XXYYXX - XXYYXX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wn8igSeiCI

Okay so this album isn't new, it was released 27 March last year.

It's a pretty tight, if somewhat sparse album. It has a dark spooky vibe that nicely melds many of the sounds of recent electronic music: post-dubstep, rnb, footwork, future-garage, trap, that witch genre, minimalist dub; a sound that I wouldn't say it's anything ground-breaking, but it's very cleanly executed. The standouts for me are 'Set it Off' 'DMT' and 'Breeze' 'forest fires'.

Anyhow, what I find surprising is that the full album has 1,358,840 views on youtube. I haven't found tracked the source but apparently XXYYXX called himself the head of the illuminati, lol, and I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the proportionally larger amount of listeners (as opposed to most of this type of music) he has acquired, but either way I find it interesting to read all these comments from electronic music virgins who have stumbled onto this and having their minds rearranged. It's pretty awesome that stuff like this is reaching a much larger audience, don't you think?

This is one sexy album,

And the guy's only 16, apparently

he's a sixteen year old (maybe seventeen now?) kid from orlando. saw him live last year @ will's pub and he acted like a twat, mumbling bitchy remarks about the stage equipment between every song. i had him liked on facebook because i did enjoy his music, but then he started making posts with the same nasty attitude. i hate it, but the way someone carries themselves really does affect how much i enjoy their music.

Well I don't blame him if he doesn't know how to act. In the music world today you can have millions of people listening to your music today and in a year have everyone forget about you. It's really a rather confusing ordeal innit.

Not bad for a 16 yr old...

i feel like it's the duty of every musician referencing DMT in their music to make it much weirder and psychedelic than what we have here, just my opinion obviously but after being told i would 'like' Run DMT i believe i have the authority to make this proclamation.

I remember sputnikmusic going ape shit over this album last year. Gave it a listen, its aight i guess

  On 1/21/2013 at 4:16 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

I remember sputnikmusic going ape shit over this album last year. Gave it a listen, its aight i guess

right? I mean it is....'aight'.......just 'aight'....but hey I guess that is how music works these days

  On 1/21/2013 at 3:54 AM, Awepittance said:

i feel like it's the duty of every musician referencing DMT in their music to make it much weirder and psychedelic than what we have here, just my opinion obviously but after being told i would 'like' Run DMT i believe i have the authority to make this proclamation.

yeah I really have to wonder if these people have even taken dmt

shpongle has the rights to that drug in sonic form, i know, cheesy, but it's old guard by now

  On 1/20/2013 at 5:49 PM, Hoodie said:

he's a sixteen year old (maybe seventeen now?) kid from orlando. saw him live last year @ will's pub and he acted like a twat, mumbling bitchy remarks about the stage equipment between every song. i had him liked on facebook because i did enjoy his music, but then he started making posts with the same nasty attitude. i hate it, but the way someone carries themselves really does affect how much i enjoy their music.

I bet a lot of it is the simple fact that he's a 17 year old male. I think about myself at that age and up til about 21 or 22 and I don't like it. I think most boys just suck at that age. He'll hopefully just outgrow it.

  On 1/20/2013 at 5:27 PM, Salvatorin said:

It's a pretty tight, if somewhat sparse album. It has a dark spooky vibe that nicely melds many of the sounds of recent electronic music: post-dubstep, rnb, footwork, future-garage, trap, that witch genre, minimalist dub; a sound that I wouldn't say it's anything ground-breaking, but it's very cleanly executed. The standouts for me are 'Set it Off' 'DMT' and 'Breeze' 'forest fires'.

Anyhow, what I find surprising is that the full album has 1,358,840 views on youtube. I haven't found tracked the source but apparently XXYYXX called himself the head of the illuminati, lol, and I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the proportionally larger amount of listeners (as opposed to most of this type of music) he has acquired, but either way I find it interesting to read all these comments from electronic music virgins who have stumbled onto this and having their minds rearranged. It's pretty awesome that stuff like this is reaching a much larger audience, don't you think?

  On 1/20/2013 at 5:58 PM, Salvatorin said:

Well I don't blame him if he doesn't know how to act. In the music world today you can have millions of people listening to your music today and in a year have everyone forget about you. It's really a rather confusing ordeal innit.

  On 1/21/2013 at 5:30 AM, Salvatorin said:

  On 1/21/2013 at 3:54 AM, Awepittance said:

i feel like it's the duty of every musician referencing DMT in their music to make it much weirder and psychedelic than what we have here, just my opinion obviously but after being told i would 'like' Run DMT i believe i have the authority to make this proclamation.

yeah I really have to wonder if these people have even taken dmt

shpongle has the rights to that drug in sonic form, i know, cheesy, but it's old guard by now

There's two Run DMT producers - one is a pretty good lo-fi/glo-fi in the same vein as Sun Araw or James Ferraro and the other is some brostep-ish duo. One of the members is Parson who actually put out some decent old dubstep including a 12" on Planet Mu.

Also RunDMT is some blog by some mom about running I found 3 minutes ago.

  On 1/21/2013 at 5:55 AM, joshuatx said:

I bet a lot of it is the simple fact that he's a 17 year old male. I think about myself at that age and up til about 21 or 22 and I don't like it. I think most boys just suck at that age. He'll hopefully just outgrow it.

not to be a fist shaking old man or anything, but just imagine what someone is like at age 17 in 2013 with facebook, access to porn at practically any age, and texting and cellphones and all that shit. I just cannot even process what it would be like to be born or just gaining awareness of the world post-internet takeover

  On 1/21/2013 at 10:25 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/21/2013 at 5:55 AM, joshuatx said:

I bet a lot of it is the simple fact that he's a 17 year old male. I think about myself at that age and up til about 21 or 22 and I don't like it. I think most boys just suck at that age. He'll hopefully just outgrow it.

 

not to be a fist shaking old man or anything, but just imagine what someone is like at age 17 in 2013 with facebook, access to porn at practically any age, and texting and cellphones and all that shit. I just cannot even process what it would be like to be born or just gaining awareness of the world post-internet takeover

I'm not much older than he is and I would describe growing up on the internet as leading to a state of feeling hollow, deadened, desensitized, derealized.

  On 1/21/2013 at 12:58 PM, Salvatorin said:

  On 1/21/2013 at 10:25 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/21/2013 at 5:55 AM, joshuatx said:

I bet a lot of it is the simple fact that he's a 17 year old male. I think about myself at that age and up til about 21 or 22 and I don't like it. I think most boys just suck at that age. He'll hopefully just outgrow it.

 

not to be a fist shaking old man or anything, but just imagine what someone is like at age 17 in 2013 with facebook, access to porn at practically any age, and texting and cellphones and all that shit. I just cannot even process what it would be like to be born or just gaining awareness of the world post-internet takeover

I'm not much older than he is and I would describe growing up on the internet as leading to a state of feeling hollow, deadened, desensitized, derealized.

I'm an optimist about all that but the change it's having on kids is undeniable and overwhelming. Kids are still kids though - I think the internet and social media simply exaggerates and accelerates their personalities: At stores I've seen 10 year old girls texting and wearing makeup and inappropriate clothing and I've seen girls of the same age running around the toy, book, and video game sections with utter enthusiasm. It just seems to reveal personalities faster - AND show whose doing a better job at parenting.