Mvuent’s Bad Boy Bashment Bonanza

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mvuent

Void Dweller

military / war music again. call of duty strings. putting you in that kind of mindset.

the beat is stiff yet light and agile. springy. a cyborg about to fight a regular human. circling your opponent daring them to make a move.

aggressive but sounds like he’s having fun with it. muhammad ali’s exaggerated facial expressions.


can’t really take this one seriously.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=girlfriend voice


i see crowley made the comparison to metal.

goes from impish to genuinely pretty at the chorus, to crowley’s point about it being more musical than metal though. especially the “hmmm”.

interesting that the beat doesn’t really mirror his antics. it’s pretty standard, or at least restrained, which makes the vocals performance better and more surreal. it’s like watching the news on tv and hallucinating that the anchor turned into a demon. if it were filled with spookiness signifiers it might sound like midwest horrorcore. (i.e. not good.) going “all out” would actually make it less special, not more.


almost reminds me of dizzee sometimes in terms of emotional timbre.

his voice rising in pitch like that makes no sense, in that it’s not referencing anything about how voices normally work. a new kind of inflection. transhuman.

a different future voice introduced at 1:50. flatter, grayer, but in a futuristic way. cybotron without the 80s corniness.

a lot of bleeps in this. proving that sound world isn’t just the territory of europeans being weirdos.



again, if the music matched the vocals (specifically the lyrics here) it wouldn’t work as well. unsettlingly cheery, celebratory for a song about killing people.

funny how the most intimidating music is almost never the heaviest, most abrasive music.

like which seems more badass, that or this lmao:



flood of information at 0:25. in all of the more recent ones, and in all recent rap, you get this peripheral margin world of sounds moving alongside the foregrounded elements. i’m not sure how important it is but its definitely where a lot of weirdness sneaks in. subliminal messages.

nice change in the vocals around 1:50. a change in color.

the main voice sounds like a sun god.


this is basically just trap right? obviously its more of a dancehall beat but the similarity really hit me here. same hyperreal shininess, which even the vocals have.

approaching 2010s AE levels of reverb. when there’s this much reverb i don’t here it as simulating a space so much as an independent sound to be interpreted. to me it sounds like mist.


really like all the vocal edits in all these. the goblin voices at 0:18 are a great example of peripheral weirdness. so is the faintly wailing ghost at 0:58.

things don’t need to sound old to convey traces of the supernatural, they can sound ultra modern. if it’s haunted it’s not in a dracula way but in a nightmare at 20,000 feet way.

in this one the background becomes the foreground. kartel’s voice sounds unusually thin, muffled. contained or imprisoned rather than in command. so your attention is drawn to the reverb and constant movement around it.


triumphant but obviously not in a chariots of fire type way.

another not-quite-worldly voice. strong, boisterous yet almost swooning at times, echoing out into space. a god taking the form of some guy in the bar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0TgRy5kh_o&list=PLUauGzUG35p47MZ9Hjn1lkS87lpLa_cIw&index=19

opens with backwards sounds. backwards has certain spiritual connotations of course.

theres a pretty but almost a sickly quality to this. glowing green light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjb0YxC8dSE&list=PLUauGzUG35p47MZ9Hjn1lkS87lpLa_cIw&index=20

more flirting with metal aesthetics with the cover.

sounds different from the other two alkaline songs i’ve heard. same attention to pitch, but more stoic, almost. like he upgraded cybernetic implants to become more emotionally stable.
 
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sadmanbarty

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mvuent said:
in all of the more recent ones, and in all recent rap, you get this peripheral margin world of sounds moving alongside the foregrounded elements. i’m not sure how important it is but its definitely where a lot of weirdness sneaks in. subliminal messages.
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that's great
 
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sadmanbarty

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tommy lee's felony was one that this list made me like more. i didn't listen to it much, but in the context of all these other songs it really grew on me.

funny you should say it's sickly, because i remember it feeling like being really sleep deprived or something. not a pleasant feeling.

now it jsut sounds wicked though
 
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sadmanbarty

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mvuent said:
sounds different from the other two alkaline songs i’ve heard. same attention to pitch, but more stoic, almost. like he upgraded cybernetic implants to become more emotionally stable.
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he stopped bleaching his skin in the last couple of years. also removed these black contact lenses he used to wear (he told the press they were actual tattoos and there was some kid in new york he actually tried it and was blinded or something).
 
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mvuent

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sadmanbarty said:
he stopped bleaching his skin in the last couple of years. also removed these black contact lenses he used to wear (he told the press they were actual tattoos and there was some kid in new york he actually tried it and was blinded or something).
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damn
 
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sadmanbarty

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masicka's 'top striker' features the lyric "rifle turn on all god could a hear" which is a great king james bible type lyric.
 
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sadmanbarty

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tommy lee's 'bait' has the lyrics "fairtytale badman with cartoon ways" which is supposed to be an insult, but actually perfectly describes himself.
 
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sadmanbarty

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"blue steel gun shot a slice through face" from bait is great. "slice" is such a delicious and satisfactory word to use in that context.

similar thing with "split them head in a half with a pick axe" from deep sleep.
 
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luka

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this one's so poignantly gentle and graceful. so soft and caring. it's music that sounds like a mother's love. its unconditional.

it's like pastel sun rise at dawn. emotional and textural tenderness.

so, so, so beautiful this is. it's like a cuddle from someone who really means it.
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Sounds like a fabric softener advert that really means it!
 
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sadmanbarty

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luka said:
Sounds like a fabric softener advert that really means it!
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yes! that's brilliant! exactly what it is.

you get this stuff with kartel equating himselves with brands "drink street vybz [his brand of rum] so she high off of me]". songs about cake soap and clarks shoes. this transhuman element evolving to being sentient capital whcih you can actually see in real life happeneing with alexa, siri, companies like burger king having cheeky personably twitter profiles. the (attempted) humanisation of global capital
 
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