my favourite from their back catalogue is heavy black heart which is probably the peak of vaporwave as a genre, though they put out a ridiculous amount of material exclusively via their mixtape club which i haven't kept up with at all
― ufo, Thursday, 23 June 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
yea it's great and I hope it gets a reissue soon
idk how many people can really keep up with the mixtape stuff but Faith in Persona is particularly good. I mean really it's just Keith Rankin solo and spiritually it should be considered the next Giant Claw album but I think they just do everything through the dds umbrella now. whatever. it's great. Transcendence Bot is also great if you like head-in-the-clouds dds
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 June 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
faith in persona is one that actually did get a wider release but i need to go back to it because it didn't stick with me at the time
― ufo, Thursday, 23 June 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
Hm, this doesn't do it for me at all.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 23 June 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Eyi-zWQZo
― ufo, Friday, 24 June 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
https://cyberdream.bandcamp.com/track/this-time
― calstars, Friday, 24 June 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
Would be remiss of me to not mention the new Stabscotch here too, given it'll likely be my aoty
https://urradioangel.bandcamp.com/album/prison-jar
― imago, Friday, 24 June 2022 06:34 (one year ago) link
Hey all, I have a semi-urgent matter that needs mod attention. If a mod sees this, would you please email me? Or alternatively, does anyone know how to get in touch with a mod?
― J. Sam, Friday, 24 June 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
Mod request
^^reply here, u will be dealt with and bladee will call off the solicitors
― imago, Friday, 24 June 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
lol thanks!
― J. Sam, Friday, 24 June 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
wow at that dds track
enjoying p much everything posted recently but especially the stabscotch
― nxd, Friday, 1 July 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
https://eljenvaporworks.bandcamp.com/album/--70
― calstars, Saturday, 2 July 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
for those that enjoyed ran cap duoi last year, this was a good read
https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/vietnamese-experimental-scene-report
― nxd, Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
basically all the new music i hear these days comes from rym's "featured reviews"
it's kinda weird... maybe worth considering? like i don't want to start another thread on 4chan, i've never been on 4chan and i wouldn't touch it with a pole even if i still had one, but at the same time a lot of rym culture does feed from /mu/. it's a secondary source, a _filter_ for /mu/. and what it filters out of course is a huge chunk of the toxicity. i don't, i guess, i don't _get_ wet leg.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 July 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
RYM is cool, v much worth using it to discover new music (as I do). Don't go for featured reviews though, go for yearly charts, which you can customise in all sorts of ways
― imago, Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
Toxicity tends to meet with resistance on RYM
oh when i was in my peak music binge era, circa 2018, i lived off rym's charts and lists. the lists are a great resource - i find an obscure weird album, see what lists it's on, and go see what else is on those lists. i just literally haven't had time for music. there was _one_ message board, too, where people just posted new albums that had very few reviews - that was my go-to thread. the rest of the boards, though, them i didn't click with.
and yeah the mods there, they're good mods, they don't put up with any 4chan shit there. you can still see it in the way that the hyped transfem records... like, folks there don't dig on 100 gecs or tami t or nothing like that. it's all dysphoria gang over there as far as i can tell.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Oh of course, you do all those reviews lol. When nobody else rode for that Dissociatives album, one alone stood to represent
― imago, Thursday, 21 July 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
most of my rym reviews are from my/rym's shitpost era, one of the things i _really_ love is that they've gone through the effort to unpublish my crappy meme reviews that don't meet their current review standards so that nobody has to see that crap anymore. writing shitty record reviews in the late '00s definitely helped me a lot as far as becoming a better writer.
i do love the dissociatives record, but then again i'm a sucker for anything with mellotron on it :)
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 July 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
Oh I love it too lol, it has some of the greatest cod-psych excess ever recorded. Second and second-last tracks especially never leave my head.
RYM DOES unpublish pretty readily, doesn't it? I've had a few of my own one-liners zapped. The fact they have any standards at all is a great positive, even if they let some fairly dubious stuff survive (probably because people don't care enough to flag it up)
― imago, Thursday, 21 July 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
lol those are my best reviews
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
Always curious about their unpublishing policy. Still far too many joke one-line reviews with +35 likes at the top for my liking :((
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 25 July 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
that wu-lu is quite something
― nxd, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2T963FYU0
announce the album already!
― ufo, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 05:45 (one year ago) link
so excited for this album
― nxd, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
this is so good!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
https://www.100percentelectronica.com/collections/deaths-dynamic-shroud-darklife/products/deaths-dynamic-shroud-darklife-cd-pre-order
it is announced
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
it gives me a sense of ENORMOUS well-being
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FX--cgEWQAAlE3r?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Sunday, 14 August 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
It’s been a while since I’ve had that surefire “this’ll be AOTY” feeling
― frogbs, Sunday, 14 August 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
yeah i’m with map, really don’t get the enthusiasm for this.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Monday, 22 August 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
ftr i wasn't commenting on any music specifically, it was just a badly considered general meme shitpost
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Monday, 22 August 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
honestly "Neon Memories" is the first thing I've heard that sounds like what I imagined pop in 2022 would have sounded like back in 1997
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
Okay I listened to Neon Memories on my studio monitors and it’s pretty great, not exactly my cuppa but I was into it! sorry for doubting, I just didn’t remember liking any of the stuff from the new one
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
just sounds like "Life in a Northern Town" with glitch to me
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 05:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xlUgAalQ7I
― ufo, Thursday, 25 August 2022 05:14 (one year ago) link
loving this album
― nxd, Thursday, 25 August 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
Oh, that's cool! She seems to be getting more bonkers every time I dip into her stuff.
― emil.y, Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
the whole 4s4ki album (killer in neverland) is great, i think it's her best yet
― ufo, Friday, 26 August 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
oooh, this opening track is supremely promising
― imago, Friday, 26 August 2022 07:54 (one year ago) link
gr8 album
― imago, Friday, 26 August 2022 08:30 (one year ago) link
new fievel is glaque ("go down softly" is new, i'm pretty sure i've heard "the river" already). more like fievel is yacht, amirite?
https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/go-down-softly-the-river
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 September 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPNcSUqM9Cw
― calstars, Saturday, 3 September 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
Math rock/YouTube shred guys collab w Asian-American pop/R&B singer - bizarro-world Autotuned English-Japanese shred-pop. Over 2M views in 12 days. Imago not a fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtd24QIBJ5Y
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
dds album is pretty good but definitely longer than it needs to be & not every track really works
― ufo, Thursday, 22 September 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
counterpoint: this is an overwhelming but fantastic first listen, suspect it will only deepen with more. clearly a major achievement
― imago, Friday, 23 September 2022 10:39 (one year ago) link
it's almost there but "fade persona" is a dud for one
― ufo, Friday, 23 September 2022 10:53 (one year ago) link
noooooooo
― imago, Friday, 23 September 2022 11:02 (one year ago) link
i will have my kitsch glitch-goth
― imago, Friday, 23 September 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
RYM going gaga over this at the moment. glad to hear it's living up to expectations but I'm gonna be a doofus and wait until the record arrives
― frogbs, Friday, 23 September 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link