[Welcome to the Night City] (01)

Welcome to the Rhythms, The Neon Night City Volume (003)

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The blue night and neon horizons lights up the drenched road, soaked and dancing with its colors. The billboards, giant screens and luminous alleys makes this night very much alive as the day.

In the skyscrapers and buildings, screens with their flashy fonts along with the cacophony of numerous music contributes to the gibberish sound of the street.

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One of the screens advertise their room services showcasing uniforms of glossy musical instruments and welcoming melody of the piano in their grand reception.

[The night pulse through my veins, and my heart beats with you... Let us share, this blissful moment with you!]

The classical colors of red and blue glitch effect animating the vibration of their music, this punk rock was able to romanticize the rooftop of skyscrapers. The kisses made, explosions of the same red and blue colors as the last strings of the guitar fades. That night was truly made alive by this band.

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As the bow was drawn, the gleam of light followed with the streak at the darkness, a classical rock music was playing, for every stroke, the player dances in accord to the rhythm of the music, the slides of his bow and dance is imitated by a holographic avatar.

They punch their way gracefully to the same holographic enemies, the remix of the beat made the classical music more intense as his strokes becomes tighter, the punches followed faster until the climax reach its peak.

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Thousand of these products and music flash across a thousand times in a fraction of a second, at each streets and at every screens blaring at the people.

The cars and the letters in their shops are just as colorful. You can still hear their laughter, their singing and instruments in the air, no matter the noise of those uncountable commercials that never sleeps.

[I will never stop until I get ya, get ya, get ya heart ] -Fools and Golds, My Heart's Yours

Street bands are rampant in each city with their own appearances. Spiky or glimmering hairs, a pretentious dancer or a floor rolling guy type, piercing or gentlemen with violin, or both or any weird amalgamation wherever your expression brought you.

Having showdown against other rivals through dances. Unique clothes will definitely boast amazing flairs if you know what spectacle to use to your audience. You can start like him. Extra cold limbs to their bodies to effectively play 3 guitar frets and their riff 3 times in one, or maybe you pursue straight up visual brilliance, well then maybe you can become a dancer using graphic effects that can changes the frame rate observable to the eye as a part of their performance.

[IIIIIIIIIII WAS BORN TO CRAVE! DANCE AND RAVE AND CONSUME A SIRLOIN STEAK! ] -Might and Mayhem

Although cops are rampant and glares menacingly to the unruly noises, you should not take them seriously. The crowd will still cheer with their beers spilling them at the ground and in fact will even try to taunt them by playing their music just below the frequency limit they impose. They are clearly pissed about your mockery and you should be proud, but be careful. They are scavengers and will do their best to be a massive pain in the ass no matter what crime you committed. So please, throw your trash carefully if you don't want to feel humiliated and unsafe. Trust me, you don't need to feel it much more intense, just living here is already your first experience to the police experience. The same copper robbers that do nothing on the useless nuisance commercials hanging around endlessly with their blinding lights.

All for their sweet corporate father's retention traffic quota.

On the other hand. Why don't we go transportation? Customization of cars are also trendy, singing AI voice accompanied with a virtual character or simply a sing along music for their passengers and drivers to sing with. Of course, a normal car for transportation exists as well. You can take the train if your business is in another city but I'm telling you, be vigilant. As I've told in the previous video newborn, you do not want your business in the Twilight City. If you need to wait for a next train, do it. Just do not ride one that's going to stop in Twilight City.

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Almost every design in this city is streamlined, high class arts of semi realistic, glossy chrome pallette and machine art technology are praised and can only be seen on Stelaris while any type of arts within a genre or personal artistry can be seen below the alleys, streamline is the art that the mainstream follows. That is the trend the corporations want us to follow to the point of trying to pass a bill for those other art work as graffiti for their anti-vandalism which is ridiculous! But I wouldn't worry about that especially for a newborn like you.

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Nowadays, multiple design spurts from the creative expression and musicality of the people, this is the era in which music dominates the world. It is everywhere that the massive corporates are forced to adapt to this trend that suddenly chained their iron velvet hands ever so sudden, and even at this time of point, despite joining the trend, these corporates still produce slop musics.

I mean... The only entertainment industry corpo product that is able to capture the trend with the great success in my opinion is Li Xiyun. And the rest are just trying to make profit without understanding what makes this trend not just a profit driven media movement. It is a genuine expression of freedom through music, and this is the rebellion that we come up with.

A rather absurd way to combat the government slopping the foot of CEO's who pretend to own this world yet unbelievably so effective that these corpos now actually try to serve people's interest instead of them forcing us to accept what they like.

From this revolution, not only new arts and music were crafted and rediscovered, but also the messages behind songs throughout the 2 decades evolved progressively and compelled a lot of people to join the revolution. It reached to the point that it find its way in the market as competitive industry for people to support and watch instead of the stale generated module music to listen with.

It produced many new jobs possible, demand in knowledge and studies regarding in relation to music. By the way, Idol groups are slowly being redundant with all their bullshit sponsorships but some are also adapting to the new genres, those who are truly trying to, I believe.

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So why do we call this a rebellion or a revolution? Because it is a true resistant movement that those pigs finally understood. The people are challenging them years ago because of the Starlium Gear's myth byt they didn't take it seriously, only when it dug deep on where the flow of their money goes that they decided several ways to act against or with it.

Two decades ago, there's a myth about the founder of the four cities of Rhythm: Stelaris, Mugen, Twilight and Solaris.

The Maker apparently had an artifact from the void era called "Starlium Gear" and said that it can grant any wishes to manifest using the Aether energy to construct wishes into reality which was said he used to make the four cities. But no one knows where did this rumor originated from, no one knows what is the void era, what he looks like, where did he come from and when did he vanish or if he even died. Leaving the artifact's location forever in mystery.

For years, the government tried to hide its existence to the public and the public just treats it as one because there is no substantial evidence yet it already hooked into the minds of the people. They keep promoting it as a urban legend until they failed to consider the appearance of Aether Energy. It can create physical or sensory constructs and this phenomena came ever so sudden that no one knows why is it even possible but it secured the existence of the Maker and Starlium Gear being true.

So what is the relation of the Aether construction, the Maker and Starlium Gear to the Musical Revolution? Well, apparently someone in the internet decades ago proclaimed that he discovered the possible location of the Starlium Gear, and a message from the Maker he decrypted that left people pondering how was he able to do that, making him the second mysterious person.

That internet user said that the Maker had left a question about "what is the meaning of life? How is it meaningful and what should be done in life?" Crying over the said legacy of the Maker.

The internet user said that if he find the Starlium Gear on his own despite he would want his own selfish wish, he rather want to wish that people learn to start living for themselves again as what I remember.

For better understanding this the gist of what he said. Kind of...

*Inhales

He starts rambling about it philosophically that we must find the meaning again of what it means to be truly alive than what the people today are doing. Just breathing and working. Doing nothing but infatuated with the soulless products of their favorite corpos that gives them their little sweet drugs. Buying it mindlessly and working hard for it to earn that "privileged and classy aesthetics" just like what those corpos wanted.

"You'll buy this because you need to be relevant. #462727 Nameless consumer or whatever you are."

You'll have the bragging rights that the corpos wanted you to feel and you'll feel good about your miserable self because your fellow peasants can't afford it.

But to feel that "superiority and exclusive", you will hypocritically suck the toes of the company's they hated or protect with their life without question instead of doing something efficacious for themselves.

Something meaningful that would forever soothe their soul but people are instead mindlessly purchasing products that those corpos created out of engineered demand.

*Clap clap clap clap....

Well, at first glance it just sounds like a pretentious heroic ideals for most and that's definitely how it was written. But then that same post suddenly vanished over night.

It became popular because of his cringy words that sparked debate, support and insults due to his optimism but again, the post didn't become popular just for his words because he actually posted proofs (which was proven false) but now that I think about it, wasn't he able to stir the pot and ignited the people's mind to share their sentiments, opinion and dislikes? Anyway, because it was deleted without a warning and the user vanishing only made it suspicious. (Which is too late by the time they realized it was a wrong location and that guy intentionally screwed them over and made the corpos even more suspicious of disposing him and immediately following the trail he dropped.).

Added by the tragedy caused by the Elracour gang and the XZ newborn labs incident, the government weren't able to censor the resentment people had piled up and the discussion about the ethics of lives was finally remembered by the people which ultimately leads us to this era of finding out what is the "true meaning" to life.

And because of the pioneers of that warring era thag our time today had thread the path of music and art as the true meaning to life.

It reflects our reality and yearning for future, and right now, the future is looking bright! Yes newborn... Don't be confused if you are recently created. Don't let anyone tell you that you are manufactured. Whether you are a rogue, or privately owned. You are your own! You will be able to reason and therefore you can be your own!

Well that's it for todays broadcast, be sure to watch the upcoming episode newborn for the early knowledge in your new life and surroundings! Same day, same time tomorrow here in Exrace.

In the follow up, lets explore more of the status of Aether and its deep influence to the Musical Revolution. If you are not subscribed, please consider and like it and share it so more newborns can learn about our world as early as possible.

See you next time!

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