tttlllrrr

<p>Today’s guest deejay is <a href="https://twitter.com/_tlr_" title="tttlllrrr">tttlllrrr</a>.</p> <p>I’ve known tttlllrrr for over a decade. I may have met him through <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/category/listen/soundwave/" title="Solipsistic Nation">Solipsistic Nation</a>, my electronic music show.</p> <p>I was immediately impressed with tttlllrrr’s pluck. He had a vision for a genre of music that hadn’t existed yet called <a href="http://magicoremusic.blogspot.com" title="Magicore">Magicore</a>, a mélange of metal, electronic dance music, video-game music, and Japanese pop music. Through his Magicore blog and mixes (here are <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/?s=magicore" title="Solipsistic Nation: Magicore">ttwo</a> you can listen to), tttlllrrr willed magicore into existence, which is in itself an act of magic. So tttlllrrr’s pretty cool.</p> <p>Also, I like to collaborate, and tttlllrrr likes to collaborate, so we hit it off. Over the years, I’ve wrapped tttlllrrr into several of my harebrained schemes that are great fun, including inviting him to guest deejay on Soundwave.</p> <p>When tttlllrrr sent me his mix three years ago, my reaction was, “Uh…”</p> <p>I began Soundwave to deal with the quarantine’s stress and isolation during the pandemic’s early days. Ambient, classical, experimental, and instrumental music helped me through those first few months. What tttlllrrr shared was a mix that leaned hard into the experimental and instrumental and reflected tttlllrrr’s personality. And it was a mix I wasn’t in the headspace to listen to. So I shelved tttlllrrr’s mix for a later date and, in doing so, denied tttlllrrr’s expression of whatever he was thinking and feeling when he put together his mix. Not cool.</p> <p>But over time, Soundwave has expanded its horizons. It’s mined more and more experimental and instrumental music. Christian Sager’s <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/soundwave-37-christian-sager/" title="SOUNDWAVE : 37 : CHRISTIAN SAGER">mix</a> is a perfect example. So at long la