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Traiken

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Setting up a new creative home at https://ko-fi.com/traiken Go there for music, art, and more (insert GeoCities under construction gif here)

https://traiken.bandcamp.com for electronic rock and experimental music
https://kentrai.bandcamp.com for Vocaloid songs

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elana, to random
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Internet friendships are upside down. The first things you know about me are my most vulnerable feelings, but it’s a huge step to show you my face or my name

Traiken,
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@elana I identify wayyy more with my feelings than my face or name

Traiken, to random
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20 years ago, I went to a friend's birthday party, and he showed his friends a song that he recorded on his computer.

"You can DO THAT??" I said, mesmerized. "Can I try?"

After a number of people had gone home, he let me try recording part of a song I had been writing. I've been practicing this hobby ever since.

Traiken, to random
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I was reminded when I watched this Linkin Park video in the summer of 2020, how it felt eerily relevant to the ongoing protests despite coming out a decade earlier. I had said that the only way you'd know it wasn't contemporary was when actual guitars kicked in.

I later added: you know how something wasn't recorded in the 2020s? Because it has MIDRANGE FREQUENCIES and PASSION

https://youtu.be/51iquRYKPbs?si=q-EJTOqXIZd4YYyy

Traiken, to random
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I saw someone listened to one of my older albums, Seram Island Mystery Carcass part two: FADE INTO THE DIRT. It got me to revisit that and part one, starting just as a "oh yeah, this thing" bit of personal nostalgia.
But when I recorded part one, my grandmother asked me to make her a copy, just knowing that I'd been working on something--no idea what, really. And yet listening back now, it's astonishing that she had this weird thing on repeat in her car for weeks. https://traiken.bandcamp.com/album/seram-island-mystery-carcass-part-one-cyst

Traiken,
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She had some health issues and I became her chauffeur in that weird pocket of early 2020, just before the pandemic. So since this was the burnt CD she had in her car, it's just what we put on instead of her usual conservative talk radio, which I couldn't stand. So listening back to it now transports me to that time, but I also see it now after losing her, after the world changing for the worse, after everything being so terribly different.

Traiken,
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What's also sadly poignant now is that two of the tracks, Left-Handed Wind Shifter and Bucket of Blue Steam, were named after absurd impossible items from a story my dad would tell about how kids in the boy scouts would mess with the younger kids by telling them to fetch these things on camping trips. So there's two very strong associations with the half of my family that I lost last year, not that I ever have to go far to still think and miss them.

Traiken, to random
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Mostly been staying off social media, maybe I'll rant about it later, but here's something that helped my mood: transforming a cheesy vocal sample from my 20+ year-old electronic drumset into this cursed, screaming thing

limneticvillains, to random
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The 40th Bandcamp Friday is on May the 3rd. Lets do a Bandcamp/Faircamp thread. I will spend about 50 on music, show me what you got. If I like it I might buy it or wishlist it, I will listen to everything posted to me in this thread in the next week and comment a bunch. Feel free to post a friends stuff, I don't care about genre, not the biggest fan of some but whatever. Also, post even if you've sent me your stuff before!

Traiken,
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@limneticvillains My Jamuary album is vast, varied, and very very good. The album before that, Broken Angels, is a far more digestible 12 tracks, but took way longer than the 31 of Jamuary, and is also very good. Broken Angels is a more focused sound, instrumental industrial metal; Jamuary spans the venn diagram of electronic and rock. https://traiken.bandcamp.com

Traiken, to random
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yes, birds will chirp
during the apocalypse

Traiken, to random
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I’m sorry I can’t make it; I’ve been summoned to fix the last remaining VCR on the International Space Station

elana, to random
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I’ll just put on one of my favourite relaxing sewing channels while I have a late night snack, what’s next on her channel?–

Oh, an absolutely horrific story about WWII POW labour and textile manufacturing, okay then 😵

I’m so glad I basically divested from fast fashion as part of the Great Lifestyle Reset of 2020 😵‍💫

https://youtu.be/0pJwJCwvYiI

Traiken,
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@elana I read the first part of this twice and still thought you wrote “top hat”

Traiken, to random
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Even when I recall an event before 2020, I want to mentally superimpose masks on everyone. The thought of just walking into a store is mortifying.

Traiken, to random
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Everyone loves a spacewhale

Traiken, to random
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I was playing with some effects and thought they were cool enough to record

FOR TWENTY FOUR MINUTES

Consider it post-ambient music: It goes on repetitively, but it's not comforting unless you're into industrial or experimental electronica. It's meditative, if the meditation is on aggressive and awesome noises. If anything, I suppose it's

https://youtu.be/d5cSv6iBWv8

Traiken, to random
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So many people are into “lofi” music, but they aren’t taking it far enough. I’m past low fidelity; I’m into no fidelity. Infidel music.

Traiken, to random
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Please, I am begging you, put alt text on your photos. Not just for people who can't see them, but for your fucking memes with words that other people have muted, and then that shit gets blasted onto their timeline anyway because you didn't transcribe the triggering words you clearly didn't even consider, or the damage they do.

Traiken, to random
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When I was woken up by a shaking house this morning, the first thoughts I formed were, "Is that a tornado? Did a nuke go off in New York?" I have worried about the latter many more times than the former in my life.

As I lay there, things shaking inexplicably as I emerged from unconsciousness, I wondered if death was imminent, and my feelings were 49% fear, 49% exhausted resignation, and 2% excitement.

Traiken, to random
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I am not accustomed to being woken up by earthquakes on the east coast

Traiken, to random
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Whaaaaat the fuck was that

Traiken, to random
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I wondered what wah pedal Aaron North used on the 2006 Nine Inch Nails tour, and then I did a search and found a website dedicated to listing all the gear he used.

This is what the internet is for--not this petty arguing, doomscrolling, algorithmically-induced rage and depression.

Traiken,
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So naturally I started looking up how much those wahs go for, and video reviews of it to get a better sense of the sound. The pedal is like a self-parody of dumb guitar gear naming conventions, full of douchebag puns and macho horseshit; there is literally a switch between "estrogen" and "testosterone," and you can tell this didn't come from a playful enlightened viewpoint on gender dynamics.

Traiken,
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But in one video, the guy says the estrogen mode is "more expressive," and testosterone "gives you more punch, but the punch masks the expressiveness." And I'm almost certain he says these words with zero irony or self-awareness. Cracked me the fuck up, though.

jessica, to random
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I’m feeling a very specific-to-me dysphoria today.

I don’t think I can articulate it in a way that others would understand and find convenient.

So I’m not going to try, but it is eating me alive.

Traiken,
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@jessica I wish more people could understand what you’re going through. But we can understand that you are going through it.

Traiken, to random
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Based on Your List, we recommend: Fucking Whiplash

hilljam, to random
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what is jazz? indeed, what is any genre, really?

https://jamieslist.deptofenergymgmt.com/p/thats-not-jazz

Traiken,
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@hilljam "Jazz" and "rules" seem like odd bedfellows, and I think there's a larger categorization to music that could be applied: whether the emphasis is on structure or on expression. It reminds me of something Trent Reznor said about being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, on what "rock" even is and that the Hall of Fame can recognize "synth" bands: "It's the spirit of expression and, to me, freedom and no limits to expression. That's my version of what rock means."

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