This is the first track from my new project called Ninety80space, the track is called Jurastiction Ninety, and it will be live on all streaming platforms from tonight or tomorrow but it is already available on BandCamp (pwyw) along with my previous EP.
It's honestly just as valuable to me if you just go and download it since streaming is basically worthless anyways and if you get it for free you'll be paying with your soul (or email) and I can bug you when I release new music 💕
MY MUSIC HAS FLATLINED. 21 Song plays. I was working on producing Super Ultra Psychedelic POP songs. I was pushing the music to the outer limits of sound when the songs became exhausted fell over and flatlined. I began to panic! With the help of Viper I moved quickly and brought them all back to life. Their Alive! Some have suffered severe trauma though. And some are quite dangerous. So if…
TLDR: if you like thick synths, go immerse yourself in this new YK release.
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I've been listening to sugar sk*-*lls for a long time. I recall a performance years ago at the, now closed, Mercy Lounge where Ben Marcantel went on stage, plugged in a Gameboy and proceeded to blast the audience with his chiptune compositions. I've never seen anyone do that in Nashville before or after. I loved it.
Over the years, sugar sk-lls has morphed and explored other sounds; Marcantel was crafting AI compositions back in 2019, way before it was cool! Looking through the back catalog of works, you'll encounter a number of collaborations. Matt Glassmeyer of Lambchop and Lindsay Johns of Nudity appear on "tethers." Kyle Hamlett and Ryan Norris of Coupler appear on "Right Hand Hand." G Seth West, Tye Bellar and Tom Senter of Financier appear on "Gini Rising" back in 2016.
That Financier collaboration grew into something more concrete. G Seth West and Tye Bellar started working with Marcantel more and more;* eventually forming a new Voltron version of sugar sk-lls.
As the story goes, they met up every weekend and crafted dozens of songs; scrapping entire compositions, merging ideas together, exploring bigger and bolder sounds. They invited Cortney Tidwell to perform on a song and realized the intended track was not good enough - West remarking "we had a diamond on a paper plate." They kept going, pushing their work further into something they loved to hear.
All of those efforts culminated into Star Time, the album that is released today. It's the biggest record from sugar sk-lls yet. Not only because it's a collaboration of three minds but the production is thicker, more immersive and more inviting of repeated listens. Most importantly, and possibly most overlooked, it's also an incredibly emotional record. Every track features vocoder leading the way, which can be easily written off as just another instrument or, worse, a gimmick. But pay attention to the lyrics, there are incredibly poignant, introspective and moving moments from start to finish.
I'm incredibly proud to be involved with the release. I've been a fan of sugar sk-lls for so long and now I get to help spread the love to more folks. It's a record that requires your attention to fully appreciate but will still yield enjoyment even if you're blasting it as a dance track in the background. It contains multitudes.
Pick up the 2xCassette Rave Case and digital on Bandcamp or Stream and Share wherever you like to listen.
In case it seems like every third comic has Batman in it... you're not wrong. He's been in 38.6% of DC issues since 2020, with a stark increase of 8% each decade since the 90s and surpassing Superman in popularity. Despite this, there's been a massive drop off of comics where he is teamed up with Superman or a Robin (although the amount of group team ups between Batman Family members has increased, as well as Nightwing solos).
The defintion of hell is knowing a show is incredibly well-received in its first season, but if people don’t become machines churning out tweets, content, and rewatching 24/7, there’s no likelihood it’ll get a chance to tell its whole story. This shit is madness. Shows in different genres shouldn’t have to pit-battle for dominance. First seasons are MEANT to be baselines establishing worlds and characters, not complete storylines. The idea that this golden age of television has turned into “get it done in one or get out” is revolting.
Wondering what is the concussion/serious injury protocol in this table tennis tournament , where a player is concussed, has a cardiorespiratory failure episode, recovers, and is allowed to finish the game.