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: "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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
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
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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
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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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
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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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
@mcc how do you find all of this wonderful music
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@mcc how do you find all of this wonderful music
@aeva Methods and processes
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@aeva Methods and processes
@mcc ah yes, trade secrets. a versatile technique
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Had to try the #Frieren meme.
This view angle is indeed a real challenge!
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