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Eris Drew, High Priestess of the Motherbeat

Started by Al Qədic, January 11, 2019, 06:24:43 AM

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Al Qədic

Welp, my first post, let's see how badly I can mess this up...

Eris Drew is a DJ from Chicago who's been gaining some popularity in recent years. She started with dingy, sketchy, drug-fueled raves, and has gone on to perform at...larger, more organized drug-fueled raves. Not only did she take on the name of Goddess when she came out, she lets chaos drive her style; her mixes don't always flow neatly, she turns feedback noise into a beat, and uses whatever record happens to get pulled from her collection in the moment. She takes a more witchy approach to things than most of us might be used to, but when you're able to make bird noises sound like part of a sick beat, I think trying to "heal people with the musical energy of the Motherbeat" can be forgiven.

Here are some links to her work, interviews, etc. Hopefully they stay...y'know, working and usable for the foreseeable future.

https://m.soundcloud.com/mixmag-1/in-session-eris-drews-thundering-goddess-mix
https://m.mixcloud.com/residentadvisor/ra604/
https://youtu.be/NqTMaSpXRsI
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3352
https://mixmag.net/feature/eris-drews-personal-awakening-has-combined-with-her-stratospheric-rise-as-a-dj
There is no reason to,
Be ashamed of poetry. It,
Is natural. But you should,
Still do it in private,
And wash your hands afterward.

chaotic neutral observer

Hello, new person!

I skimmed your music a bit, and think it needs more chaos.  Listen to one of these, and call me in the morning:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg1IJIMCVZM
Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.

Con-troll

Thing even musicians, or rather especially musicians don't seem to get about music is that it isn't notes, rhythms, chords, beats, harmonies, samples, loops or any of that shit. Those are useful way of conseptualizing when performing or composing, but in the end it's just vibrations in the air hitting some poor fuckers ears and their brain going "oh yeah, this is music", or "wtf is that please turn it off, my ears are bleeding" depending on personal taste, cultural backround, and history with drugs and mental illnesses.

My mental structures, for example, won't categorize almost anything in radio as "music" but almost jizz themselves to the symphony of bus engine roaring while the wheels are scraping the pavement and the body rhytmically complaining about suspension being shit.

All sound transmit feeling, music is just the most studied aspect of that phenomenon, aside from speech of course. If you want to transmit the feeling of discord, chaos, discomfort, or whatever Eris stands for, I think there's a lot better ways than beats slavishly locked in tempo, looping melodies and occasional.... bird noises??

Actually I don't know shit, my only audience is my neighbours and 100% of them hate my guts. Music business is a cruel bitch and one must conform to be something, if only an empty husk of a human being  staggering on a stage to redirect their audiences money to the pockets of their owners.

Thing is music, like most of the stuff, isn't desinged to be an industry. Once upon the time everyone did music. Even deaf ones. Specializing until one person makes music for all the rest is just stupid and unhealthy. So you wanna do music, do music, let me do music, encourage those who don't think they can do music to do music and the beautiful cacophony we'll create will blast our atmosphere off to outer space and we'll all suffocate.
I get trauma from stuff most don't even notice.

LMNO


Al Qədic

Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 11, 2019, 01:12:54 PM
Hello, new person!

I skimmed your music a bit, and think it needs more chaos.  Listen to one of these, and call me in the morning:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg1IJIMCVZM

Well that's neat. Thanks! Since links are going around now...here's a string quartet made out of scare chords.
https://youtu.be/Wp7VjBtOJ74
(P.S. I'm not Eris Drew...figure I'll say that now to avoid confusion. Just a fan who figures more of my fellow Discordians should check out her work. Glad you enjoyed!)
There is no reason to,
Be ashamed of poetry. It,
Is natural. But you should,
Still do it in private,
And wash your hands afterward.

Con-troll

#5
Quote from: Al Qədic on January 11, 2019, 08:53:23 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 11, 2019, 01:12:54 PM
Hello, new person!

I skimmed your music a bit, and think it needs more chaos.  Listen to one of these, and call me in the morning:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg1IJIMCVZM

Well that's neat. Thanks! Since links are going around now...here's a string quartet made out of scare chords.
https://youtu.be/Wp7VjBtOJ74
(P.S. I'm not Eris Drew...figure I'll say that now to avoid confusion. Just a fan who figures more of my fellow Discordians should check out her work. Glad you enjoyed!)

That's fucking gorgeous, defenitely going to my party pooper playlist! Altough I have to say I still prefer the more stochastic method of producing sound. As in https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJUbd66Vcc

P.S. Why would you want to avoid confusion?
I get trauma from stuff most don't even notice.

Al Qədic

Quote from: Con-troll on January 12, 2019, 07:21:14 AM
P.S. Why would you want to avoid confusion?
You have a point there. Not like it can be avoided anyway.
There is no reason to,
Be ashamed of poetry. It,
Is natural. But you should,
Still do it in private,
And wash your hands afterward.

chaotic neutral observer

Quote from: Al Qədic on January 11, 2019, 08:53:23 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 11, 2019, 01:12:54 PM
Hello, new person!

I skimmed your music a bit, and think it needs more chaos.  Listen to one of these, and call me in the morning:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg1IJIMCVZM

Well that's neat. Thanks! Since links are going around now...here's a string quartet made out of scare chords.
https://youtu.be/Wp7VjBtOJ74
(P.S. I'm not Eris Drew...figure I'll say that now to avoid confusion. Just a fan who figures more of my fellow Discordians should check out her work. Glad you enjoyed!)

Hmm?  I didn't say I enjoyed her work.  I wouldn't turn the radio off if it came on, but I wouldn't seek it out, either.  That style of music is a bit repetitive for my taste, and I consider repetition to be antithetical to chaos.

It's interesting how often people take a neutral (err...mostly neutral) statement, and tinge their interpretation of it with their own expectations.
Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.

chaotic neutral observer

But screw all that chaos crap.  And house music, let's face it, is bourgeois as fuck.
I reject your taste in music, and substitute my own:

MONDO GROSSO / ラビリンス (girl goes for walk in city at night)

Eisbrecher - Verrückt  (board meeting ends badly)

The HU - Wolf Totem (Mongolian...something)

Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.

altered

Is this the new "what are you listening to" topic?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPqGpnfJZ0

Anyway speaking of chaos see above thanks
"I am that worst of all type of criminal...I cannot bring myself to do what you tell me, because you told me."

There's over 100 of us in this meat-suit. You'd think it runs like a ship, but it's more like a hundred and ten angry ghosts having an old-school QuakeWorld tournament, three people desperately trying to make sure the gamers don't go hungry or soil themselves, and the Facilities manager weeping in the corner as the garbage piles high.

Al Qədic

Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 13, 2019, 04:32:27 PMMONDO GROSSO / ラビリンス (girl goes for walk in city at night)
That's neat.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 13, 2019, 04:32:27 PMEisbrecher - Verrückt  (board meeting ends badly)
I liked that more than I expected. Not too screechy, and it had some nice synth to back up the solid rock sounds.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 13, 2019, 04:32:27 PMThe HU - Wolf Totem (Mongolian...something)
I actually like how the main instruments in that don't sound like how I expected them to. Threw me for a loop, and I fuckin' love it.
There is no reason to,
Be ashamed of poetry. It,
Is natural. But you should,
Still do it in private,
And wash your hands afterward.

Al Qədic

Quote from: nullified on January 13, 2019, 10:26:23 PM
Is this the new "what are you listening to" topic?
May as well be! :lulz:
Quote from: nullified on January 13, 2019, 10:26:23 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPqGpnfJZ0
Anyway speaking of chaos see above thanks
That...was so many layers of weird, and I loved it. I'm a sucker for a good theremin.
There is no reason to,
Be ashamed of poetry. It,
Is natural. But you should,
Still do it in private,
And wash your hands afterward.