Industrial Complex

In a sort of subversive Punch and Judy show of curation, DJIC walks us through metaphors and allegories for today’s news. Jonathan V. Last of the Bulwark introduces an hour of Italodisco, Parcels’ breezy pop-funk, Soviet dancefloor ballads, and raw Detroit electro, presented as a deliberate dismantling of continuity. The mix courts disruption: gear-grinding changes in pace, jarring key shifts, and...

All that stuff you’re doing is rude and inconsiderate. Tip jar Tracklist Act I * Das EFX – Set It Off * Kraftwerk – RADIOAKTIVITÄT * Ryan Paris feat. Vale – Sensation of Love * Claude VonStroke & Marc Houle – Fly Guy (Original Mix) * Green Velvet – La La Land (Walker & Royce Remix) * Cheri – Murphy’s Law * Shaded – Holla Atcha Boy (Original Mix) * Claude VonStroke & Justin Jay – Oh (Original Mix)...

To accompany your reading this morning, some intentional eclecticism. Tracklist Althea & Donna - Love One Another Elvin – Luggi, Luggi, Ludwig Biz Markie – Biz Is Goin' Off Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded Kurtis Blow – If I Ruled The World Enigma – Sadeness Part 1 New Edition – Can You Stand The Rain (Instrumental) Aaliyah – Are You That Somebody (A capella) Big Chocolate – Blue Milk 11T...

Recorded 8/19/25 …I’m gonna clean up the garage. Tracklist Tamar Sabadini - Undercover (Original Mix)DJ Luciano - Touch ToneSamma Lone - My FeelingsMAW Presents India - To Be In LoveFolamour Ft. Kio Amachree - Ivoire (Austin Ato Remix)Papillon (IL), REBRN - Astronaut (Original Mix)Folamour, Kabusa Oriental Choir - Easy To Love (Original Mix)Royksopp - I Had This Thing (Kraak & Smaak Remix)Emmanuel...

I’m excited to finally report back on my ethnomusicology lab colleagues’ and my third and final trip to Ecuador getting to know some rarely-contacted people groups. It took two solid days to get from the airstrip to the settlement in the upper Orinoco basin. The village is hidden behind a ring of flooded lowlands, accessible only by canoes. The community received us with less caution than they had...

Methodology * Import the Vocal Track Load an isolated a capella recording into ACE Studio. * Generate MIDI and Lyrics ACE Studio’s Convert Vocal to MIDI & Lyrics function analyzes the performance, producing: * A MIDI piano-roll with its estimate of the sung notes. * A text transcription of the lyrics. * Accept the Inaccuracies By no means should you correct any of the output. * Assign an AI Singer...

People think of Detroit as a techno city, but of course there’s tons of good Detroit house, and we have our own flavor of Electro that I ascribe a lot of credit to Electrifying Mojo for creating — in the years when all the Detroit Techno mucketymucks were coming up, he introduced the city to Kraftwerk and played it a LOT. He played Kraftwerk alongside Yello and Prince and deep R&B cuts on an urban...

Tracklist * France Gall - Laisser Tomber Les Filles - Leave the Girls Alone * Annie Philippe - On M'a Toujours Dit - I Was Always Told * Françoise Hardy - Comment Te Dire Adieu - How to Say Goodbye * Inga - Dein Spiel Ist Endlich Aus - Your Game Is Finally Over * Noelle Cordier - Cheese - Fromage * Brigitte Bardot - Ne Me Laisse Pas L'aimer - Do Not Allow Me To Get Any Lamer * Cecile Grandin - Le...

Just felt like listening to Rockit after reading TTI’s thread and wound up making a quick 80s / electro mixtape. Enjoy! * Herbie Hancock - Rockit * Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill * Biz Markie - Biz Is Goin' Off * Bambaataa Zulu Nation Soul Sonic Force - Zulu Nation Throwdown * Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx (Instrumental) * Kelis - Milkshake (A capella) * The Other People Place - Its Your...

Less weight than usual although it gets pretty aggro in the middle. Pair with heavy lifting, packing moving boxes, making out or cleaning the basement. /DJIC old dude got kids to feed but refuses to return to the software industry because making music and silly crap for you is so much fun plus I worked on getting good at it and studying music and its societal contexts and cultural studies and cont...

I’m real pissed off so this kind of devolves into noise but you might find it cathartic I guess. The hip hop at the beginning’s pretty listenable and these are massively underrated artists. Mostly jump-up stuff if you want to get hyped for, I don’t know, vacuuming, or making some aggressively spicy dinner, or doing political activism or something. /DJIC Send this to that one guy you know who’s sup...

“The Iron Merrimac” is a rarely reprinted poem by the American jurist Billings Learned Hand, written in 1918 during the final year of the First World War. The poem invokes the image of the Civil War ironclad Merrimack as a symbol of mechanized resolve and national endurance, rendered in an austere, unornamented diction that echoes Hand’s own legal prose. Though primarily known for his jurisprudenc...

Dies ist ein zehn-Minuten-Bonus-Mix zum Letzten. Er setzt dort an, wo wir aufhörten. Kurz, klar, voll Wumms. Wer da tanzte, tut es hier auch. Was diesen Mix auszeichnet, ist nicht nur die Genrekenntnis, sondern die Balance zwischen Hommage und Gegenwart. Hier sitzt jeder Schnitt, jedes Acapella ist eine These, jeder Drop ein Beweis. Ein Set für Leute, die nicht fragen „Was ist DnB?“, sondern „Was...

Ich werde nicht lügen: Als ich diesen Mix gehort, war ich skeptisch. Der Opener, ein Remix von "Ordinary Love" durch Folamour, schlich sich an. Roosevelt bringt den synthetischen Pop-Vibe mit, Folamour legt Samt drauf. Und der Übergang, Butterweich. Kein abruptes Crossfaden, einfach Groove auf Groove, wie man es sich mag. Rogue D zieht nach mit "He Can Dance," und Bruddi, Titel lügt nicht. Der Tra...

Always liked this song. But the real version’s so… so peppy. To me, it needed grit and a touch of detached academic inaccessibility. This was recorded live at the Wien Konzerthaus in 1949 shortly after the release on London. There were other performances but the recordings do not survive. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...

I love Brian Wilson and identify strongly with his fear of stages and his love of the studio. This is not intended to disrespect him in any way. It’s such a beautiful song. And KARL, the best-sounding voice from the Chinese AI voice app I used to make these, did his best. AI Karaoke is easy to make and it reveals the flawed nature of generative content. I put the a capella into an app that 1) inte...

I originally posted this with a long Livejournal-flavored exegesis about my ex. It’s a super solid mix that goes unexpected places, and it was made with strong feelings I was trying to express, and with an earnest desire to improve y’alls day, and thus the mix has been saved from the dustbin of history. The post sucked though and was summarily binned. This is a public episode. If you'd like to dis...

“Karl” was the best-sounding voice in the Chinese AI singing tool I used to make these. I did not renew the subscription this year. Notable lyrics Donut thing in my brain That’s what people say: “nom nom.” Bake, bake, bake, bake, bake. I’m lying on my feet That’s what people see, uh hmm That’s what they don’t see… uh nnn I’m dealing all my own May the moos of pants go, go Not what they all owe: Th...

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool red dwarf star located approximately 40 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It is about 9% the mass of the Sun and emits very little visible light. In 2017, seven Earth-sized rocky planets were discovered orbiting this star. Three of these planets—TRAPPIST-1e, f, and g—lie within the system's habitable zone, where conditions may permit the presence of l...

O.P.P. how can I explain itI'll take you frame by frame itTo have you all jumping, shouting, saying itO.P.P. is for other people's propertyGretchen, Temple, lastly, that's not that simpleHuh, it's sort of like another way to call a cat a kittenIt's five little letters that are missing hereYou get it on occasion, the feeling's ephemeralAnother brother shot down, it's not that unpredictableIt's spor...

A good DJ mix reveals its architecture slowly, as if by sleight of hand. This one opens with spectral glitter and bad encoding. The Slavic disco of Саша Чусовитин & Лёша Куприянцев, where the melody seems to have traveled through a CRT before reaching your ears, is an invocation and a warped one. Nostalgia, melted down, poured into a new mold. From there, things snap into a tighter grid. Terrence...

I ordered a Max Left hat last night. When I downloaded the image for this post, because this is a very funny hat... The filename was suspicious. Sinister. The filename was TURCKERHATMaxLeft_Hat_BlackWhite_4.3.25_1024x1024@2x.webp. I’m open to suggestions about what this may mean. But I’m returning this hat. There is no place or time for turcker-hate. How do I tag Seder This is a public episode. If...

I made a bunch of these and have some more in the hopper: in these tracks, an amateur computer singer tries earnestly to approximate a real pop star in a casual setting with friends and drinks but does not do a great job. To make an AI voice model sing karaoke for you: * Extract a vocal using UVR , or find an a capella, and feed it to an AI tool (I used ACE Studio ) that can transcribe the melody...

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Yes, it’s a far cry from “Girl You Love To Have Cheese.” Aaron Parnas ’ clips this morning really got to me. I am so pissed off. What should we do This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit djic.substack.com/subscribe