Thraed of Skrillex

that substack article : someone has a massive chip on their shoulder, and hates fun.

for all the chaos re skrillex, he makes grooves that is fun.
my eldest lad has always been properly into the dubstep scene,
goes to nights that are all about 140 and knows stuff.
he saw a skrillex dj set a few years back and loved every minute of it.
'it was all massive drops and brostep, but damn, he has skills' is how he put it.

in other news : looks like there will be physical options for the new albums

https://store.warnermusic.com/en/search/?q=quest+for+fire&search-button=&lang=en_US&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skrillex.com%2F

that was kind of my take as well

oh, and i realise this is not exactly the same,

but this was the lil dicky thing i was on about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF14wUr4GKE

i.e. the minimal to'ing and fro'ing between them both and the use of autotune ..

crap,
i posted a version that has a long speech in the middle that the original tv show didn't.

I think you're probably right, same 'playing around with saying stuff through auto-tune over a pretty backing track' vibe.

First time Skrillex listener. Trying Quest for Fire rn. These "songs" are awfully short. There are a lot of ideas packed into a few minutes, and the pace can feel frenetic. Would be nice to let some of these tracks breathe a bit.

skrillex is machine tooled for party kids who need something new to happen at least every four measures. tiesto has been doing shorter club tracks with charli xcx, black eyed peas, etc., on the same tip. i used to grumble about this trend because i love getting lost in a groove and because sometimes i need an extra minute or two to find what to play next, but the lack of dead time in these sub-3-minute blasts really helps when you're trying to energize a dance floor.

I've had "Butterflies" with Four Tet constantly on repeat since it dropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PEe6TP1kCc

holy crap - just saw some recent photos of Sonny Moore and he looks way different since he's cut his hair. Looks almost like Shia LeBeouf and it's freakin me out

https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Skrillex-2022-cr-Marilyn-Hue-billboard-1548.jpg

in the video I posted you can see he still has the same hair, it's just tied back

incidentally I bet the clip mark e mentioned is after 38:00 in this video of the three of them DJing in a bus in Times Square

Ah yeah I see that now, but perhaps it's the facial hair and coupled with him tying it back now. Also the eyes are strikingly similar too - and this was obscured by Sonny's previous use of the thick rimmed glasses. Apparently Shia has long hair too now?

https://i.imgur.com/VQGk3lg.jpg

His DJ presence is just so different now with this look than back in the day when his boyish looks with his hair down exuded this enthusiasm and giddiness. I guess I'm just expressing a personal bias against his current look, as it reminds me of someone who is way douchier, which is shitty, so I'll shuffle off now...

his boyish looks with his hair down exuded this enthusiasm

he's 35 years old, grinning, jumping up & down and dancing on top of the decks in his shorts, waving and cheering his collaborators, doing call-and-response moves with the crowd... plenty of boyish enthusiasm on display imo :)

anything over age 30 is decrepit iirc

This is an excellent album.

https://i.ibb.co/Snz4srT/george-santos2-640x480-49636597.jpg

"I said boy-ish."

never thought I would enjoy a skrillex album but... fun so far