/soy/ - Soyjaks

Yes, I love breakcore. I'm particularly fond of breakcore featuring album covers that depict screenshots of anime girls in a state of sorrow, grief, or heartbreak, digitally manipulated with glitch effects like chromatic aberration, pixellation, and displaced groups of pixels. My favorite kind is the one where the anime girl is desaturated, inverted, or monochromatic as it gives the image a particularly somber nuance. I'm a thorough enjoyer of when the girl has her eyes obscured by a censor bar, too.

Moving on to the naming schemes employed by these artists, I find album titles like my love feels all wrong - a reference to attraction to an underaged girl - or never gets better - a bleak message of acceptance about one's deteriorating mental state - to be the most appealing. It's important to me that these album titles and artist names are always provided in lower case. When the album name or artist name ends in a period, it's even more effective.

Now, to opine on the musical genius encapsulated in every glitched anime girl breakcore EP, I'd like to first bring up the choices of samples. The distinction and astuteness one must possess in order to select the perfect voice clip from a favorite anime to use as a repeating motif throughout a track is nothing short of incomprehensible talent and virtuosity. Chosen correctly, the sweet tones of an anime girl's kawa-ii voice cut through a breakcore mix to deliver a heartwrenching juxtaposition with the chaotic and frantic percussion. Its innocence and cuteness signifies an inner desire for happiness that is eviternally drowned out by the haunted echoes of a twisted mind.

Crucial to any breakcore record is the titular Amen Break. Thankfully, trans anime artists like Sewerslvt, Goreshit, Suicidegirl, 20yearoldloli, and Odexalagnia deliver a masterclass in drum slicing techniques that put amateurs like Aphex Twin and Squarepusher to shame. The elite manipulation of this iconic drum sample has ascended it to a new echelon of musical genius. Syncopated effects emphasizing the tempestuous struggle of ailments like schizophrenia, gender dysphoria, and ADHD are wrought out of teeth-chattering retriggers, discombobulating shuffles, whiplash-inducing tape stop effects, and seizing trance gates to usher in an intense unease. These effects are most likely accomplished through total mastery of percussive manipulation VSTs like Illformed's Glitch 2, or Audio Damage's Replicant and Automaton softwares. Standalone, the Amen Break packs little punch - the primitive minds of its original creators had no grasp on the intensity that it would deliver thanks to the genius minds of these trans breakcore artists. Breakcore artists get around this through transient shapers, hefty compression ratios, and generous sidechaining. These techniques are pivotal for trans breakcore artists to have full control over how their finely crafted drums will mirror the inner mayhem of their souls.
Gluing these together to form one, comprehensive, luscious soundscape of ever-resonating sadness and despair is the reverberating pad chord. Breakcore artists frequently smash the bindings of traditional Western music theory, forcing listeners to expand their aural palate to accept modal modulations, dissonant Jazz chords, polytonality, and polyrhythm through trance-gated, reverb-soaked wavetable pads. Breakcore artists select their harmonies and syncopate the attack of their chords with expert precision, illustrating vivid imagery of a hankering for equanimity with every added 9th, every augmentation, every diminished interval. If the masterful drumming represents the tidal maelstrom that wracks a lone sailor out in the Atlantic, then the depths below are analogues for the beautiful harmonies of the 5-second decay time pads, and the anime samples are the seafarer's cries for help. Deep down, they know that the only escape from the chaos is to plunge into the darkness. A beautiful metaphor for the artist's psychological turmoil calling them to a tragic, premature end.