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its so crazy this guy went to central HS in philly and haverford and turned out like that lol. his brain is soup

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Christopher Lock – Evaporationist 2026, Spectral Mutation

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Koppe - K-Series album artwork for Spectral Mutation record label, available now

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Arumandhira - FOR ANIMAL USE ONLY, zine cover artwork in conjunction with Mark Wadley published by BRUISER @bruisermag.com available February 2026

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

recent design work from the end of 2025/start of this year: SLAY THE GOBLIN Zine, in conjunction with Cameron A. Granger – tabletop RPG zine and total conversion of Diceless Landschut SLAY THE GOBLIN!!! exhibition at CCAC at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon

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hey, friends and i locked ourselves in a practice space and recorded a demo recently. it's very diy but it's nice to finally get it recorded. thanks and give it a listen if u like metalcore or posthardcore like skycamefalling or typecaste or any of that armingdistance.bandcamp.com/album/two-so...

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Two Songs, by Arming Distance

2 track album

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

thank you my friend! hope all is well

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

...soooo it was my birthday today

chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

NYC, excited to announce For the ravers and synth gearheads alike: White Owl Records SIDECHAIN is back Friday 9/19 at @transpecos.bsky.social in Ridgewood. live hardware jams all night. Early bird tix available now. Flyer artwork as always by yours truly. ra.co/events/2250951

Sidechain - Live Machine Music Flyer for September 19th at Trans-Pecos in Ridgewood, NY. Buzzi, S4M23, Tabob, TJ McAu, Conor Krane. Live hardware synth techno all night.

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

so far so good we barista-ing

chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

new work- Spectral Mutation: Various Artists - Permutations 1 Cover Artwork and Layout for Asheville NC-based Record Label ft: Matthew Cha, SSG, Marteka Fair, AMB-5, Cutsnare, Chris Lock, OHMU, Evaporationist, Anthony Pena, Will Karmis spectral-mutation.bandcamp.com/album/permut...

chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

hired at local cafe... starting my blue hair and pronouns barista arc next week

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

White Owl Records: Instagram interview with Coast2c (CDMX) - Radical Devotion Design, Layout EP Out August 1st available for presave/pre-order now (loading in 4K recommended) whiteowlrecords.bandcamp.com whiteowlrecords.xyz

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

ICYMI: Talker @ The Lot Radio this past Sunday. New EP out tonight at midnight

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

There are apparently only 2 places in the entire city of Philadelphia that still repair or sell typewriters and one is in my neighborhood because of course it is. Ran in there yesterday and chatted w the owner. She teaches touch typing to kids on the weekends

Typewriter Takeout at WPM Typewriter Shop in Philadelphia

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

+4 more local ones in philly. shoutouts digicams from early 2000s. i got a 2000 sony cybershot off ebay but i gotta track down a battery charger to take actual pics from it. maybe ill finally develop these film rolls

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Hi! Here's some incredibly boring information about New York from my 2004 Kodak Easyshare:

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Preorder and Talker's track "Overstayer" available now on Bandcamp and streaming: talkr.bandcamp.com/album/its-no...

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It's Not The Archer, It's The Arrow, by Talker

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

White Owl Records: Instagram interview for Talker (NYC) - It's Not The Archer, It's The Arrow Editorial Design, Layout EP Out July 3rd, 2025 available for presave now (alt text available) whiteowlrecords.xyz

The Archer and the Arrow: an Interview with Talker

Raised in Savannah, Georgia, Talker is no alien to the hot summer sun, barreling down on us and our matching black cold brews. He gleefully shares his encyclopedic opinions on music niches and mainstreams – only slowed by the occasional drag of his American Spirit. His first release on White Owl Records, It’s Not The Archer, It’s The Arrow, is out soon. Sweat-doused, we catch up to discuss his production techniques, the internet’s effect on DJing, and gearhead syndrome.

Jack: How’d you get into making music?

Talker: Let’s see. It was summertime, I was 14 and I went to my cousin's house. His friends were making really cheesy trance tracks on fruity loops, and I was like, ‘Wait, you can just make music on the computer?’ – that was mind blowing for me. Then a few months later at church my friend Aaron gave me a USB with a cracked Ableton Live 8 and was like, ‘This is what Skrillex uses to make music,’ (laughs) – I was listening to a lot of Skrillex and Deadmau5.

Jack: Me too.

Talker: A few years later I met Ian (@Cades) and he’s had the best music taste ever from an infant. At the time he introduced me to Ben UFO through his Boiler Room 47 set – it’s that early 2010’s post-dubstep and grime instrumentals. And he plays a Three 6 Mafia record and that James Blake remix of A Milli by Lil Wayne. It was just all this different type of music. I probably still listen to the mix like once a month.

Talker: I got to see him back in 2021 with Objekt at Club Night Club. They’d play all these different things and recontextualize them in different ways – and it’s the overlap of these different styles that creates this third thing that only exists in that room. Once you get into this place of playing a lot of different genres you really get these interesting third songs.

Jack: It can be so cool to see people live that you’ve grown up with online.

Talker: Totally – I mean, we didn’t have any clubs to go to back in Savannah. There were just jam bands and karaoke nights. We didn’t have any other context outside of whatever sets we were listening to online. I grew up thinking there were no rules as to what you could mix – no genre specifications. People today can be such genre specialists, but I think it’s interesting for the crowd to be taken through different sonic avenues.

Jack: That’s interesting because your last release on your own label, Grand Prix (@Grand Prix Recordings), feels very different from this one, which is way more techno.

Talker: I’m glad you brought this up. Both EPs are very different, but like I said, I think that’s kind of silly to be a genre specialist because there's so much good music out there. That’s why I enjoyed doing this record so much. I’ve always wanted to make proper techno, and I’ve always been really bad at it. But now I feel like I’m more cued into the sound, the technique, and what my tastes actually are – I know the context better.

Jack: And so what are those contexts that you’re coming from with this EP?

Talker:I ’ve always been fascinated by the Detroit-Berlin connection. Y’know Detroit was like its own little microcosm, the midwest in general was its own microcosm of music. Obviously you’ve got your big names from Detroit, but you’ve also got DVS1 doing things in like Montana – just random places. It’s like, ‘There was a techno scene here in the ‘90s? Oh wait – 5000 people would show up to these parties every weekend?’ Seeing the do-it-yourself drive – knowing how inclusive these communities were, there’s just something very special about that run-and-gun attitude. And then there’s Basic Channel, which is obviously a big influence for me – for everyone I think. It's interesting though how they spent a lot of time in the Bronx with the Wackies studio. They learned how to do dub mixing and recording from Bullwackie. They found a lot of Jamaican artists that were either still in Jamaica or had immigrated to New York. Artists who maybe never really saw their true light at the time and re-press their records 30 or 40 years after they had recorded it. So I’ve always found the whole Wackies stuff through Basic Channel to be really cool too – and I genuinely feel like they really wanted to build that community with what they had to offer, and bring that sound to a place totally across the world.

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

so ICE is arresting mayors now probably not good

chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

recently i've been working here and there to do graphic works for Baltimore's BRUISER Magaznie. i'd really appreciate it if you checked out their amazing writing and maybe submit a piece or two at www.bruisermag.com (I'm gonna make a post soon abt taking freelance/commissioned work - stay tuned)

Illustration for Gram Hummel's "I Need To Go Outside Permanently".

Illustration for Ryan Bender-Murphy's "The Genius In Letting It Fall".

Illustration for Caleb Bethea's "Remembering Birth".

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

me finishing kitchen confidential and deciding my life has not completely fallen apart enough in the last 12 months for my preferences: huh i wonder what would happen if i decided to become a chef like my dad.

chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

some photos from wednesday night's party. i took these with a Kodak EasyShare CX7430 from 2004. on one hand i am very glad that the camera i grew up with as a kid still works! on the other hand it makes me feel some type of way about this camera now being "vintage digital photography" lol

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

tapped out after 40, so i didn't get much further than you. i'm not even familiar with the source material other than apparently this movie has jack shit to do with it, so i feel bad for the people who liked it and had to sit through this

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

$320 million dollars budget on a 128 min runtime means $2.5 million United States Dollars being set on fire on my screen per minute, which the KLF could only ever dream of. By 40 mins I had seen $100 million being flushed down the toilet. they couldve given me $1m to make something equally bad

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

watched it (well DNF'd) before i went to band practice yesterday but THE ELECTRIC STATE: The Russo Brothers belong in the Hague and Ted Sarandos in front of an SEC commission for money laundering. Elba, Domingo, Huy Quan all deserve better, MBB and Chris Pratt deserve even less

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

happy friday team. did this flyer artwork for a release show at Rash Bar in BK soon - techno for the heads, both live syntth sets and DJ sets. and it's free 🕺🏿dont be a stranger now, if you're in new york it's time to put your dancing boots on.

flyer for White Owl Records' release party for Piner - Daybreak (EP out March 21st). Party is March 26th at Rash Bar in Brooklyn March 26th, 2025, 10PM to 4AM. Featured acts include Conor Krane and Talker live synth sets, and Concrete Husband and Piner DJ sets. the art is fire if i say so myself.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 14/03/2025

PUT THE WOKE BACK NOW!!!!

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

the pearl one is sick! like its the one that made me kind of realize the progress youve been making on your doodles youve been posting so far. inspiring me to pick up a pencil again

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

i had a salaried design job and 401k at an internationally renowned industrial research org working with scientists and engineers and now im on culinaryagents and i cant get people to respond to my applications to be a busser or server c'est business it is what it is

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

x is down and I’m down in Philly again so like here’s 4 more pictures of Josie my moms Cat. yay

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

i did my taxes in the middle the night on a sunday and either i am getting a good refund or what left of the irs is going to deport me to africa or france soon for what i've done to my 1099s. we'll see

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

informing the *company i cannot bring fixing typos to the organization

chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

informing the prospective comapny that i can bring hype moments and aura to their organization in my cover letter

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chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Being 28 is all about screaming and crying at adobe after effects because of disk cache issues making you have problems exporting a 30 second clip for ig

chaka @chaka.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

this time last year i had a salaried tech job with a 401k and a train commute to an office where I lounged around in an Eero Saarinen building with some of the smartest people in the world. today i filled out an application for SNAP. life comes at you fast! (thank god i am out of big tech tho)