first of all, it's kind of hard to do anything musical over the sound of a whole country saying "what the fuck. no. why. who wants this. literally who is this for??? Ugh. Trump saying it'll only last a month reminds me of Putin's big talk when Russia first invaded Ukraine. This is so dark. It's hard to imgaine a regional war falling into usual touch-and-go approach Trump's been doing, but idfk man. I don't think anyone can guess how something so haphazardly planned and executed could turn out.
The other night I listened to like half of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. II. It sounded like nice ambient music, idk. Electronic music is still mysterous to me. A while ago, I got a digital drum machine called microtonic because it's compatalbe with the PO-32. Seemed like a pretty powerful combo - a reletively cheap, simple to use drum machine with syth software that could make it sound like basically anything if you know what your doing. I've messed around with PO-32 plenty - it's actually really fun to use. Microtonic, though, has been pure gear aquisition syndrome (GAD) - I don't think I've made anything with it. It's just so obstuse, not just the software but also just sound design and beat-making. Huge props to the folks that could make it work - I'll try to fuck around w/ it more this week and report back.
Oh man, I'm sitting in a coffee shop right now and they just played Clearest Blue by CHVRCHES and it's crazy to hear that song again. I did winter guard during my sophmore year of high school and the instuctors were all these artsy millennials, they played stuff like that. The show we did was set to Which Witch by Florance in the Machine - never been the biggest fan, but I thought it made for a fun and dramtic show. Clearest Blue was one of our warm up songs, and so was Boats and Birds by Gregory and The Hawk which ended becoming one of my favorite songs ever. G&TH is unironically one of my favorite bands ever.
there's unique beauty of pre-2016 youtube and i can't think of a better example than this.
Keep it up,
- v0id
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