if you like the pictures i am posting, i will block you and repost the pictures.

fuck off.

i want zero user interaction on this site. it's a read-only cv.

i just can't figure out how to disable likes.

fucking creeps.

go jerk off somewhere else.

this is historical documentation. that's all.

i'm not actually posting pictures from five years ago. rather, i'm removing pictures from the last five years. but, there's a process to ensure the transition remains documented on the timeline, which now exists in the form of a read-only cv.

i'll be done in a day or two. i will actively continue to update the cv. i will not actively be posting here.

02/03-02-2016: stuck in the underslept insomniac loop, while recovering from the previous day's walk

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1

history repeats itself as farce, right?

listen: this is better than most of the "new" techno that i've heard over the last fifteen years. which is not to reduce the entire century to this dj set, so much as it is to point out that it's a little better - and actually encourage it, as the miniscule level of progress out of the abyss of absolute trash that it represents. this appears to be very trendy and whatnot. so, i don't want to come down on it too hard, lest i encourage a dubstep revival.

but, even, so...the truth is that this is what it would sound like if somebody took the 90s and watered it down to it's most basic level. and produced it with a hard beat. this is acid again, i guess.

and, i know that every other artform stagnated in the 90s, so techno shouldn't be any different, right? it's not fair to hold it to a different set of standards based on arbitrary projections created by the feeling that history was over, and there was nothing but future ahead of us. but, there was a lot of mental baggage attached to it, dammit.

i'm not bitter. really. i'm not coming down too hard. or not trying to. i see what the alternative is. really. it's just a little frustrating when "forward-thinking" means "could have been released in 1993".

in 2016, futuristic means not 80s.

seriously.

retro means 80s.

futuristic means 90s.

it's total artistic stagnation. fukuyama may have been wrong about equality, but he seems to have been right about music.

it's been 1995 for twenty years.

and, that's an entire life time, now, for some people that are old enough to get into clubs.

maybe my alter-reality will help break it open a little. give it a kickstart on an alternate evolution.

i can appreciate long periods of sparse music if they have some purpose, but this is really just monotonous. worse than that, it's unabashedly hipster. take the intro, for example. blatant emulation of glass jar by gang gang dance - spliced with what sounds like autechre samples. and, it just spurns on and on from there with no aim or purpose.

it has the atmosphere of idm, sure. but, the construction is truly every bit as stupid as any other disco/club music i've ever heard.

and, what's with the audience? just a lot of poseurs. they're there to be seen; they don't care what they're listening to.

i mean, you got me there for a minute. nibbled.

but, no. it's just more brainless dance music for zombie drug addicts.