Drone is a minimalist form of music where sustained sounds are emphasized. Drones have been part of traditional music for a long time, with instruments like the tanpura, didgeridoo, or Highland bagpipes producing sustained tones to accompany the other instruments. The modern genre, however, has its origins in the minimalist music scene of the late 1950s and 1960s. As minimalist musicians attempted to reduce music to its bare essentials composers like La Monte Young, with his Theatre of Eternal Music, traded rhythm for long, slow-moving pieces where the listener's focus is instead directed to slight variations in tone or dynamics. Chord changes are infrequent if they happen at all.
Drone music's influences can be seen in the art rock of the Velvet Underground, founding member John Cale having been a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music. Several of their songs, such as "Venus in Furs" and "Heroin", feature Cale’s sustained electric viola, adding a screeching harsh drone to underline the tracks. Lou Reed, another member of the Velvet Underground, would later contribute to drone with his controversial album Metal Machine Music which was critically panned at the time of its release but has gone on to be hugely influential within experimental music. Krautrock bands such as Can, Tangerine Dream, and Faust also incorporated drone into their work, most notably in Faust’s collaboration with Theatre of Eternal Music member Tony Conrad, Outside the Dream Syndicate and Tangerine Dream’s Zeit.
The Velvet Underground were enormously influential on indie rock, and echoes of their drones can be heard in the feedback-drenched sound of The Jesus and Mary Chain and in the wall of sound style of shoegaze bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Ride. Post-rock bands Godspeed You! Black Emperor and This Will Destroy You also prominently feature drones in their work. Artists like Stars of the Lid and Gas blend drone with modern classical and techno respectively, pushing the genre forward.
Finally, we have drone metal, which takes the drone of La Monte Young and fuses it with the glacial doom metal of bands like Melvins. Pioneered by Earth in the early 1990s through releases such as their confusingly named debut Earth 2 [sidenote: Earth collaborated with Kurt Cobain in 1990 on the track “Divine and Bright”] and in parallel by the Japanese band Boris,, and carried on by Burning Witch and, perhaps most famously, Sunn O))). Other artists, such as Neptunian Maximalism, Nadja, and Locrian are some personal favourites.
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go listen to some drone
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that's fair, but they were definitely an influential band in the genre imo so i wanted to mention them
Yeah, they're great. If you haven't, check out Graves at Sea. They're like a heavier, slightly more bluesie southern sounding. They rock, Pariah is the best song ever written about menstruation. Also for a sorta dronier similar band check out Noothgrush
man, remember a decade ago with the whole end of the 12th bʼakʼtun and start of the 13th in 2012, and so a bunch of people were like "hmmm, yes, this means the world will end", even though that's not what the Mayans said would happen. anyways, what a weird part of the cultural zeitgeist
shout out to people who put a definite date on their end of the world predictions. they're always wrong, and always will be. a million guys through history have tried it before, and every time the sun rises the next day and we all gotta go to work again
I should rewatch 2012 some time. as dumb as that movie was, it was pretty epic
I remember nothing from that movie, except that a guy ran faster than a plane that was just about to take off
It also has footage of the golf course Harrison Ford crashed a plane on. It's an anti plane movie
The golf course that Harrisom Ford crashed a plane = cherished landmark.
It would be for me, but yeah
I was in Brazil for 2012 and ngl I was a bit freaked out but I was a big ol' dummy back then. Still am, but I was then too.
People love numbers being evil or good or prophecies or whatever. My favorite example is this biblical fuck up...
While 666 is called the "number of the beast" in most manuscripts of Revelation 13:18, a fragment of the earliest papyrus 115 gives the number as 616.
So it's some kind of rightwing Dan brown-esque prenazi ancient dufus code shit.
Then it was quiet for a bit until we started decrying the end of the world at the hands of oumuamua
forcing the communist catgirl soldiers out of cover with a laser pointer aimed at the ground nearby
How does a non-binary samurai kill people?
They slash them (they/them)
Mental health is easy bro. Just spend a day's worth of wages to talk to a therapist for an hour bro.
I see this take from a ton of rose emojis, who seem completely unaware that the cost is prohibitive for most people. I don't see them arguing for universal mental healthcare or anything either, or at least not as frequently as they are arguing for like jailing all tankies or whatever succdems are into at the moment.
how the fuck am i supposed to take psychology seriously, they literally named a concept the "dark triad", come on man :chomsky-yes-honey:
oh you're into serial killers and true crime? name 3 western genocides
Someone accused me of being an 'economic incel' in a discussion about the need for anti-capitalism to save the climate. Still not sure what it means.
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cis people can't even pretend to give enough of a shit about trans people to just not give jk rowling their money