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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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I don't understand why Super Mario doesn't use more plumber-based attacks, like telling Bowser he'll be there between 10am and 6pm as a form of psychological warfare, giving him nervous countdown anxiety all day, preventing him from being able to start a single task because he never knows when he'll be interrupted, and being so tense and exhausted that he'll finally just pay thousands of dollars to make it all end

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I declared myself a vegetarian halfway through Thanksgiving dinner last night. Then, 3/4ths of the way through dinner, I declared all recipients of the sun’s energy a vegetable and started gnawing on the table.

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For 25th, I made something kinda gothy.

https://youtu.be/dzt0y7cJShY

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I want to highlight my album Broken Angels this , which I put out just last month, and am also extremely proud of. Its creation is unlike the Jamuary collection, in that it took me a really, really long time to put it together, and I believe that time and effort were well spent. It's industrial with touches of metal, and thoroughly awesome. https://traiken.bandcamp.com/album/broken-angels

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There was a point when I wanted to finish my WIP album by the end of the year, but I don't want to rush things (and it's been an awful year). That said, with how shitty the purchase of was, for all we know this could be the last . I haven't pivoted to a new platform because that's daunting, but for now, buying my music when the shitty new owners DON'T get a cut would be the way to go. So: https://traiken.bandcamp.com Check out my mostly-instrumental electronic rock, kthnxbye

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A bit later than usual, but stuff came up, and this track kept acquiring layers. I could keep mixing this for a few more days--but that's not how works. So, for Jamuary 18th, I present: Suburban Camouflage.

https://youtu.be/uLpaPVvtpiQ

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The Headless Horseman has to carve different pumpkins for different moods and carry them around in a sack.

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I wake up every morning and slap a big red button that says “I’M DEPRESSED”

the button does absolutely nothing and has no effect and I feel bad for pressing it

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Okay then - who has music they want to promote for tomorrow?
Please reply with a few lines description (so people get a sense if it's for them or not) and a link so we can get some boosting going on. ❤️

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@thisoccasionalsociety I think Broken Angels got a little overshadowed by Jamuary, so: it's instrumental industrial, borrowing shades of metal and electronica, and deserves all the attention it can get. https://traiken.bandcamp.com/album/broken-angels

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Due to COVID-19 related issues, there may be a delay in fulfilling your destiny

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I just thought I'd post something entirely unrelated to music, simply to even out the scales a notch. So, uh, you ever notice how if you organize the rates of various vibrations, it takes on the emergent property of a transcendent emotional experience OH GODDAMMIT

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I hope this wasn't the last Bandcamp Friday. If it is, then I hope the goodwill and support people show will continue and grow in other places moving forward. For what it's worth, I had a good one, and I sincerely thank everyone who listened, appreciated, and especially those who bought my music. It's a great feeling to share stuff I'm proud of and have it resonate with anyone.

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Whaaaaat the fuck was that

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Since this may be the last for all we know, I've collected my entire efforts into an album that you can purchase without a single cent going to the bastards who bought the platform. It's 31 tracks of me proving how goddamn good I am at making music on a deadline. https://traiken.bandcamp.com/album/jamuary-2024

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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.

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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.

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You may just call it "gluing dinosaur bones to the 1:1 scale Gundam," but I say it's kitbashing what God was too afraid to make

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If you want to look as happy as the people in commercials do, get a job as an actor and do commercials

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I saw a video pop up on YouTube, a stabilized, colorized film of San Fransisco in 1906. That brought up other comparably restored films of everyday life of decades past, and I remember showing one of New York in the 50s to my grandmother, once. Then that made me think, what if I look for things from MY youth, recent though it may be. And that's how I hit a new low in pandemic loneliness: watching YouTube videos of New Jersey malls.

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Then I found a walkthrough video of a mall a friend and I would hang out in nearly every Friday night in the late 2010s, and THEN I got nostalgia, which is remarkable to feel for 2018. I also watched because there was a small chance she and I were in that fucking video (we were not).

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Then again, that should be America's new, true, motto: Appropriate shopping behavior is required at all times.

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But at one moment, the camera lingered over the mall's Code of Conduct, which was on an 8.5x11 piece of paper on a thin metal pedestal, easily missed--I certainly never noticed it when I was there. The first bullet point read that the mall "is open for the purpose of shopping. Appropriate shopping behavior is required at all times." And man, what a dismal fucking phrase.

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Look, I KNOW you can’t tell me how long it takes for an open window to ventilate a room without knowing the room size, window dimensions, opening mechanism, windspeed, barometric pressure, how many geese are flying overhead, whatever. But I just want a rough estimate. I want an average. I want some idea, any idea, how helpful an open window is in cleaning the air. Is 5 minutes anything? Is leaving it open a crack for an hour better? I have no frame of reference, fucking help me out, here

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Finally, for 31st, a track that feels like the last track of an album, because that's what I'm going to do with all 31 of these. And as I often do, I save some of the best for last.
It's calm and chaotic, moving and hard-hitting, a sonic feast whipped up in only one day. Enjoy; I know I did.

https://youtu.be/DwQIWjIdGdE

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I'm extremely proud of the work I've done for Jamuary. I thought it was a challenge I'd be capable of taking on, but I didn't think I'd be this GOOD at it. I didn't just meet the challenge, I fucking CRUSHED IT. Normally I don't feel this good about anything, so the fact that I'm this happy with what I've made is truly significant.

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What's the German word for the pity and discomfort at seeing an amateur artist who's built up an impressive amount of shading on a drawing of a human face but has no sense of proportions whatsoever

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