irony

[luckyzukky]

irony

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THE MINIDISC REVOLUTION IS UPON US

i have been obsessed with minidiscs for the past month. they're a dead format by sony that made optical discs tiny and put them in colorful floppy disk-like cartridges and the players fit in the palm of your hand and they're ADORABLE and FUTURISTIC and the BEST. you can learn more about them at the community-run minidisc wiki because i can't distill its history in just one post but it's very rich and interesting!

anyway my note for this mix over at illcocytus was "the centerpiece of this mix was lips by snsd and the percussion in it and then it morphed into this" so i hope that explains this mix well enough

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01; ass like that - victoria monét
02; automatic - red velvet
03; mr. watson - cruel youth
04; bootylicious - destiny's child
05; have mercy - chloe
06; mago - lim kim
07; nainainai - atarashii gakko
08; kurumi to dialogue - akb48
09; love me like this - nmixx
10; buffalo stance - neneh cherry
11; lips - girls' generation
12; favorite - loona
13; midas touch - kiss of life
14; damaged - danity kane
15; irony - wonder girls
16; candy pop - heartsdales

Comments

[kalloway]

Minidiscs! We definitely used those a lot at university/various radio stations. At one point, one station had a stack of 'emergency' hour-long shows on them of a friend and I doing incredibly vague commentary between unremarkable songs. How often they got used, I'm not sure, but they were a thing.

I think I finally pitched the last few I had around, having no way to play them and no actual desire to listen to old projects/demos from the early-00's. But they were great for industry/student use. (The blank, re-recordable ones I mean. I only ever saw a handful of commercial releases and it's a little sad they didn't catch on, but they just came too soon to when full CD adoption was just finishing and nobody was quite ready to move on again.)

[luckyzukky]

hell yeah! i've heard MDs got lots of use at radio stations and similar like... internal uses i guess, not sure how to put it? but i've also heard like court rooms and offices and such got a ton of mileage out of them. it's such a shame the format never took off much besides in japan because they had so much potential! i love the recordable aspect and that we can make mixes with these sorta futuristic looking blank discs (the colors and designs go crazy i love it) but it's sad that the prerecorded label releases never caught on much at all because it could've been huge. ahhh it's sad, but i'm glad there's such a dedicated community now. it's awesome you've had experience with them!!!!!!!