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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
utterly off-topic but to usher in the weekend (and because Iāve dropped Spotify): whatās some music
no wrong answers just start listing artists and albums you like
Rival Consoles - Howl
Sleep Party People - Heap of Ashes
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Katie Alice Greer - Barbarism
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Some albums, mostly electronic, mostly experimental, that Iāve been enjoying.
cardiacs
I got no Spotify, and I buy a lot off bandcamp.
I had never heard of Girlyman until this morning, and now Iāve seen two references in one day.
You saw another reference to girlyman? There was a period a decade ago when I played their music constantly and went to every show I could.)
Thereās an Instagram account called sexchange.tbt that posts trans ephemera from the past ~40 years - website screenshots, articles, old zines. Anyway, they posted the music video for āYoung James Deanā by Girlyman.
Oh man. All the real boys / in their black jeans / called me crazy.
Ya that one !
Iād never heard the song before, and it kind of reminded me of a really fascinating essay about James Dean and butch identity.
i donāt have any idea what youād like so iāll drop some moderately to widely spaced things, all electronic, 90s to now
iāve started using soulseek recentlyish and everything is there
BABYMETAL x Electric Callboy: https://youtu.be/EDnIEWyVIlE
https://l-a-n-a-r-k.bandcamp.com/track/metallur
https://exwiish.bandcamp.com/track/resident-deceiver
https://paurro.bandcamp.com/track/jingu-kogo-emperatriz-jingu-5
TuÄƧe ÅenoÄul - Bu RĆ¼ya DeÄil
Mon Laferte - AmƔrrame
Lots of things by Š¼Š¾Š½ŠµŃŠ¾ŃŠŗŠ°, such as Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾Š²ŃŠµŠ³, for pure outright fun jams.
I have alllllll kinds. Being able to share music in an easy manner is actually a fucking disaster of a problem in recent years. Just try to copy a fucking track name out of something like Spotify or Apple Music.
Itās a problem I want to solve.
my playlist for this weekend is growing!
oh absolutely same, itās fucking ridiculous how hard it is to share music in any way that doesnāt immediately tie you to a streaming service your friends might not have. Iād really like a web service thatād take a Spotify/Apple Music/whatever share link or a song or album title and output a link to a page thatād just link that songās data on MusicBrainz and have a bunch of buttons to listen to it on whatever service or the best match on YouTube. Iāve been tempted so many times to create this
exactly that is one of the properties I want to have in my thing, yeah
(what fucking sucks is that Last.fm also used to fill this niche, before they too ramped up on being fucking databroker)
(christ I miss the internet of 10~15y ago)
Songwhip kinda does that, but you need to start with a song or artist or album name, it canāt convert specific Spotify URLs. And it doesnāt link MusicBrainz for some reason.
Also itās closed-source so I have no real idea what happens behind the scenes.
some more:
Redhook - Bad Decisions
https://kutiman.bandcamp.com/album/kutiman-feat-melike-ahin-sakla-beni-ep
https://mrspiss.bandcamp.com/album/self-surgery (<- very cool collab album)
Some rather wonderful synth work: https://schlindwein.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-the-sky-solo-synth-works (I have the accompanying moon orb print thingy)
All of this but especially track 2 which makes a remarkably accurate audio representation of what medicating adhd feels like: https://circadianrhythmsrecs.bandcamp.com/album/marwa
https://badafrorecords.bandcamp.com/album/our-days-mind-the-tyme whole album for the feel of it in aggregate. I stumbled across it by hearing track 10 first
A number of things by Silversun Pickups (Panic Switch, all of Swoon, Lazy Eye)
White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground, To Lose My Life
Kontrust - End Of The World
I like recommending slightly obscure stuff to give it a bit more exposure.
Crushes Bones, especially their song Nightshade Drips is a real banger.
Alternative rock band from California, but one of the main people behind the project is the creator or a super obscure but really cool and well-made ARG called House of Aberdeen from a few years back that has since been deleted. I donāt like most ARGs but I really enjoyed that one and was sad when it was all deleted, and then I found out sheās making music now.
Completely different, but the album Haunted by Poe, sister of author Mark Danielewski, is cool. Itās meant as an accompanying piece to his novel House of Leaves, which I recently read again.
Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, TelefĆs). His solo album Black River Falls is beautiful (The Ghost of Limehouse Cut, Black River Falls, Frankfurt Cowboy Yodel)ā¦ To say nothing of Microdisney or the Fatima Mansions.
Actually one of the songs on his last album with TelefĆs was a mockery of TESCREAL beliefs. Space Is Us: āI will live forever in those racks of tinā
Fish in a Birdcage just released Rule #34 (it is indeed about sex) and Rule #35, Rule #4 (also titled Fish in a Birdcage) is his most famous and Rule #13 is also very good.
oh also, since it may be of benefit to you: I did this a few years back too. attempted to get my play history out. that turned out to be a mess, and definitely missed some shit in the export.
then I started looking at what option I had for starting to seed that into something else, and, fuck me. apple music desktop app? no fucking API exposed for search on the streaming half of the app. all the ex-itunes/local shit? plenty hooks. āApple Musicā side? nope.
you have to go get a fucking developer key to be able to hit the Apple Music API to be able to do that. (or to go use a āfree serviceā which handily gives people access to your full fucking library and thus allows them to mine it, and no fucking way go fuck yourselves thank you)
itās fucking mental
exactly! I took this opportunity to start over from scratch (which is why Iām seeking recommendations) with Bandcamp and a pile of automatically organized and tagged FLACs in storage for when Bandcamp enshittifies (coming soon!), and YouTube Music on a friendās account if I get truly desperate for a shitty recommendation engine
of all these options, the automatically managed pile of FLACs have by far the best API, because you choose what it is (and thereās some very good options even for streaming them to your own devices)
maybe youāll find this useful for recommendations https://www.gnoosic.com/
Ricardo Autobahn of Spray will soon be releasing his own album of sample-based bops. Hereās āThe Hands Of Porscheā and āThe Frequency Rangeā (which came out yesterday, and I bought it immediately). The front covers of these are particularly good. I also recommend Sprayās āThe Big Ideaā, which is ideal when you need an '80s-style pop song that goes for an hour as working music.
fuck yes Iām immediately down
in a similar vein, The Siren Is A Simple Device crossed my path recently
in the genre of video game music about robots: both The Protomen and The Megas are good
in the genre of seeing, like, some shit man: consider Dan Deacon
Aesop Rock, just, in general
sometimes you want McDonaldās and anybody who has a problem with that is a weirdo and what Iām saying is Pitbull is my McDonaldās