#berdlycore

[luuurien]

xaev - berdlycore chapter 2

(Mashup, EDM, Hyperflip)

A landmark for mashcore and modern EDM, the second installment of Xavier Maxwell's berdlycore series is even weirder, denser and funnier than its predecessor. With its unorthodox sampling and wide breadth of styles to pick and choose from, berdlycore chapter 2's whirlwind of everything from future bass to electro-house to Jersey club makes for an impossibly fun listen.

☆☆☆☆☆

An unfathomable amount of ideas are stuffed into berdlycore chapter 2's slim 30 minute runtime, but that overwhelming energy is all part of the fun. A direct descendant of the Dariacore mashup style with its comedic sampling and mishmash of genres, you know exactly what you're in for from the start - blisteringly fast tempos, stabby EDM synths, compressed and overblown drum programming, all the strangely fitting video game and TV show samples - but Maxwell's music is informed more by 2010s complextro and hardcore EDM than the bubblegum future bass and Jersey club Dariacore most often focused on. In turn, the berdlycore series is much harsher on the ears but quadruple the fun of just about any other release in its vein I've heard in the past few years, unafraid to indulge in EDM's bombastic and aggressive sides and delivering an unparalleled listening experience because of it. Not only is berdlycore chapter 2 intricately woven, chock-full of playful and plainly funny samples, and a nonstop train of club chaos, but it's entirely unlike anything else you can find in the digicore/hyperflip space. It's a pipe bomb filled with ecstasy, packaged in the aesthetics of Undertale and Deltarune: there's no doubting berdlycore chapter 2 is one strange beast of an album, but it's a beast nonetheless. With longer track lengths and two more songs compared to its predecessor, chapter 2 develops on the berdlycore format in both overt and subtle ways, just enough to make it stand out as a new entry in the series while keeping Maxwell's signature absurdity and dense production. Right from the start, mashups aren't real... samples the first half of the first verse of Childish Gambino's Bonfire before a rapid shift into clanging dubstep and a Jersey club detour complete with the squeaky bed sample from Trillville's Some Cut, an abrupt cutoff of everything then filled in with IShowSpeed's famous "I like fifteen year old girls!" clip to lead into another instrumental build off of a pitched-up Titanium chorus; the kicker being that everything I just went through happens in the track's first minute. It'd be next to impossible to go through every detail and beat switch Maxwell throws into here, but any Gen-Z'er listening to chapter 2 will pick up on nearly all of them: the chipper "OK!" sound from Wii Play's Find Mii, the item box and race finishing sounds from Mario Kart Wii; The Living Tombstone's Five Nights at Freddy's and PinkPantheress' signature "Hey!". It's a lot to take in at once, but the point of chapter 2 isn't to pore over every sample and production choice for hours on end - it's to have a good time with the music, and there's not a moment when the radiant glow of Maxwell's music dims. The rest of chapter 2 bursts open every dopamine reserve in a different way, always at the will of Maxwell's brickwalled production and unorthodox song structures but never so ear-piercing and intense that the quality of the music begins to dip. As odd as it may seem, there's a genuine magic to how they did surgery on a bird constantly shifts between oil-slicked dubstep and fast-paced Jersey club, or the full embrace of festival-oriented EDM on it's always a good time for complextro that ends up one of the album's best tracks, Maxwell unafraid to indulge in the saccharine side of EDM and bring their own hardcore twist to it, and even when things start to get extra weird with ok google what the bird doin's glitchy breakdowns and virtual riot pizza's trap-oriented intro, it's all in the name of giving chapter 2 more variance and definition than its predecessor. It's the same deliriously kinetic club music Maxwell broke ground with on chapter 2's predecessor, but with an assortment of new ambitions and the extra space to let them roam freely, from leroy snares will soon replace NFTs and its choppy amen breaks to none of it matters if we're all gonna fall's dewy piano sample - whether or not all of chapter 2 at once is a bit too much of a sugar rush for you, there's no denying how impeccably Maxwell executes it all. Even if it may not be built with longevity and subtlety in mind, I can't help but love every moment of chapter 2's hyperflip insanity. As vivacious and knowingly off-the-wall as berdlycore chapter 2 is, there's simply so much to love about it that all the little complaints you could make - it doesn't stray far from Maxwell's signature style, there's not a whole lot of variance in volume and intensity despite the new instrumental additions, the album's jokey bits are so ultra-specific to zoomer humor that it's hard to get in on the joke if you're not as deeply entrenched as I am in goofy internet jokes - don't matter a bit when the music is just this good. Most EDM doesn't come close to being as fun as it's always a good time for complextro, nor is it so elaborately designed and thrilling all the way through. If it feels like chapter 2 could be a final destination of sorts for modern EDM and hyperflip, it's because Maxwell isn't far off from reaching that point: everything from 90s hardcore EDM to bubblegum bass to glittery future bass is here in one way or another, chapter 2 only able to exist with the decades of innovation in electronica over the past few decades and benefiting immensely from all the different options it offers Maxwell. Nothing else, even in the hyperflip scene, even comes close to how bright and exuberant chapter 2 is, and that alone is a massive feat. For all its idiosyncrasies, taking berdlycore chapter 2 as it is and not expecting anything but a giant heap of lively EDM bangers reveals it to be some of the most bewildering fun any album this year offers - what's not to love?

[wormy-worm]

absolutely radioactive combination in my top four artists this week i think im gonna explode or something

[coveredinsun]

hi. context under cut

the dialogue here is slightly edited (1 word) from THIS image (a joke), which struck me as very berdlycore:

and the whole joke of the above image is that it was parodying THIS post below, which was completely serious so the internet is ripping her to shreds for it:

it is all so comical to me. thank you for reading

[warumin]

*pointing and laughing* berdlycore

I am never living this down

[nessiana]

four albums in my heavy rotation rn (tagged by @greathoughtsphilosopy)

(app wouldnt let me add alt text so heres the titles)

• PAS TASTA - Good Pop

• Jane Remover - Frailty

• Vylet Pony - Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow, and its Life as an Afterthought)

• xaev - berdlycore chapter 3

hello @softiepillows @dunky1722 @discflame

[rzutkoscmi]

2023 RECAP

Film 1. Aniara 2. Wyspa tajemnic 3. Mystic Pizza 4. Color Out of Space 5. Juno Szczęście Mikołajka Menu Sekretne życie Waltera Mitty Killer Klowns from Outer Space Any Given Sunday Zombeavers Barbie Biały szum Tam gdzie śpiewają raki Przekręt

Gry 1. Persona 5 Royal 2. Witcher 3 3. 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim 4. Ashen 5. Inscryption Moonlighter Fire Emblem: Three Houses Legend of Zelda: TOTK Dying Light Persona 4 Golden Dorfromantik

Serial 1 Yellowjackets S01-03 2 Ted Lasso S01-03 3 Basilisk S01 4 Mare of Easttown S01 5 White Lotus S01-02 The Last of Us S01 Dragon Ball Z (Android Saga) Black Lagoon S01-02 Goldenboy NIER Automata Anime

Książka 1. Umiłowana - Morrison 2. Całe życie - Seethaler 3. Władca much - Golding 4. Ślepowidzenie - Watts 5. Baśń o wężowym sercu - Rak Klara i słońce - Ishiguro Miecz przeznaczenia - Sapkowski Kontakt - Sagan

> KOMIKSY Valerian Schnink Świat Edeny Sioban Birdland Chester 5000 Discipline The Pro Sexy Guns Butterscotch

Muzyka 1. McKinley Dixon - Beloved 2. Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back... 3. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 4. Łona Konieczny Krupa - TAXI 5. evaboy - Beef Caroline Polachek - Desire Brand New - The God And Devil Kelela - Raven xaev - Berdlycore Ariana Grande - Thank You, Next DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ 2023 Tim Hecker - Virgins Tinashe - BB

[deltaroomed]

berdly when he figures out what a crush is actually supposed to feel like (because, shockingly, 'falling in love' with someone (susie) immediately after they're even slightly nice to you is Not It)

[ithisatanytime]

(schnozz)

[notdingalingalingalingrita]

just saw someone call the light world the overworld..

[teruthecreator]

berdly has a shirt that says “you can’t handle my scrabble swag”. aaaaaaaaaaaand post 

[fma03envy]

Berdly wears arm-bands in the swimming pool.

I wanted to respond with some joke relating to whether or not irl bluebirds can swim but Google's information on the topic was inconclusive

[mymarifae]

you know what. you know what’s a good berdlycore song? bad trick by jetty bones

[bigshot97]

yes those were im gonna win lyrics in the bg. its berdlycore sorry

[deltaroomed]

i know its been a while since i posted on this blog but i just want you all to know that berdly still is, as the kids say nowadays, my blorbo

[deltaroomed]

headcanon / projection time here we go

regarding the last post i reblogged,

berdly is bad at math and a part of his inferiority superiority complex with regards to his intelligence is this deep-rooted sense of severe inadequacy when it comes to the subject.

like.... possibly to the point of actual panic attacks and feeling like being Bad At Math means that something about him is fundamentally broken. (there it is, there's the projection.)

so if thats the case of Course he would posit himself as a Math God because it staves off that inadequacy, and acknowledging that he's bad at math is too painful, because that would be admitting "haha yeah my brain is fucking broken and can't process numbers right." and That would be... Painful.

[deltaroomed]

noelle: boy howdy!

berdly: no, noelle. i think you mean GIRL howdy

noelle: ...i don't, actually-

berdly: feminism :)