I'm on three and a half years now of ~daily music recommendation posts here. For reasons that seem less defensible all the time, I chose to organize them as a thread instead of via hashtags. Threads tend to break completely after a year of posts, so I make a new thread once a year, but even THAT kinda breaks Mastodon, so I'm thinking, I'm gonna start refreshing the thread on a six month schedule.
Previous posts: mastodon.social/@mcc/114536097…
Year 3.5 in the thread below:
For three full years now I've been semi-daily posting a music recommendation in a big long thread, but it turns out 300-post threads kinda break Mastodon, so I have to restart the thread every so often.This post is a placeholder. I normally make a YouTube playlist for the previous year to put at the top of the thread, but I've had an awful month and haven't finished that yet.
But if you want to see year three's *posts*, they're here: mastodon.social/@mcc/112356066…
And here's year four:
mcc (@mcc@mastodon.social)
For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.Mastodon
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "mode 4", StereoMan
Light, airy "intelligent jungle" from 1997, in sample-based Impulse Tracker. There's a whole hidden history behind this inaccessible to me, this musician broke out of a modscene group called N.O.I.S.E. to become Bulgaria's most successful electronic musician, this is from a collection of "mode" tracks (1 through 5) that may or may not have been released under the name "j0r0". All I know is this has irrepressible energy
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "the 3rd experience", Merr0w
Behold the unbelievable versatility of the Roland TB-303, released in 1981 as a bass accompaniment device for guitarists, failed rapidly as it doesn't actually work for this, postmortem birthed multiple genres of music and decades later there's a whole micro-industry of clone devices and folks are still creating fun unique-feeling music with them. Here's some acid trance (is this "goa"?). This is the sound. This
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Live Ambient vermona perFOURma with Digitone and Blofeld.", Surgeons Girl
Pleasantly meandering ambient, like someone tried to freeze the idea of "distraction" into a song. All little fluttery subtractive analog synth bubbles.
Minimal, but on second listen it's more substantial than it felt at first.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "mode 1", StereoMan
Some more 1997 sample tracker music. A lot going on in this and just a lot of satisfying sounds. A kind of crashing silverware-on-glassware percussion, beats like some 90s dance act I can't place, and a bunch of synth sounds that give me a feeling like the composer listened to Incunabula/Amber-era Autechre and was like "what if I tried to make something sounding like this but more dance-y?".
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Fusion", mon0
Hum hiss drone dub. Drinking television static in enormous quantities, pattering hints of dub. Is this "elegiac"
Really good unofficial glitch video by Sean Redbeard, of a texture that's almost improved by the YouTube compression artifacts (almost).
Feels triumphant somehow.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Minkara", Adrian Portia
This is an old favorite of mine. I think I mentioned the "hang drum" in a post before? The modern steel drum / bongo drum fusion. This is an "AsaChan" hang drum by Echo Sound Sculpture being played at the limit of the art, just really wringing every timbre this physically simple but mechanically complex object can make. Good calm background audio, the feeling of laying on your back and floating on the tops of clouds.
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in reply to Bill Hooker • • •@sennoma if you think about it, it's a little unusual to be able to say "this instrument was invented in the year 2000". you'd think, short of incorporating electronics, it wouldn't be possible to invent a new instrument. you'd think we'd have explored all the options by now.
but this was invented in the year 2000, and it feels like something that *should* have always existed…
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in reply to Bill Hooker • • •@sennoma Yes, but a really nice stand up bass is pretty expensive, and I've spent 30 years wanting one of those.
That second thing is *fascinating*. I'm not even sure I object.
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in reply to mcc • • •It seems they are much more available and affordable (though still $$$!) than I remembered:
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Do you want to buy a handpan? Here's all you need to know
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "n2o (slices) by dominator"
Creepy, mind-bending, atonal-sounding Amiga tracker music. Breakbeats and fell summonings. Hard techno soundtrack to something horrible which you are powerless to stop. Your limbs move unbidden, your sight reduces to a single point. The dead speak in languages of Juno hoovers and overdriven gabber kicks
2001
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Raised by Dope", Bruiser Wolf
Bruiser Wolf, sometime billy woods collaborator, is probs the most unique rapper I know of operating today, with a crafted, incredibly distinct flow I literally don't know how to describe except "AM Radio". Not sure if that makes sense. It's ike if Juvenile's weird cadence on "Ha" were an entire career. Here, lush hip-hop crafted from a sadly-long-lost form of 80s R&B. Birthed a style that you couldn't conceive
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Drummertime and Brainstep Jam 1", Tubbutec
YouTube account for a modular synth company posts a demo of their modules. Process-wise the most interesting thing here is a 808/Volca style performance sequencer/drum machine made with computer-keyboard keycaps and fit to the 1U space on an Intellijel. Musically the standout is some *really* freaky glide that turns some competent but standard acid into something really odd sounding.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Njalo Njalo", Nomisupasta featuring Rapsody and Madlib
Johannesburg singer makes some deeply satisfying funk in collaboration with diaspora members from LA and North Carolina, styles seamlessly integrated like hip hop is leaking backward into the 1970s. Immaculate scrongly bassline. "Njalo" is Zulu for "always" and "Njalo njalo" appears to mean "and so on…"
I believe this is an early release from an album landing early next year.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "RK 5000 bucket chain excavator - timelapse"
Why does this go so hard
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "dronetober2025... First deception approaches... first test of trust... [CPM-DS-2] [NTS-1] [Cetus]", dubsbox [dot] algo
Lovely if slightly unnerving ambient performance. Feral disintegration loop in its natural environment. A distant light seen from an abandoned pier, a thing slowly approaching, a train under maintenance being moved not of itself, a moment when waking up you realize you are waking up though you did not realize you had slept
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Ha", Juvenile
This one's a classic of Dirty South hip-hop, a truly foundational work. If you feel this you will Feel it and I won't need to explain it to you. If you don't feel it, try to think of this as a *historical document*. Here is a narration of being a drug dealer in the late 90s (what is a "triple beam", and what is it for?) and a video which is basically a documentary time capsule of pre-Katrina New Orleans. Entirely unreplicable.
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in reply to mcc • • •I feel old, the vid is super cool, but the delivery is too "modern" for me. I prefer this (also references triple beams): youtube.com/watch?v=jhG8xoFqYz…
Fun fact: Triple beams are called "tanitas" in Spain because of the dominance of a single brand in the 90's: tanita.eu/consumer-scales
Now THAT is old school!
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in reply to jandi • • •@jandi gorgeous production.
Remember, "Ha" is 1998!! So I know what you mean by the "modern" distinction but the Ice T stuff is closer to "before my time" whereas southern bounce sounds to me more like "ah yes this is what the radio played when I was a teenager"
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Two riders down", caroline
I love electronic music because there is so much attention to timbre. I love "indie rock" for the same reason, indie rockers love sounds, they just focus on the sounds of strings and cassette tape and echoey rooms instead of circuitry.
This is that *good* Athens, Georgia sound, which is weird since it's from the UK. A room full of sad, angry folk musicians hitting their instruments and crying with joy. Sprawling
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Technocratic Manipulators", Voivod
I was gonna post some more acid today but then I was in a bad mood. Have you heard this album? "Dimension Hatröss". It's wild, sounds like heavy metal cliche until you realize it's from 1988 and it was *inventing* some cliches. Good and hard and angry at stuff we're still angry at 17yrs later.
Couldn't decide whether to post "Tribal Convictions" or this track, went with this. Whole album's worth it honest
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Углами (лайв в коридоре)", Рушана
["Corners (Live in the hallway)", Rushana]
I know nothing about this band; YouTube says they're from St. Petersberg and it appears Rushana is a woman's name from down Uzbek way. Music is what I'd recognize as a early-90s alternative-rock tone with modern indie production, liquid feeling, refreshing like a chill shower right after waking up. They are in fact performing live in an apartment-block hallway.
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in reply to mcc • • •Well that was different and amazing!
It’s almost like the rapper version of Vaporwave.