Zed Arkadia

Reaffirming my appreciation for Enya youtu.be/Jl8iYAo90pE?...

I am the viper. I have come to vipe your windows.

I resent the need for sleep. Those 5 hours would be great if I could just have them.

I didn't know that Hubba Bubba was still around, I just bought a pack. This is the first time I've had bubblegum in literal decades. Some guys buy a motorbike at this age, I buy gum. I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I still have some gum left, want one?

Man, fuck the algorithm. Like, seriously.

I just realized that I haven't really done anything with music for a couple weeks - it's been my longest stretch of doing nothing since I started doing synthwave.

Still thinking about Daniel Adam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cibe...

If you're not related to me, this is the first time you've ever known me without dogs in my life.

Just watched a mashup between Reading Rainbow and DMX, and the next video was about children starving and being bombed in Gaza. It didn't even feel weird at first. What the fuck kind of world are we living in right now.

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I don't know if this is a good thing, but apparently dark rye really agrees with me.

I remember back in the day when more people didn't respect electronic music. I was one of them. They said that anyone can make music on a computer and I agreed until I tried it. Now I realize that AI music today is what I thought electronic music was back then.

Trying to get home after work when a song idea has popped into my head

Remix that I did: youtu.be/-CH4PfZjJgk?...

My track for a producer challenge where you use samples from NASA's sound library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQQ...

I never realized how common it is for gen-x to try to avoid seeing Bloody Mary in a dark bathroom mirror even to this day.

I'm thinking about how to prepare for the apocalypse and realizing just how expensive that is. Just a pistol and a couple of months of MREs is going to be over a grand. For that kind of money I could get Ableton Live 12.

It's about time to plug my Spotify playlist. 100 synthwave (& related) artists with under 1k monthly listeners at the time of placement. I've also got about 20 spots open if anyone wants to submit something. One track per artist, no gen AI music. open.spotify.com/playlist/1xh...

New release www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD5K...

I have a number of tracks from last year still in production and it's been slow going. I still believe in them but it's made me wonder if I should still be doing this. Then one new idea really grabbed me and now I'm wondering if every release should be like that. It's just so easy in comparison.

A lot of people have turned internet conversations into songs but I think this is the best I've seen yet: youtube.com/shorts/EKJZ3...

With everything happening in Minnesota and the US right now, I think it bears mentioning that all the major news outlets are complicit. We've seen the videos from multiple angles with our own eyes and they bullshit us right to our faces.

I did a synthwave over of this punk song by frick (abandcalledfrick.bandcamp.com/track/you) and I refused to do another vocal or guitar take, so this is just how it's going to be. on.soundcloud.com/kSW09WOf5d1q...

Today is gonna be all advil and cough medicine

With the proliferation of AI music, the most immediate response that I can think of is to embrace imperfection, because it doesn't get any more human than that. I think there's a balance to be struck between trying to master your craft and breaking the rules. You don't need to be perfect.

Over 50 Dems have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Noem. Use the link below to demand your members of Congress to get behind this!

Morning commute

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I just saw this photo of the linguist Yuri Knorozov,and this is the energy that I plan on taking with me into 2026.

I just saw a post that said that everyone has a sandwich that they think about for the rest of their lives. I was like, "no" but I realized I do. It was an eggplant parmesan that a girl at a bar didn't finish and just gave to me. I was drunk but I remember how good it was. This was decades ago.

I am really not built for social media. At all.

Walking through the nearly-deserted downtown tunnel system while listening to Beach House has easily been the highlight of my week.

AI bands to block on streaming services: Invictus Bleeding Verse Serinx AngelofAnarchy Velvet Rebellion Ghost//Signal The Velvet Sundown Obsidian Swing DEADLUVE Phantom Verse Deathly Hours False Saints Exiles of Eden J Bumi Shadows Awake Pavement Hymns Sunday Night Low Beyond Disdain Ruby Darkrose

Google Play music > YouTube > YouTube music

I've been sitting on this for a while, but a prominent Synthwave brand featured one of my tracks earlier this year. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but - as far as I can tell - I am the ONLY one that they have ever used generative AI visuals for when putting up the video. What's up with that?

Jumped from 700 to 800 followers this week. Got a synthwave, chillwave, or cyberpunk track? Submit it. About a 90 percent approval rate. We only reject AI, wrong-genre, or badly produced stuff. One of the few playlists curated by actual musicians. Submission form: dailyplaylists.com/playlists/1a...

I got added to a YouTube Music playlist! music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

30+ projects in production, some from the start of the year, and I suddenly hate every single one of them. Maybe it's just been too much time since I really learned and tried to apply something new.

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Might sound weird, but I've never been the kind of person to say that I couldn't live without music. Still, sometimes it's all that's there.

I don't exactly love dubstep - don't hate it, just don't love it, either - but this is one of my favorite music videos of all time, and you can probably see why by the neon retro aesthetic. youtu.be/jVfU1DY73Tk?...

Can't get enough of this right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWKm...

Thanks a ton for the add @isidor.rs! Really great collection of tracks, too, I gotta say!