DJ Cringe

• Website: https://www.instagram.com/internetexcess/
• Email: tlapidese@ucsb.edu
• Since: 2022
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Hey everyone! I’m DJ Çr!ñ&⋲⁣, and I’m a Communication major here at UCSB (hailing from LA). I've been wanting to become a KCSB-FM programmer for a *very* long time, and I'm so excited to finally be on the airwaves!

I’m fascinated by the intersection of technology and the internet, music, and the cultural zeitgeist, and how each respond to and are affected by the other. As such, my new radio show “Internet Excess” is built around the conceptual theme of “Music 𝙤𝙛, 𝙗𝙮, 𝙛𝙤𝙧, and 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 the 𝐰𝐰𝐰.” - that is, music that could only exist in our era of sensory overload and maximalist technological excess; songs that use auto-tune or hyperkinetic, glitchy synths to sound like they’re being beamed in from hyperspace; songs that lyrically embrace the more meta elements of meme culture; music that could only exist in the era of niche internet circles, in which teenagers across the planet from one another can co-create the Next Big Thing. So I tend to play a lot of glitch music, digicore, “hyperpop”, and more!

Besides electronic music, other things I’m passionate about include songwriting, absurdist humor, dancing, data visualization, board games, collaging, the color sea foam green, and dogs doing people things.

Thanks for listening!

✨”New World Order, no more Gods, only SOPHIE”✨ - “Mos Thoser”, Food House