Synesthetic Steppenwolf

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synesthesia 4

1h 5m

The fourth playlist of the synesthesia series curated May 2020

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Alcalde

mid 16th century: Spanish, from Arabic اَلْقَاضِي‎ (al-qāḍī, “judge”)

A magistrate or mayor in a Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American town.

(in New Mexico and West Texas) Ditch rider: one who patrols and maintains irrigation systems and distributes water to farmers and small tracts.

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Prepping an acequia (canal) for the third watering of the irrigation season.

Spaniards and Tigua people began irrigating in this very area (Lower Valley El Paso, Texas) towards the end of the 17th century, with the establishment of Ysleta.

Surely the first irrigation of this kind in Texas (Spaniards originally learned it from the Moors), there is a claim yet to be debunked, that a plot of land next to the Ysleta Mission is the longest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States. It has been confirmed that many of the canals originally built by the Tigua people, under the command of Spanish padres, were still in use as recently as the 1990s.

Keeping the tradition alive in 2022.

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Lo-fi house just feels so submerged: like you’re being showered by the beat or covered by a plush, fuzzy blanket of sine waves, funky bass and crunchy cymbals. It’s just such a comfortable, cozy sound. The Chicanx in me wants to bust out the Abuelita chocolate (hot chocolate) and pan dulce (sweet bread) ..

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Darkwave is such an elusive sub genre. It’s fuzzy, it’s melodic, it’s ominous, it’s… international

“Gothic new wave/post-punk” whatever fits your nomenclature, the sound is as widespread as it is ambiguous. So let’s take a trip around the world..

Nürnberg from Minsk, Belarus 🇧🇾

She Past Away from Bursa, Turkey 🇹🇷

Luis Navarro and Joel Niño (Twin Tribes) from Brownsville, Texas 🇺🇸

Buerak from Novosibirsk, Russia 🇷🇺

Soviet Soviet from Pesaro, Italy 🇮🇹

This genre just hits different east of the Mediterranean. Gonna have to make another post for the many other countries this sound has infiltrated

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“Mikiphone” - portable pocket gramophone. Swiss made 1924

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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, July 1950

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Some months I can’t live without books

But summer is irrigation season and I’m an alcalde (ditch rider) so lately I’ve been living near the earth.

@blues4iris

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Continuing the thread @red-lilith

These are my top 5 atm

(southern New Mexico sky during monsoon season)

Last two are mixes

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The noise you hear cicadas making ?

That’s them plugged into the trees charging their wings

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Y’all be making me afraid to open this app at work

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synesthesia 1

1h 2m

This is the first of a series curated back in 2020. I had just moved back to El Paso, TX from Rhode Island with nothing but a backpack of clothes and my mixer + laptop.

It was the start of the pandemic so DJing wasn’t an option. I was also unemployed, not-in-school and staying on my brother’s couch. Making playlists just made sense.

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Is this the craziest collection on JSTOR? The University of Virginia documented graffiti before the renovation of their Alderman Library. The example you see here is one of the more literary ones--we can't show you the others here, but you can see them for yourself!

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

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Two-Piece Bands (Guitar + Drums)

Though certainly not the first to form a two-piece band (Jack White cites The Flat Duo Jets as a key influence), Jack and Meg White’s early success helped pave the way for other garage rock duos of the 2000s. The riff from “Seven Nation Army'' may sound like it was recorded on a bass, but is actually played on an electric guitar run through a DigiTech Whammy Octave pedal to crank the frequency down.

‘68, an Atlanta duo formed in 2013, uses similar octave and fuzz effects to challenge the limits of what two people can do with a guitar and drums.

Mike Kerr of Royal Blood plays his bass through two separate rigs, one for the bass tone and the other for an octave shifted guitar tone, using a Boss LS-2 pedal to crossfade between the signals.

Jesse Keeler of Death From Above 1979, Canadian duo formed in 2001, uses a similar line selector pedal, but to switch between bass and synth, both signals run through the same amp (inverse of Mike Kerr’s set-up which splits a single signal to two separate amps). Keeler is able to transition between the two instruments so seamlessly that listeners will often mistake the synth for bass.

and so much more.. gonna have to add more songs soon. Such a fun list to work on. Enjoy :)

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PLEASE

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It’s a good thing Jesus was born in December.

How else do you expect American companies to make a profit in the winter months ?

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gender reveal came back negative