Alex Icon :: L_2NITE

"totally untethered categories that don't make any sense unless you blindly accept that everybody feels like they are destined to become a semi-famous person"

is the music truly experimental, or is the artist simply adrift of the cultural threads that already thoroughly explored the territory? who's job is it to clue them in? maybe role of the dj, the scene elder, the label to some extent nudge the awareness to appreciate rather than naively appropriate

People who run dance music labels: I am literally begging you to figure out how to do metadata correctly. Do not make me change each track from "Various Artists" one by one, please

tagging music is a lost art for ppl who don't download or collect mp3s

it's super tricky esp as we get further away from the historical and geographical context of the roots of any given scene and the sound around it. does the producer know what song they want to mix into theirs, what song comes next? does the producer even dance or dj? these are loaded questions ofc.

the ppl who make the music, and the ppl who are digging for music, they both have their heart in the right place. but it is rarely the same place LOL

no, you get it, you work at a record store. confusingly, Bandcamp is not a record store so there is no coherence in how genre tags are applied (self-administered)
many ppl are not good at describing their music much less putting it in the right bin. that's part of the appeal & value of record stores

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.

Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:

zinelibrary.org

a couple of us were rly, rly loud abt it on the internet a decade and a half ago

Buy an mp3 player, pay for digital copies of music when you can afford it and pirate it when you can’t until you’re back in a position in which you can. Listen to the collection of music that you own and cultivated by hand and ear. Listen to it again. Share your collection with others.

being a legend in yr own mind still counts

Somewhere on Earth is a would-be child prodigy flower arranger whose talents are, as of yet, tragically undiscovered.

curling is the picross of olympic games

prime cuts 8/x, by L_2NITE 8 track album

the eighth page of a scrapbook-style retrospective of my favorite tunes from earlier iterations

the crises became a crucible that forged a New Ell, nuell, as well as [a] return of ag ag lady

these ones felt different because i was starting to feel different

alexisicon.bandcamp.com/album/prime-...

prime cuts 8/x, by L_2NITE 8 track album

the eighth page of a scrapbook-style retrospective of my favorite tunes from earlier iterations

the crises became a crucible that forged a New Ell, nuell, as well as [a] return of ag ag lady

these ones felt different because i was starting to feel different

alexisicon.bandcamp.com/album/prime-...

going out of your way to not sound like another artist will limit your creativity. when you feel inspired by something, run with it. that's your true authentic heart thirsting to manifest itself as art. true inspiration is a divine impulse, not a copy of someone else's work

there should always be couches at the dance

PITTSBURGH PARKING TERLET

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“corporate rave owned by genocide-supporting investment bankers celebrates launch of new tv show about investment bankers” you can’t make this up

If you strip all the accreted centuries of obfuscatory political rhetoric away, what you have is simply an ideology of petty egoism versus an ideology of sociality, of community. The "right" should be instantly recognised as fundamentally & inherently just plain antisocial. Damned by definition.

the grace, politeness, forgiveness, and understanding of liberals (who think all violence is the same violence) has allowed for the survival and retrenchment of dangerous & antiquated ideologies with no place in civil society. it didn't have to be this way, but they chose for us.

okay hear me out

They are fucking murderers

Abolish the Electoral College, Abolish ICE, restrain the Supreme Court, neutering/abolishing the Senate. These all are extremely variable in terms of possibility or immediacy of enactment but they're all vital to discuss seriously and with earnestness. How do we prevent things like today happening?

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

it took social security one year and four days to agree with me that long COVID was last straw

it's taken me over a decade to accept what disability means for my own music, my capacity to support the scenes that i helped cultivate

reimagining the accessible alternative i need thru brain fog is...

very funny that the one reliable way to make money with music is have a bunch of gen-z’ers recognize it from tiktok memes

like even at low volumes, on cruddy speakers, it does Things to my inner ear that i can no longer accept. i dont want to wear earplugs and push thru, i want to move away from pushing entirely. un-pump. i want to savor the dynamic range and precision so many of us fought so hard for!