Sophie "It's Okay To Cry"

^ i think he was referring to the charli xcx

dunno though, better check with dr lopez first

Dr Lopez should act as a sort of filter, letting us know whether there is reason to an album or not.

lopez sums it up perfectly.

Everyone can listen to whatever they want and also everyone can dislike whatever they want.

ok besides the hifreqs, It's OK To Cry and Pretending this is a Very Good Album

  On 7/12/2018 at 6:53 AM, Salvatorin said:

I think "immaterial" is the only song I sorta like on the album. because it sounds a bit more like bipp, but shittier. "Infatuation" is decent but it could be a Mssingno track and bang harder. If this album would've come out in 2013 it would've made a lot more sense. After 5 years of 'experimental club' this whole hyperactive rnb aesthetic is just tiring to me. It is a music scene made up entirely of graphic design students.

Man you nailed it.

 

Back in 2013-2014 when I listened to this stuff, and the pcmusic SoundCloud had like 300 followers, I know part of me only listened because I was in a small group of people who got it. QT will always be a fav, but I saw it in a more vaporwave pureness realm.

 

Now I wonder if I ever even liked it, especially because there is such an obvious throughline from pcmusic to nitecore to bronyism back to Sophie.

 

Social media really has introduced and sequentially poisoned so many things I’ve loved.

  On 8/3/2018 at 7:08 AM, sheathe said:

Now I wonder if I ever even liked it, especially because there is such an obvious throughline from pcmusic to nitecore to bronyism back to Sophie.

Social media really has introduced and sequentially poisoned so many things I’ve loved.

It's music you muppet. Listen to it with your body.

I also really agree with d lo in this thread, besides the holly Herndon post. Her music is like an electronic music gateway for people in Portland who mainly rotate mazzy star, Fiona Apple, bjork, beck, and Joanna newsom.

 

Like the selling point is “I record my voice and process/manipulate it”

lol shea you’re pretty on point today

Thanks for reminding me of how great Holly Herndon is 

Holly Herndon is ok

 

 

 

 

 

I could listen to the entire Sophie album before I could listen to that single Herndon song. I didn’t last 10 seconds. I listened to a good 10 min of Sophie while I was ITT in bed last nite, thru my broken phone speaker.

^that may be ideal listening conditions for the Sophie album

Ideal conditions are with your head outside your bumhole so you can hear the high frequencies :)

  On 7/26/2018 at 9:41 PM, dr lopez said:

 

This reminds me a lot of Decomposure's stuff. I like both.

 

Also, I think Faceshopping is a pretty great track.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Xyrofen

  On 10/27/2017 at 10:03 PM, lyst said:

Who gives a dick if you are queer, straight, bi, dolphin, or hermit crab. If you make great music you make great music. If not, go fuck yourself.

 

Knowing about electronic music also means shiite. Innovaters don't prescribe to genres and music norms.

 

 

Nah, I care. If you are a motherfuckin hermit crab and you make sick tracks, that is game changing. That would be the crazy smallest live show ever.

  On 8/6/2018 at 8:44 AM, Xyrofen said:

 

  On 7/26/2018 at 9:41 PM, dr lopez said:

https://youtu.be/cu2KH4s3NbY

This reminds me a lot of Decomposure's stuff. I like both.

 

Also, I think Faceshopping is a pretty great track.

I don't really see any semblance between these two artists output other than the fact that they're both females making electronic music. It's like oh, you like four Tet? Aphex twin is much better bro.

yeah I don't see the holly herndon connection at all

  On 7/29/2018 at 12:30 PM, purlieu said:

Dr Lopez should act as a sort of filter, letting us know whether there is reason to an album or not.

  On 8/8/2018 at 8:16 AM, Gocab said:

 

  On 8/6/2018 at 8:44 AM, Xyrofen said:

 

  On 7/26/2018 at 9:41 PM, dr lopez said:

This reminds me a lot of Decomposure's stuff. I like both.

 

Also, I think Faceshopping is a pretty great track.

I don't really see any semblance between these two artists output other than the fact that they're both females making electronic music. It's like oh, you like four Tet? Aphex twin is much better bro.

 

 

For good arbitrary measure I'm going to mention JLin and Grouper.

 

yay no we're like every other internet discussion thread about electronic music

  On 10/24/2017 at 7:33 PM, Salvatorin said:

fucking terrible

  On 10/25/2017 at 10:56 AM, Salvatorin said:

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE VIDEO. THE MUSIC IS BAD.

  On 8/8/2018 at 8:16 AM, Gocab said:

 

  On 8/6/2018 at 8:44 AM, Xyrofen said:

 

  On 7/26/2018 at 9:41 PM, dr lopez said:

This reminds me a lot of Decomposure's stuff. I like both.

 

Also, I think Faceshopping is a pretty great track.

I don't really see any semblance between these two artists output other than the fact that they're both females making electronic music. It's like oh, you like four Tet? Aphex twin is much better bro.

 

 

uh lol dont we do that all the time? it's also fact

Edited January 9, 2019 by dr lopez

lopez do you have some kind of contrivance that gives you a notification whenever you are mentioned?

  On 8/3/2018 at 7:08 AM, sheathe said:

 

Social media really has introduced and sequentially poisoned so many things I’ve loved.

 

 

Same here. 

 

It's also fucked with the basic concepts of context and what music of a certain genre is "canon" or not. It's really bad post - /mu, RYM, and reddit. Fuckload of kids (mostly) regurgitating the same faux knowledge, the same hype, the same misinformation and superficial hot takes. More effort in meta commentary than substantive or sincere reflections. People who actually do are either in their own bubbles (WATMM would be an example of that IMO) or are prone to be called gatekeepers. There's this who "pleb versus patrician" debate I've seen referenced that literally does not include actual fans or music writers with true merit and knowledge. FB, the twitterspere, reddit, YT, etc. is all one collective crazy circle jerk and you're either self-aware of it or blissfully engaged in that echochamber.

 

It's insane how my head space and internal thought process and then subsequently my memories reset when I take a break from it. I return to older perspectives. Nostalgia, true nostalgia, seeps in with refreshed clarity. My own unique imaginative thoughts, ideas, and imagery creeps in.Fond recollections of CDs listened to, books checked out from a library and read, people watching while waiting in line at Six Flags. It's bizarre how I've documented more of myself in the digital medium - posts online, photos stored on HDs, etc. than I ever did prior to say, 5-10 years ago and yet I can recall mundane things from childhood better than places I went to and experienced a year ago. Sometimes I day dream about my memory of living a day without internet or streaming media at my command.

 

Fumi mentioned once how he'd listened to vaporwave so much it was affecting, degrading, distorting, and warping actual memories he had of the era and media the genre pulls from. It's a weird thing to realize your brain is moving out deeper memories of retro stuff you actually cherished for a flippant skimming of instragram posts or soundcloud tracks. 

Edited January 9, 2019 by joshuatx