Your pointless thoughts & observations

Here also the bicyclist are like the lowest cast in the traffic hierarchy by law and the pedestrians are the highest. Cars are somewhere in the middle. But still most car drivers seem to let bicycles pass even though technically they don't have to. It happens to me a lot when cycling, I stop to let the cars pass but some car stops and the driver starts to wave to signal me to pass. Then all the others stop also. It's nice I guess but probably they just don't know that they don't have to let me pass.

  On 7/14/2018 at 4:46 PM, auxien said:

some studio effect (phaser?) applied to seemingly the entire song

applying an effect to an entire song is a prety divisive strategy imo. like it definitely brings everything together in this very particular way, and for everyone who's into the aesthetic there's going to be this "greater than the sum of the parts" feeling (which if it's well done they won't even be able to figure out what's causing that feeling). but for everyone whose not so into it it's just gonna sound like a track that's been swamped by garish production techniques

 

like i mean i never noticed just how much digital reverb was on a lot of my favourite early 90s idm tracks until i really stepped back & was like "oh yeah, i could see how someone not so into this sound might feel like they were listening to echo soup right now"

*oneohtrix point never walking into the google HQ after endorsement deal talks with firefox fell through*

"WE IN CHROME COUNTRY NOW Y'ALL"

flol

flol

  On 7/14/2018 at 6:22 PM, Cryptowen said:

 

  On 7/14/2018 at 4:46 PM, auxien said:

some studio effect (phaser?) applied to seemingly the entire song

applying an effect to an entire song is a prety divisive strategy imo. like it definitely brings everything together in this very particular way, and for everyone who's into the aesthetic there's going to be this "greater than the sum of the parts" feeling (which if it's well done they won't even be able to figure out what's causing that feeling). but for everyone whose not so into it it's just gonna sound like a track that's been swamped by garish production techniques

 

like i mean i never noticed just how much digital reverb was on a lot of my favourite early 90s idm tracks until i really stepped back & was like "oh yeah, i could see how someone not so into this sound might feel like they were listening to echo soup right now"

Real men apply bitcrusher on the master bus.

 

Tbh, adding a bit of soft distortion on the master bus/channel sometimes works, imho, fwiw, byob

  On 7/15/2018 at 1:08 PM, mokz said:

Tbh, adding a bit of soft distortion on the master bus/channel sometimes works, imho, fwiw, byob

yeah actually that's a tactic i've been using lately - recording the final mix playing at varying levels of intensity through distortion fx, then selectively mixing that back into the original. adds a real three dimensional quality to the track

i think it was on here that i read once about someone who would stack stuff near the subwoofer & play a mix through it, record the sound of the stuff getting all shook up, and then mix that into the track. would definitely like to play with that sorta concept next time i have real speakers

Heard an ambient set last night and some of the music reminded me of this FMV game from the mid 90s called Burn:Cycle.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GQTfMDlLf8&t=602s&frags=pl%2Cwn

 

I hadn't thought about that game for like 15 years, but the music accessed a really deep memory. Kind of weird how that happens sometimes.

early/mid 00s breakcore is electronic music's nu metal

it's a good question and it is a question that should be tackled by experts in that field. If there are not enough experts in that field I want to become one so my existence actually has a measurable meaning

I often take more ketchup/salsa/plum/___ sauce than I need, and usually there's enough food bits in it that I can't put it back in its container in good conscience.  I'm sure I've wasted enough sauce in my life to fill a medium sized swimming pool.  

Kelela - Take Me Apart is definitely the greatest PBRn' B album of all time. 

  On 7/21/2018 at 1:51 AM, darreichungsform said:

it's a good question and it is a question that should be tackled by experts in that field. If there are not enough experts in that field I want to become one so my existence actually has a measurable meaning

yes, become a dish washer 

You could be a dishwasher who secretly collects the leftover sauce to use in some weird attention grabbing art project.... make sauce sculptures or something.

are you going to finish that SAUCE?... THERE ARE STARVING PEOPLE IN AFRICA (that want sauce)

Every sauce is sacred, and you may not cast it on the ground before you.

^ this is the modern interpretation of that Bible passage about not spilling one's seed on the ground.

Nothing beats a stone-clad floor in tiles with lovely patterns, staircases of aptly designed metal railings and mosaic-like stone furnishing of steps. Solid wooden furniture, wooden creaky floor, double-winged doors with high-placed door handles, high ceilings, iron and glass plant houses, gardens, winter gardens, old ball-like hallway lamps with motifs and rough tactile switches, cast iron stove with firewood stacked next to it. Large kitchen with copper dishes, cozy study rooms with foutons, work desks and personal libraries. Contemporary box-like plastic architecture can suck my sweaty balls. It's boring and pretentious just like their designers.

Weaksauce Flaccid Krew

mukbang is such a gross concept to me

even the word "mukbang" devoid of context sounds gross

I was a dishwasher a few times. I ate a lot of sauce, Just from the saute pans

people leave alot of expensive olive oil aswell

  On 7/21/2018 at 12:13 PM, Godwin Austen said:

Nothing beats a stone-clad floor in tiles with lovely patterns, staircases of aptly designed metal railings and mosaic-like stone furnishing of steps. Solid wooden furniture, wooden creaky floor, double-winged doors with high-placed door handles, high ceilings, iron and glass plant houses, gardens, winter gardens, old ball-like hallway lamps with motifs and rough tactile switches, cast iron stove with firewood stacked next to it. Large kitchen with copper dishes, cozy study rooms with foutons, work desks and personal libraries. Contemporary box-like plastic architecture can suck my sweaty balls. It's boring and pretentious just like their designers.

I've been looking at making / getting made some tiles with monastery style decorations to put on our kitchen floor. Faded fleurs-de-lys and plant patterns and stuff. Reckon they'd look great

  On 7/22/2018 at 8:57 PM, marf said:

I was a dishwasher a few times. I ate a lot of sauce, Just from the saute pans

lol was just having a convo with someone this afternoon about the amount of weird shit i ate working as a dishwasher

tbh that was a big part of why i knew i couldn't stay in the restaurant industry, you get in the headspace where having a diet of mostly bread butts & bits of sauce feels sustainable

The next mini-wave of electronic music will probably be Instagram-core.

 

Hear me out.

 

I was going through Instagram have been noticing something that I think I've pointed out before. There are a too many knob tweakers and not enough musicians out there. Electronic music is so easy to make, that it's become something different entirely. A lot of accounts are just little clips of loops and half-formed musical ideas, but they're all really specialized. The niches are becoming extremely defined, but also very samey sounding within their niches. The ambient cassette tape people are forever trying to perfect that ambient eno/Boards of Canada/William Basinski feel, yet rarely do anything especially interesting musically with it. Same with the modular ambient folks the mpc and Sp-404 people keep trying to make 90's instrumental hip hop, the elektron people mostly try to sound like autechre or Amon Tobin, etc. A bunch of people devoting a lot of time and money to recapturing some lost past and fantasy of their favorite artists... but all is not lost. These hobbyists may come to provide a very important role in a new ecology of music.

 

That's where the resourceful poor people come in and create a new genre. They mine Instagram (and YouTube) clips exclusively because not only can they not afford real gear but they also see a goldmine of free musical ideas and samples to steal and repurpose into something more interesting.

 

A lot of the accounts posting synth videos and such just drag on forever with no real variation from the gear they're using. Which is fine. Now they can be useful. They're like a specialized sort of insect, they obsess over their little niche and provide a special sort of "nectar" (sample) for those who can stitch it together with a hundred other samples to create something really special. It's like that deepmind-synth-preset-miner but with real peoples.

 

I can't believe I just wasted 5 minutes typing that out, but yeah. Thas wut I think.