#death's dynamic shroud

[aden-oster]

Frost Children, George Clanton, & death's dynamic shroud @ Harlow's Nightclub - 9/17/23

#frost children #george clanton #death's dynamic shroud #vaporwave #hyperpop #concert photography #photography

[declanlikesmusic]

The Best Song on I'll Try Living Like This

In May of 2015, the now legendary & iconic vaporwave trio known as death's dynamic shroud put out what would be the 12th album in their now 50+ discography of full-length records, this one on the then-prestigious Dream Catalogue label: I'll Try Living Like This, produced solely by two of its members James Webster (known as HCMJ) and Keith Rankin (known as Giant Claw). The album was produced in the midst of awaiting cassette production for what would end up being their 13th album in 2016 on Rankin's Orange Milk Records label, produced by the remaining member Tech Honors: CLASSROOM SEXXTAPE.

From the moment it came out to this very day and beyond, I'll Try Living Like This remains to be seen as death's dynamic shroud's revolutionary, genre-redefining magnum opus and it stands as one of vaporwave's most creative & experimental records to achieve this level of notoriety. There's a lot to be said about each individual track and how it pushes the boundaries of a genre so many people neglectfully view as reductive & derivative. But one tracks I want to particularly highlight is one that isn't often seen as the emotional high point that it is early on into the record.

혼자 남은 지금 꼴이

The fourth track into the record in a short streak of amazing tunes kicks off with two samples: The introductory vocal humming of Avant from his song Separated and the stretched out instrumental to AOA's Miniskirt providing the beat & chords, provided more density & reverberation added to the beat. Beyond that, you hear a whole lot going on. There's a specific recurring vocal sample that gets chopped up & glitchy throughout the song, I can't confidently tell you where that's from, it could be from Separated again for all I could tell. Above that, you hear dialogue from CSI: NY spliced in, coming from Kim Kardashian of all people, some shimmering sounds coming from the intro to Fleetwood Mac's classic song Everywhere and later on, some lesser edited samples of the Legend of Zelda Sound & Drama, which I'll touch on in a moment.

It's an incredibly dense track, but more important than what it samples it how it feels to sample these things. The Miniskirt beat, once an upbeat, sharply produced k-pop track, is paulstretched & echoed out to feel much more lethargic but equally intoxicating. I think even without the added elements, the backing track is absolutely thick & heavy. It's like walking through the city on a packed night and just slowly dragging yourself through an extremely concentrated atmosphere, an opaque fog of urban smoke & emotional weight, and it wouldn't feel that way if it didn't sound so… melancholic.

There's a sadness permeating throughout the song. The strange CSI: NY dialogue, the dragged out & buffering vocal glitches, the lonely Avant vocalizing, there's something about all of those elements, combined with the once sensual love song beat profusely slowed down, that makes the whole experience feel so depressive, like an alcoholic bender. After two and a half minutes of this, you're given even more hints to what all of this is. A Japanese dialogue sample from the aforementioned Zelda Sound Drama plays and it of course reads like a piece of Zelda drama… but one sentence sticks out:

愛が鍵です。(Love is the key.)

A little further in, the shimmering of the Everywhere sample strips away. For a moment, it feels less crowded, but still… sad. Shortly before the four minute mark, Link's cry for Zelda is heard, the beat disappears for that moment and when it cuts back in, you hear something swelling in the background. You feel an emotional tension starting to rise. Then Avant sings.

We never turned our backs on each other But now that we're separated We can't stand one another And when we were together We never turned our backs on each other But now that we're separated We can't stand one another You did me wrong

This is a breakup song. More than anything else, it's a tragic, bittersweet, heart-wrenching breakup song. The added bass synths to the beat and orchestral strings climbing further up in the background for as long as those lines are sung; it feels like the rest of the track that came before was trying to suppress its deeply sorrowing emotions before all that resistance just shatters and every ounce of grief just spills out into tears falling into the puddles of rain below. The song concludes from there and it overall changes the dynamic depths of this album's extremely abtract concepts that are as hard to define, pinpoint or deciphir as this one is, if not more so.

This wasn't my favourite song for the longest time. I mean, for a long while, it was 그대 기억에 지쳐 잠들죠, but that's more of an interlude piece that directly transitions into a reprise of this song, funnily enough, that further elaborates on that Miniskirt sample with a bit of an eccojam. But other times, it was Loving is Easy or everybody's favourite 내 마음은 떨고. It was hard to define what really makes I'll Try Living Like This's best song. Sure, the latter had probably the best production of the bunch and the most energy for it, but an emotional pique or a definitive highly was hard to come by in an album that was always so consistent but always in some way relied on its surrounding pieces or the overall album package. 혼자 남은 지금 꼴이, however, completely stands on its own. As its own song and its own emotional piece.

I think it goes ultimately unrecognised in the grand scheme of this album because of how subtle it all is. Everything I just described to you about the song is subtle in their respective degrees. You really don't come to notice its value at the face; you find it out by digesting it further & more thoroughly, giving each listen its own time to clue you in to what it's about and what it's doing here on the album. It ultimately comes across as the most rewarding song on what is considered to this day to be death's dynamic shroud's masterpiece.

One that is immeditely ruined by the vocal samples on 이보다 좋을 수는 없겠어, but believe me, we do not want to have that conversation today.

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[saint-vhs]

Ghost Diamond - 혼자 남은 지금 꼴이 (Peach & Plum Version)

#Ghost Diamond #I'll Try Living Like This (NUWRLD Version) #혼자 남은 지금 꼴이 (Peach & Plum Version) #혼자 남은 지금 꼴이 #Peach & Plum Version #vaporwave #music #death's dynamic shroud #death's dynamic shroud.wmv

[taxi-davis]

#bandcamp #music #audio #vaporwave #death's dynamic shroud #혼자 남은 지금 꼴이 (Reprise) #I'll try living like this

[grrlmusic]

Keith Rankin

#Keith Rankin #Death's Dynamic Shroud #Reality 2 #Music #Artwork #Cover Art #poster

[newmasterpiece]

"NEO GAIA LEGEND II"///2023/11/18/渋谷CIRCUS TOKYO//////

2010年代WEB上から発生し、現実をも巻き込み増殖する音楽概念“Vaporwave（ヴェイパーウェイヴ）”。その代表的アーティストで構成され、2018、2019年と2年続けて来日した"NEO GAIA PHANTASY"が長いコロナ禍を経てついにCIRCUSに帰還！  おなじみ"death's dynamic shroud""Equip""R23X"の3組に加え、彼らも所属する米国最大手Vaporwaveレーベル<100%Electronica>から代表的アーティスト"ESPRIT空想""Neggy Gemmy"が初来日！ 彼らを迎えるのは"ミカヅキBIGWAVE""bl00dwave""さよひめぼう""DJ badboi"といった面々に加え、神戸から<Local Visions>所属のTsudio Studioが出演決定！

“NEO GAIA LEGEND II” 11/18(sat) OPEN 14:00/START 14:30- 渋谷CIRCUS TOKYO

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▼ ACT(main floor): ESPRIT空想 (Los Angeles, California) death's dynamic shroud (Los Angeles, California) Neggy Gemmy (Los Angeles, California) Equip (Chicago, Illinois) R23X (Vancouver,Canada) bl00dwave ミカヅキBIGWAVE Tsudio Studio さよひめぼう DJ badboi

▼ DJ (sub floor): mirrorball inferno デラ 数の子ミュージックメイト 駒澤零 seaketa

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[huskyheroine]

DDS UPDATE: Awawa

Endless Megatower III/Ribbon EP: The weirdest Megatower so far but not my favorite, has some real heavy hitters in it through. Really good! Ribbon EP is just some tracks from Megatower extended. It's ok.

Fav Song: F??? LIFE CHANGING VIEW/ Quest 66 (Extended)

Crisis Party: Definitely one of Tech's weirder outings. I do like the genesis sound fonts and songs samples. It took me a listen or two to get it but I'm into this!

Fav Song: VIP ACCESS

Keys To The Gate: Really really liked this one on first listen but not so much on later ones?? Not sure whats going on there, usually it's the opposite. Either way, this is dope. Define one of my favorites even if it's not as good as I first thought.

Fav Song: Keys To The Gate

Kingdom Of One: OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS MY FAVORITE TECH HONORS ALBUM AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE DDS ALBUMS. THERE IS NOT A SINGLE TRACK ON THIS I DISLIKE IT IS SO GOOD. I really enjoy Tech's original work and this is some of his best on the regard, just some of his best on general. Its so catchy, so emotional, so personal, I can't get enough of it.

Fav Song: Kingdom Of One (III)

Transcendence Bot: I was so excited to listen to this album and I was not disappointed one bit. This is my new favorite DDS album. Period. It is so clean, the soundscapes are straight up magical, angelic, wonderful, whatever you wanna say. It's nearly perfect. This one is gonna be hard to beat I'm not gonna lie.

Fav Song: Spirit Of Loneliness

Rankings coming soon!

#woof! #dds #death's dynamic shroud #long post

[pissw1zard]

i find this song creeping it's way back into my head every so often and it's just as consuming as it was the first time i'd heard it

#death's dynamic shroud #just to be needed #musicposting

[gargoylegirlcock]

death's dynamic shroud - Desperation II

here i go, scream my lungs out and try to get to you you're my only one i let go, there's just no one who gets me like you do you're my only, my only one

#music #vaporwave #death's dynamic shroud #tech honors #so fucking good. #Youtube

[danielpowell]

I see that you are lonely, I see that you are lonely

If you could, I know you would, if only

If only, one night I will be the moon

#death's dynamic shroud #melvis jams #this is mitchcore #the beat #the STRINGS #the vocal chop they did to shape new lyrics #effervescent #I'm flourishing #Spotify

[percythrillingtonno]

The best response ever lmaooooooo

#meme #SoundCloud comment #lmao #death's dynamic shroud

[iamlisteningto]

death's dynamic shroud's Faith In Persona

#death's dynamic shroud #faith in persona #music #electronic #vaporwave #plunderphonics #pop #hyperpop #glitch #ambient #experimental #dance #dance pop #soundcloud

[declanlikesmusic]

NOW That's What Declan Calls Music Vol. 1

Introducing NOW That's What Declan Calls Music, your #1 compilation playlist for some of the best of Declan LikesMusic's favourite songs! Listen along to over 40 modern hits from artists such as death's dynamic shroud, Tokyo Machine, Billie Eilish, JPEGMAFIA and many, many more!

Listen now on Spotify!

#music #Spotify #playlist #compilation #electronic music #pop music #hip hop #rock music #r&b music #vaporwave music #experimental music #skrillex #beck #rina sawayama #tokyo machine #joey valence & brae #remi wolf #death's dynamic shroud #billie eilish #kendrick lamar #j.i.d #diskette park #caroline polachek #dodie #genesis owusu #billy woods #kenny segal #denzel curry #netbooks.wrld #jpegmafia

[saint-vhs]

death's dynamic shroud.wmv - CD Player (Reprise)

#death's dynamic shroud.wmv #death's dynamic shroud #CD Player (Reprise) #vaporwave #music

[taxi-davis]

#bandcamp #music #audio #vaporwave #death's dynamic shroud #Somebody Home #i'll try living like this

[alwaysopposing]

BOYHOOD IS AN ONE DIMENSIONAL SPECTRUM

#death's dynamic shroud #natural snow buildings #vaporwave #ambient #album art #music meme