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A bunch of people devoting a lot of time and money to recapturing some lost past and fantasy of their favorite artists...

Careful with that kind of talk, the brainwaltzera folks will lynch ya

  On 7/23/2018 at 2:00 AM, Tricone RC said:

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

Awesome. Wish I had a million eur right now

  On 7/23/2018 at 10:03 AM, drukqs said:

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.

I kinda think that electronic music seemed more interesting when not literally every human had the means to learn to make passable IDM in like a week. BoC was the first casualty in this scenario. I still like a lot of stuff but gawdayum

Is a lonesome salamander a solomander?

  On 7/23/2018 at 7:20 PM, chronical said:

Is a lonesome salamander a solomander?

:thinking:

pattern recognition is rlly weird

  On 7/24/2018 at 5:27 AM, MIXL2 said:

pattern recognition is rlly weird

and Wolliom Gobson book (which they named the track after).

whatever happened to diatoms and the what if i told you thread? watmm feels empty now

Ever notice how many people seem to wait for you to start saying something and then take that as a signal to talk over you?

Lost count of how many times I've got three words into the same sentence (related to what they were saying) multiple times before just giving up.

:^)

  On 7/24/2018 at 9:56 AM, hello spiral said:

Ever notice how many people seem to wait for you to start saying something and then take that as a signal to talk over you?

Lost count of how many times I've got three words into the same sentence (related to what they were saying) multiple times before just giving up.

This is what it seems like when I'm with my mom and sister. Talk talk talk. Gotta fight to get a word in

Most of the time I just give up

  On 7/24/2018 at 6:32 AM, MIXL2 said:

whatever happened to diatoms and the what if i told you thread? watmm feels empty now

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PT&O: It wasn't that damned funny. You motherfuckers are too hard on for rolling lols.

I was just lolling at the lols.  The lol is an end in and of itself.