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Nero’s Day At Disneyland – Grand Reopening Tonight’s batch of submissions leans into my regrowing enamourment with breakcore and otherwise frenetic, brainy production styles. It’s hard for me to quite trace my renewed interest in these sorts of sounds. When I was a teenager around the turn of the century, I got pretty heavy into this sort of thing, but only found myself returning to it recently. This may be a simple question of exposure — for years, when Palms Out was at its peak and I was producing and gigging a lot, I was focused more squarely on hiphop-adjacent club music — now, I find myself more open to discover what happens to cross my path. It seems like I hear more and more breakcore revivalists lately, and a lot of them are genuinely good. Nero’s Day at Disneyland is the side project of Los Angeles composer Lauren Bousfield. To call Bousfield prolific feels a touch diminishing. Almost ten releases as Nero’s Day At Disneyland in the early aughts, a similar number under her own…