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this was an interesting read. i feel like it goes alongside this https://technomaterialism.com/negrophilia-in-club-culture and this https://worksofintent.com/onehouse/ pretty solid analyses of how dance music adjusted itself after 2020. which was kinda just to say a quick sorry and then...

i see these guys on instagram looking like they've just stepped off that Chernobyl series. the mid-track tempo slowdown seems to be a recent sonic meme, don't know who started it.

the dark side of amapiano that i was posting videos from before is getting darker and weirder at an insane rate this guy D'Athiz has got so many insane tracks out there. a whole album's worth on 'summer banger'. he's put the album into a mix - worth listening to the whole thing. my favourite is...

this is almost out of date to be cancelled now, i feel like its usage crashed with the crypto bubble bursting, but i really hated "gm" as soon as i saw it. it was the essential utterance of the crypto-evangelist/brainwashed, shorthand for "good morning". what i thought was interesting is that...

i've seen the "main character" trope a lot in memes and social media recently and it bugs me. fits in with other phrases i've seen used like "arc", "villain origin story" etc.. the idea of narrativising your life, adopting some kind of third person perspective to your "self" is obviously...

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heard this on a podcast thought it was a good summary "Twitter looks like short strings of text, but in fact it is mostly relational information - who follows who, who interacts with who. It is a vibe engineering machine, where small communities send vibes to particular signifiers. Vibe...

i would definitely compare the tracks and a lot of amapiano to early dubstep in the way that it's obviously a bass-led genre. these darker tracks are all about the bass manipulation as well, people are competing with each other to use it in the most inventive ways. i'm not so sure what you...

pretty crazy how much amapiano seems to be evolving. some real dark and weird shit out there at the moment, i feel like thabza tee is pretty much creating his own subgenre of it since down the drain. love everything he's involved in, all got a swung, really low-mid punching log drum bassline...

i watched Aniara recently. a societal/ecological collapse parable. a load of people get trapped in a spaceship which is knocked off course as it leaves a destroyed planet Earth for a barely-inhabitable Mars. the passengers descend into cultish sex rituals, depression, and an ad hoc dictatorship...

i watched this last year when i was doing dry jan and second it as a great film. only lasted 2 weeks of dry jan, don't think it was related. Danish pubs definitely reminded me of English ones the one time that i visited, but Carlsberg actually tastes decent there

just watched Bull and enjoyed it. i'm a bit hungover still so i spent the whole film thinking his name was Paul. funny how Neil Maskell has to play that same guy in nearly every film he's in. am filing it next to Kill List, London to Brighton, Down Terrace, which are all really good too.

@okzharp may know more on this but my friend who follows a lot of amapiano guys says that everyone is talking about gqom being set for a big comeback this year... maybe it's a bit of ama-fatigue

yeh this went viral on tik tok a little while ago cuz of the lyrics. u want to bamba? i heard it around so much i got a bit sick of it tbh. definitely more amapiano than gqom yes, but obviously there's bound to be overlap

should have put a bet on this one