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(unknown artist) - 50 kicks
50 kicks
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i recently learned about vi hart's fifty fizzbuzzes and decided to do something similar with the technique that's a bit closer to its original intention: i made 50 kick drum sounds today. i've been wanting to get a little bit better at sound design, i haven't seriously dedicated myself to it in a while and this was a good opportunity. i plan on doing this again for other kinds of sounds. i wanna do snares, hats and claps for sure and i might also do pads, leads, and basses.

for this i wound up using almost every softsynth i own. i started with phase plant, then i made some with ableton operator and analog, then i started using the new ableton 12 synth meld, then i made some with ableton wavetable, then a few with sylenth, then a bunch with serum, and then a bunch more with operator and various ableton effects. i learned a lot about all of these synths. i found it really interesting how even doing the same exact thing with two different synths would lead to very different outcomes.

not all of these are great kick sounds, but i like a lot of them and will definitely be using them in the future.



new porter robinson single is, unsurprisingly, fucking fantastic. i remember hearing porter talk in an interview with fantano about the rules he gave himself for his production on nurture, where he insisted on not using any drum machine samples and only having like ambiguous electro-acoustic sounds, no supersaws, no dance music cliches of any kind. and then the best song on the album, musician, came out of him just completely throwing those rules out and doing everything he said he wouldn't do on every other song. and he talked about how for his next album he wanted to follow that direction.

cheerleader sounds very much what i expected based on that interview, and i couldn't be happier. i love the production here, it's very hard to place genre-wise. lots of lovely little details too, i love the glitchy breakbeat turnarounds at the ends of verses. the synth lead on the hook is just phenomenal, incredibly addictive ear candy sound design.

the song is also pretty clearly porter's attempt at making his own "stan," and i think it's pretty good! songs about stalkers and obsessive fans are a pretty well trodden genre at this point and i like this approach a lot. eminem's approach was to crank up the shock value to the maximum, and paint a detailed picture of the worst possible thing that an obsessive fan could do to the people around him. porter's approach is appropriately much more grounded and sympathetic to its character, and it being mainly from porter's perspective instead of the fan's perspective lets him meditate more on what this person's obsession means to him.

also: the video is good and porter's makeup is really cute.



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incredibly important information: the trailers before this movie were for

  • the new garfield movie
  • the new despicable me movie
  • joining the army

anyway what a strange film to watch in a room full of people. i'm not one much for the "movie theater experience," the last time i went to the movies was in 2021. however, end of eva is absolutely worth seeing on the largest screen possible. so much of what this movie does visually, especially in the second half, is dramatically enhanced when it takes up your entire field of view.

i dunno dude. i just keep typing and deleting things to say but i can't figure out what to say. it's just a great film that means an enormous amount to me and i'm glad i got to see it on a big screen.