Alex Suskind

@VALENTI @0PN that quote hit hard (thanks for sharing!)

No one has captured what being in your 40s and truly besotted with techno is like quite like @0PN here (on John Beltran): "I got into a period of critical thinking about techno that I'm still totally immersed in. Over the past few years, no single genre has been more important to me. It's what I listen to every chance I get, particularly a lot of mid-'90s, early 2000s stuff.... I don't know what it means—and I don't even know if I care what it means—but the song definitely feels like being in your 40s. You're in the weird, middle valley of your life. It's all anticipation and no revelation. You finally figured out you're not going to figure it out, and you are just finally, in a way, present. You're right there watching every moment happen. You've given up on certain kinds of dreams, and finding out that's not necessarily a bad thing. Or at least I have. All I know is I feel very close to the source when I listen to this. And if that's not a forty-something thing to prioritize, I don't know what is."

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