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Haunted by Humanity/Technological abstractions of the human voice
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vigilent citizen one this is. the first verse with that glaring lisp and very early autotune adoption. playboi carti's 'baby voice' two decades before the fact.
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very, very early splashes of auto-tune on this. an acknowledgement of the incongruity between this stunningly vulnerable song and the automated instrumental
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the coupling of transhumanism with gender fluidity/transitioning is something present in both transhumanist thought and in conspiracy theories about transexuals being nwo experiments in cloning and all that.
aside from dj screw (and the stuff consciously mimicking him) these vocal transformations tend to feminise (or at least emasculate) the voice. that eno one i posted earlier in the thread, hardcore chipmunk vocals,
aside from dj screw (and the stuff consciously mimicking him) these vocal transformations tend to feminise (or at least emasculate) the voice. that eno one i posted earlier in the thread, hardcore chipmunk vocals,
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this is always magic on tape packs. witchcraft.
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it's a good trick
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that vocal sound in the jedi instrumental to me is THE sound of studentification. something you don't hear too much in golden age grime, but a real staple of the student grime revival.
on youtube i had an advert for my arch nemesis headie one over a drill instrumental with that sound.
on youtube i had an advert for my arch nemesis headie one over a drill instrumental with that sound.
auditory pareidolia
maybe stretching the concept but the phenomenon of human voices haunting “automated sound worlds” can also happen with music that technically doesn’t have any human voices in it.
the combination of reverb and muddiness make a standard 808 clap on the 2 and 4 sound like someone exhaling:
there are vocals in this but you can hear voices "in" a lot of the other sounds (especially during the last minute):
and then there's this, where the sonic building blocks are clearly not the human voice but are arranged in such a way that it sounds like speech:
almost an aural equivalent of one of those Giuseppe Arcimboldo paintings.
maybe stretching the concept but the phenomenon of human voices haunting “automated sound worlds” can also happen with music that technically doesn’t have any human voices in it.
the combination of reverb and muddiness make a standard 808 clap on the 2 and 4 sound like someone exhaling:
there are vocals in this but you can hear voices "in" a lot of the other sounds (especially during the last minute):
and then there's this, where the sonic building blocks are clearly not the human voice but are arranged in such a way that it sounds like speech:
almost an aural equivalent of one of those Giuseppe Arcimboldo paintings.
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Good point. I'm pretty sure this is all synth but you could swear it was a choir of human voices.
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there's a thread you should definitely read (if you didn't at the time), which i can't remember the name of.
in it i posited this notion that a lot of the way music communicates to us is through us subconsciously physiologically empathising with it.
so those white noise sweeps you get in lots of music these days reflect our breath for example.
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third's big thing is that 'hardcore techno' in the broadest sense should have sustained itself rather than dividing and specialising into hardcore, jungle, belgium techno etc. there was a time where you'd get sets that had stuff from belgium, the states, sheffield and london all mixed together. 4x4 in the same sets or even tracks as breakbeats and so forth.
the coalition should have sustained in his opinion. that track is a glimpse into that lost timeline. a scene of disparate oddities held together solely in the pursuit of mania.
This tune feels like that to me, like the whole lot thrown together before the divide.
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the year of midnight request line and boy better know. grime's studentification year zero.