Hi. This is my 2000th post. I decided to make a mix for it…
It began as an attempt to construct something cohesive out of all the dariacored plunderphonic jersey club rips shared with me by Byro over the last 7/8 months, but only really came together — for lack of a better word — after I was further rabbit-holed by Kieran Press-Reynolds’ recent Pitchfork column on dariacore, Japanese hyperflip and Lost Frog Productions. (Kieran’s column is guaranteed to be one of the best things you can read about music online at the moment; “Chasing Yabujin” was another highlight.)
It’s not all full-frontal assaultive flips, admittedly. At a certain point, the sheer speed of these edits leads them to collapse under their own accelerating mass, and the sound of that is here too. But overall, the general vibe of this mix is probably one of dancing or pogoing into traffic.
This is where my head has been at for most of the past year. Somewhere between an admittedly overwhelming listening session Byro initiated in my flat for Leroy’s Graverobbing record and our trip to see Porter Robinson at Brixton Academy in February, everything has started to make sense to me. The world has opened out. I am surfing sine waves ushering out from the present and lapping at the shores of the future.
As soon as my bastard PhD is done, I want to throw myself back into writing about the rapid development of this scene in lockdown and its nonstop mutations ever since. But I’m particularly fascinated by this new approach to bricolage as the sound of non-transcendence in 2025, where there is no binary of on/offline but rather a wholly networked way of living amidst semioblitz, revamped to bite back at copyright capital.
It goes hard, and it has rewired my brain.
- samebeam — it brings back memories, though there was nothing in those days, -nothingness- was still there
- dj twinturbo vs yyyyy2 — lost gecs twerk to jersey club
- flipEMoff!! — yeah we just chillin, its just that this van is coming towards us and we’re about to die
- xaev — toby fox discovers the hyperpop soundfont
- pinkmouse — dj I like chip n dale kill yourself
- leroy — copyright strike my fucking nuts
- leroy — move for me & the penultimate dagger
- Jane Remover — Dreamflasher
- DJfoobar — @DJfb CAN’T HELP BUT THINK OF US #jerseyclub
- Samira — house in Nebraska #jerseyclub
- Porter Robinson — dullscythe
- ITHAQUA — wind,glass,amen
- piecez — Evangelion: Substitute Invasion (Piecez Jungle Remix)
- kmoe — peroxide
- lorey — S5 E2 – everyday is my fxcking grandmdma
- Third. — ricky bobby (12_8 ver.)
- xaev — And if u’ve ever fucked wit me I still love you
- quinn — terms and conditions
- quannnic — think with your lungs
- yeule — Blood Bunny
- Yung Lean — Agony