Sony AVU-150 (1984)

Dear listener, three months ago I began posting music by recently deceased artists and long-dead bands that were, all of them, exceptional in some way. I haven’t stopped since, and with this post I hereby pronounce my quarter-year long rediscovery of dead bands to be officially complete… and lucky you, I’ve got a plump Maraschino cherry to place on top of this layered ice cream cake. Folks, crank the volume, smash play, and be placed in salivating awe at one of the most influential dead bands of all-time. Imagine a musical act that is completely mediocre in every way; just some shitty, generic modern band the likes of which you hear ad infinitum on Top-40’s radio. Now, add to that same non-specific act a lead lady vocalist that has a voice on par with Billie Holiday. Back that superb voice up with instrumentalists hungry to deliver something that sounds new and exciting to the world, subtract the pretentiousness and insincerity of modern music, and cube the equation with infinite collective creativity and genuine inspiration. What you are left with is the almighty and immortal Portishead. As English as roast beef and hailing from Bristol, this group hasn’t made an album in about fifteen years and only technically lives on through ultra-rare live performances. In just under two decades from the mid-90’s to 2008, this group managed to produce not mere music, but genuine lightning-in-a-bottle magic. The members were all very motivated by old timey film soundtrack LP’s, leaving a lot of their tracks sounding like a tune from a film noire. Whether they liked it or not, they had a major hand in popularizing trip-hop, a highly experimental genre (in the 90’s anyway) which relies heavily on hip hop tempos mixed with soul, jazz, funk, or whatever form of electronic music you want to throw into the fusion. This was also a band that just kind of burned out; despite their notoriety and mega-successful presence in the industry, the members of this collective were just fallible people at the end of the day, and apparently suffered from extreme exhaustion by way of constantly recording and touring. If you spent your time in studios cranking out some of the highest quality music available at the time, you’d be exhausted too. This is Biscuit from 1994’s Dummy, and it is merely one of many, many outstanding works from their contemplative, well-executed and downright industry-changing catalog. Truly quality music (just like any quality entertainment; movies, television, art, etc.) should reveal something true and perhaps tragic about the human condition. Portishead excelled in this area. It doesn’t matter if they were only around for a moment in time. Their music is TIMELESS.

I don’t generally post many ultra-famous acts on this page unless given a motivation. Here’s my motivation; Portishead changed music on the planet Earth forever. They’re more goth than the whole of modern goth music. They’re trippy-er than the entirety of trip-hop. And, if anything you do in your life has 1/10th the positive impact on the globe as this here musical act, you, my friend, have earned my respect for merely existing. Image source: https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-roots-of-portishead-767977

I hate Reels.

I hate TikTok.

I hate Shorts.

I hate the amputation of visuals for some perceived notion of a better more marketable perspective.

Stop butchering video.

Mary J Blige - My Life (1994)

Recently I’ve been doing new YouTube Videos for Predator Hunting Grounds where I along with fans do voice overs for Predator Characters, explaining and reading their lore. Sort of like The Nomad Predator reading the story of recorded Yautja Predators, depending on the feats they carried or the uniqueness they bring to the species. I hope you all enjoy and it would be amazing to have you all check out the video and support what I and a fan known as “ZIGGY” have done. It would be awesome to do more of these in the future^^

PS. The Images of Nomads head via emotes where made by @black-suns-rim

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Drake, 21 Savage - Hours in Silence

Before continuing, tw: Pill overdose!

@normalsproutanon

Thank you to @urmywaifuu for voicing sprout! I voiced myself!

meme i made the audio off of

REGGAE DANCEHALL SOCIETY PARTY Level The Vibes - Stagalag The Final Chap...

Home Theater Installation in Newark

JVC G-AV500 (1983)

Motivational Music in the Morning ... #RoyalBlood, #Typhoons [Official Audio] (2021) #MMitM1

Dear listener, I promise I’ll be back with more music in 24’. For now, let me share a personal lesson in music to all of those reading this. Sometimes, *the young* can influence your musical tastes. At the very start of 23’ I met a smart young Zoomer named Fen. Fen is my coworker for context. Before I met Fen, I thought Zoomers were completely unintelligible. Sorry Zoomers, it’s true, I judged all of you. But it was only based on the vast majority of interactions I had had with your generation up to that point. This young man was slightly different from his generation in that he could carry on detailed conversations on politics, environment, and music. In our conversations about music, he asked if I had ever heard of slowcore. I hadn’t. He played some slowcore for me in our company van. I enjoyed some of it and asked for a short-list of slowcore bands. Fen enthusiastically provided it. After listening to slowcore off-and-on for most of 23’, I can tell you I like it a lot. It’s all about quiet beginnings and then some sort of GRAND FINISH. And within this subgenre that I didn’t know existed, is a band called Low, and holy shit do they make some great music! This is a group that started off in 1993 and perished in 2022 with the death of their co-founder Mimi Parker. Starting off with some very restrained and quiet melodies to suit the bar crowds they were originally playing for; this standard band beginning was followed by their own personal boom on college radio and proceeded by a second album and a European tour with Radiohead. Suddenly, the band began to take on electronic influences to supplement their tunes and even started to take a stab at some rather thunderous post-rock jams. While the creative approach of slowcore (as a whole) is generally minimalist and relies on slow tempos to find its structure, this group for nearly three decades attempted to elegantly place as many branches on the slowcore tree as humanly possible without burning out in the process. Talented, poetic and creators of some of the saddest material I listened to in 23’, this group’s extensive catalog more than kept me going from track to track in a frenzy. Having emerged from mere nightclubs in Minneapolis, Low’s legacy is one of eventual international success as their music has been featured in commercials and movies. They also happen to bear the distinction of being one of those bands that you’ve invariably heard in passing but could never put a band name to the tune. If you smash play, you will be treated to Dinosaur Act from their 2001 album Things We Lost in the Fire. Enjoy!

Imagine my surprise when I was doing research for this post and realized that both slowcore and Low were from the 90’s... my generation. Sometimes Zoomers have the information that you just don’t, folks! Thanks Fen, consider my know-it-all millennial ass humbled! I will soon be taking a break from Tumblr to recharge my mental battery. Just wanted to stop and thank the THOUSANDS of occipital lobes that have tuned in for a taste of my personal musical library on Tumblr for the past… going on half a decade! Image source: https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/low-interview-duluth-february-2011-35017/

Audio & video editing

I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished