What is some music you like?

[Nilsi]

David Bowie's Low was the moment rock went post-rock.

Westside Gunn is the moment hip-hop goes post-hip-hop - turning the MC into an echo, the beat into a museum piece, and the genre’s symbols (luxury, violence, nostalgia) into looped artifacts.

Both mark the point where a genre accelerates past itself, collapses into a self-referential loop, and ceases to evolve - less movement, more recursion.

It’s Freud’s death drive in sound - a genre circling its own ruins, consuming itself in excess. It’s Lacan’s jouissance - pleasure pushed past its limit, repeating until it becomes unbearable. It’s Deleuze’s repetition without origin - not progressing, just intensifying.

Westside Gunn and Low don’t just signal artistic shifts; they expose something fundamental about how systems - whether musical, psychological, or ontological - drive themselves to exhaustion, push beyond their limits, and, in that excess, reveal what they were all along. Yet they never die; they become undead - looping forever.

And isn’t the hip-hop sample the ultimate metaphor for this? A voice ripped from time, severed from its origin, looping endlessly over crackling vinyl. A breakbeat chopped and stretched, repeating itself into oblivion. A scratched record stuttering on the same syllable, caught in its eternal return.

Edited Saturday at 08:00 PM by Nilsi

[Nilsi]

Long live J Dilla.

Edited Saturday at 08:06 PM by Nilsi

[The Crocodile]

@Nilsi Yeah, you have good taste in music. I remember you also like Charli XCX and Sonic Youth. You see the goodness in a variety of higher quality type things. Leo (and others) have horrendous tastelessness.

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[Carl-Richard]

I just ran across this gem (I found their vocalist on Boo 😂😂😂, I just downloaded the app to see what it's like ). It's progressive, folk, grunge and extreme/black metal 🥵:

 

Something about the black metal tremolo picked chords and grunge drums and vocals hit me. And femole vocalist ☺️

Edited Sunday at 03:33 PM by Carl-Richard

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[Nilsi]

 

[Nilsi]

4 hours ago, Cireeric said:

 

Yesss! From one of my favorite albums ever.

Though I do prefer the heavier cuts:

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