hell yeah
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I’m having a rough week
Picking up hitchhikers in your DeLorean. Making them climb into the backseat. Forcing them to listen to Geffen era Neil Young. Can they escape? No. Because the DeLorean doesn’t really have a backseat. They can’t move at all. They’re at your mercy. And by the end of the trip they’re sure to thank you. Sincerely. Truly blessed.
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still a pretty good record that one, still amused at the sleeve doing a howlin wolf shoutout
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Love that I had not heard this before, but I was like “i bet these dudes feuded with Bone Thugs” and of course they totally did, with both aiming diss tracks at each other and lol.
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This album rules so much. Like a few stories (sad and not sad):
Sad: Neil always wanted to play synths more. He was friends with the dudes in Devo largely based on their shared love of analog synth noises. But yeah, he’s Neil Young, so he had to keep playing Neil Young tunes. But somehow, he snuck in like half of this album, and used a vocoder all over it because his youngest kid at the time responded a lot more to his voice when he spoke/sung through it. The song structure and such was also something his kid responded a lot to. This song in specific is often thought to be addressed to his son and how he was having to use technology to adapt to his physical issues.
Not Sad: So in hte 90s, there was a band called The Moog Cookbook that covered songs using synths in cheesy byt pretty good ways. And they loved Trans, this album, so damn much because yeah, Neil Young listened to Kraftwerk a lot. So for their album, they both put a shoutout to the album in the notes, but also covered Rockin in the Free World, and there was a long going rumor that Neil Young secretly played on their version, but who knows if that is true. It’s still pretty fun, either way:
So because of this album, which god I listened to SO MANY TIMES in high school, I spent a good amount of time looking around in stores for Trans. Nobody carried it anywhere, and I refused to use the internet. When I finally found it, I was giddy, and man it is a weird thing. Half synth pop, half classic neil young album. It rules.
Also, I grew up a mile from a car dealership owned by the brother of John Delorean and they always had like 3 or 4 of these parked out back there, and it was awesome. When they finally closed, I think they donated most of them to the car museum here in Cleveland, but I hope they kept at least one of them.
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every time dark0 puts something out I go into a haze of “maybe I can make this kind of trance/grime music” and I am the closest I’ve ever been to doing so now that I have trash80’s m8 tracker
I also got all inspired after this and I’m unofficially calling dark0’s eternity album the third in the videogame trilogy, so I smashed eternity and the last two albums he did (zero2 + xenotype) into a big playlist and I’m posting it here for those interested in putting it together on their end:
zeroGen
Oxygenesis
Eternity
Eye Ignite ft. 0comeups
Infinite Edge
Qarin
After Years
Lilith
Storm_Earth
Terra Gang
Nova Bridge
Shining Star
Born From Decay
Hardware
Flutter Failure
Wait For Me
Tooly
U I C
StripGlo
Promise
Reverie Eternity ft. Malibu
I didn’t include a few tracks from xenotype and zero2 because I couldn’t get them to fit, maybe I’ll revisit later on
put this together! play it on top of whatever videogame you’re playing!
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eternity is so sick, one of my friends did the artwork and another did vocals on the title track
it’s wild that you know so many people close to dark0’s albums! small world, considering discovering him on my end was a big thing for me
they are people who work with the same label. surprisingly not the people i met from being around london in the mid 10s during that instrumental grime wave
apparently pete shelley wrote homosapien before founding the buzzcocks and intended to record a demo but never did, i guess? i can’t find one.
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