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Sam Valenti IV

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Herb Sundays 126: David Pajo ( @davidpajo ) The mythic songwriter and musician (Papa M, Aerial M, Slint) with a Sunday Vacuum hitlist. Art by @Michaelcina

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i was born to make dance music.. i came from the clubs.. xcx6 is the album i’ve always wanted to make.

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This is the end of the line, full culture inversion. Tagging the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. Perfectly timed with 50 years of hip-hop/~30 years Supreme. It's actually perfectly executed. It should be banal. It's the Truman Show wall. We did it.

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That a&r guy from Capitol that came to your 2 shows at Pianos in 2003

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Ambient Music

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CW: pearl clutching. This is one of the most dangerous things I've ever read about art/criticism. tbc I'm not a Taylor hater, never have been but the idea that success is somehow above feedback, plus the ahistorical concept that other musicians don't build worlds is staggering.

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Critics are within their rights to dislike Taylor Swift's latest album. But any critique of her work that doesn’t consider her role as a prominent narrator of our time will fail to speak to even the most casual of her fans, Sinéad O’Sullivan writes.

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25 years this year apparently. I remember when I finally got a CD, descending into the parking lot of high school like a fish tank. Still their finest hour for my tastes. the marine layer between fantasy and nightmare, a reawakening of the child through the keyhole of adulthood.

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3 years

James Samuel Valenti ⭐️

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3 years

Showing up to your wedding like

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4 years

POV: you read some books and life is good

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2 years

Dudes turn 2 and model their entire personality off one of these guys

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9 months

When an artist passes, something heavy is released into a cosmic permanence. The culmination of their passion and vision, held together as a map we can see ourselves in and aspire to.

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Do it for 16 yr old you

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The biggest (or one of the biggest) myths in music startups is that artists want to hang with their super fans. It's the least desirable outcome for both sides ultimately.

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1 year

[Music Business Worldwide] SoundCloud’s new ‘Fans’ tool lets artists DM their superfans

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Sam Valenti IV

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5 years

The greatest record sleeve designer of our era has passed. RIP Vaughn Oliver

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4 years

I listen to very slight ambient music often and when my wife came home and the dishwasher was running she said “what are you listening to?”

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3 years

You either die a hero, or work in the music industry long enough and think everyone hates you at all times. I don't make the rules.

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9 months

If I’m locked into music (enjoying music generally, finding new/old things) life quality increases dramatically

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3 years

Babe, You OK? You've barely drank from your @TriStarPics Rudy (1993) promotional water bottle

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Sam Valenti IV

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4 years

We’re proud to be joining the Secretly family.

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4 years

Ghostly International, NYC-Based Indie Label, Merges With Secretly Group

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9 months

I want a great non-headphones album thread (great records that sound like shit fidelity wise, if listened closely)

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A great headphones album by an artist that's not Pink Floyd?

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Shit i say to my wife when I see there's a record or junk shop 0.8 miles away in a place we are visiting

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3 years

I got a backup

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Ghostly x Taco Bell would be like

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Ohio

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Hi haters 👋🏻

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One of a few CDs Dilla gave @dabrye and I when we went to his house

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My son said he wanted to "be a DJ" today which was scary but not as bad as if he said he wanted to be a "creator" or "maker"

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2 years

Creative Direction is exhausting

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3 years

As you get older you realize (if you're slow like me and haven't figured it out yet) that exercise is more for your brain than anything

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Listens to The Blue Nile once

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This assumes all potential fans are already identified "backers" which is not how artists w/o an existing fan base grow. This loop is just an updated model for crowdfunding+crypto. The company line of just "cutting out the middle person" is technobabble / not thoughtful insight.

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Feels like this future is now inevitable. What am I missing?

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Music Has the Right to Children / Geogaddi

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I don’t know who made this but I think about it a lot

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3 years

20 years of 24 Hour Party People, one of the best music movies and def one of my fave films ever. I try to watch once a year as it renews my vows to independent music. The scene of The Durutti Column playing to an empty Haçienda still brings me to tears.

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The best response to a Herb Sundays request ever from a legendary rock star. Respect due: "Sam, hi. I appreciate the interest. I honestly don't want to be part of a group of people doing anything. but thank you though for wanting me to take part."

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4 years

Five year ago today, still feels like I got punk’d/fake homecoming king’d

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4 years

I can finally say, at 41 years of age, that I wanted an interesting life, and I got one.

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Sam Valenti IV

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3 years

In Web3 I'm gonna miss "being the product" I think. it was nice to be needed

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Sam Valenti IV

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The AI music cabal will sell it as "a future where anyone can make music" which sounds generous/kind as if that's that's holding back humanity (anyone can already make music) but it's actually not. Hard to comprehend but I promise it's true.

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6 years

Sir Busta Rhymes and I wish you an appealing Friday

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9 months

Art direction alone got me hyped

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Erika de Casier - Still 4AD0639 Out February 21, 2024

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Best 4 LP run? Name one as good/better

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Daddy would like a word

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1 year

Does anyone know a name for this aesthetic? (Stefyloret on Insta)

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3 years

Art is the next wall that's gonna fall after journalism, and then hope is lost. What has happened to journalism in the last few years, being picked apart by vultures (hustlers and politicians) who claim their truth is yours, and then hide behind it as passionate freedom of speech

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In 80's Japan, if you weren't issuing an ambient record to promote your latest fragrance/product, were you even a brand?

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Sam Valenti IV

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2 years

check out this new band from Bristol. sound of the summer.

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. @MannFacts ?

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I (early 20’s) saw Brian Eno at an airport gate and foolishly gave him a CD/said hi. He was understandably brusque with me. I sat down on the plane and when he passed, he apologized and thanked me for the CD. That’s my ENO story and that’s when I became imbued with super powers.

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Sam Valenti IV

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4 years

The Caretaker- An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011)

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The only thing more solemn, more profoundly grave than a Joy Division Closer cassette is an Italian Joy Division Closer cassette

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Thinking about “dark packaging” and how it’s no longer a thing

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Sprout Season

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My first day as Chief Brand Officer wish me luck! First step, rolling back the stationery 👁 🐝 M

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5 years

Can we just appreciate Philip for a second? We have the best electronic writer of all time in our midst.

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5 years

Just retired my 2019 promos spreadsheet and started a 2020 sheet, so I guess that's pretty much a wrap. For the record, I logged 1031 titles in 2019 -- a fraction of everything I was sent, but all of those were records (mostly albums) I deemed worthy of consideration.

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I'm not buying your "best albums to know me" list unless something in poor taste / out of fashion on it, sorry!

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10 months

My reply tweet: Ahahah My inner voice: "you should be so lucky to play on a Bozak!" <seething teary eyed meme>

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oh hell naw they got me mixing on the abe lincoln 3000’s tonight 🤣🤣🤣

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4 years

A lot of people shit on talking to a therapist because they had a bad experience. It’s dangerous to assume you’ll get a match on the first go. Best way to find one is to ask someone you trust who they go to. Most therapists will do a free session as an intro. Worth a shot.

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Sam Valenti IV

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5 years

Listening to Steely Dan Greatest Hits LP like a herb

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Sam Valenti IV

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8 years

Ready for the #GRAMMYs repping the @ghostly team and celebrating @ISO50 's nomination. Thank you to everyone who has supported Tycho and us.🔊

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Sam Valenti IV

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Pizza Hut watch or The Tapes?

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Still floating

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"If you think of house and techno as modernism, then deconstructed music and post-club are essentially the equivalent of post-modernism. The genre breaks away from dance music tropes like four-on-the-floor beats, stable tempo, and constant mix with gleeful anarchy..."

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A KLF video-thread: “After we’d played live…we thought, ‘F*** this, let’s make a 35mm film which we can show instead’…it’s basically a road movie – there are lots of shots of the Spanish countryside and hardly any dialogue." Bill Drummond Mar ’90

The KLF - The White Room - 1991 - (Unreleased Movie)

The White Room film is a 50 minute ambient road movie with footage of Drummond and Cauty setting off from Trancentral on a quest to find the White Room, driv...

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MA son love me I am gr8 fahder happ fadders day

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🥶 rescued from storage (USB fulla B12 FLACs ofc)

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1995: You're a Tampa area DJ. Your buddy Rick comes over with some new singles from a record swap in Orlando and hands you this slab, says it's yours. The title reminds you of a song you heard on a radio mix show the other week and can't stop thinking about. Your gig is Saturday.

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3 years

I formally disown this statement from the mid 00's. I was unwise and now welcome the CD revival with open arms. - Sam Valenti

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Sam Valenti IV

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4 years

I just shazamed some shit and got smacked with the hottest cover art/mantra possible

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1 year

Fall Fashion lookbook: '90s Joey Beltram

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What's a song where the cover is better than the original?

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First day as CEO. Wish me luck. 🍼

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#NYFW

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When I have two coffees

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1 year

OK fine dude! Leave me alone!

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Sam Valenti IV

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4 years

A few years back I asked my friend and collaborator @Michaelcina if he could cut a display typeface for us. He overdelivered with Ghostly Gothic (GI-300). Grab this and his other beauties on his new site @publictype_us

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Sam Valenti IV

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3 years

When We Were Young: SV4 edition (h/t @atrak )

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3 years

"WE make sure everything remains raw." - @BustaRhymes and i

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Sam Valenti IV

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9 months

Always funny to me, how hard we are on musicians. "One hit wonders" get the worst of it, even though they hit a remarkable achievement and then perennial greats like the below "peaked" at some point to some surprise. Imagine hitting these heights at all. Astonishing.

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Quietus Best of 2023 'As a historical document, it's a work that deserves to be celebrated, but also viewed with an elegiac sadness. Talking Heads – David Byrne in particular – were never as interesting again...' . Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense 4K

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Sam Valenti IV

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Really happy we get to work with Loraine. A modern great/young legend who has made a beautiful record with her new alias. The first cut out today is a little MC Escher bleep/bass/d&b that sinks into your skull. Which way is up?

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Loraine James ( @LoJamMusic ) joins Ghostly for Whatever The Weather, the eponymous debut album under her ambient-minded alias, out April 8th. Pre-order LP: Mastered by @telefontelaviv Cover photo by @collinhughes Design by @_JustinSloane

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What if I told you we have an album that has TBN tendencies out next week?

Affection, by Bullion

12 track album

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Happy The Blue Nile Day 🎩

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2 years

Discogs undefeated

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This AI image feels like a turning point for me. real proof of a ghost in the machine, a speckle of god in the gears

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Forgot that some people mix "in key" so impressive/dorky

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Sam Valenti IV

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Herb Sundays 102: Huerco S. ( @huerco_s ) The producer and @west_mineral founder takes you for a ride in the pickup. art by @Michaelcina [season 7 premiere] link in bio

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Sam Valenti IV

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Our weekend studio in @matthewdear ’s mom’s basement ~2000

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