/INSPIRATIONS :: FIVE SOURCE SIGNALS
ARCHIVE: OPEN
01 — VIRTUAL SELF
MUSIC_NODE_001
Porter Robinson’s alter ego — a fictional AI entity transmitting from between 1999 and the Wired. Ghost Voices is the closest music has come to the literal sound of logging in. Pure Y2K trance run through a machine that dreams.
The VS aesthetic is the blueprint for Standard_Protocol: the artist as a digital entity, not a person. The set is a transmission. The decks are a terminal. The crowd is the network.
GENRE :: TRANCE / IDM / RAVE
TRANSMISSIONS :: “GHOST VOICES” / “ANGEL VOICES” / “EEAO”
INFLUENCE_LEVEL :: DIRECT_LINE_TO_WIRED
02 — SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN
BROADCAST_001
The source code. Chiaki Konaka wrote 13 episodes in 1998 that predicted everything — social media dissociation, digital identity collapse, god complexes in tech, the question of whether a self can exist without a body.
“The Wired is not the network. It is a layer of reality.” Konaka wrote that in 1998 and it still hasn’t been topped as a theory of what the internet actually is — not a tool, not a place. A layer of existence running underneath the physical one.
FORMAT :: 13 EP / 1998 / TRIANGLE STAFF
DESIGN :: YOSHITOSHI ABe
WRITER :: CHIAKI KONAKA
STATUS :: STILL PROCESSING
03 — KEY ANIME
BROADCAST_002
Visual Arts/KEY is the counterweight to all the cold cyberpunk. Clannad destroyed me. Air destroyed me. Kanon destroyed me. They kept building the same emotional weapon and I kept walking into it.
The tension between those two poles — Lain’s digital void and Clannad’s overwhelming warmth — is the actual frequency I’m chasing. Sets that hold both. The LEDs switch from teal to red on purpose.
STUDIO :: KEY / VISUAL ARTS
TITLES :: CLANNAD / AIR / KANON / ANGEL BEATS
COMPOSER :: JUN MAEDA
RISK_LEVEL :: HIGH_EMOTIONAL_DAMAGE
04 — BEATMANIA IIDX
INPUT_DEVICE_001
Seven keys and a turntable. The game that wired rhythm directly into my hands. Played at Boss Stage in Denver before it closed in 2021. That room was the real predecessor to everything I do behind the decks.
IIDX taught me that music can be played, that timing is a skill, and that the gap between hearing and doing is something you can close. That gap is still what I’m closing.
PUBLISHER :: KONAMI / 1999–PRESENT
FORMAT :: ARCADE / 7 KEYS + SCRATCH
RIP :: BOSS STAGE, DENVER CO (2021)
CURRENT :: DENON SC LIVE 4
05 — MOGRA
LOCATION_001
A basement in Akihabara. 2F. The venue where anison, trance, and otaku culture collided into a specific strain of DJ culture that doesn’t exist anywhere else. kors k, DJ Shimamura — a hundred people who built their sound in that room.
Mogra is the proof that the music you’re obsessed with has a home. That there’s a physical space where it’s taken seriously, where nobody has to explain why you’re mixing Eurobeat into a Key soundtrack. Standard_Protocol is building toward that kind of room.
LOCATION :: 2F CLUB MOGRA, AKIHABARA, TOKYO
GENRE :: ANISON / TRANCE / OTAKU
ACTIVE :: 2008–PRESENT
PILGRIMAGE :: PENDING