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Diaries of Distortion
An insider's perspective on the hidden politics of underground techno, revealing personal stories, industry secrets, raw lessons, and the realities of navigating the club scene. https://diariesofdistortion.art
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Suno’s Factory, Mozart’s Faders. Edit the Song or Trust the Black Box?
A modern perspective on audio production looking at Mozart’s “frequency control” vs. Suno’s “black box”. Why Mozart’s edit‑first tools matter against Suno’s scale play.
[PODCAST] I thought the underground was something you could hear. Eventually it becomes a festival sound.
Something that started as a set of cultural conditions gets packaged, photographed, and circulated by people who weren’t there for the part that made it meaningful in the first place
Techno tribes want you to pick sides
Sometimes feeling like a cult where you're either boss-level or a shepherded sheep
Suno bought the gig calendar. The same one small promoters rely on.
The direct line to shows now belongs to the company flooding us with AI tracks
The 39-Cent Royalty Is Dead. AI Slop Killed It
44% of uploads are now machine-made. Your per-stream payout is the collateral damage.
The Native Instruments Pivot: Restructuring vs. Redundancy
A Sensible Response to Market Volatility
Bandcamp’s AI Ban Changes Nothing
The AI ban looks rebellious, but it’s really just corporate theatre hiding a much deeper problem.
Ambient Music Blockchain & The Modular Money Pit
Escapism, Gear FOMO, and the 140 BPM Surgeare Dominating Electronic Music
Can a Mobile App Capture 4AM Epiphanies?
What happens when your half-finished mix follows you into the streets, the stairwells, and the end of the world?
Cubase vs FL Studio for Techno: The Ultimate Beginner-Producer Showdown
When I pirated Cubase for the first time. Everything just… worked.