What are you listening to?

Frenchcore in 3/4 is strange, but Sefa always delivers, this is fucking awesome :smiling_face_with_tear::face_holding_back_tears::sob:

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Does anyone know this guy?

I just found his music while looking up Reaktor block development tutorials and it’s probably some of the best modular IDM I’ve heard in my entire life

This is face-meltingly good shit

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Love Good Tiger and this album! Seen them live here in Spokane a few times. This album is one of my favorite summer jams for driving and longboarding.

At one of the shows they opened for Tesseract, and Good Tiger’s vocalist was a stand-in vocalist for Tesseract, who were between Ash O’Hara and Daniel Tompkins as lead vocals at the time. (that was the first time i had seen or heard of Tesseract)

He does a really good job with Good Tiger, but he just didn’t quite fit the vibe of Tesseract, and I think the whole crowd was just not into it, and you could see the disappointment on the bands faces… I remember feeling really bad, and still tried to move and groove to show support. Seen Tesseract since with Daniel Tompkins and its a whole different experience.

Fuck me… do I ever shut the fuck up? lol

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Oh shit!! First thirty seconds i’m getting major BTBAM vibes. I’ll have to listen to the rest of this.

  • EDIT: And somehow mixed with Dimmu Borgir
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Hell yeah! I love finding random gems! Nice one, I’ve not heard of him, but am bout to go follow him.

EDIT: That Second track is giving me Hella Mr. Bill vibes

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I saw that it was you, @Mecha_Twitchy posting this, and thought, “Wow, this is certainly a big genre switch compared to what I was expecting”, and then I watched more of it… haha!

This is pretty cool though. :slight_smile: It is a really interesting combination, the big cinematic piece vs the “Frenchcore” (These genres are outside of my scope of knowledge, haha) that I wouldn’t have expected.

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I used the BETA AI playlist creator on Spotify to make this:

It’s not too shabby :psybermoji:

Haha, surprise!
Lots of tracks by Sefa and just recent frenchcore tracks in general are huge euphoric cinematics that evolve into massive anthems. Infinity is probably his best piece, I think I posted that in here once. Search up “Euphoric Hardstyle” or “Euphoric Frenchcore.” Basically hard dance but the main focus is the melody and emotion of the track, not the kicks.
I especially Sefa’s Het Ergste Moet Nog Komen album (Translates to The Worst is Yet to Come) for the trumpet pieces :wink:

This one’s got a nasty solo in it…

Come to the dark side! We have… XTC, apparently.

obsessed

Damn, that sounds like an awesome event, even with the potential clashing of styles (and register!). I’d love to find some videos of this just to see the strange configuration in action :smiley:

From Shaking the Habitual by The Knife, a standout track for me is ‘cherry on top’ - I heard the album when it came out and didn’t really gel with it, then many years and a few life experiences later, the full weight of this record just hit me like a ton of bricks, entire album start to finish highly recommended.

Maybe you just kinda have to be in the right place and time to be receptive to some of the more uncomfortable / less acessible stuff.

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For some of us, that’s just our ‘normal’ mode :sweat_smile:

Got into Tool somewhat recently (in terms of my average distance between posts here, I suppose it was only yesterday), really great music. Had some profound acid trips listening to them, and at one point while reading The Book of Lies; Tool are fans of Crowley, you see, so it seemed appropriate. I still don’t really understand what The Book of Lies actually is, and have never bothered to research it, there’s just a copy of it always on the shelf cos my flatmate reads Crowley, but the lies within do they somehow make more sense when I’m tripping. Crowley was a fiend himself, which I can relate to, I love all the drugs that aren’t crack, heroin or fentanyl. Curious to give his book, Confessions of a Drug Fiend a bash, as Crowley and esoteric stuff keeps coming to me in random places and it’s just getting weird now, so why not.

On the electronic side, I’m absolutely loving Oneohtrix Point Never. I have no dialogue or commentary to offer here as while I love his music, it’s not been as significant as Tool.

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This is great. Yeah crowley was a complete asshole. The world needs another one like him. I reference book of the law a lot. Also it pisses me off when drug dealers mix a bunch of crack in my fentanyl. Just saw OPN in SF. visuals were a diorama w/a sort of close camera thing. very cool.

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Mmm, I watched an interesting documentary about him, fascinating man. I think controversial figures can be good thing—they can have a way of forcing a wider discussion that needs to be had, that might lead to a cascade of reconciliations in their wake.

Fortunately over my side of the pond, Fentanyl isn’t really a thing. Stuff like coke is cut with speed (amphetamine sulfate), meaning I won’t die if there’s the tiniest nug too much in it that wasn’t mixed properly. I also happen to like speed; so I’m just annoyed that I’ve been scammed, really, but will happily sniff the stuff. Every now and then I’ll get a load of speed, stay up for 3 or 4 days and write loads of stuff, poems, music, philosophical inquiries, etc.—I’ve done some of my best creative work on the stuff :smiley:

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lovin it, delving into footwork juke

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Yeah man I was kidding I don’t do crack or fent lmao my bad
Who doesn’t love a little speed now and then though?

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Haha I knew you were kidding. Heard various things about how much fentanyl is used to adulterate stuff over there

I like #3
And I don’t usually like hip-hop (trap, drill, boom-bap, etc.)
Don’t mind bass/hard trap…

I know prog metal is a really hard sell if you’re not already into it, but this album is probably one of the best I’ve heard in a long time. The influences and segues are insane on this. No idea where I found it, either - I apparently stowed it away in a playlist somewhere as a bookmark to myself to check it out further. So glad I dug it back up and gave it a listen. 10/10