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Michael
@piantiniz.bsky.social
cultural critic/breakcore enthusiast
https://mpiantini.site/
more songs for the summer but about scarface

piantini.substack.com/p/songs-for-...
Songs for an endless summer #7
"She's On Fire" by Amy Holland
piantini.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"[Contemporary breakcore has] incorporated so many disparate genres + sounds, including shoegaze, jazz, and punk, that it barely sounds like it did in its earliest days. 'Whether we like it or not, breakcore is going to—and already has—come to mean something different from what it originally was.'"
New Breakcore is (Still) Badass
The internet’s most undefinable genre just got more undefinable.
daily.bandcamp.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Normalize calling the new breakcore Brakebrakecore
September 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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September 12: Status: Expunged - Skull Crusher (2025)

Read a Bandcamp guide to current breakcore, opened a few tabs, and this one unapologetically slaps. When the slower, longer closing tracks is one of the best songs, that's an excellent sign.
Skull Crusher, by Status: Expunged
9 track album
status-expunged.bandcamp.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Breakcore is mutating. Meet the new monsters.
New Breakcore is (Still) Badass
The internet’s most undefinable genre just got more undefinable.
daily.bandcamp.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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@jcoreslicer.bsky.social mentioned in the bandcamp daily 🫡🫡🫡
September 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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thank you for the feature holy shit!!!
September 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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thank u for calling me and @caybee.bandcamp.com breakcore pioneers… truly means a lot
September 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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daily.bandcamp.com/lists/new-br... waow they mentioned me and all these other cool artists 🥹
New Breakcore is (Still) Badass
The internet’s most undefinable genre just got more undefinable.
daily.bandcamp.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
i wrote this!
September 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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New on Intervenxions—The Dominican Within the Bronx

“Joel Alfonso Vargas’s ‘Mad Bills to Pay’ . . . [is] unabashedly set in the Bronx without any compulsion to justify its setting.

By Michael Piantini (@piantiniz.bsky.social)

www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...
August 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
mr bad bunny did make at least two really good songs that are specifically Latinidad for those in nyc

piantini.substack.com/p/songs-for-...
Songs for endless summer #5
"NUEVAYoL" by Bad Bunny (2025)
piantini.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
wrote about Benny Sings as another addition to the downtrodden summer songs
Songs for an endless summer #4
"Sunny Afternoon" by Benny Sings (2021)
piantini.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
the gorillaz were really good and "On Melancholy Hill" is a banger of sorrow
Songs for an endless summer #3
"On Melancholy Hill" by Gorillaz
piantini.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Larry Gottheim made film in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Machete Gillette... Mama + Chants and Dances for Hand
Questions of memory and remembrance are part-and-parcel of Larry Gottheim’s cinema. His early films predominantly rely on minimalist shot compositions that emphasize the time spent watching them. For ...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
if you Yaeji, congrats you are a summer sympathizer

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Songs for an endless summer #2
"Beach2k20" by Robyn [Yaeji Remix] (2019)
piantini.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
more words on sound
Songs for an endless summer #1
"Last Summer Whisper" by Anri (1982)
piantini.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
wrote about jeffrey lewis perfect album from 2006, technically 2005
Angsty 28-year old men envy him for this trick!
some thoughts on Jeffrey Lewis' "City & Eastern Songs" (2006)
piantini.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
as a society, we should shame paying coffee shop patrons who place their cups on the subway floor as table so they may use their phone
April 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
unfortunately, i love the life i lead
April 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
be specific when u write
Games writing words I hate
aftermath.site/games-writing-...
April 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
he knocked my socks off this morning about war games to d&d, so u know i had to do it to em
@superbunnyhop.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
im putting my
whole shit into this
March 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
a better man is really good
March 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM