Mvuent’s Bad Boy Bashment Bonanza

electric

in the 2000s/early 2010s these completely steady, fade-into-the-background hi hats were still really common. this combined with the overall flatness creates a sense of smooth motion: driving music. bouncy yet still not a million miles from kraftwerk or neu.


here there’s no steady thread. samples tumbling around the stereo field.


this one sounds like it was made with random default samples on fl studio.

the hi hats here are weirdly loud, they sound like the repetitive chatter of some kind of insect you’d hear in the bushes in the summer.

like in the first one his voice sort fades in and out of being noticeably autotuned. a cyborg that only looks artificial in certain lighting.


more pre-2010s flat, straight-line motion. here it’s a military march.

not a cyborg, but no regular human either. the idea of this stuff having a mythological quality, maybe starting to make sense?


pulled out of the past into the present again. 3D and cascading.

sudden reverb at 0:55. a second wtf vocal moment at 1:27.

in planescape torment there’s a character who’s face will bubble or go through other grotesque transformations periodically while he’s talking. some of these vocal mutations or changes in inflection remind me of that.

sounds in the periphery are similarly malleable.

So much of this stuff sounds fucking awful

like what i've heard so far a lot more than i thought i would. (not in the sense of expecting it to be bad, just that i thought i wouldn't get anything out of any of it.) the OP is great btw.

we should definitely drag someone else into writing about a few of these though.

the order of those first five is cool because it shows how much production aesthetics have changed in the 2010s. i used to think it was just a matter of more "polish" but it's a lot more interesting than that. a deeper change, potentially.

luka said:

So much of this stuff sounds fucking awful

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There's these periods of absolute shitness music goes through. Like London in the road rap years. Where you think, wtf was going on here? Everyone loses their aesthetic compass

Like all the stars are out of alignment. No one can get their bearings. No one is grounded.

Like some planetary sickness has taken hold

mvuent said:

the order of those first five is cool because it shows how much production aesthetics have changed in the 2010s. i used to think it was just a matter of more "polish" but it's a lot more interesting than that. a deeper change, potentially.

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I think you're getting at the same thing? Why do we get these aesthically out of kilter periods where everything sounds tacky and cheap? It's possible to celebrate it and enjoy it. People loved the kitsch and the tackiness of dipset and heatmakers for instance. But what's it about? Not necessarily a bad thing. It's a wanton rejection of 'good taste' of 'proportion' of 'restraint'

Like what Barty was talking about earlier. Give me the collagen lips silicon tits cocaine Las Vegas plastic pyramids

When you want to eat six packets of salt and vinegar squares

I don't want what's 'good for me' it's that isn't it! Give me the dirtiest nastiest rubbish and I will revel In it