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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · Nov 23

Obligatory pinned post: If you like instrumental shit with some grit and dust, you might dig my recent-ish tape, We Have Come For Light. 6 songs in 25 minutes, handcrafted entirely from 41 samples chopped up from 39 different records, and made on a 4-track.

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We Have Come For Light, by DEF MAGNETIC

6 track album

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SoloChills @solochills.blacksky.app · 1d

Fuck off

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 1d

You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

You can now connect your Spotify account to ChatGPT. Here’s how to do it | TechCrunch

You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 1d

They're trying to install a dictator and this is what you ask? They don't care. This was part of their plan the whole time. Start meeting the moment.

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone actually reading this, you may have noticed that I didn't include commerce or promotion in my reasons. Those are certainly valid, but nothing I care about. My DIY mindset was forged in the crucible of 90s hardcore; I'm driven to do this until I can't, and I'll happily lose money doing so.

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, and probably mostly importantly, I put out physical releases because it's fucking cool. Having something I can hold and sit with the artwork, lyrics, and liner notes is fucking cool. Giving that experience to others is fucking cool. Being part of something bigger than myself? Fucking cool.

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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 1d

Releasing stuff physically makes me part of an ongoing conversation happening across generations. I've thought about this DJ Shadow clip for decades, and it's beautiful that someone can find and be moved by someone else's "broken dreams" in a totally different time & place.

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DJ Shadow featured in the movie Scratch (2002)

YouTube video by Aaron Coe

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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of algorithms, digital is ephemeral. Your music on streaming services only lasts as long as those services are live and someone's paying the annual Distrokid bill. Once you're dead, that's probably it for your music. My shit will hopefully be haunting dollar bins long after I'm gone.

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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 1d

Holding the physical manifestation of something you poured your guts into making is enormously satisfying. It's a complete, finished work that you control every aspect of, and listeners encounter your music the way *you* want them to, not getting having it served piecemeal by some algorithm.

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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 1d

I've been making and physically releasing music for 31 years: tapes, CDs, 7"s, LPs, a 10", and even a VHS tape.

Here are my reasons for putting shit out physically:

Michael Stover I Artist & Creative Marketing I @bigsto.bsky.social · 1d

some artists would've never pressed CDs had i not mentioned it first. as a lot of artists came at me believing they were obsolete.

understand...PHYSICAL MEDIA WILL NEVER BE OBSOLETE.

corporations are the ones attempting to eliminate it. don't let them.

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Lt Headtrip @ltheadtrip.bsky.social · 1d

0 Days Since Last Accident video is up now ⚠️ @steeltippeddove.bsky.social and my first video single from Hostile Engineering via @fusedarrowrecords.com

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Lt Headtrip & steel tipped dove - 0 Days SInce Last Accident (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Fused Arrow Records

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 2d

Your colleagues across the aisle have abandoned democracy and are openly trying to install a dictator. They don't care about people or due process. Only power.

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 2d

His response to everything is talking about health care and/or begging for bipartisanship.

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 3d

I've never heard the Smiths. I'm sure I've been places where a Smiths song was playing, but I didn't know it was a Smiths song. Even now that I can pull up every song they've ever made with zero effort, I don't care enough to do so.

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 3d

DUDE.

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 4d

REPUBLICANS ABANDONED DEMOCRACY AND ARE TRYING TO INSTALL A DICTATOR.

*That's* the story. Every time you guys beat around the bush with this shit brings their plan one step closer to fruition.

YOU NEED TO START MEETING THE MOMENT.

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illingsworth @illingsworks.bandcamp.com · 5d

my car trying to die again so buy my music illingsworks.bandcamp.com

use code “autismaintbad” for a discount at checkout because the world is wild

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Lt Headtrip @ltheadtrip.bsky.social · 4d

⚠️ October 10th ⚠️

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 5d

It's incredibly sad watching you send out your comms team several times a day to post about affordable health care when you should be in Chicago or Broadview right now fighting for not only your constituents—including the Dreamers you've spent decades advocating for—but American democracy itself.

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Bloodmoney Perez @bloodmoneyperez.bsky.social · 6d

Need some unique and original art for albums. Holler. I'm cooking.

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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 8d

And congressional Dems are still talking about healthcare subsidies instead of fascists breaking down people's doors and snatching them in the middle of the night.

Like, healthcare subsidies are important, but don't mean anything if American democracy dies and they finish gutting the system anyway.

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nadia comanachos @brewera.bsky.social · 8d

absolutely thrilled that there's a non zero chance my kids have to ride through tear gas on their way home from school today

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

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illingsworth @illingsworks.bandcamp.com · 8d

i believe it’s #bandcampfriday for those who celebrate.

illingsworks.bandcamp.com is here. dropped something earlier this week. use the code “autismaintbad” for a big arse discount at checkout.

thanks in advance and

don’t poop yourself today. tomorrow is another story.

Illingsworth

EMCEE + PRODUCER stuff i make = music with @rufiojones @seanuppercut, beats, raps, videos. born & bred resident of Detroit. smooth due to alopecia.

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DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 9d

Not futile at all! Trump is very unpopular. They should repeatedly file articles of impeachment (one for every impeachable offense) and then savagely beat Republicans over the head with their votes protecting him. Repeat. Start driving the narrative instead of meekly and belatedly reacting to it.

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 10d

Let's be clear: Republicans didn't "jam through" anything. You guys let them pass it in exchange for a vote on a doomed-to-fail amendment.

As you get ready for retirement, know that the feckless timidity of you and your colleagues is leading to the absolute ruin of everything you ever worked for.

DEF MAGNETIC @defmagnetic.bsky.social · 10d

Hi Congressman, constituent here. How are those articles of impeachment coming along?