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What I listened to today: "Show Me What You Got", Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes sampling my favorite Stereolab song ("Come And Play in The Milky Night"). J Dilla beat! Kinda archetypical for Busta, near-miss brilliance, great production, incredible rap flow… & an overlong chorus that drags the whole thing down (the chorus *really* needed a professional singer for guest vocals).
Listen careful on verse 1 for the rap equivalent of a oner. Rhyme scheme is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
What I'm listening to today: "Eutow" (live at Flex/Vienna 1996), Autechre
These days each Autechre tour is like a unique album, but their live sets have always been full of unreleased tracks, alternate versions, mashups¹. Here's a completely screwed version of the danciest track from Tri Repetae++, feeling way slower without changing the tempo, something mesmerizing, a decaying orbit around a black hole, spiraling inexorably inward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGBMpXgnaU
¹ Listen here for Basscadet fragments
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What I'm listening to today: "Eutow" (live at Flex/Vienna 1996), Autechre
These days each Autechre tour is like a unique album, but their live sets have always been full of unreleased tracks, alternate versions, mashups¹. Here's a completely screwed version of the danciest track from Tri Repetae++, feeling way slower without changing the tempo, something mesmerizing, a decaying orbit around a black hole, spiraling inexorably inward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGBMpXgnaU
¹ Listen here for Basscadet fragments
What I listened to today: "BASTL🏰CITADEL｜#4 - Crushed strings ( 🧙♂️FX WIZARD, nRings, uO_C, little nerd )", boop _e_
One of my fav things in modern music tech is Bastl's nano-modular "Kastle"—recently rebooted as the "Kastle 2/Citadel" series, available as either a eurorack module or the Kastle patchwire format & reprogrammable as any of 3 different devices. Here, the FX WIZARD mode glitches the venerable "Rings" Karplus-Strong module. Have I lost you? It's crunchy sounds
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What I listened to today: "BASTL🏰CITADEL｜#4 - Crushed strings ( 🧙♂️FX WIZARD, nRings, uO_C, little nerd )", boop _e_
One of my fav things in modern music tech is Bastl's nano-modular "Kastle"—recently rebooted as the "Kastle 2/Citadel" series, available as either a eurorack module or the Kastle patchwire format & reprogrammable as any of 3 different devices. Here, the FX WIZARD mode glitches the venerable "Rings" Karplus-Strong module. Have I lost you? It's crunchy sounds
What I listened to today: "Secuencia Techno con Syntakt y Microfreak", RM1_music
Super satisfying techno set on two desktop devices. Hard driving thumps, surreal whooshing. At some point I have to face the fact I never actually learned the names of EDM subgenres I just like, listen to everything, and that makes writing these descriptions hard some days. Someone who did the research could probably identify the 3 microgenres here. All I can say is it's highly raveworthy
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What I listened to today: "Secuencia Techno con Syntakt y Microfreak", RM1_music
Super satisfying techno set on two desktop devices. Hard driving thumps, surreal whooshing. At some point I have to face the fact I never actually learned the names of EDM subgenres I just like, listen to everything, and that makes writing these descriptions hard some days. Someone who did the research could probably identify the 3 microgenres here. All I can say is it's highly raveworthy
What I'm listening to today: "BASTL WAVE🐦⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE", boop _e_
A couple days ago I posted this artist using the Citadel, a eurorack module reprogrammable as any of Bastl's "Kastle 2" devices. Here's the equivalent desktop/handheld device, this time programmed as a "Wavebard", with the eurorack cables replaced with little wires.
Track is a soulful, disorienting dream about being lost in fog while giant glowing blobs of color pass by you, paintsplotches in the mist
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What I'm listening to today: "BASTL WAVE🐦⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE", boop _e_
A couple days ago I posted this artist using the Citadel, a eurorack module reprogrammable as any of Bastl's "Kastle 2" devices. Here's the equivalent desktop/handheld device, this time programmed as a "Wavebard", with the eurorack cables replaced with little wires.
Track is a soulful, disorienting dream about being lost in fog while giant glowing blobs of color pass by you, paintsplotches in the mist
What I'm listening to today: "(Untitled1)", TAKAAT
Picked this up on Bandcamp Friday. "Is Noise". This band are somehow connected to Tinariwen, the group from 1979 called the grandfathers of Tuareg (Saharan) rock music. Here's an epic lo-fi rock album intro, "unedited jam… recorded live to tape in Washington D.C", made in the modern era but coming off plausibly like it could have opened the rawest rock album of 1982. Shredding
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What I'm listening to today: "(Untitled1)", TAKAAT
Picked this up on Bandcamp Friday. "Is Noise". This band are somehow connected to Tinariwen, the group from 1979 called the grandfathers of Tuareg (Saharan) rock music. Here's an epic lo-fi rock album intro, "unedited jam… recorded live to tape in Washington D.C", made in the modern era but coming off plausibly like it could have opened the rawest rock album of 1982. Shredding
What I'm listening to today: "You Don't Know My Name", Alicia Keys
Keys off her 2003 album doing an effortless, irony-free resurrection of soul-flavored musical styles at least 23 years older than that. Finessed to feel like the kind of thing hip hop samples moreso than hip hop.
I love this song, it's just so guilelessly sweet. This is the kind of aw-shucks just-a-girl romance song Taylor Swift keeps trying to record, but for T it always kinda falls flat. Keys nails it
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What I'm listening to today: "You Don't Know My Name", Alicia Keys
Keys off her 2003 album doing an effortless, irony-free resurrection of soul-flavored musical styles at least 23 years older than that. Finessed to feel like the kind of thing hip hop samples moreso than hip hop.
I love this song, it's just so guilelessly sweet. This is the kind of aw-shucks just-a-girl romance song Taylor Swift keeps trying to record, but for T it always kinda falls flat. Keys nails it
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What I'm listening to today: "Sex", the Necks
This is an Australian jazz trio whose "albums" all seem to be very long single pieces. This is their first release, and it hits a satisfying loungy groove in second one then digs in for *an hour*, constantly shifting the whole time, like a knob is being very slowly turned up on a single emotion. If you like electronic music with very long track lengths this basically is jazz custom made for you. Like, Plastikman fans attn
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116059452504562223
What I'm listening to today: "Sex", the Necks
This is an Australian jazz trio whose "albums" all seem to be very long single pieces. This is their first release, and it hits a satisfying loungy groove in second one then digs in for *an hour*, constantly shifting the whole time, like a knob is being very slowly turned up on a single emotion. If you like electronic music with very long track lengths this basically is jazz custom made for you. Like, Plastikman fans attn
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116065097826262688
What I'm listening to today: "To Day Interval", Autechre
One of two remixes Æ did of "Ten Day Interval" by math-rock/post-rock/progressive-jazz group Tortoise. The other remix is straightforward if Autechre-y but *this* one, this one's a minimal obsessive dissection of a single piano track and I love it—one of my fav points in Æ's whole discography. It's like a meditation, emptying your mind except for a single image which you focus on until you understand it Completely
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116065097826262688
What I'm listening to today: "To Day Interval", Autechre
One of two remixes Æ did of "Ten Day Interval" by math-rock/post-rock/progressive-jazz group Tortoise. The other remix is straightforward if Autechre-y but *this* one, this one's a minimal obsessive dissection of a single piano track and I love it—one of my fav points in Æ's whole discography. It's like a meditation, emptying your mind except for a single image which you focus on until you understand it Completely
What I'm listening to today: "I'm Dead", Bam Bam
I only learned about this band this week, they're like 50% punk but the other 50% was inventing "Seattle grunge" 5 years early. Matt Cameron on drums.
Here's an amazing skin-searing blast of sludge guitars and yelling. Like being air-fried. There's a guest vocalist in addition to Bam Bam's lead Tina Bell here, but I can't identify him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF3yNXzJdZI
( Mastering seems a little better on the Tidal version: https://tidal.com/track/107339796/u )
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What I'm listening to today: "I'm Dead", Bam Bam
I only learned about this band this week, they're like 50% punk but the other 50% was inventing "Seattle grunge" 5 years early. Matt Cameron on drums.
Here's an amazing skin-searing blast of sludge guitars and yelling. Like being air-fried. There's a guest vocalist in addition to Bam Bam's lead Tina Bell here, but I can't identify him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF3yNXzJdZI
( Mastering seems a little better on the Tidal version: https://tidal.com/track/107339796/u )
What I'm listening to today: "1920263 Meditative Ambient Guitar and Synth Soundscape Behringer Wasp Deluxe Microcosm", CJT
This dude seems to do basically daily jams on his pile of midrange synths and post them all to YouTube. I liked this one out of the pile where a wasp provides a quiet heartbeat and he improvises a guitar solo over it. 1980s dark cinematic feel, empty streets and echoes and vague menace in the form of a young Willem Dafoe, waiting for you somewhere
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What I'm listening to today: "1920263 Meditative Ambient Guitar and Synth Soundscape Behringer Wasp Deluxe Microcosm", CJT
This dude seems to do basically daily jams on his pile of midrange synths and post them all to YouTube. I liked this one out of the pile where a wasp provides a quiet heartbeat and he improvises a guitar solo over it. 1980s dark cinematic feel, empty streets and echoes and vague menace in the form of a young Willem Dafoe, waiting for you somewhere
What I listened to today: "Zero", Lamb
Whatever "Trip-Hop" was. Was a tension between pulling ideas out of lounge-y jazz-y genres from the 30s-60s to jam them into electronica, vs pulling ideas out of electronica and jamming them into lounge-y jazz. Which was the real thing? The answer seems to come in tracks like these where the musicians just say screw it and make a song with no electronics. This track's pure voice and violin and the vibes are enormous, it's wonderful
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What I listened to today: "Zero", Lamb
Whatever "Trip-Hop" was. Was a tension between pulling ideas out of lounge-y jazz-y genres from the 30s-60s to jam them into electronica, vs pulling ideas out of electronica and jamming them into lounge-y jazz. Which was the real thing? The answer seems to come in tracks like these where the musicians just say screw it and make a song with no electronics. This track's pure voice and violin and the vibes are enormous, it's wonderful
What I listened to today: "HEEL CENA", Westside Gunn
One more from the ringleader of the Buffalo, NY "Griselda" rap clique. The last one I linked was kinda surreal avant-garde but this is good solid hip hop basics. Fantastic flow and vivid production that feels like it's picking up what trip-hop set down. He has raps about how his kids like Minecraft.
Linking the Bandcamp version which has the bowlderized no-blood cover art. Last time Bluesky actually censored the link
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What I listened to today: "HEEL CENA", Westside Gunn
One more from the ringleader of the Buffalo, NY "Griselda" rap clique. The last one I linked was kinda surreal avant-garde but this is good solid hip hop basics. Fantastic flow and vivid production that feels like it's picking up what trip-hop set down. He has raps about how his kids like Minecraft.
Linking the Bandcamp version which has the bowlderized no-blood cover art. Last time Bluesky actually censored the link
What I'm listening to today: "Gold", Lamb (Autechre remix)
Æ used to do a lot more remixes and had this *fascinating* tendency to find a real particular vibe that resembled neither the source material nor Autechre's regular work but felt consistent with Autechre's other remixes. I really love the flip here about halfway through where the instrumentation suddenly pulls back and it's like an airplane bursting out of clouds or a train pulling out of a tunnel into the open
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What I'm listening to today: "Gold", Lamb (Autechre remix)
Æ used to do a lot more remixes and had this *fascinating* tendency to find a real particular vibe that resembled neither the source material nor Autechre's regular work but felt consistent with Autechre's other remixes. I really love the flip here about halfway through where the instrumentation suddenly pulls back and it's like an airplane bursting out of clouds or a train pulling out of a tunnel into the open
What I'm listening to today: "You and I are in a Dark Crypt Forever", Warlock Corpse
This somewhat defies description and it makes more sense to just watch five seconds and you'll get the idea. "Dungeon synth" music with metal drumming and 80s goth synths and a guy dressed like… some sort of troll? They went to the bother of putting fake VHS effects on it even though the equipment on the table clearly dates this performance to the 2020s. This is *really* fun actually
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What I'm listening to today: "You and I are in a Dark Crypt Forever", Warlock Corpse
This somewhat defies description and it makes more sense to just watch five seconds and you'll get the idea. "Dungeon synth" music with metal drumming and 80s goth synths and a guy dressed like… some sort of troll? They went to the bother of putting fake VHS effects on it even though the equipment on the table clearly dates this performance to the 2020s. This is *really* fun actually
What I'm listening to today: "Speed Learn", Tomaga
Got lost on Bandcamp and wound up listening to sleepy jazz for tired cats. Here is a machine gradually coming online, whirring wheels over tracks and indifferent buzzing and uncorrelated electronic blorps. It has some kind of meaning, hidden from you, in the firmware of the thing that blorp is issued at some meaningful moment, in a service manual not distributed outside the manufacturer its secret truth is revealed
https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/speed-learn
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What I'm listening to today: "Speed Learn", Tomaga
Got lost on Bandcamp and wound up listening to sleepy jazz for tired cats. Here is a machine gradually coming online, whirring wheels over tracks and indifferent buzzing and uncorrelated electronic blorps. It has some kind of meaning, hidden from you, in the firmware of the thing that blorp is issued at some meaningful moment, in a service manual not distributed outside the manufacturer its secret truth is revealed
https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/speed-learn
What I'm listening to today: "#feedbackuary ...Crystal Cherry Blossom Caverns... [Pulsar-23] [Enner] [Blackhole]"
Slow 80s-style-industrial music based on a pile of idiosyncratic SOMA equipment and a musician playing a cracklebox like a violin. Run harsh buzzy noises into a big enough echo pedal and they take on this smooth fluid sound. The mood of a journey through a cursed, destroyed world, hunkering with your weapons in the back of a pickup truck, wind howling past
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What I'm listening to today: "#feedbackuary ...Crystal Cherry Blossom Caverns... [Pulsar-23] [Enner] [Blackhole]"
Slow 80s-style-industrial music based on a pile of idiosyncratic SOMA equipment and a musician playing a cracklebox like a violin. Run harsh buzzy noises into a big enough echo pedal and they take on this smooth fluid sound. The mood of a journey through a cursed, destroyed world, hunkering with your weapons in the back of a pickup truck, wind howling past
What I'm listening to today: "Up Up", Li Yilei
Li Yilei is a really interesting electronic artist from Shanghai, currently operating out of London; this is from their first release "Unabled Form". Slowly building ambient/cinematic object that is either menacing like an abandoned factory or comforting like a cold winter day, depending on your inclinations. Yilei excels at this sort of data sculpture, a space made of noises that presents a narrative as you move through it
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What I'm listening to today: "Up Up", Li Yilei
Li Yilei is a really interesting electronic artist from Shanghai, currently operating out of London; this is from their first release "Unabled Form". Slowly building ambient/cinematic object that is either menacing like an abandoned factory or comforting like a cold winter day, depending on your inclinations. Yilei excels at this sort of data sculpture, a space made of noises that presents a narrative as you move through it
What I listened to today: 2024-05-22 Mastodon post, Autechre
Sean Booth of Æ has a Fediverse account and one day last year posted this gorgeous outtake from Oversteps (which I still consider Æ's most risk-taking album). It's kind of breathtaking, utterly unlike Æ, a labyrinth of classical spanish guitar, while also quintessentially Æ and very "yeah that, that's an Oversteps track". I think of this as a cousin to known(1) but I feel shadows of other songs of that era too
https://data.runhello.com/blj/autechre_oversteps_outtake_sean_mastodon_20240522.mp3
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What I listened to today: 2024-05-22 Mastodon post, Autechre
Sean Booth of Æ has a Fediverse account and one day last year posted this gorgeous outtake from Oversteps (which I still consider Æ's most risk-taking album). It's kind of breathtaking, utterly unlike Æ, a labyrinth of classical spanish guitar, while also quintessentially Æ and very "yeah that, that's an Oversteps track". I think of this as a cousin to known(1) but I feel shadows of other songs of that era too
https://data.runhello.com/blj/autechre_oversteps_outtake_sean_mastodon_20240522.mp3
What I'm listening to today: "Southside", Lil Keke
What if I spent this entire week linking classic "dirty south" hip-hop tracks I loved from 97.9 The Box back in the 90s (which, I am visiting Houston this week and their selection is still excellent). No one could really stop me.
Here's known DJ Screw associate Lil Keke, dropping an effortless flow that stuck in my head for 29 years and my favorite instance of slide guitar in the entire corpus of music. Sorry Beck
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What I'm listening to today: "Southside", Lil Keke
What if I spent this entire week linking classic "dirty south" hip-hop tracks I loved from 97.9 The Box back in the 90s (which, I am visiting Houston this week and their selection is still excellent). No one could really stop me.
Here's known DJ Screw associate Lil Keke, dropping an effortless flow that stuck in my head for 29 years and my favorite instance of slide guitar in the entire corpus of music. Sorry Beck
What I'm listening to today: "Ghetto D", Master P
Master P put No Limit Records on the map, and made New Orleans the new capital of southern hip hop, with "Ghetto Dope", an *incredibly* catchy step-by-step guide to the production, distribution, and sale of crack cocaine. This unstoppable hit could not possibly get played on the radio, leading to this *incredibly* funny radio edit which is cut up to almost near illegibility making it sound like "Ghetto D" is a rapper
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@ugone bello questo sito web, non lo conoscevo. @GustavinoBevilacqua
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@Shunra @cstross @Gargron
My go-to example is the Esperanto translation of Alice Through The Looking Glass published by Evertype, which has 5 different translations of "Jabberwocky", each of which is absolutely "correct" and each of which is totally different from each other. Even the names of the poem differ.
In each case one can see the decisions the translator made balancing meter, rhyme, meaning, implications & nuance of the text, based on what it meant to them; how can a computer do that?
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Well said. 👍
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@Gargron and worth repeating the quality directly depends on the quality of actual human translated text corpus.
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@Gargron
And it's not just expressions and turns of phrase, which are unique not only to each language but easily to each region.It's words. There is often no exact match. Many words in one language are not a precise correspondence to those in another.
So an elegant turn of phrase in one becomes a wordy explanation in the other. Or a misinterpretation.
Only someone fluent in both languages can convey the true meaning accurately and eloquently.
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Ditonellapiaga: «Sono contenta che la mia Che fastidio! stia diventando un inno contro la violenza nel mondo»
> Fresca del successo a Sanremo, la cantante debutta come attrice nel film Notte prima degli esami 3.0, nelle sale dal 19 marzo
