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Yo, that’s Benn Fucking Jordan, aka The Flashbulb!
He’s always had great views on this stuff. From his wiki about piracy:
After the collapse of Sublight Records, instead of taking on another contract, Jordan purchased his previous licenses and released his most anticipated album, Soundtrack to a Vacant Life, on his own record label, Alphabasic Records. On the day of its release, he personally uploaded copies of the album to music piracy sites, including a small HTML file explaining his relaxed views on file sharing and showing listeners where they could give support if they desired. This resulted in attention by the mainstream press, and the album became the most downloaded album on many popular file sharing networks.
Jordan has spoken extensively on issues of net neutrality, free speech, and copyright laws in the music world. In an interview with TorrentFreak, he encourages involvement in these issues and warns against corporations like Amazon or iTunes and their ability to stem the free flow of information. File sharing, to Jordan, is a way of bypassing this potential oppression and accessing information freely. In the aforementioned interview, Jordan notes that “file trading is just a peephole to a much larger picture. Copyright, in its current state, holds information at ransom for monetary value. While in music it can stifle culture and art, with literature and education it can be nothing less than a weapon of class warfare.”
In a 2024 episode of “The New Music Business” podcast Jordan reviewed these perspectives in the context of having been the subject of False Streaming Activity and having had his music taken down by distributors.
I’ve seen him at festivals twice. The first time, he played a fantastic set to a TINY crowd in the main building. I feel like nobody knew he was in there. It was intimate and lovely.
The second time, he played to a big crowd at a stage outside, years later. All of the equipment somehow fucked up. He spent a good 10-20 minutes trying to get stuff working, with limited success. He said “aw well, guess I’ll improvise” and played one of my favorite sets I’ve ever seen. I didn’t expect as much Flashbulb Vocoder Voice as he provided, but I can never have enough vocoder.
He’s so great.
The mark of a true performer. That sounds like a damn good time, both of them.
The first one I was insanely hung over for and I had regrets.
The time he as-libbed his whole set I was not hung over and I was ASTOUNDED. He is so insanely talented!
Ahhh, I don’t miss hangovers. I’ve been much happier and less sick since I switched to LSD.
Oh that’s totally fair hahaha. Hangovers are the worst! We’ve never had an LSD hangover ;3
For festivals I’m mainly doing MDMA for the main event, and whatever fun stuff comes around for the rest. I had opium at one festival and that was AWESOME… I don’t touch opiates and thought I was handed a weed pipe. Nope! I still loved it, very chill time. I would try it again, if I ever found it—that was like 15 years ago.
lmao, maybe we were at the same festival. I was at Bonnaroo in 2009 or 2010, watching Primus, and got handed a mystery pipe. Turns out it was opium and it agreed decently with the mushrooms 😅
Keep calm and … what a magnificent shirt. I was always a fan of the taller of the Mario bros. The man not only is an entertainer - but clearly has inspired taste.
I like this guy.
Yeah I have been following him for awhile, he has some great takes on things.
Love watching his videos, they go way beyond your average music production youtuber content. I generally think generative AI is an awesome tool in itself, but that it’s too ripe for the perversion of capitalistic greed. Like Jordan said in the video, it’s pretty disgusting to ingest years worth of hard work and dedication from many artists and then use the resulting model to compete with those same artists. I optimistically predict that the current approach to AI will never do much better than the grey slop it currently shits out, though.
