Orphia

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My favourite musicians of the past year:

Oneohtrix Point Never

ESP

Soundcloud archive

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My tracks

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Music Blog.txt

07/08/25 -
Been listening to a commentary of a Xiu Xiu album by Jamie and Angela. I feel as if I am on the cusp of enjoying their music, but havent really made the time to listen to their full discography and find the albums which i like best. I would hope to listen to xiu xiu while I'm working as a sort of background noise however my wrist has been playing up so i haven't been able to and I find podcasts more fun to listen to when doing housework. Untill my wrist gets better I don't think listening to xiu xiu's music will happen. (apart from the singles that I love)
If we were of the era of CD's it wouldnt be so overwhelming because i would buy one CD a month or so and listen to it on repeat because it'd be all I have. Xiu xiu has too much music in its discography to really be able to choose which album to commit to listening to.

27/07/25 -
Theres a specific type of music that I listen that gives me the feeling of the fear and anxiety of forbidden queer love. Songs that explore relationships that might have flourished if the environment around the lovers where more accepting, but leads to languishing in anguish, rage and melencholy. So far my list is:
- Clairo (specifically the song bags)
- Dijon... every single one of his songs feels like its directed at a really hot guy, that will never love him back.
- Just recently i've started listening to Xiu Xiu and the song sad pony guerilla girl.
I'm not entirely sure why I gravitate towards this music, especially because i've never personally experienced a crush during the times when i was in deeply homophobic territories when i was a kid. Whats worse is its a melencholy that i feel comfortable in, I actually really enjoy the feelings. I feel guilty that I get to enjoy romanticising something that was and still is a reality for many queer people throughout the world. Maybe its a way of connecting with the struggle of my sisters and brthers around the world and also elders from my local communities, something that isn't really taught in schools.

25/07/25 -
I've been thinking about imitating the sounds of ESP because their music has such a nostalgic appeal to me. The use of plucks and vocal chops take me right back to my teenage years of listening to prog-house and going to my little gardening job where i would listen to hours of interviews with EDM artist on "back to back with willy Joy" and "EDM prod", anticipating when I could get home and put to practise any wisdom the artists said in their interviews.
At the time when I was listening to EDM I felt quite lonely as I hadn't really anyone else to share my love of EDM with in real life. I was the only person in my year at high school that listened to this style of music which made me feel a little rebelious and self righteous. I wasn't popular at high school, lets just say that. Being #cringe and all.
More on the style of ESP: Theres defintley an overlap of worlds happening for me when i listen to ESP. I feel like i can hear influences of EDM from around 2014 in youtube intros (NCS and monstercat) and the calming and dark beats of whitearmor.

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About Orphia

I make music on FL studio and find it fun to screw with a 30 second loop for hours and then discard it forever...