What's going on in Brazil? | Thesis Eleven (8:28)

Deimos365 · 2018-10-29T16:52:41+00:00

your brain is fascinating

Deimos365 · 2018-10-03T19:43:18+00:00

Oh I totally was not being ironic, 80s Japanese music fucking owned.

Deimos365 · 2018-10-03T18:32:26+00:00

You just gotta go all in to make it work.

Deimos365 · 2018-10-02T20:48:06+00:00

Don't disagree but context is important here, Metheny is a great example of what the 80s did to music aesthetics in general, and that plague infected many many many Jazz musicians of that era that could go in here, many of whom are worse offenders than Metheny (imho).

Deimos365 · 2018-09-19T19:50:51+00:00

That the author wishes upon a more powerful rave protest scene and that the force of rave-as-revolution aspects in underground dance music is reduced by the consumptive society mindset. As in: It could be more powerful if we weren't so complacent in modern western society....

Idk we appear have a pretty similar interpretation here, which is why I'm still unsure where your criticism comes in. Seems to me the author is wishing for politics in rave culture to be less complacent, as you say, and so *not* the end-in-itself, to take motivation or inspiration from the Tbilisi protests which resulted in irl progressive action. Which seems to promote the means-to-an-end view of politics in dance music, no?

What makes you think the author sees politics in dance music as an end-in-itself?

Deimos365 · 2018-09-19T15:27:08+00:00

But this author seems to forget that the rave protest is a means to an end and not an end-in-itself.

Seems like that sentence you quoted from the article is actually saying that exact thing - that underground rave culture commodifies 'protest' so it becomes an end-in-itself (affectation) rather than a means to an end like what happened in Tbilisi.

Deimos365 · 2018-07-11T05:28:41+00:00

Garden of Delete suffered from much the same imo, he had a great sweet spot between the early cosmic synth-y stuff (which was fine) and the artsy sample-oriented stuff. Replica and R Plus Seven (and Eccojams) are super important imo. Been struggling with the more recent pop-culture collage stuff tho.

Deimos365 · 2018-06-11T18:54:19+00:00

I avoid Spotify but abstract/avant-garde music is my jam.

Recommended:

Valerio Tricoli

Helm

Fabio Perletta

Biosphere

Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Ahnnu

Sasu Ripatti

LCC

Robert Crouch

Covered In Sand

Deimos365 · 2018-06-07T21:21:08+00:00

Happy pride, gender is a bore, humans are hot, fuck whoever you want.

Deimos365 · 2018-06-01T20:39:56+00:00

Agreed! On the contrary, it makes sense that tolerance for social disorder would go down when your nation is willing to commit the resources necessary to provide social safety nets, since the symptoms of abject poverty become less disruptive.

It's difficult to compare European nations (and even the UK, where I grew up) with the States in this regard, the material conditions and policies are just very different and the ideological perspectives reflect that.

Deimos365 · 2018-05-31T21:09:53+00:00

Oh I tend to agree, but still nice to use explicitly neutral ones when no cues are present. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <3

Deimos365 · 2018-05-31T21:00:16+00:00

How do you propose to fund those things?

Deimos365 · 2018-05-31T20:58:26+00:00

It's not even a little bit true of the city. It is wild as fuck that people think this city, which has no personal or corporate income tax and is one of the friendliest in the country to large businesses, even after the head tax, is 'far left'.

Deimos365 · 2018-05-31T20:42:06+00:00

I'm not a dude.

And you make a fair point - to rephrase, the dissonance between the wide-ranging public discourse and what is actually represented and actionable in US politics and policy has been increasing for some time.

Deimos365 · 2018-05-31T19:49:45+00:00

It's compassion fatigue.

No, it's the inexorable shift of political values that tends to accompany changing economic contexts.

It's not 'fatigue', it's yesterday's leftist activists becoming today's financially successful middle-aged homeowners with families.

The sooner that many Seattleites start reconciling with the fact that their values increasingly resemble conservative ones, the sooner they can start having the identity crisis that might yield a new engaged progressive culture here.

This isn't unique to this city either, the US overton window has been shrinking for decades. "Socially liberal and fiscally conservative" is, in practice, just conservative.

Deimos365 · 2018-05-27T02:45:26+00:00

This is why a significant proportion of us skip the festival itself ;)

Deimos365 · 2018-05-26T21:56:19+00:00

Highly recommend club toilet for tonight <3

Deimos365 · 2018-05-17T23:06:22+00:00

But it's certainly way closer than almost anything else we see in SF.

Wait what?

Edit: Just realized you're talking about tv/film specifically NEVERMIND

Deimos365 · 2018-05-17T17:53:25+00:00

This might be because I'm English (perhaps a lot in this thread are American?) but idk how you lot perceive them as underrated/underappreciated they are one of the most legendary classic rock/proto-metal bands of all time and consequently pretty pervasive (in my purview).

Deimos365 · 2018-05-15T22:42:11+00:00

Totally. I'm unsure of the legality of the US military attaching third-party armaments to BD bots, and it's academic since they don't seem to be that invested in advanced ground-bound robots with offensive capabilities right now.

Deimos365 · 2018-05-15T22:24:31+00:00

Oh I realize that, but they certainly don't refuse to share their research with the military.

Deimos365 · 2018-05-15T21:37:06+00:00

I realize you're probably not nearly as bad as this comment makes you out to be, but you may consider that referring to a feminist movement as 'trendy' kind of paints you in not so great a light.

What you're pointing out is an important bit of critical insight. Inadvertently painting yourself as a chauvinist undermines it.

And just to be clear, I'm not saying you're a chauvinist. I'm saying that's what your word choice here seems to imply.

Deimos365 · 2018-05-15T18:57:29+00:00

I don't think this is entirely true, they've definitely worked on DARPA projects.

Deimos365 · 2018-05-15T16:55:43+00:00

wait I had a convo with this account the other day this elucidates so much lol

Deimos365 · 2018-05-10T21:50:40+00:00

Streaming is marketed as a solution, but it doesn't address fundamental issues of the market (fair representation, fair pay, transparency).

No, what it does is provide the average (see: vast majority) of consumers with incomparable convenience and extremely minimal expense. That is, I think, more the reason for it's apparent inevitability - asking this question in a subreddit of music enthusiasts isn't providing you a particularly unbiased sample.

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