And hey: depressing thought - you can even buy official KLF merch these days. Even those guys sold out!! Spoiler alert: in The Manual they point out the problem with the music biz isn’t music it’s capitalism but oh well. Here we all are. The bad guys won - ThreadSky

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aloysiusxg.bsky.social • 5 days ago

And hey: depressing thought - you can even buy official KLF merch these days. Even those guys sold out!!
Spoiler alert: in The Manual they point out the problem with the music biz isn’t music it’s capitalism but oh well. Here we all are. The bad guys won

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aloysiusxg.bsky.social•5 days ago

Which isn’t to say you’re a bad person if you use some shake & bake chord / scale plugins from Polarity or whatever (some look pretty cool tbh) but just realize that you’re trading one sandbox for another; doing something “interesting” involves learning to build things from “scratch”

aloysiusxg.bsky.social•5 days ago

Which isn’t to say that anyone _truly_ starts from zero: nobody teaches themselves vocabulary; everything is to some extent imitative & iterative.
But there is a difference between internalizing something & spitting it back out - repetition with a difference - that puts a human fingerprint on it

aloysiusxg.bsky.social•5 days ago

Prime example: you could take any old dickhead, put them on stage with a pre-programmed pre-quantized DJ set list & their “set” would sound exactly the same as anyone else (minus filter cuts, volume drops, etc). More of your “vocabulary” that is external, automatable, & fungible =less personality

aloysiusxg.bsky.social•5 days ago

The most interesting fun & unique parts of making stuff involve learning & doing it yourself. The more you integrate readymade shortcuts, the more you shortchange yourself & your work, & it shows tbh

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