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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oooh, let me look into that then, I'm trying to avoid another annoying thing that might break on stage!

Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've had a look at these before, they look overwhelming! But I like the wee volume faders on these. Problem is I think they still need a laptop to trigger, they're not stored on the hardware?

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I was hoping it could store the samples in the hardware, but a lot of these are just triggers for a laptop or am I wrong?

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People who do music live, I'm looking for hardware to trigger samples. I've been using an ipad for years and upgraded but the new screen simply does not like my sweaty finger, or the app has a slight delay when triggering. Caveats: not an spd, but similar? Is there a good trigger app instead?

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And the starlink ad with 18m views but only 73 RTs. Extremely garbage numbers, you'd have got laughed out of twitter cool club for that in 2015.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Went on twitter to see how it's doing. Absolute NPC hellscape. After the apocalypse this is all that will remain. Data unconvincingly pretending to be human.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So it was actually all tinged with a melancholy, a wee loss of innocence. Anyway, hope you're having a great Saturday.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But the worst part was the thought that if this had been 2014, I would've spent 6 hours designing that Holden Th'Door cover to post on twitter for 10 likes mostly from journalists from the UK games industry, and I would've been well chuffed.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A guy held a door open for me last night and I called him a legend, but kept thinking about how that wasn't a particularly legendary act, and imagining his story transformed into a penny comic style Robin Hood tale about the adventures of Holden Th'Door.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I KNOW!! Give me a shout if you can't get one nearer the time and I'll see if there's any wangling I can do.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Any London pals going to the sold out bis show in feb? If so, can you please come down early and shout 'not by much' at my band? Also haven't been to Bristol in a wee minute, would be good to see you there!

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They tell you that you'll need it, but you'll never need it.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me in my band headlining the barras in 2037: and now we move on to liars...

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The PRS: Get ready for your payment! We are distributing over £230m in artist royalties this quarter, make sure you've submitted your set lists for this record-breaking payout! Also The PRS: You have not reached the minimum payment threshold. Have you tried: just writing a good song?

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Really wanted to do this but had no time!

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've woke up to worse views than draclea's castle

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have no recollection of posting this but I truly miss daft twitter.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Haha christ I don't even remember doing that.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a horror, we got told on 3000 cap support tour (50 quid a night) we couldn't get any on site catering or a buy out because 'it would come out the headliner's budget and they don't want that'. And, tbf, they probably didn't, they genuinely complained once in Europe when we got to eat with them.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ditto, feel this hard! And while I imagine the big band knew, at least that was framed as 'management'. Now it's bands blatantly doing it to other bands.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Totally, and at least before someone else would do all the marketing for you (and then take all the money). Now artists do it all themselves and still make fuck all. Rip MySpace!

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In fairness to modernity, which I really don't want to defend, the avenues to visibility for artists have always been controlled through industry, journalists, tv exposure, it's now just automated and nobody has any money! Same old music industry garbage, just a different era.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like, I get it, the algorithm is a barrier you have to keep fighting, but don't prey on the hope and good will of other artists. There are so many bands and so few opportunities to play live, what you dangling that carrot at them for?

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A wee insidious baity marketing tactic I see bands doing now is going 'Hey we're looking for supports for our tour, tag a band in the comments and we'll consider them!' and ultimately none of those bands will be openers but all that engagement really helped the visibility of their tour.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can any millennial not from Scotland who went to school in the 90s or 2000s confirm what the word 'pal' stood for?

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's true, it can't buy you happiness, but it can absolutely help take a massive fuckin worry away, which is the part nobody with money ever remembers. Abominable circumstances, and I hope it gets better for you both soon.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People of whitby and hull, I will be prancing about in your towns this weekend. Would be mighty nice if you came out to say hello.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haha of course they covered it, and were probably correct!

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Totally. People always used to go 'that's not art, I could do that!' and it's like, yeah but you didn't did you! You didn't, that's the point!

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it's exactly that, the people that use it for that purpose often can't do it without the tool, and don't realise actually doing it is the thing. Not the finished product, actually doing it. Doesn't matter how shit it is, the finished result isn't really it at all.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

100% agree! And I always think that's the difference between music tech as a tool for the artist and music tech as the artist. It means nothing to me if kraftwerk were actual robots but when they were using robots as themselves, sign me up.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But, I mean eventually, and maybe sooner than I want, it'll be indistinguishable. It'll sound exactly like a human record. How do we KNOW there's a mind at one end?

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyway I'm gonny sing Cher lloyd by Cher lloyd

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again, at the risk of sounding patronising, not an attack on AI folks, I'm not an advocate but I also get there are legit reasons to rely on this technology. As a tool, it can absolutely bring equity. But there's a difference between a tool and a vassalic machine you take credit for.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So that's maybe it. I think you're missing out, I think you're misunderstanding music. I don't claim ownership of its definition, enjoy whatever you enjoy, but what makes music matter to me is fundamentally human.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And maybe that's less about the record and more about my individual take on it, but I've had arguments with industry people. People who have made their money from music, but never truly understood why people do it... Like, what compels people to make it? Because it's not always the finished product.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing that shines through is always ALWAYS humanity and personality and a moment and a vibe, and these aren't things that can rely on artifice because they're not truly tangible.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like, to me, it doesn't have to be good to be good. It doesn't have to be original to feel original.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Music is also one of the artforms that doesn't have to be new. There are songs that are direct lifts, copies, songs that sample, steal even, from other songs and hit in such specific, individual and incomparable ways.

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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Music, like a lot of art, is one of the things you don't have to master to be great. Some of the most beautiful, relatable, moving songs aren't technically good. What are you using AI for? To perfect something? To correct skill issues? To conjure ideas? To execute the thing you have in your head?

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