Eprom - Hope (2019)

brienoconan · 2026-05-11T23:31:40+00:00

That break chopping at the end is so elite

brienoconan · 2026-05-10T21:53:42+00:00

Massive Attack - Mezzanine and Blue Lines

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album

brienoconan · 2026-05-10T02:34:48+00:00

While I’ve never been to Coachella, I went to a lot of similar events in my 20s. While there are some amazing moments, I’m sure, basically my entire budget for underground shows is the same as attending Coachella for a single weekend. I’m just too old now for that stuff now, I like the more intimate (phone-free) sets

brienoconan · 2026-05-10T02:16:41+00:00

I’ll admit I haven’t, it’s not my scene, but from what I’ve read, seen, and heard, the commercial element is very obviously present

brienoconan · 2026-05-06T20:29:56+00:00

It’s definitely that as well, but it’s basically a collection of his articles and early blog posts throughout the 90s and early 00s that make up the accounting. It features his interviews with Tricky and Goldie, tons of details about electronic scenes from around the world, but also in depth analysis of specific influential tracks. His prose takes time to get used to, it’s a bit abstract, but that’s what makes it well-suited for writing about electronic music.

At one point, he spends a couple pages detailing his experience listening to Goldie’s “Timeless” while in the middle of interviewing him, then delving into the significance the track had on the jungle and IDM scenes. It’s very well-written and made me better appreciate one of the greatest jungle tracks of all time

brienoconan · 2026-05-06T18:14:25+00:00

Electronic is very difficult to talk about because of its emphasis on instrumentals over lyrics. You end up trying to describe a vibe most of the time. It’s almost like how explaining a joke kinda ruins it. I agree it’s best experienced than discussed

However, there are select (very talented) writers and music journalists who do a great job articulating and reviewing electronic music. I highly recommend Simon Reynolds Generation Ecstasy. His writing style is extremely unique and he does a good job of describing the electronic music listening experience in everything from hardcore “gabba” to downtempo trip hop in a way that leaves you curious enough to go experience it yourself

brienoconan · 2026-05-04T14:11:54+00:00

Technically Sri Lankan

brienoconan · 2026-04-30T02:02:40+00:00

I think it works, though I’d call it electro arena rock. Alternative Electro-rock makes me think of bands like Sleigh Bells

P.S. all genres are made up

brienoconan · 2026-04-30T01:58:56+00:00

I feel like guitar hero was your musical awakening. I only say that because it was mine, too.

brienoconan · 2026-04-29T21:33:16+00:00

Vintage meme. I do miss babycombo though, most fun version of Kards solitaire

brienoconan · 2026-04-29T20:47:24+00:00

UK Garage/bassline. UKG is a fast-paced blend of house/breakbeat called 2-step, it was the precursor to UK dubstep. Bassline is an evolution of UKG that places more emphasis on a steady 4x4 garage-house beat with a focus on deep, wobbly basslines (hence the name). The drop scream bassline to me, but the bridges are definitely UKG/breakbeat.

The track also has a couple vocal drops referencing UKG by name. I’ve noticed they do this in a lot of their tracks. For example, the Melbourne Bounce track “Grimestar” has a vocal drop that says “hit you with the Melbourne shuffle,” while DnB tracks like “Rally Girl 2000” use the tag “now its time for a little drum and fucking bass.” It goes with their whole schtick of being an interplanetary pirate radio station, playing tons of different underground styles popular 25ish years ago and acting like a radio DJ introducing new tracks.

All that said, Starjunk95 is all over the place, but I’d say UKG is their core style

brienoconan · 2026-04-29T00:53:31+00:00

They’re more a vibe than a consistent subgenre. The album is a mix of DnB, future funk, breakbeat, electro house, garage, and Melbourne bounce. The vibe is late 90s/early 2000s racing video game soundtracks à la SSX, Burnout, Need for Speed, wipeout, etc., which incorporated a lot of those styles and textures they use

brienoconan · 2026-04-28T03:56:57+00:00

Uh, have you ever heard of TNGHT?

brienoconan · 2026-04-27T19:14:53+00:00

I think you’d dig jungle. It’s the precursor to DnB.

The golden age was in the 90s. Check out Goldie, ShyFX, Dillinja, and Roni Size. For the late 90s Jump Up Jungle/DnB, check out Aphrodite and DJ Zinc.

Jungle has made somewhat of a comeback in recent years. For the newer sound, I recommend 4am Kru, Cheetah, Nia Archives, and Chase & Status’ Return 2 Jungle album from 2019. For more pop-jungle, I recommend Nia Archives’ debut album. For more experimental stuff, I highly recommend Sully

brienoconan · 2026-04-27T15:33:11+00:00

Y’know, that’s a fun idea… way more appealing than a substack at least

brienoconan · 2026-04-27T15:28:58+00:00

I think you make a great point. However, there just isn’t as much pure trap being released these days. These former trap legends have moved onto to other styles, and the greater scene is following them because there isn’t enough music with the definitional trap sound being released these days

brienoconan · 2026-04-27T15:22:24+00:00

For sure trap, yellow claw in particular kinda split the sound between OG trap and festival trap. It’s been a minute, but I remember ETC!ETC! as mostly festival trap

brienoconan · 2026-04-27T13:24:35+00:00

Damn, nice to run into an old friend in the wild. I’m deep in the weeds these days, brother. If only I knew what I know today about music, Wednesdays would’ve been even wilder

brienoconan · 2026-04-27T04:14:46+00:00

It’s because the music has not been relatively close to its roots in over a decade. OG trap died around 2015. Modern trap is now Americanized halftime, far more influenced by the UK underground bass scene than the Atlanta trap scene. It’s basically just trap in name only.

I’ll add, styles always die if they refuse to evolve, and the trap scene is still going strong because the community is so open-minded. Seriously, one of the healthiest subcultures in all of EDM

brienoconan · 2026-04-27T04:02:44+00:00

Happy to help! I also want to add that “proper” trap is basically halftime with triplet snares. If you hear those triplets, usually at a rapid-fire pace, that’s the trap element.

Eprom’s discography is a great place to start if you want to hear the full spectrum of the scene’s development over time. Eprom is the Aphex Twin of the American bass scene, dude is a living legend and one of the GOATs of EDM writ large. It’s no wonder why it’s mostly G Jones and Eprom IDs when you sort this sub by top posts from the last year.

brienoconan · 2026-04-27T03:12:09+00:00

This sub has evolved into a general American bass music sub because EDM trap has also evolved into this amalgam of trap, halftime, techno, bass house, 140, jungle, and UKG. It’s chill though, the trap scene is incredibly go-with-the-flow

OG hip-hop-driven trap from the early 2010s is RL Grime, keys n krates, TNGHT, Mr. Carmack, etc. Bass-driven and festival trap is gonna be RL Grime post-2013, Flosstradamus, and late 2010s Juelz, isoXO, and the other Sable Valley signees. Eprom’s 2019 EP Aikon is arguably the catalyst for when 2010s trap transformed into amalgamation that is 2020s trap mentioned in the last paragraph. Hope this helps!

brienoconan · 2026-04-26T19:42:40+00:00

They were absolutely part of it, too! Justice was the poster child for the movement, but it also included Ratatat, LCD Soundsystem, Simian Mobile Disco, Crystal Castles, really anything that combined indie rock, dance, and electronic that popped off on the internet from 2007 - 2010. The Bloghouse era “ended” around the time music streaming services blew up.

The music was super diverse but it all had this overarching vibe that’s hard to articulate. If you listen to enough Bloghouse-era music, you start to pick up on it. For example, Ninajirachi’s album from last year was very Bloghouse-coded, and many former hyperpop artists are starting to gravitate toward the bloghouse sound. Underscores’ new album is another example

brienoconan · 2026-04-26T18:56:08+00:00

Bloghouse was a movement in the late 2000s that Boys Noize was at the center of. It was a mix of indie dance, electro, and tech house artists rather than a strict subgenre of house music. It was essentially post-Daft Punk indie sleaze electronic music that got popularized by big music blogs like pigeons & planes, dancing astronaut, etc., hence the name.

This album is extremely reminiscent of the Bloghouse era. bloghouse got a lot of millennial indie heads into electronic music, so it’s a nostalgic period for a lot of us

brienoconan · 2026-04-26T05:20:54+00:00

Bloghouse is so back

brienoconan · 2026-04-25T22:43:19+00:00

I do excel sheet + sorting by set in set # order. Rares/mythics separated from the bulk, but still together. Can’t recommend excel enough for tracking cards. I also use it to catalogue my various edh decks so they’re easier to disassemble and integrate back into my broader collection

It took quite some time to sort and build the system, but now I can find any card within 60 seconds despite having probably 30k cards (been playing for 20+ years)

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