This is a longer description about your blog. 2026-06-18T00:00:00Z https://example.com/ Your Name 2026-06-18T00:00:00Z https://example.com/blog/llwll-alea-iacta-est/ <p><picture><source type="image/avif" srcset="https://example.com/blog/llwll-alea-iacta-est/yMOYYzZtHc-640.avif 640w, https://example.com/blog/llwll-alea-iacta-est/yMOYYzZtHc-1280.avif 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 40em) 100vw, 640px"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://example.com/blog/llwll-alea-iacta-est/yMOYYzZtHc-640.webp 640w, https://example.com/blog/llwll-alea-iacta-est/yMOYYzZtHc-1280.webp 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 40em) 100vw, 640px"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://example.com/blog/llwll-alea-iacta-est/yMOYYzZtHc-640.jpeg" alt="ALEA IACTA EST album cover" width="1280" height="1280" srcset="https://example.com/blog/llwll-alea-iacta-est/yMOYYzZtHc-640.jpeg 640w, https://example.com/blog/llwll-alea-iacta-est/yMOYYzZtHc-1280.jpeg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 40em) 100vw, 640px"></picture></p> <p>I'm loving llwll's <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5R7ho0Z6Ksfc9G8pwXX7tD">ALEA IACTA EST</a>. I can't even pronounce the artist's name. I got to it through <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/42bRZvZrglzmj99X9alo1a">tokyona</a>, one of their albums.</p> <p>It's firmly in that breakcore, drum and bass category, rooted in that tradition. Like tokyona, it has a chaotic, frantic energy. There's something simultaneously hopeless about it, but it also feels like music you'd listen to while ascending to the supercomputer in the cloud during the singularity.</p> <p>It evokes <em>Neuromancer</em>, the way the book keeps moving: it starts in a cyberpunk slum, then they're flying around the globe, then they're in space, and it ends up at Villa Straylight, where the Tessier-Ashpool family keep their AIs, Wintermute and Neuromancer. It all moves so quickly that it's like they're ascending.</p> <p>What's a little different here is that it's darker. The heavy bass lines take it somewhere less whimsical than the tokyona album. Which is a weird thing to say, because that album is already pretty dark and a bit more serious.</p>