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Albums of 2023 part 2
And so, on from part 1, we continue. This is more dreamy synth-dub that sits perfectly next to the Harrow album: Richard Norris is another artist with an extraordinarily long and illustrious career but who also has never lost the exploratory urge and total delight in sonic finesse.
Honestly Uruguayan-in-Ireland Lila Tirando a Violeta is right up there with the very best of the "deconstructed club" generation - dark, gothic, complex, VERY WEIRD - and this collab with Berliner Sin Maldita is up there with her best. It's really, REALLY intense!
Just impossibly beautiful elegies from ambient harpist Mary Lattimore which builds towards the final track collaboration with Slowdive's Rachel Goswell that is so lovely it will single handedly bring back swooning as a popular pastime.
Officially an EP but there's enough here to cement Nia Archives's place as a heavyweight - add "Off Wiv Ya Headz" and that Jorja Smith remix, and she's had a humdinger of a 2023....
Saw some discourse suggesting that Burna Boy is resting on his laurels here, but I don't hear it. Maybe it's the fact that the cover looks dashed-off? But musically, this bangs: it expertly joins so many dots but keeps his voice and personality right at the heart of it.
I mean come on there was no way a collab between Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist was going to be anything but good, right? Just purest essence of deep and dreamy stoner hip hop. Yet another small (27min) but beautifully formed album - definitely a trend there.
Feels kind of (literally) sacrilegious to say I prefer Cleo Sol's more personal, less scriptural records (e.g. Rose in the Dark) - and this is, top to bottom, a gospel album - but the conviction to her performance and the whole realisation of it here is still really magical.
From Coventry via Skopje, man like NOT_MDK's first album in 23 years, and he's zooming into the deep flows that join grime and dubstep into the longer, deeper electronic funk continuum... These tracks are so crisp and crunchy!
She's from Turkey but Ahu's been plugged into the London Plastic People / NTS / etc scene for years - file this with Yazmin Lacey and similar LDN soul-jazz, also it's very Boho and vibesy and incensey, definitely one to light your best candles for.
Can't remember who put me on to this, possibly Radio 3? Anyway if cold wet misty Scottish hillsides are your jam Claire M Singer has you covered - these slower-than-slowly unfolding organ-led pieces practically smell of wet moss, and are extremely beautiful.
He's lent vocals to a who's who of electronic music, but it turns out Paul St Hilaire's own studio craft is the equal of just about any of them - this is just a stunning, ocean-deep album of dub abstraction and subtly potent lyricism.
Icelander Eva Jóhannsdóttir aka EVA808 has already made a name in the dubstep/grime world but this is her really spreading her creative wings. Mad psychedelia, elemental abstraction, movie-theme composition - there's not much she can't do. Big things beckon!
There's still SO much to say about amapiano, and so much incredible UK, SA and wider world stuff last year (this isn't even the only great DJ Maphorisa album - he had THREE out in 2023, including a mini album with Shino Kikai and a 25-track one with fellow originator Kabza De Small!!). Suffice to say this has gorgeous songs, primal grooves, endlessly sophisticated mixdowns and bass that'll take your breath away.
Just gonna link to my review for this one (it's got the music embedded) - but TL;DR Darren J Cunningham aka Actress is the holy prophet of the era of enshittification, yet for all that his music is constantly "off" and made for a world that is "off", he alchemises it into real gold.
Yeah I'm going to be THAT space-jazz hipster and say this is the record I wish Andre3000 (who is on it, and Carlos Niño co-produced his album) had made. It's just a more lavish, free, FUN way to cavort with the five-dimensional fractal machine elves.
Zoning in on the platonic breakbeat mathematics that underly Jersey / B'more club Chicago hip house, UK rave, trip hop etc, Bored Lord could seem arch or retro if her beats weren't so gloriously functional and bumping.
Fed up of generic records? You will never EVER find another one that sounds like IFS MA. Polish abstract slightly Autechre-y footwork / drum'n'bass with Japanese rapper MA sounding like a cyborg beat poet Taliban Trim and I.... 🤯
Every man jack and their dog are doing high bpm retro rave lately but you can trust Meemo Comma to put a fresh and uneasy twist on it. These tracks will get you proper buzzing up loud! I got to DJ for her live performance of this at Spiritland earlier in the year, hearing them on that system was a real treat.
You get a twofer with this one. Phil Kieran's ode to Belfast is gorgeous in studio form here, but he also recorded and released a version with the Ulster Orchestra that single handedly revivifies the idea of electronic music done classical style!
Two true underground troupers teaming up here - Jordan GCZ from Juju & Jordash and David "Move D" Moufang with some otherworldly good-dream ambient, deep house and space-soul jams heavy on the Fender Rhodes, fuzzy reverberation and sensually sweeping portamento.
My musical safe place for so much of this year. Brooklyn "electronic jam band" Purelink somehow burrowed into electronic music history and found the softest, happiest, warmest fur lined chamber and then invited us in. I cannot emphasise enough how LOVELY this record is.
More modular synth grooves from E Ruscha aka Secret Circuits, but no over-indulgence here and the grooves REALLY DO GROOVE. Trippy as a weasel circus and twice as funky.
Talking of trippy, here's Optimo Music's second acid-drenched entry, from the man formerly known as TB Arthur and the mighty Magda trading as Blotter Trax, it's a kind of parallel universe early 80s alt disco where everything gurgles and melts.
More from South Africa - King Mzaiza Sound via the reliably tough Parisian PSSNGR label - not 100% sure what you'd call this though it definitely has some gqom sonics, some trap drums, and some strident rap vocals... It's HARD AS NAILS is what it is.
EVEN HARDER - Nyege Nyege brought us a sampler of this (and I don't use mental health language lightly) FUCKING MENTAL shrieking, raging, solvent-huffing sound from São Paulo stewarded by the young DJ K, and it's extremely funky and scarily thrilling.
OK there we go, part three is here.....
#music#acid house#alt disco#dub#modular synth#psychedelia#South African music#amapiano#gqom#rap#stoner rap#hip hop#odd future#ambient#electronica#Japanese music#polish music#experimental rap#grime#drum'n'bass#footworking#deep house#breakbeat#rave#jungle#soundtrack#belfast#london#space jazz#Icelandic music
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Was (Not Was) - ‘Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone’ - 1990
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classic toxic yuri btw.
#my friends and i have been playing portal and i just remembered how much i love these two#disco elysium#de fanart#disco elysium fanart#more like gamestyle fanart hahah#portal#portal 2#chell#glados#portal fanart#my art#properly described this time i think! check alt#sorry for my lack of diligence in prev posts my low vis friends 🫶 ill try harder in the future
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sorry everyone im back on my shitpost elysium bullshit
from this one sorry i read the word swing and blacked out
#disco elysium#harry du bois#kim kitsuragi#kimharry#harrykim#<- which one of these two is it#sunnysidedoodles#that 1st harry. what happened to me....... why does he slay...#described#id in alt text#sunnysidedisco#ANYWAYS. DESPITE DRAWING SM SHITPOST STUFF I HAVE DRAWN ONE (1) TRYHARD DISCO PIECE so im forgiving myself by like 5% pfttt
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Oops I think a couple people got to drawing this before I did
Original post by @sofokl13 [link]
#disco elysium#harry du bois#kim kitsuragi#jean vicquemare#my drawings#my de fanart#id in alt text#i spent waaaay too long on this#almost didnt draw jean#trying new marker brush in csp
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#2000s scene#scenemo#scene kid#emo scene#scene girl#scene queen#scenecore#scene fashion#emo aesthetic#2000s emo#emo girl#emo kid#emocore#tumblr 2014#2014 nostalgia#2010s nostalgia#alt aesthetic#alt fashion#2000s aesthetic#2000s core#myspace#domo#invader zim#emo#scene emo#old tumblr#русский tumblr#panic! at the disco#mcr#heavy metal
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big month for disco elysium fans everywhere 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#disco elysium#evrart claire#elizabeth beaufort#‘aim you don’t post art for months and this is what you come back with’ Yes. happy pride#wanted to do this with evrart and elizabeth because 1. I thought it would be silly 2. I haven’t drawn them before#glad to be drawing again even if it’s This#aimfall art#described#image description in alt
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LGBTQ Disabled Characters Showdown Quarterfinals Poll 1
Vs.
Please be civil in the notes. We will block people if we feel it is necessary. A character being canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included. This is not a competition of who is better representation.
Check out the other polls in the quarterfinals here.
Edit: This is a two vs. one because they tied (by our defenition) back in round 4 and moved on together.
Harrier ‘Harry’ du Bois-Disco Elysium
Qualifications:
Bisexual. Struggles with addiction, post-polio syndrome, multiple kinds of mental illness, and whatever else he's accrued by living in a city with no accessible healthcare.
Propaganda:
You know who he is. Vote for him.
Kim Kitsuragi-Disco Elysium
Qualifications:
Visually impaired
Propaganda:
I dunno man. He's Kim Kitsuragi. There's nothing I can say about him that hasn't already been said. He's quiet and reserved and uncomfortable with emotions. He's a self-proclaimed Torque Dork who loves his car like a child. He listens to heavy metal music. He's a centrist. He's a homosexual. He's consistently given shit by everyone around him for his race, his sexuality, and his disability, and he's taught himself to respond to it with cold professionalism. He dresses in historical communist pilot cosplay. I love him with my entire heart.
Yang Xiao Long-RWBY
Qualifications:
She is canonically wlw (has been for years but specifically kissed and got together with her now girlfriend in the latest season) and uses a prosthetic arm and has been shown to struggle with PTSD due to the traumatic nature of losing it during the show.
Canonically had her right arm chopped off, uses a prosthetic. Has PTSD. Is canonically in a WLW relationship.
She has a canon girlfriend and canonically has a prosthetic arm and PTSD
She's canonically sapphic (part of a recently canonised wlw slowburn relationship) and is an amputee (due to events from the 3rd season finale) who wears a robotic prosthetic. She also suffers from PTSD which is explored in the show
Propaganda:
I will keep on submitting Yang to relevant brackets until I die. RWBY has plenty of strengths and weaknesses with writing, especially Yang's recovery arc, but instead of forcing her to push past her trauma and enter the battlefield immediately, we see her struggle with it, take time to process, and not be pushed into repression and when she chooses to wear her prosthetic, chooses to train to ready herself, and chooses to seek out her family and save lives, she isn't perfectly healed, as no one is. The show depicts her having flashbacks due to sudden loud noise, shaking hand the first few times she has to fight for her safety instead of training with her dad, and snapping at friends when they bring up Blake, the person she lost her arm trying to save (who, near immediately after ran away due to feeling she was endangering those she loved, furthering Yang's already present abandonment issues.) It isn't done perfectly but the intentions and general message sent are extremely positive and honest. She struggles less as the show progresses, and there are opportunities to consider herself less for being disabled or "become whole again" but she explicitly refutes these ideas and says that's she's better because of her failures and losses, and isn't any less whole. Her becoming disabled is also extremely tied to her being LGBT, because, as previously mentioned, she lost her arm protecting her then friend and partner, now girlfriend, directly after the villain who cut her arm off told her love interest that he would "destroy everything [she] love[s]. (Camera pans to Yang, he looks at her.) Starting with her." LIKE. He attacked her BECAUSE Blake cared for her so much and Yang ran to her defense blindly BECAUSE she loved Blake so much. When they reunite, they struggle with communication because Yang feels Blake is seeing her as weak, and through several things, mostly a climatic battle against the man who severed Yang's arm, they affirm each other as equals. I can go on but this is already too long. YANG SWEEP!!!!!
Yang lost her arm while protecting her best friend and future girlfriend from said girlfriend's abusive ex. Had a whole arc about learning to live with that loss and dealing with PTSD. Is totally devoted to and in love with Blake Belladonna and is just the sweetest but most badass character in the show.
She's one of the main characters, and just finished a 10 year slow burn romance. Plus, she has both physical and mental disabilities, but is never treated as lesser or incomplete.
Yang Xiao Long was one of the first examples of a sapphic character I ever saw in animated media with her character journey in the show being an iconic part of my teenage years and current young adulthood. The loss of her arm after a traumatic event in the show's 3rd volume was one of the big shockers of the show that nobody saw coming. Since then the show has done an amazing job in exploring both the mental and physical effects of her losing a limb, gaining a prosthetic arm and the recovery journey. Her character also has a major arc regarding handling her PTSD from both this and her past most notably in the 5th and 6th volume. Her character also has a slow-burn romance with her teammate and fellow main character Blake Belladonna which is one of my fave romances ever (it has everything: canon soulmates, friends to lovers, sunshine x grump,battle couple etc..) that has recently became CANON BABIEE!!! There are MULTIPLE characters in RWBY with various disabilities that are handled well in the narrative but i would say Yangs definitely the top FAVE!
#polls#poll#disability#disabled characters#lgbtq#lgbtq characters#id in alt text#lgbtq dcs quarterfinals#harry du bois#harrier du bois#kim kitsuragi#disco elysium#yang xiao long#rwby
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Detectives. Arriving. On the scene.
I can't stop thinking about this game, I can't stop thinking about them, I have to play it at least 20 more times-
#Anatomy's wack I'm so sorry#Disco Elysium#Kim Kitsuragi#Harry Du Bois#Harrier Du Bois#Horrific Necktie#you'll be missed#Alas Im late to the party AND the revolution#nnobodiusart#added alt text
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Dora-posting
Lyrics from the second pic are from "Apricots" by Findlay
#disco elysium#my art#catori draws#hdb#de harry#de dora#dora ingerlund#dolores dei#harry du bois#been frustrated with the way I color my stuff recently#idk it just looks really...bland? muddy? to me#I want the colors to be a bit more expressive? or complex maybe#this is a bit better but I don't think I'm where I wanna be at yet in regards to color composition#described#image desc in alt text
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I completely forgot I had this
I have to keep pushing that alt j disco elysium agenda
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Why in the world do so many memes/joke images do nothing but remind me of this man.
How can a game be so good with a protagonist who’s literally a walking meme (I say this with so much platonic affection 💋)
Plus the original image:
#this is how I cope with seeing extreme irl uncensored gore on my tumblr#I will be making more#also felt like I should have added shading or something to break up the appearance of the jacket#but whatever yknow. yolo#disco Elysium#de#disco elysium fanart#de fanart#de Harry#harry debois#harry disco elysium#disco elysium harry#harry de bois#harrier du bois#edit: ended up adding beer/dirty smears to the jacket anyways#and some hair shading#barely#meme redraw#id in alt text#id in alt#described#described in alt#image description in alt
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The Twelfth Doctor's note included at the end of The Companion's Companion.
#doctor who#new who#doctor who companions#novel#new who info#nuwho#eleventh doctor#11th doctor#the oncoming storm#doctor disco#tardis#the tardis#clara oswald#the impossible girl#impossible girl#the companion's companion#peter capaldi#jenna coleman#alt text#screenreader friendly#whoniverse
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I liked this one it's more inspired by Acele than anything buttttt
#acele#i guess?#disco elysium fanart#de#disco elysium#acele berger#what'd i say about putting her in outfits?#I LOVE IT!#alt#punk#grunge#twee
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my specil little guys
#disco elysium#ace attorney#dungeon meshi#kim kitsuragi#apollo justice#chilchuck tims#sunnysidedisco#sunnysideattorney#sunnysidemeshi#sunnysidedraws#described#id in alt text#i just remembered i never posted this here. i drew this back in july whoops akjshjk#anyways i ljike them#edit: can i just say how much i like how i drew the shoes in here. looking back at it FDGHD
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Apricot chewing gum scented memory
#i used new techniques in this so it took forever#but i think it was worth it for the dreamy atmosphere#disco elysium#harry du bois#dora ingerlund#harrydora#my drawings#id in alt text#my de fanart
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