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2017-02-14 at 7:55 AM UTC in Essay on SandstormVille Virtanen, who goes by the name ‘Darude’, began his musical career producing happy hardcore with tracker software. He would go on to collaborate with Jaakko ‘JS16’ Salovaara, and the first product of their efforts was what is perhaps the most important piece of electronic music of all time.
Sandstorm is an instrumental trance composition, released in Finland 26 October 1999, [1] which has evolved in its reception from a global sensation perpetuated by the nascent internet music distribution scene, to the definitive perennial techno track. Not by far the first techno track, Sandstorm may be considered the culmination of techno music into musical maturity. In its infancy, techno had not yet achieved an essential compositional style, and artists were borrowing from rock, blues, and pop, as they developed techniques for the new tools of music they had chosen to express themselves with. Sandstorm changed that; in it we find something not prefigured in earlier techno - a pure form which laid the foundations for the future of electronic music composition. It has been said that ‘a work of art is not finished when nothing more can be added, but rather, when nothing more can be taken away from it without destroying it entirely’. Sandstorm found this point of balance, and developed into the north star of electronic music, by which all later efforts would find their way.
Micheal Cui of the Steveston-London student newspaper writes, “Most songs in this genre, electronic dance, always have some vocals, but not Sandstorm. Darude knows what he is doing with instruments and he managed to make a lyricless but recognizable song… Overall, Sandstorm could be arguably the best song in electronic dance music.”[2] We are talking about a track which people recognize instantly by the very first note. However, the public reception of this track was not only positive and enduring, but eventful: more than a decade after its release, it was discovered once again by the younger generations when, possibly due to the elemental and timeless quality it possesses, Sandstorm became a capital-m Meme.
The event can clearly be seen rippling across the sphere of consciousness in the google analytics reference, occurring on 22 June 2013 [3]. Why it happened at this time and not another time is impossible to say. The birth of a Meme is perfectly unpredictable, the product of a psychic cacophony amplified by instantaneous communication over the internet and emerging into awareness (see: the spike on 29 March 2015) according to chaotic principles and undercurrents beyond the ken of the human mind. In brief, whenever someone asks, ‘what song is that’, you say ‘Sandstorm’. That sounds dumb, and it is, but you might as well try to describe the Mona Lisa to someone as explain a Meme to them. We will refrain from the metaphysics of ‘a thing whose name is the name of all things’, and simply point out that corollary search terms were for the sheet music and the piano versions of Sandstorm. We can infer thusly that people recognized the significance of this track just as much a decade after its release as they did upon its arrival. And not only its significance, but that on the merit of its notes.
It’s safe to say that there are detractors by default, especially for music of the electronic persuasion. Sandstorm is an exception to this only in that there have been few vocal detractors, who seem to perceive a warmer reception for their cynical dismissal than actually exists. Gawker, always a respectable source of reason and rationality (sarcasm) published an article by an Andy Cush, on 12 September 2014 [4]. Describing it as ‘goofy’ and ‘blunt’ and referring to techno as ‘ridiculous, overhyped’, he states that “in its garishness, it provides a reassuring contrast: next to Darude's dated production, a sugary megahit like Aviici's "Levels" sounds tasteful, almost austere.” Let it be known that initial charting of Sandstorm as not hitting the ‘Hot 100’ is disingenuous considering it was released in Finland, and was in the top 10 in over ten countries in Europe. The unfortunate critic of this unfortunate review does not, apparently, discover the answer to his question, ‘why do you people like sandstorm so much?’. Andy Cush now spends his time on twitter, discussing current problems that the community of people sexually attracted to cartoon animals are having with neo-Nazism in their ranks.
Sandstorm is the jediel of techno, the paragon; one might better view it as a formula rather than a mere track [5]. In the eighteen years that have passed since its release, the respect and interest in this precious musical revelation has only grown, and the rave still goes bonkers when they hear ‘that’ high sustained tone fading in. That’s impressive, for a genre not even forty years old. What is more important, is that in comparing the musical information of Sandstorm to the electronic music that followed, you might not find a single track which did not follow the rules which Sandstorm burned into the collective unconscious. It is a musical work of that rarest sort which can only appreciate with time.
[1]
https://web.archive.org/web/20010306183715/http://www.findance.com/english/darude/index.html
[2]
https://slsspress.wordpress.com/sep-oct-2014/song-review-darude-sandstorm/
[3]
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=sandstorm%20darude
[4]
http://gawker.com/how-darudes-sandstorm-enveloped-the-web-1648636266
[5]
https://musescore.com/user/318756/scores/286911
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2019-02-12 at 2:56 AM UTC in How do I answer questions like these?
Originally posted by Technologist No, they make these things so they can tell if you’re BSing them. Yes to all the good, and no to all the bad will signal BS. Just be you, but embellish a little bit!
WRONG. answer yes to all the good and no to all the bad. they're not testing you for your actual inclinations. they're testing you for your understanding that obedience is mandatory. which you demonstrate by answering questions the correct way.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-19 at 2:11 AM UTC in The Autism Quotient Test - Everyone here should seriously take it.
Originally posted by mmQ I wish I could rot in a garbage can. Like a public one, I guess a dumpster would be best. I want to live in the dumpster and maintain life but still start to get all rotten with weird spots and bruises and discoloration and whatnot, maybe the rotten foods and things in the dumpster could sort of incorporate themselves into my skin and I could become this like human piece of trash and start making friends with the neighborhood kids who their parents make them take the garbage out, giving them awful advice and telling them to do drugs and cut themselves with glass shards, which I'll provide them.
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2017-05-27 at 2:41 AM UTC in Gustav
Originally posted by Sophie I bet you could fire small nuclear ordnance from a Gustav. Also the Nazis invented jet engines and cruise missiles and all other kinds of cool and useful stuff you fucking jedi.
you can fire small nuclear ordnance from a bazooka
hitler should have taken a chill pill and just did whatever rommel said.
it'd be a white planet now if he hadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-27 at 2:38 AM UTC in Be honesti really don't read much of anything anyone types here. i pick up on some key words, best case scenario, and start typing.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 11:52 PM UTC in keeping light and heat out of a bedroomair conditioningThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-20 at 6:43 AM UTC in AVE reviews the JuiceroThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-21 at 5:40 AM UTC in HTS overdoseaherm. what is a trash angel.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-21 at 6:30 PM UTC in ted nugent on shitpissing his full niggerdrawers in kikesborough
Originally posted by hydromorphone I remember watching an interview with him… All he did was bad mouth drugs, and fucking bitch that 'he never did drugs' and how people who do drugs are idiots. He's just an asshole. A top shelf nigger-faggot.
sounds like you're really just a whiny druggie whose mad that people look down on you. so you're telling me that ted nugent is a nigger because he doesn't do drugs? lmfao, so ted nugent is an asshole for not doing drugs, but you're not an asshole for doing drugs?
personal problems. not ted nugent problems.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-19 at 8:14 PM UTC in Being sickThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-21 at 2:25 AM UTC in Someone losing their minddoubling down doesn't make this betterThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-21 at 1:55 AM UTC in Someone losing their mindinfinityshock, just stop fucking posting here. go to facebook where your edgy retardation will actually be shocking.
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2017-05-20 at 12:09 AM UTC in tfw Surprise Drug Testi think the idea is that when your kid behaves in ways that might cause other people to kill them, you just slap em around a bit so that they connect acting that way with getting hurtThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 11:39 PM UTC in Monks are wеak whytеsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 7:54 PM UTC in Being sickyou literally have AIDSThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 5:40 PM UTC in Celebrities you wouldn't be surpirised commited suicide
Like? no, this IS a snuff video. you can see his dignity being smashed by high heels.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-18 at 2:28 AM UTC in The Autism Quotient Test - Everyone here should seriously take it.twist ending: the entire test was actually just a control group for another study. it's the faggot test. if you agree to take it you're a faggot. the contents were only a ruse.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 5:17 PM UTC in FBI currently uses mind reading and brain to brain communication; Remote Neural Monitoringyou can't fool palantir.
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2017-05-18 at 4:30 AM UTC in Mexican InternetThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 2 AM UTC in Not Above Us, BLingBLingThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
