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4->''"Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Wonky Angle, where I talk about electronic music, both new and old."''\
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7'''''The Wonky Angle''''' is a Website/YouTube music {{review}} channel run by 256 Pi, real name Tommy Kaempfer, running since July 2015. The channel revolves around, as the tagline says, ElectronicMusic, both new and old. Videos generally tend to fall into one of two categories; either reviews of recently-released electronic albums, or full album-by-album discography reviews of a single electronic artist, culminating in a Top 10 Best [artist] Songs list. There are other videos to be found as well; including CD collection showcase videos coinciding with the channel's anniversary, the occasional rant or thinking-out-loud video on something concerning the world of electronic music, a series of videos where he fills out an online March Madness-style bracket of one of his favorite electronic artists, a series of "worst to best" rankings of electronic artists and, at the end of every year, [[FormulaBreakingEpisode stepping outside the world of electronic music for Best and Worst lists of pop hits]] from the year prior, WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows or WebVideo/SpectrumPulse style, as well as a list of the Top 10 best Electronic albums from that year.
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9TWA can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSd78y5aWPE_X73jk-Rw44w/featured here]]. Tommy's Twitter can be found [[https://twitter.com/256pi here]]. He also has two other active channels, made prior to TWA; [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjaQBbpa6wmr5BYOd1nGgPg 256 Pi Music]], the home of Tommy's original music (which can also be found on [[https://256pi.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]], [[https://open.spotify.com/artist/2jjRSyxbSuE5BoVYtuQoXg Spotify]], and [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/256-pi/id1147216647 Apple Music]]), and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/256PiAlternate 256 Pi Alternate]], a mainly Michael Rosen-centric [[YouTubePoop YTP]] channel.
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14* AprilFoolsDay: On April Fools' Day 2017, The Text-To-Speech Voice Guy counted down Tommy's Top 10 Best and Worst Music/{{David Guetta}} Songs - previously the only discography review not to end in a countdown - as Tommy was off doing literally anything else, mainly sleeping in. [[UnreliableNarrator The titles on the two lists were mixed]].
15* BrokeTheRatingScale: A few cases.
16** Music/{{BT}}'s ''Electronic Opus'' received a rousing YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH out of 10, and would go on to [[spoiler:be crowned his 2015 Album Of The Year]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0ZSC1JcDA&t=535s Until he also changed his mind on it years later and viewed it to be disappointing.]]
17** On the flip side, Dave Nolan's ''The Outsider'' saw Tommy initially give a 0/10, before [[spoiler:spiraling into madness and changing the score to a -5 out of 10, a -∞ out of 10, an FMFL (fuck my fucking life) out of 10, and finally settling on an AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA out of 10]].
18** [[AvertedTrope Kind of/almost did]] a '''Meaningless Value''' example with [=Sylv3on's=] "Adventure In Rainbowland'', giving it a "[=OWIOQFU$(*o$Gj43h9fijabuIU#,WJEFK83ikdm7.0=]" out of 10, before the real score of a [[spoiler:7 out of 10]].
19* {{Dubstep}}: Naturally comes up given the central focus on electronic music. Most extensively discussed in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44FKa6KJH0U review]] of Music/KnifeParty's four EP's, wherein he states he actually quite enjoys the genre for what it is, and detests the term "brostep".
20* EinsteinHair: Although he isn't a scientist, Tommy's hairstyle is reminiscent of this.
21* FanDumb: Has had to deal with this from certain artists with very dedicated cult followings; most notably those of Eric Prydz, Autechre, and Flume (even though the latter of those three was the only one he actually gave a negative review).
22* FreezeFrameBonus: The little blurbs of text that are added in at certain points in some of his videos.
23* HalloweenEpisode: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LERjer-9NDA review]] of Burial's 2007 album ''Untrue", in which he wore a WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows Halloween costume.
24** In that video, he hinted at possibly doing another one at a future date on Monolake's "Ghosts".
25** He did do [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsUrtBMK58E another Halloween episode]] for 2017, but instead on Scandroid's ''Monochrome", simply for having a cover of [[Music/MichaelJackson Thriller]].
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27** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls5VH_Vvg9g Galvanize]]" by Music/TheChemicalBrothers for the "In Brief" segment.
28*** Also used as the buffer music for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8aYiesEwGs The Top 10 Chemical Brothers Songs]] because of course; surprisingly though, Galvanize itself was only [[spoiler:#9]] on the list.
29** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oeslAqeTEc Finished Symphony]]" by Hybrid for his non-artist-specific Electronic countdown videos.
30* OncePerEpisode: Not in every video, but the majority of his reviews on recent albums contain a segment called "[Artist] In Brief", wherein he speaks briefly on each full album in the artist's discography prior to that point.
31* SanitySlippage: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm4wDINc0Go review]] of Dave Nolan's mysterious ''The Outsider" sees him descending into raging madness by the end.
32* SigningOffCatchphrase: ''"But of course this is just my opinion, you can feel free to disagree with it, but I'd like to hear your thoughts, so leave the comments in the comment thing down there. But yeah, that's pretty much it, that's all for today, see you next time."''
33* TopTenList: Does one for best songs by each artist at the end of their respective Discography Review, and three at the end of the year for Best and Worst pop hits and Best Electronic Albums.
34* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: [[invoked]] Is (understandably) unable to pronounce Peredur ap Gwynedd from Music/{{Pendulum|Band}}'s name; later starts to refer to him as "that Perry guy".

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