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Chronowerx - Mysterious Guy Hardcore Junglist
my first physical release as Chronowerx, four tracks of breakbeat hardcore noise out now on cassette from the No Holiday bandcamp:
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last week one of my coworkers put on a Drake song where he interpolated Chooin' Texas and i felt like i was having an out of body experience. like i was hearing something that broke through from a different dimension
it feels like we're going through a resurgence of a 2000s-style Nerds vs. Hipsters thing, but this time along the lines of a new canon of stuff that everyone online knows (but your "coworker" has never heard of) vs. people in overlapping spaces who "performatively" break from it
similar to what's going on in music: xitter.gq/chronowerks/status/211…
i'm getting absolutely outclassed as the "sunglasses on inside" person on the subway by this guy wearing a beret and reading Ulysses
Spank Rock's YoYoYoYoYo was an extremely formative album for me, idk if i would've listened to dance music at all if i hadn't heard this collab he did with Japanther on the album they made with Penny Rimbaud from Crass. it was a great time for weird music crossovers!
When “indie sleaze” was actually happening, it was just called indie. But as the era gets repackaged through playlists, party photos, and Pinterest boards, the Black artists who helped shape the era are being left out.
@Santigold, Spank Rock, and @kilokish shed light on the scene they experienced, the boxes the industry put them in, and how the people telling its story shape what gets remembered.
Read the full feature by @precious1otus here: pigeonsandplanes.com/read/wh…
i've been on the "i don't watch new movies" wave for a while now. it makes talking to people who assume i keep up with that sort of thing a little bit harder but it's worth the trade off to avoid feeling like i'm being advertised to all the time
new column, on becoming completely uninterested in the moviegoing zeitgeist splicetoday.com/moving-pictu…
making tapes to self-release has given me a new appreciation for how imprecise making physical objects can be: cassettes never have exactly 60 minutes of tape, they can't record too much sub bass, two-sided printing is never exactly lined up, images can't have too much noise, etc
there's a real divide between indie rock fans that like rock music with a weird, not necessarily commercial sound vs. people who like it because the college rock stuff from the 80s and 90s has become classic rock
