Man I really appreciate you @op

I love music so much but hip hop will always have my heart since it is so critical to my foundation

Earlier this week I was hot because it seems like a lot of people - including friends of mine that I know that are always talking music - just throw hip hop away after a certain age or a few years of listening

It's dead, nothing exciting etc without any larger conversation about the things impacting the people making the music (ie hip hop having a large social component and covid really impacting that for a while, black people stateside being devastated in general by covid etc)

On top of that the conversation of the actual music and artists never goes beyond what's at the surface but for basically any other genre they'll dig through every digital crate and search and ponder but won't give even a percentage of the same effort for hip hop

So nasty to me

But you're always up and excited and showing me and others so many new artists and scenes and helping some of these artists get more looks too, I love it

So thank you for that and thank you for all of your genuine excitement and passion for music overall

🥹❤️❤️❤️

damn dawgy u hanging out w bostonian white boys? why are they disrespecting hip hop like that?

Hell nah

That's the worst part about it, these are people that are otherwise really cool and varied in their interests

But yeah something about how they/people can casually discard hip hop makes me really queasy

Makes me feel like they were always tourists and never truly valued the music and the culture associated with it

Seeing you slowly build this for yourself is really inspiring

I don't know what I'll do but I know it's gonna be off the beaten path and something I'll have to concoct and that usually has me really shaken and down on my future but..

if beflygelt can do it I can to

@op a close friend of mine is living in Kaiserslautern for school right now and he's looking for things to do - he loves music, art, anything off the usual path (I'm almost certain there's nothing too weird for him)

If he stays in Germany he plans to move to Berlin but for now he's stuck in Kaiserslautern and places he can get to via regional trains

If there's anything you can think of that I could throw his way I'd appreciate it greatly

oh damn he's kind of around near me actually (mostly in Mainz/Darmstadt atm), I'm sorry for that ☠️ I find it v hard out here finding anything off the beaten path ngl

saw Alchemist in Alte Feuerwache in Mannheim, Swans in Heidelberg once.. in Frankfurt there's Mousonturm, Tanzhaus West and Zoom, Offenbach got Hafen2. you occasionally get some cool bookings there but ngl the interesting stuff is few and far in between... only current plan I have is Bar Italia in Tanzhaus West in May. Mainz even closed its last indie cinema the other day. It's grim.

I only rly get my culture fixes in Netherlands and Berlin tbh, sometimes Köln. Atm most excited for Rewire Fest in Den Haag in a few weeks.

had kind of a horrid start into 2024, ADHD meds didn't rly help me at all and I got fired from my s***ty corporate job, planning to move out, relationship rly suffering from long-distance... it's been rough

buttt happy to say that Dreamcrusher interview will finally drop tomorrow 🙏🏻

rateyourmusic.com/feature/sonemic-interview-dreamcrusher
rateyourmusic.com/feature/sonemic-interview-dreamcrusher
rateyourmusic.com/feature/sonemic-interview-dreamcrusher

@AmoryBlain @grimes saw u started a thread before 🫡

Gonna watch this! So awesome you got slauson Malone interview before too. He’s one of my fav artists oat

Dreamcrusher is dope as f***, very excited for this!

these are all text 🙈

and yeah getting Slauson for this was crazy tbh bc yh same... def one of the most amazing artists out rn to me. I only had an hour and was nervous af but managed to go pretty in-depth.

it also ended up the only interview he did around the time of his Warp debut lol which is still rly mad to me

amazing work op

@beflygelt thanks for the response a few days ago

My friend said this:

"Yoooo word, thank you bro

That's huuge

Crazy someone that lives here is echoing the sentiment that germany's a cultural wasteland"

also

Dreamcrusher show I caught in 2018 one of my favorites ever, already know this is gonna be great

Sorry that this year has been rough to start @op but you're on the rise

thank you :))

yh such an amazing performer, saw them 3x now lol. rly dying to see Centennial Gardens live some time too

yh out here anyway it's rough af. like you still have some really cool things pop up but it's always like an against all odds thing lol. 95% of ppl round here scared hoes when it comes to experimental art. meanwhile in Berlin weird is normal lol.

dreamcrusher.bandcamp.com/track/live-in-vienna-6-oct-2023

got a random one coming up next week, Botsu from Dos Monos reached out to me directly on RYM saying the slauson interview was the best interview he's read in a long time and if I can interview him too ha, couldn't rly say no.

first time interviewing an artist who's music I had to start listening to for the interview - feels like a bit of an odd fit for me now maybe, but also it was actually a really cool chat in the end...

they are pretty legit, went on tour with black midi and Injury Reserve and getting p big co-signs back home by the OGs too !

wanna start dropping reviews for music and film on rym/lb semi-regularly, follow me for updates on rym/lb/twitter/insta 🙃 also finally dropping interview w ran cap duoi next week hopefully

then Nicolas Jaar coming January all going smooth 🤫🤫🤫

2025 I'll be putting in the WORK and do this journalism s*** proper 📈📈📈

@Vox @proper unprivated a v personal mix I made this summer which I'm kinda proud of. emo ambient vibes