my dad had a friend who kept up with music and wasn’t stuck in the 70s/80s like my dad is and he was showing Technologic by Daft Punk to my dad in our living room and I remember little 6 year old me going absolutely feral to it. i’d never heard anything like it before and I just kept asking them to play it again so I could “break dance” (flail around wildly) to it. that’s the first time I remember being captivated by a song like that years later my brother showed me Kill Everybody by Skrillex and I remember asking him if it was Daft Punk because that’s the only thing I could think of that sounded remotely similar. ended up getting super into skrillex and between ages 11-13 I pretty much exclusively listened to skrillex, and mostly rips from youtube of old/unreleased stuff. skrillex got me into a bunch of other artists through his label OWSLA that’s defunct now but had a sick lineup between 2012-2016 that was super foundational to my music tastes.
in the summer evenings playing old songs out loud feeling the humidity against your skin and being reminded of the summers of when you were 11 12 13 and this is all there ever was
i think that heartbreak is one of the most (if not THE most) human experiences of all time. it hurts so bad but also hurts so strangely good in a “i feel so alive rn and i love so much” type of way. through all of the vivid and gut-wrenching emotions, it forces you to grow so fucking much both maturity-wise and identity-wise. so yeah, heartbreak is tonights rec
