Hakita

Hakita

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ULTRAKILL creator and general music nerd

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Divine Frequency
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📢IT'S HERE. Divine Frequency EA is finally RELEASED! ON STEAM NOW! We had some hard times along the way but the support was INSTRUMENTAL. Thanks to everyone who believed in the soul of the project! We can't wait to show what else is to come! store.steampowered.com/app/2548880/...

store.steampowered.comSave 10% on Divine Frequency on SteamA fever dream experience about the total collapse of reality as it lingers between states of erasure and transcendence.
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Saw Lawrence English live. Everyone was laying down on the floor on yoga mats, you could feel the drones with your entire body from the vibrations of the floor. Very pleasant experience.

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RIP my beloved Zoom G3 guitar effects pedal. I had been using this thing for over a decade to record all my music and now it finally died. Luckily, despite being discontinued, I managed to find a second hand used one that I had to import from Japan. My beloved returns to me...

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My final recordings were really shoddy in sound quality, so I thought that was just it dying, but the problem continued even with the new pedal. Apparently it was just some "audio enhancement" setting that had turned on by itself destroying the recordings...

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Lately I've been obsessed with (at least what I call) Process Films. They're movies that focus on the detailed portrayal of a process or action, with extreme examples (marked with ★ in the alt text) often prioritizing the process itself over story and characters. Am I missing any notable examples?

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Happy 25th anniversary to Devil May Cry! It's wild how much of a trendsetter DMC1 was for 3D action games, and somehow it's still up there as one of the greats. A little less accessible for modern players, but once you get into its groove, it's a damn well-oiled machine.

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Although I still prefer DMC3 overall, I tend to replay 1 more just due to how smoothly it flows with its brisk pace and short length, it's easy to just do a full playthrough in a single sitting whenever I feel like it. I even don't hate Nightmare!

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Vibin with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. I'm no expert on raaga, but the mellow plucks and slow swings of the sitar make for such a pleasant and easy atmosphere, and a great cure for headaches (ow). Dhrupad singing is great too, but I usually prefer this kinda thing instrumental.

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Absolutely loved Big Walk. Didn't expect it to feel like a co-op version of The Witness with its simple puzzle rules, neat twists and rich atmosphere, though there's plenty goofy hijinx in between too. Co-op puzzle games are so satisfying when done right. Probably my GOTY.

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Vibin with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. It's a shame the recording quality on their live albums tends to be spotty, because the performances are insane. Billy Cobham was in his prime one of if not THE best drummer in the world, and studio recordings can't do him justice. youtu.be/RUbusEvGhtM

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Vibin with Buddy Guy's Sweet Tea. Usually I prefer my Blues the old fashioned way (acoustic by a solo artist), but the sound on this record is so deliciously gritty and grimy that it borders on very heavy, moody rock. The bass tone on "Baby Please Don't Leave Me" is incredible.

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Vibin with This Heat's self-titled, an anxious collage of off-kilter rock experiments. Absolutely wild that this was made in the 70's, outside of the recording quality it would totally parse as a modern experimental rock record. Some people call it scary, but I find it exciting.

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Swans just put up preorders for their new live album "Newly Sentient Being", consisting of the final performance by this iteration of Swans. Their previous live album, Live Rope, dethroned Swans Are Dead as my favorite live album of all time, so suffice it to say I'm excited.

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Also vibin with Vladimir Oidupaa's "Divine Music From a Jail" today, Tuvan throat singing with solo accordion. Very lonely, intimate and personal music, like you're hearing the depths of a person's soul. Regardless of whether he was innocent or not, Oidupaa's music is immense.

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Vibin with Melankolia by Stolen Kidneys, Finnish noise rock just the way I like it: dissonant but still riffy, sharp but still meaty. Grim, desperate and crushing. Really underrated, I only found them by sheer happenstance.

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Up to 99 Piranesi. pieces now. This batch's are half an hour each, a bit more digestible in length but no less weird and abstract. I haven't had time to work on 100., so there will be a bonus series of smaller pieces between now and that. www.youtube.com/@piranesi.pr... piranesiproject.bandcamp.com

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11 Piranesi. pieces in 1 week has got to be my new record. Hopefully this will be enough to keep a few fans of weird, atmospheric and abstract music fed for a while. We're approaching triple digits, which might call for something special? www.youtube.com/@piranesi.pr... piranesiproject.bandcamp.com