IPM by Buttress O'Kneel

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i was thinking about the genre name "Intelligent Dance Music" or "IDM" and how it's a terrible name that no-one involved in the movement itself actually wanted to call their music. and i was also thinking about the term "Intellectual Property" and how that's also a terrible name for a terrible thing (as though ideas aren't built on other ideas, as though all ideas aren't actually communal ones). and i thought these two terrible names should be whoomped together, and "IPM" was born.

but this album isn't anything special, it's just another compop album, the 49th in the series, just making music outta other music like always. if u haven't noticed, i've pretty much just been going through the first lot of compop album titles and just taking out the word "core" or whatever and replacing it with "wave" for a while now, like how the CORECORE album was followed by POSTCORECORE so the COREWAVE album is followed by POSTCOREWAVE etc. so really, because the album after THEORETICAL METAPOP was AVANT-TARDE: TARDCORE, this album should rightfully be called something with TARDWAVE in it (because it's after the METAWAVE album), so the full name of the album is actually something like AVANTARDWAVE: IPM, so i put that as like a subtitle or whatever, it really doesn't matter.

so, to me, the IDMest of all the IDM bands is AUTECHRE, so i wanted a cool DESIGNER'S REPUBLIC-style album cover to be proper IDMy, so of course i got the actual computers to design something appropriately AI-generated - nothing suits IDM better than AI that looks like proper AI. and then i found the futuristicest fonts i could, and that's it really. i can imagine it being an AUTECHRE album cover and it makes me happy.

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the oldest track on this is EVIL A which has been sitting on my computer for literally years and years now. it's just a Pearl Jam vocal stem stretched in Paulstretch, recorded live as i stretched it in different ways and with different levels of intensity, then i chucked a reverb on it to smooth it all out. there is also a version of this track where i ran it through one of my breakcore generators in audiomulch but this album was already getting too long. maybe the next one, or in another buncha years?

the hardest track was the one with Kiss and Ariana Grande - i could hear it clearly in my head but every time i tried to make it work, the pitch of the vocals and the pitch of Kiss seemed not to match and i drove myself crazy trying to tell if it worked or not - after a while every pitch seemed wrong and nothing seemed right even though i knew it was going to work because i could hear it in my head. i nearly gave up on it several times ugh. but i persisted and fuck it, this will do.

the newest tracks are the stuff that uses Doechii (the Fuck Money track and the two Nissan Altima ones - Stamina Snail and Animal Saints). when i first heard her years ago i was like yeah nah, but recently i've grown to love her. so i cut out a few kicks and snares and breaths and improvised some pieces using her sounds in audiomulch.

the piece called Just More breakcore Foolishness, it was just called that when i found it in a folder on my computer, i think it's from around the Bastardwave era. i could've renamed it something better but it made me laugh so i kept it as is. yr lucky it's not called FINISHED FINISHED ACTUALLY FINISHED V5 FINISHED V2 tbh. i have lots of tracks called things like that.

there are talky tracks on this album too: one is a Charlie Chaplin speech from The Great Dictator, which i ran through an AI voice changer to make it sound like Homer Simpson. i made it quite a while ago and when listening to it recently it seemed all too relevant, even tho when i made it was just a bit of a laugh and had no real relevance at all. the ambient drone noises and huge drum sounds in that track are all bits of the I Was Into You track stretched in different ways in Paulstretch.

the other talky track is also super old, it's a part of the famous Martin Luther King "i have a dream" speech, but i midified one of the channels so in one ear it's his voice but in the other it's his voice turned into a drunken piano. it also seemed like suddenly it was super-relevant, even though when i made it i just had this idea of midifiying famous speeches, turning spoken words into weird avant music, for fun and fun alone. but yeah, now it sits with the Homerised Chaplin speech as suddenly horrifyingly relevant. ugh.

speaking of midified stuff, the first track on the album is a thunderstorm, turned into midi piano. the big thundery bits are cool, but i really love the plinky plonking of the rain after the big thunders have gone. but it's a weird intro to the album and so i made it so the second track plays first. um.

speaking of old stuff, yeah, there's all sorts of weird newish versions of old bits and pieces, the compop series is all about reusing stuff, so of course that includes reusing my own stuff. i'm not outside of culture, my own stuff is as much a usable resource as anyone else's. so there's different approaches to all sorts of old stuff. so yeah, some of this stuff was previously used in different ways on the Basket of Ears thing, some of it is unused stuff from the Bastardwave release of 2018, that Evil A track probably dates back to 2012 or so. always gotta turn the compop or it gets rancid hey!

oh and even tho the newest tracks are the Doechii ones, the newest stuff on the album as a whole is the strings on Everyone 2025 and Black Rain. it's from string quartet versions of Guns n Roses songs, and i actually added those strings just this morning, so actually the Everyone 2025 Remix is a live remix of Everyone 2025 before i added the strings, so the original track is kinda more recent as a finished piece than the remix is. um. life is weird, everything's weird atm, honestly, the whole world is like a weird dream. what's happening people? anyway, here, have some music. love u. hang in there.

“Words like "mashup" and "remix" don't really do justice to Buttress O'Kneel's method - Top 40 pop crap gets sliced, diced, and tossed into a dizzying, exciting hardcore electro stew. Compared to other djs who timidly drop a Vanilla Ice acapella over a Chemical Bros intro just to move a dance floor, O'Kneel shreds copyrights with a blood-curdling vehemence. Smash the state!”
- Music 4 Maniacs