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: "Adder (version)", Blackbird Raum
The original of this song is slow and wrenching and sung by a woman who sounds on the verge of tears. This version is just screaming, bagpipes and screaming. It is very much The Mood.
Were I a bird a bull would step on me
Were I a bull a butcher I would see
And if I were a butcher, my apron would be clean
Were I a bird a bull would step on me
blackbirdraum.bandcamp.com/tra…
Adder Version, by Blackbird Raum
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "The Scene is Dead", Dubmood
Sandblast-your-brain FastTracker2 chiptune electronica track. Just refuses to stop moving for seven minutes. There are so many ideas in this one! The author says they began this track in 2012 and completed it in 2024, so apparently the scene was dying for a very long time.
youtube.com/watch?v=jVcHrL2ZwC…
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in reply to mcc • • •Oh, if it's the chiptune scene, it's always dead and dying.
(Have you checked MBR's version too?)
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in reply to mcc • • •I don't know, but Master Boot Record did a remix.
Huh, so he's actually a gues in the EP, lol dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/the…
The Scene Is Dead (MASTER BOOT RECORD Remix), by Dubmood
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Space Fall" (part 3.5), r beny
Most of my musical diet the last 5 years has been YouTube live bedroom synth sets and if anyone got me on this kick, it was r beny, who did it early and, tbh!, best.
This r beny live set is from a 2021 group concert at the Colorado Modular Synth Society. Opens with clockworky electronica, ends with an intense rework of the song on his YouTube channel as "Waldorf Iridium Ambient". In between: fog-haze ambient
youtube.com/watch?v=FD5obUv52x…
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Wabi-sabi", a-symmetric
This is an "electro-acoustic" ensemble featuring @pangrus , a Merveilles user who makes his own instruments, from an album that mostly sounds like an argument between a digeridoo and a violin at the far end of a train station. This one track is a lovely, evocative melange of what I think of as "shine noises" punctuated by electronic-sounding warbles that feel like jazz music being crushed in a pneumatic press
a-symmetric.bandcamp.com/track…
Wabi-sabi, by a-symmetric
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Pikopiko", neu neu neu
This is a really nice Japanese post-rock album I hit at random on YouTube. This one track (begins at 3:40 in video) is game boy chiptune noises beautifully integrated into layered guitar and drums carefully tuned to clip but just a *little*. Consider the symmetry between violins and the game boy sound chip. Consider that you wouldn't be able to make out the lyrics even if you spoke Japanese. Ponder the shoes
youtube.com/watch?v=FIT1rb_tXf…
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "List of Demands (Reparations)", Saul Williams
Position paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children.
I was originally gonna post "Grippo" today and make a joke about people reading this feed getting directly called out by the lyrics. But then I just started listening to the album and was like… no. List of Demands
youtube.com/watch?v=zDMtaIcrfQ…
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Great Day (Four Tet Remix)", Madvillain [MF DOOM]
There's this amazing EP where Four Tet remixes MF DOOM's breakout album, and swaps Madlib's grubby funk smoothly out for his own headphones electronica. This one takes what was one of the original album's best tracks to start with and distills something truly transcendental out of it, built on garbled Spanish guitar and almost no beats
madvillain.bandcamp.com/track/…
Great Day (Four Tet Remix), by Madvillain
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Brothers Feel Fly", Dr. Dooom [Kool Keith]
Kool Keith built his own around fluidly shifting identities with elaborate cover stories, dense wordplay, and sci fi references. So you can maybe understand how he'd feel a LITTLE miffed at Daniel Dumile.
This is from a run of late 90s albums where Keith was basically constantly going "hey, has anyone else noticed analog synthesizers make incredible noises?!". Always ten years ahead of every trend
koolkeith.bandcamp.com/track/b…
Brothers Feel Fly, by Dr. Dooom
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Crumb Snatchers", MF Grimm
This *incredibly* hardcore 2005 album is an attempt to reconstruct a 1994 debut rap album that got shelved after a shooting left Grimm temporarily unable to see or speak, and permanently in a wheelchair. From there Grimm's career threads erratically through underground rap and comics; notably he was a very early collaborator/booster/roommate of MF DOOM but apparently that artistic relationship ended kinda badly.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Hush the Crowd", J-LIVE
This 2003 track was, I think?, recorded while the artist was trying to balance a rap career with working as a public school English teacher, and is basically an anthem for the frustrated artist, or maybe a lovesong to their fans. I am currently in the process of winding down a game studio and the bit here beginning with "Besides, what's your options?" haunts me.
realjlive.bandcamp.com/track/h…
Hush The Crowd, by J-LIVE
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Raedawn", Victor Vaughn [MF DOOM]
So I think the idea with DOOM was that his various recording names aren't personae, but are supposed to be aliases for the same shadowy supervillain, popping up in different places. Or maybe he was just trying to evade record label contracts. Anyway! Here DOOM goes so hard on the progressive production he breaks through all the way into the genre I keep trying not to describe as "IDM"
youtube.com/watch?v=y6GXOD1I6i…
Dreaming of dad jazz.
in reply to mcc • • •It's one of my favorite by him. He's understandably lauded as rap great, his production is just as amazing.
I've not been listening to his old albums much and been reaching for the "Special Herbs" collections because as much as I love his rhyming and I think he's a genius, the casual homophobia and ableism really fucking bums me out.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Pause Tape", JJ Doom
These sessions by MF DOOM and Jneiro Jarel were recorded during (what was at the time believed to be) a temporary stay in Britain after DOOM got ejected from the US. Jarel's an interesting guy and this deliriously weird B-side I think has the most of his own personality of anything from the collaboration. Is this literally a pause tape? I don't have space to explain what this means but I think this might be a pause tape
mfdoom.bandcamp.com/track/paus…
Pause Tape, by JJ DOOM
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Ambient Machine Live 17", Takeo Watanabe
Can I convince you to take a risk?
This is a 17 minute set from a series recorded in random remote locations, this one based on a tape machine and pedal looper. The first few minutes are a bit vague— he seems to just be messing around. But he's feeding the looper. Stop paying attention around minute two, leave it in the background, suddenly around minute seven you'll find yourself in another galaxy.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Four", Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds
Nils Frahm is an artist with whom I am Much Enamored, whose thing mostly is he records albums where all he does is play the piano softly and it's incredibly gripping. Occasionally though Nils dabbles in Electronic Instrumentation and gorgeous ambient music results.
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Four, by Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Rogue Fossil", Virus
This was recommended to me by a Bluesky user after I said I wanted "either metal with jazz drumming or jazz with metal drumming". I'm not sure this is that, but it definitely slaps. This is like if Labradford was satanist, I guess? Or if Tool took pot instead of heroin. Video is like slow hypnosis. Heavy dissonant playing the bass with a pick, close and claustrophic, the entire renaissance faire breathing down your neck
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "All Fours", Void Femmes
This is the solo project of @lexfeathers, bassist of Waxlimbs (and creator of the "prepared typewriter" piece if you remember me linking that). This EP is a series of off-kilter and incredibly sick dance pieces, swinging industrial deritus and bodies falling from the roof of the factory and clattering thudding to the ground and wait why exactly were they storing bodies up there?
voidfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/…
All Fours, by Void Femmes
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "ahvenlampi" (deep house edit), phonex (remixed by xavier)
An ancient tracker scene file named "deep_house_edit.xm" @leona found and showed me. Created January 2000, remixed April 2000. Gorgeous vibes, eurodance dreams, the unique timbral feels of sample trackers used to their utmost, a $50 Casio keyboard reaching for the heavens.
Click "play".
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The Mod Archive
modarchive.orgLeon ._.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Canton", Nils Frahm
Did I mention I really like it when Nils Frahm plays the piano? This piece is so gentle it feels, when he finishes, as if he was never there. A whisper, a bubble. You are aware someone spoke but not a word they said. You wake from a dream and find you can't remember what you dreamed of
nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/track/c…
Canton, by Nils Frahm
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "curtain sequence", Silhouette Synthesizers (Pit Przygodda)
This guy designs and manufactures unusual synthesizers on the concept of converting images into sounds. Sweep a line across part of an image, read brightness data from underneath your line, convert it to waveform or spectral data. He's posted various demos of his synths at work on YouTube, of which this is one of the less flashy but more musically interesting examples. Morning bell
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Relaxing Experimental Ambient [Vinyl Studio Session]", Raica
Here a lady who runs a record store in Seattle for experimental music spins some mind-expanding space-journey ambient techno in a kitchen (not her kitchen, just *a* kitchen). A good solid 75-minute block of unnameable emotions.
(There's a second set by the same DJ on the same YouTube account which had some good highs, but I didn't find that other one as consistent.)
youtube.com/watch?v=xo9nk7pqcG…
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in reply to mcc • • •oh, i've listened to another great set recorded on that kitchen in the past. can't remember what. have you perhaps shared something else in the same space before?
anyway, great set, thanks :)
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "The Lie That Is Sin", YOB
My friend Ro recommended this when I said I liked doom metal. This live version (0:00-12:18 in the video) takes what was already a pretty great song and slows it down, picks apart each element and leaves it torn open on a dissecting table, luxuriates in each little sound, floating in isolation, icebergs on a dark ocean
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "7 string IR test", Daniel M Karlsson
Posted by @t36s as part of a series of computer sound synthesis tests, I'm not sure I understand it exactly but I *think* he used a recording of a string instrument as an echo characteristic and then by agitating it produced super realistic synthesized string plucks. Gorgeous little superresonating classical guitar improvisation with touches at once obviously human-driven and obviously computer-generated
social.ordinal.garden/@t36s/11…
Daniel M Karlsson (@t36s@social.ordinal.garden)
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Push Pull", Mark Thibideau
If you're up on electronic music genres: Imagine 90s French house but strip out the funk and substitute 00 dub techno instrumentation?
If you're not: Chill dance music for sitting in your chair. There are a lot of really cool sounds and I liked how good the sounds were, they were all like swoop swoop chikchikchik
2019 release. Apparently this artist is from Ontario
stomping-grounds.bandcamp.com/…
Lividus EP, by Mark Thibideau
Stomping Grounds / Vade Mecumulrikkold
in reply to mcc • • •thanks for the tip.
The mnml house or dub techno sound from the 00s is one of my favourites.
This reminds me of albums from that #netlabel Thinner. They are still available on e.g. archive.org
archive.org/details/thinner
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "only in it for Euro Cash", Doak 16
Been listening to this YouTube synth collector's tracks all morning. This isn't the friendliest ["Remember it"] or the most provocative ["an ewok…"] track in the channel backlog…
But *oh*, I love the drums in this one! I love the way it comes together like a magic eye, nonsense into sense. Dense, dreamy, unique
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Outside In", Linkwood
This track opens the other Raica ambient mix I was talking about Tuesday. It's just a really good frozen moment. Quiet, crackly, passes quickly. The sound of something starting, and then silence. A Feel
linkwood.bandcamp.com/track/ou…
Outside In, by Linkwood
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "303 Day", Wizart
YouTube musicians have this tradition of making tributes to the Roland 303 acid bassline machine on March 3. Here's a lovely midtempo live jam made with Behringer's modern 303 reproduction, several modern Roland desktop reproduction units¹, and some guitar pedals. A good groove such as one might blast at the LAN party in 1999.
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¹ Including a 303, meaning at a certain point you can catch him actually running TWO 303s AT ONCE
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Rei Ayanami", Brian Altano
This is an EP I love from 2019, which remixes various songs from the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" OST as megastructure trip-hop, and although there's only 7 songs every one is a banger. Here's a "big beat" version of Rei's theme:
brianaltano.bandcamp.com/track…
In my friend group our traditional road trip music is this EP and also that 2Mello album where he complains about people coming up to him in the supermarket and asking him to make beats
Rei Ayanami, by Brian Altano
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "unleashed voices", Black Cookies
What the musician calls a "lo-fi tape loop ambient experiment". Super evocative. Sounds on free-running tape, four tracks on the left deck, one on the right, three separate echo pedals. Watch and you can see each little action the musician does to manipulate the sound, listen and you can hear all these little chunky sounds where the tape has mechanical imperfections. Deeply physical music.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Chinurareta Zabi-ke" ("The Bloody Zabi Family"), Takeo Watanabe
We've been watching the original 1979 "Gundam" and the music in it is actually *incredibly sick*? 70s Children's TV would just effortlessly toss off the rawest funk music.
There's this one obscure cue, it isn't even on the regular OST (you have to go to the extended 45th anniversary soundtrack), it plays during quiet moments. I *love* the vibe on this, the bass is so emotive
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Afternoon Chill: Live Electronic Session", Jai Cuzco
This is uh, a bit gentler than the electronic music I usually post.
Chill beats and synth tones, a fluid medley of 2 or 3 songs. It's not clear where in the world this video was taken, only that the view from this guy's window is incredible
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "More disturbing wave bard sounds", OSVoS
There's a new Bastl Kastle and one of its configurations is a tiny "modular"¹ sample scrambler. This artist did a number of pieces mixing the Kastle 2 with other gear, this one I thought had the most interesting beat (You might prefer "More Wave Bard Experimentation" if you like kalimbas more than I do). Alien Gregorian chants + hip hop
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¹ Jump wires instead of patch cables…take a look, it's weird
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Legendary Wings", Hyakutaro Tsukumo (arranged by Yuu)
This is a General MIDI arrangement of the main theme to Thunder Force V, a sidescrolling shooter made by Technosoft in 1997 for the Sega Saturn. For whatever reason, this is the version I got hooked on!
Rendered on (splitting channels) a Roland SC-8850 and Yamaha MU2000, both of which were released in 1999, so if TF.V had come out just two years later it could have sounded like this.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Walk On Girl", Linda from Work
Christine's been listening to this band lately and I really like them. They give me a vibe like whoever Linda is was a riot grrl 20 years ago and now she's 35 and she has a ghastly office job and her life is a lot slower, but she's still in a punk band after work
This is the last track from their album "The Night is Short", which has at least three "oh, I should put that in the music thread" level bangers:
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Walk On Girl, by Linda From Work
Linda From WorkJeff Miller (orange hatband)
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Pure Data Breakcore Live Coding", GrundTon
Distant barking. Weird overwhelming synth swells and one of the most unusual treatments of the Amen break I've ever encountered. (EDIT: It turns out to be a Funky Drummer break, which makes it even weirder it turned out like this?!) Generated by PureData and the YouTuber actually has several videos wandering around this same script's configuration space; this seems like the most focused.
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My synth-friends and I have joked about a song challenge of "oops, just Amen Break" where that's the only source material allowed.
Also, the dog barking reminded me of the dog bark sound fx, circa the 90s (forum discussion gearspace.com/board/electronic…
Early 90's Rave "dog bark"
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Akai S950 - Deep House Music - Vintage Sampler", MikeSynth
Hype little house techno fragment made on a plausible circa-90s vintage hardware setup (1986 Akai rack sampler sequenced by a 2003 Akai sequencer, mixing board as an instrument). Really refreshing vibe, has a bit of a trip-hop feel to me.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Volume", Pylon
@onelson linked this and I don't know anything about it. It rocks! When I started typing this post I was gonna say something about krautrock but in fact it turns out she is *not* singing in German, only indistinctly. Wikipedia says this is from Athens, Georgia. Well that explains a lot. Cool crisp Clashy vibes that seem to predict everything that's gonna happen in pop music in the ten years after it was recorded (that's 1980)
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Metric", Bryan Zentz
So there was this first golden age of "techno" in Detroit or whatever, when the genre was new and raw, but then there was this second golden age around 2000, when we (as a species) had gotten *really good* at the Detroit style and were just making a lot of it. This YouTube account spins a bunch of that era of music on vinyl. This track is a dense crystal structure of dance beats and staccato samples and it is sick
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Untitled A ( Rock To The Beat )", Ferro
Another from the "Techno Vinyl Records" account's collection, this one's a little more genrefucky, with a more variety, bringing in strange sounds and "House Music" feels. A good gradual buildup.
(Honestly, I linked you that other track yesterday so I could link you this track today. This is how much variety you can get out of a initially-seemingly-rigid genre with some slight changes in texture.)
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Goldener Reiter", Joachim Witt
A long time ago I got captivated by this odd 1980 Krautrock track, with its weird mix of melancholy and peppy, 90s CGI video, and breaking into English with "und I'm feeling up" in the chorus. I was wrong about everything! The video (now copyright-claimed off YouTube) was for a 1994 remix and re-synced with the original audio; there's no English; and the lyrics are about medical abuse so uh, CW German speakers
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in reply to mcc • • •the line in question is "und dann fiel ich ab" which means "and then I fell off" which fits the image of the rider.
It's interesting that you hear the kraut rock influence which is definitely dominant, but at the time it was conceptualised and marketed as "Neue Deutsche Welle", an amalgamation of (post) punk, new wave and german pop (Schlager).
Hearing that as kraut rock is eye opening. When that song came out I was too young to notice the influence. It sounded very different to me.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "BLK ZMBY", billy woods
As far as I can tell, this song is intended as a political condemnation of the living dead. Mr. woods makes hip-hop with complex and layered messaging, some of which is not intended to be Legible to me personally. This track is slow murky deep fried jazz
"In 2023, Woods published a children's book titled A is for Anarchist.[11][27]"
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BLK ZMBY, by billy woods
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Funknitium-99", Fearofdark
This guy is a prolific Bandcamp/YouTube tracker musician, and here he pulls out some fusion funk with an immaculately crisp, clean energy. If you like the music in Sonic the Hedgehog levels listen to this
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Divergence, by Stig
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: Yoyaku instore session, Karla Böhm
Here is a Belgian DJ spinning an hourlong techno set in a record store in Paris. Chill deep house beats, slowly transitioning into French Touch over the course of the set. Great feeling throughout. I think this video was produced as promo for the store, as the camerawork is unusually professional for this sort of video.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "End Of The Abyss | Erica Synths Steampipe + Perkons x Soma Cosmos | Drone Day 2025 Live Jam", Travis Benjamin Simpson
Evolves in a way which suggests internal narrative, a journey through a long dark pipe. This is intense, atmospheric, horror-movie music given an unusual color by the fact it is being performed in a bright, sunny backyard with a pink flamingo. Three boxes, two near-designed for ambient drone, but the third is…a drum machine?
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Citrus Cirrus", Muscises
It's hard for chiptune to surprise me at this point, but this surprised me. Impossible sounds coming out of the Sega Genesis sound-chip pair, funk music that has returned from the planet Jupiter with terrifying psychic powers, an evening drive in a convertible while the skyline of an impossible ruined city rises in the distance. A plausible soundtrack for your dreams
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Bound For The Floor", Local H
Grunge is really good actually and there's some great gems if you look a layer or two deeper than the big 3 acts. This, from 1996, is a late (last?) gasp of "alternative rock" before slick acts like Creed and Matchbox 20 took over the space completely. It's a beautiful sustained single note, a monotone intonation, a hoarse, frustrated yell.
Supposedly this album is about how much it sucks to live in Illinois.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Dawless Dreamz #2", Glemii
Here Korg's long-forgotten ur-groovebox, the Electribe, does a duet with an actual Game Boy to create what the musician calls "ambient jungle". This is one minute long and feels fantastic, objects from the past breaking through the envelope of time to show a glimpse of the beautiful feature we deserve.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Tiny Setup, HUGE Sound: Jungle with the PO-33 KO! + Monotron Delay", Pocket Trax
The Pocket Operator and Monotron Delay remain the bang-for-buck champions of the desktop synth world, "toy" devices that at one time retailed for $60-80 in the Guitar Center checkout line (…before inflation…) and pair beautifully.
This shockingly hard track shows just how far you can push these little PCBs. Lightspeed 12-bit drum & bass
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "4 dollar casio sa5 processed through EQD avalanche run, afterneath and transmisser reverb", Anne Sulikowski
Gorgeous, slow ambient music composed live on [see above]. Time-lapse video of clouds over cliffs, a cat sleeping for nine hours, chunky kalimba echoing over brainfog. Three blocks away there is a cement mixer running, just at the edge of your hearing, far enough the acoustics of the street turn the grinding into soothing white noise
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Slack", Gar Hoover
Here's the PO-33/Monotron Delay tiny power combo again, making what the musician calls "Chill House" with more than a bit of French touch. Stands out from its genre with some strange sample freaking (is that Paul McCartney??).
Notice the YouTube synth community pro tactic of leaving some random objects on the desktop for Visual Interest.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "kickstart my heart", elricfd
oversaturated brainglaze vaporwave fuck music
This URL was in a text file on my computer where I must have stashed it at some point. I have no idea what this is and I do not remember where I got it from. Bandcamp informs me this musician is the inventor of "Frasierwave". Ok
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "[You Caught Me] Smilin'", Sly and the Family Stone
My favorite track from "There's a Riot Goin' On", possibly the most stoned funk album ever made. I have heard so many weird stories about the production of this album, and I don't know which ones are true. Everybody sounds like they just woke up. Everybody sounds like they love making music. The music itself sounds like it's drunk
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "The Ocean Floor" (part 1), Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo)
In Japan, Mario Paint got a sequel for the 64DD (an N64 peripheral that added internet access, mouse support, and a floppy drive). The music for Mario Artist is *amazing*. This track is moody fusion jazz, vaporwave in 1999; it pushes the N64 to the limit, synthesizing most things but then dropping in what seems to be an entire realtime guitar track. (I think part 2 samples Massive Attack.)
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Part 2 of this song is one of my all-time favorite pieces of music ever, gives me intense feelings every time I listen to it
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in reply to mcc • • •the other Mario Artist soundtracks (for Talent and Polygon studio) are great as well. And you can definitely hear melodies that would get reused for the Mario Maker games.
The SimCity 64 soundtrack is also nice.
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Listen to the part of the playlist starting here : youtube.com/watch?v=DK0uL49zHb… it's like nintendo's modem software
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: " DRIVIN' ", Fox Capture Plan
*Incredibly* funky Tokyo jazz, tons of energy and wild futuristic synths that just slam you from the start like you're a movie character who just opened the forbidden box and it was full of otherworldly light that disintegrates you instantly. But like, in a smooth jazz kinda way. Do you like electric piano
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DRIVIN', by fox capture plan
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Level 3", Jim Andron
The Phillips CD-I is one of the most infamous video game system failures ever, and it hides a secret: *The CD-I Tetris game had a bizarrely kind of amazing soundtrack.* 10 tracks (I also love "level 0") of the kind of pure vibes "Vaporwave" was trying to chase in the 2010s slowing down 80s r&b. This version comes pre-slowed down! Strange murky easy-listening swamp jazz, general MIDI instruments only
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Wanted", Hiromi
Some chill loungey jazz by a Japanese pianist and her band. Wonderful feel.
This is the kind of music that trip hop was processed from and I believe trip-hop fans should listen to some of the raw uncut stuff once in a while, perceive the woman who casts the shadow. Actually I'm not sure there ARE any trip-hop fans under 40. Maybe liking Portishead in 2025 is the equivalent of liking jazz in 1998. But I did like jazz in 1998
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Wanted, by Hiromi
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Perhaps, you should listen to the duet with Chick Corea open.spotify.com/album/5IB9axe…
It's too sad, he went to the other side, but I wish I'd seen them together.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "When The Catholic Girls Go Camping, The Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme.", GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!
Basically whenever I listen to Tera Melos, Tidal recommends this next. It's actually a pretty good four-minute primer on "math rock"!
What is Math Rock, at core? It's jazz. It's just jazz with rock instruments. Or maybe metal with jazz instruments. In the 70s we called this prog, now it's math or post rock. Anyway here's guitar played very fast
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When The Catholic Girls Go Camping, The Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme., by GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!
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in reply to mcc • • •Now you have me thinking about Frank Zappa, a classic prog rocker.
Wondering, was Mozart a Math Rocker?
All music is math. Everything is math. Even if physics tells you something is possible, without the math you have nothing. Took me a long time to understand this. Now I look around and just see mathematics. I’m not saying I understand it, but it does seem a bit like Neo’s epiphany in “The Matrix”.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Main Menu" (Mario Artist: Communication Kit), Hideaki Shimizu (Nintendo)
"Mario Artist" for the N64DD consisted of 4 separately-sold "games", of which this is the slightest and most utilitarian (a piece of modem software that let you upload and download creations from the other 3 games). It has possibly the most interesting soundtrack; it seemed to want to be unobtrusive, so it's minimal and ambient. This is a wonderful sparse techno track:
youtube.com/watch?v=GmREOQxh0r…
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in reply to mcc • • •The other Artist soundtracks are awesome as well. Talent Studio has this proto-Wii flamboyant vibes (how fitting for a proto-Mii game), whereas Polygon Studio has Totaka as his most unhinged, channelling the IDM energy of Hip Tanaka and Ryoji Yoshitomi on the OG Mario Paint soundtrack.
(isn't that one composed by Hideaki Shimizu though?)
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Hand of Doom", Black Sabbath
Have you ever listened to Sabbath's early stuff? They're still nailing down their sound (ie "metal") and so it's got this wild raw nature to it with currents in strange directions. I hear people describe parts of it as "blues". "Paranoid" is worth a listen in full; this track's a twisty, dynamic, genre-spanning little rock opera about drug addiction with Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025) using his entire emotional range
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Hand of Doom (2012 - Remaster)
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Ambassadors of All that is Good" ➜ "40 Rods to the Hog's Head" ➜ "Guy vs DC Sniper", Tera Melos
The magnum opus of Tera Melos's early instrumental-only days is this 3-track sequence. "40 Rods" is the highlight but it needs the windup and cooldown of the other two tracks. Incoherent noise slowly coalesces into gorgeous melody then dissolves back into noise. Ordo ab chao, order out of chaos—
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Ambassadors of All That Is Good, by Tera Melos
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Breathe", Azkyll
This is a deeply strange album consisting almost entirely of indefinable "weird noises" (mostly, I think, coming from a granular synthesizer)? This particular track is all punchy, staticky percussion with the "music" part only present as a hint or aftertaste, sounds with implied colors, étude for violent coughing fit and string quartet
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breathe, by Azkyll
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Make It All Better", Neuro No Neuro
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I enjoyed the video; this one's really nice to just stare into and try to reverse engineer the pattern (I ultimately couldn't).
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "severe brain damage by dominator"
This is a 1996 "octamed" modfile/tracker tune for the Amiga soundchip that simply goes as hard as it possibly can, dialing in some sort of acid sound and then slowly turning one of the knobs more and more until it actually breaks. Simultaneously a audience-pranking brainfuck and a thoughtful mix of dance genres; the drum line feels like it might be one of the "classic" breaks but I can't identify which one.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Close your Eyes (Autechre Corporation Street rmx)", Anodyne
One time Autechre dropped a whole ass Funky Drummer loop on a track and it ruled
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Jackin for beats", Ice Cube
On this track Ice Cube states an intent to steal every other rapper's beats, then follows through. Despite the claim of "jacking" Cube actually did pay for sample clearance on every beat used here, leading to a situation where 112% of this track's revenue is owed on sample royalties. If you buy this track on Apple Music, Ice Cube loses money
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in reply to Owlor • • •@Owlor It's interesting because in the *original* form of this track there was no such exploit, because it was only available as part of the "Kill at Will" EP and the label made positive money on the EP overall. But now the modern Internet music store allows you to buy a single song by itself.
It's possible this isn't actually a problem anymore— maybe label consolidation at some point worked things out to bring the sample royalties under 100%. But I kinda suspect just nobody thought about it.
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in reply to mcc • • •I gotta say, having the cover art for the EP which contains a track when bought on its own actively loses him money (or did at some point) be Ice Cube handing you a gun with the barrel pointed towards himself is quite a visual.
If it's still a problem, my guess is it just isn't enough of an issue to really make a noticable dent in his revenue, but conceptually it's really funny to have a track where pirating it instead of buying it through legitimate channels is inarguably beneficial to the artist.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "メトロノーム同期 (32個)", Ikeguchi Laboratory, Tokyo University of Science
This is an entirely physical effect. Place two or more metronomes on a table and start them at different times. The metronomes will acoustically couple through the table and gradually interfere with each other until their oscillations move into perfect alignment.
You might have heard of this trick before! But try just listening to it. Like really listen
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Weekly Beats #8 - Dustin'", Tristan Baldi
Elektron are giants in modern "DAWless" music production, a path they started on¹ with the pair of idiosyncratic "machine" synthesizers released starting in 2001. Here on a machinedrum with hacked firmware is a chill song for laying on a machine beach sipping coolant, watching a square sun set. Takes off once the beat comes in
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¹ I intentionally ignore the SIDStation here
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Brutal", HarrytheHat
Core-competency Jungle from an EP¹ made on a restricted set of instruments (2 Pocket Operator samplers, 1 Monotron Delay, 1 Volca Bass dialed into 303-mimic acid mode).
youtube.com/watch?v=vsbwnOX8aQ…
Heavy but smooth; Millenials will immediately have flashbacks to late-90s racing games. Of course this isn't the hardware people would have used in the 90s, it just has the same number of bits².
¹ Full EP here harrythehat225.bandcamp.com/al…
² Twelve
Pocket Jungle v1, by HarrytheHat
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "shapely hedgerows of the dying world", Dragon Warrior
Shuffling, comfy instrumental folk / indie pop in the Elephant 6 style. Feelings like Polaroids of early mornings. You might know this musician as Brother Android or Harrison Lemke, depending on what genre you encountered him in.
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shapely hedgerows of the dying world, by Dragon Warrior
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Dual Monomachine IDM with new aftermarket +Drives from MachineStore", MIDERA
An enormous emotion. Thinky techno production with a human pop core and a touch of chiptune feel on the drums.
I think we're at the point where this particular type of 00s electronic sound is as old now, as the 70s-80s sounds Boards of Canada was evoking in the 90s were then. Meaning the progressive parts of Boards of Canada now *themselves* qualify for nostalgia.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "OB6 Dub Techno", dc11
The musician says this emerged from setting up a new synthesizer, so what I imagine happened: They were trying to make that "chonkchonkchonk" noise from reggae, stumbled into an amazing-sounding semi-repeating pattern, went "I have to stop everything and find a way to make this a song" and built a life support system around it. Result:
Lovely little ambient meditation over a 128bpm heartbeat
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If ur bored stop at ~5:00
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "New Instrument, new sound!", Fron Reilly
A short demo of a musical instrument created by this YouTuber/woodworker. It's… kind of a brilliant idea, actually, simultaneously shocking and in-retrospect obvious.
The video is 100 seconds of abstract noises that, if you'd played it for me without the video, I could tell you how to create with FFTs and DSP techniques but would *not* have believed was a recording of a completely acoustic device.
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in reply to mcc • • •@obot50549535 yes, it's a soundboard. The spoked wheel acts as a bridge, and there's a rod that goes from the bridge to the drumhead. Remo hand drums like this get used all the time by banjo homebuilders.
Nice use of a guitar truss-rod as a central shaft, too.
Sounds a bit like a Crystal Baschet
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "The Terrorist", DJ Vadim & Motion Man
Motion Man is an Oakland rapper so far under the radar he has no Wikipedia page and at least one album of his I've listened to is not on Allmusic. If you know him it's probably from a guest spot he did on someone else's song, probably Kool Keith's, and you *remember* him because he absolutely steals every track he appears on.
Here, for a 1999 DJ Vadim single: Villainous pronouncements over supersaws
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in reply to Anders Stenberg • • •@SonnyBonds Zen != Xen. Got it.
This is still my favorite Saul Williams song btw
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in reply to mcc • • •The version I had in mind had a section with some kid going "waa waa waah" but it turned out to be his so all is well, that's the one!
As bonus content here's a version by Robyn & Jenny Wilson. I used to be a Robyn fan (still appreciate her but not listening as much) so it's on my radar.
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in reply to mcc • • •Linkin Park fans also might know Motion Man from a track on the 2002 Linkin Park remix album "Reanimation". The track is "Enth E Nd", which is a remix of "In the End". genius.com/Linkin-park-enth-e-…
I was a big Linkin Park fan. I know pretty much nothing about any rappers, otherwise.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra" (Overture), Friedrich Gulda
I don't know much about Gulda, but apparently his career was marked by a desire to work in both classical music but also jazz (back in an era when jazz was still cutting edge and/or illegal). This 1980 piece feels like he was asked to compose a concerto but he just really, really wanted to make funk music. This slaps. This cellist is fucking *shredding*
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⚠️Loud static at 0:41
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Cwejman/Verbos Dub", Lucas Marchal
Last week I linked this guy doing synth unboxing experiments, here's what he sounds like doing a completed track. Dark, intent dub using the full spectrum of electronic production. Slipping silently under abandoned awnings and cloudy skies as your robotic pursuers nip constantly at your heels. Glance up and your gaze is met by the first touches of rain, and a dual-rotor helicopter blotting out the sun
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Carrier",
Brandon McGhee
Extremely satisfying, semi-live electronic jam, feels like early Boards of Canada. Authentic-sounding/non-authentic analog synths on the Microfreak, lo-fi hip hop beats on the SP-404, and enormous Zoia reverb. What you see is what you get. Cool disintegration outro.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Cryptic Flow", ME9AM0N
I was given the prompt "Lo-fi hip hop to have anxiety to". Trap music for blown out speakers and those Japanese crosswalk machines that play the creepy childrens' song. Basically the kind of music you'd find on a cassette tape in a street gutter and when you listen to it it makes your stereo haunted.
Apparently they call themselves "Memphis cult".
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "YOULL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE", hkmori
Sad girl breakcore anthem. This is what it feels like to be queer in 2025. Too loud. Too loud. Everything is too loud
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt", DJ Shadow
This album hit electronic music like a meteor. Apparently real heads already knew who DJ Shadow was and Dan the Automator had been working with him for years, but the first I'd heard of DJ Shadow was this song coming on Rice Radio 91.7 FM circa 1997 and I can draw you a diagram of exactly where on San Felipe St I was driving at the time because the moment is seared so clearly into my memory
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in reply to Dan Piponi • • •@dpiponi have you heard The Mountain Will Fall that's the other Shadow album that just really sparkles to me
Ps if you EVER get a chance to see him live TAKE IT
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in reply to mcc • • •He is so good live, I was lucky to see him in Karlsruhe some years ago, he had this sphere with projections on it and the sphere opened up later.
Super iconic and magical artist. For me, his way of trying and fusing different things with elongated arrangements, focus on different instruments and openness to different kinds of music (i.e. sampling metal, psychedelic music, funk, jazz ..) was so valuable. Whenever I want to gift a record to a music lover, often it is Entroducing.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Devil Stuff", Evil Nine
The first half of the 2000s saw this explosion of headphones-friendly "instrumental hip hop" whose existence I chalk up to DJ Shadow, if not as a direct inspiration then at least for convincing the record labels this stuff could sell. (Or maybe it was "Praise You".) Here's some fun big beat music made of metal samples. Yeah uh, my mom's boyfriend's kids are into this devil stuff from listening to Black Sabbath—
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in reply to mcc • • •certainly from a U.K. perspective that’s perhaps unfair to the local breaks scene.
Adam Freeland released his successful Coastal Breaks mix the same year as Endtroducing (1996) and there was a healthy amount of music to choose from then, and started the Marine Parade label that hosts Evil Nine in 1998.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Heart's Desire", Awkward McLain
A Bandcamp beatmaker goes in for a bit of lo-fi hip hop and astral projection. Lovely crisp feeling.
The box is SP-404mk2, the most recent of a series of surprisingly incremental updates to J Dilla's favorite sampler, with the main effect AFAICT to add, like, USB and SD card support and the stuff that makes a device actually convenient to use in 2021.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "The Mashed Up Mixes - Diplo of Hollertronix Meets RJD2"
During that 10 minutes of mainstream craze for "mashups", lo-fi hip hop virtuoso RJD2 invited a few artists to make DJ mixtapes out of his his back catalog. There's also a good one by "Haul & Mason", but this mix stuck in my head forever for a segment that strings together Cat Power, Slick Rick and Steve Reich, and later on what's still to me the definitive version of Outkast's "Roses"
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in reply to mcc • • •I think I've commented on the last three of these so I hope I'm not annoying you, but in my defense you keep linking bangers from my past!
have you heard "hollertronix - never scared"? mashup mix by diplo + low budget before diplo blew up. even then a lot of the later diplo on display both good (an ear for fitting different styles together) with the bad (popularizing regional scenes mostly to his own benefit)
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Jellyfish", Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo)
There is a weird pattern in video games:
- The "water level", in any game, is usually everyone's least favorite, but
- The "water level" often has the coolest, most memorable music of the game.
Upthread I linked some "ocean vibes" music from Mario Artist for N64DD. That game has *three* ocean-themed songs, all bangers; here's my other fav. Charmingly cheesy hold-music jazz transitioning into trip-hop
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "What Does Your Soul Look Like?, Pt. 3", DJ Shadow
DJ Shadow followed up his major-label "debut" with an (incomplete) overview of his pre-"debut" indie releases. The information economy of the late 90s was less developed than that of today & getting into DJ Shadow in 1998 was a *little* confusing. Whatever! Here's the most rocking track from "preemptive strike". This *fucking* piano
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PS: Shadow fans listen to the Mighty Atom Endtroducing mix
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in reply to mcc • • •Nice! I thought I'd listened mostly to Endtroducing but looked it up and it seems Private Press is the one I've listened to the most.
I _loved_ Pushing Buttons Live. Still do, although by today's button pushing standards it's a bit silly.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Durationplex", Sevish
This musician describes this track as an exercise in golden-ratio "maxxing"; the (xenharmonic) tuning scale is based on ϕ, the (polyrhythmic, constantly shifting) rhythms are based on ϕ, the FM timbres are based on ϕ. Experientially all you can tell is that the musician was doing something *very specific*, which you can grasp the shape of but not understand
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( This track is also on Bandcamp: sevish.bandcamp.com/track/dura… )
Durationplex, by Sevish
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Small drops 2025-08-02", atnr
"Minimal Ambient". Giant reverb landscapes. Sitting on a dark hill, your hair mussed by gentle breeze, watching on the horizon the spaceships take off.
Made by combining Yamaha's modern DX7 revival, an original Game Boy, and three guitar pedals, one of which only exists to simulate the sound of cassette tape; someone probably *could* have made this exact music in 1989, in principle.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Fly to the Leaden Sky", Manabu Namiki
This is the stage 1 music from "Battle Garegga", an incredibly maximalist top-down shooter made in 1996 by former Compile staff. This is from the 2016 PS4/XBox rerelease, so the original onboard chip synthesis is replaced with slightly different instrumentation including crisper drum samples that really do improve this one track. A giant glowing idol to the 1980s, an exuberant tower of electric guitars
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Speciation", Passepartout Duo
An old technique in ambient music is "phasing", where you play two loops of different lengths and let them go in and out of sync, creating different interesting patterns. It's a truism this requires electronics or tape, because two humans trying to play out-of-sync tempos would confuse each other. These two seem to be actually doing a live phase performance, dueling xylophone and gameboy-style squarewave loops
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Souzou Suru", Haru Nemuri
High-energy Japanese rap with seriously weird production. My wife was listening to this and now I'm listening to it.
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Every lyrics site swears up and down she's saying "Touch my Yes", not whatever it is you thought you heard.
( If you're enjoying yourself by the end of this song maybe listen to the next one on the album, which I like for its mid-90s-arcade-shooter-style sampled guitars… specific.bandcamp.com/track/ba… )
Souzou Suru, by HARU NEMURI
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Finally", a773
This Danish musician uses the modular synth rack— usually the domain of weird noise ambient— for a purpose I've never seen it turned to: incredibly sincere Fusion Jazz. 80s fusion did use simple, early synths— and modular also tends toward the simple, because simple base tones respond best to layering in complications. So there's a lot of plausible 80s feel but with the strangest mystery sounds slipping through the background
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Mood piece from one machine to another", Sonaura
Three minutes of degraded humming, drone piece on two cassette tape machines one of which seems to be having serious problems. The desert in late evening, a wisp of smoke moving in a way smoke shouldn't. A transmission you pick up briefly on the radio and then can't find again. Do you hear it? No, it's gone. As far as recordings of degraded humming sounds go I'd say this is a pretty good one
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Level 0", Jim Andron
In the 90s there was a thing called "smooth jazz". I think boomers probably understood it, but I was never clear how it was different from "easy listening music".
This opener from 1992's famously odd "CD-I" version of Tetris is easy-listening music transcended to the point you can understand why people like the genre. Hold music pulling at your heartstrings, incredibly cheesy FM piano over shockingly hype bass work
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in reply to mcc • • •Not sure if I'd land on the same genre with this, but then I can't name the genre either so er, yeah.
Anyway, the two main things I associate this particular sound with are telephone waiting music and conversation music from the original Deus Ex. (with unusually Faltermeyer-esque bass)
edit: listened more of the soundtrack, and yeah okay yes "easy listening" is bang on, and the waiting music vibes have gotten even stronger
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Orange", Tristan Baldi
Chill tabla groove on the Dirtywave M8, a small handheld tracker. Big warm analog-style pads and lots of fun little sound design scribbles low in the mix. Sun shining through some sort of medium, like the fronds of trees or the smog of southern California
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Mocktapus, Rocktapus, Unlocktapus Rex", Prince Charming featuring Philosophy Major
I'm … I'm really not sure what's happening here! A two-minute hip hop hallucination, two or three stations fighting for control of your FM radio, a bunch of musical instruments thrown in a dryer and they turned it on. Sometimes my brain sort of demagnetizes and thoughts swarm in all directions aimlessly like bees. What if that felt pleasant? That's this song
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "White Paws", Tristan Baldi
This piece hijacks the Subharmonicon, Moog's idiosyncratic semi-generative synth, to a purpose it's not typically used for: Acid, coaxing some surprisingly 303-like sounds out of it. Combine this with an unusually clicky configuration for the DFAM and you have an unusual, unpredictable, quiet but punchy little electronic jam.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "While you were gone", a773
This is the fusion-jazz-on-modular-synths guy I linked last Sunday. This track has that "downtempo Sega" feel but leans into the weirdness/jazziness by being in 7/8 time. Most people listening to 5/4 can tell they're listening to "a weird time signature" but 7/8 sounds like "normal music" with a strange pressured feel you can't explain. If you sleep too long the fire goes out you dare to dream and we have no doubt
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Biology 101", Dr. Octagon ft. "Chewbacca"
Removed track from Kool Keith's career-redefining "Dr. Octagonecologyst", present on the original indie release but not the Dreamworks version. The point where they apparently went "too far". Too weird, too creative, too surprising, too hard to follow, too "Kool Keith". A Dan the Automator groove slowed down to the breaking point, with a flood of incredibly dense sci-fi rap wordplay running over it.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Cosmic Interlude", LTJ Bukem
Chill jazzy electronic from the year 2000 with delicious stand-up bass sounds. Bukem spent the mid 90s staking a flag on what he called "Intelligent Jungle" (as far as I can tell he invented "the Dreamcast menu sound") but then as the 90s ended pushed past that and crafted a distinct brand of self-confident instrumental jazz with skeletal drum&bass patterns as support. Would feel at home on a Ninja Tune mixtape.
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in reply to Clyde • • •@clyde Well by dreamcast menu music I mean like, this era, when he was DJing
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in reply to mcc • • •I don't know anything about these artists but it feels like breakbeat jazz.
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Intelligent *drum and bass*.
Jungle is a narrow genre, tonally, very directly deriving from the ragga/dub/dancehall palette of sound, and while the two genres are joined at the hip (many subgenres, like jump up, may count as both), intelligent in particular made a point to diverge from the old sound in favor of more jazzy and atmospheric moods.
And to make amends for the nitpick - in case you haven't listened to Into The Void by Blame, I feel it might be right up your alley.
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I knew it didn't refer to the song in question but (for shit reasons) felt like mentioning the thing anyway. I'm sorry.
And re: the genre name, now that you said it, I double checked and looks like it's been *mostly* called intelligent drum and bass but not originally, always or by everyone. Didn't know that.
So, thanks for correcting me, and sorry again for my off-topic interjection.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Time 4 Breaks", Breakbeat Era
This album was supposed to be the Roni Size clique's breakout moment into pop domination, but a series of odd decisions left it as a one-off artifact that you've either never heard of or are still obsessed with 25 years later. This track shows the project at its best: A pop song structure with heart-gripping vocals and the production gloss of 1999's best D&B production team. Progressive but goes down smooth.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Imouha", Etran de LAïr
Incredible surfrock¹ jam by a band that describes themselves as "the stars of the Agadez guitar scene" (Agadez is the fifth largest city in the Republic of Niger). Do not miss the video-toaster-core video. Dudes rock
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I found this as the YouTube algorithm's next recommendation after watching "Prisencolinensinainciusol".
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The label they're on, Sahel Sounds, has released a lot of really wonderful music from that area.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Late Morning", Breakbeat Era
A couple days ago I linked the song from this album I thought had the closest chance of getting mainstream euro radio recognition for this odd Roni Size project. This (incidentally the next song on the album) is the track I think appeals best if you just like SOUNDS. Six minutes onrushing bull head down subway to an afternoon headache, breakbeat jungle boiled down to annihilation of all thought, moksha in motion
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "icm", a773
One last track from the musician I've been calling "the fusion-jazz-on-modular-synths guy". So thing is, mixing jazz and electronic music is not odd, it's just what you're *expected* to do is cut up the jazz as a backing for sampled breakbeats. This raises a question: What if a773 made a track with breaks? Turns out it turns out extremely well. Something here for both prog and Ninja Tune lovers. Nice understated bassline groove.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Hold Tight London", Chemical Brothers
This is just literally the song stuck in my head today.
Chemical Brothers are underrated TBH. They got some radio play with "Dig Your Own Hole" and I think the electronic heads (in the US?) mentally classified them as pop and tuned out. They continued making jams. I think this might be the best song they ever made. Does it stop being rock music if the guitars are sampled? *Are* these guitars sampled?
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Erm...Yes, This Is Yamaha RS7000", Isobutane
This ungainly 1999 pro groovebox from Yamaha is fairly capable at making techno and hip hop. It… doesn't sound like this at all! Apparently using no external samples only tweaked presets this musician creates a drunken rush of chaotic glitch sounds, a simply wild wobbling bass line and this one sound like an angel got stuck in your crawlspace and is moaning in divine ecstasy until you let it out
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "AudCalc, Zeptocore, Phantasmal Force, GREAT CONJUNCTION Micro Synth Coordination", Arman Bohn
I at one point considered myself an authority on small handheld devices that make odd sounds, and I… I recognize exactly two of the six devices on this table. A glorious mess but it all comes together, floats your mind on a melange of algorithmic beeps, chirpy synth beats and bitcrushed Amen like a crashing sea. More is more. I like the buzzy bass.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "souvenir d'autrefois", Trhä & Midoran
Asked on bsky for metal that makes every bar on the graphic equalizer jam all the way up. Blurry thrashy metal with kinda those stoner jam feels and this amazing softness like cassette tape, every blast of sound is a little bit rounded off. Ends with an inexplicable detour into… like… if I say "title screen music for a strip mahjong tabletop unit in a dingy bar in Kabukichō in 1994" will you understand?
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "沈む！", Banshimoku
I saw these folks live last night! Shizumu (沈む) appears to be "Sinking" or "Sink!", like a command. The word she yells at the end of the chorus is "ILLUMINATION!" in English. "Banshimoku" is a Japanese name for the Placodont, an extinct triassic reptile. Walking through the market this morning, kept yelling to myself under my breath, the quietest yell, "ILLUMINATION!". May the bridges we burn be the lights that show our way
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Untitled", Åreknuteknyterne
In 1986 a tiny Norwegian cassette label named "Yecch Tapes" released a compilation named "FFFFF" with this song. It would be wrong to say it sounds like it does because these are ghosts reaching out of history to haunt us. That's just the cassette sound. But this sure *sounds* like ghosts trapped outside time, trying to score an epic 80s action thriller, but they're ghosts so it only feels like inexpressible loss
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Untitled (FFFFF Version), by Åreknuteknyterne
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in reply to mcc • • •What a great song, thanks for sharing!
Speaking of tape sounds: There's this bootleg recording of Tori Amos performing The Cure's "Lovesong", and it's one of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of music I've ever heard.
And as with the song in your post, the tape imperfections are what makes it so unique and fascinating.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Virtual Star Embryology" (Revolutionary Girl Utena ED 2), J.A. Seazer
Ancient times. Perfection. Isolation in the desert.
Atmosphere, atom, a star of causality.
Yes, a child of earth is conceived
The embryo of philosophy.
The endless surface of the torus,
A single organic mechanism
A single perpetual motion.
Ah, it is empty movement!
Just empty movement,
Empty
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in reply to Devine Lu Linvega • • •@neauoire Well, through Revolutionary Girl Utena! His ensemble did all the in-episode music (the "fight songs") for the entire anime and the second ending theme, which is what's linked above. I'm pretty sure Utena popularized Seazer more than anything else.
All I know of his stuff is Utena and Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets.
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@neauoire No I haven't heard of this one :O
The ones I've seen ( letterboxd.com/mcc111/ )…
Pastoral / Throw Away Books
Funeral Parade
A Man Vanishes (1967)
Death By Hanging (1968) (Also Mr. Lawrence and Taboo/Gohatto)
The Man Who Left His Will On Film (1970)
If we are moving forward…
Burst City (1982)
Iron Man Tetsuo 1 and 2
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in reply to mcc • • •I've seen it, it's been a while, I can't say I've enjoyed it that much tho, other than the music.
I'm so happy to know that you enjoy Pastoral ^__^
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i love the ED version and the animation in the ED but the full version slaps too
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "My Cancerous Body in Music", Entropic Echo
Industrial-grade modular electronica with a focus on gigantic distorted pads. The large block of wood in the corner is a SOMA device that as far as I know works by your body grounding or bridging spontaneous circuits in the electrically active orbs. Hundreds of figures in hooded monk robes trudge determinedly across a gray wasteland. Raindrops pick their way down staircases of leaves.
Cool ending.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Time III: plastic ego", StereoMan
Fun tracker tune (original upload September 1998) that leans into the uncanny feeling of sample tracker music with stunning results. Echoes of a SNES game where a robot jumps through 2D mazes made of girders, except if one single song from a 1998 game OST went this hard you'd still be talking about it 30 years later. (The ImpulseTracker file is 768k; maybe nobody shipping games wanted to invest that much?)
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in reply to mcc • • •@lritter He’s on Mastdon and goes by Esem now. @eesn
Also his Scateren album is on my desert island list.
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in reply to Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs • • •@ellenor2000 thank you for sharing the link. Now I know that VLC player on android is able to play Impulse Tracker tracks.
I would never know it if you did not posted this and I would not fat fingered it
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in reply to mcc • • •Ooh this *is* a really nice song! Thank you for sharing!
By 1998 I feel like 768KB wasn't too big a deal anymore; mods in Unreal and Unreal Tournament were around that size
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in reply to mcc • • •There was a *ton* of this going on in the Amiga/shareware period, I feel like it was tapering off into the late 90s...? Maybe it was just a period where more people were going pro right away?
I do find it funny that of all the people to really effectively leverage demoscene composers, *Popcap* were doing a ton of it in the late 90s/early 00s
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Benevolent Incubator", Icarus / @olliebown
A Certain Type of Jazz thrown through the sample blender in a Certain Way, makes me think of Amon Tobin or the Michael Fakesch solo albums or Four Tet remixing Andrew Bird. Fantastic groove. Has an arc to it, a tension, a single set of sounds gradually evolves from manic solo drumming to a gentle indie guitar-pluck lullaby before dissolving completely into incoherent nervous glitches.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I"m listening to today: "The Torrents of Destruction Overwhelmed Me", thoughtForm Max
Extended metal guitar solo, but with no guitar, done entirely on Roger Linn's isomorphic grid controller. Every pad on here has per-note expression via both pressure and how you wiggle your finger within the square, enabling techniques not usually possible on a keyboard synth. I imagine a lone figure playing this to a sunrise at the edge of some desert plateau in Big Bend in Texas
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Mo Mophatt Roger", Attack Sustain
Does anyone reading this like NOISE here are three minutes of buzzsaw noises simply exploring the sounds of a newly-obtained pair of distortion pedals. Good amplifier worship audio. Would've assumed this was all guitar feedback if I didn't have the video
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "The Key" (Wubbledub Edit), Space Bunny
Does anyone like 90s EURO TECHNO. This is a vintage remix of a 1997 tech house piece, apparently recorded at the time but unreleased until a vinyl compilation in 2024. Oak aged for 27 years. Has a great bouncy energy to it and that classic electronic sound design. Really satisfying.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "No Snakes Alive", King Geedorah
MF DOOM was a talented producer as well as a rapper, but was oddly shy about his own production work, quarantining his most significant self-produced work to side EPs and this somewhat nonobvious pseudonym. A pity because the Geedorah project has some bangers, like this one unhinged, utterly unique track with weird tempo shifts as if the song itself is staggering drunkenly. MF Grimm's on this one (it's old).
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Generative ambient", CELUS
21 minutes of ever-changing shimmers & swells. (If your attention span is not that long maybe stop at the 5:45 mark.) This is the song you hear when it's morning and no one else on the spaceship has woken up yet and everything is pleasant and peaceful, although *definitely* when this movie reaches its second act something within the corridors will start hunting your crew
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "TR-909 & TR-727 Backyard Beat", Zap Danger
It is the 90s and there is time to roller hover cyber blade through floating freeways passing through a glowing city where the buildings seem to be made of ephemeral light. Downtempo dance music for old drum machines and modern guitar pedals. Look quickly at the start of the video to see a sweet adorable baby (Elektron Analog Drive pedal) and also a sweet adorable baby (cat).
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Combination #7 ( • | 6 | • | 2 | 4 | 5 )", Mark Fell
Violins tuning up for five minutes. Sliding down the gullet of a giant greebly alien. We could talk about "drone" or we could talk about music for ritual purposes, it is the same thing, there is a part of us religion seeks to wake up but which music stimulates directly and so religion uses music. Drone cuts out the middleman. No spirituality just ॐ.
Jim O'Rourke is somehow involved here.
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Combination #7 ( • | 6 | • | 2 | 4 | 5 ), by Mark Fell
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "31564132452132131652131", 3121534312
The quietest of quiet drone ambient, a breath on your neck, empty room noise, except the room is an uncanny horror space. This seems to have been more an attempt to make a cool glitch video with atmospheric sound (this YouTube account has many such videos) than to make a piece of music but I like experiencing, analyzing this sort of ambiance as music. It's fun to pick apart the choices of frequencies.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Olson"
This is a Boards of Canada song being performed on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. The PDP-1 doesn't have sound, but it does have front-panel light bulbs for debugging, so they tapped the voltage from four of the the light bulb on/off signals and routed them directly to speakers. They then run a program that toggles the light bulbs at audio rate to create square waves.
Arrangement by Joe Lynch, PDP-1 paper tape load operation by Peter Samson
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Remnants", Waxlimbs
My favorite live band in Toronto doing a kind of epic prog-rock King Crimson thing. When my wife first played this I seriously assumed it was from the 70s. Sound monoliths with walls of silence in between. Live these folks wear bird masks and alternately trade vocals between the three non-drummer members and sing in three-part harmony
waxlimbs.bandcamp.com/track/re…
…and if u r in Toronto you can see them Saturday in a tiny bar [EDIT: Too late LOL]
Remnants, by Waxlimbs
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Energizer", pOW
xm tracker file from 1999. Wonderful 1980s future feel, skittering beats that aren't jungle but which a jungle head would appreciate. Music for the hypest rave ever held in Graal Online. Some mod files try to transcend the "cheesy" medium with sample work but this just leans into it, it is going to make the best fricking piece of music it can with the timbres available to it, dancing naked in the rain like no one is watching
youtube.com/watch?v=zVPgVdq9Rr…
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And I think I heard Impulse Tracker's vaunted lowpass filters on some sounds there! They were ahead of their time and the resonance is FILTHY.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Fre", Coltren
1997 minimalist dub. As hardcore as it's possible for a thing as quiet as this to be. None of these sounds sound like "instruments"; it's all incidental line hiss and choppy cutoff noises. Makes me think of cavernous rooms full of poorly-lit machinery linked by cramped walkways, pistons casting strange shadows as they pivot. Intently pumping away to some unclear purpose
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Big Ideas"
"Nude" was one of those songs Radiohead performed live for years before putting on an album, as if struggling to figure out the definitive version. IMO, *this* is the definitive version: James Houston "remixing" it on a collection of obsolete computer hardware. Run a motor, like the one in a scanner, at different speeds and the rotation makes different tones. Send PCM voltages to a hard drive motor and you can make scratchy voice
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Big Ideas (don't get any)
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it has personal significance
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It scratches a similar demake itch for me
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Abandon", Tristan Baldi
Super weird electronic downtempo on the Dirtywave M8 handheld tracker. Starts with huge creepy FM swells, and beats that sound as if they were dropped from a great height, and then just sorta goofs around with giant looming cyberpunk vibes for a few minutes. Guitars that sound like something Id Software would have shipped in 1992. I'd use the term "playful" if this didn't all feel so sinister
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Xenomorpher Gets Its Groove On", James Collins
One thing I love about this particular type of modular synth jam is you can repeat a single sequence of like 5 or 8 notes indefinitely and as long as you screw with the timbres enough it seems to be continuously changing. Here a constrained eurorack repeats a single note sequence with a non-repeating, chaos-driven LFO used to pulp the sound in different mysterious ways. It is a good groove
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "THESE STATIC TRANSMISSIONS", AMULETS
This is an ambient tape artist I rather like, recording a submission for the NPR "Tiny Desk Concert" open call in 2017. He did not get in¹ but the YouTube submission endures. Drone piece in a suitcase setup containing two tape machines and a series of mysterious metal boxes, one of which appears to be handbuilt into an Altoids tin. Sound of a forgetting
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¹ "Tank and the Bangas" won. They're pretty good.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Pep Talk", Bahamadia
I know Bahamadia from her work with Roni Size, but then Machinegirl linked this track on Bluesky and like geez, I guess should have been paying more attention to Bahamadia's solo work! This is from her album "BB Queen". Y2K jungle, dense wordplay, an exercise in the tightest syllable packing possible, immaculate vibes like crisp autumn wind.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Feelings", Fluxus MT
What if you just turned on all of the sounds at once
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Augmatic Disport", Autechre
"Untilted" is the album that fits most strangely into the arc of Autechre's discography. It's pretty much a 70-minute onslaught of dense, ever shifting robot breakbeats. It does have rewards within and I like this one track that has a little narrative arc. These robots are up to something. They are acting with purpose. What are these robots doing
Woke up today thinking about this album because of a reason.
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Augmatic Disport, by Autechre
AutechreThird spruce tree on the left
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Dark Space", Mr. Nogatco (Kool Keith)
Did Dr. Octagon really die in 1999? A man appeared in Nashville in 2006 claiming to be him, who was generally acknowledged to be a fraud; but there is another theory, that Octagon survived, his body rebuilt, and afterward lived in hiding in Phoenix, performing experiments on alien bodies recovered from spaceships crashed in the Arizona desert.
A dark hypnotic groove I was thinking about this morning:
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "CSIRAC" / "Delete", Ninajirachi
CSIRAC was Australia's first computer, and the first known computer to ever play music. Ninajirachi is an Australian EDM producer who voices her own songs and has a really messy room. Can I double dip today? I just really like this two song sequence of her going completely to the wall with chopped up experimental production followed by this second song that's just hyper hyper hyper pop
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CSIRAC, by Ninajirachi
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "idontloveyouanymore", puhf
Breakcore/jungle for waking up. Nice synths. ⚠️Photosensitivity warning⚠️ on the video. Punk was the music of youth because the barriers to entry were so low, anybody could get a guitar and learn some chords. Now guitars and drumsets are kinda expensive and gen Z is downloading DAWs and turning out this incredibly satisfying breakcore in enormous quantities and posting it on YouTube accounts with their Mii as avatar
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in reply to NootNoot 🍄 • • •@Appeasing3819 If you want some good stuff along these lines, good places to start are Sewerslvt, hkmori, kalla, Purity Filter
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Continuum 1" Nala Sinephro
Mind-expanding jazz and floaty beep sounds. Chill but pressured, a dream coming over your consciousness like a cloud covering the landscape. What I really like in music is semi-non-repeating beats and the genres that give me that are (1) the thing I've been trying not to call "IDM", and (2) this type of jazz
I got this from an Algorithm and don't know this musician. Apparently she scored Benny Safdie's UFC movie?
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Continuum 1, by Nala Sinephro
Nala SinephroTrevor Burrows
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Her first album is Space and it is very often my working background music, sometimes on repeat.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "I have found her...", Some1
1998 sample tracker tune so laid back it's practically an OSHA hazard. Eleven minutes long but uses the entire runtime, you just kinda let it run in the background and it surprises you every so often. You kinda get the sense you're listening to a jam session, one person fiddling with a keyboard and looper & someone else with an MPC. Lo-fi hip hop to sit by the side of the road in a stalled-out car in the rain to.
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in reply to mcc • • •*adds next to ..tiara in the "Can't believe I listened to the whole thing again" list*
Edit: Literally. 😅
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Tomorrow's is Lumines adjacent btw
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "jazz jungle mix at Japanese rice field", Takuya Nakamura
Nakamura is the composer of Sega's Virtua Fighter, the original Lumines and four of its sequels, and Meteos (though Meteos and some of the Lumines sequels with collaborators). In this video he goes out in an literal rice field with a Pioneer deck and a literal trumpet, and spins drum & bass with occasional trumpet solos. Unbelievably charming
Environmental cameos around: 24:51, 28:49
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Gar Tīgh Bārad", Avin Ahmadi
Iranian traditional guitar piece originally by Siamak Aghaei. Slow and soft and sad, or not exactly slow, just unhurried, performed with expert control and incredible, overwhelming emotion. Usually in these posts I'm trying to figure out how to evoke in text the feeling of some strange timbre the musician has rigged but here all the feeling is in the performance
Music starts at 0:35.
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in reply to ferunando • • •@gureito You mean the sort of suffusing sadness, or the "unhurried" feel?
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out after listening to this if it was *meant* to feel sorrowful, or if just it was very emotionally intense and I'm personally sad.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "【KORG】volca drum & Kaoss Pad ＆ NTS-1", Takeo Watanabe
Improvised alien skittering out behind a shed somewhere, while neighborhood birds try to outyell the whole production. It's interesting to try to reverse engineer where the sounds come from: The Tascam box is a portable recorder, the box in the center is generating sounds, the boxes on the right and left are effects but the left one has a touchscreen so he can play it like an instrument.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Junior Kickstart", The Go! Team
This is my favorite video on YouTube. The Go Team in their Gleeful Copyright Infringement Era doing a lovesong to 70s funk with a music video that's a love letter to 70s film, reverse-engineering the soundtrack to the most iconic New York story ever told. Everything you could ask for is here, suspense, tranquility, triumph— and horror.
2007
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "the TV show", Kosuke Sugimoto and Takayuki Manabe
No no wait, THIS is my favorite video on YouTube. A beautifully plotted 2009 independent animation with an incredibly catchy, pseudo-chiptune original score that stands out by itself as a classic of circa-2010 glitchy "electro"¹.
This is the kind of thing you'll get the premise immediately but need to watch at least three times to fully Get it
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¹ This genre name lasted for about three weeks
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Phuturum", Caitliff
The spaceship has these two winglike structures on the side, but it's a spaceship, you don't need wings in space. They're actually for launching smaller ships, the "wings" are hollow hangar spaces on the inside and terminate on two long launch rails. But if nothing's launching today you can grab a suit, sit at the end of the launch tunnel, stare down this tunnel open to space, see the great blue earth floating outside.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "a m B", evadum
Slow quiet acid. Desktop performance on a Nintendo DS running Nanoloop 2 and some budget synth units from Korg and Roland. A short little bag of moods, like the soundtrack to something but I don't know what, it starts off what sounds like toy instrument sounds and then warmer more refined atmospheric stuff comes in. People walking through hallways intercut with shots of someone furtively flipping through folders in a drawer.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "full version", Z777
A whole lot of synths at once, a kick drum being repitched for melody like the old 808 cowbells, overall a pleasantly overwhelming buzz. What I wrote in my notes was "warm all-enveloping construction sounds, like you just curled up in the middle of the cement mixer and took a nap" and I think that might make it sound white-noise-ier than it actually is but that's about how close I can get right now.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Handpan by Yuki Koshimoto"
The "handpan" is is a variation on the steel pan drum invented in Switzerland in 2000 and rapidly copied worldwide (the original inventors sold it as the "hang drum", but that name's trademarked; this 2011 video uses a Metalsounds Space Drum). Playing by hand rather than with sticks produces a broader range of timbres with a lot of fine control. I find this one, seemingly impromptu performance really beautiful.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "瘋狂的陽光" / "Lunatic Sunbath", Deserts Xuan
I love this artist for a particular track named "Bao Bei" that *tore up* Chinese-language low power FM radio in the Bay Area around 2010. I would be skipping between college radio stations and be like, oh it's that song again! This is a good memory for me. Anyway here's her doing a kinda harder 90s rock thing, Lilith fair with an edge. I like the grungy bassline.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Atmosphere" (Jerome's Runway Dub), Kerri Chandler
French touch from New Jersey. House music the way it used to sound in 1998. When I dig a little bit I find out Kerri Chandler was a big deal in Jersey electronic music, produced over 100 records, ran a label. I had never heard of him until he came up on a playlist of vintage vinyl rips and I decided to dig a little. The world is an ocean we float atop and it just goes down and down and down
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "An Ambient Jam in 31 Tone Equal Temperament", The Creepy Silence
Western music is based on 12 tones, equally-spaced (on a logarithmic scale), which happen to come very close to "good-sounding" pitch ratios. There are some historical attempts at numbers other than 12.
Here, a launchpad rigged for 31-TET is used to perform 15 minutes of messy, engrossing, exploratory astral disembodiment music. Music for a power outage on a spaceship
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Scandinavia", Billy Woods, ELUCID and The Alchemist
Woods and ELUCID just dropped an album under the name Armand Hammer and it's INCREDIBLE. Woods and clique have this idiom of slowed-down, format-breaking rap music and it gets better and more refined with each release. Parts of "Mercy" sound like early Portishead, other parts sound like nothing I've ever heard before. There's like 4 tracks on here I wanna link but here's some ominous piano
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Scandinavia, by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "07", ebl (video by Sean Redbeard)
This guy's got a YouTube channel where he picks experimental electronic tracks (good selections too) and makes glitchy TouchDesigner animations for them.
This track's cool, a quiet but relentless onslaught of pattering percussion. Somebody left the kick drum faucet on overnight and now the floor's flooded in kick drums. Old Richard Devine/PBO kinda feel maybe? Manages to feel like an oddity in an odd genre
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "05 Feed The Fire Pt 2 Master 1", lesserbirdman
Okay so I'm … honestly not sure if you'll be able to listen to this without a Tidal account, but it worked in some tests. This is a catchy, high-energy, slightly spooky, grunge/metal track that exists *only* on Tidal. Not Spotify or any other streaming service, can't buy it from Bandcamp or Apple. No net presence, no Allmusic artist page, nothing on Google. No bio on Tidal. Hapax_legomenon.mp3
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lesserbirdman - 05 Feed The Fire Pt 2 Master 1
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Fuji", Nedaj
brainfog drum & bass oversaturated clipping piano wallslam break silence
This particular cohort of zoomer musicians seems to return a lot to the suggestion of being at an electronica event but at the far end of the room, the music filtered through crappy speakers and the acoustics of a room larger than the event needed. This particular cohort of zoomer musicians makes music that seems shot through with a sense of loneliness
notnedaj.bandcamp.com/track/fu…
fuji, by Nedaj
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "gener1", Preset Liker
Minor key air conditioner and a heartbeat. A message written in clouds on top of other clouds
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gener1, by Preset Liker
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "cem", evadum
Astral-journey ambient on vintage 1980s 4-track pro tape recorder and Nanoloop 2 for Nintendo DS. Ocean waves made out of sawtooths and voices made of saltwater, a beat so slow it feels like something entirely other than a beat. Drags a single feel out for five minutes then abruptly stops, and it is an excellent feel
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to today: "Car Alarm (extended reprise)", Pat
An extended riff on the sound of a car alarm performed on the Khaen, a traditional Laotian mouth organ. Absolutely lovely feeling, peaceful, you couldn't actually sleep through this but maybe almost. I promise it's only annoying at the beginning.
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in reply to mcc • • •What I listened to today: "JPEG" / "CODE", Nadaj
Jungle will never die, Jungle is eternal. 2020 and there is still an infinite amount of jungle yet to create. There were people making jungle in 2020 who are young enough to have listened to the "Twilight" soundtrack a hundred times. From 2020-2022 some splintered D&B in the classic mode, smooth then rough.
These tracks are unrelated except I accidentally discovered they flow real well together
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JPEG, by Nedaj
NedajJames Cat
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Mr Majestik, by Calibre & High Contrast
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in reply to mcc • • •What I'm listening to: "west cork, 12 feb", Ólafur Arnalds and Talos
When I was an active musician I'd often record single-sitting songs named like "11-25-01 diary entry" but with the date as whatever day I recorded it. Just whatever feeling I had that day, it would be that song. I imagine that's how this Arnalds track happened. In my head, when they recorded this it was raining, I don't know why I believe that but I do. The song is pretty much just piano and it's nice
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in reply to mcc • • •Thinking about how George Benson launched smooth jazz onto the pop charts with Breezin’(1976) and was never forgiven by the “Jazz Police”
https://www.hifinews.com/content/george-benson-breezin’
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in reply to Daniel M Karlsson • • •@t36s Is it possible it was Brainfreeze?
Does the following stir memories?
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in reply to mcc • • •@amsomniac here listen to this "a healthy dose of dope af"
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notice the monotron on the left is modded
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in reply to mcc • • •This track (popular enough around here to still get some airplay on "oldie" stations) is a good example of the Neue Deutsche Welle. If you like it, there's literally a whole genre just like it! (Not generally understood to be Krautrock though.)
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genre of German music originally derived from punk rock and new wave music
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in reply to mcc • • •is that 2 mello bit the one at the end of Say Somethin'?
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Unknown parent • • •@Scmbradley Ahh… I will defs listen to this!
I really liked that little blip in pop music. I think my favorite thing to come out of it was "Since U Been Gahan" which was Kelly Clarkson mashed up with a Black Dog remix of Depeche Mode.
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Unknown parent • • •@zyd Crisis phone's incredible. I'll listen to that other album, thanks :O
Still trying to work out the exact connection between these folks, Bruiser Brigade etc. I've barely scratched the surface, everyone involved seems prolific lol
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Unknown parent • • •@zyd ah this is great info, thank you
"Bruiser" refered to uh, there was a guest artist on Woods' last album named Bruiser Wolf, his stuff's wild, that's apparently a whole clique, apparently it's a different clique