot more active |
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great track epic, nice acid vibe. really glad you were able to have it delivered to yourself mate cheers! |
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i feel the title suits me. also, starting to find my footing on panning; happy with the second track in particular. dodged being too lead-foot on it this time, and it has this nice sort of one-two like a monkey wrench spinning with smaller monkey wrenches pulling about with centrifugal force on each end of the mother monkey wrench, and... oh, nevermind; clearly i need to go back and rethink my metaphors before trying to speak of this |
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nothing particularly stood out panning-wise from the first track but I really enjoyed the drums and the melting psychedelic toucan melody as it got going. |
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oh, yes, sorry, only a few tweaks to panning between the first and second. happy with them both, second just improved very slightly thanks for listening. |
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> toucan melody so this kind of stuck in my brain; it would actually be very valuable to me to know: why did you describe it as a "toucan melody" ? i can come up with theories but your actual answer will be more interesting. |
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So I woulda said the Toucan was based on one of your album covers, because I sorta pictured it in that shitty, fear and loathing in las vegas style AI art you've used a few times... but I checked your bandcamp albums and there was no toucan, so chalk it up to pure free association from the DMT realm or something. |
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i made a track called |
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the acid repository hass been update |
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just farting around with the wavestation and dub mostly the last four probably better |
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dan, didn’t need to revive the thread bro. take care |
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ol' rambunctious ~ actually much better than i expected it to be after a day or two. first few minutes quite solid knockers ~ some moments but eh crewticle ~ not bad, not hugely fascinating, but ending definitely "with feeling" all of this was pretty thoroughly live improvised. usually i have some sort of plan. went slightly better than i expected it to four tracks before this -- yeah, see those. |
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