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willowxsparks · 5 years

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hi hi, so i’m finally organized with a plots page ( i know shocking, even just followed everyone elses layout - dont come at me folks ), if i missed a plot or anything. hmu and i’ll put into the slot it needs to be in! or if you wanna plot with my kids! hmu and lets plot!!

WILLOW SPARKS.

bridgette scatterlee. twenty - three, model. raised in london, moved back to america to get treatment for her eating disorder. now living her best life while trying to be blair waldorf in gossip girl

FAMILIAL

sister - Lexie Blakely

cousins - Elvie Croft

maternal step brother- Casey Mitchell

pet dog - Digby and Frankie.

ROMANTIC

Boyfriend -

Exes on mixed terms -

Ex PR Boyfriend - OPEN

Ex Flirtashionship - OPEN

FWB - Leo

Exes Bad Terms - OPEN

Exes on Good Terms - OPEN

PLATONIC

best friend - Tahnee

childhood friend - OPEN

ride or die -

childhood friend/like another sibling - Ivy

shopping buddy - Niko Goldwater

friends/unlikely friends - OPEN

online → irl friends - OPEN

squad of friends - cade jackson

frenemies - OPEN

pretends to be friend for clout - OPEN

NEGATIVE

bad terms - Luna

former friends - OPEN

friend that messed up her recovery - OPEN

just don’t like eachother - OPEN

CAMILLE WINDSOR

taylor swift. twenty - four, princess of england/guitarist for rapid porcupines. born in london england. has two cats and just enjoys baking #wholesomeprincess

FAMILIAL

paternal cousins - OPEN

maternal cousins - OPEN

paternal step sibling - OPEN

maternal step sibling - OPEN

pet cats - lola & angel

ROMANTIC

Boyfriend -

Exes on mixed terms -

Ex PR Boyfried - OPEN

Ex Flirtashionship - OPEN

FWB - OPEN

Exes Bad Terms - OPEN

Exes on Good Terms - OPEN

PLATONIC

the quirky best friend - OPEN

ride or die - OPEN

roommates - josephine mackenzie

childhood friend - Ivy

childhood friend/like another sibling - OPEN

band mates - Parker.

friends/unlikely friends - max croft

online → irl friends - luna

frenemies - OPEN

Friends - Brett

pretends to be friend for clout (lots of princess friend clout)- OPEN

NEGATIVE

bad terms - OPEN

used her/took advantage of her - leo

former friends - OPEN

doesn’t like her because of her royal status - OPEN

just don’t like each other - OPEN

DUNCAN MCLEOD

zac efron. twenty - four, singer. born in australia. moved to NYC once his music took off. practially a goldern child of an australian empire worth millions.

FAMILIAL

sister [?/1] - OPEN

cousins - OPEN

step sisters - OPEN

ROMANTIC

Girlfriend -

First Ever I love you. -

Exes on mixed terms - Ivy

Ex PR Girlfriend - OPEN

Ex Flirtashionship - OPEN

FWB aka baby mama - Luna

Exes Bad Terms - OPEN

Exes on Good Terms - OPEN

PLATONIC

best friend - cade, elvie

childhood friend - OPEN

childhood friend/like another sibling - OPEN

friends/unlikely friends - OPEN

online → irl friends - cade

frenemies - OPEN

squad of friends-

NEGATIVE

bad terms - OPEN

former friends - OPEN

just don’t like each other - OPEN

#plots

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objectivesubjectivity · 3 years

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Ranking all the 2015 CDs I physically own: 28-36

The following is the third of six entries in an entirely subjective and personalized ranking of the 54 albums released in 2015 that I physically own.

36. Ibex - Look Out, Here Comes...: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was in this band but since I technically “own” a copy on CD (and actually still have a handful if anyone wants to buy one!), it’s gotta be ranked. And, to be completely honest, I think we put out a fairly good set of folk tunes. I certainly would turn to this more often than any of the Mumford and Sons albums (boom roasted). Must hear track(s): Run Along Little Light, All Hallows’ Eve

35. Punch Brothers - The Wireless: I think, for me, the Punch Brothers operate in the same brain space as jazz: I know it’s technically impressive and I can appreciate the innovation and rule breaking but unless it gels into enough of a structured song, it’s not my jam. The interesting part about this EP is that the track that feels the most structured is the instrumental one. Must hear track(s): No More. Yet

34. Senses Fail - Pull The Thorns From Your Heart: Heavier and more revealing than everything I’ve heard from them previously, Buddy tosses off the post-hardcore tropes of violence, hyperbole, and self-deprecation that littered his lyrics previously and gets real vulnerable. I don’t know how often I’ll be returning to this album but its honesty is definitely appreciated. Must hear track(s): Surrender, Pull the Thorns From Your Heart

33. Foxing - Dealer: This emotive post-rock act never really lands a significant punch after the opener but the album haunts enough to compel me to return and search for another hit. Must hear track(s): Weave

32. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall: Like most music and saddled with the progressive label, this album can be onerous and self-indulgent but when it works, it really fucking works. Must hear track(s): Compound Fracture, Big Decisions

31. Talib Kweli - Train of Thought: Lost Lyrics, Rare Releases + Beautiful B-Sides, Vol 1: Not terribly consistent but that’s unsurprising for a rarities comp. What is surprising is the lack of absolute duds, so props to Kweli for that. Must hear track(s): Boomerang (Feat. K'Valentine, Cory Mo & NIKO IS), Bright As The Stars (Feat. Yasiin Bey)

30. A$AP Rocky - AT. LONG. LAST. A$AP: Equal parts awe-inspiring and disappointing, Rocky demonstrates that he is more than capable of being a musical and lyrical innovator but far too often falls back on cheekiness, misogyny, and casual homophobia, which, especially for 2015, just feels sad, especially when there is so much potential to be better. Must hear track(s): LSD, Jukebox Joints (Feat. Joe Fox & Kanye West), West Side Highway, Holy Ghost (Feat. Joe Fox)

29. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt: - Arguably my favorite album title of all time, these 10 tracks do an excellent job reflecting its sentiment, resulting in a fairly strenuous 30 minutes of pessimism that, every so often, feels worth the effort. Must hear track(s): AM // Radio (feat. Wiki), Inside, Faucet

28. City and Colour - If I Should Leave Before You - The entire album doesn’t really live up to its 9+ minute opening stunner, but remains an enjoyable folky-bluesy 50 minutes nonetheless. Must hear track(s): Woman, Mizzy C

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thoughts-of-a-hip-hop-jnke · 7 years

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The Weekend Mix: 004

The latest and last install of The Weekend Mix of the year. Peep the Tracklisting and stream below. Be safe out there.

Big K.R.I.T. ft. Lloyd - 1999

HALF-A-MIL ft. Tyus - The Most

DRAM ft. Trippie Redd - Ill Nana

Key! ft. Christian Rose - Kourtney Love

The Weeknd ft. Young Thug & A$AP Rocky - Reminder

ETHEREAL ft. Rome Fortune and Relly Jade - Drop [That Ass On The Ground Like Some Change]

$TEVE CANNON - Pay Check

21 Savage x Offset x Metro Boomin - Ghostface Killers

Future x Young Thug - Three

Curren$y x T.Y. x Cornerboy P - Paper Doe

HALF-A-MIL - Fix Me A Plate

Curren$y ft. C-Style - Staying Ready

G-Worthy - Never Miss

Funkdafied Interlude

Niko G4 - Status

Kamaiyah - Playa In Me

Buddy ft. Boogie - 4 The Record

HALF-A-MIL - 500 Band Clique

GoldLink - Kokamoe Freestyle

N*E*R*D ft. Rihanna - Lemon

Stalley ft. Migos - My Line

Divine Council - Jodeci Pt. 2

Jay 305 - Yuck It Up

Tommy Genesis - Tommy

Jay 305 ft. DOM KENNEDY - Pretty Girls

HALF-A-MIL - Full Circle

#Music #Hip-Hop

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buttonholedlife · 5 years

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Exactly how Frankfurt's '80s Tape Scene Laid The Groundwork For The Urban area's Techno Revival-- Telekom Electronic Hammers

"Pass Away Puppe by Perish Type from France was actually a discovery to me because it was one of the 1st speculative albums that used the TR-808," mentions Weiss. "The absolute most magic instant of appointment Lars and Tobias was when I entered their place in Frankfurt and Tobias possessed an 808."

The renowned part of package came to be the central emphasis of Hypnobeat. In the years to come, as much as three would certainly be used on stage at one time along with a tangle of various other drum equipments as well as FX devices.

Roman Rütten was likewise fascinated with the opportunities of digital music. He had been raised as a classically trained pianist, however coming from the age of 14 he was actually swept up by the hooligan surge.

"I obtained all the documents from the Sex Guns until Sham 69, therefore I felt this symphonic music way is certainly not my style, I need to perform one thing of my personal," Rütten clarifies. "I started drumming on iron pubs with little bits of lumber. I acquired 4 strip recorders, and afterwards the 1st MS synth from Korg."

Rütten's project, Schaum Der Tage, started in 1982. He utilized a multi-track audio-cassette recorder to record noises and melodious passages from his synth as well as underpinned it along with simple drumming on a refuse newspaper container. The 1st Schaum Der Tage strip release failed to show up until 1986, however Rütten's musical instruction increased his lo-fi tips into distinct tune pieces.

Rütten additionally functioned with his old school pal Martin Schopf as Subrosa. Sometimes Schopf as well as Rütten bore down, albeit naively, to compose genuine tunes like "Thousand of Far Away", however they appeared most unforgettable spitting out the rude electro thug of "Zeitlos."

"Martin is just one of my earliest institution good friends," mentions Rütten. "It was a lot later on we determined to make songs together. I would not mention our experts made great popular music with each other, but our aim was merely enjoying yourself, making jokes during."

The price and also access of cassettes were actually intrinsic to DIY popular music culture in the 1980s. There were a handful of vital strip tags in Frankfurt that helped push this culture regionally and around the globe, via a combo of songs customer reviews, categorized adverts in magazines as well as handles on tape inlays. This below ground system relocated slowly-- it might take 3 months to obtain a reply to a deal of strips-- however it was actually vibrant.

Peter Weiss' Black and white Tapes was primarily a vessel for Hypnobeat recordings, but the Independent World compilations he and Steinfadt placed all together were a measure of the reach of tape culture. As local acts like Vo Ese, Hypnobeat as well as Stefan Freund, they were able to score monitors through Die Type, Pink Market, Tom Ellard (of Severed Moves), Steven Brown (of Tuxedomoon), Coming From Scratch and also much more.

"The compilations that Peter made were amazing," describes Müller. "He understood Severed People as well as people like that. So he would certainly acquire monitors through folks you wouldn't count on to help in a compilation that 'd sell possibly one hundred duplicates.'"

There was actually additionally a set of compilations on the MAM-Aufnahme, Ffm tag that assisted the local area setting alongside international acts, while No worry Tapes launched pair of thorough collections including ratings of overlooked, one-off jobs. Collectionism additionally stands out as a particularly achieved Frankfurt group coming from the era, while Niko Heyduck's collaboration with noted writer Thor Kunkel as Perish Synthetische Wohlfahrt provided a great self-released demo in 1984.

The abovementioned Klistier Records outlet was a core hub that offered the well-known industrial and experimental launches of the day. It's manner enhance could be found in Jinx, a shop put together in the Nordend neighborhood through Christa Kilbinger and Andreas Comtesse. It functioned as a bodily meeting factor for the tape scene.

"The fashion style in Jinx was actually influenced by musicians like Tuxedomoon, Paradise 17 as well as the clothes of ladies musicians," reveals Kilbinger. "Huge shoulder pads, large sports jackets. To minimize the expenditure, our team filled our personal self-made clothing as well. In the end of 1985, we began marketing strips. Our experts spoke to neighborhood bands and promoted the outlet in regional journals, where our experts talked to the cassette folks to obtain in call along with our company."

In 1986 Jinx coordinated the Frank Cassetten Festivity at Batschkapp, which included real-time performances through Hypnobeat, Cocks In Stained Silk as well as Collectionism. Before that, the place had held the rising ruffian motion as well as took place to take prominent industrial as well as new age acts like Tuxedomoon, Tool Channel as well as Chris & & Cosey to community.

"I played my 1st gig in Batschkapp opening for Pork Beat Policy," claims Uwe Schmidt. "The Batschkapp will bring much bigger international process, folks like Skinny Puppy and afterwards a nearby musician would open. I had no tip what to carry out when I participated in there certainly."

A substantial festival in Frankfurt's early digital record was actually Geminox. It was coordinated in 1984 by the late Walter E. Baumann, a neighborhood impresario from the area's abundant art scene that rushed the renowned fine art and also popular music magazine Schvantz! Geminox included speculative audiovisual performances through Z'EV, Nightclub Moral, as well as Mainz-based group Non Toxique Lost. It was also where Hypnobeat played its initial job.

"Peter as well as I were preparing the music for Geminox," discusses Müller, "and our company were actually unsure our company might play to such a big audience, merely both people. So our team talked to Tobias and also Pietro [ Insipido] if they will happen on stage along with our team and also take part. Peter and also I performed the drum programs, as well as they were managing the devices as well as using impacts systems."

When they were actually still pupils, a number of the musicians in this particular performance arranged their first online experiences by means of jobs at their colleges, albeit along with a reader that was actually arguably harder than the much more switched-on interrupt well-known sites.

"Tobias and I played our very first job at institution in '79 or perhaps '80," says Müller. "Our experts got some amps, took our personal devices, as well as we really didn't know exactly how people would respond. Individuals sometimes were quite vigorous, making an effort to take out wires. For ordinary individuals, participating in with drum makers evidently was a huge provocation."

"I was coordinating jobs along with buddies in university," points out Rütten, "one thing like a high school gathering. It was awful. Uwe Schmidt was aiding me to make the mix, yet a friend of mine made blow up puppets, which he burst along with fans that were actually louder than my music."

A few years much younger than the sort of Weiss, Freund and also Müller, Uwe Schmidt really did not start making music up until the mid 1980s. He initially pertained to the focus of the scene's protagonists at a makeshift school gig where he played along with his university close friends Olaf Finkbeiner and Torsten Kühne as Pornotanz.

"Martin stated to me, 'an old friend of mine is playing in a school, perform you intend to come?'" recollects Müller. "I assumed the band, Pornotanz, was actually awful, but the component Uwe carried out was actually outstanding, like a customized variation of Tavern Voltaire or Cutting Edge Convocation. I claimed to Martin, 'permits go as well as speak with him,' as well as coming from then on our experts blew up a friendly relationship."

It took a while before Schmidt presented his own recordings as Lassigue Bendthaus, caught on the lo-fi however deftly created 1988 document The Engineers Passion. It was actually released on NG Medien, a strip tag established by Rütten, Finkbeiner as well as Schmidt. The sonic development in between Pornotanz and Lassigue Bendthaus is actually subtle however obvious, and also it shows the greater changes that influenced the digital music setting both in Frankfurt as well as beyond.

"I was captivated due to the digital body music developments," points out Rütten. "I possessed connects with coming from the strip scene, to Costs Leeb coming from Skinny Pup. Our team accepted to release the 1st album by his brand new band Cutting edge Assembly in Germany on NG Medien."

Whereas the industrial culture of the very early 1980s had been undefined and also available, through the mid-to-late '80s specific new methods had formed. Key amongst these was actually EBM. Sequencers, samplers and also electronic technology triggered punchier dancing floor sounds. Sven Väth promoted EBM alongside various other digital dancing music at his nightclubs Vogue as well as Omen. Fabled, disco-era Frankfurt club Dorian Gray even compromised to this songs, largely with the work of local area promoter Andreas Tomalla (aka Talla 2XLC) and also his Technoclub celebrations.

Talla was also connected with Bigod twenty, an EBM team made up in Frankfurt in 1988 led through Markus Nikolai. Bigod 20 discovered better results in the very early '90s when they incorporated vocalist Thomas Franzmann (a.k.a. Zip Campisi) to their selection. Nikolai and Franzmann would certainly go on to develop the famous minimal property label Perlon eventually in the '90s.

Schmidt's own journey as Lassigue Bendthaus proceeded swiftly. Wrenching up hrs of workshop opportunity at the semi-professional Besser Tonstudio; after pair of years of meticulous job he arised along with Issue, his bold, compelling 2nd cd that bent greatly into the noise of EBM. Schmidt took place to document under credit ratings of aliases, a number of the best prominent being AtomTM as well as Señor Coconut.

Alongside EBM, the arrival people dancing popular music coming from Chicago and also Detroit additionally induced a seismic change in the digital songs garden. Artists were actually right now faced along with the possibility to take factors in an even more specialist, or perhaps commercial, direction.

"When Tobias and I started doing our stuff, Yellow Magic Orchestra released Technodelic," clarifies Müller. "Our company started phoning our songs 'techno'. Our experts utilized 'techno' for a long period of time, possibly until '87 or even '88, and afterwards once your house and acid scene started the tag techno quickly had a different meaning, and I didn't such as to utilize it any kind of a lot more."

Through 1987, the core companionship group of musicians as well as close friends in the Frankfurt tape scene included a rotary combination of cooperations and also experiments. Alejandra Carmona Cannobbio as well as Claudia Iglesias had entered the imaginative fold. Müller and Cannobbio had actually a task phoned Arquitectos De Ruidos, and also a loosely described group task developed phoned Area Industriel. They took a road journey to play a job in Barcelona, captured in wistful Super 8 through Freund and also readily available to check out on his Vimeo webpage.

It was actually around this time that the band Sieg Über Pass away Sonne likewise took condition. The initial file under the title, the Mr. Leben 7" in 1989, featured Freund, Schopf, Müller, Cannobbio, Iglesias and Heyduck. Adhering to the vacation to Barcelona, a clear crack arised in the group that left behind some of the core participants by the wayside. Roman Rütten, much more rapt along with the song-based structures of the post-punk and also gothic movements, was actually told he no more matched the team's cosmetic.

"At that time, around 1988, Martin told me I failed to suit the group anymore," states Rütten. "Him and Tobias and also all the various other individuals mentioned, 'our experts have to go our digital method, as well as Roman should go his post-punk way.'"

Rütten happened to several various other jobs throughout the '90s and also '00s, featuring Crux Ansata, Zerose and also Endraum. Meanwhile, Müller, Schopf, Cannobbio as well as Iglesias moved to Chile in 1989 and played their part in encouraging the growth of a digital songs scene in Santiago. On returning to Germany, Müller was informed he was actually zero longer a part of Sieg Über Die Sonne. Freund and also Schopf relocated to Berlin, proceeded the venture by themselves, and located considerable results with their wacky, crossover electro-pop noise.

"It's unfortunate for me," mentions Müller, "because many of individuals you are actually discussing were a group of good friends performing things all together, till around the late '80s when the entire performance started to break down and relationships were dropped. When I returned from Chile, I learnt in a very distressing way that Tobias and Martin were certainly not thinking about proceeding along with me."

This content was originally published here.

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thesheeplepeople · 7 years

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Not a reply to my prompt, just a tidbit more

Connor and Niko belong to me. Custard, Axel, and the rest belong to @rogueofcreations

'Here at the Gaming News Network, we, too, wish well for everyone affected by this incident. We will keep you all updated if any more comments by RUBY are to appear' Connor smiled as the news broadcast ended. Giving a content sigh, he spun around in his computer chair. While spinning, he looked around the office. Well, 'office' was a generous term. It was the second bedroom that came in the apartment, but filled with drawing supplies and computers. He was considering turning it back into a bedroom for his new roommate, Custard. He hated making the kid sleep on his couch. He'd have to talk to him about that later. Connor stopped spinning to look at his dear friend, Nikolai, who had preoccupied by laying on the floor, watching the news as well. Connor shook his head. "You good there, buddy?" Connor asked, getting a groan in response. Well, that's more than he's gotten in the past few days. "Dude, get up. That's gotta be uncomfortable." Niko rolled onto his back and sat up. "There we go." Connor turned himself so that he was leaning his chin on the back of the chair, legs wrapped around it. "How've you been? Well, not good, I know." He sighed. "I know you're feeling down. But you know they're worried about you. I saw your sister the other day. She said that the band was asking about you. Maybe you should give them a call. You're the only one that hasn't seen him yet." Connor offered a smile. Niko looked at the floor, then back at Connor. "I can't... Not right now, at least." Niko sighed. "So... You're really not gonna tell them that you're 'the mysterious RUBY'?" "Now, why would I go and do a thing like that?" Connor turned in his chair, putting his feet up on his desk. "Maybe because they have no idea who put this together in their honor? I think they'd like to know." "Oh yeah. 'Oh, hey! I'm a fan of your son's! By the way, did you know that it was me that made a game to give you money?' Do you know how braggy that sounds?" Connor laughed, grinning. Niko shook his head. "Honestly? I'm just glad I could do something. Anything, really." Connor frowned. "I know what being in that frame of mind is like... It's dark. So if there's anything I can do to help just one person, I don't need credit." "... You're too kind, Connor." Niko hummed, getting up. "And you're adorable." Connor spun around, getting up as well. "C'mon. We're gonna go out. I'm not gonna make you go see them yet, but I'm sure as hell gonna make you get some sunlight." He grabbed Niko's arm. "The cafe that Custard works at is really nice. You'll like the cakes." "... Alright." Niko smiled at his friend. "... I'll make a deal." "Hmm?" "If I suck it up and see Axel's family, you have to tell him that the game is yours." ".... You're lucky I love you."

"Love you, too, buddy."

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