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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: "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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxloiLT3Z1o

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9jKCgNYwuk

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHoNdR9BUE

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:

https://brianaltano.bandcamp.com/track/rei-ayanami

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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJp4XEU-yA

¹ Including a 303, meaning at a certain point you can catch him actually running TWO 303s AT ONCE

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

https://linkwood.bandcamp.com/track/outside-in

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfPn5zJXXg8

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

https://stomping-grounds.bandcamp.com/album/lividus-ep

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

https://social.ordinal.garden/@t36s/114661161710502396

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnPu9RU28HE

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.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9nk7pqcGk

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF4aNc96JYQ

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

https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/track/canton

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".

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=153555

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?

https://voidfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/all-fours

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=220eDjcDSlM

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.

https://erasedtapes.bandcamp.com/track/four

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.

https://youtu.be/oAPUoFP3yxI?si=4sZ6PZ8s5fnLHCp6

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

https://mfdoom.bandcamp.com/track/pause-tape