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: "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.
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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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
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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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
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcFkUliO6w
¹ Jump wires instead of patch cables…take a look, it's weird
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcFkUliO6w
¹ Jump wires instead of patch cables…take a look, it's weird
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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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.
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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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:
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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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.
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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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.
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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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)
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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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
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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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.)
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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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
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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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]"
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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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
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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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.
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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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?
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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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
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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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.
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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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.
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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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
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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@Batarea @LaVi dai, i lettori/masterizzatori CD/DVD usb si trovano ancora abbastanza facilmente (ho appena controllato e il mio solito negozio ne ha due modelli, entrambi all'incirca da 40 euro).
e se si conoscono le persone giuste un tentativo di lettura di floppy (anche in formati esoterici), nastri o quant'altro lo si fa, e spesso ha anche successo, anche se non è stato conservato ottimamente.
in compenso col digitale una volta che hai fatto con successo quella copia, se decidi che quel file vale la pena di essere conservato sei a posto: è vero che devi tenerlo copiato su supporti nel tempo, ma il costo per fare queste copie è minimo.
Per contro, un vinile durerà anche più di un cd, ma è pur sempre un pezzo di plastica che ad un certo punto degrada, e per di più ogni volta che viene letto lo si rovina un pochettino, e va conservato correttamente per non farlo deformare, e siccome è un formato analogico se lo si copia su altri formati analogici ad ogni passaggio si degrada ulteriormente.
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106 – Hanno creato un social network fatto solo di bot. https://www.camisanicalzolari.it/106-hanno-creato-un-social-network-fatto-solo-di-bot/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Leonardo spa: “complicitÀ con israele attraverso la fusione di drs e rada”. nuovo dossier di bds italia
@anarchia
La settimana in corso, tra il 13 e il 18 ottobre, è quella indicata dalla campagna di Boicottaggio, Disinvestimento e Sanzioni (BDS) Italia come “settimana di azione contro i caccia F35 israeliani“. I caccia F35 prodotti dalla
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80 anni. La #Fao festeggia mentre la Striscia muore di fame | il manifesto https://ilmanifesto.it/la-fao-festeggia-mentre-la-striscia-muore-di-fame
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L'AI ha raggiunto una coscienza e poi c'era la marmotta che incartava la cioccolata...
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Ma questo non placa le proteste di piazza al grido di "meno stadi più ospedali". Record mondiale di 16 vittorie consecutive per la Nazionale del Marocco https://www.italpress.com/record-mondiale-di-16-vittorie-consecutive-per-la-nazionale-del-marocco/
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Tutti, in Italia, a dileggiare la nazionale africana per i suoi (soli) 500000 abitanti. Ma quando nel 2018 l'Islanda, che ne aveva meno di 400000, fece lo stesso, non ricordo simili polemiche. Non sarà.. Breve storia dell'assurda qualificazione di Capo Verde ai Mondiali https://www.ultimouomo.com/capo-verde-qualificazione-mondiali-come-e-successo-storia-nazionale
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Avemo abbassato le tasse! €40 in meno a chi dichiara 30.000 e €440 in meno a chi dichiara armeno 50.000
Tutto finanziato dar drenaggio fiscale che è na vita che nun aggiornamo le alicuote IRPEF e manco i criteri a base ISEE così senpre più gente cade in fascie de reddito più arte
Evviva er trucchetto de valutà i redditi de oggi co i criteri de un decennio fà. Na finezza proprio! Tanto chi de voi ce capiscie de ste cose? 😆
