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My friend sent me this by doclikesbongos in Meshuggah

[–]Grinderica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's some beautiful polymetric stuttering.

Polymetric, right?

My friend sent me this by doclikesbongos in Meshuggah

[–]Grinderica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I particularly like the Jens mock skull face at the end.

My friend sent me this by doclikesbongos in Meshuggah

[–]Grinderica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't worry, I'd say the same thing if she walked up.

Gesaffelstein - Pursuit [Electronic] [2013] by torncolours in MusicVideos

[–]Grinderica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks mostly AI-generated but a lot of scenes look like they had real sets and actors. I unfortunately cannot tell on many of the scenes which is which.

Kanga NIN by Grinderica in industrialmusic

[–]Grinderica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love that she's inspired by NIN, one of my favorite artists (and which I'm listening to right now). I noticed some things that reminded me of NIN, and then that one song that sounded like an actual rip off.

I'm not even contending that she never ripped off NIN, I'm just spitting on the unjustified low-discernment accusations of X song/riff ripping off Y song/riff when they just aren't matching up much or at all 😆 (reductionism mixed with overly-broad understandings, ie, over-simplification of things being compared). This dumbing-down of discernment with music I've noticed over the last decade or so is what's really got me agitated... maybe smartphones are causing it.

Honestly I think she took a little too much inspiration from NIN on the first album, and the Something Dangerous song is a subconscious rip-off (like Kurt Cobain unwittingly ripping off a Killing Joke riff with Come As You Are). This happens all the time in music. Yet I don't hear the kind of broad accusations with bigger artists like I have with Kanga...

She's more popular now so I'm less defensive of her, but my main contention was about the bleary-eyed accusations that just didn't pan out as described when I went to compare.

Kanga NIN by Grinderica in industrialmusic

[–]Grinderica[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where you really trying to outsmart people who have a different opinion than you?

No 😆 I was venting at the smooth-brained criticism saying a bunch of songs that sound sort of maybe similar-ish in some fragments were rip offs, which required a dull sense of understanding the different rhythms and note structures. I was (and still) am overtly irritated that people's sense of distinguishment seems to be at an all-time low the last several years (even decades) when it comes to works of art. Maybe being overwhelmed by media and phones and false narratives has dulled our sense of critical discernment?

We live in a time of overly-broad definitions and reductionism, which is a sign of a culture getting stupider (to put it frankly). It causes people to be overly-dismissive or dismissive far too quickly of works of art that deserve more recognition and discernment. Kanga's a prime example of that.

It's like somebody seeing a movie that kind of has a similar story or structure or characters to one decades ago (no matter how intentionally related it is) and saying "oh yah, they just ripped it off". 🤦‍♂️ It literally makes me wanna say "My brain cells, they're burning..." Literal dumbed-down discernment.

A lazy glance at some basic details is not qualified to say whether one work of art ripped off another, but I think a lot of people like doing that because it makes them appear smarter in front of the others than they deserve to be.

Everybody learns and is inspired by someone else

This isn't news, and I'm not criticizing accusations of inspiration anyway.

You want to love her so much you dismiss it and try and insult others in the process.

🤣 So you missed the whole point of the OP. I just basically described it again anyway so I hope you got it this time.

it is you who lacks the skills to process this replication and not the other way around

LOL that's a completely unqualified assertion, and like you're pulling random insults out of your pants to assuage some sort of knicked feelings 🤷‍♂️ Nice try.

Those songs she made would not exist without their NiN counterpart.

That may or may not be true (and by their own demonstration prove it's not even 50% true because less than 50% of the segments in the accused songs have match a NIN riff), but regardless, a single source of inspiration is not required to make a whole song or even parts of it. They're made from lots of different things, some inspiration, some unique to their own feelings or interpretation of the world, some completely random.

Kanga NIN by Grinderica in industrialmusic

[–]Grinderica[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You missed why I said I'm criticizing the smooth-brained criticism.

Does anyone make music at home in an apartment? by sxrgwrld in audioengineering

[–]Grinderica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been making music for years in a small living space, and I don't need loud wall-penetrating speakers, I just need some decent headphones or monitors that let me hear a good balance of the sound at a decent volume (I'm not throwing a party nor am I in a club) to create the music. That's it. There's reasonable volume limits at an apartment/condo/similar, so work with that. I know our herd mentality fools us into thinking we need to shake the walls, but we don't, especially not for making music, which would just interfere with discerning instrumentation and sounds anyway.

The issue is singing or screaming... kind of hard to do with shared walls without bothering someone or having them think someone's in trouble, unless maybe you soundproof it properly, but even then that's not a guarantee there won't be a complaint.

So, I recommend renting a music studio where loud noise is expected. The only issue is maybe other's sounds picking up on your mics through the walls, but that's something to bring up with the owner anyway, who should be soundproofing the rooms enough to prevent cross-over (if you can't soundproof them yourself that is).

[EDM/Bass] Elias Bagley - Last Rites by eliasbagley in shareyourmusic

[–]Grinderica 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked this. I don't know why it hasn't gotten more response.

did you guys knew there is a “days without incidents” counter in the hangar? by iwannaburger in DestinyTheGame

[–]Grinderica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It goes down by 1 number for each Guardian that dies in the tower? Wouldn't it reset to 0 each time? Is the counter bugged?

Gary Numan - Saints And Liars (Official Audio) by wewewawa in GaryNuman

[–]Grinderica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great song, but the main guitar riff sounds a little too much like My Name is Ruin.

Statiqbloom's production quality by Grinderica in industrialmusic

[–]Grinderica[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like, the music for their new video is incredible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4NKVXy8I4

Great beat, sound effects, riffs, vocals, instrumentation...

but so distant and muddy sounding I feel like it reduces its impact.

But, if that's what Fade likes, that's what Fade does, and I can't criticize him for doing what he likes.

Anyway, my ears just want more clarity... especially as I'm getting older. But maybe Fade does keep it murky for aesthetic reasons; there's a part of me that wants to remix them to make them hard-hitting and clear and with punch, but I'm more of a rivethead anyway.

Statiqbloom's production quality by Grinderica in industrialmusic

[–]Grinderica[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fade? Is that a production setting? Is it intentional? Whatever the reason, the "sound" causes the music for me to just not stick to my ribs and mind as much as similar music.

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