ok fine i’m a vinyl person now

Hiiiiii d1 yapper back again

this time to tell all my friends what I been

listening tooooo

Made a October playlist just for youuuuu

(I apologize) ANYWAYSSS I’ve been recently getting into vinyl. That means I made an impulse purchase and got the Audio Technica AT-LP60X-BK Turntable. I’ve been sampling records directly from the record player to my SP404mkii and it’s genuinely made me a better sampler.

Recent Vinyl Pickups

• Halo 2 OST

• Sade

• Eternal Sunshine

Idk call me whatever but I feel so connected. I fear I’ve become one of those people who’d rather actually buy the record. Shocker. There’s just something about having the physical piece. Plus, I’m glad I don’t have to rip things off YouTube anymore using some converter site that tries to give me an ad every two seconds.

Coda Documentary

A few days ago, I came across Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, this beautiful documentary about his process and relationship with sound. The film follows his daily life after Japan’s nuclear disaster, while he’s also dealing with a throat cancer diagnosis.

I really like this one scene where he goes to the North Pole with some friends and records with a mic underneath a layer of ice. When he gets back to his studio and plays it back, he notes it as this purest sound of water (don’t quote me on that I watched it at 3am - he said something along those lines ok).

I mean really think about it. Imagine traveling all the way to this quiet, frozen place just to capture a sound most of us would never even think twice about. It kinda made me think about how sometimes we treat sound/music like a product & don’t really focus on the experience anymore or how it truly makes us feel.

Maybe that’s why I’ve been so into vinyl lately and sampling. I mean you could argue I’m not really being “original” and I’m just using someone else’s hart. To that I rebuttal, if someone can take a sound and reshape it so differently that it becomes unrecognizable isn’t that a new form of creation too?

There’s also this other scene where he talks about and plays this piano that survived a tsunami. When Sakamoto plays it, it’s not tuned in the way that our ears are used to hearing. Instead of fixing it, he says something along the lines that nature itself tuned it. I loved that perspective. This idea that even destruction or distortion can create its own kind of harmony. It made me think about how not everything needs to be “fixed” or perfectly mixed. Sometimes the cracks & the hiccups are what truly makes something beautiful and creates this raw feeling.

3 Artists you should be listening to:

1. Galimatias: I’ve been listening to him since 2016 & when his Urban Flora album dropped with Alina Baraz. It’s just really nostalgic listening to the album and some of his music because I remember when I first discovered it, that was my first introduction to a more alternative/downtempo approach genre. Two songs I’ve revisited and that I’d recommend for you to check out from their joint album are: Unfold & Make You Feel.

2. Acidgvrl: A COMPLETE vibe switch up from the genre above. If you’re into hyper pop (and I think a little bit of sigilkore) you need to listen to Acidgvrl. My personal favs are LOSER!!! & Let Me In.

3. Ichiko Aoba: Legit found them today. While I do my internship, I’m usually always listening to my thievery with a twist playlist (the songs on it give off Sex in The City vibes). Today I decided to hit the shuffle play on Spotify (which I do time to time because occasionally they will play bangers) & I came across this gorgeous piece. I just really like her voice and how sparkly the song Dawn in the Adan sounds.

That’s it for now... BYYYYYYYE have a nice day :P

What I was listening to as I wrote this: (plz judge me lightly)

• Where My Money by Chris Travis

• Dawn in the Adan by Ichiko Aoba

• Element 20 by Lofty305

• Give Me Order by Two People

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