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Art, chaos, vibes. 47yo trans femme Latina Protogen/Hyena DJ, musician, 420, psychonaut, PNW. Sunday Service Spinning Society Chaplain.PLURR!
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Sign me up! :P
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Absolutely. I know you'd do the vibe proud!
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I'm looking for the oxyacetylene, because I'm angling towards cutting right into the furry club scene like I used to do, to show these folks another path, another future, with vibes they've only felt in dreams.
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I'm very much looking forward to it!! It looks like it's totally my jam, it just happens on a night I usually have a planned anime thing, so I need to start shuffling things around.
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I use it for my "Protogen Voice" in VRChat.
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Clownfish supports text-to-speech and is free, but it is not open source, though the license appears to indicate it is free for open source, and it can be used as an independent VST.
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Forgot I had that day off... Guess I know what I'm doing. :P
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The value of "Shitposting as Parodic Art" can't be understated in these times, when homogeneity & mimicry is increasingly celebrated. One may call it "Cringe", but I call it "Subversive", & would take an exquisitely crafted shitpost over a regurgitated Top40 track any day of the week.
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I've heard "Dark Bass" before, but it wasn't anything like this. That's just a placeholder genre that barely describes what we heard, hahah. @.).@ Yeah, it was a cohesive whole, and it was amazing, and like nothing I've seen at any Furality since I started attending with Furality 2000.
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It's fucking crazy, innit?? :P
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I intend to catch their further sets, that's for damned sure.
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There was no other set at Somna whose flow held within it such an entrenched story, that held such a buried narrative, hidden deep in the static. I was enrapt via the Mixcloud stream before I even saw it in the club & the visuals took that narrative from an auditory story to a spiritual experience.
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To say it was my "Favorite" set of Somna is like saying "Having oxygen is okay."
It does not encompass the concept of what it did to me.
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It's stuck in my head, looping, the impression of bone-vibrating, universe-devouring bass, flailing against my amygdala.
This is a show I should have 100% not vibed with, & that makes it all the more powerful, all the more pervasive. There is a goopy talon around my skull & I fucking love it.
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We have a whiteboard in the bathroom for doodlin' when you're on the can, and a while back my husband doodled a rolling Proot, and wrote "Proot Scootin' Boogie" and I was very confused until he linked me this song, hahaha
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You're always welcome. :)
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Hardstyle got me into Twitch & into VR Club dancing, & it all branched out from there. I thought I was crazy, but I think you're right, I think it's changed, a lot. There are still some DJs who play the old way, but so much of the new stuff is...hard... And difficult to appreciate.
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It's still out there. Kaleidosky, Magic Land, and a few other clubs that are not vocal about advertisement. People WANT this vibe. *I* want this vibe, and it irks me that finding places to enjoy it is so damned difficult.
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I know for a fact more than two people would show up.
Also (toot-toot, Strawbs is hawking S4 again whee) but playing stuff like that is welcome at Sunday Service.
You don't even have to mix it. Just share your "different music taste" with us.
Besides, blues? HELL yes.
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There are places like Soundcloud where there is an absurd wealth of free tracks by independent artists, and Bandcamp, where many hidden gems are PWYW. You can easily spend an entire day gathering enough chill beats for hours of learning/fuckery. Ping me, and I can show you more.
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When I think I want to stray, to elbow into that popular space, I remember I'm nearly 50, & that if I'm not going to be true to myself, then there's no point to any of the garbage & treasures, the bullshit & bounties, the pain & the pleasure, the upset & the joy.
There would have been no point.
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Almost everyone wants to be noticed, yes, but at the same time celebrate individuality, freedom from "the norm", from being like everyone else, yet still seeking that same attention & acknowledgement.
Oh irony.
To stray is a daily choice, a jagged path, one w/more attention on it than I care for.
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Sometimes you gotta risk the L for the cause. Sometimes you get on 2nd/3rd stage, rarely a prime slot, even more rarely Main (unless you're "A Name" or "A Draw"). But look, Main isn't the vibe, anyway. I don't wanna play for bass heads, I wanna play for dreamers, stoners, suiters; y'know, BELIEVERS.
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Fucking beautiful!
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That looks like a screenshot from Furcadia haha :D
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I'm glad you finally found a way back. :)
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KNOWING you're in a toxic thought loop over this stuff is the first step to being able to break out of that. Just remember that the few people who truly appreciate what you do are more valuable than a thousand 'fans' who will forget you when the next set comes on.
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Keep trying. Don't give up. It's hard to stay the course, & the rejections are less bad than the empty dance floors. But give it time and the "true believers" will make themselves known. Remember: if that vibe is where your heart is, then giving up on sharing that vibe is giving up on yourself.
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Goddamn, this. It used to infuriate me, but these days I accept it, and instead fight for the right for these vibes to exist in the same spaces. They can call it what they want; it still moves us in ways they will never understand.
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🍓💜🍓💜🍓💜 You're a genuine sweetheart. Thank you for your kind words; I appreciate them, and I appreciate you, and I'm glad you found value in those vibes.🍓💜🍓💜🍓💜
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I'm slowly finding more of them. I'm free Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, but honestly I don't get on much outside of movie night and Sunday Service because I don't have an excuse to. I know of a couple of chill non-furry events, but they're usually right on top of my two regular events. :P
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Most folks these days don't even know I ever played at Furality, and fewer even know that what I made was part of an on-going, cinematic narrative.
Thank you for remembering.
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And if someone says that’s not true. Go back and look at the past year of the conventions you can cherry pick one set. As a collective it is under represented or nonexistent
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I have thought for a long time about how the scene has slowly moved away from melodic or chill sounds. To make a stage you have to be loud. You have to be hard and you have to be fast.
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And yet the status quo will be vigorously defended, even when presented with such data.
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It was definitely exhausting. There was a time when I loved it, but these past few months I'm coming to a realization that forcing myself to listen to and "enjoy" stuff that is not my vibe is damaging me, & damaging my capacity to be subjective. Hard vibes & glam are turning toxic.
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This sentiment from a harder DJ makes it all the more likely to be heard.
Too many harder/dance/stage-regular DJs have skewed ideas of "chill"; I've heard far more than one classify anything under 130bpm as blanket "chill". BPM is irrelevant; it's about the content and its expression by the mixer.
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DJ judges scene-wide put great stock in energy management, but can't seem to manage their own events' energy flow. :P Oh irony.