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Ever been out in public and see an adorable dog jauntily bounding beside their owner in a snazzy vest with the words “Do Not Pet” on the side? That, my friend, is a service animal.
As someone with a service animal, I thought I’d explain what service animals are, their various purposes and talk about how to properly approach a situation with a service animal.
Digital hardcore is a genre that blends the attitudes and heaviness of hardcore music with the speed and synthetic chaos of electronic music. Digital hardcore doesn’t just refer to one kind of electronic music with one kind of hardcore. Instead, it refers to the way that the many subgenres that influenced each wider genre converged upon each other. The genre takes influences from hardcore punk, the riot grrrl movement, techno, industrial, and even things like heavy metal and screamo. It is a wide genre with many more specific terms that can fall underneath the umbrella of the term “digital hardcore”.
For many people, digital hardcore seemed like a logical artistic conclusion of both the punk ethos and the gungy EDM club vibes that were growing at the time. So without further ado, allow me to walk you through a playlist I made for people unfamiliar with this genre who want to take a bite out of something new. Below is a link to the playlist followed by an explanation of each artist, who they are, and why I added them.
Listen along by clicking this link.
“There I am—smoking weed in the bathroom of my own house avoiding my mother on the couch!” Sureni Weerasekera quips, the venue erupting in laughter. “That’s crazy isn’t it? The house I bought with my own money.”
I am no exception, my voice joining the chorus that zings through the room. But weirdly, between laughing, I also felt a little like crying.
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | AGRICULTURE | The Spiritual Sound | The Flenser |
| 2 | DEMON BITCH | Master of the Games | Cruz del Sur |
| 3 | DRAWN AND QUARTERED | Lord Of Two Horns | Nuclear Winter |
| 4 | EMMA GOLDMAN | All You Are Is We | Zegema Beach |
| 5 | STARFORCE | Beyond the Eternal Night | Self-Released |
| 6 | CATHARSIS | Hope Against Hope | Crimethinc. |
| 7 | INTERCOURSE | How I Fell In Love With The Void | Brutal Panda |
| 8 | SUFFERING HOUR | Impelling Rebirth [EP] | Profound Lore |
| 9 | VILE APPARITION | Malignity | Me Saco Un Ojo |
| 10 | PHRENELITH | Ashen Womb | Dark Descent |
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | AGRICULTURE | The Spiritual Sound | The Flenser |
| 2 | BURNING HAND | Jawbreaker [EP] | Self-Released |
| 3 | THE ACACIA STRAIN | You Are Safe from God Here | Rise |
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MACHINE GIRL | PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X | Future Classic |
| 2 | INDIGO CYPRESS | The Witness | Self-Released |
| 3 | ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER | “Lifeworld” [Single] | Warp |
| 4 | PICTUREPLANE | Sex Distortion | Music.Website |
| 5 | NIGHT TAPES | portals//polarities | Nettwerk |
| 6 | DESTRATA | CDMUSIC013 [EP] | Club Designs |
| 7 | SYLVAN ESSO | “WDID” [Single] | Psychic Hotline |
| 8 | BIZ | Swim | Self-Released |
| 9 | WEVAL | CHOROPHOBIA | Technicolour |
| 10 | LYNYN | Ixona | Sooper |
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | TOKIMONSTA | Eternal Reverie | Young Art |
| 2 | MANWOLVES, CRASHPREZ, CRASHWOLVES | it all comes for me [EP] | Manwolves |
| 3 | DELIVERY BOYS | MUD | Self-Released |
| 4 | DEMAE | Deep Dive [EP] | FAMM |
| 5 | EVIDENCE | Unlearning Vol. 2 | Rhymesayers |
| 6 | 7XVETHEGENIUS | Self 7xve 3 | Broadband Sound |
| 7 | GOLDFORD | Space Of The Heart [EP] | GoldFord |
| 8 | HUMAN ERROR CLUB AND KENNY SEGAL | Human Error Club At Kenny’s House | Backwoods Studioz |
| 9 | JAYWOOD | Leo Negro | Captured Tracks |
| 10 | MURS | Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation) | Mello |
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| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | DANA AND ALDEN | Speedo | Concord Jazz/Concord |
| 2 | RIN SEO COLLECTIVE | City Suite | Cellar |
| 3 | BRAD MEHLDAU | Ride Into The Sun | Nonesuch |
| 4 | CHRIS ROTTMAYER | Playing Favorites | Pilars |
| 5 | RAFIQ BHATIA | Environments | Anti- |
| 6 | VANISHA GOULD | She’s Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth | Cellar Group |
| 7 | DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER AND BILL CHARLAP | Elemental | Mack Avenue |
| 8 | SHAREL CASSITY | Gratitude | Sunnyside |
| 9 | SHELLY YOELLIN – GABRIEL DATCU QUINTET | Rojo | Self-Released |
| 10 | JAMES ZITO | Zito’s Jump | Self-Released |
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | GANSER | Animal Hospital | felte |
| 2 | FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE | “This Is Real” [Single] | Saddle Creek |
| 3 | GOOD FLYING BIRDS | Talulah’s Tape | Carpark |
| 4 | LOTS OF HANDS | into a pretty room | Fire Talk |
| 5 | MEI SEMONES | Kurayami/Get Used To It + Itsumo [EP] | Bayonet |
| 6 | POT-POT | Warsaw 480km | felte |
| 7 | AMELIA RIGGS | CREATURE | Horse Complex |
| 8 | ANIMAL COLLECTIVE | “Love On The Big Screen” [Single] | Domino |
| 9 | DISCUS | To Relate To | Sun Rom |
| 10 | DOUBLE WISH | Double Wish | Hit The North |
| 11 | FIND MY FRIENDS | Find My Friends [EP] | Bloody Knuckles |
| 12 | FLORRY | Sounds Like | Dear Life |
| 13 | HOMEOSTASIS | “Golden Eyes” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 14 | LIGHTHEADED | Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! | Slumberland |
| 15 | NATIVE SUN | Concrete Language | TODO |
| 16 | ROCKET | R Is For Rocket | Transgressive |
| 17 | SNOWBLINDER | “Drowning Tutorial” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 18 | SPELL OF LEAVES | “Old Fort Loops” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 19 | STEREOLAB | Instant Holograms On Metal Film | Warp/Duophonic |
| 20 | SUBSONIC EYE | Singapore Dreaming | Topshelf |
| 21 | SUNBATHE | Myself To You | Time Release |
| 22 | ACOPIA | Blush Response | Scenic Route |
| 23 | AVA ROSE | confessions, dreams, & unresolved feelings | Self-Released |
| 24 | CAMERON STENGER | Lighter | Hearing Aid |
| 25 | CANUT DE BON | no esperan por nadie | Sello Cototo |
| 26 | DRAWN AND QUARTERED | Lord Of Two Horns | Nuclear Winter |
| 27 | FOXWARREN | 2 (Two) | Anti- |
| 28 | HATCHIE | Liquorice | Secretly Canadian |
| 29 | HELMS DEEP | Chasing The Dragon | Nameless Grave |
| 30 | LEAVING FOR ARIZONA | PB Special | SpiceHouse |
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | H PRUZ | Red Sky At Morning | Mtn Laurel |
| 2 | HATCHIE | Liquorice | Secretly Canadian |
| 3 | JORDANA | Jordanaland [EP] | Grand Jury/Sound On |
| 4 | DAZY | Bad Penny [EP] | Lame-O |
It’s finally October and sadly it’s coming to an end. With that comes the next monthly “DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites.”
I know that I am not alone in saying that this month has been a rough one. With all the midterms, fall activities and the sun setting earlier and earlier, tensions have been high. I have personally been falling back on comfort and so many of my favorites this month have been repetitive of the last couple months. That being said, I tried to compile a list of songs that I think accurately measure my favorites this month, excluding repeats. Some of these songs have explicit content, so fair warning to everyone.
This month, I feel I have a dichotomy of nu metal or heavy distortion and indie or high reverb feel in my playlist. I like to think there is a gradient especially with all the Halloween playlists I have been working on lately. I believe a couple of the songs in the playlist are kind of Halloween-esque, such as “Oh Klahoma” by Jack Stauber.
I have a couple other songs that I had recently been reminded of and haven’t been able to stop listening to. One example would be “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre. The other night, I was taking my lovely dog Daphne out and I overheard a car passing by with this song blasting. I hadn’t heard the song in ages and decided I needed to listen to it right then and there. Thus, the song has become one of DJ Dragonfly’s October Favorites.
Another example might be “Suffragette City” by David Bowie. I was also reminded of this song as it was playing in a TV show I was watching. I couldn’t just let that song slide. I needed to start listening to it again. That honestly led to a spiral of Bowie songs which of course led me to now want to rewatch “Labyrinth” from 1986. I suppose I have my evening plans. I hope everyone enjoys this months’ selections.