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Happy birthday Pearlo

5 years of Hermitcraft, 30 years of such an elegant woman.

I will never understate how much Pearl changed my life, especially my perspective on art and feelings and lesbianism.

Go back to this epearlsode and try not to tell me it isn't something special:

I don't know what better gift to give at this point.

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Ninajirachi - 'I Love My Computer' review

(i haven't used this "main" blog for 2 years huh. I want to finally bring out some music reviews like I wished to do from the beginning.)

Listen to the material

In this review, I will offer very brief opinions about each song and the overall package through a relatively short amount of time listening to the album and living with its culture, indirectly also relatively.

Track by track review

[U] London Song: I rate this a solid No Mana - Solarpunk. To elaborate, compared to that track, the actual music production is frankly not as nuanced, but clearly it's way more blunt and more resonant to you casuals. That's gonna be my common perspective throughout this album.

[I] iPod Touch: The other side of this album is a lot of high pitched storytelling lyrics. For this song, I have a hot take: the cheerful vibe and the massive buildup to a single drop just don't mesh well together. Like the drop just doesn't feel all that triumphant.

[U] F*ck My Comp*ter: This tune is actually fun, I can totally get behind the unhinged lyrics.

[U] CSIRAC: a club track and not much more than that, not for the overthinking like myself.

[I] Delete: The first smooth transition of the album, this tune got everything working in harmony so well.

[I] ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ, All I Am: These two tunes played alone might feel a little unfulfilling, but them played right next to one another gives truly the most complete experience. For that, this is my favorite part of the whole album.

[U] Infohazard: The neuro reeses in the first buildup really fooled me into thinking the first drop is gonna be this minimal grim thing to save the euphoria for the second drop. In reality the latter is just what both drops are.

[U] Battery Death: The obligatory single experimental song of this album. The overuse of hardwave here is pretty tiring, especially the first drop, through the second drop is pretty good at its goal of being grim and cruel.

[I] Sing Good: maybe i should stop being so critical

[I] It's You: This is the most normal song on this album, and it definitely shows the polish. I give this song an "Ecstatic And Irresponsible".

[U] All At Once: The most abstract experience on this whole album. Mostly for the fact that the second half stayed as smooth of a slope up as possible. To be honest, I expect literally anything else.

As with every piece of music I care about, they really need the time to stick with me and I can really have the strongest feelings for them. Such criticisms from me are very natural with these early listens when I don't understand everything that comes with them.

Holistic review

This is definitely one of those albums that aim to be more cohesive and deliver a consistent message rather than having any individual tunes that are particularly strong. This fact is certainly reflected in the visual elements: the visualizers shooting constant images, music videos using chaotic fonts, etc. That part I have everything to enjoy. Because truthfully, that's the part that really make this album really resonate with me: this big picture, this free internet, this "rebellion for the feeling" if I dare elaborate.

A lot of my criticism about this album tends to stem from the structures of them and how certain drops and buildups just don't fit one another. Which I can try to "improve" with my own mixtape:

For the heavier songs, it's certainly the easier side. One drop follows another, you can do it yourself, whether you want to keep both drops being the same or you have a clear preference within each tune.

The first two songs are similarly mixed, then Delete transition into All I Am's second drop, which then goes back to my favorite part of the album, which is the buildup to Infohazard which suddenly makes a lot more sense, euphoric finale in It's You, and Sing Good basically acts as the credits roll.

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Paper Skies - 'Project Wireframe' (Demakes of Prereleases)

Acquire the original materials here and here.

Brings me back to the good old days of 2021.

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One is a brostep-psytrance that I definitely won't use silly ways to mix together. The other two are your typical tri-drop progressive color bass. How much music falls into that umbrella?

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Convexity - 'Lost Connection' (The Demixes)

Listen to the original, radio mix material here

long time no see this segment

Continuing the consistency of that EP I showed really earlier this year, well, this time it's actually even more consistent. Everything have 4 whole drops so here's to A-sides and B-sides to all of them.

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First one off, the longest one. Like if I were to turn the tempo down to the 128 range the original was in, it would in fact be too long. Almost as if I did also demixed the off-drops.

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Second one off, pretty normal stuff.

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Third one, some will say it's Speed House apparently, but I'd say, it's actually this old genre called Hands Up.

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Fourth one, last one, the most chill one, logically. What isn't so logical is that these last 2 tracks can be interchanged for each other since they're the same length and tempo.

Can't be too deadly sure whether I've rendered both side from the same channel (I always enable the off drops, turn on one side and off another. So no earrape.)

Will do the bonus single and the ID showcase mix later. TIL music post limit is a thing here.