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snercksketches · 1 year

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january 2022 - made for the siivagunner discord's 100th non-vgm guessing game

#artists on tumblr #sweet trip #velocity: design: comfort.#siivagunner #art #digital art #album art #velocity design comfort #ms paint #pixel art #my art

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churchofchuu · 1 year

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#soundcloud #Dsco #sweet trip #Velocity: design: comfort #Velocity design comfort #Velocity : design : comfort #Glitch pop #shoegaze #Idm #electronic #rock #music

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beesmcchickengooprealm5000 · 7 months

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her stupid ass is not composing a goddamn thing

#my art #furry art #oc art #sfw furry #furry #digital art #artists on tumblr #ibispaint x #velocity : design : comfort.#velocity design comfort #villains #loveless #mbv #qotsa #sweet trip #optigan

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poorly-drawn-albums · 4 months

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Sweet Trip - Velocity: Design: Comfort.

#sweet trip #Velocity design comfort #st #vdc

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tortuah · 7 months

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Sweet Trip 👍

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vaimukasrott · 3 months

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turning into someone who is annoying about their music tastes, but this is probably one of the best songs created ever

#Spotify #sweet trip #vdc #glitch pop #velocity design comfort

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kankato · 2 years

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Velocity : Design : Comfort turns 19 years old today... ...but you’d be forgiven for thinking it turned 9. Sweet Trip’s Magnum Opus was a decade ahead of its time, garnering most of it’s acclaim between 2013 and 2023. Of its 20k ratings on aggregator sites like rateyourmusic.com, only 81 ratings are from before 2010 (only one is from 2003, but RYM was an extremely small site back then). Most reviews floating around online were written within the past 10 years, coinciding with the album’s slowly growing popularity. Despite its initial reception the record proudly sits in RYM’s top 20 albums of the 2000s, holding the #1 spot for 2003. The album is a stylistic kaleidoscope, incorporating elements of 90s electronica and shoegaze into Dream Pop tapestries. This fusion is effortlessly realized by focusing on continuous melodies, allowing multiple elements of otherwise clashing ideas to compliment one another. For example, Sept opens with cascades of synthetic glitches set to a simple looping chord progression. The interplay between sounds is interesting enough, but it functions as a prelude to the looping refrain “This time maybe it’s true love” as the song starts proper. The pulse and chord progression march through the song’s melodic developments, unifying the Dream Pop vocal refrains and the staccato waves of synth fuzz. As it progresses the two styles meet in the middle, cascading into a shoegaze guitar solo. Every step of the journey is unified with what came before and after. This approach to songwriting results in some interesting theming as well. Many people have described this album as “Watching a human and a computer slowly fall in love”. While the lyrics are built around issues of love, identity, happiness and the joy of being together, there’s no binding messaging to any of it. Rather, Sweet Trip uses the lyrics to compliment the music, pointing at emotional experiences through the aesthetics of sound. It uses its vague abstractions to cover vast swaths of human experience. Listeners can project any number of evoked experiences onto the music and still find it wholly engaging. It’s one of music’s greatest strengths as a medium and I think Sweet Trip flawlessly evoke that sense of joy. The text is open to interpretation, but the album’s seamless fusion of the electronic and the human compounds with the lyric’s desire for emotional intimacy in a way few records create. I don’t think VDC has to have a unifying theme, but it’s hard to deny how compelling this one is.

So what happened between 2003 and 2013?

Three huge things changed between 2003 and 2013:

The rest of the music world caught up with Sweet Trip

Word of mouth found this album’s audience

It never stopped being available

For #1 the biggest change is environment. If you go and listen to this record right now it will sound like something released between 2013-2018. The sound design is immaculate front to back while the melodic sensibilities are reminiscent of indietronica from the 2010s. The 2010s were also obsessed with fusing the world of electronica with rock, which this album accomplishes effortlessly. I highly encourage you to test this yourself: Show a song to a friend and ask them when it came out. 4/5 times the answer is between 2012-2020. No one seems to believe me when I say 2003. For #2, the best advertising is the hardest to get: devoted fans. People who love your work on its own merits will share it organically to anyone who will listen (I’m doing that right now). This album slowly accumulated listeners and evangelists over 10 years whose collective recommendations snowballed into the steady, unshakable fandom it enjoys today. VDC is walking proof that works can transcend creative eras, touching the hearts and minds of generations to come. However, for any of those points to work you need availability. The third point is by far one of the most important pieces in VDC’s legacy. For people to enjoy your music they have to be able to find it. Through the low friction environment of streaming, VDC had a chance to be found. It inspired a well received reissue in 2014, 2020 and 2021, and inspired the band to reunite one more time for their last hurrah: A Tiny House, in Secret Speeches, Polar Equals. While that album is a story for another time, I’m proud to call Velocity : Design : Comfort a masterpiece, and one of the best albums of the 2000s. Maybe I Wouldn't mind To be graced by your Gentle smile

#sweet trip #velocity design comfort #music review #music #anniversary #2000s

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ihopeudrownmore · 1 year

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vdc having habitat 67 on it's cover is so accurate in ways that i can't depict

#sweet trip #velocity design comfort #vdc #you will never know why #shoegaze #electronic #indie #electronica #instrumental #glitch #dream pop #ambient #habitat 67 #brutalism #canada #montreal

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djzazzles · 4 months

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My top 10 favorite albums for production by decade (1960-2020)

The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969) Obviously a classic, George Martin refined The Beatles' style yet catapulted future production on this record.

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of The Moon (1973)

For me its the epitome of classic rock production, the dark and bright balancing is nothing less than perfect and encapsulates you in a bubble for 40+ minutes.

U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)

The Edge is a mastermind with his effects and his watery delay + reverb and is still some of the most unique guitar production I've ever heard.

Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)

Here we go its electronic time! This is well known as as one of the best and most well produced indie electronic albums and I'm so glad it is.

Sweet Trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort (2003)

Personally my favorite album in general, but that's a different subject. The importance of this is the jump from music before it right into this. It sounds as if this came from nothing before it and created a whole new style of electronic production out of nowhere.

Miii - Plateau (2018)

Criminally unknown but easily the most intense level of heavy emotion conveyed through intense production.

yoxtellar - emergence! (2023)

Congratulations! you've reached the farthest point yet. Literally unknown, but easily the most creatively clean and unquestionably well produced music I think I've ever heard. Wired Wave by AlphaVersion Records is a close second, but I had to make a choice.