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
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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
https://waxlimbs.bandcamp.com/track/remnants-2
…and if u r in Toronto you can see them Saturday in a tiny bar https://tenforward.social/@lexfeathers/115351152319315383
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
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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNq0ApV_trM
¹ "Tank and the Bangas" won. They're pretty good.
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNq0ApV_trM
¹ "Tank and the Bangas" won. They're pretty good.
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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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.
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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What I'm listening to today: "Feelings", Fluxus MT
What if you just turned on all of the sounds at once
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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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.
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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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:
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
https://ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/track/csirac
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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
https://ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/track/csirac
https://ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/track/deleteWhat 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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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
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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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?
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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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.
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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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
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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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.
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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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.
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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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
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9YtJC-Kd8
¹ This genre name lasted for about three weeks
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9YtJC-Kd8
¹ This genre name lasted for about three weeks
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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Feature parity with Spritemate, now, I think?
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange this is what I absolutely love about the AP dev space.
There's so much trust in other servers not reporting absolutely bogus numbers, that it's literally a surprise when someone does something like this... or that time I posted something with a timestamp one year in the future and had my post stuck at the top of "recent" in perpetuity.
It reminds me of a simpler time when we trusted things sent via protocols because malicious users wouldn't abuse it... Pretty please!
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@briankrebs It's Todd… what, aren't you following Todd?
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OK, animation with overlay sprites is confusing. It seems like it makes sense to group the overlay with the sprite it overlays...so you can increment a, umm, pointer or whatever you call it in assembly, and have the offset remain the same always. So, each frame in an animation displays two sprites adjacent to each other in memory.
But, what if the overlay is re-used? If I have two different little guys who have the same outline, but different multicolor, I can no longer count on adjacency.
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new scam just dropped! maybe report this account if you're up for that, esp. if you're at home on dot social
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @matz @MauroV1968 @ALFA @ModestinoSycamore @snow sapevo quale era il video prima ancora di aprire il link
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@dillyd (I love this sketch because the moment the host welcomes David Mitchell hinting at the space centre you KNOW where the joke is going, but the delivery is still just perfect)
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@oblomov 😂
