Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Finally managed to log back in here. What did I miss? 010
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Cats are and always have been cyberpunks 351178582781
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025I'm never online here anymore, but came back to say I'm organizing the warehouse rave of the century in Berlin, October 2nd. Mad line up, world-premiere spatial audio setup never seen before at a rave and it will likely sell out. Grab a ticket while you can! ra.co/events/2191707 070
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 15/07/2025totally forgot about this platform. Is anyone still active here? anyhow, here's an album of transcendent and deeply atmospheric black metal full of opulent melodies cascading like molten obsidian. highly recommended, especially for headphones. bloodabscission.bandcamp.com/album/i-ibloodabscission.bandcamp.comI I, by Blood Abscission5 track album 050
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 01/04/2025What I loved even more is how a local Live Nation owned company blocked us from doing a show with an artist we've been trying to get for years, only to request the same date for the same artist at the same club. Luckily the club said no. 020
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Love how underground artists finding success means they instantly join big management companies & agencies such as Wasserman, who make local organizers who supported them for years put in "competitive offers", meaning they have to compete with Live Nation & such. 260
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Two of the deported are trans women, one is being deported to the USA. Depraved. "...three of the four deportation orders cite Germany’s national pledge to defend Israel – the country’s Staatsräson, German for reason of state – as justification" theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...theintercept.comGermany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War ProtestersFour Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes. 020
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Here's a sick mix to kick off this week by Berlin-based DJ Fukinsei! Caught her at 6am on Friday & it was easily the most radical thing I've heard all year thus far. A heavy-weight hour of mutant footwork, hardcore jungle and dubstep architectures! soundcloud.com/moltenmoods/...soundcloud.comMolten Moods Mix - Fukinsei@fukinsei is a multifaceted individual, serving as a DJ, label manager, radio host, writer, and independent researcher. Her deep connection to her Sicilian heritage, coupled with her ethnomusicology b 000
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The money being poured into AI far outpaces the Manhattan Project ($30b today) and Operation Warp Speed ($18b) combined, and rivals the cost of the entire Interstate Highway System ($114b) - for gains that are much much more speculative. 54217
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 25/03/202542 today. If you want to make an old man happy, please consider donating to PANZMA (Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association), who are currently doing incredibly important medical work in Gaza. www.gofundme.com/f/ag2wpf-gaz... 020
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025We've taken the paywall down for this one. 131020505
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 24/03/2025MOURAE turns Galician folklore into a phantasmagoric queer mythological odyssey, rich with celestial elven energy and built on a foundation of glitched neural dreamscapes. neurodungeon.bandcamp.com/album/mourae... 000
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025This is very very good dance music. supersonicbootybangers.bandcamp.com/album/cookin...supersonicbootybangers.bandcamp.comCookin With Gas, by Samurai Breaks9 track album 010
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Flawless mix, 10/10 execution by Animistic Beliefs 👌 soundcloud.com/gudurecords/...soundcloud.comGuduMix 049: Animistic BeliefsDrums for days on this high-octane session from Rotterdam-based duo Animistic Beliefs, drawing from ballroom, Jersey Club, grime and everything in between. If you want to know what the cutting edge o 020
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025In short: The flashy visual style matters more than the actual music being played. 3/3 020
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Video streams used to give comprehensive visual context, but the TikTok-fication of social media replaced musical content and context with visual aesthetics & platform-specific presentation. 2/3 110
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025It's not that we have too many DJ sets online, but that most lack helpful context. A tracklist gives you info, a write-up provides background, and a thoughtful concept gives meaning. It's all about making the artistic intent visible 1/3 130
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Moved to Berlin exactly 20 years ago today. I think I did quite well for a small town punk with a bad hair cut and a somewhat ok taste in music. 050
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Apparently Tesla is making more money with Bitcoin and selling carbon credits than with cars 000
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists 4355681460
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 13/03/2025After the enshittification of platforms we are getting the enshittification of media petapixel.com/2025/03/11/n...petapixel.comNetflix Used AI Tech to Upscale 1980s Sitcom With Nightmarish ResultsIt's filled with malformed hands, garbled text, and warped faces. 000
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Seeing the unbearable police violence against female protestors on Saturday in Berlin, I had to look at the statistics to understand how bad the situation in Germany really is when it comes to police brutality and justice for its victims. Spoiler: It's pretty bad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K27F...youtube.comPolice violence in Germany - how bad is it? (spoiler: pretty bad)YouTube video by Michail Stangl / Opium Hum 063
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 08/03/2025learn, build & organize, because an educated working class is what they truly fear. 021
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Hot take: we should leave billionaires alone and instead (1/2 121
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 07/03/2025This is definitely... something xato.bandcamp.com/track/touch-...xato.bandcamp.comTOUCH.BASE, by 645AR, BASECK, umru & xatotrack by 645AR, BASECK, umru & xato 010
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 05/03/2025sxsw is so FUCKING BACK i can’t take it 4395
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Cellebrite, the ubiquitous company that cops use to unlock phones and copy evidence, is now offering cops AI to summarize chat logs, audio messages, more. Civil liberties experts already concerned about AI hallucinating for cops www.404media.co/cellebrite-i...404media.coCellebrite Is Using AI to Summarize Chat Logs and Audio from Seized Mobile PhonesThe proliferation of AI through law enforcement tools already has civil liberties experts concerned. “When you have results from an AI, they are not transparent. Often you cannot trace back where a co... 10207109
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Capitalism has so thoroughly colonized our collective psyche that cruelty has become not just a byproduct, but a perverse form of systemic gratification, rendering humanity addicted to its own dehumanization. 000
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Germany is finally renovating bridges, but only so that tanks can roll over them. 100
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Hard truth few speak about: people listen to less and less new music - most labels make their money with their catalogs, not with developing new artists. 010
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 05/03/20251. Playground by DJ Strawberry djstrawberry.bandcamp.com/album/playgr... 2. Deux by Anmon yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/deux 3. DICA by Rev revtheacid.bandcamp.com/album/dicadjstrawberry.bandcamp.comPlayground, by DJ Strawberry🍓7 track album 031
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025YUKU is one of the most essential labels right now. Incredible releases, but in the last few months three albums stood out for me - triangulating the territory between IDM-mutated footwork, cybernetic techno, and a sound-essay on selfhood Please check them out below! yukumusic.bandcamp.comyukumusic.bandcamp.comYUKUAn exploratory arts oasis fluid of genre and evasive of expectations—a haven for the open-minded. Contact us: music@yuku.io 151
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real LOUISAHHH @louisahhh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Cool talk with Will Clarke! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e6A...youtube.comLouisahhh - Why Streaming Platforms Must Do Better For ArtistsYouTube video by Will Clarke 061
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Researching for a video: Can anyone think of a music community that formed around an algorithmically curated playlist or a playlist curated by Spotify's editorial team? 031
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Fascism both emerges from and perpetuates a crisis and a cult of masculinity. It transforms feelings of inadequacy into a cult of violent power, where brutal force becomes the answer to moral, political, and sexual impotence. 110
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 20/02/2025IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DGSbjqr... TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1vmrbs/ 000
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Kicking off an interview series with DJs who inspire me & move underground music culture forward. First up is one of my favorite people on the planet - Chicago footwork legend DJ_Spinn! This is an excerpt, the full 3 minute video is below! 120
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025It's another pitiful display of the police state, silencing free speech and anyone who calls the German Staatsräson for what it is - a morally bankrupt support of Israel's genocidal war. This country doesn't get to school anyone on democratic values. (2/2) 010
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The only quality Germans have is convincing themselves & others that they are more moral than they actually are. Yesterday's authoritarian clown parade around Albanese's speech is all the proof. (1/2) 120
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 16/02/2025#hyperreal Sundays are for listening: Fourth-dimensional flute experiments from Italian sound-sculptor Fabio Mina - a wildly psychedelic brew of folk, ambient and post-everything electronics - properly mind-blowing material. okum.bandcamp.com/album/fabio-...okum.bandcamp.comFabio Mina - Existence / Resistance, by Okum10 track album 020
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Not enough of you are taking this in… 194
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025In Ljubljana and ready for the premiere of CHRONOEXTASY tonight, my first a/v show on collaboration with light designer and visual artist Tasya. 000
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025i was absolutely flabbergasted! I expected something like Venue Mot or Ohm, but definitely not the Portugese Berghain! 010
Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real @opiumhum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Last month I played a 3h set at Outra Cena in Lisbon - in my opinion one of the best clubs in Europe right now. This was the most fun I had in the booth in a long time, stoked to share the full recording of my set! online!https://soundcloud.com/outracena/opium-hum-at-outra-cena-this-side-110125soundcloud.comOpium Hum at Outra Cena, This Side, 11/01/25Listen to Opium Hum at Outra Cena, This Side, 11/01/25 by Outra Cena #np on #SoundCloud 120
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 13/02/2025What Musk wants ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...theguardian.com‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big techIn his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us 1104
Reposted by Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 12/02/2025The influential grime producer Terror Danjah (real name Rodney Pryce) has died. As a tribute, we have made his Invisible Jukebox interview with Joe Muggs that appeared in The Wire 343 available to read for free in our online magazine library. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...thewire.co.ukTerror Danjah - The WireThe influential grime producer Terror Danjah (real name Rodney Pryce) has died. As a tribute, we have made his Invisible Jukebox interview with Joe Muggs that appeared in The Wire 343 available to r... 14823