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OK – dropping the lyrics to the Black Knife remix (it's entitled Executioner Delegate btw). The remix itself should drop on the weekend. The lyrics rant will go in the replies to this text. Artwork by @postingterminal.bsky.social - go follow him; his art's awesome.

BLACK KNIFE IS GONNA BE DELAYED TILL THE WEEKEND. But I will drop the lyrics and the lyrics rant now-ish.

it's a day late, but i'm intending to upload Black Knife today. stay tuned for a rant about the lyrics later on today.

I can’t begin to express how much the Kris piano segment moves me. Maybe it’s because there’s nothing worse than losing things you love to things outside your control, or maybe it’s because music sometimes says what words can’t. Either way, it breaks me.

If you would steal my SOUL And drain me of all my vain resolve To resist you, What have I got to lose? Helpless when you compel me, Executioner delegate Entrusted with your black knife, I’ll carve out her heart Just for you.

I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOp1... shameless self-promotion – a quick Black Knife transcription that i did at 2am last night

youtu.be/4GCoePREXh4?... i regret nothing

Earlier today, I was trying to describe what Zoloft feels like, and settled on telling my psychiatrist that it was like downsampling an audio file. (less emotional information but good dithering = ‘the file still sounds nice it just takes up less disc space’. Compressed but not lossy)

Me sniffing an iris: The front is citrus, jasmine and cut grass rounded out by subtle yeast, over ripe banana and cocoa. Soft burnt butter lingers longest. Me drinking wine: huh…grapey.

hey chat i just sampled the main Paldea theme but turned it into something out of Everywhere at the End of Time should i release it so y'all get to hear what my sleep paralysis demon sings to me at 3 in the morning

MIXING TIPS I WISH I'D KNOWN 5 YEARS AGO: A THREAD 1. When you are first learning to produce and mix music, you will be taught various techniques. You will often want to apply these everywhere. This is fun - however, you should always keep the purpose of each technique in mind.

I specialise in depressing rock, but if you ask nicely, I'll give you some melancholic electronic jives, too ...no, happy music isn't on the cards. not happening.

if your mix isn't converting well to mono and it's not a phase issue, try checking the low-end. yes, really. sounds unrelated, but it turns out that if the kick/bass combo is really tight, you'll probably retain all the power of the mix when you're in mono.

A more sincere mixing tip: for the love of christ, never never never send your echo bus through a reverb bus. The phase effects can be an absolute nightmare. i.e. Don't put reverb on a slap delay, for the love of god

happy april fool's day + here's your daily reminder to never mix your tracks in mono. mixing in mono sounds crap. never make your mix sound crap. always mix your track to be as uncrap as possible

new video youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...

Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk: nonconsensual epipen use, cyberbullying, and forcing people to drink milk

Ok fellow music people - help me out here. What's the better title for a weird mellotron rock remix of the Paldea theme I'm working on atm? 1. The Way Home 2. thus juliana died. I like the former because, y'know, the Way Home route in SV, but 'thus juliana died' better captures the anxiety...

Always feels sus when I spell a tricky word right on the first try. I just typed "surreptitiously" and spent several anxious seconds waiting for the red squiggle to show up before narrowing my eyes and checking the dictionary

Most important thing I've learned in 6 years of producing music – any 'rules' of producing are genre/purpose-specific. That's to say: don't sidechain the pad without a good reason. In electronic music, be conscious of how much you're sidechaining. In rock, just don't sidechain/duck the pad. Ever.

EDIT: It has metal drums at the start now! I WROTE A DOUBLE KICK AAAAAAAAAA

welcome back, rock remixes basically unmixed, w/ demo-stage vocals, but nevertheless, i am so very excited for this project.

On a teal spring day, I ran away To take in the fields and circle the drain. In a foreign land, knowing no language, All alone, you're relieved Of any last chance to scream: "Somebody rescue me 'Cause I chose the loneliest road Shoulderin' all my wicked history." –(paldea theme, 17/03/25)

maaaaan i forgot how fun it is to produce rock music. o my beloved snare samples (also known as 'i am, slowly but surely, still working on some rock stuff')

i think more people need to see this #persona3 #ryojimochizuki

dame da ne www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVAh...

Got a new mic for Christmas! It’s pink. That’s intentional. Since women in electronic music are so often overlooked, I chose to get the NT1 in the girliest colour possible. It still works, and sounds lovely.

Eeeeee

I’m just saying, there may be fire/grass/water and dark/psychic/fighting, but there are also more obscure type matchup triangles. Like bug/grass/rock. Which is possibly the most miserable type matchup triangle known to man.

Champion #pokemonfanart #pokemonkieran

#pokemonsv #pokemonkieran based on the indigodisk week 2024 prompt by bugs-r-neat on twitter/tumblr!

A picture of a life in a picture of a life in a picture of a life. How deep must repetition still our movements until even the air we breathe is stale?

I’ve seen this enough and am intrigued

Dorian's recent attempts at synth design in Logic's Alchemy synthesiser 1. a very sweet little tune (with apologies to GAME FREAK)

Hi this is beautiful I’m gonna go cry now. Amazing work

The super-distorted synth sound that plays the chords in Silver Medals is actually a supersaw that died screaming in the jaws of a bitcrusher, before having its miserable corpse desecrated with MSaturator. On the last day of mixing, I removed most of its EQ just so I could maximise the awfulness.

Silver Medals is sung from the perspective of the 'must get stronger'/ED voice. That is, it's very much the disembodied disease promising to do good... with sound design that says 'look, we're doing what you're asking, but it's awful'. Autotune = restrictiveness, whip cracking = no escape.

IT'S HERE. youtu.be/FJHCRzHRGq4 Go blast Silver Medals on your biggest speakers.

I'M BOUNCING THE WAV——— Silver Medals drops in a couple of hours. Go listen to it when it does.

Musical inspiration for Silver Medals: -SOPHIE - referenced for the drums -A. G. Cook - the Britpop album and Brat were the refs for the kick -Charli XCX - ‘Hello Goodbye’ for synth design -Halsey - ref for vocals -Alstroemeria Records - mix ref Naturally, the track resembles none of them.

So: fun fact for other perfect pitch people – ketamine messes with your pitch perception. Everything sounds about 3-5 cents flat right now (7/8 hours later). ...Aaaaand did I heed this while doing pitch correction on the vocals? Nope! I'm still aiming to release Silver Medals tomorrow.

maybe i shouldn't have kept mixing the vocals while on horse pain drugs this morning

noooooo

(ENORMOUS PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING.) Video editing has been fun. Character artwork by @rinrirnnnnnrin on Tumblr. Background Pecharunt artwork by @agentc0rn.bsky.social. 'Silver Medals' releases November 27.

A 🧵: Rambling on Pokemon SV and the lyrics of 'Silver Medals' (releases 27 Nov): (1/14) In the Indigo Disk, Kieran takes on a hostile persona. It doesn't fit, but neither does his old self – a helpless kid. He's trapped between the person he'll never be, and the person he regrets ever having been.

I am the ghost of every time you've failed to shut up, Your precocious tendency to always ask too much, Every life you've haunted with your vulture eyes: Staring and prying with your endless appetite. Coming 27 November. Art by @rinrirnnnnnrin on Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/rinrirnnnnnrin.

A list of bands in order of efficacy: 3. Placebo 2. The Cure 1. Prevention