Topic: The Music Thread

Very Romantic song from Dance Dance Revolution X2.

@nessisonett @LieutenantFatman I recently picked up Ariel Pink's album The Doldrums, which I thoroughly enjoyed, but after reading some unsavory stuff about him on Wikipedia, I've decided to sell his album. What do you two think? Is it ever possible to separate the art from the artist? It just spoiled it for me in this case, look him up if you are curious as to his controversial views. But be warned, you might find them quite disturbing.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic
Lots of people seem to separate the art from the artist without any effort. I am like you though, I really struggle to do this. If I learn someone has done some particularly vile things and are just awful people, then it puts me off anything they've created.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I’m terrible at separating the two. I definitely am aware of Ariel Pink’s nonsense attitudes and I just wouldn’t want to support him financially. I can still appreciate things like Michael Jackson songs and even R Kelly has some bops but it does make it hard for me to even think about supporting that.

@nessisonett
Do you like Michael Jackson's song ?
I think you like this remix also.

E&F sides of Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings are available on Spotify now, @nessisonett As a guitarist, do you like any Jim Hall stuff? He taught Bill Frisell, who you might like as well, he is often compared to Miles Davis, I can recommend some albums if you like, if you are not too inundated with stuff already!

@LieutenantFatman That's interesting! Who are your favorite artists in the world of music then?

Not sure who they are exactly, but it was on a football program and it reminded of something that should be in Cyberpunk 2077.

@nessisonett Have you heard any Paul Desmond stuff? Solid 60s jazz saxophonist. I believe he played with Dave Brubeck.

Fascination ~eternal love mix~ by 2MB from DDR SuperNOVA

@Draco_V_Ecliptic

For new releases, Robert Parker is my favourite. Here's his latest album.

https://robertparkerofficial.bandcamp.com/album/club-707

For absolutely classics, Queen is probably top of my list. A lot of the best music is from the 80s.

@LieutenantFatman Not the 70s? More of a Duran Duran than a Led Zeppelin person then?

@Th3solution @nessisonett @Draco_V_Ecliptic @LieutenantFatman @Anti-Matter @JohnnyShoulder @Anti-Matter

Been listening to itsallstar who hosts a dreams music stream every Monday at 9pm. It's like the next John Peel show. For 3 hours he plays original tunes made in Dreams followed by a music jam and the quality is awesome. Better than the stuff on comparable radio shows. He showcased some of my songs the last 2 weeks and it's blown my mind to be honest.

My latest tune is at 57 minutes into the show, it's got scratching in it!

https://m.twitch.tv/videos/748321050

@themcnoisy
Eh, i prefer DDR and Eurobeat songs. 😅

@Anti-Matter it is like eurobeat.

@nessisonett What music have you been listening to recently?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I’ve been a bit busy with trying to study from home and setting all that up but I did enjoy Kiss My Super Bowl Ring by The Garden. It’s messy and all over the place, making it hard to love but I enjoyed the genre hopping madness of it all.

@nessisonett Oh yeah, is that out now? I remember hearing about that album a while back, before it was released, I'll definitely pick that up.

@themcnoisy
Awesome, well done matey! That is indeed a top quality jam. Are you planning to create any more?

@LieutenantFatman Yup, straight after that I mad a remix for the game pollen - arguably the best game on Dreams made by the community. The developers listened in as well which was awesome.

I'm currently part of the 'donk' jam. So you have to make a song with a donk in it. I've gone all out this time changing the time stamp from 4/4 to 3/4 when the donk comes in. A similar technique to Pink Floyd money which goes to a 7/8 from 4/4. I don't think a song on Dreams has done this yet. I don't like sticking donks on music so developed my own spin on it. Will try to make a YouTube video later.