Kevin Snow

for my fever dream soundtrack, i feel like it would be mix of familiar music but slightly off. like a guitar slightly outta tune, a drumset that sounds real but has so much reverb it sounds like its in a different room, vocals but slight auto-tuned Out of key

sent this to a couple of friends who are Good Music Ppl

a while back i was really sick and had random songs from jibjab videos stuck in my head, but it was just the chorus and it never went anywhere. "good god, he's coming back to serve a second term, good god, he's coming back to serve a second term" over and over.

some other highlights include very intense pitch bend abuse (thanks to my midi keyboard having one of those things that detects where your hand is, the d-beam apparently???) and horribly distorting the audio on a tape deck (kind of like that 1 potato 2 potato punk video that went around a while back, except with a 606 and a shitty old keyboard that sounded absolutely awful) unfortunately i recorded over the tape that i had the track on.

well, there was that one time, when i had a really bad fever and after having watched red dawn with a pal, i was awake but literally feverdreaming about some sort of world war unfolding around me in my little 15sqm dorm room xD

https://youtu.be/4xElp-lYnyE

everybody likes you everybody lied to you

(double lyric interpretation for panic modes)

edit: I'll also add Eucalyptus for repeated harsh panic tones into long floating chorus https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiglBzBwdY

i have a bunch of songs i go to when i think of a sound for a "fever dream soundtrack", but they're a lil different in mood and energy so i'll try to split them a bit:

"fever dream" as in: vivid and ethereal, feeling very out there, not too intense but easy to get lost in

• Long Season - Fishmans
• Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time - Candy Claws
• Temple of Null - Acetaintina
• CarCommerical - Cate Wurtz ft. Will Toledo (single track)

"fever dream" as in: odd and unexpected, maybe unnerving at times though quite upbeat or enjoyable in others:

• Fantasma - Cornelius
• Replica - Oneohtrix Point Never
• Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
• ░▒▓新しいデラックスライフ▓▒░ - ▣世界から解放され▣

"fever dream" as in: intense or scary, more like a nightmare, but in a way that feels difficult to keep track of that keeps it feverish

• Crawlspacer - Crawlspacer
• IPAN01 - Eastern Scrapping Machine Orchestra
• Everywhere at the end of time - The Caretaker

My go-to fever dream music is the Mars Volta, though there's something about old Richard Harris music, particularly "The Yard Went On Forever" that induces a similar feeling.

I was blown away by the dawning realization the hazy, dream-pop song in the trailer that sounded so close to a real band I would enthusiastically listen to was a song about following protocols. The dissonance between how niche and cool and good the music is and the content of the lyrics adds a sense of delirium to a genre that is already washed out and hazy. Music that's a little too weird be colonized for corporate propaganda being used for corporate propaganda is in and of itself a really nice trick, and I think the more inappropriate the gulf and more unhinged the energy of the song is the more it's emphasized.

This. Just this. That is all. https://sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle.bandcamp.com/track/op-40-no-5-raillery-off-the-rails