DrBeat [they/them]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • This was incredible last year:

    https://soundcloud.com/moktarmoktar/moktar-live-at-meredith-music-festival-09122023

    Big crowd of 10,000 people, huge Palestinian flags waving, thumping techno with arabic samples.

    It was directly after this perfect house and disco set:

    https://on.soundcloud.com/wXi1zoBieisB8EBK7

    What a weekend...



  • Body Maintenance mentioned!

    Some other favs of mine from the 2017-19 scene: No Sister, Bitumen, Constant Mongrel, Primo!, EXEK, Nun, UBIK, GAUCI, Vertigo, Parsnip, HEXDEBT, HTRK and Spike Fuck.

    I've since gravitated toward the dance music (read: Milo Eastwood extended universe) side of the PBS/RRR equation, so unfortunately no longer know what's up with punk locally...


  • Three songs from the 70's which I adore:

    Ahmad Jamal Trio - I Love Music --------- (spot the sample in a classic 90s hiphop track)

    Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man --------- (I've got a ticket to see Herbie later this year, can't believe it)

    Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This --------- (Just such a huge huge huge track, sitting in a jazz-funk-disco nexus in '77, seriously actually listen to this)







  • I went over to fix my grandparent's email recently, and what struck me was how chill and fun of a time I had with what would otherwise be a bothersome chore, because it was socially embedded work.

    On my own, annoying tech shit heads toward the sentiment of your comment, because I'm just in a feedback loop of garbage stimuli and futility, and it can ruin my day with stress. But I can wade through all of that no problem if I'm tethered to others, I'd even be happy about it.

    So idk, I guess yeah capital puts us in cages of various sorts, real, digital and mental. Dismantling that is an obscene nightmare on our own. You could edit every registry in the world and change nothing, people would generate the same problems again, because nothing changed socially. We can't build socialism by ourselves, it has to be a fun thing you do with your friends for a laugh, because that's what makes the work tolerable for most people, and we need most people.

    Would love to scream and throw bottle with you comrade, sounds dope