Quantize To Frames

YouTube Poop AAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

When I sleep I tend to have YouTube videos play in the background as white noise. I grew up doing it a lot as a kid so It's pretty difficult for me to sleep in total silence. The generations of YouTube content I experienced forever weaves in my mind like an infinite sprawling quilt. Quantize To Frames is the representation of this quilt. With only Sony Vegas Pro and a grab bag of videos from a downloads folder, tdstr creates an insane YTPMV album.

One thing I absolutely adore about tdstr is his creative sampling. Every album is like it's own little treasure hunt. This experience keeps me engaged to the music while I pick out recognizable soundbites and pieces of music found along the lifespan of internet culture. It's insanely impressive what tdstr was able to produce for such a limiting software. Sony Vegas Pro is not a DAW in any way, but the execution is so well-done that I wouldn't have been able to tell he used it if it weren't for him giving us listeners insight about the project. Even then, knowing what was used doesn't remove any of the mystique for me.

It's a very unsettling album, and the tone wobbles around a very hypnotizing vaporware aesthetic (besides the times it just dips to DnB cause why not lmao). Even the shorter more atmospheric tracks add a lot to the album's tone without disrupting the flow; similar to how how a lot of interludes tend to do in other contemporary concept albums. Quantize to Frames also manages to walk a very fine line between conventional music and what people stereotype experimental music. This style of music acts as a lens to much more insane plunderphonics and noise collage acts like Roxy Radclyffe and select picks from Next Year's Snow in which they heavily distort popular media to nearly incomprehensible audio. We don't typically consider it music, but there are glimmers of much more accessible material in the sea of glitch and harsh noise. tdstr takes the techniques that make these small sections of music and shows much more restraint. Keeping the project just long enough to not overstay it's welcome, and to push the boundaries of sampling which again is within software SONY VEGAS PRO.

Even if you don't dig this kind of music, it is a testament to what artists are arbitrarily confined to use when making music, as well as a nostalgic bliss from the format of the YouTube Poop Music Video scene.

Best tracks: Draft Quarter, The King, Can You Feel My Slime That Cleans Your Car