#christian DJ

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Angel 5x12 - "You're Welcome"

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[danko420]

Genuinely, if anyone has ever been interested in getting into The Adventure Zone but don't know where to start, TAZ vs Dracula is a great jumping in point!!

Its fun, silly, kinda dark, and everyone more or less knows what they're doing by now so its a smoother start than Balance- and may end up being a shorter campaign so may not feel like as much of a commitment.

Check it out!! TALK TO ME ABOUT IT lmao

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When Nawi killed Okwi she rummaged her hand around in his skull to make sure he couldn't go to heaven

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I’m sorry but a lot of anti endos sound like those Christians who are somehow convinced that the bible is gonna become illegal lmao except with harassing people.

Like, the same ones who cross tag their bitter and hateful bullshit to ~kuku at endos~ or what the fuck ever are out here being like

“Oh I’m gonna get hate and death threats for this, but I’m gonna post it anyway ✌🏻😔 I’m so brave standing up for the medical dissociation theories that the evil endos are trying to destroy~”

Like… but where?? I know me not seeing anything like the harassment I’ve seen from their side when I scroll through these blogs doesn’t mean it can’t happen or won’t happen or isn’t happening overall, but like I can’t help it thinking there’s also a liiittle bit 👌🏻 of projecting going on here..

[hsrblake]

The Ridonculous Race my way.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“The ones destroying the Bible for the best part of 2000 years have been Christians ironically enough, or at least rewriting it every couple of centuries or so.

And if we are mentioning violent psychopathic Roman Emperors, let's not exclude one of the bloodiest of all: Constantine, who had more than 50,000 people executed (not counting wars). Some just because they disagreed with him over the right interpretation of the scripture of the new religion he imposed on Rome.”

-- DJ THE TRAINMAN WALKER

Nobody alive follows Xianity. They follow the reboot of the remake of the rewrite of the adaptation based on the characters from the manuscript originating from a story inspired by a revamped earlier draft from a reworked previous version of a local oral tale.

It’s not remarkable that Xians have changed Xianity over time based on the secular morality they deny. It’s not even remarkable that they have the power of creation over the same god they invented. The only thing remarkable is that they know so little about their own religion that they think it’s “true.”

They, as much as anyone else, behave as if it isn’t true, when they decide the intentions of the eternal master and creator of the universe, what it means when it does nothing, what it will be okay with, what it won’t, when an exception can be made, when it can’t, what the bible really means, what applies, what doesn’t, what’s a metaphor, what isn’t.

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Dust Volume 10, Number 6, Part I

Infinite River

We’re halfway through the year and swamped with mid-year activities (look for our round-up next week), but the records continue to pile-up and we continue to make time for as many as possible.  This month, the slush pile yielded a wide range of music, from Burkina-Faso-ian griot to microtonal composition to snarling black metal to improvisation and jazz. 

Our reviews are split in two parts because of Tumblr's arbitrary limits on sound samples. See Part II here. Contributions included Jennifer Kelly, Bryon Hayes, Andrew Forell, Christian Carey, Jonathan Shaw, Bill Meyer, Jim Marks, Justin Cober-Lake and Alex Johnson.  Happy summer!

Avalanche Kaito — Talitakum (Glitterbeat)

Another of those cross-cultural, Afro-European collaborations that are so often great—see recent works by Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers, Ndox Electrique and Group Doueh/Cheveux—Avalanche Kaito sets Burkina Faso griot to a rattling, pummeling noise punk beat.  I like “Lago” best, where a clatter of mixed percussion and serrated, distortion crusted guitar dart in and around a keening call and response.  Near the end of a recent long-distance drive, I listened to it 14 times in a row without wearing it out.  Still the title track is fantastic as well, its guitars stabbing in like Fugazi, its drums boxy and agitated, its spatter-painted words dicing the beat into eighths and sixteenths.  The “Kaito” in the band name comes from grioteer Kaito Winse.  The Avalanche comes from the falling-down-the-stairs-but-still-on-beat mix of strident punk and West African syncopation.

Jennifer Kelly  

Ayal Senior — Ora (Medusa Editions)

Toronto’s 12-string warrior Ayal Senior workshopped the songs that became Ora at a monthly residency he has at the Tranzac Club, a haven for the city’s most adventurous musical minds. His comrades Kurt Newman (pedal steel, electric guitar) and Andrew Furlong (bass) joined him on the journey, and together they slowly worked the sonic skeletons into fleshy bodies of song. The trio brought scene veterans Blake Howard and Jay Anderson on board to add drums and percussion when they laid the sounds to tape. Their flourishing rhythms complete the image: five beams of light passing through the prism of Senior’s celestial vision. The guitarist bills Ora as the spiritual successor to 2022’s Az Yashir, yet while that record embraced a post-COVID sea change, Ora is bathed in the light of tranquility. Senior’s folk devotionals draw warmth from the presence of his pals, taking on raga and kosmische adornments as they languidly unfurl. These hymns are beauty incarnate, guitar-centric mantras in service of the cosmic mystery that surrounds us all.

Bryon Hayes

Beams — Requiem for a Planet (Be My Sibling)

Beams is an alt.country ensemble, playing rock and folk instruments in delicate, otherworldly ways.  The voices especially — Anna Mērnieks-Duffield primarily but fleshed out in harmonies by Heather Mazhar and Keith Hamilton—float in translucent layers, mixing eerily with the meat-and-potatoes sonics of guitar, bass and drums.  As the title suggests, Beams main subject is the earth itself, its fragility, its rising temperature, its trajectory towards unlivability.  Yet though there are lessons here, in songs like “Heat Potential,” Beams steers clear of polemics.  “It’s All Around You,” especially envelopes and enfolds. Its string-swooping, gorgeously harmonized arrangements lift you up and out of the mess we’re in.  “Childlike Empress” with its well-spaced blots of keyboard sound, its ghostly, tremulous singing, is an eerie elegy for the world’s natural beauty.  The album is its own thing, but it might remind you of certain twang-adjacent Feelies side projects, Speed the Plough and Wild Carnation especially. 

Jennifer Kelly

DELTAphase — Synced (Falling Elevators)

Process. DELTAphase founder Wilhelm Stegmeier contacts a disparate group of musicians and provides them with a key, beat, tempo for seven pieces of music and allows them complete stylistic and compositional freedom. Each of 10 musicians contributed to one or more of the seven pieces, without knowing who else was involved. Stegmeier, seeking synchronicities and serendipity, collates and adds to the contributions and collages them within the given parameters. Result. The musicians, Merran Laginestra, Beate Bartel, Thomas Wydler, Brendan Dougherty, Lucia Martinez, Antonio Bravo, Andreas Voss, Eleni Ampelakiotou, Dominik Avenwedde, Kilian Feinäugle and Stegmeier come from classical, jazz, electronic and post rock backgrounds, and the music occupies liminal interstices between and across genres. There’s lots of layered percussion, electronic backgrounds and guitar interplay from the squalling electric duel on “Phase Lock” to Bravo’s jazzy riffing on “One by One” which also features Laginestra’s  impressionistic piano. That combination is a standout on an album that can occasionally meander into cul-de-sacs. Remote collaboration has become a commonplace since the pandemic but the caliber of the musicians here and Stegmeier’s skill in pulling their contributions together make Synced a fascinating exploration of compositional process.

Andrew Forell      

   

Taylor Deupree — Sti.ll  (Greyfade)

A recent microtrend involves making acoustic realizations of electronic compositions, the latest being a new version of Taylor Deupree’s lauded 2002 electroacoustic recording Stil. Sti.ll follows suit, with a reworking for acoustic instruments by Deupree and Joseph Branciforte. The bespoke Greyfade book that accompanies Sti.ll is handsome and contains a QR code to download the digital recording. The acoustic versions can sometimes fool you into thinking that you are listening to the original synth sounds, which is part of the game. “Stil.” is nearly twenty-minutes long, for vibraphone and bass drum. The vibes play both textural passages and, simultaneously, repeating dyadic melodies. The bass drum errs on the side of gentle effects rather than thwacking. Another standout track is “Temper,” for multiple clarinets and a shaker. The composition moves through a series of repeated intervals, descending fourth, ascending minor third, et cetera, with harmonic underpinning from the other clarinets and constant pulsation contributed by the shakers. Hard for clubbing, but these pieces would work quite well in a concert.

Christian Carey

Emma dj — Lay2g (Danse Noire)

Paris based Finnish producer Emma dj has the tendency to get distracted by novelty which interrupts the flow of this set and disrupts individual tracks often enough to leave the listener frustrated. If that’s the point, all well and good, but I suspect it’s not, which makes you wonder if this is all in service of the producer rather than the audience. That’s fine if there’s challenge in the music, which here, there is not. He collides bits and pieces of dance punk, chiptunes, video game soundtrack and the detritus of underground sub-sub genres into a messy mélange — a potluck casserole thrown together for a class reunion no one’s attending. It’s particularly annoying for the moments when, by design or serendipity, Emma produces a dish worth eating like “RR.dnk” for instance that sprays warped synth stabs against cowbell hi-hat, thumping kick drum and a stumbling bass line without succumbing to the over seasoning of vocal samples, jokey blips and burps or overwrought exhortations to dance. With a little more focus and balance, he may well produce something pretty good but this is only halfway there.

Andrew Forell

Incipient Chaos — S/T (I, Voidhanger)

There are times when some listeners just want a record of snarling, muscular black metal — thematics and scannable cultural politics be damned. If that sounds good to you, this new self-titled LP from French band Incipient Chaos rages and rips with all the right sorts of aggressivity. It seems that one takes chances with one’s ethics (if not one’s immortal soul) doing this sort of impulse listening in black metal: Is this NSBM? Does anyone have the skinny on that? Do we need to dig into the various “Is this band sketch” subreddits and descend into that 9th Circle of gossip-mongering and reaction? Lucifer smiles; so does Advance Publications. Is that a distinction without a difference? Meanwhile, we can note that Incipient Chaos has released this record on a politically reliable label, and while it’s unusual not to get a lyric sheet from I, Voidhanger (uh oh…), that may just be typical black metal shtick: the words are obscured because they are sooooo evil. Whatevs. The riffs are strong, if not world-changing, and the compositions have drama, if not overwhelming tragedy. Check out the guitar-centric middle portion of “Ominous Acid,” which is hugely satisfying. The down-tempo opening minutes of “Dragged Back from the Abyss” will remind you of the best of Aosoth. It’s all a lot of…fun?

Jonathan Shaw

Infinite River — Tabula Rasa (Birdman)

First came the space, now comes the rock. Infinite River’s first couple recordings had a definite COVID-era vibe to them. The Detroit-based ensemble started out as a trio, with Joey Mazzola and Gretchen Gonzales playing guitars and Warren Defever contributing tambura and a place to record. But a bliss-oriented drone might make less sense in a time when you can get out and play shows than it did when clubs were shut down and people didn’t want to go out than it does when stages are available and Steve Nistor, who drums for Sparks, is available to join in. Last year, Bryon Hayes invoked  Windy & Carl and Mountains when describing Infinite Rivers’ Prequel; “Sky Diamon Raga,” the track that kicks off Infinite River, is more like an arena rock dream of Chris Forsyth’s “The Paranoid Cat.” Much of the time this record feels rather like the Raybeats negotiating production ideas of the 1990s and 2010s, which means that the guitar tones will have you scratching your head to remember what’s being reference and how it’s been changed, but that the snare drum takes up entirely too much sonic real estate. Tellingly, the best moments come when the production is dialed back and the melodies take over, as on a Ventures-does-Coltrane interpretation of “My Favorite Things.”

Bill Meyer

Will Laut — Will Laut (Wavetrap)

Producer Ivan Pavlov AKA COH has collaborated with John Balance and Cosey Fanni Tutti, and the sounds of Coil and Throbbing Gristle are clear influences on his new EP with singer William Laut. Shot through with the feeling of dancing towards doomsday, Laut’s haunted murmur wavers just on the right side of cynicism and sleaze as he sings of living through hate, looking for the redemption of love or at least an opportunity to forget even for a few moments. COH lays down a minimalist carpet of synths and drum machines that use TG’s  “United” and Daniel Miller’s “Warm Leatherette” as templates. Most effective are the slow burn sarcasm of “Cryptoman” and the weary tango of “Wine of Love.” These are songs Brecht and Weill might have written if they had access to cheap keyboards and a primitive drum machine. Noirish, knowing and smart, the four songs on Will Laut are a speakeasy floorshow for the modern world. Highly recommended and hoping to hear more from this duo.

Andrew Forell

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard and Quatuor Bozzini — Colliding Bubbles: Surface Tension and Release (Important)

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard is a composer based in Copenhagen. On his latest EP he joins forces with the premiere Canadian string quartet for new music, Quatuor Bozzini, to create a piece that deals with the perception of bubbles replicating the human experience. In addition to the harmonics played by the strings, the players are required to play harmonicas at the same time. At first blush, this might sound like a gimmick, but the conception of the piece as instability and friction emerging from continuous sound, like bubbles colliding in space and, concurrently, the often tense unpredictability of the human experience, makes these choices instead seem organic and well-considered. As the piece unfolds, the register of the pitch material makes a slow decline from the stratosphere to the ground floor with a simultaneous long decrescendo.  The quartet are masterful musicians, unfazed by the challenge of playing long bowings and long-breathed harmonica chords simultaneously. The resulting sound world is shimmering, liquescent, and, surprising in its occasional metaphoric bubbles popping.

Christian Carey

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Guess who made their first sketch comic in two hours? Lyrics from Saint Bernard by Lincoln

Words below the cut because it may be hard to read

To remind me that I am a fool

Tell me where I came from, what I will always be

Just a spoiled little kid who went to Catholic School

When I am dead I won’t join their ranks

For they are both holy and free

For they are both holy and free

For they are both holy and free

And I’m in Ohio, Satanic and chained up

And until the end, that’s how it’ll be

I said make me love myself so that I might love you

Don’t make me a liar ‘Cause I swear to god

When I said it I thought it was true

Saint Calvin told me not to worry about you

But he’s got his own things to deal with

There’s really just one thing that we have in common

Neither of us will be missed

Saint Bernard sits at the top of the driveway

You always said how you like dogs

I don’t know if I count

But I’m trying my best

When I’m howling and barking these songs

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🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷More than 170 DJs, singers, rappers and producers from over 40 countries, of the 5 continents, have already participated with an exclusive mix or playlist. More coming soon!

Pinduca Scheffer Show, Christian danceable music (reggae, hip hop, electronic, etc.), without commercials/advertising, on Fridays and Saturdays, 1 am (Lisbon time), at www.ultrafm.pt

The mixes and playlists already broadcast are on the Pinduca Scheffer Show YouTube channel.

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Mais de 170 DJs, cantores, rappers e produtores, de mais de 40 países, dos 5 continentes, já participaram com um mix ou playlist exclusivo. Em breve há mais!

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Os mixes e playlists já transmitidos estão no canal Pinduca Scheffer Show, no YouTube.

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Queensland DJ Christian Krauter’s electro beats 'Stomp Clap Stomp' inject an extra dose of adrenaline into your workout

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So I've been tagging a few of my posts as an exvangelical. I feel I need to elaborate on that. I'm an ex-messianic "Jew" and in this essay I will explain what I find problematic about the very movement I grew up in.

Christians are polytheistic.

There's no two ways about it, and that isn't a bad thing. The bad thing is that Christians chronically put down polytheists for being heathens and heretics while worshipping three separate (but also not separate I promise) entities at the same time.

Let me elaborate. Christians believe that their deity is a three-in-one package deal. They worship God the father, who is the Big God who created the universe and typically is the one just referred to as "God," Jesus the son, who came to earth and was tortured to death as a living sacrifice, and the Holy Spirit/Ghost, who is mainly responsible for personal conviction, and has the ability to grant human beings supernatural gifts like prophecy or speaking other languages.

These are three separate entities, but also the same entity. I've heard it explained by saying that your arm is not you, but it is a part of you, in the same way that Jesus is not God, but he is a part of God. If that makes any sense. Most of the time when I ask Christians about the three-in-one unit known as the Trinity, they say it isn't supposed to make logical sense, but it's true, and you're to take it on faith.

Now that would be fine and dandy, if they didn't insist they weren't polytheistic. But they are, and they do. Throughout many religions, there are many deities that have this multiple-but-also-singular phenomenon, like the Norns in Norse mythology, or even arguably Cerberus.

Here's where the problem comes in.

Many Christians believe that it is okay for them to both worship Jesus, and dabble their toes into Jewish tradition and culture.

Judaism is monotheistic. That means that a polytheistic worldview is completely incompatible with their own worldview. It doesn't mean Jewish people can't be friends with Christians, but it does mean their separate religions are dynamically opposed. If you pray to Jesus, sing worship songs to Jesus, ask Jesus for help in times of trouble, you are not worshipping the same God the Jews are when you're doing that.

Jesus was a Jewish man. That doesn't make you Jewish for worshipping him, and it doesn't make you Jewish for worshipping in a way that you think he worshipped like. You, as a Christian, have no claim to Jewish tradition or culture.

There are more reasons than just that by which Judaism and Christianity differ, and many Christians pull random information about Jews and what they believe out of their butt and sell it as objective fact to make themselves feel better about themselves and closer to who they believe is one of their gods. For instance, I was taught it's the Jewish tradition to hold a funeral for your child if they convert to Christianity. Baloney, hogwash, and ick. Many Christians are taught that Jews believe they are saved from Hell by their works. Well let me clue you in on something... A lot of Jews don't even believe in Hell.

Anyway, my parents first got into Messianic "Judaism" (I'm going to keep putting the quotation marks there because my parents aren't Jews, they never have been, they don't claim to be, and for the most part, they won't admit this, but they're definitely still Baptists at heart) through the celebration of Passover, or Pesach. They believed that they were commanded in Scriptures to hold a Passover Seder for themselves if they wanted to do the will of God.

Here's the thing though. The very first time Passover is mentioned in the Torah (which is the first five books of Moses and the Jewish rulebook) it's stated very explicitly that you have to be Jewish to celebrate it. Well, it says you have to be circumcised, but given that there are Jews who cannot be circumcised, and there are non-Jews who are circumcised anyway, it's most definitely referring to a belief in Judaism. You've got to be Jewish to celebrate Passover.

I bring this up to illustrate that Passover in particular, and Judaism as a whole, is what we in the Pagan community would refer to as a "closed practice". That means that if you are not Jewish, you can't do the Jewish thing. It's disrespectful and rude to claim the Jewish stuff for yourself while not being Jewish.

The way it's been explained to me by a Jewish friend is that the main problem comes in a misunderstanding of the word "chosen". Yes, the Jews are God's chosen people... But that doesn't mean they're his favorites. Chosen, in this context, is referring to the way the Jewish people believe that God selected them in particular to do his commandments. It's an honor, but it isn't for everyone, and you can't become a chosen one just by doing the commandments. It's like if my dad told me to do the dishes, I am the chosen one. I am not my dad's favorite. If I wanted to honor my dad, I would do the dishes when he told me to do them. If my sister does the dishes, that doesn't make her the one my dad chose to do the dishes. She just did my job for me.

Obviously it's more complicated than that when a non-Jew decides they're allowed to do the commandments detailed in the Torah without actually converting to Judaism. It's way more problematic because in the Jewish perspective (at least from what I understand, if there are Jews out there reading this pls pls correct me if I'm wrong) y'all have your own chores to be doing. Non-Jews serve a purpose in God's world, which is why it's completely okay for you guys to not keep the laws. In fact, I know there's allowances in the Talmud that say you can sell unkosher food to non-Jews, because there's not a single problem with you eating it. Most Jews don't think people are morally wrong for eating pork, for instance. It's just something they've been asked not to do.

In my house growing up, we weren't allowed to scream unless we were in immediate danger. That doesn't make screaming inherently morally wrong. It means my mom has sensory issues and so she told us not to scream. If a kid screamed for no reason at the playground, we wouldn't have looked at him like they'd murdered someone, nor would we assume they were in immediate danger, because we all understood it was just our parents who'd told us not to scream.

It's just the Jewish people who've been told by their God to adhere to the Jewish tradition.

Just read the Wikipedia article on Messianic Judaism. Y'all aren't Jewish. Judaism is so fundementally different from Christianity that you can't just duct tape Jesus to Judaism and call it good. It doesn't work that way. You've completely misunderstood the very nature of Judaism.

And this is totally beside the fact that historically, it was the Christians who've been hurting the Jewish community for the very traditions you're now trying to edge your way into. Maybe not you personally, but I don't blame the Jewish community for being extremely wary when non-Jews start reaching for their traditions.

The both of you guys sharing half a Bible does not equate to you believing the same thing.

Furthermore, I've recently been introduced to the concept of philo-semitism. I'm by no means an expert on this phenomenon, but I'll do my best to explain it. It's a certain style of anti-Semitism that places Jews up on a pedestal and glorifies them as The Chosen People Of God (misunderstanding that word Chosen again) and claims they are doing Everything Right because that's what God told them to do.

To me this has the same vibes as saying that pre-colonization people were perfect angels who did no wrong and it was the White Guys who came in and ruined everything and brought evil into the world Pandora's box style.

The belief that a certain ethnic group is inherently better is racism. It's not the systemic racism we know and hate in it's form in the modern day, but it's very closely linked, and the people it hurts the most may not be who you think it is. If you're claiming that first-nation people can do no wrong, you're taking away their humanity. You're claiming that they aren't people, because People Do Bad Stuff. All the fricking time. It's what makes us human.

So to believe that the Jewish people are inherently better because of their Jewishness? That is a racist belief. Don't try to be like the Jewish people because you think they're spiritually superior to you. That's a racist ideology. There are practicing Jews out there who are Bad People. That's because they're humans, and some humans are just really crappy humans. Their Judaism does not inherently make them a good person in the same way that Christian faith does not make someone a good person.

And if you act on those racist beliefs by celebrating a holiday that was never yours to celebrate, you are doing racist things. The very last thing Jewish people need is for the religion that's been responsible for so many years of oppression and pain to swallow them whole, until people don't even remember that Passover is for the Jews, and the Jews only.

So yes. No matter what they say, my parents are still evangelical Christians. They raised me to be—you guessed it—an evangelical Christian. This is why I refer to myself as an exvangelical, and not ex-jewish, even though I may talk about not going home for Sukkot instead of not going home for Christmas.

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Happy National DJ Day! I’m DJ Miss Milan and I’ve been spinning professionally for almost 8 years now and I completely love what I do! I’m grateful for this journey to provide the vibes worldwide!

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