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what's this thread about? well, it's not meant to be a catalogue of faces styled in bygone fashion, nor of faces that have themselves gone "out of style" (as alan moore put it in watchmen), nor even of faces visibly affected by now-defunct living conditions (lead plates, constant secondhand...

just remembered this urgent line of inquiry yesterday while i was waiting at the dmv. basically, when visiting the uk a couple months ago, i was quite struck by how about 30% of the people i saw in central london all followed the exact same dress code, consisting simply of a blue dress shirt...

i'm going to london for a few days. unlike beiser i don't know steve jobbs. but i definitely will get to meet the Main Characters: luka, sadmanbarty, woops if his wanderings take him back to this world? sine wave lad wekt? shiels? sufi...? also if anyone is willing to let me stay at their place...

He had been dreaming. It was the Age of Discovery. He had disembarked in Acapulco. There were lucid categories of things. He rummaged in the marginalia. He conquered his fear of flying. He was ruthless in his pursuit of the smallest competitive advantage. The parrots kept materialising out the...

do you ever get frustrated by art/music/writing? as in, not intellectually frustrated by the creator's politics or whatever, but frustrated by the art itself in a very visceral, experiential sense? frustrated that you can't "resolve" it, make its details cohere into a satisfying—or at least...

spider ! https://www.discogs.com/master/983174-The-Spider-Help

about half of all the electronic music made during the last 50 years was ambient. obviously i made that up but the point is that if you take ambient not in the brian eno sense, but as a catchall label for the billions of hours of harmonious floaty synth music people have recorded from the 70s to...

djs in the hardcore continuum and adjacent genres tend to fuck with the raw materials a lot. tracks get scratched over, brazenly stacked on top of one other, faded in and out either smoothly or violently. this thread is about how these sorts of techniques can result in a new (or maybe...

been thinking about the implications of this lately.

rave classics volume 5

for years a single pixelated photo and a vague description were all the evidence we had of this place. but now, thanks to a massive surge in interest, we have countless hours of footage, and some idea (if not exactly a map) of the iterations/levels and deities of this moldy, humming purgatory.

other life and crowleyhead love him (i think). he's been called "the alex jones of music journalism" due to, perhaps, his confrontational and somewhat conspiratorial style. to some he's more that a mere music critic, he's a modern day folk hero. idk what he's up to now. what are we to make of...

Suspended’s thread has been a controversial success. Everyone pays it due attention. Yet the question remains: are these people--these pretentious hacks, the skeptics insist--really the inheritors of New York City’s great legacy? I can’t answer that, but I would like to point out that if it’s...

this is a stock phrase commonly used against modern (or generally “inaccessible”) art. i tend to roll my eyes when i see some would-be critic earnestly invoke it. not only is it incredibly trite, it also comes across as arrogant, suggesting the critic is confident that literally everyone who...

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another installment in the beloved yet frequently ridiculed series. guitars are encouraged, but other related forms of cacophony (experiments with distortion, feedback) are good too. no limit to obscure shit. we also want to hear dad rock and landfill indie with fresh ears.

it's dissensus canon. dannyl and i are currently reading it. so, why not have a thread for close reading and general discussion. i really want to attentively read something for once.

producers and critics alike tend to venerate the word "alien" as a descriptor in electronic music. sounds that are (ostensibly) devoid of connection to the everyday world are seen as representing the medium's greatest potential. but there's a variation on that idea that's consistently produced...

the magic, innocent childhood years; a time of all-american values and rebellious teenagers; hopelessly corny in an endearing way; yet, paradoxically, when music as we know it was invented; and when the future as we know it was invented. that's not how the 80s really were, obviously. but it...

when an artist gets more ambitious that usual, you expect them to tout the results, and critics and audiences to pay attention. but sometimes that isn't the case, and you get a deep cut instead of a defining statement. it could be because the work in question flopped, but often (and more...