31 is kind of a serious age. at 30 you can be like whoops where did the time go? but at 31 it’s like… you’ve known you’re 30 for a year you don’t have excuses now
I’m really disappointed that the new pinkpantheress goes “you’re hot on fire, that’s why I’m going tonight” and not “your house on fire, that’s where I’m going tonight” because that’s a much cooler lyric
I think music is like true love. You do not have to do anything for music. You can simply show up, listen to it, and that gives it form, a place to live, an entire life to soundtrack. You do nothing, it takes nothing, yet it still washes over you and finds new life endlessly.
You see yourself in it, it illuminates all that is hidden and dormant, it provides perspective beyond experience, you grow through it, it provides depth, context, and meaning. And thus, both are irreversibly changed by the other. It’s the ultimate unconditional reciprocity.
having finally tried all elektron boxes I feel certain that the FX as sends + rollback of their philosophy re: routing and modularity was a big mistake. it made sense for the analogs given their architecture, but it should have stayed w them & has neutered their newer boxes imo.
now that I own a MnM I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to skip buying cheaper gear hoping it'll fill the same gap. it is true that nothing can replace it except maybe the octatrack. elektron's analog stuff is also very good but it's a diff palette w/ diff pros & cons
M8 is the closest modern equivalent but IMO it doesn't have nearly the depth of MnM's engine in terms of gain staging + response to level manipulation in the signal path. now that I've used it this is what makes the "MnM Sound" - the engines alone aren't really that special.
also to clarify what I mean by “bitch-made production” please tell me the vibe doesn’t get sucked out of the room soon as the verse hits. why does the piano and 303 sound like that. please channel some power ffs. I’m fr about to make a music producer equivalent of this pic
still I like the vision, Gaga seems excited which makes me excited, and I’m excited for the album esp with one of my dads (gesaffelstein) on board, but someone did not understand the assignment here. the chorus IS that good tho.
logging in bc I have thoughts on abracadabra. the chorus is sick as fuck but the song+structure itself doesn’t do it at all for me. total nothing verses and while I like the refrain it feels shoehorned as the rest of the track doesn’t keep up. way too much bitch-made production.
deleting this app for a while bc of next week’s events. same username on Bluesky. algorithm feels optimized to increase pointless brain noise and it’s depleting my energy.
watching the new kap bambino music video and I think maybe I’m actually pro AI when used by actually good artists. maybe what more people should be doing is making unintelligible art that is entirely fucking unusable as training data without serving as a degeneration bomb
youtu.be/zRP6ZNCB14I?si=HEYh…
if you put this video into a training dataset it would probably literally ruin it. there’s something very cool about that. it still works on an artistic level in a way I don’t think a neural net could model, it would probably just generate garbled mess.