EmeraldX 🐱

Russel is hitting the nail on the head so hard with this post, from mentioning the social aspect of this scene down to the accessibility of electronic music. I've advocated for supporting furry music more than once here and this post exemplifies what makes this medium as powerful as it is.

A couple weeks back, I mentioned how bringing down this medium, even as a joke, hurts people in the community who want to express themselves. Furry music as a whole is so vast and diverse now yet still so underground.

You may have noticed my absence for the past couple of weeks. I've been distancing myself from social media due to mental health concerns yet again, and this will probably stay that way for another few weeks minus announcements.

I'll fully admit, having been dependent on these platforms for years, it's really hard to just let go of them for a while. I can spend most of my weeks doing offline hobbies but then still have a day where I peek at Reddit for 2 minutes. I don't even really get any joy from it.

Yes. Next question

I find it funny that this subset of young furries keep trying to tell themselves that "there's no good furry music" but also lowkey frustrating given how many of them are willing to do this for the sake of clout and content. More commodification of fandom culture, I guess

Possibly hot take here, the "do minors belong in furry" discourse is far too nuanced of a concept and most, if not all, of public social media is both not ready and not built to have that conversation.

You have to consider so many different factors that a simple question like that does not remotely cover the extent of the issues it tries to tackle. There's both lived experiences and bias, but also legal repercussions and the current state of the world.

One thing that slightly irks me about some of the videos I see of people using their DAW timeline as a visualizer when they share a track/WIP is that they use it more as eye candy instead of actually displaying how the track works.

I've seen so many of these videos where all they do is just zoom up on a piece of their timeline where you only see about 5 different tracks that moves way too fast to comprehend. When I mean eye candy, it's stuff like this, and I think people abuse the fact that this kind of visualizer is "in."

I Will Say Yes I Will Join The Bluesky Collab It Will Not Start Until February 30th

I finished reading the Dungeon Meshi manga recently and there's so much I really like about the whole story, but one thing that sticks out to me is how cat-coded Izutsumi is. Like, I know it's literally hear appearance, but it's so funny how much of her personality is just...cat.

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Additional announcement regarding my #bandcamp page I have made the decision to update my full discography discount from 15% to 25%. I hope that this allows others to enjoy the extent of my work and be able to support me without breaking the bank too much.

It's #bandcampfriday and a fresh new track from yours meowly is now out! EmeraldX - Chromatic Joy Listen to it here: emeraldx.bandcamp.com/track/chroma... #furrymusic #furrymusician #ukhardcore #happyhardcore #harddancemusic

Briefly went through my discography tonight and when I got to Fire Away I was kind of blown away, as in a "how the fuck did I actually make this" kind of way. emeraldx.bandcamp.com/album/fire-a...

For context, this was made in 2024 during a time I was still heavily experimenting with what flavors of UKHC I wanted to make and it came about with fucking around with Harmor and became one of the only primarily Drum n Bass tracks I've made thus far. And it sounds genuinely clean mostly like wtf

Had a conversation in a DDR discord about DDR misic and I felt alienated with my opinions on rhythm game music as a whole. Trying to explain my position as a musician and how much I appreciate the technical side of the music because of it, but it felt like very few people wanted to listen.

New track on the way! EmeraldX - Chromatic Joy Out everywhere September 4th and for #bandcampfriday Presave here: too.fm/dlaqeae #furry #furrymusic #furrymusician #ukhc #ukhardcore #happyhardcore #harddancemusic