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[daniel-profeta]

hey,

this is anonymous, but you might be able to guess who it is regardless? idk.

i haven't been following you closely for a while now, but your music and videos meant a lot to me in the past, particularly your first album.

my life is kinda fucked up right now, and i feel like a lot of things are slipping away from me and spinning out of control. so i'm reaching out to people right now to tell them what they mean to me in hopes that'll make me feel a little less rock-bottom. i want to acknowledge what a great artist you are and how your music affected my life, offered me resonance when i was extremely lonely. i was a different person back then, but i'll never forget it.

I have an idea of who this might be, but I could be wrong.

Coming just from personal experience, feeling some of the way you are describing informed and inspired a lot of my music. That feeling of things spinning out of control and like you are falling with no one to catch you and nothing to hold onto. It is awful and terrible and I don't think anyone should have to endure it

I can't offer much in terms of advice, and probably can't give all that much comfort either, but if there's any small joy to be found in anything you enjoy doing you should grasp it with both hands. Finding new people to be around was huge for me. Creating an outlet for all the negative emotions was incredibly important.

In all honesty, the thing that keeps me going the most is a sense of spite towards adversity. I've gotta prove it wrong and make everything worth it somehow. Idk, this message made me emotional, I hope you don't mind my kind of rambling response

Ultimately I have no idea what you're going through, but in my experience things eventually can get better, and rock bottom is a great place to start.

(if you need someone to talk to I'm here, and thank you for the kind words about my music it made my night and gave me confidence. This sort of response to my work is something I cherish greatly, being able to help people (and myself) through those weird depressing and lonely times is the entire point)

[daniel-profeta]

Jack Stauber gets his signature degraded tape recording sounds and visuals using analog gear and then digitizing the results, which explains why the VHS look is a million times better than the obviously phony VHS filter that comes prepackaged with Adobe that shows up all over youtube nowadays, almost a weird rewriting of history as many younger people’s internal visualization of a VHS recording will be based off a cheap emulation rather than the actual thing. 

I realize this is a silly and hyper specific thing to care about, but it’s something I only recently learned that meant a lot to me and seemingly helped me understand part of what gives Jack’s work the aura of authenticity associated with the less polished look. It wasn’t manufactured, it was created that way, and little details like that stick out as important to me. You might not notice it immediately, but if you were able to remove the degradation from the tapes and if you had recorded these same songs in a professional studios with producers or recorded those same animations in 4k quality, much of the life and warmth and feeling of inherent longing for a time you weren’t even a part of would be stripped away, and those emotions getting evoked is a massive part of why Jack’s material works for me.  

In a larger context, it’s interesting to me how what are considered defects of any given medium at the time, are in hindsight the most charming and valuable thing about it. The needle drop, the hiss of a record, rolling the tape back before returning it, scratched dvds with wildly interactive menus, there is a magic to the tech we create that gets lost in translation, until suddenly it doesn’t. Suddenly you’re listening to a Mac Demarco record for the first time and noticing a strange quality to the sound, then you do a bit of research and discover it’s all in the analog gear he used instead of a digital audio workspace. All of this is not intended to be nostalgia porn, I’m not saying any medium is better than another, and to some degree it’s difficult not to be cynical about an aura of authenticity when it’s deliberately emulated rather than organically lived in, but at the end of the day what matters the most is the effect on the viewer or listener or reader, and that tangible emotional effect is what I’m talking about. 

[daniel-profeta]

Don't know where else to put this, it's so funny sounding and got stuck in my head.

[daniel-profeta]

HI I'M RELEASING THIS TONIGHT ON BANDCAMP, IT'S FREE FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO HEAR/DOWNLOAD IT!! JOIN ME JOIN ME JOIN ME

new little album thing

Ghosts in the dream machine, slaughtering the carcass of my past self for profit, lo-fi forever baby!

Demos is a project that materialized when I noticed I had 38 recorded songs that were sitting in shame and general sadness at not being useful. They were crying, begging to be heard no matter how awful they were... Despite having to take many of them out to a farm upstate so they would have room to run, this 40 minute collection of tracks survived the purge. I actually ended up liking the track listing and sequencing which is odd since they weren't made with intention to be side by side.

Coming to bandcamp soon. It's kind of funny how a demo collection is nearly indistinguishable from my regular material.

[daniel-profeta]

Made a bunch of random nothing songs in one day, this was my favorite!!

life insurance hold me close dear we are falling and the jury's out on holiday yellow road leads to Damascus execute your own delay allergens flood the airwaves mind polluted with the sound i'm out of money and apologies to keep my feet on the ground i see your face in the wind now disappointed lines written with disdain i'm cashing out my life insurance cause i've still got bills to pay and i don't know why, i let the time, just pass me by, just pass me by

[daniel-profeta]

I lost my phone and lost the acct in the discord GC, gonna go cry -🦇

damn, well here's a link with a few uses, if anyone on here isn't already in the server join ussss

[daniel-profeta]

Y'all, I just listened to the masters of the new ep and this is the best I've sounded?? You aren't prepared

[daniel-profeta]

new song:)

Have you ever felt like time is passing you by?

Not in the way that people sometimes talk about it. Not slowly, unnoticeably until it's too late. Not like sand dripping down an hourglass.

But quickly! Painfully?

This is an original song titled

"GLASS"

[daniel-profeta]

[daniel-profeta]

You're such a fucking creature, dude. It's giving isopod (This is a compliment)

Yes. Yes it is.

[daniel-profeta]

Hope you guys like my music, cause I'm taking the money the last album made and I'm gonna spend it on studio time to make an honest to god record that's professionally mixed and mastered and whatnot. I hope one day I can play my songs full time tbh

[daniel-profeta]

new little album thing

Ghosts in the dream machine, slaughtering the carcass of my past self for profit, lo-fi forever baby!

Demos is a project that materialized when I noticed I had 38 recorded songs that were sitting in shame and general sadness at not being useful. They were crying, begging to be heard no matter how awful they were... Despite having to take many of them out to a farm upstate so they would have room to run, this 40 minute collection of tracks survived the purge. I actually ended up liking the track listing and sequencing which is odd since they weren't made with intention to be side by side.

Coming to bandcamp soon. It's kind of funny how a demo collection is nearly indistinguishable from my regular material.

[daniel-profeta]

Are you ok with having your essence impressed into paper in a primal process (can I draw you)? 👁️👁️

Absolutely, I just generally ask that people tag me in fanart

[daniel-profeta]

Sucker

Here we find Daniel contemplating the interior of the cube. Fascinating.

This song has specific meaning to me, but I thought I'd draw inspiration from 90s alternative music and make it as vague as possible so the people I'm dissing have no idea. Cowardice at its finest, but I've never claimed to be particularly courageous:)

This one is really fun to play. Have fun hearing it though, because I wrote it at 5 am one night and have already forgotten the exact tuning (I think it was drop D or C) much less the actual progression of the catchy bits.

The lyrics:

Anger pumping through my veins Acid tasting, mindful fasting Thought you knew Save the bitter taste for you

Used to describe you Used to believe Used up all my love for you Usually I wouldn't mind

Abject anger reaches past my pride Screech in the isle, clean the bile Thought I knew Take me to the edge now and teach me how to lose

Used to shield only you Nothing you could do would scare Me always the sucker born Come to find that I really care

(unintelligible screeching)

[daniel-profeta]

so I've been going through my folders after finishing a demo, and apparently I have a lot more of them than I thought. Like, from my entire time trying to make music. Some of these are 5 year old demos of songs that now exist in a totally different form.

Thinking of uploading some of them here and on patreon too. Most of them sound like shit, but so does my entire discography lol. Here to make your ears bleed:)

It's really interesting to see how it all evolved over time. Not even really in any sort of "progression" (except maybe vocally), more just the beginnings of ideas that got more fleshy later. On one particularly long track, there's a lengthy section with a bass drone that vibrates my eyeballs in a literal sense. It overstays its welcome and overpowers other elements where it didn't make narrative sense to, but I can't help but notice it sounds eerily similar to the bass note at the tail end of Man Behind the Curtain. I really was enamored by the idea of skull shattering bass to overpower every other element, and when it served a purpose to do so... It worked amazingly.

That's just one simple example and I doubt most people who weren't me when I was 15 would even think to check for certain lyric themes, melodies, guitar tones, or excessive bass noises... But I notice your efforts 15 y/o me. This post goes out to you

Also you may wonder why I post demos from time to time. Mainly, I get inspired hearing how things started, it teaches me that every idea needs to begin somewhere. Then seeing Alex G or Mitski get almost more attention on their older rougher material as years go by is also quite inspirational.

That was the point of this post, all hail Mitski and Alex g.

[daniel-profeta]

heyyooo i found you through your video on i saw the tv glow, thought it was really wonderful and i went down an absolute rabbit hole of your videos. learned you had a tumblr and scrolling through it had me going ohh . ohhhh this guy is cool .

manifesting you a very Get More Attention on your stuff it is really neat. keep up the good work it brings me great great joy. i will be seated for whatever you make next o7

(on the side note if you ever do make a video on gravity falls like you mentioned prior just know you will have One Additional Very Enthusiastic Viewer jumping for joy beyond the screen .

Speaking of Gravity Falls, guess who just got the Book of Bill:):)

[daniel-profeta]

u look like these 2 character and it scares me. also luv ur music and stuff. i enjoy ur vids too. keep making shiz

I probably am (the characters) you'd never know...