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Traiken

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Setting up a new creative home at https://ko-fi.com/traiken Go there for music, art, and more (insert GeoCities under construction gif here)

https://traiken.bandcamp.com for electronic rock and experimental music
https://kentrai.bandcamp.com for Vocaloid songs

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limneticvillains, to random
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The 40th Bandcamp Friday is on May the 3rd. Lets do a Bandcamp/Faircamp thread. I will spend about 50 on music, show me what you got. If I like it I might buy it or wishlist it, I will listen to everything posted to me in this thread in the next week and comment a bunch. Feel free to post a friends stuff, I don't care about genre, not the biggest fan of some but whatever. Also, post even if you've sent me your stuff before!

Traiken,
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@limneticvillains My Jamuary album is vast, varied, and very very good. The album before that, Broken Angels, is a far more digestible 12 tracks, but took way longer than the 31 of Jamuary, and is also very good. Broken Angels is a more focused sound, instrumental industrial metal; Jamuary spans the venn diagram of electronic and rock. https://traiken.bandcamp.com

Traiken, to random
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yes, birds will chirp
during the apocalypse

Traiken, to random
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I’m sorry I can’t make it; I’ve been summoned to fix the last remaining VCR on the International Space Station

elana, to random
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I’ll just put on one of my favourite relaxing sewing channels while I have a late night snack, what’s next on her channel?–

Oh, an absolutely horrific story about WWII POW labour and textile manufacturing, okay then 😵

I’m so glad I basically divested from fast fashion as part of the Great Lifestyle Reset of 2020 😵‍💫

https://youtu.be/0pJwJCwvYiI

Traiken,
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@elana I read the first part of this twice and still thought you wrote “top hat”

Traiken, to random
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Even when I recall an event before 2020, I want to mentally superimpose masks on everyone. The thought of just walking into a store is mortifying.

Traiken, to random
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Everyone loves a spacewhale

Traiken, to random
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I was playing with some effects and thought they were cool enough to record

FOR TWENTY FOUR MINUTES

Consider it post-ambient music: It goes on repetitively, but it's not comforting unless you're into industrial or experimental electronica. It's meditative, if the meditation is on aggressive and awesome noises. If anything, I suppose it's

https://youtu.be/d5cSv6iBWv8

Traiken, to random
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So many people are into “lofi” music, but they aren’t taking it far enough. I’m past low fidelity; I’m into no fidelity. Infidel music.

Traiken, to random
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Please, I am begging you, put alt text on your photos. Not just for people who can't see them, but for your fucking memes with words that other people have muted, and then that shit gets blasted onto their timeline anyway because you didn't transcribe the triggering words you clearly didn't even consider, or the damage they do.

Traiken, to random
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When I was woken up by a shaking house this morning, the first thoughts I formed were, "Is that a tornado? Did a nuke go off in New York?" I have worried about the latter many more times than the former in my life.

As I lay there, things shaking inexplicably as I emerged from unconsciousness, I wondered if death was imminent, and my feelings were 49% fear, 49% exhausted resignation, and 2% excitement.

Traiken, to random
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I am not accustomed to being woken up by earthquakes on the east coast

Traiken, to random
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Whaaaaat the fuck was that

Traiken, to random
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I wondered what wah pedal Aaron North used on the 2006 Nine Inch Nails tour, and then I did a search and found a website dedicated to listing all the gear he used.

This is what the internet is for--not this petty arguing, doomscrolling, algorithmically-induced rage and depression.

Traiken,
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So naturally I started looking up how much those wahs go for, and video reviews of it to get a better sense of the sound. The pedal is like a self-parody of dumb guitar gear naming conventions, full of douchebag puns and macho horseshit; there is literally a switch between "estrogen" and "testosterone," and you can tell this didn't come from a playful enlightened viewpoint on gender dynamics.

Traiken,
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But in one video, the guy says the estrogen mode is "more expressive," and testosterone "gives you more punch, but the punch masks the expressiveness." And I'm almost certain he says these words with zero irony or self-awareness. Cracked me the fuck up, though.

jessica, to random
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I’m feeling a very specific-to-me dysphoria today.

I don’t think I can articulate it in a way that others would understand and find convenient.

So I’m not going to try, but it is eating me alive.

Traiken,
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@jessica I wish more people could understand what you’re going through. But we can understand that you are going through it.

Traiken, to random
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Based on Your List, we recommend: Fucking Whiplash

hilljam, to random
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what is jazz? indeed, what is any genre, really?

https://jamieslist.deptofenergymgmt.com/p/thats-not-jazz

Traiken,
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@hilljam "Jazz" and "rules" seem like odd bedfellows, and I think there's a larger categorization to music that could be applied: whether the emphasis is on structure or on expression. It reminds me of something Trent Reznor said about being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, on what "rock" even is and that the Hall of Fame can recognize "synth" bands: "It's the spirit of expression and, to me, freedom and no limits to expression. That's my version of what rock means."

elana, to random
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with my dad catching two "mysterious illnesses" this month, my mom has really been going through her bottle of adorable froggy drops (our name for the CPC mouthwash she has from Japan; I talked about it a bit here, as part of my second megathread about travelling to Japan during this pandemic: https://mastodon.social/@elana/111901721087575561 ) I stockpiled a big bottle of the 'mild' variety and a travel bottle of the regular kind, but she's already sniffing around, and I think I need to be able to source more for her peace of mind 😆​ I'm sure any type of CPC mouthwash is fine, but these are cute and have froggies on them!!! Anyone have any recommendations for Canadian CPC mouthwash that they trust, before I start pulling shenanigans with a Japanese shipping service 😆​

Traiken,
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@elana I’ve been using the Crest Pro-Health for years, long before the pandemic (not to sound like a healthcare hipster). It’s fairly standard minty stuff, not overly intense until about the time to spit it out, so I can vouch for it on those terms

ShaulaEvans, to random
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I'd like to hear a human voice before I go to sleep tonight, as a treat.

If anyone would be up for a short call via Telegram or Signal (both keep your phone number anonymous), let me know.

Traiken,
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@ShaulaEvans Hey, I've seen your requests for human voices, but never at the right time--except maybe now? I'm available to talk if you'd like

Traiken, to random
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I still keep reading "elastomeric" as "elastometric."

There's a non-zero chance you didn't even see the difference between the two.

caitp, to random
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it often feels like theres no place on earth for me to exist hbu

Traiken,
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@caitp Me too. If I weren't stuck where I am, if I had unlimited options, I still don't know if anywhere would be right.

Traiken, to random
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I'm very anxious, on top of a ton of dreadful feelings: some of my father's ashes are being buried tomorrow. I'd just like to hear from other covid cautious people that it's reasonable to leave the house in an N95. I know people do it, but the last time I went ANYWHERE was last year, for my dad's Celebration of Life and my grandmother's funeral. That's it. I don't go anywhere, and I'm full of fear.

So I just need to hear that people do it and are okay.

#CovidCautious #ZeroCovid

Traiken,
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@CassandraZeroCovid As far as I understand, it will be outside. My mom is going to lunch with other people afterward, and I'm going to just wait it out in the car. No way in hell I'm doing that.

Traiken,
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@Gdac Those are the impressive stats I need to hear right now; well done, and thank you

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