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[reddragdiva]

That’s the noise my hard disk started making on Sunday. You could hear the cry of AAAAAAAA from the stratosphere.

I have reaped the just reward of being sloppy with backups and lost three months’ work. Four songs, one good, one really good, one not so good, one which would have been awesome if I’d got more than the sketch down probably. I have an old source file for one, none for the others. but! I had MP3s of two of them! So more Diva Rose for you!

• Resonant (demo) (vocal guide) - I really like this song and the bass and drum sound really work here. This is the vocal guide version (that’s not arkady singing, that’s FluidSynth general MIDI sound font “ahh chorus” 52). The keyboard line needs work. I have an old source file and get to rebuild it.
• Heaven’s Circle (demo) (vocal guide) - this one I lost the source file for too. The vocal line here is not great and the bridge isn’t done at all, but I like the drums. Got a beat and you can dance to it. I’m thinking here of the sort of obscure ‘80s new wave 12" that you never heard of until Burning The Ground ripped it.
• Heaven’s Circle (demo) (karaoke) - same thing without the vocal line. Do your own!

I like indushtral noises and Arkady is really a folkie, so probably we should do neofolk. Socialist neofolk of course: acoustic guitar with noises, glitches and stirring internationalist sagas of social justice. Late period Frank Tovey but with better tunes. Tumblr should be an excellent place to ascertain what terms and concepts crypto-and-not-so-crypto-fascists will find optimally triggering.

(yes I know Tovey did an LP with Boyd Rice I own a Boyd Rice CD and Re-Search #11: Pranks! and saw him live once if only he wasn’t enormously musically important and would stop talking like a stupid person’s idea of how smart people talk dammit)

(also the Fad Gadget-related articles on Wikipedia need a serious cleanup)

I now have Dropbox set up.

Comments

[greylock]

So more Diva Rose for you!
You make music now?
I wait for the Accelerated Men remix or And An A cover! Or Crimson Boy.

I like indushtral noises and Arkady is really a folkie, so probably we should do neofolk.

You know the neofolk=Neo-nazi trope, right?

Late period Frank Tovey but with better tunes.
Not possible. And I saw latest Frank live. It was AMAZEBALLS.

(also the Fad Gadget-related articles on Wikipedia need a serious cleanup)

I direct your attention to the Project Pitchfork press release on Wikipedia.

I now have Dropbox set up.

What could go wrong with free cloud storage?

[reddragdiva]

You know the neofolk=Neo-nazi trope, right?

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OTOH if Tovey could pull it off live I would be DELIGHTED.

[greylock]

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Usually I say "oh..." but as someone who enjoys neofolk (and is wearing a Current 93 T-shirt), I didn't think much of your joke. I read a lot of dumb stuff about neofolk, though.

OTOH if Tovey could pull it off live I would be DELIGHTED.

My memory is, he nailed it... for one song.

I have a few AWESOME memories of live bands, but the two best are: being on stage with The Damned, and BEING COVERED WITH FAKE BLOOD for Fad Gadget... and then riding the Night Bus home looking like Ash.

Oh, yeah, congrats on getting married.

[reddragdiva]

Oh yeah. But you get the totally-not-Nazis saying "we just value the ancient esoteric Hindu swastika and our ancestral pagan roots and etc" and then Boyd Rice proudly names the people who said this as totally agreeing with him on white nationalism, and then an entire subculture cringes.

And thank you :-D

[greylock]

then Boyd Rice proudly names the people who said this as totally agreeing with him on white nationalism

I'll take things that escaped my attention for UKP5.
But I had this discussion recently, IRL, regarding the nazi symbolism of Siouxsie, Sid et al as compared to 21C interpretations of the same imagery.

But I was also just up a ladder, in a rainstorm, at night, cleaning gutters so, I might be crazy.

[reddragdiva]

The punk rock swastika was a particularly stupid thing as it attracted actual neo-Nazis. But industrial (and offshoots like neofolk) has suffered the Totally-Not-Nazis problem for decades.

[greylock]

The punk rock swastika was a particularly stupid thing
Which they immediately dealt with with Whatsit Against Racism and Ska.

And, to be fair, people in the 1970s using nazi imagery to fuck their parents off is totally different to people in 2015, in an era where even using the phrase 'holocaust' in say, a headline, gets the JADF after you because HOW DARE YOU.

But industrial (and offshoots like neofolk) has suffered the Totally-Not-Nazis problem for decades.

This is true, but generally it's concern-trolls being concerned in the wrong direction.
I can't think of a single band that's even remotely, actually White Power, besides Skewdriver.

[reddragdiva]

Just found https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/wakeford2.htm in researching my latest epic ramble on totally-not-Nazi imagery in goth and industrial, prompted by some French totally-not-Nazi synthpop I found.