Nicholas Chen

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the lyrics here are about early memories of music and her first tries at making music with FL studio

"FL studio free download in my search history"

reminds me of staying up late making video games in high school

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cool bass harmonics on this

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godlike rumbly bass tone

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apparently CSIRAC was Australia's first computer (ninajirachi is from australia)

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"fuck my computer" is such a great hook for a song

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i don't normally like edm but i really like this album

might have to change my mind!

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banging bass on the intro here

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super experimental track that starts with a singing bowl and consists mostly of guitar feedback and a single strummed chord

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super jazzy piano solo on this

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Because of my memories listening to this during Thanksgiving, this song has a very autumnal feel to me. Might also be because the album art has orange/red autumnal colors

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the banjo and the harp have similar (very trebly) timbre, so it almost sounds like they're the same instrument. their voices blend together, like the high and low notes on a piano

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some truly incredible double bass playing here

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makes me want to dance

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disgustingly groovy playing. sick bassline, and the piano has an incredible latin feel to it

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fantastically jazzy cover of album art for What You Won't Do for LoveWhat You Won't Do for Love

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one of the first things we did in my first nyc apartment with my housemates was playing this on our new record player

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i like the piano intro on this

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strummed funky rhythm guitar solo

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super cool slap bass riff here

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same aggressive japanese rock sound as album art for ストラトキャスター・シーサイド '22ストラトキャスター・シーサイド '22, but breaks into a almost jazz like drum beat. also a very melodic guitar riff

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I was trying to improvise a solo piece on the guitar a few days ago and was sure I was ripping something off, and realized last night it was this

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I really love the way instruments are layered in this, it sounds so rich and lush

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great slap bass on this


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breaks from the main chord progression, before starting to vamp on the dominant V. great way to build tension, plays with the desire to resolve down to the tonic

the drums stop here as well (before building back up), which adds to the sense of drama

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minor II - V - i featuring a dominant second

album art for Armando's RhumbaArmando's Rhumba also does this

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piano solo here is just incredible

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reminds me of album art for Summer Montage / MadelineSummer Montage / Madeline from la la land - similarly jazzy movie soundtrack, also a major ii-V-I (actually a I-ii-V for summer montage)

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reminiscent of ryuichi sakamoto

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really want to transcribe this fast blues lick here

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sick nylon string guitar tone

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softer, more acoustic take on album art for Still Got The BluesStill Got The Blues

guitar tone sounds almost like its being played with nylon strings

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No song embodies the spirit of youthful arrogance better than Voodoo Child.

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look, if i were in george harrison's place, i'd be really worried if my best friend started writing lyrics like these

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plenty of excellent examples of switching between major/minor pentatonic for blues guitar here

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some fast blues guitar phrasings at the start here

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bass tone reminds me a little of album art for 踊り子踊り子

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i love this buildup - first an aggressively strummed funky guitar riff, then a rumbly bass line, then the drums join in

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incredibly sick bass breakdown/solo

like the breakdown in album art for Travelling Without Moving - Remastered 2013Travelling Without Moving - Remastered 2013 in that it mostly repeats the same motif, but there's significantly more variation here

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super sick drum solo here

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vocal line with flat second - reminiscent of an egyptian scale

used frequently in pop songs to suggest promiscuity - other examples include album art for Unholy (feat. Kim Petras)Unholy (feat. Kim Petras) and album art for ToxicToxic