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@rileydotsys
- GAMMA EYES -
NEW MUSIC FINALLY!
^ FREE DOWNLOAD !!! ^
I'm finally continuing the rollout for my album from last year after SoundCloud so kindly fucked me over midway through o7
One of the best tracks I've ever made and I'm so glad it's out now.
Watch this space
this is the true 2012 dimension 20 experience
i forgot i had tumblr on my iphone 4s what a shitty emo song title that would be
EVIL THWEK is on nina
buy my shirts dubstep music
https://www.ninaprotocol.com/hubs/crossdotsys
hello i've been away for a hot minute building my site thwek.net and also finishing my upcoming EP, which I'm feeling like is gonna be closing off the EVIL THWEK project for now.
i'm hoping to find some further inspiration in a new sound, new start, new everything. mainly the name actually, i don't think i started connecting to it artistically until this upcoming release but i'm not sure what to do with it after. i might keep using it if i can find a fulfilling way to rebrand.
anyway for now find my stuff at the link above, more to come soon.
just hootin and hollerin
reminder for myself to sample that nom at the end there
Voltage-the unreleased skrillex album that was supposed to come out, but skrillexs laptop was stolen. You can find some tracks from it though and here they are!
Amplifier-organ donor intro
Amplifier normal version
Voltage
True gangsters
Turmoil - skrillex remix
Turmoil-Sonny Moore (more vocals and different sound)
UM ACTUALLY ☝️
Well first off there's no WAY in a million years Atlantic would allow Turmoil to be released, much less a remix of it. The Sonny project was, and I guess, still is a no-go zone for them hence why he can only use vocal chops or use short loops in Skrillex tracks.
Secondly, the Voltage album wasn't even a thing. The album being worked on after SMANS had to be cut down into MMAS because of the laptop + hard drive theft. Not sure what would've made it to the album in the first place but I'm guessing the leaked promo cd with Voltage, San Diego VIP etc would've been part of it. Maybe even Needed Change since it's so similar in style who knows.
(This paragraph is an explanation I wrote on another site) ↑
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(Below is a reply I recieved from u/PatBeVibin, who I believe has been in the community for ages and is very reputable) ↓
"Needed Change was actually originally the title track of MMAS EP, the demo was listed with the original name. It was released on Free Treats Vol 1 very close to MMAS EP.
You're spot on about Voltage not being an actual album tho. A lot of the lore is really misrepresented online often bc there was SO much speculation about the album he lost in Milan and him "remaking" it as Bangarang EP was believed to be an LP for the longest time until it was announced. We do know that Amplifire was originally on there, so maybe that and Voltage would have made it an LP altho I believe it's technically long enough to be an LP even with the current tracklist."
Follow Me Cloud (Remake/Cover)
Here's my recreation of Follow Me Cloud from the 2 (two) awful recordings of it that we have. Took me so long to do and sing but I'm really proud to say that it's been confirmed to be almost spot on by the few people who've actually heard the song :)
If you know me, which let's be real, as of writing this there are like 9 of you here who definitely don't, you'd know that Virtual Riot is the entire reason I convinced my dad to buy a physical copy of Cubase for me back in 2015. I can quote (yes, quote the sounds) his first two studio time videos by heart. And I only listened to it in full for the first time very recently :3
Before you all blablablaba, let me explain.
This album has had a significant effect on all of that, and I genuinely stand by what I mean, no one has put out an album as interesting and authentic as this in recent memory. I would very much be okay with being proved wrong.
Speaking of Prove(ing) Me Wrong, this album has literally ZERO misses. I wanna start with the first batch of songs I heard off this record back in 2013: So Baked, Never Gonna Die/Alive (ft. Lisa Rowe), Prove Me Wrong, Mr. Mittens Groove, Haunted and Blackout.
All these tracks sprung into my life shortly after discovering Energy Drink through the Dubstep Gun Mod in Minecraft, which is a sentence clearly never before used. (Hey reference!)
Since I had no idea what an album was back then, these tracks were the only ones I listened to. But boy did I listen to them over and over again. I still have the original shitty 128kbps mp3s I used to listen to. Each track from this original batch has its own character and is full of creativity.
I want to talk specifically about So Baked though; what I consider my top 1 dubstep track of all time. It starts off right out the gate with the off beat violins, still pushing that dub/reggae influence. The intro that follows doubles down on that exact feeling, with each and every single layer contributing to the ethereal vibe and the heavy tearout basses introducing the main motifs of the drop to follow.
The first build including a sample from what I believe is from a public domain documentary is no surprise for this era of Virtual Riot, as even this album contains other songs that do this (Superscientific and We Never Sleep, for example)
The drop toes the perfect line between repetition and variation, utilising the motifs introduced at the start of the song. Diving into the second half of the drop, it's a more aggressive response to what came before it. The track repeats this structure that it legitimised in the first half to bring together an all round amazing experience that no other track has ever replicated, in my opinion.
Now for the negatives, because imagine writing a review without criticism.
The main downside to this album is that some of the sounds used in the drops aren't up to par with the writing in the rest of the album. Breakthrough suffers from this the most, since it has one of the more interesting builds in the album yet doesn't hit quite right when it gets to the drop.
On the other hand, Beemo executes this very well as the drop is well structured and flows from build to post-drop perfectly. However, that track gets a little muddied when it starts building again as some of the layers come in slightly too early and the ideas develop a little too quickly.
Secondly, this album has a track order problem: namely because it's Disciple rerelease following the shutdown of SectionZ has an entirely different track order to what's listed on the original release on Discogs. I prefer the original as I feel the Discogs release doesn't flow as well and realistically, not ending on Nights On Fire? Come on.
Or so I thought... which is why I changed it:
Reprise (aka what I call my modified album tracklists)
Since I've been making playlists with storylines from around 2011/2012 I've had custom track orders and on occasion I've modified said track order to make a better listening experience. Hell, now that I think about it I've been curating concept compilation albums for over a decade now.
More recently, since I actually started listening to albums front to back for the first time in my life, I've made modifications to tracklists where I deem necessary. The less I modify the album, the more I usually enjoy it.
Some examples of single track modifications include:
There Goes Your Money
Saosin - Along The Shadow
Some other examples of multi-track modifications:
Saosin - Saosin / Self -Titled / Beetle Album
Virtual Riot - Simulation + Stealing Fire (where I've even removed tracks, which I try not to do)
Skrillex - Recess, Quest For Fire, Don't Get Too Close (ditto)
I'll write a follow up post explaining these choices more in detail soon.
To steer the conversation back to this album in particular, I'd like to give a final tally of my favourite tracks and the my least favourite tracks. I feel this is better than a rating since I hate reducing criticism to a number value. Although on a rating of pure enjoyment and replay value it's definitely a 9/10.
Favourite Tracks:
So Baked: As explained above, the crown monarch of my dubstep tier list.
Edge (feat. Varia): One of the best DnB/Drumstep tracks I've ever heard, the absolutely UNRIVALED dubstep breakdown towards the end is just the best display of Virtual Riot's writing and arrangement style.
Never Gonna Die (feat. Lisa Rowe and Val's Vocals): Lisa Rowe and Virtual Riot was like the best combination back in the day to be honest, and this track serves as a good peek into why that is. Also Valentin's vocals on this are absolutely stellar, he definitely needs to sing more in the future.
Least Favourite Tracks:
Breakthrough: The drop is probably the least interesting on this album, which is a shame because the rest of the song is beautifully made.
We Never Sleep: Much better structure than Breakthrough but still falls a little behind in quality and sound choice compared to other tracks on this album like Beemo.
Mindreader (feat. Lisa Rowe): Like explained above, I feel this track works better as an instrumental. Still solid despite that.
Bears Gotta Burn: There's clearly a common theme here since the weakest tracks on here are the electro house / complextro tracks. Definitely picks up in the second half and overall is very well written.
(Fun fact: combining Evil Gameboy and Thwek is how I created EVIL THWEK.)
So,
that's why I think There Goes Your Money is *the* best electronic album since it was released. Each track contains mastercrafted progressions, well structured drops and an amazing sound selection. Only hampered by some less than ideal sound choices on select tracks, but that doesn't take away too much from its greatness.
Hope you enjoyed reading, let me know what you think in the comments and feel free to discuss or send me questions if you'd like to discuss more!
-Riley thwek.net
reeeeeead :3
I CAN FINALLY SING NOTE TO SELF!!!!
Passably
BUT I CAN STILL DO IT!!!!!
So proud I've even reached this milestone, the amount of pitch correction I've had to do is lessening with each cover so that's a good sign. Not that there's many artists who don't use it anyway but I still wanna train myself to get as close as possible.
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skrapbook part 2
hiii first post :]
I CAN FINALLY SING NOTE TO SELF!!!!
Passably
BUT I CAN STILL DO IT!!!!!
So proud I've even reached this milestone, the amount of pitch correction I've had to do is lessening with each cover so that's a good sign. Not that there's many artists who don't use it anyway but I still wanna train myself to get as close as possible.
Sonny Moore sent you a message
Always the highlight of my day ngl
Bass Dhol slaps tbh
thought i'd drop some audio here, this is some 160bpm footwork(?) shit i just made out of like a 4-ish year old dubstep demo. kinda fire if you ask me but im not sure how i feel about it
If you know me, which let's be real, as of writing this there are like 9 of you here who definitely don't, you'd know that Virtual Riot is the entire reason I convinced my dad to buy a physical copy of Cubase for me back in 2015. I can quote (yes, quote the sounds) his first two studio time videos by heart. And I only listened to it in full for the first time very recently :3
Before you all blablablaba, let me explain.
This album has had a significant effect on all of that, and I genuinely stand by what I mean, no one has put out an album as interesting and authentic as this in recent memory. I would very much be okay with being proved wrong.
Speaking of Prove(ing) Me Wrong, this album has literally ZERO misses. I wanna start with the first batch of songs I heard off this record back in 2013: So Baked, Never Gonna Die/Alive (ft. Lisa Rowe), Prove Me Wrong, Mr. Mittens Groove, Haunted and Blackout.
All these tracks sprung into my life shortly after discovering Energy Drink through the Dubstep Gun Mod in Minecraft, which is a sentence clearly never before used. (Hey reference!)
Since I had no idea what an album was back then, these tracks were the only ones I listened to. But boy did I listen to them over and over again. I still have the original shitty 128kbps mp3s I used to listen to. Each track from this original batch has its own character and is full of creativity.
I want to talk specifically about So Baked though; what I consider my top 1 dubstep track of all time. It starts off right out the gate with the off beat violins, still pushing that dub/reggae influence. The intro that follows doubles down on that exact feeling, with each and every single layer contributing to the ethereal vibe and the heavy tearout basses introducing the main motifs of the drop to follow.
The first build including a sample from what I believe is from a public domain documentary is no surprise for this era of Virtual Riot, as even this album contains other songs that do this (Superscientific and We Never Sleep, for example)
The drop toes the perfect line between repetition and variation, utilising the motifs introduced at the start of the song. Diving into the second half of the drop, it's a more aggressive response to what came before it. The track repeats this structure that it legitimised in the first half to bring together an all round amazing experience that no other track has ever replicated, in my opinion.
Now for the negatives, because imagine writing a review without criticism.
The main downside to this album is that some of the sounds used in the drops aren't up to par with the writing in the rest of the album. Breakthrough suffers from this the most, since it has one of the more interesting builds in the album yet doesn't hit quite right when it gets to the drop.
On the other hand, Beemo executes this very well as the drop is well structured and flows from build to post-drop perfectly. However, that track gets a little muddied when it starts building again as some of the layers come in slightly too early and the ideas develop a little too quickly.
Secondly, this album has a track order problem: namely because it's Disciple rerelease following the shutdown of SectionZ has an entirely different track order to what's listed on the original release on Discogs. I prefer the original as I feel the Discogs release doesn't flow as well and realistically, not ending on Nights On Fire? Come on.
Or so I thought... which is why I changed it:
Reprise (aka what I call my modified album tracklists)
Since I've been making playlists with storylines from around 2011/2012 I've had custom track orders and on occasion I've modified said track order to make a better listening experience. Hell, now that I think about it I've been curating concept compilation albums for over a decade now.
More recently, since I actually started listening to albums front to back for the first time in my life, I've made modifications to tracklists where I deem necessary. The less I modify the album, the more I usually enjoy it.
Some examples of single track modifications include:
There Goes Your Money
Saosin - Along The Shadow
Some other examples of multi-track modifications:
Saosin - Saosin / Self -Titled / Beetle Album
Virtual Riot - Simulation + Stealing Fire (where I've even removed tracks, which I try not to do)
Skrillex - Recess, Quest For Fire, Don't Get Too Close (ditto)
I'll write a follow up post explaining these choices more in detail soon.
To steer the conversation back to this album in particular, I'd like to give a final tally of my favourite tracks and the my least favourite tracks. I feel this is better than a rating since I hate reducing criticism to a number value. Although on a rating of pure enjoyment and replay value it's definitely a 9/10.
Favourite Tracks:
So Baked: As explained above, the crown monarch of my dubstep tier list.
Edge (feat. Varia): One of the best DnB/Drumstep tracks I've ever heard, the absolutely UNRIVALED dubstep breakdown towards the end is just the best display of Virtual Riot's writing and arrangement style.
Never Gonna Die (feat. Lisa Rowe and Val's Vocals): Lisa Rowe and Virtual Riot was like the best combination back in the day to be honest, and this track serves as a good peek into why that is. Also Valentin's vocals on this are absolutely stellar, he definitely needs to sing more in the future.
Least Favourite Tracks:
Breakthrough: The drop is probably the least interesting on this album, which is a shame because the rest of the song is beautifully made.
We Never Sleep: Much better structure than Breakthrough but still falls a little behind in quality and sound choice compared to other tracks on this album like Beemo.
Mindreader (feat. Lisa Rowe): Like explained above, I feel this track works better as an instrumental. Still solid despite that.
Bears Gotta Burn: There's clearly a common theme here since the weakest tracks on here are the electro house / complextro tracks. Definitely picks up in the second half and overall is very well written.
(Fun fact: combining Evil Gameboy and Thwek is how I created EVIL THWEK.)
So,
that's why I think There Goes Your Money is *the* best electronic album since it was released. Each track contains mastercrafted progressions, well structured drops and an amazing sound selection. Only hampered by some less than ideal sound choices on select tracks, but that doesn't take away too much from its greatness.
Hope you enjoyed reading, let me know what you think in the comments and feel free to discuss or send me questions if you'd like to discuss more!
-Riley thwek.net
we're so back
