What I'm listening to today: "/", Second Woman

You've heard of the "Shepard Tone", right? That's a sound design trick where a sound appears to continuously increase in pitch without ever retreating back down to give itself space. There's a variant of that for drum beats called a "Risset Rhythm".

This song, from a Telafon Tel Aviv/Belong collaboration, uses the Risset trick plus some seriously weird production to make a dreamy, alien, not-quite-danceable dance track:

spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/tr…

/, by Second Woman

from the album S/W

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What I'm listening to today: "Sweet Dreams", La Bouche

When I think about 90s "dance music" (I don't even know what actual genre I'm even talking about. "Eurodance"? Was that later?) I think La Bouche. They were the Archetype. All their hits sounded about the same, they all had cheesy production and cheesy raps and were all *extremely effective*. This *works*, it really works, this music was created with a Purpose and it succeeds at it hard. Listen without judgement

youtube.com/watch?v=b9McVO9hpU…

La Bouche - Sweet dreams (Official Video)

The official video of La Bouche to „Sweet Dreams“. You can listen to all songs of La Bouche here: https://bio.to/LaBoucheDC Subscribe to the channel and acti...

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What I'm listening to today: "Set U Free", Planet Soul

So it's the mid-90s, I'm in junior high, I love techno but it's not so easy to come by in Texas. But 104.1 FM, the pop-rock radio station for Moms, will play "dance music", & some of it's pretty good. And then there was the "Planet Soul" song, which was *great*. This song's weird, progressive, does strange things with tempo, but its laid-back groove is so accessible even KRBE will play it, as long as it's after 8 PM

youtube.com/watch?v=Ip6OmReVmI…

Set U Free

Provided to YouTube by BMG Rights Management (UK) LimitedSet U Free · Planet SoulEnergy & Harmony℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (US) LLCReleased on: 1996-01-01...

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What I'm listening to today: "THEM5000 (Monomachine only track)", Dataline

A futuristic, kinda IDM-y electronic jam. Flits stream-of-consciousness between several different ideas while maintaining the same dark groove. Actually kinda feels like a little mixtape, except for the fact it is six minutes long. Nice energy.

Made on the Monomachine, the old idiosyncratic Elektron box that defined the sound of SOPHIE and Quaristice-era Autechre.

youtube.com/watch?v=q8nyRgppkn…

Dataline - THEM5000 (Monomachine only track)

Monomachine recorded multitrack into Ableton. Download Monomachine Sysex file, Multitrack recordings and Ableton Project file at: https://dataline.bandcamp.c...

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What I'm listening to today: "DigiLogTokyo Microne, Synthernet 8888, CSK ParipiDestroyer, and ACID bass synthesizer prototype", Tekitounix

A short, frantic acid piece, so fast it feels like it's about to run off its rails at any moment. Goes real hard and ends with you wanting more. Just another 30 seconds please

I previously linked a jam on this same trio of handheld devices, but in that one the third device was an unlabeled breadboard. I guess it's named the Microne.

youtube.com/watch?v=jBR87qm6dv…

DigiLogTokyo Microne, Synthernet 8888, CSK ParipiDestroyer, and ACID bass synthesizer prototype

#synthesizer #synthdiy This video is entered in the contest #digilandbeats on Twitter.https://twitter.com/Tekitounix/status/1556633639336951810Contest detai...

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What I'm listening to today: "PlayStation jungle Mix 2 | drum & bass, Frutiger Aero, liquid, Y2K, intelligent", Dopo Goto

This uses similar instrumentation to Goto's "Mix 1" for a totally different feel, instead of focused and driving this is laid back and dreamlike. There's an emotion I don't know how to describe, there's a kind of this warm feeling in the nerves of my spine when I'm either on the verge of falling asleep or about to start crying. This is that in music

youtube.com/watch?v=Owldd4hs7w…

PlayStation jungle Mix 2 | drum & bass, Frutiger Aero, liquid, Y2K, intelligent

A mix of dnb and jungle as far as technology needed to go00:00:00 • A Song To Nuttertools00:06:21 • A Song To Nailgun00:14:04 • A Song To Jet Set Radio00:2...

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What I'm listening to today: "Dracula Forever", Clarke Jaxton Motorbike

This YouTuber has a series of live-performance electronic jam videos, in each case accompanied with floating captions telling a little short story. It's fun! The stories are good.

This track's simple but is a real bop. Made with 2023 vintage devices but has an 80s feel because those two devices happen to be Roland's desktop SH-101 clone and Teenage Engineering's new take on an 80s lo-fi sampler.

youtube.com/watch?v=sGfQjV9bKc…

"Dracula Forever" -- EP-133 K.O. II and Roland S-1

You can find me on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/01FeMfXbDIDqbi9O3GxGtL?si=HOdyeEq0RtKvVI3VN1HQ4wand Instagram:https://instagram.com/clarkejaxton?i...

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What I'm listening to today: "memory", hkmori

If you've seen a video bouncing around instagram/tiktok with a funny cartoon drummer and titled "Breakcore in a nutshell", that's hkmori, from her song "anybody can find love (except you.)".

This is my favorite hkmori song, where she executes the breakcore formula expertly (and moodily) but mixes it up by dropping in dense clusters of 808 kick drums where the Amen chops would normally go, resulting in a really unique sound.

youtube.com/watch?v=JX-efXxODu…

hkmori - memory

reuploaded to FINALLY fix issueshttps://soundcloud.com/hkmori/your-memory-will-stay-with-me-foreverhttps://hkmori.bandcamp.com/

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What I'm listening to today: "High-tech Low-life", Slowerpace

This artist has a series of albums framed as OSTs of nonexistent Playstation 1 games. This song for example supposedly plays during the opening cinematic of "Pyromaniacs" (tagline: "Violence Is Sometimes The Only Way"), apparently a Shadowrun game that failed to secure the license at the last second.

This track's got a great feeling, a warm blanket in the chill, sounds like if µ-ziq had tried to do trip-hop.

slowerpace.bandcamp.com/track/…

High-tech Low-life {intro}, by slowerpace 音楽

from the album PYROMANIACS

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What I'm listening to today: "Playstation 1 nostalgia ambient atmospheric jungle drum and bass mix", Dopo Goto

This is one hour of pure vibes. Muffled, laid-back 90s-future jungle atop a visualization of a lo-fi cyber city and songs with names like "A Song to Fall Through Textures" "A Song to "Insert Disc 2" "A Song to Remember Aeon Flux". It says "mix" but it's more like one piece of original music with nine movements, powerful focus music, like ambient but high-energy

youtube.com/watch?v=uXsZz4bwEY…

Playstation 1 nostalgia ambient atmospheric jungle drum and bass mix

This is a music adderall, a journey back to the late '90s, evoking memories of pixelated landscapes and the ethereal glow of cathode-ray tube screens00:00:00...

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What I'm listening to today: "Bound By Secrets", Nebula

I coaxed this out of the YouTube algorithm during a week I briefly managed to train it to feed me nothing but early-90s jungle recorded from original vinyl. Actually it turns out this song was released in 2014 and exclusively as FLAC, but whatever. This is some atmospheric jungle with a lovely, loose jazz windup at the start. Jungle always gives me a sense of being in darkness and this is like whispers in the night

nebulasciwax.bandcamp.com/trac…

Bound by Secrets, by Nebula

track by Nebula

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What I'm listening to today: "It's All Nothing Until It's Everything", KNOWER

Some more KNOWER, but in this one they get a lot more noisy. Bitcrushed bass and chiptune pads. There is jazz piano and a string section in the kitchen. Taco Bell

youtube.com/watch?v=NDpeHQUSWT…

It's All Nothing Until It's Everything - KNOWER

BUY ALBUM: https://linktr.ee/knowerLYRICSSilence is always listeningCalls me we talk a little bitBigger you go the smaller it is isWay too fast for getting ...

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La Bouche is definitely Eurodance, though the genre was already popular by the time they formed. The singing-woman-rapping-guy formula was pretty well established, Snap! and 2 Unlimited are notable examples.

I came into it for real similar reasons to you, it was the closest thing on the radio to the sorts of .MOD file / demoscene music I was real into. There were plenty of MOD covers of eurodance songs, too, which was pretty amazing in the pre-MP3 era.

I used to call this a guilty pleasure, but I'm long past the point of guilt. Shit's just awesome as hell. I did a huge thread of eurodance bangers last summer: retro.social/@ieure/1107927371…

What I'm listening to today: "Wonder Panorama", Ippo Yamada (Dual YM2612 remix by rigid_atoms)

This is emulation. But I want you to imagine a monstrosity: Someone disassembles two Sega Genesis units, removes the sound chips, wires them to a breadboard and commands them to play at once. And then arranges a song from "Mega Man ZX" for it. This arrangement has an impossible-feeling sparkle to it. The millennial brain knows, at a deep level, a Genesis can't make this sound.

youtube.com/watch?v=a0aZ_oypvH…

MMZX - Wonder Panorama (Dual YM2612 Remix)

Join Megamix, a place for Megaman fans and remixers! Anybody can join it, feel free ^^ https://discord.gg/VteVBwRI must be honest: I was about to drop out of...

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What I'm listening to today: "Volca Drum Techno Pattern #9", Mateusz Wicher

A skeletal detroit techno track made entirely on a series of budget/toy devices, all visible in frame. A complicated pattern on the Volca Drum, and the Pocket Operator Arcade, which is usually used for bleepy chiptune noises but here gets filtered to produce uncharacteristic spooky pads. It's got a nice focused groove.

youtube.com/watch?v=qFPh9B1thf…

Volca Drum Techno Pattern #9 (with PO-20 Arcade and Monotron Delay)

Volca Drum Techno Pattern #9Used equipment:Korg Volca DrumTeenage Engineering PO-20 ArcadeKorg Monotron DelayRakimix 5 Channel Mixer KitTascam DR05This time ...

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What I'm listening to today: "Étude for Modular Synthesizer No. 1", Modular Beat

"Modular Beat" is a YouTube channel that posts near-daily modular experiments which, oddly, almost never contain beats. Here's a song that doesn't remotely sound like it was made on a modular synthesizer, an incredibly charming piano serenade backed by uncanny strings. The piano sounds incredibly human and acoustic but apparently is the result of a complex phasing algorithm (from a Norns).

youtube.com/watch?v=S7dcMfcQkP…

Étude for Modular Synthesizer No. 1

As a general rule, the longer I spend on a song the less I like it. That's why I usually just record whatever I have at the end of a session and move on to s...

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What I'm listening to today: "Dominant Male Monkey Mother F* ☠️ Ambient // Evil Live Jam ☠️", Winterkeep

So I'm listening to this and at first my reaction is "the title promises this live jam is going to be evil, but this really isn't very evil at all?". But then it gets evil.

Gentle organs with a tinge of dread giving way, to skittery beats and saw phase crackle and bass headaches

youtube.com/watch?v=2rUq8DyEvu…

Dominant Male Monkey Mother F* ☠️ Ambient // Evil Live Jam ☠️

A fun session with the Model Cycles and Infinite Jets providing most of the noise, along with notable mention of the Korg Minilogue. Starts chilled, ends up...

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What I'm listening to you today: "i'll let you know", Kalla

I continue to be fascinated by the genderfucked zoomer breakcore artists. This is a short blast of drill & bass, a quick sharp splash of water in the face. I think this is one of the standard jungle breaks but they're using it in an unusual way.

As with the previous Kalla track I linked, this is a SoundCloud/YouTube exclusive.

youtube.com/watch?v=rjH1RZt1eu…

kalla - i'll let you know

#breakcore #ambient

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What I'm listening to today: "Titan", S 57

Dense faux-retro synths and breaks accompanied by psychedelic MPEG-glitch visuals. I'd call this a dark dance track but it actually may be moving a little too fast to dance to. It's intense.

A space probe you sent out in the 1970s has finally after years of silence sent back a signal but now somehow it is evil and corrupted. That's what you're watching here.

youtube.com/watch?v=JRgtbYur6p…

Titan

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What I'm listening to today: "Sound Check pre serata - 03052024", Michele Giletto

A modular synth jam based around the Make Noise Shared System. It's thumping and intent, Detroit style, with feedback as a musical element. It builds a really cool feel out of minimal elements, I like the way the rhythm seems to kind of catch on itself.

This one's 10 minutes long, if that's too long for you 6:20 would be a okay time to stop as it enters a kind of separate movement then.

youtube.com/watch?v=3NExSjzAbH…

Sound Check pre serata - 03052024

analog is the way (out)

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What I'm listening to today: "Battery Driven", quadratschulz

This is a quirky little hiphop jam on a small collection of handheld/toy synthesizer equipment. Featuring 808 tom bips, Chase Bliss pedal mangling, and extended vocals by Miku Hatsune. For serious. That stylophone looking thing is the "Gakken Otona no Kagaku NSX-39 Pocket Miku Singing Keyboard", an officially licensed Vocaloid product. Skranky

youtube.com/watch?v=FeSrYpB53J…

quadratschulz - Battery Driven

PO-14+PO-32+NSX-39+TX-6+MOOD. Improvised and unedited. This happens when you ask me to bring something small, battery driven to your party. ;-)

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What I'm listening to today: "Desmorph", AcidTonic

Made on one of those wall-sized modular synth racks, the artist describes the video with "Loose ended live improv. First take."

A chill but determined groove undergirded by erratic drums, with a sense of low menace starting to creep in in the second half. Good zone-out music.

youtube.com/watch?v=pkh9xgNapl…

Desmorph

Loose ended live improv. First take.#dawless #electronicmusic #eurorack #indiemusic #live #music #youtuber #dancemusic #darkmusic #improvisation

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What I'm listening to today: "Techno Live Jam 3 || Subharmonicon, Dfam, Eurorack, Ableton", Sorrowless

This is a driving electronic jam I think I'd describe as "industrial" or "dark trance". The sounds are made on a couple modular synth racks so a neat property of this one is far as I can tell all the drums are being generated live from analog circuitry. Intense, exceptionally clean, effective production and it's all done on some evening's whim for uploading to YouTube.

youtube.com/watch?v=rsVyQ1zS3m…

Techno Live Jam 3 || Subharmonicon, Dfam, Eurorack, Ableton

#electronicmusic #techno #technomusic #technojam #moog #subharmonicon #dfam #eurorack #eurorackmodular #modularsynth #modulartechno #modularmusic #ableton #a...

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What I'm listening to today: "Crazy (Acoustic) (Instrumental)", Seal

We don't talk about this but Seal is extremely good. From the "Maxi-Single" for Crazy, my theory is the concept on this track was they had two separate Crazy remixes that, each, didn't quite feel worth putting on the single by themselves, so they wodged them together on one track and said "okay, now it's interesting enough". It is a good vibe actually. General MIDI jazz

youtube.com/watch?v=F6TfY6J-oT…

Crazy (Acoustic) (Instrumental)

Provided to YouTube by Warner RecordsCrazy (Acoustic) (Instrumental) · SealCrazy℗ 1991 Sire RecordsEngineer: Ren SwanEngineer: Robin HancockLead Vocals: Sea...

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What I'm listening to today: "Crazy for Love", D'Breez (Autechre remix) (alleged)

I've mentioned the super-rare "MASK" record series of untitled, anonymous b-sides by friends of Skam Records. From MASK 500 (500 copies printed), which had a theme of unauthorized remixes of 80s hits, here's Æ doing an otherworldly but highly danceable mix of a song that now appears to be lost media (I can't find the original or its lyrics and the Internet barely records the band existing)

youtube.com/watch?v=_1bTis9ee3…

D'Breez / Crazy for Love [Autechre Remix]

from Mask 500 (1999) on Skam records. One of my favorite danceable tracks. The EP it's from I think is absolutely great too.

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What I'm listening to today: "You're Not Alone", Olive

Eventually the "dance music" era of the 90s (soft rock radio will play some techno) gave way to the "electronica" era (rock radio will play some techno). Right on the border in late 1996 dropped this lovely europop song with some legitimately hype sampler work. Listen to this in stereo (headphones or whatevs).

Bonus: This "lyrics" video upload was mis-encoded and starts glitching interestingly about 20 seconds in

youtube.com/watch?v=gLojuBjppD…

Olive - You're Not Alone (Lyrics)

Olive - You're Not Alone (Lyrics)📧 For all enquiries, please send an email to - uklyrics@hotmail.comSubscribe and turn on notifications to see new videos fi...

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What I listened to today: "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)", En Vogue

Here's a song from that brief, magical junction point in the 90s when hip-hop, r&b, pop, "dance music", and the OST to the SNES "Paperboy 2" were all briefly the same genre. And then there's the video, which increases the sense of all things conjoining by loading up with 50s R&B imagery. 90s kids, you've heard this song but have you ever really listened to it? This is a bop. This is so charming.

youtube.com/watch?v=JIuYQ_4TcX…

En Vogue - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) (Official Music Video) [HD]

Official music video remastered in HD for En Vogue - "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" from the ‘Funky Divas: Expanded Edition (2022 Remaster)’ availab...

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What I listened to today: "Straight Up", Paula Abdul

If I ever have to explain to someone what the Synclavier was, I will simply play them this song.

This song might actually be the exact point the 80s pop production style peaked. There's so much going on here! The sampled flutes. The Scarface visual gimmick on the the video. I spent years wondering why the worst possible retaliation she could imagine inflicting on her partner was to go "a ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba".

youtube.com/watch?v=El1kgCqD7X…

Paula Abdul - Straight Up (Official Music Video)

REMASTERED IN HD!!Official Music Video for Straight Up performed by Paula Abdul. Follow Paula Abdul:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulaabdul/Facebook:...

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What I'm listening to today: "Cristal Baschet- Bass Euphone Song", yatsoosh

This dude built, from raw metal, an all-acoustic unamplified instrument based on the "Cristal Baschet" designed by the Baschet brothers in the 50s. The idea is you glide wet fingers on glass rods, and the vibrations are amplified by those giant metal plates. Having built the instrument the guy composed a song for it, which he also sings accompanying lyrics to, *in Latin*.

It's… incredible.

youtube.com/watch?v=YfqBuoT_0z…

Cristal Baschet- Bass Euphone Song

Song in Latin with an accompaniment of the Euphone instrument I built, inspired by the designs of the late Baschet brothers from France. I attempted to const...

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What I'm listening to today: "Prague", David Prescott

This was recorded in Boston in 1987 and distributed exclusively on cassette tape (by an experimental music label in Germany named "Prion Tapes"). A symphony of noise, too loud to really be "ambient", this is an hour* of feedback and mysterious unknown electronics. Coil fans take note

* What I'm really trying to call your attention to here is "Side A" (the first 28 minutes) but side B does have its own nice prog vibe

youtube.com/watch?v=TxMwKkn2xW…

David Prescott – Prague (1988)

A Untitled 0:00B Untitled 28:45Recorded "Live" in Boston, 18/11/87.

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What I'm listening to today: "deep dark places", Frederick Aloysius Palowaski

To film this video the musician seems to have stuck his phone inside a modular synthesizer, revealing a cavern-like space beneath the loops of the cables. He then plays for you the ambiance of this dark space. Slow booming echoes of a tortured cymbal sample over meandering Karplus-Strong bass, a dream constantly on the verge of becoming a nightmare

youtube.com/watch?v=ZMH4nTzuwj…

deep dark places

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What I'm listening to today: "Ghosts", 潘PAN

Taiwanese trap music. On this track Pan Wei Ju raps in Mandarin about generational trauma and domestic violence*, over booming, ominous beats produced by Clams Casino. Just a really grippingly chaotic piece of nightmare music

* It was only after I listened to this song a bunch of times I realized the official music video, linked below, has an English translation in the expanded YouTube description. It hit me really hard.

youtube.com/watch?v=cRIedFzs-8…

潘PAN - Ghosts (Official Music Video)

Taken from 潘PAN's EP, Ghosts, out now via Transgressive Records: https://pan.ffm.to/ghostsFollow 潘PAN:https://www.instagram.com/pan_the_pansexual/https://twi...

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What I'm listening to today: "4 (part 1)", MSK (Dusan Zatkovsky)

This is a FastTracker2 (DOS) song from 1996, one of a few dozen untitled tracks this artist composed around that time. Starts with bitcrushed ambiance and then rises into epic dance beats. I feel like this track crystalizes the moment in which it was created in an amazing way. Makes me think of dark screens with glowing text and spaceships rising in low earth orbit and other things that existed in 1996.

youtube.com/watch?v=_OOdGqr7Eq…

MSK (Dusan Zatkovsky) - 4 (part 1)

https://modarchive.org/module.php?166931

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What I'm listening to today: "The Angler", Mateusz Wicher

A lo-fi, indistinctly unsettling hip hop jam getting a lot of mileage out of desktop equipment. Roland's 2021 refresh of their old 00s sampler, glitchy guitar and some noodling on the Volca Keys. The YouTube summary describes the genre as "Boom bap".

The voiceover sample is from an interview with surrealist horror artist Zdzisław Beksiński, so, extra content on this one for any Polish speakers reading this

youtube.com/watch?v=f11FIys81l…

the angler | boom bap, instrumental hip hop, lofi | Roland SP-404 MKII | Korg Volca Keys

the angler | boom bap, instrumental hip hop, lofi | Roland SP-404 MKII | Korg Volca KeysUsed:Roland SP-404 MKIIKorg Volca KeysYamaha PSR E363Tascam DR-05Samp...

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What I'm listening to today: "Ch0mp1 vs T3rrA", 0rgAn1K

We're in a golden age of skewed-musical devices that cost between $100 and $2000 and are designed more to delight the musician than to produce music.

Here two musicians face each other, one with a Kickstarter sampler made from keyboard parts, the other with a SOMA touch-activated noise synth built into a tree trunk. Ambient music results but this isn't about you hearing it. It's a communion between these 2 people.

youtube.com/watch?v=SKVRZ8LQ7T…

Ch0mp1 vs T3rrA

Live performance with Chompi and Soma Terra.

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What I'm listening to today: "Thunderdome" (chip part), Ultrasyd

"Thunderdome" by Checkpoint is a 14-minute Atari ST demo that won a 2014 compo in Poland. One of the main attractions was a 5-minute opening rave techno track using the Atari STe's additional PCM audio chip, but what interests me is the score in the second half, which works the hell out of the ST's unusual original sound chip. Great sound design and an intense energy like something straining at its limits.

youtube.com/watch?v=4UVsOB5sm6…

[Atari ST] Ultrasyd - Thunderdome (Chip Part) (Oscilloscope View)

made w/ corr, ffmpegnow with correct tone+noise emulation from sc68

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What I'm listening to today: "She Loves Me That Way", Grouper

I think this is "post-rock".

A little pocket universe built of guitars, strumming and indistinct voices through so many layers of echo the echo is all you hear, gently cocooning you, the way you remember Mazzy Star sounding but it technically never actually did

grouper.bandcamp.com/track/she…

She Loves Me That Way, by Grouper

from the album A I A : Alien Observer

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What I'm listening to today: "4-23-24A Bastl Generative Patch", Edwin Perry Manchester

Gosh, I love Bastl. Bastl makes DIY-flavored sound machines with quirky behavior. Here five of their boxes (four of them from their cheap "Kastle" line, each device powered by two AA batteries and two ATTiny microcontrollers) are cross-wired to create an indescribable madness.

AI is not necessary for a machine to have unknowable complexity, or for that matter personality

youtube.com/watch?v=d-TvAZvk81…

4-23-24A Bastl Generative Patch

Generative patch using Softpop V1, Kastle 1.5, two Kastle Drums and Kastle Arp. The pattern out on Softpop controls the pitch of 1.5, audio output of that go...

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What I'm listening to today: "LYRA-8 + Modular Synth // Experimental Drone", Sakai Meno

I've featured the LYRA-8 so many times in this thread that I had to kind of introduce a moratorium on it for a while, but this track makes the LYRA exciting to me again by using it as a kind of base oscillator and processing its boomy sounds through several out-of-focus racks of modular synth, adding texture and structure.

Imagine a sunrise being eaten by happy robot alligators

youtube.com/watch?v=SRg9HPGvJE…

LYRA-8 + Modular Synth // Experimental Drone

#somalaboratory #lyra8 #modularsynth

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What I'm listening to today: "Upside- Down VHS III", A Beautiful Burning World ft. FERRIFET

So if I understand this correctly, this is VHS footage where the tape's been removed from the cassette & re-inserted upside down, causing it to play back backward and all messed up. The artist sets this video to some noise ambiance from a previous collaboration and it hits the tone perfectly. I realize I describe a lot of music as "ominous" but oh my god this is super ominous.

youtube.com/watch?v=YRGQER_XF0…

Upside- Down VHS III

More VHSC Camcorder footage copied to regular VHS and played upside down This track is taken from My second Collaboration Album with @ferrifet7267which you c...

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@sleet01 I have un-fond memories of AdLib from game music that tried to emulate conventional instruments, really badly.

Yet when it leans fully into sounding like an '80s synth, it's astonishing. Awesome track!

What I'm listening to today: "Samsara", Diode Milliampere

This is a song for the OPL3 FM chip (ie, the Sound Blaster Pro), composed (and here played back) in Adlib Tracker II for DOS, for an album the musician recorded in 2014 and released in two formats: On Bandcamp; and on a 3.5" floppy disk shipped in a tiny pizza box.

The song begins with strange FM beeps that slowly coalesce into chill trance music, with spacy, futuristic vibes. Very quiet but has a strong energy

youtube.com/watch?v=NBMoIYrJW_…

Diode Milliampere - Samsara

Samsara by Diode MilliampereFile format: .a2m ( OPL3 FM Synth )File size: 17 KBPlayed and recorded in AdlibTracker II and Dosbox staging.https://soundcloud.c...

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What I listened to today: "audioreactive generative visuals with pure data", Artiom Constantinov

PureData is a flow-based visual programming environment, Max/MSP's weird open source little sister. I think Ryoji Ikeda uses it? Here it simultaneously generates music & a captivating, glitchy visualization (warning, some flashing). Pours enigmatic, alluring sounds all over you for two minutes, then abruptly stops leaving you imagining a half dozen possible truncated futures

youtube.com/watch?v=ULBP8iouw4…

audioreactive generative visuals with pure data

#puredata #puredatagem

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What I'm listening to today: "Seven", Koreless

A fun little electronica track. Has enjoyably strange sound design and a peppy, shuffling beat, as if you'd caught Burial on an up day. The video (which is not a still image) actually seems to encapsulate the track pretty well, something that the longer you look at it starts to seem fleshy and organic in an unidentifiable way.

youtube.com/watch?v=4h5XSSjLQi…

Koreless - Seven

Seven available now on Young: https://koreless.ffm.to/seven

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What I listened to today: "illogical", Jack Howell

"Music 2000", released in America as "MTV Music Generator", was a complete and apparently highly capable DAW released as a commercial video game for the Playstation 1.

Jack here has a YouTube channel where for 15 years he has consistently uploaded nothing but Gran Turismo 2 recordings and songs made in Music 2000. He uploaded this one this weekend, and it rocks actually. Grinding rave techno with 303s and Juno hoover.

youtube.com/watch?v=001Z0sHkD_…

Music 2000 - Illogical (PSX)

^YouTube

What I'm listening to today: "Lougie", Nappy Nina

Chill and quiet and incredibly driven. This is some bumping hip hop with unique, off-kilter production and unique, off-kilter flow. I've been listening to this artist all week and her and her collaborators have built their own particular unique concept of how hip-hop works and how it sounds, self-contained and self-confident. I can't decide which track from this album to post so I'm just going with the first:

nappynina.bandcamp.com/track/l…

Lougie, by Nappy Nina

from the album Mourning Due

^{Nappy Nina}

What I'm listening to today: "Waves", Kendall :3

Dream pop that feels like suddenly waking up, with tendrils of sleep still clinging to your brain. Really feels like less a song as just an emotion there's no word for, packaged into an mp3 file, something you swim in as Barroo croons to you over cool abstract synth noises. I really like this album overall but this track really stands out. A loud quiet thing

(PS: Yes, the ":3" is part of the artist name)

heylol.bandcamp.com/track/wave…

waves, by kendall :3

from the album hey

^{kendall :3}

What I'm listening to today: "One for the haters", Modular Beat

This video has a fascinating rant in the YT description, where the poster complains about context collapse and people expecting him to post finished pieces when his channel is a personal project log, then describes this piece that failed and got totally remade last-second.

It's beautiful. There's a catchy hook but it's presented skeletally, like ambient music, on a simulated guitar that keeps glitching out

youtube.com/watch?v=D4WCVixA6e…

One for the haters

I imagine most folks who take the time to read these notes know that this "channel" is just a personal journal of almost every session I have had since I got...

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What I'm listening to today: "yea, but can it ,*#*\ ! ?", mononoo

I'm never sure how "weird" I can get away with getting, with the track suggestions here. But can I ask you to trust me? This one sounds like just random noises but there's a pattern here, there's a design. Imagine a lake with stones sticking out of it and you're leaping from stone to stone, moment to moment, sound to sound, stringing together more and more fluidly until suddenly you're swimming

youtube.com/watch?v=7XvicVnFM2…

mononoo - yea, but can it ,*#*\_! ?

Mainly exploring feedback, distortion and overcompression within my modular. The sounds do get quite harsh sometimes, but I really love how a relatively simp...

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What I'm listening to today: "Buring The Summer", Sorrowless

A bubbling energy simmering under a sea of pads. Based around a sample I can't identify that sounds like one of the various Radiohead knockoff bands from the 00s, but the song that results actually sounds like real Radiohead, like this could be an unused King of Limbs remix or something. Atop this some nice-sounding 0-coast beeps/gleeps and clicky Elektron beats.

youtube.com/watch?v=yGztUisl6N…

Buring The Summer - Lofi Ambient Downtempo Live Jam || Digitakt, 0-Coast, Astronaut V

My farewell to summer.Recorded and mastered live in Ableton with:Pro Q-3Pro L-2Kush Audio AR-1Oeksound Soothe 2Ozone ImagerOzone Maximizer#livemusic #jammusi...

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What I'm listening to today: "Calculated Movements", Larry Cuba

This is a really cool proto-CG short film made in 1985, on an obscure 80s microcomputer made by a pinball manufacturer. It's like CGI by someone who'd never heard of CGI, or a music video by someone who'd never heard of music videos. The music holds up too, cool abstract vibraphone. If you'd told me this was made in 2010 by Com Truise I'd have believed you and wondered about how they did the film effect

youtube.com/watch?v=OkyqP-g_Lr…

What I'm listening to today: "Useless Machines", Francis Harris

Ambient-ish electronica with some lovely sound design. Waves of rolling pads like sunlight crawling through the bedroom window in the morning. This whole album has nice vibes actually.

francisharris.bandcamp.com/tra…

Useless Machines, by Francis Harris

from the album Thresholds

^{Francis Harris}

What I'm listening to today: "A Life In The Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)", Outkast

Right before breaking up Outkast dropped a double album where each CD was effectively a solo album by one of the two members. Andre 3000's disc ended with this epic 5-minute slice of Autechre-reminiscent production and mind-twisting rap wordplay, in which Andre gives us a complete autobiography up to 2003 when the song was recorded and then halts with "…and that's as far as I got".

youtube.com/watch?v=QXPWQqXv2z…

What I'm listening to today: "Coded Language", Saul Williams

Okay so I feel really bad about not linking you the album version of this (which is produced by Krust of Roni Size & Reprazent), *but* I really want you to hear how incredible Saul Williams is unaccompanied. This is from a 2004 appearance on MTV Def Poetry Jam and is just an amazing piece of performance. The piece is, uh, a sort of position paper. Watch the video.

youtube.com/watch?v=jzY2-GRDiP…

What I'm listening to today: "LOOK OUT FOR DETOX", Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick is now a 17-Grammy-winning institution, but his introduction to the world, outside indie mixtapes in LA, was this incredible, minimal YouTube video from 2010 originally posted as promo for a never-released Dr. Dre album. Not helping Dr. Dre much here I guess, but as an intro to Kendrick Lamar it was absolutely unforgettable, just a verbal onslaught in which Kendrick does not even stop to breathe.

youtube.com/watch?v=B5eT6TaEtP…

What I'm listening to today: "Dead in Motion", Antipop Consortium

This group (and its members' solo acts) have a sprawling, poorly preserved discography with some true high points; this is from 2002, when they briefly broke through into near-public-consciousness with Arrhythmia, a fun album that plays with electronica production.

The video here is a deconstruction of "Hamburger Hill", a 1987 film that explored the experience of Black American soldiers in Vietnam.

youtube.com/watch?v=esXFNTlLxU…

What I'm listening to today: "Black Ice", Goodie Mob ft. Outkast

This is an Atlanta group from the 90s whose name expands to "the Good Die young, Mostly Over Bullshit", and who introduced the world to Cee-Lo Green (not present here). The mood here is absolutely immaculate and gives a good intro to the timbres the Dirty South was introducing the world to at this moment. Also, a video featuring Big Boi walking a dog in an Astros jersey with the *old* design, the good one

youtube.com/watch?v=lIDKZSF6y8…

What I'm listening to today: "untitled 02 | 06.23.2014.", Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar thinks *big*— his albums have huge concepts and are stuffed with ideas. Which makes this one album, an unlabeled collection of unused songs, easier to digest for me because tracks stand alone more. This one track's amazing, downtempo dark jazz over a trap beat.

The second half of this song is universally agreed to be a style parody of Drake, but it doesn't seem mean-spirited to me.

youtube.com/watch?v=_GghFQ8ryE…

What I'm listening to today: "Twice the First Time", Saul Williams

Saul Williams is a rapper/spoken word artist who militantly refuses to acknowledge a distinction between the two sides of that slash. This was his "first" song, before he started making albums, it showed up on some compilations and since has been mostly "lost". It's still my fav of his, a traffic pileup of violins and beatboxing. One of the strangest and most beautiful pieces of hip-hop I've ever heard.

youtube.com/watch?v=2GVrcTAeD0…

What I'm listening to today: "grtrax1", Lime68k

This is from "hsptltrx", a 3-track release that (as creator @Lime explained when she posted a link on Mastodon last week mastodon.social/@Lime@post.lur…) was improvised in generative-music environment Max/MSP "while being bored at the hospital".

This track is a melange of alien-sounding chimes and mysterious thumpy noises. Gorgeous timbres, bells ring but you're in some other dimension where air and sound transmission work wrong

lime68k.bandcamp.com/track/grt…

grtrax1, by Lime68k/1x1

from the album hsptltrx

^Lime68k/1x1

What I'm listening to today: 2024-07-01 Mastodon post, Daniel M. Karlsson

I've followed @t36s on "social" a long time, and it's been cool because he's very open about his process, often posting source code to generative Supercollider apps used to make his music.

This is a piano recording he posted last week saying he found it "inside" another piece in progress. In itself it's breathtaking, hyper-minimal but with such strong emotion. This feeling of incredible isolation

social.ordinal.garden/@t36s/11…

Daniel M Karlsson (@t36s@social.ordinal.garden)

Attached: 1 audio I found a very quiet piano music inside the piece I'm writing now. Most likely it will not be heard underneath everything else later on.

^{ordinal.garden}

What I'm listening to today: "haunted days", Luna SC

I've really been enjoying this person's "tmod" series of modular jams. (So far linked in this thread: 3, 4, 21.) In this one a buzzing air-raid drone serves as anchor for an evolving series of glitchy, unpredictable beats, meandering synthesized Guqin plucks and I Care Because You Do noises. Wanders from point to point but by the time you reach the end it feels like it was leading you somewhere specific all along

youtube.com/watch?v=0u3DvNBLuW…

What I'm listening to today: "One for the lovers", Modular Beat

A thing I mentioned about Modular Beat once before is few of his posts contain beats. In this followup to the song I linked Monday—and apparently buoyed by the kind comments he got in response to his complaints about YouTube—in this one MB goes all out. Shuffling dance music, but not at the tempo of dance music, unless you're dancing the Charleston. Actually, this would be perfect to dance the Charleston to

youtube.com/watch?v=NB_4vYIm2v…

What I'm listening to today: "the last time i met u", ykort

This is another of those anonymous anime-girl-avatar zoomer breakcore artists I've been liking so much lately. This track is not breakcore as such, though it does have breakbeats. If I say this reminds me of Arovane will that mean anything to you? Crisp, thoughtfully-arranged beats and pleasantly artificial-sounding guitar samples. I was listening to this album and this track stood out like a signal flare.

ykort.bandcamp.com/track/the-l…

the last time i met u, by ykort

from the album mite miru (full album)

^ykort

What I'm listening to today: "(Jungle) 1993", Remarc & Lewicifer

This is a mysterious 46-minute cassette tape of the purest vintage jungle, over which a man speaks unintelligibly in a recurring low patter that makes me think this was recorded off a radio (that, and the distinctive sound at 16:40 of interference from a 2G cell phone). Jungle is one of those genres I feel like I could just listen to forever and if I did I think it would sound like this

Featuring: RICKY!!

youtube.com/watch?v=hT0Cw2janI…

What I'm listening to today: "am i overreacting", hkmori

This track has a gloriously unique style, somewhere halfway between soundcloud breakcore and 90s alternative rock. 3 minutes long, constantly on the verge of clipping, and bursting with nervous joy

On hkmori's bandcamp you can find this song on the album "panic attack in bed"

youtube.com/watch?v=ElR00vi43d…

What I'm listening to today: "Theme for a Late Night Documentary About the Dangers of Drug Abuse", White Town

youtube.com/watch?v=aS-1haZDxi…

This is from "Abort, Retry, Fail?", the UK EP that "Your Woman" (the one song you probably know White Town) was originally released on. In a post on Mastodon ( mas.to/@Jyoti/1126912686590762… )
Jyoti Mishra says this song was recorded live in one take.

This track is *unbelievably* sick! Crispy, Warp-ified techno, from the era hip-hop was still on the Braindance agenda

Jyoti Mishra

2024-06-27 23:51:37

Talking about electro and whatnot sooo...

Here's a tune I did in 1994. It's a live jam, straight to DAT via my Tascam 688.

songwhip.com/white-town/theme-…

Enjoy!

#ElectronicMusic #Electro #Techno #LiveJam #JX3P #MoogRogue #MC202 #TR808 #BossBE5

Theme For A Late Night Documentary About The Dangers Of Drug Abuse by White Town

Listen to "Theme For A Late Night Documentary About The Dangers Of Drug Abuse" by White Town on any music platform

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What I'm listening to today: "SY85 and MMT-8 jam", Quiet & Peaceful Man

This YouTuber uses two chonky plastic devices from hip hop's age of legend (1988, 1992) to make some quirky, funky hip-hop EDM. The Yamaha keyboard on the right with the prominent built-in floppy drive is a sampler/wavetable synth and is making all sounds including the drums; it's being driven by the standalone MIDI sequencer on the left. Neat to see someone operating a MMT-8 in realtime honestly

youtube.com/watch?v=o67yYu3FDB…

What I'm listening to today: "Love Fantasy", Equinox

Here's a 2004 track made by a jungle artist but not really fitting into any particular genre, or rather it takes Jungle as a starting point (dense beats, spooky abstract vibes) and from there launches off in its own unusual direction. A strange and satisfying, borderline-glitch drum chop-up pattern over synth shimmers.

youtube.com/watch?v=XRh2XBLcKd…

What I'm listening to today: "Clock", Plaid

Plaid are a duo from the early Warp Records cohort (originally part of The Black Dog, which is on Artificial Intelligence 1 as "I.A.O.").

This one makes an impression right off the bat with a cool fluttery string-synth sound, then snaps into some fun electronic pop (surprisingly poppy in fact, given this is from electronica's thinky faction). That LFO sound is like candy for my brain

plaid.bandcamp.com/track/clock

CLOCK, by Plaid

from the album The Digging Remedy

^Plaid