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Part 3: My precious–a wall of distorted guitar noise. I use an Aristides guitar with EMG 81/85 active pickups. They wail. Then add pedals: Spaceman Polaris (overdrive) Walrus Audio Luminary (quad-octaves) Does It Doom? Baghdad (distortion) Electro Harmonix Freeze (infinite sustain) Boom. Enjoy.

Part 2: Nylon string guitar with a pickup. Bend strings and create unusual grooves with hammer-ons. Combine that with effects like Meris Enzo and Mid-Fi Electronics Clari(pirate). Try harmonics. Riff in various octaves. Turn dials slowly. You'll eventually hear some oddly pleasant sounds.

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Curious about the sound? Part 1: This is straightforward. Use a choral virtual instrument with a subtly changing sequence and add staggered voices by octaves. Progression should mostly increase in pitch. Use the lushest reverb you have, but set the decay to low. This creates beautiful chords.

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I find the poison-antidote duality poetic. I made "Atropa" sound like agitated delirium in a world that no longer makes sense. It contains three parts: (1) an increasingly surreal choral motet with piano, (2) stacked string melodies, and (3) a wall of distorted guitar.

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from the album Of Wolves and Atropine

Lore and gear talk time. My latest album is about how one responds to the poison of well-concealed, predatory evil. The track "Atropa" builds on that theme by referring to atropa bella-donna, a poisonous plant that's also a biological source for the nerve agent antidote atropine. I love this track.

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Atropa, by Bad Domain

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Peninsula Repairs @peninsularepairs.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Building a winter dreamscape with the Sonicware Ambient, MOOD and Gen Loss! #synthsky #ambient

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nullcookies @nullcookies.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I swear by Ministry of Supply.

Hardware: Strymon: Night Sky Spaceman: Polaris Walrus Audio: Luminary Does It Doom?: Baghdad Does It Doom?: Doomsaw Mattoverse Electronics: TremStortion Electro Harmonix: Freeze

Some tools I especially love... Plugins and virtual instruments: The Crow Hill Company: Dulcet Valhalla DSP: Super Massive Spitfire Audio: Eric Whitacre Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra D16 Group: Tekturon, Decimort, Antresol Madrona Labs: Aaltoverb, Kaivo, Sumu, Virta

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Want a wall of distorted electric guitar noise? Use active pickups, stack distortion pedals, and use an octave generator. Crank it to 11. Make it hurt. Void warranties if you must. Stacking drum tracks across many different drum machines, each with their own bitcrush. Carve EQ to avoid muddiness.

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Record a found sound or instrument sample. Reverse the sample, massively slow down its playback speed, identify interesting spots, and then turn those into samples for further processing. Try a random tuning and see if you can riff on that. Not an alternate tuning–a truly random one. Be weird.

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Of Wolves and Atropine, by Bad Domain

I've released a new post-rock/darkgaze album named "Of Wolves and Atropine." About me: I focus on the tension between density and stability, not traditional songwriting. Why? Because layering textures makes the bleak sound beautifully triumphant. The thread below describes a few techniques I use.

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11 track album

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

roses are red cherenkov is blue just use a screwdriver what's the worst it could do

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April

Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

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Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Honestly I love rootkit. Building a light that can see hidden radio waves youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?... Great piece on the idea, design and actual implementation

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I built a light that can see radio waves

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nullcookies @nullcookies.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

That is a brutal break. I'm seriously impressed you've bounced back so well. A shoulder separation and rotator cuff injury basically ended my climbing career. Well done.

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————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————dash @dascho.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

yeah, tear gas gets a lot more chemically dangerous when it expires from old age or improper storage. tear gas is nasty stuff. it’s carcinogenic, can trigger asthma attacks and other respiratory distress, and it can cause miscarriages. please, PLEASE try to steer clear of it, bring leaf blowers, etc

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 15/01/2026

I really don’t think they’re prepared to engage the merits of actual American patriotism and not the dollar store cheap plastic aesthetic of patiotism they’ve been selling All they have are aesthetics, but they are not virtues and they will crumble to ash

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Ori-Warui -KNUCKLE JET out now on Steam! @oleivarrudi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Lustening to an old favourite, synth pioneer bruce haack, for the first time in years because i'm trying to dig up vibe references for our composers youtu.be/DQbQBW7PRIc?...

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Making Grimey EDM with MR. Rogers Neighborhood and Bruce Haack

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nullcookies @nullcookies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Ugh I know those feels. Sorry about that.

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Great work from @404media.co tracing the the multi-pronged attack on culture: book bans, slopification, and the sabotage of libraries, universities, and schools. www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Librarians, teachers, and government workers have had to spend an increasing amount of their time and emotional bandwidth defending the work that they do, fighting against censorship efforts and dealing with the associated stress, harassment, and threats that come from fighting educational censorship. Meanwhile, they are separately dealing with an onslaught of AI slop and the top-down mandated AI-ification of their jobs; there are simply fewer and fewer hours to do what they actually want to be doing, which is helping patrons and students.

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nullcookies @nullcookies.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

That's an awesome modification!