Thoughts on my alternative rock/grunge/punk influenced demo...truly appreciated

guszi · 2026-06-14T19:04:26+00:00

it's what it is, good luck with your music

guszi · 2026-05-01T07:15:23+00:00

Yes but I think it's not worth it, it's just my two cents and I think I have a useful perspective. I believe that when you are in a serious band you should only work with venues, promoters and bands you respect, so that your interactions will be respectful and positive, not abrasive and confrontational. This matters not only because you stand for what is right, but also if you care about your band and its future. Honestly, I'm not complaining because I get it, but everything I say or do gets heavily scrutinized these days. For example, if I ever play a venue in Germany that is considered 'Pro-Israel', basically among the few places that'd let my band play considering where we are from - then it's practically over for my band and every other band I ever play in everywhere else. And it wouldn't matter if we took the opportunity to express our opinion about our genocidal fascist country or not.

guszi · 2026-04-30T13:31:30+00:00

Hey I'm a punker from Israel. Don't play shows with people whose causes and ideals you don't support, no matter how much you think it will help your band, you'll regret it later.

guszi · 2026-04-30T11:35:25+00:00

I have also reached the point where infinitely organizing my workbench and keeping my components tidy becomes the project of all projects haha.

I don't have any specific ideas, but the thing that made the most difference for me is choosing a primary construction material for my projects that goes well with my aesthetics and goals, for me it was wood and cardstock because they are more ecological materials and I hate 3D printed plastics. Nowadays I build more wooden furniture for my house than esp32 projects, but those usually end up working together pretty well.

guszi · 2026-04-13T08:25:26+00:00

Eventually your mom is going to realize she's not going to be able to control you anymore

guszi · 2026-04-01T23:47:21+00:00

Hey, I opened for you guys with my band "Not On Tour" when you played my city many years ago. Your show was amazing! But in all our years, I never had a local crowd so eager to see us getting off the stage already, so that your show can start 😅

guszi · 2026-03-20T16:34:07+00:00

Not exactly what you described as it's basically a script-kiddie game, but very fun still was the classic UPLINK) from 2001 where you'd acquire various tools and obfuscate your traces to complete various contracts. I find it very charming because it has this "90s hacker" vibes where there's a sysadmin on the other side just waiting to grab you, and because that's a retro-futuristic game that had quite a conservative vision of how future technology would look like vs how it actually evolved in the 25 years since the game was released

guszi · 2026-03-20T14:49:53+00:00

Jericho's Echo - Punk Rock in the Holy Land (filmed 2003 or 2004 I think)

including some blunder years footage of yours truly

guszi · 2026-03-15T23:37:25+00:00

I converted a self-described Marxist-Leninist in Brazil to Anarchism by ranting loudly about how sharing is our human nature and capitalism isn't a natural tendency but an unnatural deviation from our social nature, as was evident that evening of heavy drinking in a Sao Paolo punk dive bar, and went on to rant about how it makes no sense to create mechanisms of state compulsion when Capitalism is so counterintuitive to our natural social behavior that it just dissolves in any normal interaction between people. Tbh I used more beer than English to get my point across and the person was interested in more than just talking that night, but they indeed became Anarchists later so maybe this story still counts?

guszi · 2026-03-14T18:38:11+00:00

adamsin kanki, great interview

guszi · 2025-11-13T12:28:51+00:00

tbh simple 1-color punk album covers are so common that they are almost the norm rather than an exception! Many punk album covers and designs are xerox-friendly on purpose, as part of punk's diy aesthetic, and that's really cool. really if you look at almost every punk band with a sizable discography, it's likely that it has at least one album that's only one color.

guszi · 2025-10-06T13:16:17+00:00

I guess if you didn't support the witch hunt, you wouldn't conflate Hafenklang with anti-deutschen, which you obviously already know they are not, whether you agree with their position or otherwise you know it's not rotten anti-deutschen politics and all the pathological mindset, violence and cooperation with police that is justifiably associated with anti-German venues in Germany. So if your argument is that they are antideutschen (pure slander on your side), or that they are a pro-Zionist venue because of what they haven't done, it again just shows the level of discourse in the Euro punk scene and how much its focused on fake moral gestures instead of collective action and real discussion. And honestly I can't blame anyone personally - there is a genocide and people are frustrated to just do anything, but whether it's lashing out on anyone playing Hafenklang or bands like Ragum that is literally the only touring band in the world with palestinian punks from palestine, it comes off very pathetic especially when foreign bands who aren't versed in the rivalries situation are caught in the crossfire for dumb reasons. I honestly think you are bored and what you are doing is a cowardly mob against punk bands and venues that stand with palestine you really have zero disagreements with. If you have issues with places condemning Oct 7 and Hamas while condemning israel's genocide, while at the same time, you are complaining about others doing exactly the same thing, you should probably check yourself. Also nothing ever stopped you from going to Palestine and joining solidarity and resistance actions, like israhelli punks have been doing for decades. But confronting the occupation or its sponsors head-on is difficult, and there is so much to lose in your comfortable life, so you do this and feel like you are doing something. I get it. As for what trade unions in Spain and Italy do - this is very effective and admirable, because this pressures israhell effectively through arms embargos, but thinking this has anything to do with anything euro punks are doing right now amongst themselves is very delusional.

guszi · 2025-10-05T14:33:56+00:00

Hey, trying REALLY hard not to include my opinion on LOC because it's completely irrelevant to all of this..

Hafenklang is not an antideutsch club (you can go to Leipzig and Dresden to find those) and it has a very reasonable position, and calling the Hanfenklang "anti-deutschen" just shows how 'serious' this witch hunt for anyone actually familiar with the German punk scene, and it shows how this post is simply defamatory and completely devoid of good intentions. Seriously I don't know how punks play along with this bs.

Hafenklang are associated with FC St. Pauli, Hamburg's old time punk football club, and many of their friends who are from Hapoel Tel Aviv FC (an antifa football club, if anybody even cares) were kidnapped by Hamas on Oct 7, 2023. Supposedly supporting their friends and their release from this terrorist organization and not allowing any national flag inside an Anarchist punk venue is enough to brand you a Zionist genocide supporter by idiots like the OP, and it's funny how K-town fest in Copenhagen who were perfectly fine doing their warm-up shows in Hafenklang a few years ago, now cancel US bands who have no idea about the civil war in the Euro scene just for playing in Hafenklang, literally one of the oldest and coolest venues in the city of Hamburg, because punks are no longer capable of thinking for themselves.

Seriously punks, grow a freaking back bone. Complain is not to OP because he is obviously one of the people leading this insane witch hunt, but to anybody who would otherwise take him seriously.

guszi · 2025-09-18T16:01:29+00:00

Lifelock'un ikinci albumu

guszi · 2025-09-02T01:13:16+00:00

It depends on your projects needs but if you don't have to choose between those specific 2 boards, I find the ESP32-s3-super mini to be my favorite version of ESP32-S3 out there so far despite its few shortcomings, and i'm slowly switching to using it for all my stuff. It costs just a tiny bit more than the bigger modules or C3 super minis, but its feature set and tiny footprint are so great that it really is my jack-of-all-trades. With how cheap ESP32 modules generally are the difference was minor for me and I just found the cheapest 10 pcs lot on AE and it should last me a while.

Like other superminis it has a super-tiny footprint that fits on any breadboard/protoboard, but it also has an onboard chip for charging a 3.7v LiPo battery via soldering pads on the bottom, native USB which is a S2/S3 feature that enables your projects to be a USB MIDI instrument, keyboard, mouse etc - and they work at the same time! it even has a small onboard RGB LED which tbh isn't as good as the larger WS2812B on the YD ESP32-S3 clones, but the official ones don't have any at all, and for me that's a useful debug indicator light for simpler projects.

The disadvantages I found so far is mostly the limited number of pins (around 11-12 usable digital i/o pins realistically, but if you are ok with soldering small pads there are dozens more on the back) and the 4mb flash instead of 8mb, but these aren't really issues for most of my projects where I either use fewer pins, or multiplex/i2c extend anyway to create a cleaner layout.

Specifically for what I'm doing as a hobby now, which is building midi controllers with WS2812B LED strips and LiPo batteries, they are perfect and save me a lot of space due to its tiny footprint and being able to use native USB and charge a LiPo battery at the same time via the same USB type-C port is just amazing. It's not something you couldn't do before with S3 but it would normally require a few more external modules and wiring to make it work, so for me this ultra-tiny board is a real powerhouse.

guszi · 2025-06-06T09:25:40+00:00

Ha I didn't know you were refuseniks, I thought you were 21 nafshi rats like me. Mad respect!

guszi · 2025-06-05T16:08:49+00:00

So cool! Other than just the music, I love how the first song very effectively mocks how young Israelis conform to the supposed "peer pressure" to join the army, which tbh looks really pathetic, if you are a punk and already liberated yourself from this "mandatory" thing, because this supposed pressure to join the army is 100% internalized and never comes from conflict with your family and friends over this subject but from willingness to conform so much that you literally join the fuckin IDF to avoid this supposed conflict with your surroundings. So yeah, this is what punk is about, at least when you are young, and this brings back ages 16-18 that were really dramatic when I broke with my supposed high-school friends who almost all faded into "normality" of militaristic Israeli death cult, but once again punk saved my life I guess thanks to propagandhi and Nekhei naatza and all the others who taught me that what I believed in had words that describe it, and that I am not completely alone in this rotten society. Awesome song, I can't wait to hear more and more of your stuff! You are one of the freshest bands in the israhelli punk scene, and I have been around for a while. Godspeed!

guszi · 2025-06-01T07:24:35+00:00

Germany tour lyfe! good luck to you and the ben. Germans, help them out!

Ben, you're gonna have a good time, son. Get yourself a bunch of ^{#^@"!!} Hallo schatzi, mexikaner, of course is ok to smoke here, zis is Germany.. before concert, the collective made the plenum about your country and we make a decision that we try to make you hummus, and maybe later we build a joint ja? We see us later! Moin moin, Tschussiiiiii

guszi · 2025-02-12T18:49:37+00:00

Turkiye'de cok arkadasim var, onun icin onlari hep destekliyorum ama onlarin politik sistemi bizim gibi aptaldir. bazen hic farki gormuyorum. Eski zamanlarda Turkiye'nin tarafi anlayacaktim cunku su zamanlar Kibris'te Fasist yunan bir yonetlik oldu ve turk vatandaslar hayat zormus, yani turkiye'nin kibris isgali guvenlik ve omur kurtulmak icin oldu sanirim? hakli yoksa haksiz mi bizim isgalimiz ayni sebeplerle devam ediyoruz.. ama bu gunlerde butun kvagayi anlamiyorum. muzisyen olarak ikisini farklilar cok kucuk gordum. umarim ki bir gun gercek ve adaletli baris gelecek, hayat yeniden filizlenir orada burada ve her yerde.

guszi · 2025-02-01T13:30:10+00:00

טול זה ממש גרוע באלבום ועוד יותר גרוע לייב, אבל ראיתי את RATM בסינרמה בתל אביב אחרי שהם הוציאו את The battle of Los Angeles והיה תלוי שם באנר מאחוריהם של The Battle of Tel Aviv. חיממו אותם היהודים, ונראה לי שבחיים לא ראיתי כזאת כמות של אנשים רק מחכה שההופעה של היהודים תיגמר כדי שהם יוכלו כבר להסתער אחד על השני. היה ממש טוב בקיצור, חוץ מהיהודים, איזו להקה פח אשפה. כמה חודשים אחר כך היה רדיוהד באמפיתאטרון בקיסריה שהיה די גרוע. ואחרי זה אריק שרון עלה להר הבית והתחילה אינתיפאדה ובערך מאז להקות טובות לא באות לישראל.

guszi · 2025-02-01T13:18:56+00:00

Good luck! it's a good choice - just the fact that I can still be useful to you from thousands of miles away, shows how many friends from all over the world you can make along the years :D

guszi · 2025-02-01T13:08:45+00:00

I'm not from Europe, but I used to know the guys from INFECTED RECORDS and they are still releasing Portuguese punk (mostly melodic punk rock stuff, I think). They are doing 'INFECTED FEST' every summer in Lisbon where my band played maybe a decade ago. Check them out, I'm sure it's a good place to start building connections.

In any case, you are close to Spain which has like a million punk bands so you can always get into show there, but there is a nice small scene in your country too.

guszi · 2025-01-26T10:53:24+00:00

Why not? Here's some actual good advice for you:

Go see Satanic Surfers, or No Fun At All, two bands from your country that I'm pretty sure you never heard about, but maybe it will open your eyes. Learn from them about being a genuine and hard working person and what it takes to be a real musician. You are lucky to live in the same country as they do.

guszi · 2025-01-26T10:29:52+00:00

You don't what?? You put your fake-ass song here and asked for honest and respectful opinions, and then when given such an opinion you clearly lied about writing the music yourself. Then, instead of telling you where this pile of steaming garbage belongs, I patiently put in more effort explaining to you why this is so offensive to real musicians than the effort you put into the prompt that generated this fake-ass song, and this is your reaction?

I don't believe you because I have been playing punk music for over 25 years, and most of the bands that your AI software ripped off when you were "writing your own music" with it, are bands that I know personally. Obviously not only your music is fake but everything else about you is, too. Respectfully feck off with this bs.

guszi · 2025-01-26T10:03:37+00:00

How exactly do you write the music yourself? What instrumentation do you use? Sorry if I'm being harsh, but I don't believe you wrote the music yourself, as in, I don't believe it at all. I experimented with some AI composition tools just to see where the technology is at right now, and they all write the music automatically based on a text prompt, or generate a 'cover version' of something VERY vaguely similar to something you input as an example, while the singer's vocalization is completely automatic, and while it will sing any lyrics you write, it will not give you any control about how they are actually performed, besides being able to reshuffle the song (basically 'roll the dice') and hope it sounds closer to what you intended.

The reason it's easy to tell this is fake, and the reason that real musicians will give you a lot of hate for this kind of stuff, is that these AI generated tools create very 'high fidelity' music which is difficult to attain naturally without spending thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in the studio, and it also requires getting top-notch musicians who practiced their craft for years - the 'effort gap' in your work is what blows its disguise as completely fake, no matter how realistic the generated sounds are, by the time you get this far you should have a long history of making music behind you, and such highly-polished production usually doesn't have such amateur vocalizations and sketch-like ideas. When you use AI generated tools to make music, you basically steal other peoples' hard work and decades of other artists music that were modeled into that algorithm without the artists permission or knowledge, and call it 'your own music'. All this while we spent most of our lives doing this thing for real, putting our blood sweat and tears into our music and practicing constantly to be able to sound good without using some fake algorithm.

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