Ricordiamo che su Poliverso non sono ammessi post che esprimano odio o disprezzo verso categorie di persone: questo tipo di contenuti determina la sospensione immediata! Si possono esprimere opinioni di ogni genere, anche in controtendenza rispetto al comune sentire, ma ci sono delle regole da rispettare.
Queste sono le regole di Poliverso:
0) L'utente deve conoscere la fediquette, una netiquette del fediverso 1) L'utente che utilizza Poliverso deve sentirsi più felice, più sereno, più aperto alla discussione e più fiducioso nell'intelligenza e buona fede altrui. In caso contrario è meglio che cambi istanza 2) Poliverso è parte del fediverso e vuole continuare a farne parte: ogni atteggiamento ostile o comportamento tossico verso utenti di altre istanze comporterà la sospensione 3) E' vietata la pubblicazione di contenuti illegali, contenuti disturbanti (senza contrassegnarli come sensibili), spam, comportamenti e discorsi d'odio e disinformazione (trucchetto per individuare la disinformazione: se prima di postare un contenuto la prima domanda che vi ponete è "Come posso sapere se è disinformazione?", allora è disinformazione) 4) Sono consentiti account istituzionali, commerciali o promozionali, purché la comunicazione avvenga in italiano e non sia equiparabile allo spam 5) Friendica non dispone di un sistema di moderazione: per minimizzare i rischi di sistema, gli utenti che non seguono l'amministratore o che non gli rispondono tempestivamente, potrbbero essere espulsi dalla piattaforma. 6) Se vuoi dare un'occhiata alla timeline locale, guarda qui. Se non ti piace, puoi iscriverti altrove (qui puoi esportare il tuo account per portarlo in un'altra istanza)
Esiste una #fediquette? La risposta breve è sì, ma abbiamo creato un post per spiegarlo meglio. E ricordiamoci sempre che la parola #fediverso contiene le radici delle due parole più importanti per la socialità universale: alleanza e diversità. #Netiquette
"There are several possible dates you might pick, but for me it will always be September 5th 2014 - when I committed the first sketch of a specification I called ActivityPump and pushed it to Github."
The obvious choice for ActivityPub’s birthday would be the 23rd of January 2018 - the day it was annointed as a W3C recommendation. That doesn’t seem quite right though - its not as if the spec came into existence in any sense upon that date. In fact, Mastodon implemented it before thne.
It wouldn’t be until November that I actually submitted (a revised and enhanced version of) that draft to the working group, but even then I had the very nucleus of the specification written down.
Merci pour ce message. Nous, les humanitaires (ou ex humanitaires) qui luttons pour #Gaza depuis des mois et des mois, attendons toustes l'électrochoc. Est-ce que celui ci sera le bon ?
Voici la traduction du titre : tout est une question de perspective
Et du alt :
Une carte détaillée du bassin méditerranéen tournée de 90 degrés dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre perturbe immédiatement la sensation d'un paysage familier et fait ressembler la mer et les côtes environnantes de la Grèce, de l'Italie et de l'Afrique du Nord à des cartes tirées d'un roman fantastique ou d'un royaume fictif mystérieux.
(En gros c'est la vue de l'Europe qu'ont les palestinien.es de #Gaza)
'Google has agreed to pay a $55 million fine after it admitted that deals the tech giant struck with Telstra and Optus, banning them from installing rival search engines on some smartphones they sold, amounted to anticompetitive conduct.' afr.com/technology/google-fine… #competition #auslaw #auspol #competition #ACCC #monopoly #telcos
The consumer watchdog has scored a victory against Google, after the search giant agreed to a $55 million penalty over deals with Telstra, Optus and TPG.
Piove! Qual'è la migliore app android per il meteo secondo voi? Ne avevo trovato una carina ma mi piacerebbe fosse più privacy oriented e non si vendesse tutti i miei dati. #android #app #meteo #tempo #WeatherForecast
io uso Windy. È dettagliata per i venti, amata dai surfisti. Però mostra le previsioni meteo e ti permette di vedere le previsioni secondo i diversi modelli meteo. A me pare che il modello ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) sia quello più preciso, ma la mia opinione non fa statistica. Inoltre c'è la versione a pagamento, ma io ho sempre usato quella free e non ho mai avuto necessità di fare l' upgrade.
sulla questione privacy non ti saprei dire ma sulla qualità delle previsioni secondo me 3BMeteo è una delle migliori, poi uso Windy per le mappe interattive.
@ramocalnasip @dariosoldi grazie a entrambi, su vostro suggerimento sto provando windy e devo dire che è molto interessante. Se non mi martellano in continuazione chiedendomi di pagare magari me la compro anche 😂
vogliono mettere la cintura di castità alle persone con utero e tenere loro la chiave? perché le donne abortiscono? perché rimangono incinta non volendolo semplicemente esercitando il diritto al benessere sessuale e la contraccezione? certo ora esiste, ma nessun mettodo è sicuro al 100% senza aborto legale, gratuito e sicuro non c'è uguaglianza dei diritti tra gli esseri umani
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Oggi ho scoperto i Kunstautomat, distributori automatici d'arte. Sono un'idea originale e secondo me carinissima: un vecchio distributore automatico di tabacchi diventa un mezzo per mettere in contatto gli artisti locali e il pubblico. Con 4 euro si può prelevare una scatoletta preparata da un artista con una piccola opera, il suo CV e I suoi contatti. Ecco il sito del progetto tradotto in italiano: translate.kagi.com/translate/i…
@valhalla Grazie per il link, non conoscevo. Dunque, in realtà no, nel senso che ogni artista può metterci ciò che vuole (se capisco bene dal sito), inclusi manufatti o oggetti. La card che ho trovato io è su cartoncino e riporta la firma sul disegno, ma dietro è vuota. Ma nulla vieterebbe di metterci un'ATC dentro, volendo...
ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to buy iris scanning technology that its manufacturer says can identify known persons “in seconds from virtually anywhere,” according to newly published procurement documents.
Originally designed to be used by sheriff departments to identify inmates or other known persons, ICE is now likely buying the technology specifically for its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) section, which focuses on deportations.
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Mio fratellino (storia lunghissima che racconterò, forse, un'altra volta) è ipovedente. Purtroppo essendo nato sordo, non parla nemmeno. Grazie agli impianti cocleari sente e capisce quasi tutto, ma non emette suoni. Grazie alla tecnologia, però, sta imparando a comunicare. Sa leggere e scrivere al computer, anche se solo su nostro input, mai in modo spontaneo. Usa una tastiera fisica per ipovedenti, con tasti grandi e ad alto contrasto, e la gestisce discretamente bene. Recentemente ci siamo dotati di una lavagna interattiva per supportare il suo percorso educativo e di sviluppo. Ho collegato la tastiera alla lavagna, ma non vuole usarla: preferisce stare in piedi e utilizzare quella virtuale direttamente sullo schermo della smart board (o forse semplicemente associa la tastiera fisica al computer... poco importa!).
Problema: la tastiera virtuale dobbiamo ri-attivarla spesso, inserire il CAPS LOCK (sa leggere e scrivere solo in maiuscolo) e con certe app non funziona.. Ecco perché avrei bisogno di una tastiera virtuale — che rimanga sempre visibile, o almeno di facile attivazione, sullo schermo della smart board — ad alto contrasto e con lettere maiuscole. La lavagna è basata su android.
Mio fratello ha 13 anni, in piena pubertà. Mentre il suo sviluppo cognitivo è attorno ai 6-7 anni. Difficile dirlo
Lui vive con mia madre, che non è più giovanissima (70). Anche se se la cava bene con la tecnologia, a volte può essere un ostacolo.
Io e miei altri fratelli andiamo spesso a darle una mano, ma ecco..non siamo sempre lì con loro. Per questo avrei bisogno di app semplici da utilizzare (dell'installazione posso occuparmene io)
Ciao, uso la tastiera Heliboard, che è un progetto open source. I tasti sono maiuscoli e si può personalizzare nei colori e nella grandezza.
La visibilità della tastiera avviene quando un campo "scrivibile" ottiene il focus, quindi direi che dipende o dalla app che usate come board, o dai criteri di accessibilità del dispositivo. Possono essere alterati?
Diversamente, potresti provare a chiedere supporto agli sviluppatori, o qualcuno abile col codice del progetto open, provando a spiegare la situa in inglese e affidandoti a qualche anima pia che possa sviluppare l'opzione di non nascondersi.
Anche se, una tastiera visibile, che non può scrivere, diventa di intralcio e peggiora l'usabilità dell'interfaccia.
@Tassoman grazie mille! Proverò Heliboard. Per quel che riguarda i criteri di accessibilità del dispositivo, credo che siano piuttosto limitati ma ammetto che non ci ho smanettato molto.
Sul fatto di avere la tastiera visibile quando non bisogna scrivere, è vero è di intralcio e probabilmente gli confonde il campo visivo già limitato. È solo che con lui dobbiamo sempre essere pronti. Magari un secondo vuole scrivere e quello dopo no...
Potrebbe farti comodo questo sito. mondoausili.it/ricerca?control… Ha varie cose, non solo per ipovedenti, fra cui dei costosi video ingranditori. Ma direi, se serve solo tastiera, conviene prima provare le app sullo Store.
@Low res Loud audio grazie di cuore. Non conoscevo il sito ma ho visto che alcuni ausili li abbiamo già (tipo la tastiera low vision o comunicatore CAA - che non utilizza 🙁 ). Darò un'occhiata, magari scopro qualcosa di interessante.
Le tastiere che ho provato dello Store non soddisfacevano le nostre esigenze - ma ammetto che non ho avuto molto tempo per testarle e smanettare.
Capisco, fra l'altro senza condivisione (noi sul Fed ne siamo l'emblema 😅, ma ci aiutiamo anche 😀 lo smanettio fa male.
Vedo che la CAA è ora intesa come ambito generico, fra cui ad esempio la LIS... Spesso la riduciamo alle schede con immagini e testo, che nello specifico sarebbero PECS, quando per l'ipovedenza ci sono i dispositivi VOCA (o SGD). mondoausili.it/vocas/ Poi non solo per i costi valuterei bene l'apporto alla comunicazione fra noi e il fratellino, altrimenti povero.
I VOCAs (Vocal Output Communication Aids) sono comunicatori vocali, generalmente costituiti da uno o più aree sensibili grazie alle quali è possibile registrare e riprodurre uno o più messaggi.
@Low res Loud audio grazie. La comunicazione è un grosso problema, negli anni abbiamo provato di tutto. Le PECS con lui non funzionano molto perché tende a mostrarci la prima scheda che gli capita in mano e trascinarci fisicamente verso quello che vuole, indipendentemente dall'immagine sulla scheda. Anche coi dispositivi "comunicatori" funziona poco, non ha pazienza. La sua richiesta deve essere soddisfatta nel giro di pochi secondi..altrimenti si arrende e non usa più lo strumento che invece dovrebbe facilitare la comunicazione. Ora adottiamo un approccio misto: LIS semplificata (c'è un metodo chiamato PORTA sviluppato dalla fondazione Svizzera a favore di persone sordo-cieche), qualche volta scritte al computer, schede tipo PECS (solo per alcune cose), ma è difficile perché ormai è grande.. Noi in famiglia lo capiamo abbastanza bene, ma dobbiamo fare in modo che possa farsi capire anche dal mondo esterno.
Sullo spazientirsi immagino, però senza conoscere quei dispositivi, pensando alla nostra tolleranza nello star davanti a uno smartphone (che promette continuamente strane ricompense). Ho lavorato per brevi periodi in situazioni simili ma mai con questo tipo di disabilità. Ultimamente nel conoscerne uno in situazione informale la vedo diversamente ma non facile. Bene che abbiate trovato strategie e, per quanto non facile estenderle, se c'è dell'altro condividi pure, qui qualcuno ascolta.
@Low res Loud audio grazie mille. S la sua situazione è complessa e purtroppo non ci sono molti professionisti in canton Ticino in grado di darci un aiuto concreto, per questo abbiamo sviluppato delle strategie un po' fai-da-te. Da condividere avrei tantissimo.. e fa piacere sapere che c'è qualcuno in grado di comprendere 🥰
@poliversity Mi spiace. Non saprei da che parte prendere. Situazione troppo complessa - so che ci sono tastiere virtuali ma non ho idea per android. Provare a contattare gente tipo Leonardoausili (è un sito web) o la lega del filo d'oro
@aimee80 non si può fare molto con queste cose qua, se uno un ausilio non ne vuole sapere, non lo userà (come gli anziani col bastone; quanto fa incazzare i parenti?)
@Elena Brescacin lo so, non lo forziamo assolutamente. È che in estate esisteva solo la LIM e la piscina per lui, ora non entra nemmeno nella stanza dove ci sono i dispositivi 😅
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.
heard you have a design for a banknote featuring Maria Curie-Skłodowska without one of her last names, which would suggest she was French. How about fixing that?
@matt @coq First of all you're wrong (it's just not very common right now due to Adobe's de-facto monopoly). Second: it's about promoting ethical software, not what's mostly used right now. How the hell is that concept so hard to understand for some people.
@Natanox @coq If someone said "Blender is great for making 3D animated movies" then I would be able to tell that the 2024 Oscar-award-winning movie Flow is a good example of some free and open source software being used for just that purpose.
But as someone who uses a myriad of design tools professionally on a Mac and runs GIMP on Linux at home, I can tell you how horrible GIMP is to use compared to other industry standards.
@Natanox Nor against the fact that EU could invest on making GIMP a professional efficient tool 😉 Few people use LibreOffice… nevertheless French gendarmerie is using it, Denmark is migrating, etc. @matt
@feike @coq @matt They plan to, they still don't do it. In fact some regions of SH once again procurred MS Windows Server, Office 365, Windows 11 and all-new computers for at least another 4 years. Problem is it's a very stretchy goal, not a direct order. So the "Behördenfilz" doesn't move an inch until something breaks.
@matt If that was your opinion all the time you shouldn't reply with something among the lines of "Nobody uses GIMP, it's shit" to a demand for public promotion then. If you didn't mean it that way make that clear, with /s or something. Now you just appear disingenious.
@grayrattus Learning at school with only one tool is a problem. You don't learn to adapt, you aren't resilient by design. This is part of the problem. Same issue with Microsoft Office. @Natanox @matt
@coq @grayrattus @matt This. I know how PS works as well, but it really isn't easy to adapt to GIMP. The control schemes and some concepts are just too different. Companies buying into our schools is the biggest disaster of it all regarding this topic.
@Natanox @coq @matt yeah but like with all similar tools. Layers, masks, algorithms over pixels, transform tools, brushes. Everything else is sadly program specific
Still if you are a good designer or digital artist tools do not matter much. At least thats what I noticed after learning a bit about art.
@grayrattus @coq @matt Of course the concepts are pretty much the same, that's not the issue though. It's more a career & company problem. If you've learned Photoshop and that's what you can interact with it's also what's in your resume, and if everyone learns it companies start expecting it as baseline. Additionally relearning to sth. else takes time and causes your productivity to temporarily tank, which is costly for companies. Also it can't be done bit-by-bit (incompatible project formats).
I have an idea that would be fitting. But that symbol is not yet allowed in germany again. How to submit without legal problems? ;)
(Edit: Since some people dont understand sarcasm, I'll explain. I am suggesting the EU should use explicit symbols to reveal the inhuman and incresingly racist stance of their member states. I am of the opposite extreme. My symbols would be red star or hammer and sickle.)
@haui neither EU nor NATO is anywhere near the war in Gaza, you fucking moron. At worst they're uninvolved, though in reality they even help with humanitarian aid a little (despite Israel). You'd do better reading some fucking Wikipedia than being all-around hero in the replies.
@haui @mks_h Bro, Dude, my guy. The EU countries are literally applying the most pressure in Israel for what they do in Gaza together with Canada in comparison. Not enough, absolutely not (and yes, of course there were a lot of historical mistakes). But you won't change that by painting them as mere culprits. And regarding humanitarian aid the EU was indeed always on the forefront.
There are many ways to vent or criticize the EU and help Gaza/Palestine, but what you do is just being an asshole.
proposal: Lady Justice. Cause #justice is lacking lately, internationally, and with this #symbolism, #Europe can signal it firmly stands behide the rule-of-law.
Hello @havchr! This design contest is open on equal terms to all natural or legal persons resident or established in the European Union. Check the rules here: europa.eu/!6bW3f9
@havchr So no Snøhetta? What a pity! Then again, in Norway where they designed the banknotes one rarely sees them. I myself only use physical money when I do not want to be tracked. And in Germany, of course 🙄
They’re a hoot, aren’t they? 🦉 We love owls too, @d1. Are you considering submitting an application for this contest? Check out the rules here: europa.eu/!6bW3f9
I'd rather have European icons like Sofia Corradi, inventor of Erasmus, over the 50th iteration of a bird on a tenner, like Qatar, Australia, Canada, Argentina, Gambia, Honduras, New Zealand, literally half the planet has a boring bird/nature design. We could have 🇪🇺 icons instead:
Sophie Scholl, Magda Klompé, Simone Veil, Sofia Corradi.
make a euro with Trump on it, a bunch of gas pipelines in a burnt landscape, also don't forget to add some dead Palestinians. That pretty much sums up what Europe stands for.
euro banknote contest reaffirms our shared heritage, yet with a #DigitalEuro on the horizon, how will digital wallets echo these motifs? Will apps & security features mirror nature & culture? #UXDesigners devs & experts: thoughts? #EuroDesign #CBDC #FinTech
Hello @RedTechEngineer! This design contest is open on equal terms to all natural or legal persons resident or established in the European Union. That means as long as you are based in the EU now, you can apply, regardless of where you are from. Check the rules here: europa.eu/!6bW3f9
Hallo @nik! Wir suchen talentierte und innovative Designer:innen, die in der EU wohnen, einen relevanten Abschluss und mindestens ein Jahr Arbeitserfahrung haben. Von reich und berühmt steht in den Regeln aber nichts. 😉 Hier kannst du mehr erfahren: europa.eu/!6bW3f9
I’m normally not interested in this kind of contests, but damn! designing the euro?… the reach of it… and the themes includes birds? I’m sold! I do have a request, though: don’t accept AI generated submissions. It’s disrespectful with our profession. I beg you: include a clause to ban AI generated submissions, please! Thank you.
Not only had the Dutch the only currency that never experienced a hyper-inflation together with the Swiss frank. Not only did they had the oldest currency still running in the world, but they also boasted the most colourful most beautiful designs for their money too.
@druid It's much more than one can write in one post because it's as rich and divers as the countries and people belonging to the EU. If you need inspirations, visit one of the cultural heritage centres in Europe or labeled sites.
I liked the bridges, was a bit annoying that only one country decided to actually build all of them as an art project. Would have been fun if multiple/all did that and the answer for "where is this bridge" was "all over Europe".
When asking "AI" European culture described as a casual photo is apparently old car-less cities with a lot of people on the streets. And ngl, that is kinda fitting but maybe not that great for the euro bank notes...
The response for what it considers European food however doesn't make as much sense. It returns Lahmacun, Schnitzel, Döner, and Pizza. So their dataset may not be the best in that regard...
It should be a picture of the destroyed Gaza. European values in action. Total destruction sponsored, paid, supported, tolerated by European governments.
Hello @ciredutempsEsme! Designers will receive more than ✨exposure✨, they will also be financially compensated. The design contest is conducted as a public procurement procedure by the European Central Bank. You can read all the details here: europa.eu/!gkj9DR
I'm a designer living in the EU, originally from the US.
I love many things that the EU does (thanks!!! 💞). However, having a "design contest" is not a good idea for many reasons.
I know you're likely well-meaning, but here's the No!Spec site for info: nospec.com/
(You wouldn't have a "diagnose contest" with a bunch of doctors working without pay. You wouldn't have a "dining contest" where people cook food for free for the chance to be a favorite restaurant. Etc.)
Might take a stab myself, but I'm not a big fan of letting Adobe live rent-free in your head and show their UI as the default. There's no place for proprietary garbage in the government.
Really want an honest answer here and not a full blown Linux cult answer.
I'm a new dad (kid is 1.5months old) who used to game pretty hard and do music production in cakewalk and ableton, but the crotch goblin is getting in the way. With windows 10 support coming to an end, I'm faced with a choice to either jump on the Linux train or take the safe way out and eat win11. Please keep in mind that I run a super clean machine (no porn (that's what mobile is for) or tormenting or anything sketch) and have no intention of doing anything unclean. I have a lot of music prod data that I don't want fucked and a steam library that I want access to but don't really care about the data associated with them (saves, profiles...i could care less). So it's really my ableton and Cakewalk files I want to keep. There was a time I college 2010-2011 where I borrowed a CS majors Ubuntu laptop for a few months to just get work done (just webbrowsing and office app stuff). Shit was annoying and difficult to understand but I was able to make it work-ish.
I'm savvy enough where I can adult Lego a PC together but struggle when it comes to software and troubleshooting and really don't have the time for that stuff.
Basically, I'm not in the position right now to learn a distro and struggle around with all that crap and I need to keep my music shit. I also despise Microsoft and AI in general but I'm perfectly fine just eating it for simplicity. Is there a low effort Linux solution to my situation? Looking for automatic updates where I just click "express install i don't fucking care" and im not searching for drivers every day.
My build is basically what's shown below minus the SLI'd 1080s and with 32gbDDR4. Any upgrade apart from the gpu would essentially mean a wholesale at this point. I used the 2nd card to build my wife a pc since SLI is effectively useless now.
EDIT: Didn't notice your system specs at first. While it looks like your motherboard technically supports the TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11, it also looks like your processor might be too old to be supported by Windows 11. Check to be sure before going down the path below. You might only have an option of going to Linux in this case.
Unpopular opinion from a user who uses Linux as his daily driver for everything:
If you're using stuff like Cakewalk/Ableton and want to be able to do so again in the foreseeable future, stick with Windows. You said you're not super savvy at troubleshooting, so I wouldn't want to send you down the path of trying to get Windows software running on Linux through WINe because it's sometimes pretty finicky. Especially with a rugrat in the mix, you just don't have the time to be fucking with it.
Windows 11 Activation: massgrave.dev/ (In case you no longer have a free upgrade path)
WIndows Debloat: github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloa… (A powershell script for getting rid of bloatware, telemetry, and other crap from Windows)
How To Set Up Windows 11 Local Account: (to avoid having to use a Microsoft account to log in)
Also, I strongly suggest a clean wipe instead of upgrade, as the upgrade path leaves a lot of weird stray stuff that can be annoying. Back up everything that's important to you on an external drive (or really any drive except the one your OS lives on) and re-install the OS, set up a local account during install, use Massgrave to activate Windows, and then use the Debloater to get rid of bloat.
Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.
That's still asking for them to learn to use something entirely new that they might simply not have the time to learn about: Bottles. This person said they're not savvy at troubleshooting. The last thing they need to be confused about is even getting Bottles running and then installing Ableton.
Go with windows. Especially because of your abelton use, you will not be able to keep it. With steam if you play multiplayer competitive games then it won't work either on Linux.
normally id say "linux is free, there's no harm in giving it a go", but between your lack of free time, nvidia graphics card, dependence on proprietary software, and previous experience (and slight distain) for linux i'd say just go with win 11.
there may be a way to get your music software to work in linux, but youll likely need to mess around with wine configs and it may never actualoy work right.
if you are interested ever, fire up a vm and play around with linux to get comfortable with it. maybe when win11 reaches eol (or even before) you'll want to make the switch.
none of this is said to scare you away from linux. searching for drivers is rarely a thing in linux. there are built in tools in most distros to deal with graphics drivers, but apart from that, given the open source nature of linux, everything else is just handled by kernel modules and are basically seamless unless you have some weird proprietary hardware. linux is fairly easy to use these days, but there is quite a bit of a learning curve because it is a fundamentally different os than windows, and the way you solve problems is very different.
I've wanted to be able to spend the time to jump to Linux for a while but the sex trophy demands attention. Maybe when I can leave him alone without fear of strangling himself on a stray wife hair or less, i could look into it. I've also thought about just dropping another 2-3K on another future thinking machine and using my current for Linux experimentation. Maybe I start the crotch goblin on Linux with this machine after I buy new and transfer everything to a new one.
I’ve also thought about just dropping another 2-3K on another future thinking machine and using my current for Linux experimentation. Maybe I start the crotch goblin on Linux with this machine after I buy new and transfer everything to a new one.
This is actually a pretty good idea considering your current specs may not actually be able to support Windows 11. It's a little unclear whether you'll be able to get it running because while your motherboard meets the TPM 2.0 requirement, your CPU is technically listed as not being supported.
It won't officially work, but it's not too hard to get it going. I just moved a similar box to 24H2 LTSC.
OP, you'll probably need to run "setup.exe /product server", or follow a recent guide. You'll also need to do this for every major upgrade (i.e. yearly)
I agree though with the plan to use this as a test ground. I also recently upgraded a Lubuntu system to similar specs, and it runs pretty smoothly. But learning Linux takes a lot of time they don't have.
Save your money. Kids are expensive. Dual boot or use a live ISO and toy around with Linux mint. Keep Windows 11. You got a lot on your plate. I loathe saying this but use windows for the important stuff and get your Linux thrill from a dual boot or side project. Linux can be full time but until you can jump all in you seem to want backup from others to tell you to go the sane/safe route for now.
I ended up switching to Linux recently for same reasons, but my kids are older and i had time to nerd out and go full Archwiki. Ableton was one of the last holdouts that was keeping me from switching.... and I spent a good month dicking around with wine trying to get it to work. And I couldn't! I ended up selling my Ableton license and buying Bitwig, which is natively supported in Linux, and actually pretty amazing... (I don't expect you to switch, just telling my story. It has really fun modular synth-like interface, with all the other VST support and quite good out-of-the-box plugins etc.)
I also couldn't get Affinity Photo working in wine.... and gimp doesn't quite do it for me. So I'm not sure what to do there, so my photo editing hobby is on hold til I figure that out.
That said, some of my other windows stuff works magically in wine (sierrachart, games, etc.).
So with all that in mind, I'd say if you don't have time to figure it out, and still want ableton to work, it might not be worth the mental load until you have more time on your hands. Unless you have an old laptop lying around, it wouldn't hurt to just try it and see what you can get working.
I do physical synths / drum machine as well, in fact I basically use a daw as a mixer with effects 😀 The latency is good, and I don't have the newest machine or anything. On Linux it's super easy to combine interfaces too, like I have my tr-8 (drums) as a multitrack USB interface, and an 8i6 for my synths, and it combines them way easier than I could do in windows! Take with a grain of salt as I'm an amateur, but for my purposes it's been great so far.
So, the questions really are can your hardware support Windows 11 and if not can you easily flip to Linux.
The Asus Z170 motherboard looks like it supports TPM 2.0, but it doesn't look like the i7-6700K does as that is a 6th gen Skylake CPU and Win11 starts at 8th gen. You might double check that with the TDM tool Microsoft offers though.
Cakewalk and Ableton appear to work in Linux, but not without some tweaking.
My suggestion would be to do nothing. If you can't update without a rebuild and you can't migrate without a lot work, just do nothing. Your Windows 10 installation will still work. You won't receive any additional updates for it, but if that is the best solution for you at this time, then that's what you should go with.
For the kiddo: Get a body wrap. It lets you because hold the baby to you securely while you do other things. I worked on-call shifts handling downed MPLS circuits for a carrier back in the day with my daughter strapped to me. A couple years later she would get to visit me at work. She was the only 2 year old who technically had PBX configuration experience (I didn't know the keyboard was still connected).
You don't have to upgrade to 11 for at least a year or longer. Register a free MS account for your win 10 and you get free patches for Win 10 for a year. Otherwise it's $30.
Linux for gaming is easy. For the most part it’s plug and play. I’m on an AMD CPU and an NVidia GPU, and I even do VR in Linux.
As someone who does a decent amount of stuff with DAWs; VSTs are tricky. You might be able to create a similar workflow to what your used to, and many plugins might work decently well, but for me at least it was a lot of fiddling about and it isn’t as smooth as I’d like. My comfort compressor works, but the UI doesn’t render.
I’ve gotten my music workflow to work alright, but it’s wonky enough that I don’t do it as much anymore. Thinking about trying to start over with a new DAW and whatnot.
If privacy is a concern there’s a decent amount of stuff you can do to strip down Windows 11.
What screws me is the DRM iLock software. I've tried running Reaper in Wine/Bottles but the playback with guitar is no longer realtime due to the emulation/translation going on.
I just switched to an AxeFx FM9 so I don't need realtime playback as much but I can't use any of my Neural DSP plugins.
As most people suggest, I'd also recommend going with Windows 11 for this use case, but with the caveat that you should get a Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC license if you can find it.
It's the best version of the OS. It only pushes security updates, no new features ( this means xbox and candy crush won't magically show up in your start menu after major updates) and it comes with all the AI and Microsoft Store stuff stripped out.
Theoretically, this OS was designed for things like kiosk computers and control systems that need to maintain a stable environment, but it can do everything the pro version does with no hassle.
The downside is that it's hard to find. Microsoft won't sell it outside of volume license keys under enterprise agreements, but it is available through grey-market key sellers, and can be activated using the MAS if the high seas are an option.
Add another SSD and dual boot. Keep the windows 10 install for the audio software and use Linux for everything else. Nvidia cards will work in Linux, you just have to install the driver. That's just a couple of clicks in many distros. I would suggest sticking with a distro that uses X11 since Wayland can still cause some issues with Nvidia GPUs.
Id recommend mint, but ableton I have no idea. If you want to bite a different bullet if you go with linux, buy bitwig instead - its very, very much like ableton in the sense that you can map pretty much any parameter to any other parameter and I have enjoyed it a lot. super modern interface as well.
You basically answered your own question, to be honest. Linux is clearly not for you. Look into windows 10 LTSC. Teksyndicate made a couple of videos about it. Here is the one where he shows how to install it. He is also stuck on windows because of music. And for debloating windows 10, look into Chris Titus' Windows Utility script
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Cakewalk is what i learned on. It's a dumpster but it's my dumpster. Ableton is what my buddy and I decided to move to because he's on mac and it works for both of us.
There are different DAW's if you're open to it on linux. You'd (probably) lose your ability to edit your existing files, but you could also dual boot for that
It all boils down to how willing you are to troubleshoot an odd problem or post on a linux nerd forum. I transitioned from win10 to fedora KDE pretty painlessly, though I did have to hit up the fedora forum for an answer to a weird hardware issue specific to my machine. Learning to use the command line for doing a few weird customizations I wanted was a bit of a stumble too (though I've heard from my mint using buddy this isn't an issue on Mint?)
My steam library works fine with the default proton option enabled and my day to day experience has me forgetting that I'm even on a weirdo operating system made by FOSS cultists (love you foss cultists, mwah.) I literally do just press a button every couple of weeks that updates the system in the way that you're looking for.
If you're not in a position to change your workflow and deal with new stuff, you can simply use windows 10 lts for a longer support and postpone the decision between linux and windows 11.
Personally, I'd recommend trying linux some day. It can drain some free time at first, but in the long run, you will find yourself dealing with much less bullshit than windows, and actually saving time in your life. Some linux users like to make things complicated and pass their time tinkering with the system, so it passes an image of linux being like that, but if you run a simple and stable distro, things will work nicely and will rarely require your time. I'm running fedora for a few years, and my laptop became so boring. I just use it for my work and hobbies, and turn it off when done. No bullshit.
The kid is 1.5 months old and you don't have time? Once that kid gets mobile you'll really not have time! And I don't mean crawling or walking, I mean rolling and scooting.
When my kid figured out how to get places by rolling I had gotten up with her early on a Saturday morning and was letting my wife sleep in... I went to the basement and turned on the Xbox to pay some Rocket League and in the middle of a game she started to roll out of the room. I put the controller down and went to pick her up... 4 years later that controller was exactly where I had put it. She's now almost 9 and is a great gaming partner, and is getting into robotics, 3D printing, and is interested in programming, so I get to jump right back into my old hobbies, and pick up some new ones.
All that to say, Linux is only going to get better and Windows will continue to get worse, but there's more important things for you to have to worry about in the very near future than troubleshooting an OS that you're not familiar with, stick with Win 10 for as long as you can and some day you'll sit down at your desk and realize you have time to look back in at Linux and you'll find that it isn't nearly as difficult to use as you remember. Congratulations on the kid, it can be an incredible journey watching, and helping, a person emerge.
Dad of 4 kids here, I would say use the system that let you concentrate more on the kid and less on tinkering the OS.
Fedora could be a nice successor since it runs extremely stable, best way to be clean and safe are doing the updates, but I say this with 15 years of Linux experience.
Dad of 4 kids here, I would say use the system that let you concentrate more on the kid and less on tinkering the OS.
Dad of 3 here with 20something years on Linux already. This is the correct answer. Just go for win11 if that's the simplest route for you, Linux will be there once you have the capacity to learn it. With a new baby you'll be exhausted, you have a crapload (sometimes quite literally) new things to learn already and you just won't have the time to do all the things you used to (as you already know). Making things more challenging for you by switching to something completely new just eats the very little time you have for yourself.
My work laptop has 11 running on it and it's good enough. OS on that thing is not my call anyways, but at least on my workload it gets the job done.
Your lack of time is the biggest issue, followed by your music needs (which are not impossible but I also know its not plug and play).
I would recommend going with win11 for simplicity and times sake. I would also recommend at least trying out ameliorated windows11. ameliorated.io/
Basically their stock run book makes the OS far more secure and private by setting up an admin account and then making your account a standard user (the way it should be done). Then it strips out all the bloat, restricts services, and installs open source alternatives like libre office and libre wolf. It also drastically changes the UI, which most of it I like and some is meh, but its all much better than the crap stock UI. I run this as a VM for all the stuff I still need windows for and I love it. Nothings ever going to make windows not windows, but this is pretty close and a simple click install. I highly recommend it.
I'm not sure I can answer that in detail. Also, "safe" is kind of vague so I'm not sure what your threat model is.
But I will say that I would 100% be running it as my home windows if I wasn't using Linux. Do I think it's the equivalent? No. Do I think there's a possibility of Microsoft turning things back on with updates? Yes. But its far easier than running O&O and a bunch of power shell scripts to try to remove bloat and telemetry hoping you got everything. I have no complaints.
I'd say look after your kid and try out Linux a bit later when you have Leisure for it. You can use Linux and Windows in parallel on two computers networked with Samba.
Some things designed for Windows just don't work on Linux, Windows LTSC is a great choice for those situations. Some people have had better experiences, but debloating scripts have always been finicky and fragile for me. LTSC comes out of the box without the usual crap and there's no risk of it all coming back after an update.
You can grab a copy of LTSC 2021 and activation if needed, which will come with the Windows 10 UI and updates until 2032.
A lot of Linux distros are set it and forget it these days. Nvidia can be finicky though, so i suggest a distro that installs proprietary nvidia drivers for you—I think Linux Mint and Bazzite do that, though I'm not personally familiar with either.
The other thing is music prod which I am not familiar with. I've heard that there's a lack of Linux software for music prod but hopefully some other users who know more can explain what the situation is like on Linux these days.
Steam won't pose a problem. Steam does something called Proton, a compatibility layer allowing Linux users to run Windows game, and the vast majority of Windows games run flawlessly with Proton. Similarly, you shouldn't have to worry about losing saves, as Steam Cloud should save and transfer them all automatically.
I recently sucked it up and upgraded Windows 10 to 11. Music production is getting better in Linux, but there is still a whole lot of existing music software with no Linux support. Cakewalk for example has no Linux support, and I imagine getting it working in WINE with VSTs and whatever else would be an immense chore. Same story with Ableton.
That said, if you don't mind migrating to a DAW with Linux support like Reaper, Bitwig, or even Ardour - which is open source and free - producing music with Linux is the easiest it's ever been. Just don't count on Linux support from a lot of VST makers who often require you use their software to install their VSTs. You can usually still install those VSTs, but it sometimes requires less than legal methods, and may be a hassle.
If you're a producer who mostly just uses a DAW as a recorder for hardware, it would barely be a change to your workflow at all. If you are reliant on Cakewalk and Ableton specific processes and VSTs, it would be much more difficult
Rather than leave another long reply to read, I'll leave my thoughts simple: if you have another computer you're not using, try Linux mint and see if it fits your needs. If it's too much and you can't get the time needed to figure things out, 11 might be the choice (for now).
But either way, keep Linux on the second and learn a little bit as you get time to! 😀
You're not experienced enough to install and maintain a Linux installation. Fuck those who says "Bite the bullet and just install Debian! It will never crash!" They won't fix it for you when it does.
You don't have anyone who's supporting you physically. They are not a phone call away. They are ten forum replies away and won't be there when you need them.
Windows 10 is no longer supported, but no one is forcing you to either uninstall or upgrade. You can keep running it if you don't care about potential security problems.
Windows 11 is bad, but not as bad as you accidentally sudo removed /etc/fstab in Debian. Between bad and unusable, ask yourself which one you want less. This is assuming you spent your whole life using Windows and less likely make major mistakes.
You can schedule your migration to Linux in the future though. Just build a second machine. You must have the money to build a second one. Don't fuck with your production build.
That's, not actually true at all? The original end of support date is Oct 14 this year, but it's trivially easy to get extended support until Oct 13 next year.
Whatever you do, don't switch to the react start menu OS.
Stay on win10 with an ltsc version, or don't. Get a second SSD or your crotch goblins mom's laptop that you install Fedora, LMDE or another "easy" distro on to experiment with. Either way, you are not in a rush. Win10 support ending is not as imminent.
Honestly, at 1.5 months it's hard. Really hard. But once you get the pattern down and sleep schedule starts stabilizing, say 4-6 months in, it may be your most productive time when you know the kid is asleep for the next few hours.
This is how I've learned to solder and build mechanical keyboards during the first kid hitting that age# and ditched ms shit for Linux during the second. There's always other challenges, but not having to deal with a user hostile OS reduces stress tremendously.
I would say the biggest problem is the music production on Linux. Especially VSTs - those are still hit or miss. And unfortunately the DAWs you mentioned doesn't have Linux support.
For example I was really trying to do music for several years on Linux, but in the end I gave up and now I'm dual booting Windows... 😿
Vst works fine with bitwig and yabridge I am not music producing but of curioosity I was trying to make this things works,even cracked paid big one part of plugins I maid to work
It works fine until it doesn't ... Some of the plugins were working fine but for example Line 6 Helix Native doesn't... Also Yabridge stopped working for me few months ago because the developer didn't have time to update some dependencies. 🤷🏻♂️
Your easiest way is to upgrade windows normally and if you dislike all it's bloated software, just install Atlas OS on top of it. It's just a software that will go through your windows and debloat it as much as possible. Simple as that. Easier done than reinstalling windows for an LTSC version. I personally have a dual boot with a win 11 with Atlas OS specifically for the software I can't install on Linux.
Ima say something controversial but, a stripped down Win 11 is perfectly fine. I’ve been using various Linux distros now for a good while and there’s still something just not quite right for non-enthusiasts.
So the simplest way to score a light 11 is making an ISOQ with the official tool, or rufus. Then use the unattended script to rip out everything pre/during install.
The next level up is using something like AtlasOS playbook with WindowsAME tool to rip everything out post-install.
Or you can completely customise your own ISO with (I presume it exists still, nlite or similar).
Or start with the LTSC/IoT offerings.
I really hope Microsoft release their Xbox variant for general install and not just handhelds.
bro just grab a cheap ssd and enclosure, install linux on that, slowly play around and setitup, if you like it eventually swap ssds or install it on your main one
I went through the hassle of dualbooting and accessing my drive through linux (not that much hassle but as a beginner it was), ended up uninstalling windows, but i had time to tinker, which is key to making me like it, I was okay with not having a usable pc and I learned what I needed/wanted as substitutes. If you don't have time experiment on a side device or using an ssd, they are fairly cheap now, you could even use a cheap fast usb if you don't mind it shitting the bed eventually.
damn could usbs be used as disposable os, i guess thats why tails is used that way, since its bad for the usb to use it that way, they are getting pretty cheap for the fast ones, idk why youd need a dispoable os you could lose at any second tho, maybe if it was very connected to a cloud service
Yes but don't use it for anything valuable. USBs have a high failure rate when used for heavy read writes.
You can get USB enclosures for M2 drives if you want to go that route a bit more reliably. Ensure you use USB3 (which will still be slow but not as boneachingly bad as USB2)
I think you could still use that music software on Windows 10. I'm not sure when they'll cut off support for outdated operating systems but I don't think many would jump ahead of Microsoft. Windows 10 being unsupported doesn't mean that much if the software you use is trusted and you have a disaster recovery plan.
It's important to have a solid backup policy in place for any data you don't want to lose. Regardless of whether you're on Windows 11 or Windows XP. If you want to keep using Windows 10, you can. Just gotta only install trusted software and use a browser that is getting security updates for Windows 10 (so not Edge, don't know which others will be fine). You can watch porn on it too, porn sites are only as dangerous as your browser is insecure.
Now, the question of gaming. Dual-booting into Bazzite should meet your needs (I've never used it) but the question is how to keep it away from Windows 10. I live booted into a system with Windows 11 installed and could easily view and modify all the contents. Any malware that gets through Steam's and Linux's protections could easily install ransomware and cookie-stealers on Windows 11. This is true just as much for running the games natively on Windows 11.
Seperate devices would solve the issue, but that'd be a waste. Security in computing really needs SO much work. There are so many levels to this. If your security posture is relaxed enough you can just hope no malware gets through Steam's checks and onto Bazzite, or into any of Bazzite's dependencies. With meltdown and spectre I'm failing to imagine how I could keep Windows 10 or 11 safe from malware from gaming beyond Steam's protections.
TLDR: Stick to Windows 10, install trusted software only and keep backups, dual-boot Bazzite for games, hope Steam catches any game malware I guess.
Kick the can down the road and download the MASgrave Win10 script (I think that's it, I don't use windows) that puts you on the Long Term support - iirc that gives you until Jan 2027. That's enough time to get through the zero parental sleep phase and be able to think clearly...
If that's of interest I'll dig the correct details out (ping me) or I'm sure someone else knows what I'm waffling about & will drop the link
Ableton and Cakewalk only work with Windows. Unless you have two PCs (one normal PC with Linux, and one workstation for audio-only, without access to the internet with Win10), then it's best to get a Win11 PC/solution.
From what I've heard of seen in the Linux community music production on Linux is not easy. There is a fair amount of tweaking to get audio working and connecting instruments.
Not all of us have been absorbed yet. I've used Linux in passing for years, but only now have tried just diving on outright. Previously my issues were RAM leaks, having to run commands on a laptop on every startup just to initiate wifi, and WINE performance. The former seem to be fixed, the latter seems to be about 89% there with Proton (I even use it for nongaming). Lutris drove me nuts, so Ijust use Steam to do the hard lifting.
Tldr, I recommend sticking with Windows or using two separate machines, one for music production running Windows, the other for running everything else with Linux.
Music production isnt great on Linux in my experience at least right now. If you use any paid plugins that are windows only, there's a good chance they won't run. I haven't used ableton or cakewalk but I use reaper which has a native Linux version, and even that had a lot of issues. Anything with ilok is a no go, even plugins that dont, I had a hard time getting working or if they did work, they crashed A LOT.
Gaming and other general use has been fine for me, ive even done video and photo editing on Linux and been happy with it.
If you want the easiest experience, I typically recommend Fedora KDE spin or kubuntu. KDE is a desktop environment that is very similar to windows and highly customizable. You'd likely feel at home on it. Immutable distro might also be a good option if you really want the "IDC just do the update" path. Harder to break, easier to manage from what ive heard but I haven't used them personally so maybe others that have can chime in.
I made a windows only box for music production and use Linux on my main PC. It runs windows 10 and is rarely connected to the internet except when I need it to be. If you wanna run Linux and make music, it can be done, but I had a terrible time with it and have given up for now.
So make a separate machine for music production and run Linux on your main pc or just run Windows is my advice. So far, this has been the best setup for me. I don't worry about my privacy, I can make music when I want, and I don't have to worry about incompatible plugins, crashes, stupid nonsense that gets in my way when i wanna make music.
I don't have many Linux friendly plugins that i can share unfortunately. When I tried running reaper on Linux, most things I tried either didn't run at all or crashed.
Best I had working was decent sampler. And even that didn't work great for me:
A FREE sampling plugin that allows you to play samples in the Decent Sampler format. Available in VST, VST3, AU, AAX, and Standalone for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS.
I think immutability actually takes away from the confusion and kind of makes the overall experience much more similar to windows where editing system files is something rarely done even among most power users.
Maybe you are right. But I have seen users say it is harder to set up and then the behaviors of flatpaks can be challenging. I have had issues, and I know what I am doing.
Probably the best choice if OP is dreading 11. Put it off, hope that in 3 years Linux support has matured even more for their use cases.
MS support has used this software themselves in an edge case where they couldn't get Windows to active properly.
You have two options here:
1) Enable the extended support (no pay needed with this software but if OP absolutely refuses to run it they can pay Microsoft money directly though it takes work to find where to do that at) and run on that for 3 years until 2028.
2) Upgrade to LTSC IOT using the method they outline at the link there. Again they have two options, one is free, the other is following that guide but paying for a gray-market key (G2a for instance) for LTSC IOT which would avoid running this software on their PC but would mean paying someone some money for a corporate volume key they're not technically allowed to sell. Which means support until 2032.
I made the jump to bitwig while I was still using Windows in 2019, and made the full jump to Linux as my daily driver late last year.
My mint journey was Mint (Cinnamon) > Debian (KDE Plasma) > Garuda (Dr4g0niz3d KDE plasma)
I think mint was great and I was still able to do a fair amount of gaming on it and Cinnamon desktop environment is very similar to windows so it's not too big of a jump.
Debian was fine - I wanted to use Plasma as the desktop environment because I wanted a touch customization for how I can set up windows, widgets, and different desktop panels. I had issues with some games on this though.7
I like Garuda but I would not recommend if you're not too familiar with tinkering and troubleshooting. In hindsight I probably should have gone with Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE plasma as its desktop environment). I have experienced some odd bugs with the desktop environment and I think it has to do with how nvidia and Wayland play with one another.
I haven't had a game that didn't run, the only odd bug I've had is some games won't recognize my new soundcard from bitwig.
using WINE and yabridge I've gotten all my plugins to work seamlessly as well - and that includes Omnisphere which is a beast on resources.
I was really fed up with the direction that windows has been heading for quite sometime.
TL;DR: I think mint or some Ubuntu distro would be a good fit for right now, and any future GPU upgrades consider something from AMD.
Stay on win10, if so the choice comes. Just get it debloated and maybe a better protection. If you are sure, get mint or other stable distribution, which I would recommend if you can have some spare time to figure out your setup. Most of the stuff should work out of the box
If you're going to have to change OS anyway you might as well try Linux first. I'm doing a trial run on Bazzite and so far has gone pretty smoothly with the gaming stuff. There's other stuff I'm having to figure out but I'm pretty optimistic that I will not be putting Win 11 on my desktop.
I kept my ref # for 11, but yeah, Bazzite so far suits my needs. Just now really getting used to Linux, and learning as I go. OMV on an old machine for my NAS confuses me more admittedly. Only thing frustrating with Bazzite so far is the locked os. I would like to modify the menu scripts to include peazip options and extraction to Desktop as a menu item, but I can work around that and do things the longer way. Simple things though are pretty easy. Also sucks that I can't get Doom Eternal to work on steamlink, but it's of secondary use anyway. Bazzite is faster, no errors so far unless it's something I tried to do to it. No RAM leaks like I experienced many moons ago with Xubuntu either (like 2015). I think it's quite viable as an alternative now (especially since MS has lowered the bar so far)
Yeah so far the only weird issue I've had has been some apps will not open files from my file server when I click on the files in the file explorer. I can open them through the file>open function in the app but not the usual way I would do it. It's something about the way the app is handling the smb:\ path. I found a github page with a suggested fix but haven't had time to read through and parse what it is actually doing. That's the only issue so far I was really annoyed by as IMO that's something that should "just work". As you said considering the pace windows is enshittifiying the Linux option becomes more viable every day, even if they don't improve.
I'd try removing the share and readding it, make sure to select the remember checkbox. Then add to Places for the shortcut. Only prob I have with Folphin is extracting from shares (hence Peazip), but the workaround is to open via PZ, then extract within the app (would be great to have access to that menu to have another rightclick extract option for PZ to be fast, but meh, not too important.
The problem will likely be the warped perception of "low effort" users like you have, that I went in detail on here
This is indicated by phrases like these:
struggle around with all that crap and I need to keep my music shit
Which translate to me as "I don't want to learn or change a thing, so tell me how I change the most fundamental part of my computing without doing that".
As I wrote in the comment linked above, with an attitude like that you'd have a significantly harder time than some non-techy person who just wants to have a system that "just works" without preconceptions, not bother with the technical details, but is entirely open to using new programs and doing things differently, as long as they work reliably.
In your case, I'd say stick to Microsoft until you get your mindset and priorities straight. Because then you'd have an easy time without much tinkering at all. But as it stands I think you'd be setting yourself up for misery and failure.
spoken like somebody who doesn't know a thing about security.
Windows 10 is going to be compromised the second it goes end-of-life. There are cybercriminals who've been sitting on exploits, potentially for the entire Windows 10 lifecycle, but at the very least for the past year or two. The second Microsoft will no longer commit to patching those, they'll pounce.
Connecting any operating system to the internet after it goes EoL is just asking for trouble.
I would NOT recommend biting the bullet for Windows 11. If you want to use it, just make sure you have a virtual machine of Windows 11, and have specific purposes for it. That way, you'll be able to sandbox the data as necessary.
You can do Linux if your situation meets these criteria:
your hardware is supported. it likely is, but check. Usually running a live usb is sufficient.
The proprietary software you want to run is supported in some stable way - like, platinum steam support, or the developer supports and intends to continue supporting Linux. do dual boot temporarily and make absolutely sure.
you are psychologically capable of declining to try to fix everything. While Linux just works for me, I've learned to recognize escalating effort in getting some new cool piece of software or hardware to work. wait until what you want is at least in beta. aside from that, it's just not supported. Don't frozzle the frimfram as /u/linuxminordeity told you to, because after that, you'll have to bidnap the uperpon. ..and on and on. just accept that people are working on it and it's not ready. contribute somehow, if you feel like it. but accept. If it can't be installed through typical channels (website package for linux, the repositories, or flatpak) it just doesn't work.
tbh, it sounds like you don't want to have to think about and test it. ..and if that's true, then you shouldn't be switching operating systems if you can reasonably avoid it.
Man, you're basically saying "I want to move to a new country, but I don't want to lose any of my friends, I can't change my job, I don't want to learn a new language, I want to bring all my furniture and appliances with me, and we just had a new baby a month ago so I'm sleep deprived and don't have any spare time. How do I do it?"
Are you actually forced to move away from your Windows 10? You could just keep using it. Fuck Microsoft and its lack of support. If it works why change it?
There's no reason to hope that you can change to a new operating system and you can copy paste exactly what you did in the other, completely different operating system. However that doesn't mean its hard. There are distros that make it really easy to transition too. I had a really easy moving over, but I was fine with adapting to new workflows and software and OS.
I run Linux while having 3 kids, my fiancee, a full time job that has a lot of OT, family health issues I have to support etc. Life is always busy and will always be busy. I pace myself with what I want to learn based on how busy my life is at that time. Not pacing I would burn out. I advise the same.
I also think being pissed off at Microsoft isn't enough to get into Linux for the long term. Its enough to just start. You need to be able to want to learn something new because if you make the switch, run into an issue with some distro, can't get past it, you'll end up right back where you left off.
Best of luck either way. Definitely do your research first and follow good rules for backing up your data.
It sounds like you’re really sensitive to workflow disruption at this time in your life. You can’t change from Windows to Linux without some pretty hefty disruptions, same as if you chose to go from Windows to Mac. If you really don’t feel like you have the personal bandwidth to deal with the workflow disruptions and learning curve, you should go with Windows 11. If you hate it, it’s not like Linux won’t still be there for you to investigate later when your life calms down.
I'm savvy enough where I can adult Lego a PC together but struggle when it comes to software and troubleshooting and really don't have the time for that stuff.
Then Linux is not for you; it is nothing but troubleshooting. If you have to use Windows, get the LTSC IOT edition. It's official and it has none of the crap people complain about in 11 (copilot, onedrive, recall, etc.). I've had no problems gaming on it, either.
I don't have time for troubleshooting. I just want an OS that runs, does what I need it to do, and stays out of my way. For the last 3 years, Linux has done that for me where Windows wouldn't.
If you move to Linux, you gotta be committed. I didn't learn Linux until I said "fuck it" and forced myself to use it exclusively.
You will run into problems. You'll have some days where you'll spend 10hrs fixing something that no other person on the entire planet has encountered before, only to realize you needed to type in 1 very simple command to fix it.
As much as people hate AI, it can help with Linux troubleshooting. There's also wikis and manpages.
If you switch at all, pick something that won't break. Debian will run on your hardware just fine. You won't have the latest and greatest packages, and as a newbie you DO NOT WANT the latest and greatest.
I don't know what all these doomsayers are doing. I installed Bazzite and it just worked. I decided I didn't want an immutable system so I switched to Garuda, and it just worked. I have Nvidia and didn't have to do anything extra.
Here's a dad's reply in a similar place - Win 11 is fine. I put it off for a very long time and just upgraded a couple weeks ago. It hasn't really been an impact.
Is Linux better? Yes. Does win 11 just work without too much fuss? Yes.
I still have Linux on many machines in my house except for my gaming rig, just because I don't want to have to break it and spend time refreshing it because my Linux skills aren't up to par. I have a full time job and young kids and don't have as much tinkering time as I used to.
That being said, I'm migrating ALL machines that aren't compatible with win 11 to Linux to avoid tossing them in a landfill like many will do, like my son's gaming PC.
If you want to dip your feet in without making any permanent decisions, try using a virtual machine or a live USB.
The virtual machine is effectively no risk but slightly slower. The live USB gives you a more realistic experience (except for boot times) but it is possible to erase your data if you miss the several warning messages and press the "I know what I'm doing, proceed anyway" button.
If you feel like Linux could work but you're not ready to fully commit, you can dualboot. I had both Windows and Linux for 2-3 years before I was comfortable enough to not boot Windows.
My personal preference is Linux Mint because it looks and feels very similar to Windows (I'm currently running LMDE). Any distro with KDE should also feel fairly familiar. Bazzite is more designed around gaming, but should still be adequate for most of your needs. It does have the reputation of being unbreakable.
No idea about Cakewalk etc but your Steam games will almost all be fine and Linux is honestly great right now and always getting better.
Having used Linux Mint, Windows 10, and Windows 11, I can honestly say that Win10 is okay and Win11 is annoying dogshit. I'd recommend taking the Linux plunge of course, but if you're desperate for Windows I think paid extended support for 10 might be a thing?
But like I said 11 is dogshit and there's no time like the present to just grab 3-4 USB sticks at Microcenter, download a bunch of ISOs and Rufus or Balena Etcher, and just dick around. Linux Mint with Cinnamon or KDE will probably give you one of the slickest Windows-like experiences OOTB. Only recommendation: some wifi cards (with certain chips, I forget which) in my experience have required me to go hunt down a driver, so check reviews for any card you're looking at to see if people report it working out of the box.
Only recommendation: some wifi cards (with certain chips, I forget which) in my experience have required me to go hunt down a driver, so check reviews for any card you’re looking at to see if people report it working out of the box.
With Linux mint, with one machine, I had to explicitly open the driver manager and tell it to use the drivers for the wifi. It wasn't obvious but I'd read it on some random forum and remembered. Once I knew that was a thing, it was easy. Opened the driver manager, plugged in the install media (USB stick) when it asked, and then told it to use the proprietary drivers.
Zorin linux - the closest thing to Windows you'll get. Highly recommend. Installed it on several computers for family members who just want a computer that works.
I went the other way, just installed LMDE and it all worked (AMD system) Then didn't use stuff that didn't work. Steam.worked but im not really gamer, the few non taxing games all worked no issues
Figured I'd get a handle and disto hop later but cant be ass'd, used to it now and 80% of what I wanted worked with zero issues from thebhet go, another 10% I evetually got around to tweaking and works no issues and the other 10%, fcuk 'em and their lack of Linux supoort.
I'm same boat and just want to say please come back. Dont leave your kids to the mercy of Microsoft Apple Google. Their learnings from your trials will help them grow. Be a dad, be a dad that helps your kids push past corporate ownership.
just buy an extra ssd (i'd recommend 200 gigs at least, but if you're gaming, obvs more space is needed), and install linux mint or pop os on it. imo pop is easier, but mint is more windows-like set your bios to boot from the new ssd, and make sure you install everything on the same drive and just keep the windows install, so if you need it or linux is too hard, you can go back easily i think you have physical space for several more sata drives, so if you need even more space you can get a larger regular hdd, for linux stuff
fyi, while most games will happily run on linux, but you can't use the same steam library folder, i've tried lol, so take that into consideration (however other loaders, like heroic launcher and lutris can run stuff installed on a windows partition, as long as the prefix is on a linux one. technically i guess you could use drm free steam installs too, but i'm already getting into the weeds, for simplicity's sake, just use a separate drive)
you can use ntfs (windows) partitions, for example i use two for downloads, movies, music and other platform agnostic stuff
I mean Windows 11 can do annoying things, but it's not gibberish. Reminds me of XP to Vista, but less about performance issues and more about incessant GUI tweaks no one asked for.
I'd say update it and make do, then move to Linux down the road if it annoys you enough to motivate that decision.
It's not all bad, I am enjoying the HDR features, which is the only reason I updated before the Win10 EOL.
That said, I do plan on making a Linux VM and playing around to get a feel for it.
For music production on a hobby level? Linux is not what you want.
The VST availability is abysmal. For a DAW, you can choose between Reaper and Ardour. Both are reasonably good, but without decent third party VSTs you’ll suffer. You won’t get iLok working, you won’t get any commercial plugins working. Your old project files won’t open.
Now, if you are exclusively working with Airwindows plugins (look it up!) in Reaper, you could get away with a Linux migration. Cakewalk and Ableton? Not a chance in hell.
Go buy a cheap used 16GB M1 Mac Mini. Music production stuff ”just works”. Given your config, looks like that could be within budget. Or upgrade your old machine to Windows 11, pick your poison.
I will have to disagree with that, as you can use Yabridge for the Windows VST's when using Wine, provided they don't require iLok. While yes, there is an issue with iLok (because I think they hate Linux users), you could still get a great selection of things specifically for the likes of Ardour, Reaper, Bitwig, LMMS, and other options. My producer, Neigsendoig, and I use Ardour and Zrythm. As for Cakewalk and Ableton, I could see how they don't work. Apparently, FL Studio can with WINE ASIO from what Neigsendoig researched.
Neither of us would recommend a Mac at all, due to Mac being basically BSD, but with code that could raise major privacy concerns. I think Sendo (Neigsendoig) has tutorials on CoculesNation about setting up Linux for music production.
Also, I hadn't talked about this yet, but I'd recommend OP look into Ardour, Zrythm, Reaper, and maybe Qtractor as the DAWs of choice.
I know it’s possible to run music production on Linux, in fact it’s better than ever.
But:
OP explicitly asks for keeping his Cakewalk and Ableton files working.
OP has a small child and just wants a working music production machine with minimal fuff and time investment.
Like 95% of people doing any kind of music production (outside of our Linux bubble) will have an iLok licenced favourite plugin somewhere. Never seen a professional without several.
Please stop recommending Linux to people who aren’t ready for it yet. Find the people who are, get them over. The rest will follow.
As far as I'm aware (I could be wrong on this), there's no way OP will be able to use Ableton and Cakewalk on Linux. That's why I recommend OP look into the DAW's I mentioned.
I use Windows 11 for work and honestly don't know why so many folks complain about it. I like working in it better than 10.
The forced Microsoft login is absolutely a valid privacy concern - I get that. The copilot integration is annoying and not helpful but can be turned off. The general UI and compatibility is pretty good. I'd just go ahead and upgrade to 11.
I had my first kid a little over 2 years ago, and my interest in twiddling with my OS plummeted. I use Linux, and it's great for what I do, but I don't do any sound stuff. I bet you could do it but that there'd be a lot of twiddling with your OS.
Your win10 computer doesn't get nuked from orbit after magic date. Others pointed out music software is not portable enough.
I got a new win11 computer with space for linux. Can remote desktop (free options) into old computer. This is more convenient than dual booting. If you don't use internet or install new software, not much will break on it. My old computer didn't work for linux because of waking from sleep issues. My new computer is $450usd minipc 7840hs dual lan, 2 usb4 ports, that allows me to expand from 3 to 4 monitors with a desk edge portable touchscreen usb monitor. win11 is not that bad because it allows for a single task bar on the front monitor. The iGPU is a big upgrade over 1650super I had, and 32gb/1gb nvme is also an upgrade that gives me the room to install linux. I haven't yet.
Linux is pretty easy for software installs. Mint is a good choice, because google will have the most hits. There are some distros that come with closed GPU drivers, but that is not particularly difficult to do yourself. win11 on a new computer can be ok, though, but I have had issues with every monitor waking from sleep every time (unplug/replug solution), or sleep command not lasting more than 3 minutes. Boot time is much quicker on new computer though, so shutdown not as painful. But if sleep worked flawlessly on this one in linux, would be good reason to go with.
It’s 2025. Any internet connected machine on any EOL OS or without updates applied in a timely manner should get nuked from orbit.
And that goes for all Linux and Android users out there too. Update your bloody phones.
I have a Windows 10 machine with firewalls, updates and antivirus all turned off, for a single specific software. Works fine, and will keep working fine for a long time, but that installation will never again see a route to the internet.
Depending on what plugins and software OP runs, that might not be possible or at least kinda annoying. The music production software industry loves to require phone home with regular intervals for licensing.
I notice there are only a couple replies here that have experience with music production. Obviously core desktop stuff works great, gaming is pretty universally fixed, but music production is a different story.
I have extensive experience with linux and music production. You can use yabridge to run Windows VSTs. However, they can be extremely fussy with graphics compatibility. I estimate that I couldn't manage to get about 20% of my plugins to work despite hours upon hours of troubleshooting. This is coming from a Linux-native software developer. If you're just learning Linux, you could be in a world of pain.
I'm sure folks out there have gotten all of it working individually, but I doubt anyone has your exact setup working perfectly.
Ableton and FL Studio will have to be ran through Wine. I experienced major performance issues with FL Studio before switching to Bitwig.
Linux is great. But the music production industry is not kind to it. If you're cool with being a linux music producer you'll have to accept that some things just will not work well. But if you want 100% access to everything you're used to, stick with Windows.
i would like to second this. though i’m not really experienced with it, creative work can be quite the pain in the butt from what i’ve been hearing.
for general usability and gaming it’s generally not really any more difficult than windows it feels like. i would just always recommend to check whether the things you really need run on linux or have an equivalent. this includes checking areweanticheatyet and protondb for the games you wanna play. some companies block linux in their games because some windows hackers exploit linux comparability… some other companies are stupid and think that a single player needs anticheat………..
also your choice of distro very much matters when it comes to how easily you get your things to work. for example i love bazzite for gaming, especially on laptops with igpu and nvidia, but it may not be the right choice for creative work, like i wont use it for my work related programming. there i use fedora KDE.
In short: I jumped on Mint some months ago and it just works.
The first time I jumped on Linux, I got burned haaard. I picked openSUSE, and I'm not sure if my hardware was crap or that distro is finicky, but nothing worked and it was just issue on issue on issue and I hated it.
Fast forward a couple years and Mint is nothing like that. It worked as it should out of the box and the only real tinkering I had to do was update the driver for my GPU manually because it was still so new.
Sure, some things work differently, but it's not too complicated to get into.
You can enable automatic software updates and configure the built-in backup program Timeshift, so you can revert the system to a previous snapshot if ever something should go real wrong.
But with all that said, I see that neither Cakewalk or Ableton are easy installs, as they're not officially supported on Linux. Will require some tinkering to get working. So maybe for that reason only Win11 would be the better choice. Or try dual booting to get a feel for it, best of both worlds.
I use my desktop primarily to play online shooters, so I don't see Linux really being an option in the timeframe I have to decide. If Proton/Bazzite/whatever gets the anti-cheat shit for games like Call of Duty and Battlefield together by mid-October, I'll probably do an about face. But as of now, it just doesn't make sense to make it so I can't use an expensive thing for its intended purpose just to stick it to the man or whatever.
I started with a dual boot. Very easy to do, if you have two hard drives. I have landed on Bazzite because I just game and watch movies at home. It does those things very well.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
On 8 October 2024 I received an email from Hetzner. This was a forwarded abuse report. As is standard practice in the web hosting business Hetzner forwarded this to me so I could take action on it. This was no ordinary abuse report.
Hetzner and reliable do not belong in the same sentence.
Cheap yes, reliable no.
I've been using them for my company a lot because of how cheap they are, but compared to other European competitors (like OVH) they are complete garbage. Their pricing is the only redeeming factor.
The Schwartz Group (parent company of Lidl) is currently building a German cloud platform, which sounds a lot more promising.
Canada, too. For the last two years, Canada has entrusted sensitive statistical information to Microsoft. We should be treating MS with the same skepticism we currently reserve for Huawei.
As an EU citizen, I don't find the idea of the US government having access to my data nearly as frightening as the idea of my own government getting into my accounts.
I thought gdpr forced companies to store data securely in the eu. Are they saying they'll transfer that data to the us to give Trump access, cause that's a gdpr violation and should result in fines and eventual removal from the eu market.
There are provisions. I don't remember the exact name of it, but basically, the US says "yah, these business are legit ok, you see?" and the EU is like "oh, ok, deal". This includes the big providers and a handful of others, obviously.
Listen, I'm extremely anti-trump but the guy has a point. Evil things can be evil regardless of who is in charge, but we only seem to care when the narrative shifts in certain directions. Why didn't we care about this back then?
I haven't used a Microsoft product in my personal life in twenty years. One of the primary reasons for that is that I don't trust them with my privacy. People (gestures broadly at the tech space) have been expressing similar sentiment for decades.
We are not a monolith, and some people have cared about these things while others have not.
For those who only just began caring, I find it entirely reasonable that when the top of the pyramid wasn't Trump, someone who there are a great many reasons to distrust, they weren't as worried about it.
If you didn't care about it until recently, only you can answer the question you have asked.
All of which is far more of an answer than the sheer whataboutism merited.
Oh I most certainly cared back then, just felt like nobody wanted to listen to me. Full Linux, grapheneos stack with no google play services, no Microsoft, nearly free of google (replacing gmail is going to be a monumental task, but it's my last one).
I think my point is kinda that the whataboutism poster I blocked might have needed a reminder that the idea that "no one cared until it was Trump" is just another pro-Trump attempt to rewrite history, and untrue on the face of it, because it has never been difficult in the age of MS dominance to find knowledgeable people expressing these concerns.
However, and going back to my original comment and my underlying frustration that I've entertained this whataboutism for this long, like all examples of whataboutism it's nothing but a waste of time where we all circlejerk about how of course we all cared about it even before Trump while simultaneously failing to call out the original statement of "no one cared until Trump" as the obvious bullshit that it is, on top of being whataboutism.
So now I get to walk away smugly congratulating myself for how thoroughly I've exposed the whataboutism and the bullshit, meanwhile all the time you and I spent thinking about and typing this could have been spent thinking up creative methods of civil disobedience, or otherwise doing something more valuable than impotently demonstrating what an inane point was made in the first place.
So next time, I'm just stopping at Goodbye, and the downvoters can fuck themselves.
Only if they aren't using customer provided encryption keys (is using blob/bucket storage) or an equivalent approach to encryption at rest, and make sure they're doing standard TLS for encryption in flight.
It's absolutely possible, and standard for any decent organization, to build their cloud architectures to fully account for the cloud provider potentially accessing your data without authorization. I've personally had such design conversations multiple times.
In the case of Germany: confidential computing tech ensures all data is encrypted in storage and in memory, shielded even against data center employees / hosting providers. I imagine that's become the standard for most countries.
I mean. They're a USA company. Of course they would be required to follow the laws of the country in which they HQ. Did anyone think anything different?
Well pretty sure local laws here say that certain data should stay within the countries borders (like data from accounting firms) so I hope they also encrypted everything to prevent this carrot from accessing it.
While true, in the past, MS has shown us they don't care about national laws. I'm not saying they don't e2ee, I'm saying they might not be following this particular national law due to their own national laws. I don't know.
Hmm. Policies might say so. Not every business follow policies, whether they are their own or imposed ones, though. Business going all "it's ok, our provider have the correct certifications for data handling" are definitely a thing.
It is possible to do things correctly. The question is, is it done often, and is it done on hardware you can trust. I'm somewhat confident if I run my services on bare metal, the provider would have a hard time getting my encryption keys, although it's not impossible even in this situation. How many people do so with VPS and managed instances, where snooping around the runtime and exfiltrating data unbeknownst to the user is trivial?
Also, beyond that, how many fall for the convenience of things like SSE, whether it's with customer provided keys or not? That should be a red flag, but people find it oh so convenient.
We're bound to see stuff bubble out where "we did all the right things" boils down to clicking a checkbox in some web UI and be done with it in the future.
Again for Germany, it's handled by a single provider, and they absolutely do utilize CoCo tech. (Source: I work at one of the involved companies, sorry, not going to be more specific)
Bruv, the United States government could get any information they wanted if it was stored on US Soil since the dawn of the US. The only thing stopping them was effort.
And I'm assuming anywhere else that microsoft operates (the entire world) would be the same too, no? I don't know why this rhetoric would be specific to the EU.
It's weird that this was something that Microsoft would have to admit, considering "The CLOUD Act" has made this mandatory for all US based companies anywhere they operate in the world. This has been a law since 2018.
So how are American companies any different then Chinese? Everyone always says Chinese companies have to listen to their government. Never got how American companies would be any different.
They're not different at all - the CLOUD Act (2018) and FISA courts already gave the US govt near-complete access to American tech companies' data regarldess of where it's physically stored, we just don't talk about it as much as we do with China.
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I have been saying this for more than a decade. Shit like this is why privacy laws and stuff regarding warrants and other stuff need to be expanded to private entities as much, if not more so, than government agencies. In the past the idea of a company having that much access to people's information was unthinkable, and in almost everyone's mind it was governments we needed to be worried about.
But that hasn't been true since the 90s at least with credit cards being used for most stuff and internet purchases being the norm for almost everything.
Governments in the past needed something to ask for permission to look into you... but companies never did, and since the only thing governments need to do is either buy it or ask nicely it makes many protections kinda moot. The fact that many countries want a strict surveillance state over everyone means even the classic protections we had for a brief while are disappearing, too.
If there ever is a 2nd enlightenment with protections for people it needs to make the stuff written in the 18th and 19th century look like children's toys in comparison.
If you say 'but what about terrorism and bad people?' Look around you. They still exist and still rarely get caught unless they fuck up badly. Most of the time it still due to informants and people talking to authorities. In the US the murder rate resolution is only 50% (and that is just arrested and charged, not convicted) and this is because there is a massive distrust of the police. In other countries people are more likely to assist the police and/or they take their jobs far more seriously in terms of forensics... and on top of that they usually have a far lower murder rate which allows more time and resources to be funneled into solving major crimes.
Better to let 100 guilty men go than 1 innocent person convicted is the usual motto, but they don't believe that in practice. In reality they are very much kill them all and let God sort out his own. And we can't keep allowing that shit to happen.
If the EU doesn't combine forces to get out of this tech-dependency, than what do we have the EU for? I am a big fan the EU, it's doing many things for us already, but I'm really hoping we can work our way out of this together, and I hope we choose the FOSS-route so that we significantly help the world forward
I think our problem is a mix of corruption and tech illiteracy in the European parliament. People are either too deep in the pockets of silicon valley, or they are lazy fucks who don't understand anything about computers and are unwilling to learn, so they keep believing "Windows is easier".
Then those EU firms should immediately make getting out of anything and everything Microsoft a top priority. As a US citizen, all our government and companies understand is personal profit and personal data hording. So make it hurt where they will feel it.
U have several fork of android some are great. The issue is I need google service for a lot of proprietary app like uber, banking app etc. Linux phone exist but without an appstore it s useless
That's kind of the point. The EU could theoretically demand some Linux support from banks. It wouldn't be a popular decision at first, but the consumer protection agency is capable of that, banks are capable of that, and it would help a lot. I don't think it would happen, it's cheaper for banks to lobby against it than do a bare minimum, lobbying is cheaper than anything, but still, neat idea.
I have another question: why do some eras seem to be so free for technology to evolve and open to new entrants to create their designs and mods and why do other eras feel like traps set by investors and enclosures for consumers? The 80s/90s felt great for technology, but today it feels like they all want to take anyone's capacity to do anything beyond being a dumb paying consumer away...like they're covering all possible outcomes to come out enslaving everyone. Why didn't they do that in the 80s/90s? Am I looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses?
It's SO funny how apparently for almost 20 years we (as in the west outside the USA) decided that using Chinese cloud platforms or networking hardware was dangerous and to be avoided, but private US companies? Nothing to see here!
Silver lining of the orange man is that maybe countries will wake up and smell the digital sovereignty that we sorely lack.
For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.
Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):
I make a daily(~) post on Mastodon chronicling cool music I find on YouTube. I did this for two years. Here is every song I linked the second year (except a ...
The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.
To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:
I make a daily(~) post on Mastodon chronicling cool music I find on YouTube. I did this for one year. Here is every song I linked (except a few that aren't o...
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:
What I'm listening to today: "8888 + ParipiDestroyer + POLYS", Freaky Tweaky
This is a fun, satisfying acid jam on three small devices by different small-batch designers in Japan.
The devices are all little handheld things based on trim pots and breadboard buttons, sized like business cards and Altoids tins; one is a gorgeous reproduction of the 808, another a gorgeous reproduction of the 303, and the third an odd Roland J8-like prototype. The Pocket Operator is reborn
I love metal but I don't think I am a very sophisticated listener of it. I struggle with the squawky vocals and the occasional long samey stretches. Kittie delights me by bringing aggressive variety to their presentation, especially in this one old, unusually compact track that rapidly switches registers from death-metal screams to intelligible English as if tracking manic mood swings. You think dick is the answer but it's not
What I'm listening to today: "extinct bird gathering", Luna SC
From this musician's "tmod" series of songs performed live on a wall-sized modular synthesizer rack, this is a fresh-feeling electronic composition with gorgeous sound design. Crunchy beats and warm metallic everything else. I'm not going to say this is dance music exactly but it is definitely music to bob your head to
What I'm listening to today: "greim93", AGF / @poemproducer
AGF does poetry, VJing, noise music and Theory (so if you are looking for eastern European left feminism she is very worth a follow).
This is a immaculately sculpted noise collage wherein hisses and thumps stalk you through a fog of microsounds, constantly threatening to congeal into a beat but then instead doggedly remaining just outside the edge of your perception
What I'm listening to today: "【Moog DFAM Jam】", Sakai Meno
Noisy, scrungly fast industrial beats on some modular equipment. There's a slower, spread-out elbow-room version of this track on the same YouTube channel (id MT13WMugmmA) but I like this compact 2-minute version. It sounds very determined.
What I'm listening to today: "wierdness", recordingtruck
I love noise! I really do! The Bastl Kastle is a chaotic "modular" system with two of Atmel's tiniest, weakest chips in each unit, & little wires instead of plug cables. All it does is scream. This musician has cross-wired three of these to make a wonderfully amusical sequence of moaning bleeps interrupting each other. It has its own internal machine logic. Your human brain can't make sense of it. Just float in it
KNOWER is an incredible, funky, YouTube-bait band consisting of "The Bank Account Song Guy", Genevieve Artadi, and literally whoever else is in the building. They have a channel full of sessions live-recorded in a generic suburban house with noise foam taped to the wall and the band all wearing gimmick t-shirts. You should listen to them. As an intro, here's some funk featuring the bass stylings of Daphnycore artist MonoNeon.
What I'm listening to today: "Musica Ricercata no.7", György Ligeti as performed by Grégoire Blanc
This is from a set of twelve piano pieces composed in 1953 by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, as arranged for analog synthesizer and dual theremins in December 2023 by Blanc. (The mood is enormous, the future that 1981 promised us.) Ligeti would go on to write the "Monolith music" from 2001. Grégoire Blanc would go on to do his laundry
This wonderful piece by György Ligeti is part of the famous "Musica ricercata" suite for solo piano. This seventh movement has a very interesting feature: th...
What I'm listening to today: "The River - 3 guitar ambient jam with drones and synths in the forest w/Sam Bell and Pete Ferguson"
The YouTube channel "drone-in-the-woods" is truth in naming. This is some gentle ambient post-rock and it is, indeed, performed live in the woods by three guitarists. I'm not usually one for "happy music" but I dig this. It's like if Godspeed You Black Emperor had worked their issues out and got real into Boards of Canada.
My favourite jam of the summer :)My old tune The River with myself looping my original guitar riff accompanied by the amazingly talented guitarists Sam Bell ...
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
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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
Provided to YouTube by BMG Rights Management (UK) LimitedSet U Free · Planet SoulEnergy & Harmony℗ 1996 BMG Rights Management (US) LLCReleased on: 1996-01-01...
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.
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.
#synthesizer #synthdiy This video is entered in the contest #digilandbeats on Twitter.https://twitter.com/Tekitounix/status/1556633639336951810Contest detai...
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
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...
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.
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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.
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.
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
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...
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
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
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 ...
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.
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...
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.
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).
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...
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Provided to YouTube by Warner RecordsCrazy (Acoustic) (Instrumental) · SealCrazy℗ 1991 Sire RecordsEngineer: Ren SwanEngineer: Robin HancockLead Vocals: Sea...
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)
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
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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.
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...
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".
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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*.
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...
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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...
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
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.
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...
@sleet01 It's easy to forget this, but the FM chips in like the Genesis and the Soundblasters were close relatives of the chips that Yamaha put into the highest-end synthesizers of the early 80s. By the time these things filtered into consumer computer hardware in the west they were no longer cutting-edge, but like, if you're the technology that drove the golden age of *Michael Jackson*, that's clearly a technology with legs!
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
Samsara by Diode MilliampereFile format: .a2m ( OPL3 FM Synth )File size: 17 KBPlayed and recorded in AdlibTracker II and Dosbox staging.https://soundcloud.c...
This is so good! I'd long suspected that the early-generation sound cards were rarely, if ever, utilized to their full musical capacity, and this seems to support that. Thanks for posting!
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
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.
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.
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:
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
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
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...
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
Mainly exploring feedback, distortion and overcompression within my modular. The sounds do get quite harsh sometimes, but I really love how a relatively simp...
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.
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...
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
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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.
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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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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.
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
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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
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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.
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
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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"
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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
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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
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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.
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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
A sick 1-minute blast of hardcore electronica. The YouTube description is just a series of variations on "angel with a knife", "angel", "knife" etc which initially I thought was very evocative but on a closer look seems to actually be an attempt by the musician to communicate they were influenced by the song "ANGEL WITTA KNIFE" by Yabujin.
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What I'm listening to today: "Polyend Tracker : First Test & Jam", ultrasyd
Ultrasyd was a beloved chiptune composer best known for work on the Atari STe. He died in October of 2020, reportedly of a heart attack. This was his final posted piece of music, 11 days previous. In it he's using a new setup with a standalone tracker and its wavetable engine. The piece, a playful "Complextro" jam, bursts with promise and in the post he sounds excited about what he'd do next.
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What I'm listening to today: "HLT - A Lost Transmission (AE MODULAR DEMO)", Huxleys Last Trip
AE Modular is a semi-obscure alternative to the popular "eurorack" format; it's designed to be cheaper and smaller, and uses plain jumper wires instead of TS cables.
I really like rhythmic hissy noises. I'm not sure that's a common viewpoint, so I don't know how to describe that this is an *exceptionally* beautiful example of rhythmic hissy noises. Emotionally intense ambient.
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What I'm listening to today: "breakcore/glitch patch in plug data", Artiom Constantinov
"Plug Data" is a distribution of PureData with (thank goodness, finally) more legible graphics. Here Artiom uses it to visualize a self-playing patch: lush FM swells, drill&bass kicks and, that's right ladies and genderqueers, a guest appearance by Ms. Hatsune Miku herself. (Or some formant synth.) Apparently you can download the .pd file for this track from the musician's patreon.
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DISKQ's videos revolve around making complex tracks with grooveboxes and minimal sets of hardware. Here she deploys a noisy Erica Synths drum machine with the "PO-20 Arcade", the Pocket Operator which is most fun to play with but hardest to make anything other than sound effects with. Playing the LXR-02 faders like an instrument and DJing the Arcade's filter settings, she engineers a startling degree of chiptuney structure.
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What I'm listening to today: "Onde Magnétique OM-1 Jam", Flo Chai
There's a couple boutique instruments made in recent years that let you "play a cassette tape like a piano", by spinning the tape at a speed determined by the "piano key's" pitch & only when the key's held down.
This musician uses two(!) of these devices, double-fisted, plus some guitar pedals to make some atmospheric fluttery music anchored by bit glitching and a quiet metronome-like drum machine beat.
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What I'm listening to today: "robotic xylophone", Tout est cassé
This person has a YouTube channel full of art installations and homemade musical instruments. This is a really fun, fascinatingly simple project where they attached a ziptie to a cheap motor, mounted it in the middle of some wooden pegs, and then drove the motor from a cheap Korg drum machine. They spend two minutes exploring all the different emergent Things you can do with this little setup.
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What I'm listening to today: "The Monster Pursues", Bebe & Louis Barron
The Barrons were a revolutionary force in early electronic music, years ahead of everyone else and laying down the road everyone else would follow. And the music itself is really good! (Search my Mastodon history for "Mixed Emotions" if you want a trip.) This is from their masterpiece, the score to "Forbidden Planet" (1956). I *think* this is a longer version of a track the movie excerpts. It's Lots
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What I'm listening to today: "2024-04-16 AV" , Catface McVideo
This person makes handmade video synthesizers that create abstract analog video for CRT TVs. They have dozens of videos of short demos of their video synths accompanied by short analog ambient tracks. This piece in particular has a captivating, fuzzy vibe. Like if Boards of Canada had been making soundtracks for horror movies instead of childrens' educational films.
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What I listened to today: "Void Femmes @ SIXNINEHAUS (Toronto, ON) - July 7th, 2024"
Prepared typewriter?? This piece revolves around a mechanical typewriter that's been wired for sound, processed through a modular rack, then plucked, bowed and, uh, typed into. 20 minutes with long stretches of backyard ambiance so bring the part of your brain that likes ambient music, but if you're prepared for that it's glorious. This happened in my city but I missed it.
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What I'm listening to today: "Rumble of Ancient Times (RoAT) - Jam 6", Jon Nathan
This uses some very noisy hardware (including a screamy-noise synth from SOMA which is, effectively, a really cool toy) to build something really smooth and inviting. Fluttering hums over a thumpy laid-back beat. It gives me the quietly determined feeling 90s cyber/hacker movies were always trying to reach for, empty streets late at night where people move intently through shadows
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What I'm listening to today: "Noise Addiction", Pure Hell
A few months ago I saw a talk by Raeghan Buchanan about her book/comic "The Secret History of Black Punk". I've been working through her rec list. Some of the most interesting stuff is from live proto-punk acts in the rust belt in the 70s. This one album by Philadelphia's Pure Hell was recorded in 1978 but didn't get a commercial release until 2006(!). This album also rules. It is super raw
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This is a zoomer breakcore musician who seems to publish almost exclusively to YouTube. A lot of satisfying stuff in their post history, chill and very back-to-basics. But this is a slightly stranger track, a short transmission where two tiny microloop samples alternate over a choppy d&b break. Deploys an interesting feeling, explores it for two minutes, gets out.
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What I'm listening to today: "cold hands (day 78)", J5ON_
This person has been posting one song per day on YouTube since January 1, 222 days ago. As you can imagine, these songs do… retread ground (they're mostly piano and classic jungle breaks) but this makes them compelling to me, like they're exploring a specific musical space exhaustively, trying to find the perfect track.
I've listened to a few dozen of these and I think #78 is still my favorite. Cool winter beats
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@rrb That sounds great, I will listen. Buchanan has a lot in her narrative about versions of protopunk that grew out of reggae or funk but punk jazz crossover isn't really covered
They are kind of considered "punk/jazz." Both played with Ornette Coleman. Blood's advert was always "Jazz is the teacher, punk is the preacher." Maybe kinda James Chance, John Lurie related, but with more of an edge. Right now listening to:
What I'm listening to today: "Let the World Turn", Death
So here's a *second* Raeghan-Buchanan-recommended proto-punk band made of black teens from Detroit who recorded an album that would have been epoch-setting except the label wouldn't release it (in this case supposedly because they refused to change their name away from "Death"). This album goes real hard but I like this one track for its complex ~dynamics~. You can kinda tell this originally started as a funk band
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What I'm listening to today: "Skydive", Poly Styrene
Another Raeghan Buchanan rec, Poly Styrene fronted the late 70s punk-plus-saxophone band X-Ray Spex but then in 1980 went off and recorded this highly satisfying solo album. Check out this lovely little pop track, with strange currents of what five or ten years later would have been recognizably "ska" or "new wave". I have no idea how a listener in 1980 would have interpreted this but it feels super ahead of its time.
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What I'm listening to today: "So Cold", Rocket from the Tombs
Breaking this week's theme a bit, this is just a proto-punk band I personally like. This band operated in Cleveland for a single year in 1975 and never recorded an album, but they have this super good live album released in 2002, stitched from two live performances. This track has this raw feel, like you're seeing something you shouldn't see, a person in pain talking to themselves, unaware anyone's listening
What I'm listening to today: "Modern Industry", Fishbone
Okay, more Raeghan Buchanan recs. Raeghan speaks of Fishbone in reverential tones and talks about Fishbone t-shirts being the standard discovery protocol for black punk fans in the 90s (apparently Bad Brains is a complicated subject). Fishbone's discography is a vast ocean I've only scraped so far. But here's a goofy, really fun 1985 proto-ska track where Fishbone improvise names of radio stations for four minutes
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It was 1997! 2 Skinnee J's opened for them. The show was on Halloween so we went in costume. I got my friends to wrap me from neck-to-ankle in duct tape for a cheap "mummy" costume. Somehow I survived and danced and enjoyed the concert. mcall.newspapers.com/article/t…
What I'm listening to today: "Fall Asleep", Big Joanie
In the final pages of Buchanan's book she abandons the linear history lesson and just starts listing off some bands she likes. Among these find Big Joanie, a British group that formed in 2013 after meeting at a British intersectional feminist activist organization.
This is a cool, peppy track with what I'd describe as a "high-quality home production" feel. The kind of rock you can dance to.
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What I'm listening to today: "Not My Day", Nova Twins
Reaching the end of Buchanan's book and the year 2020, here's the Nova Twins. This is like, do you remember "nu-metal"? Back when I was really excited about nu-metal at first, cuz I thought it was gonna sound like this. But "nu-metal' wasn't ever this interesting.
Hard rock and some good freaky synth work. "Who are the girls?" is a really good album.
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This is a duet between an original brick Game Boy¹ running LSDJ² and a PO-12 Rhythm³. The GB delivers its most classic and Aesthetic tones while the PO-12 delivers the most complicated, dense beats it's capable of. An excellent groove
¹ "Play it loud" edition ² A music tracker that runs directly on the Game Boy; heir to Nanoloop ³ The first, but still one of the best, of Teenage Engineering's handheld Pocket Operator line
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Covox is a classic early chiptune artist, like early as in the era when the "chips" the tunes are made on were still being sold commercially. This is from a super old album "Handheld Electropop" that was originally sold on CD-Rs, and is no longer available anywhere. I downloaded this mp3 off Covox's personal website sometime in 2002 and have treasured it ever since.
This might be my favorite chiptune song ever. Bizarre verve
What I'm listening to today: "Our Song", Ultraísta
From the circa 2012 mini golden age of progressive electronic pop. If you want to dig in on this band there's some amazing remixes by Four Tet and, uh, David Lynch, but this is my favorite standalone song by them. Lazily drifting vocals and dreamlike synths, a good song to kinda half-pay-attention to while it does saw-wave ASMR on you.
I also especially love this video (although ⚠️warning, contains full-frame flashes⚠️)
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What I'm listening to today: "sound of are-bure-boke", wildchurch
This poster makes their own musical instruments, with Arduinos inside and 1950s mad-scientist control panels outside. Most of their videos show creations off one at a time but here they bring it all together for a cool, spacey song. Watch careful at the beginning where they create a drum loop with a beige box making just kicks and a cyan box making just snares.
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Mili is a really fun, really nerdy band where most of their songs tell tiny self-contained sci fi/fantasy stories (in any of five languages). This one's weird and cute and tells the story of a self-proclaimed "mad scientist" who domesticates a Chinese hopping vampire through the scientific application of cooking and fabric arts.
Link is a fanvideo, animated based on character designs from the official Mili art for this song.
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What I'm listening to today: "Toive", Vladislav Delay
This is an epic glitch-borderlands track from 2009 with a structure I love. Alien high-pitched sounds give way to air conditioning give way to beats like railroad tracks or falling corpses. One of those pieces of electronic music that if you close your eyes you can imagine you're hearing the sound of a journey into another universe and then you open your eyes and the music video seems to be representing exactly that.
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@paddy not only is it not a one-off, and not only is it not the only album by that band to have the initials "M.M.", at least one of the songs on Millenium Mother appears to be a sequel to a song on Miracle Milk
What I'm listening to today: "Roland TR-8 Aira vs KORG ms-20 - Live Jam // BURG - Green Take One"
I spend a lot of time plumbing the depths of YouTube and it's all for the moments I find a gem like this one. On a desk holding basically a museum of 21st-century Korg gear, this musician creates a lovely 15-minute sonic journey with a cool slow-building structure. One of those songs that seem to exhibit video-game level design, as if the music is a space you move through
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call me crazy, but that synth sound that occurs in various intervals, for the first time at 05:42, I'd characterize it as bi-dim (with a very short bi; at times it's a little more sophisticated than that, at others a little more) - I am a 100% sure to have already heard that in a song - but can't for the life of me figure out in which (or the artist/genre or anything).
@liketechnik I think the noise you are looking for is the "808 cowbell". This sound was one of the base noises on one of the oldest and most famous hip-hop drum machines, so it got imitated and replicated over and over for decades since. youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fCLlfUcb…
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@liketechnik There was this one VST programmer who decided to explore what happens if you add enough control to the 808 cowbell that it becomes a full synthesizer rather than just a single sound effect in a drum machine… youtube.com/watch?v=N291i0UEB_…
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Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
The sound having got imitated so much also totally explains why it sounds so familiar without being attached to any specific song, however infuriating that is for me.
@liketechnik However a lot of the time rather than "imitating" it they just actually recorded the 808 playing the sound and played that as a sample! lol
Noname is a socialist, a rapper and a true Poster. The best way I know to introduce you to her whole Thing is to play you this two-minute soft funk explosion that opened her 2018 album. This song contains my favorite single line from any rap song ever.
This dude sells homemade and circuitbent instruments at okhousecat.com/ . In this video he covers a table with a giant pile of Kalimbas and guitar pedals and runs around hitting things with hammers. Looks goofy, but produces a cool serene distant-bells-and-drums chorus.
This track is mixed a bit quiet, so maybe turn up your speaker volume before listening so it sounds regular.
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What I'm listening to today: "Synth, Drum machine, Yamaha QY70, Live", I go REC
A live-guided performance on the QY70, Yamaha's incredible 1990s proto-groovebox/MIDI PDA. A tiny skranky groove with good 80s-flavored sounds and composition (an 808 cowbell plays exactly twice). This would fit really well in an 80s movie, 1/3-way through the narrative, in the background of a scene where they establish that stakes are escalating. A man in sunglasses lurks around a corner
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wonderful track and a very cool machine. (i'm still a little mad at myself for missing one of these at a local classifieds site a few years back - and then accumulating a lot of less portable and less useful gear anyway 🤦♂️)
What I'm listening to today: "Moog Subharmonicon Jump and Run Jam"
So as I've mentioned the normal way to use the Subharmonicon is to let it free-run with some echo to generate ambient music. In this track tho the musician continuously switches settings and modes to actually play it like an instrument, and the result is not just fun to watch but incredibly catchy.
In some Synth Youtube stunt casting, drums are handled by Yamaha's now-forgotten 1990 MIDI PDA, the QY10.
This is a Jam with my Moog Subharmonicon and the Yamaha QY10. The Yamaha provides the clock, Ableton Live some effects like the Valhalla Delay for the Moog a...
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What I'm listening to today: "Tidal Plant Zone", Yayoi Fujimori (16-bit re-arrange by rigid_atoms)
"Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble" was a Game Gear exclusive from 1994 (the Game Gear actually got a *lot* of original Sonic games). In 2022, the Sonic fangame community produced Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit, a PC (GameMaker) remake to Genesis standards. This YM2612 arrangement is a dark, funky lounge jazz piece that lets Fujimori's composition really spread its wings.
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From the year 2000, this is an incredibly charming crooner soul track with a casual, almost sloppy unpredictable flow that belies the *incredible* precision of the songwriting and performance here. This track understands jazz. Meanwhile the end feels like Angelo has convinced the entire bar to drunkenly sing along with him, how does it feel. How does it feeeeel. I love how this song starts and ends
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What I'm listening to today: "Strange Formula", Ultraísta (David Lynch remix)
I alluded to this last week, but did you know David Lynch records music? Like, albums. Since Y2K.
This is him doing a remix of an electropop band I like. It sounds… well, very much like a song recorded by David Lynch. Plodding guitar that sounds like it's playing off a 78, muffled industrial beats, echo like the alley out back a concert. Four people stand smoking in silence; one has no face.
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What I'm listening to today: "Smalltalk", Ultraísta (Four Tet remix)
The week I left her I sat in a friend's back room on a mattress on the floor and listened to this song again, and again, and again, and marveled how that place was apparently affecting me more than I'd thought because I was literally *breathing* easier now I was out of it, and did not realize what I'd really just discovered, after living with them 13 years, was I was allergic to cats
What I'm listening to today: "I see you sometimes", Vegyn & Jeshi
In this thread I've been mostly following a rule I don't link anything I previously linked on Twitter. Silly rule anyway.
This was a song I listened to on repeat through most of 2021; on the day I quit Spotify it was my most-listened song. Here British DJ Vegyn mashes up rap and synth prog in a satisfying, playful way. He shapes the music like play-doh. I think the tempo actually changes halfway through.
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What I'm listening to today: "PO-32 Tonic + Monotron Delay - recorded at Nun cove, Newquay", Missing Reels
The thing that got me on my kick of listening to home-recorded techno on YouTube, originally, was the Pocket Operator. It fascinated (fascinates) me the complex music you could get out of a tiny handheld device if you're willing to enter focus mode. Here's two $60 handheld devices together making lovely chill techno while ocean waves roll in
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What I'm listening to today: "Pants On Fire", Buck 65
Buck 65 is kinda like Sam's Club brand Beck. This is an impromptu live performance of one of his songs, ripped to YouTube in 2006(!) from a DVD; the ramshackle nature of this video elevates it massively over the original album version. He seems to be shooting in some sort of attic. The terrible quality of the YT upload adds a sort of nice frizz to the drums. Partway through he has to stop the song to let his dog out
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I really like Buck 65. Saw him live in Malmö Sweden in 2008. I also like Bike for three! Don't know if he's been to Sweden since. Thank you for reminding me of this music!
What I'm listening to today: "With Ink", Chance McDaniel
This song Was 2019 for me. The musician uploaded it to the Synthesizers subreddit, mentioning something about sampling directly off AM talk radio during the recording. I got a little obsessed with it. It was in some indescribable-in-words sense the sonic/conceptual moodboard for the VR game I was working on back then. It looped in my head the whole time I was working on that game, like a mantra. M. M. M. (M, M). M
What I'm listening to today: "Trash Audio at the Apothecary", 1-2 and 2-2, Alessandro Cortini
While/after Cortini was serving as Synth Guy for Nine Inch Nails, he was constantly going around to small makerfaires and synth shops and serving as a kind of John the Baptist for the Buchla revival to come. Some *lovely* phone recordings hit YouTube in this era.
Breaking my format, here's *two* videos comprising 2 halves of one 20-minute performance:
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This is a musician I used to follow on "Google+" (yes, this was a while ago); he was an early master of this amorphous emerging genre that at the time I thought of as "Soundcloud music" but was eventually named "vaporwave". Dude started releasing music when he was 15 (by the time of this recording, 16) and it was gold from the beginning. Slow dream syrup
@salguento i remember xxyyxx uploading this video that was his music set to the Sky Runner sequence from Earthbound and I was like "this makes so much sense"
What I'm listening to today: "Reunion", Colin Benders
Colin here was an early pioneer of what eventually became modular synth YouTube; his videos feature exceptionally huge synth walls with terrifying forests of hanging cables and occasional gay pride flags carefully fit in the edge of the camera frame. His 2016 tracks are especially good; this track is a 16-minute epic based on jackhammer beats and an ever-ramping-up abstract hook. The machine is screaming
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What I'm listening to today: "ostendorf rapoport 4", Nils Ostendorf and Kostia Rapoport
A little different from what I normally post, here a synthesist and a trumpeter improvise for eight minutes in a living room. Horns with something wrong with them, like a jazz trumpeter mid-performance found the rest of his orchestra fading away, stranding him alone in a dimension of endless swamps. Desolate and mournful, kinda Schoenbergy. Do we have any Schoenberg fans reading this
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What I'm listening to today: "Adder", Blackbird Raum
I asked for water and they gave me gasoline. From an anarchist rennfaire-music collective in Santa Cruz. This is the kind of music you sing as you're dying, or the music they play for you at your funeral. Stark and gutwrenching, isolated voice and wavering, dried-out strings, all mourning the world we deserved and did not get.
There is an alternate version of this song that consists entirely of bagpipes and screaming
@dante yeah Christine's been listening to this one Adder song a lot so I started listening to all their stuff and it's good! Also I mentioned this to Christine just now and she said you were the one who recommended Blackbird Raum to her in the first place so I guess technically this is your recommendation post accidentally lol
I love Balckbird Raum. This album and Swidden are both fantastic releases.
A few months ago I posted a photo of a BR shirt that had some holes in it. Folks on Mastodon provided great advice on mending it. docpop.org/2024/03/visibly-men…
What I'm listening to today: "Engines", Bauer + Katharina Schmidt
I love it when a piece of music is just sounds. This track is an atmosphere and a place and here are some of the things in it: Train tracks roll by beneath your feet. It's night, or early morning, there is no sun but the sky is glowing. The radio in your hand crackles, but not static, you understand this signal, you've been waiting for this moment. Somewhere, someone plays guitar in devotion to the sky
What I'm listening to today: "Secrets", Regen Rantseni
Found this musician through Youtube "similar to"… surfing and a synthesizer noodling video he made, then checked his other videos and it was all… Spanish classical guitar. Rather good Spanish classical guitar. I guess that's what I should have been listening to to start with.
Here's a gentle 5-minute acoustic performance playing with different fingerings. Feels soft like a big warm blanket
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Looks and sounds like a Western guitar to me. They also play it like one.
If you wanna check out some rather good classical, I can't think of something specific to recommend right now (except maybe Edson Lopes?), but youtube.com/@SiccasGuitars/vid… has a wide variety of guitarists and pieces. It's a guitar shop and the videos are basically product demos, but for demos they're really unusually good.
That might have been a different piece? I found youtube.com/watch?v=0ONaPliEH8… in which you can hear nylon strings and finger-style picking.
Can't see the instrument, but typically it would be a different one. (Strings spaced out more widely, lighter top, e.g. spruce. And usually violin-peg–style tuners, but that's just a visual clue; it has no impact on the sound.)
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What I'm listening to today: "groove 17.1", ski feat. swrcfx
Choppy noises. You put something in the cuisinart that isn't supposed to go in the cuisinart. You're standing in a freeway median and violins are flying past on either side. You and the drummer have had a quarrel, he doesn't want to talk about it so instead he flutters the kick drum at you passive aggressively. John, can we just talk about this. He's not listening to you. He's intently murdering the hi hats
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What I'm listening to today: "Flashdrive", Snail's House
It's not quite the music I usually like, but sometimes I get in a Mood and I pull up Snail's House on YouTube and listen to ALL OF IT.
Snail's House is sugarhigh hypeblast j-pop with startlingly progressive production. The way I think of this album is "NES chiptunes made with real instruments".
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What I'm listening to today: "Virtual", Moe Shop f/ Puniden
This is a really interesting album that doesn't quite sound like Moe Shop's other offerings, in which they produce this amazing 50-50 mix of French house and "J-Pop". No, it's not "futurefunk" exactly, they picked a different 50% from each genre. Here's some idol pop with chill '80s beats and overwhelmingly huge '10s synths
What I'm listening to today: "Binary ConnectioN", kanemiko
In 2003, Capcom released "P.N.03" for the Gamecube, featuring a critical innovation to gaming that almost no one has learned from: *The protagonist should be able to hear the soundtrack, and be bopping their head to the music as you play*.
Anyway.
This is the music you hear as you hyperskate down an abandoned freeway blasting robots. You are throwing things that leave polygon trails. You are doing combos
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i saw a friend play this game and i wish it had been better fleshed out... it was one of the Capcom Five for Nintendo that they hoped would invigorate gaming and whatever, but it was on a time crunch and also they got kind of bogged down with this weird idea of making it "feminine" compared to "masculine" resident evil (which is also weird because until 4, resident evil was arguably more female led than male), and so it was minimalistic and white and stuff... there's a bunch of good ideas in pn03 but i wish it was better and led to an actual franchise or something
@ami_angelwings yeah sometimes it's nice to have a minimal game but you gotta make people feel like there's enough of a hook they'll be rewarded for continuing to play.
doesn't help that the first room is so different from anything else in the game. there was just a real problem introducing this.
i get the sense they made it as an experiment, it didn't give them the results they wanted, so they didn't bother really fleshing it out as much as they might've.
I recently played Hi-Fi Rush, which had the advantage of *everything* in the game hearing the soundtrack. The main character, the sidekick, the environments, the enemies. Everything bops to the beat
What I'm listening to today: "Flicker", Porter Robinson
I'm trying to decide what's most important to me.
Porter Robinson is a musician from North Carolina who now operates out of Japan. This track from the tail end of the '10s electro boom has this super memorable video that shows the world as I want to see it, animated GIF sunrises, neon everything, giant cubes dominating the horizon. Warning, contains flicker (I mean, the video does)
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the podcast "Switched on Pop" recently had an episode where they interviewed him about the change of direction he was going for his new album. The clips from it didn't sound to my taste but he seemed like a really interesting and thoughtful guy.
I've been trying to figure out if I like Old Porter Robinson, who I can't quite think of a good comparison for, and also if I like New Porter Robinson, who is like... bubblegum Underscores?
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What I'm listening to today: "Notice", Moe Shop f/ TORIENA
From the French Touch, Tokyo Branch album I linked the other day, this is some fun, zippy Japanese rap. Cool stuttery organ sounds. If you look up a lyrics translation it's got the recurring lyric "That sensitive age where you wanna start a coup".
Apparently the vocalist on this track also composed music for Team Sonic Racing (multiple platforms, 2019).
KKB is what if someone zombified every single bubblegum-pop song of the US 1980s, then brought them back to life... all mushed together. Forcefully translated. In Shibuya. With ramune in its veins, instead of blood.
What I'm listening to today: "Retro Vibes: Creating Synthwave Tracks with Yamaha QY70", I go REC
Here the QY¹'s synthesis engines get pushed to the absolute wall, spooky dub flowing into a half dozen sounds that would make Com Truise weep. Music for driving your 3D-rendered convertible over a glowing grid in circles around a giant black monolith, reaching into the sky with no apparent upper bound
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What I'm listening to today: "Worthless Order", Then the Letting Go
Lo-fi skittering beats and pads like little plodding cat feet. Sounds like someone in 2005 listened to a bunch of Postal Service and BOC and promptly disappeared into a DAW for a week before emerging with this track. Except actually it was made this year on Polyend's portable tracker, which here kinda serves as its own visualizer. Lookit the little blinking lights
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Let us make a journey to the land of ravers! Created in (I think) MS-DOS using Scream Tracker 3, this s3m file claims it was created in 1995 and it is the eurodanciest eurodance. In 1995 I wanted to live in Europe because I thought you could get music there that sounds like this.
There's more than one copy of this on YouTube & I'm intentionally linking the worst quality one because it adds a nice fuzz
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What I'm listening to today: "Unforgivable improv Industrial Techno Jam w/ Eurorack", ALXDPO
Thumping industrial techno, just as it says on the can. If I danced I would dance to this. Made on one of those eurorack battlestations that has been set up as a conscious, designed instrument, it's all very organized, it's got color-coded cables and little velcro-tie bundles. Not sure what the Plinky is doing. Overall totally relentless
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What I'm listening to today: "Dream Seed", Machine Girl
Machine Girl are the godparents of zoomer breakcore (i.e. they're millennials) and kinda stand apart in their own little self-confident nanogenre, covered in smiles and blood. This is an unreleased track, which would be a surprise given it's incredible, except also it doesn't quite "sound like" machine girl. It more sounds like if Boards of Canada actually wanted to make you dance. Super unique track, great energy.
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What I'm listening to today: "Infoldings 2", Mark Fell and Will Guthrie
Unsettling metal sounds floating in darkness. Has this acoustic feel, a percussive troupe plays in a circle around you, but on listening carefully it seems like some of the sounds or at least some of the patterns couldn't have actually been made with human hands. 20 minutes long but continuously changing, continuously gripping. This was a lime68k rec and I've been listening to this album a lot since
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What I'm listening to today: "greim69 FOREVER {mended}", AGF / @poemproducer
A tiny solar system of grunged-up drum machine samples, orbiting each other slowly, occasionally moving into temporary alignment. You should be able to dance to this as long as you experience time nonlinearly
The word "greim" shows up in some of AGF's song titles, I asked her once what it meant and she said it's a mashup of her last name on her father's side and the music genre "grime".
What I'm listening to today: "Theme for The Irishman", Robbie Robertson
"The Irishman" is a thing that's not supposed to be possible, an underrated Martin Scorsese movie. (IMO it would have helped if Netflix had let the man use the original, more interesting title, "I Heard You Paint Houses".) This movie is 3 hours 30 minutes long and throughout it, this dread-soaked 4 minute 30 second track repeats over and over. This track slaps. It sounds like the violins are dying.
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What I'm listening to today: "Silk Drift", Arcologies
Floaty, refreshing drum & bass. Classic styles as interpreted through renoise. They seem to trying to bring in every class of synth that sounds like liquid. For the Youtube upload they intentionally recorded this album to a cassette tape and back, just to soften it a bit more.
Link goes to the full album, so you'll have to press stop at 8:20 or you'll wind up listening to a full hour of chill d&b. Sorry about that.
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What I'm listening to today: "2024-04-28 sync test wip", Catface McVideo
This was supposed to be a test for synchronizing an analog video synthesizer with a drum machine. It winds up being a cool, crisp dance piece that I feel like could have been longer. The rhythmic but semirandom audio-synced visuals give this a cool hypnotic feeling, like you're experiencing the obligatory drug freakout scene from a 1960s movie.
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Arch synthwave with drum & bass incursions. A strange little video, this documents a night at a probably-80s, probably-European dance club, but with a cognitive-dissonance-inspiring indecision over whether or not the video is synchronized to the music. Shut off the part of your brain that analyzes and just watch, experience maybe this feeling of a dream hovering on the edge of becoming a nightmare
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What I'm listening to today: "Underground Sea", a0n0
Until this week I always recapped each week's posts as a linear mixtape on Cohost. Now that's over. I try to remember why I do this thread. Is it for me? Is it for you? If it's for me only, why isn't there more
⚠️ HARSH NOISE, FLASHING ⚠️
Here's 5 minutes of hardcore noise and gorgeous glitch video. It's posted on the Farmer's Manual YouTube account but I don't know why. IDK anything. Follow @Lime she has good recs
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yess artiom constantinov is great! it blows my mind how he is able to create such viz with pure data's GEM. i first discovered him through his music that i also really enjoy (he released an album on a0n0's label, Tokinogake : artiomconstantinov.bandcamp.co…)
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What I'm listening to today: "Konlied Mx", Autechre
A mysterious Autechre b-side, from a Warp collection named "Routine" from 2001. A gummy, understated groove. It makes me think of empty subway stations. The tint of fluorescent lighting. A busy signal for the universe. Sounds at the other end of the platform, the feeling your eyes are closed when they're open, a temporary moment that stretches on endlessly. A hiss
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interesting, dates from the same year as confield but either has the stuff I found missing in confield or doesn't have the stuff I didn't like in confield.
What I'm listening to today: "Coda Maestoso in F♭ Minor", Earth (Autechre Remix)
For a while Autechre did a series of absolutely brain-breaking, material-shredding remixes of indie rock bands (Lamb, Stereolab, Tortoise). And then when they decided to remix Earth, *already* bizarre and otherwordly, they… mastered it as pop. They made the song *less* weird. It sounds like Soundgarden now.
As if… whelp, gone as far as we can in that direction! Gotta stop and turn around??
What I'm listening to today: "Over", Analogue Seaotter
Recorded in a bedroom with a pile of guitar pedals and some unseen keyboard, this is an enigmatic 5-minute ambient noise piece. Feedback corridors and underwater organs. 30 views on YouTube. Placed the jumper cables directly on the artery. Arranged more like a space than a piece of music, lots of little corners where you can comfortably curl up in a single sound and enjoy a bit of sleep paralysis.
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What I'm listening to today: "Open Circuit", Assunta Alegiani and Pedro Ferreira
L.E.P. is a very small scale creator of "opinionated" electronic instruments from Italy. Here they have invited two musicians to come make music with some of their devices. Two minutes of strange, satisfying drone. Chiptune bagpipes in distant fog. Starts suddenly and cuts off suddenly; I think they must have made a longer recording, and then cut out the two minutes that felt like a "song".
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What I'm listening to today: "Tratto II", Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Zimmerman was a mid-1900s German composer whose career seems too large to get a handle on without a visit to the reference library, but the running theme seems to be soaking up like a sponge everything happening in midcentury music from New Music to atonality to jazz. From 1969, here he drops a serene 12-minute "electroacoutic" piece, single notes held for minutes at a time, wallowing in a nameless emotion
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What I'm listening to today: "Buchla Music Easel and Tape Loop Feedback Patch", Elabor
Gorgeous, dark throbbing tones and feedback moans. A short walk through a concrete tunnel lit only by the daylight at the end. Somehow the Buchla here is being augmented with tape loops made with guitar and a Lyra-8 but the sounds can't really be discerned, it's all just one single Thing
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What I'm listening to today: "hissquiet live at the hive somerville ma"
Finally, some real friggin noise. The musician's got a granular sampler, it's got an audio clip inside that it scrubs back and forth, and they're controlling it by waving their hand in the air, playing an infared sensor as an instrument. The result defies description, waves of metal wasp grinding and filter howls, a wildly different texture every minute. Video feels like something recorded covertly
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What I'm listening to today: "Concentric | Tapeloop & Eurorack Dark Ambient", MJ:Mu
An 18-minute, highly structured sound journey accompanied by ocean waves and some very good nail polish. The musician starts a loop of tape-saturated pads then improvises with two abstract instruments embedded in their modular suitcase, the first a sort of shimmery dub organ, they other (they mounted an Elmyra in a eurorack! I've never seen that) a sort of 90s-style saw-wave violin drone
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What I'm listening to today: "Strega Agitation | Part I", Bottle Makes Music
Five minute solo on the "what if we made the entire synthesizer out of reverb" synth Alessandro Cortini co-designed with Make Noise. Quiet but with an incredible richness and complexity to the sound if you can bring yourself to focus on the structure below the hiss, faraway echoes of unknowable machinery, the corridor to a hangar for planes powered by ghosts
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What I'm listening to today: "The Culprit", Zü and Nobukazu Takemura
N.T. is a glitch musician I really like from the early 00s; this is from a 2007 collaboration with a jazz/metal¹ group from Italy. Here a noise that kind of sounds like someone opened up a non-audio file² in Audacity Import->Raw Data plays counterpart to drums and bass produced like metal but fit to free jazz patterns. If you like Sacto postrock listen to this
@pestojaguar he was only making stuff for a little window there it seems like, but he's really good… have u ever heard his remix of roni size "brown paper bag"
What I'm listening to today: "Restless", The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination
I had this one on vinyl and listened to it a ton then had some period in the 10s I couldn't find it anymore, because I'd got it in my head it was The Cinematic Orchestra and kept going through the Cinematic Orchestra discography going "no, that's not it…". Anyway. Ninja Tune jazz with huge vibes. Humphrey Bogart is walking through a city with giant Cabinet of Caligari architecture angles
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What I'm listening to today: "Plain Song", Sidewinder
I think about: Jazz as it developed grew to abhor repetition. First reorienting itself on solos, then spiraling out into free-jazz anarchy. But then there was that circa-2000 electronica movement that got really into jazz, and *they'd* sample the most interesting six seconds of a jazz improvisation and hyperfocus on it, reintroduce repetition.
Here's that second thing, a funky groove from 2000 AD exactly. Good piano
I know people have spilled oceans of ink over what's part of the jazz tradition or not, but if this counts then I love the fractal nature of it all - someone plays a cool lick over a vamp, it gets sampled and turned into its own backing track, which someone else builds a tune over, over and over
So it is not a ton like this, but as I was thiking about the offshoot of free jazz that's REALLY into repetition and some of your other music posts, I wonder if you've checked out Craig Taborn. A lot younger than the folks I was thinking of, I think you might like his approach. Output varies considerably, but check out like his "Junk Magic" group, the "Light Made Lighter" trio or his solo work to see if any of it appeals
What I'm listening to today: "Doom-Mantia", wizardinblack123
Today I was going to link you this song from Electric Wizard's 1997 doom-metal opus "Come My Fanatics…", but looking for a copy on YouTube I accidentally instead found this cover recorded in 2013 by literally three guys in a garage, and I was *so* overcome by the "three guys in a garage" energy intensity that now I'm linking you this version instead. God these tones are so grubby. It's incredible
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Wow, yeah these guys may have no gear and a phone for recording but they are ON IT in all the ways that count. Reminds me of old stuff, early sabbath or AC/DC, they didn't have any more skill and recording studios weren't so polished. Thanks for sharing that.
@acsawdey I really like how when you record metal in this way all the instruments kinda merge together into one undifferentiated Sound… there's an early Emperor album that was supposedly recorded literally in the woods with a 4-track and that's what I think about
Yeah. Only works if the players are in sync. And they are, there was a chord change thing they did about 2/3 the way through .. no signals, just guitar and bass jumping a couple steps.
What I'm listening to today: "Dimension 4", Virtua Point Zero
Often when I link tracker tunes I have to kind of do detective work. This YouTube video is labeled:
"A micro (63kb) DnB track which appeared on an ASCII art / music disk by Hoffman."
When was this recorded? Who is Hoffman? It sounds like a hype late-2010s progressive club banger. The artist has a SoundCloud, where this was posted… two weeks ago, but maybe it's a repost from the 90s. The world is a mystery.
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I love a good tracker tune. If I'd loaded this up when I was a kid, it would have me in a daze for hours, PC speaker to the max. Already played this'un at least 5 times in my car.
What I'm listening to today: "You Made Me Realise", My Bloody Valentine
MBV is best known for "Loveless", where they re-imagined indie rock with so much filtering it sounds like it was recorded by aliens, but then there's this one transitional-fossil track with max production but legible pop vocals. It's so so Much. Bright, airy lyrics with super dark lyrics, cutup VHS-core video. In live versions, the guitar breakdown in the middle reportedly lasts like, half an hour.
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For anyone who digs that sort of "transitional" noise pop from them, I'd highly recommend checking out the whole "You Made Me Realise" ep! Those are probably my fave tunes from them.
The "Feed Me With Your Kiss" ep is similar, too. Both so good, and I wish they were as well-known as "Loveless" became.
can confirm the live breakdown lasts a good 20-30 minutes and although many people leave, plenty stick around and i remember seeing at least one person in a corner huddling, covering their ears
The guitar breakdown was called “the holocaust” by the band, and it’s a living, pulsating beast that swallows you up whole. Only Atari Teenage Riot was as loud live, but nowhere near as voluminous.
What I'm listening to today: "Pink Turns to Grey", Slow Attack Ensemble
I don't know much about this group but one thing I'll say: They really do have slow attack. Here's eight minutes of layered guitar, waves of butterflies, flitting invisible beautiful but a bit too much, feels nice but the niceness feels like anxiety, worrying, a thing that's too nice, is this what "manic" means? a typhoon of butterflies gentle breeze like a winter gale too much too much too much too
I recently picked up Music for Turntable, Guitars and Sampled Instruments and have been loving it. 90 seconds for Celeste is a favorite, as is Early Dawning.
What I'm listening to today: "glitch/techno/something patch in pure data", Artiom Constantinov
A PD patch that just sorta tries a lot of different things. Low-resolution dubstep / something metal in the washing machine / saw wave overflow / rabbits-foot kick / acid on acid / Miku Hatsune again? / gabber benediction. Unlike previous Constantinov pieces I've linked he doesn't expose the full PD flowchart in the video but instead gives us sort of a cool hacker console
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"Formant synthesis". It's easy, it's well understood, people have been using it for voice synthesis since the 1930s, it's used in Vocaloid which is why I mentioned Miku, I don't know how to get it in PD but if all else fails there are VSTs for it
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What I'm listening to today: "Where do I start?", zabutom
This is a DOS FastTracker II tune from 2004 designed to push the boundaries of what is possible in tracker music. It succeeds hard, both in its chill lo-fi opening and the "impossible" middle segment (spoilers: what you are hearing is the FastTracker II executable itself, reinterpreted as PCM).
The video is posted by the original artist and contains some live commentary scribbled in the right side text field.
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one of my favorite cluster of genres is "the melody sounds like it's chilling out, the drums sound like they are going absolutely bugnuts" and it's interesting how this managed to replicate that vibe entierly in FastTracker
What I'm listening to today: "full moon 20240918", Veltenhill
This one the focus is more the video than the music, but what a video! Pure abstraction, JPEG macroblocks the size of planets, no content, no structure, nothing for your brain to grip on. Stare directly into the laser. To me the function of art is to construct qualia that we cannot experience in ordinary life and cannot express the character of through any method other than to re-experience the artwork itself
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What I'm listening to today: Autechre Live at Oscillate (Birmingham 1993)
According to interviews this was the first "proper" Autechre live set; they didn't initially believe their style could work live until the Oscillate operator talked them into it. One month before Warp published "Inculabula", this set is *incredible*, a bridge from Lego Feet, dance percussion over dreamy vibes, closing at 25:20 with an alluring, gentle funk track that's one of my favorite Autechres
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What I'm listening to today: "16521235326544312165352", 121534312
Hello, is this thing on? Dialtone for a disconnected universe. Howls and hums, breath on the microphone, heartbeat signal for a deep space probe, elevator music ambient for the descent into a black hole. A thought that flees from you just as it's starting to make sense.
Video accompaniment is the kind of greebly feedback art I love and YouTube compression hates.
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What I'm listening to today: "Gaze", Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation
I saw this grindcore band in Tokyo last month. Fucking amazing. All-female group, except for "Shinji", the lead guitarist from Disgunder. The concert had nine bands on the bill and, I found out after arriving, was being held for Shinji's birthday. The venue was so small, and there were so many bands, the performers were most of the audience. I accidentally crashed a grindcore birthday party
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I just checked out a video of a live performance by the band in 2018. Totally bonkers 🤯 The audience was all jumping up on the stage while the band shredded. Good times 🙂
What I'm listening to today: "Alkebulan", Ras_G & The Afrikan Space Program
Messy jazz soup set to afropunk video samples. Drums like a bag of empty cans hanging off a back porch. Blown in the wind, falling to the ground. There is a vision of something here, something forbidden to me, Sun Ra, "the 1980s". The last UFO off this planet may or may not have already left and I don't know if this is a vision of the future or the past. Good kick drum sounds tho
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What I'm listening to today: "Elevator Music", Medasin
Fast beats and jazz piano. This drum pattern is "drum & bass" plus one step of refinement. When D&B landed, those of us who listened to but did not make electronic music believed a door had opened and an infinite descent of new and unique drumbeats was to come. No, D&B was just one new drum beat. Less diversity than Jungle. But the infinite revolution was already here, jazz was just always doing this if we'd listen
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@vitriolix ok i agree that what you're calling the 3 step is definitely a d&b beat tho
(one time my friend chris drew on a whiteboard what he called the "chris willmore unified theory of dubstep" and i wish i had a photo of that whiteboard)
I could fill a whiteboard with a discussion about the throughline from jungle to dnb to dubstep to brostep. So glad when I find dubstep producers sticking to the more minimal roots of the style as a sort of downbeat chillout dnb
What I'm listening to today: "What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side?", Khodumodumo
"The name of Khodumodumo is an archaic Sesotho term, most likely meaning 'great noise',—"
"The khodumodumo was a cryptid reported from South Africa in around the 1930's. With a name said to mean 'gaping-mouthed bush monster'—"
Music by a impressionist painter. Shoving your face in shuddering drums & South African history. Like breathing mud. He wants you to know it is like breathing mud
What I'm listening to today: "Breaths", Mount Eerie
This is The Microphones, if that means anything to you. Loud shuddering blasts, everything is so loud, nothing is happening but it is so loud, the microphone is much too close, the drums are clipping, the master tapes have been deep fried. He is whispering but you may or may not hear him over the silence. The silence is so loud. This album has 26 tracks but none of them sound like this one
What I'm listening to today: "Immersion Crystals", Indricothere
So this is an *hour and a half* single song. Not like, an album, the album it's from is 15 hours and 16 minutes long. Somebody sat down and played on a single synthesizer for an hour and a half and it's got like, a coherent internal structure like an 8 minute song stretched out. I didn't think I'd be able to listen to the whole thing but it went down real easy. Dark and determined. Slow-chords space ambient
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What I'm listening to today: "Subtle Anticipation", James Frederickson "Curious Substance", James Frederickson
Crunchy, satisfying dub techno. Cover photo conveys what you'll hear here better than anything I could say. I recommend letting the first two tracks run; the first is more energetic, the second more chill.
This could have been recorded in the year 2000, but was not. We missed a dub album, as a species. Someone had to go back this year and record it.
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What I'm listening to today: "Shipwrecks", The Drowning World
This is a new band that caught my eye because it features Jasper Byrne aka Sonic, who I know from his indie game work. They've got this very specific and unique style that seems to be chunks of Everything But the Girl from the 90s, Peter Gabriel from the 80s and like, I dunno, basically Mogwai from the 00s all crammed together, and it *works*. Here's a 20-minute mood journey. Fresh and clear and high-energy
What I'm listening to today: "Elektron Digitone IDM 7 新発田市加治川", Masaaki Haga
Here a man stands slightly off-camera in the rain playing a small black rectangle. (The title translates to "Kajikawa, Shibata City".) The Digitone packs a powerful punch both as a groovebox and as an FM synthesis device, and Mr. Masaaki gives us a feast of alien glowing metal sounds and slow beats. The first time I listened to this, when the kicks came in I actually said "oh!" out loud.
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Oval spent two decades cultivating this very particular scratchy glitch style so this crisp clean 2010 track was a surprise, chaotic staccato string plucks and like, drums, acoustic jazzy drums. The (incredible) video is a weird, fuzzy dream about an all-bones/no-bones dancer doing ballet on a floor covered in sand, incidentally drawing cryptic sigils with each sweep of the toe. Anyway watch this if you're pansexual
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What I'm listening to today: "Ecstatic Erratic Encounters", N. Excelsia
@excelsia is a black metal guitarist who's gone by a few different names (if you remember my Bandcamp recommendations list, she's on it as "Charlene Maximum"). She's recently picked up drums and is playing them in a band named Vitality Ritual, but on the border she dropped this altered-state-inducing album of drum-only improvisations. Wall of sound noise ritual / very loud ambient
What I'm listening to today: "finish y0 self", Kist Killa
Hip-hop noise blast. Like a surreal zoomer meme, or an abrasive joke, but then you let it run a bit and hey yeah this works, as music. The vibe works. When you're dreaming you don't question what's happening to you. I have no idea what this is sampling, I thought the strings were Silent Hill, it sounds like it *could* be, but I checked and no the Silent Hill 1 soundtrack is CD audio and sounds very professional
i have a suggestion: what would you think about adding a hashtag to your « what I’m listening to today » posts? It would be easier to find them when people want to listen to a bunch of your suggestion (it’s me, I’m people). I understand if you don’t want to be bothered by doing this
@archiloque I have thought about it but i feel like hashtags don't work good on mastodon and they also take characters away from my summaries.
BTW i do have searching on so you can technically search "from:mcc listening chiptune" or whatever (assuming there are no days I mess up and accidentally type "what I listened to today"… sometimes I do this to find old listening posts myself.
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What I'm listening to today: "Yes, I see!", Andreas Rohdin
FastTracker .xm file from the year 2002. Good chiptune sounds (tho I'm pretty sure the chiptune waveforms are just sampled). Nice and busy, it has 16 channels & they're *all* in use! Bright 90s vibes, kinda… triumphant? I'm trying to figure out what experience produces this song's particular qualia. "Being 15 and originally learning to use Linux" is the memory that my brain is producing. Sorry, I might be a nerd
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I could be talking out my butt here, but I think what I love about tracker music is you couldn't chuck an LFO or envelope sweep on anything, so the only way to create movement was through composition, which results in tracks that pack in a lot of ideas.
the memories! As far as I remember, Fast Tracker 2 was completely sample based. No synths. I should try to find my own tracks. I think I still have them somewhere, but it's been almost 30 years...
What I'm listening to today: "random noise 131 --noisevember 29-- Kastle ARP, NTS-3", glenn clyatt
Slow fade in what sounds like a guitar solo, an interstitial on an MBV record or something, but coming out of two little bits of handheld electronic gear. Gradually dissolves into noise, then the glinty shine of moonlight beneath the ocean, drowned out by the booming sounds of mermaid construction equipment. You know there's a second moon at the bottom of the ocean, right?
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@limneticvillains I think glenn cyatt would be definitely equipped to add some glitchy industrial drums, i don't know if he ever revisits his "random noises" but if he did that would be a good approach
What I'm listening to today: "Microtonal Guitar/Modular Synth/Vhikk X/Chase Bliss Mood mk2, Habit, Blooper", Steve Flato
A 24-minute abstract guitar solo. A mysteriously lit man is playing guitar into a chain of transforming/resynthesizing electronics which turn his performance into an orchestra of strange cross-interacting sounds. Cyborg chainsaw-arm math rock. Into this he feeds a subtle, varying composition with a particularly strong start and finish.
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What I'm listening to today: "danaus plexxipus", Beek
Due to historical distribution methods, the "tracker sound" is bound up with low-fidelity samples. When a tracker song uses high-rate samples, it sounds like a magic trick.
This 2019 funk cruise produces fun cognitive dissonance by mixing CD-quality soul drums (the file is 2.4 MB for a 1 minute song!) with pure chiptune on every other instrument. You just don't expect those sounds together. Nice track too, if short.
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What I'm listening to today: "Our planet the voice", Croaker
This 1997 tracker jam by Croaker (who, as you'll remember if you've been reading this thread the entire three years, later designed the video game "Angry Birds"?) is a buffet of jangling vibes, cheesy 90s PC synths moshing against hype, progressive electronica beats. Flavors of acid, Jungle, glitch, house flit in and out. Anyone who had this on their PC in 1997 probably felt like the coolest kid in high school
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Hyper cool, laid-back jazz lounge, with just enough production sparkle on it to make it feel like it's in the "electronica" rack at the record store. The hop trips. I found this artist through a wildly different collaboration they did with Moe Shop (see upthread and/or search "from:mcc listening"); most of their solo discography is in this sorta chill jazz register. Here, I promise only three minutes of immaculate vibes.
This one's a party trick, an oscilloscope art / tracker music crossover. Watch the video: The composer loads samples whose PCM values draw little pictures when displayed in the instrument waveform viewer of Amiga ProTracker. Drawings of spaceships and letters spelling out A M I G A and such, they keep pulling out new ideas until the video ends. Anyway the focus here is on the gimmick but the song itself actually is a bop.
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What I'm listening to today: "world.execute(me);", Mili
Mili is a gloriously unique band whose thing seems to be every one of their songs is a self-contained speculative fiction story. I linked them before in this thread but all I could think at the time was I could do a whole week of nothing but Mili. So
This is a song with a very important message: Do not try to save a failing relationship by simulating a universe and eternally trapping your simulated avatars inside.
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Cassie Wei/momocashew (Mili's localist/vocalist) sings fluently in all of Mandarin, English, Japanese, occasional French, and a fifth language, which she appears to have invented herself, and which the fanbase calls "Miliese" (sometimes "Milinese" or "Milish"), in which this song is sung.
Interestingly Miliese doesn't seem to draw much from any of momocashew's native languages, and seems to be most closely based on Latin.
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What I'm listening to today: "Meatball Submarine", Mili
Like "world.execute(me);" this is from Miracle Milk, my favorite Mili album. For a long time to me this was just the pretty piano piece in the middle of the album. Then I finally listened to the lyrics.
This song turns out to tell the deeply surreal story of the captain of a submarine sandwich, and it is strangely heart-tugging. At one point it attempts to convey the qualia of being eaten alive by sharks
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What I'm listening to today: "In Hell We Live, Lament (Let's Lament)", Mili featuring KIHOW
Mili does a *lot* of game and anime soundtracks (I originally learned about them through the end theme to Gleipnir). This song is from "Limbus Company", an RPG which seems to have a straightforward organized-crime plot except the closer you look the more signs you see it might be set in Hell? This is an alternate version from the OST, it's stripped down but actually goes harder
@nazokiyoubinbou I think there are certain areas of music where this stuff just literally never gets documented.
There are two vocalists in 1990s british techno music I am CONVINCED are the same person, but nobody bothers writing these particular bands up in wikis.
What I'm listening to today: "A Turtle's Heart", Mili
A rare non-narrative (less-narrative?) Mili track, this is a bouncy, fun song with harrowing lyrics. This song succinctly summarizes depression¹ through the metaphor of your heart being a tiny, angry turtle, irritably walking in little circles around the terrarium of your ribcage. Turtles live a very long time.
What I'm listening to today: "world.execute(me);" (Key Ingredient ver.), Mili
"Key Ingredient" is a Mili album where they cover a baker's dozen of their own songs as vocals and piano only. (It's also got a good version of Turtle's Heart.) There is a video on YouTube where momocashew sings (lipsynchs to?) the entire album start to finish while petting a cat.
What I'm listening to today: "Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the Thought Police", Mili
There's something a bit theater-kid about Mili. This is the one Mili track where they just go straight-up musical theater, not my favorite genre, but I love this because they they commit to it so *hard*, gone all-in on chipper darkness. A bonus track on the Library of Ruina OST, this is probably Mili's best piece of self-contained sci-fi writing and it is more than a little bit queer.
Oh! Did they write the other music for Library of Ruina?
So much of that was just fantastic, especially the special songs for specific major fights. I had been trying to think why the name Mili sounded vaguely familiar, but I wasn't placing it.
@CliftonR They didn't write the entire soundtrack but they wrote a lot of it. Like seven songs including the main theme, not counting the thought police song?
@CliftonR (Not sure if this is clear at this moment but every song in my listening thread this week has been Mili! They also have done quite a few OSTs. If the thread is not a convenient way to ingest song recs, my rec list also got posted on Cohost once cohost.org/mcc/post/7814101-bo… for however long that URL still works…
In my opinion, their best album is Miracle Milk (which itself contains multiple songs from OSTs])
I was planning to do this as a weekly mixtape in December, but you can just have it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESx_hy1n7HA [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESx_hy1n7HA]
1. "world.execute(me);" [https://www.youtube.
Sounds like you are already aware that Limbus Company is set in the same universe as Library of Ruina and Lobotomy Corporation before that.
My opinion on it is that I *think* it's not supposed to be Hell literally, in the theological sense, rather that everything we see of their world suggests it is as close to hell as humans could manage to turn this planet into. (The chefs of District 23, for one example.)
IMO it describes the ongoing project of advanced capitalism, pretty much.
My understanding (though I haven't played it!) is that Limbus is supposed to be about teams exploring the further wreckage of L Corporation, after the events of the first two games.
What I'm listening to today: "Stray Cat Lullaby", Soaring Tortoise Orchestra
This guy's got a basement full of broken-down musical instruments, some homemade. He posts near-daily dispatches but this is the strangest and must beautiful thing I've yet heard out of him, doing some live music production on two old pianos, a looped tape on a reel-to-reel and a naked Leslie speaker. A series of short fluffy dreams interrupted by God having to stop the tape to adjust something
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What I'm listening to today: "Coward of the Year", The Controls
I don't know much about this band! There used to be this CD-ROM magazine in the 90s, I think it was called "Launch", like a proto-PDF on a CD, and it always included 1 song playable in an audio CD Player. This track was in one issue and I've remained obsessed for decades. "Trip-hop" (we knew what this meant in the 90s) with a gleefully high noise level, all banging on cookie sheets and scratching like mad
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What I'm listening to today: "My best live patch sound to date", polymodular
I woke up this morning wanting to listen to something loud. Pounding on the door. Music as a means of externalizing a mindstate. This track drops industrial drums in a few different patterns atop shimmer pads, gets in, makes its point, gets out. Efficient and courteous beat delivery
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What I'm listening to today: "Cwejman, Trogotronic, Make Noise - 1st patch in the Needham Woodworks case with Eskatonic power", James Plotkin
An *incredibly* dirty modular synth jam with fast, borderline-IDM beats.
There was this moment in electronic music I think of as "Warp Artificial Intelligence" when the tech had jumped forward and the people were scrambling to figure out what the possibilities meant. Everything seemed new and fresh and surprising. That music *still* feels surprising if you go back and listen to it. This SoundCloud musician decided to make some 1992 Warp music in 2024 and it rules. Check out that POV-Ray cover
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What I'm listening to today: "Superstar pt.2", Bugseed
Weird, funky little hip-hop track released last month directly into the streaming ecosystem bloodstream. I like the piano syncopation.
This was a Tidal rec and I didn't know the artist. What I've since figured is "Cheeba Cheeba Records" in Brighton releases a new eclectic compilation of off-kilter underground hip hop every couple of months, and Bugseed is a frequent flyer. I guess I have a new Bandcamp to trawl!
What I'm listening to today: "Heavy and Earthbound", Rich Ruth
Dark, growling jazz. There's a lot going on in this one, it keeps surprising me! Freaky, energetic drums, a touch of sympathetic sitar, and at the center an irritable saxophone continuously escalating like someone in another room is having an argument and the longer it goes on without them being able to bring it to a close the louder and louder they start to raise their voice
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What I'm listening to today: "Orval Shurf", Tub Singer
With this thread I alternate showing you music I think you'll like; trying to expand the boundaries of what you *could* like; and posting stuff I just really like.
This one's for me. A soup of buzzy noises blast in random directions until you start disassociating, and then through the water surface of your consciousness crisp clear guitar shines through. Lovely. Like a guided meditation. *No* idea what you'll think
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Music for booting up. Music for the Monday after New Years, freshly laundered underwear, waking up renewed, re-energized, ready to build a new world out of the rubble of the old one, dreams to replace the nightmares, creation without limits, massive spires stretching into the sky. Replace existing content? (Y/N)
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What I'm listening to today: "Pyroclasts F", SUNN O))) featuring Anna von Hausswolff
Sunn O))) is basically Boris with no bones. They can and will hold a single note for 1 hour. Here is some lovely black metal drone ambient they recorded live at the BBC. The addition of von Hausswolff means for this recording we get to find out what Sunn O))) would sound like with organ and singing, and the answer is: Good.
An emotion you fall into like the deep end of a swimming pool
Oh dang, I like both these artists individually, had no idea they'd collaborated.
I saw SunnO))) live at El Corazon in Seattle, and they were not only the loudest band I've ever heard, but the loudest sound of any kind. Tooth-rattlingly loud. Gut-liquefyingly loud. So loud that I had concert ear even though I wore fancy -15dB attenuating earplugs the whole time. I'd see them again in a heartbeat.
What I'm listening to today: "Test Anxiety", Toenut
The alt-rock station in Houston in the 90s had a program director named David Sadof, and after midnight on Sundays they let him run a show called "Lunar Rotation" where he just played whatever he felt like. This had deep and permanent effects on my musical tastes.
Here's some freaky, punky, David-Sadof-blessed Atlanta-local indie rock from 1997. This album used to be IMPOSSIBLE to find, but now is on Apple Music.
Provided to YouTube by MuteTest Anxiety · ToenutTwo In The Pinata℗ 1997 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Mute Records LimitedComposer: Colli...
What I'm listening to today: "Rest Tie Implant", Drip-133
Chill, light-footed beats and the kind of synths I associate with 90s "IDM", like old Arovane or Funkstörung or "Theme Song to Cex" or whatever. What *is* that sound? Wavefolders? Anyway:
This track makes me think of waking up before anyone else, morning light in cool hallways, crisp-feeling rain pattering against windows and falling on empty streets
What I'm listening to today: "Analog Noise Improv 1", raagdol
You cannot understand unless you have experienced it the raw primal power of having an amplifier, a delay petal at 100% wet, and a microphone. This musician sets a guitar faceup on the carpet and guides you on a 20-minute noisefuck trip through the landscapes this feedback setup creates. (There's also a part 2 which I don't like as much but shows his setup, and a part 3 which includes organ and is quite nice)
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What I'm listening to today: "cloud shadows (Chase Bliss Onward and other effects with electric kalimba)", bassling
Cool minimal sound demo on a desktop kalimba and a erratic stutter-echo pedal. I don't think the 606 on the carpet is plugged in.
Quiet distant scratchy noises, something incredibly cool and possibly supernatural and/or illegal is happening at the end of a long hallway. Notice the Kalimba's wood body being tapped and scratched as a percussive instrument.
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What I'm listening to today: "A Penny", Nappy Nina and Swarvy featuring Lauren Whitehead
Kitchen slam beat poetry accompanied by the tiniest, quietest beat to do the tiniest little dance to in your computer chair.
I think this lady is an associate professor at NYU Tech? She says her kids are Nappy Nina's nephews and I don't know exactly what that makes her. When Björk was recording "Vespertine" she once said something about "music you need a microscope to listen to"
What I'm listening to today: "Time Out (2014 Remix)", Roni Size
Size did a series of "remasters" of his (and his collaborators') genre-redefining late-90s drum&bass masterpieces in the 00s-10s; most of them I don't think are improvements, but then this, this is great. Vastly improved rethink of an otherwise minor 2005 single.
Manic drum & bass bop with toothy 80s synths and irrepressible energy.
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What I'm listening to today: "Noticed You Remix (Noticed You)", Stef de Haan
Your memories of 90s dance music in a blender¹. Did we ever need more than this? The finest retro timbres curated into something new-feeling, with a hard driving beat for a backbone. Nice
Provided to YouTube by DistroKidNoticed You Remix (Noticed You) · Stef de HaanNoticed You Remix (Noticed You)℗ De ReünieReleased on: 2021-07-01Auto-generated...
What I'm listening to today: "Untitled-Draining-Demo_01-03", sewerslvt
JVNE seems to go back and forth on the desire to be perceived at all. She left YouTube and stopped publishing in 2021, but now has returned and is openly recording again as "Cynthoni" (her third or fifth artist name). These sewerslvt tracks are bootlegged from a 2020 compilation named "Worthlessness Selected", which were subsequently deleted from Bandcamp and Spotify. 3 tracks of intent darkness
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What I'm listening to today: "You Know the Rest", Chrystabell and David Lynch
This album from last year is a vaguely-unsettling, vaguely-comforting dream, best experienced sorta half-listened to. Dissonance and uncertainty all the way through, instruments and overlapping vocal tracks that seem barely aware of each others' presence, darkness like a warm blanket. This one track, which can't decide if it's being played backward or forward, sticks with me hard.
"So" was an absolutely fascinating project by Markus Popp of Oval and a Japanese noise-folk musician named Eriko Toyoda. In contemporary interviews they described their collaboration process as a kind of warfare, emailing DAW files back and forth and on each pass intentionally disrupting what the other was doing as much as possible.
Chaotic mashing of vocal layers and what sounds like the Spectral Gate plugin from Logic Audio 5
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@barrowofdirt I've yet to find anything she recorded before the So album! Contemporary media described her music as folk, but today I discovered Tidal has some albums from 2021-present and they're folk but they're also pretty noisy lol
What I'm listening to today: "Dream Tear Down", Teque
One of a number of FastTracker 2 tracks commissioned for the Unreal Tournament soundtrack (in this case, exclusive to the "Game of the Year Edition" released in 2000). Cool evocative industrial, music for robots by robots. There's a cool vibe shift around 3:10.
This musician later went on to work on the Max Payne soundtrack and (if I'm reading this right) was scanned to create the model for a Max Payne grunt enemy.
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Off the top of my head I'm fond of 9mm from Heaven and Kharismatron, but you can't really go wrong. Everything is on their website at teque.planet-d.net/
What I'm listening to today: "Reflections in a Blade", Chrystabell and David Lynch
There's this scene in "Wild at Heart" (far from Lynch's best movie) where a man is being tortured to death. It's shot underlit and too close, and the soundtrack is loud backward-jazz noises that don't separate cleanly from either the sound foley or the unintelligible dialogue. It's the best scene in the whole movie. You don't have to "make sense" if you're really, truly feeling something.
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What I'm listening to today: "Horizon Line", Frail Body
Thrash metal guitar wall and a degendered voice screaming defiantly into a megaphone.
This is a really good album, by the way! I recommend it if you want to experience the feeling of cathartically screaming while crying for 40 minutes. This *particular* track might not be the… gentlest, entry point into it actually, but this is what I'm feeling right now
What I'm listening to today: "FLUORINE New Official Firmware 1.5. Free Update", Spherical Sound Society
This is a company/person in Portugal that produces small, naked-PCB audio devices and sells them on Tindie. This device runs the "bytebeat" algorithm and various extensions thereof, and the video is meant to demo a new firmware update but instead turns into a lovely standalone glitch techno performance. If you like Noise these are some exceptionally fine noises.
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What I'm listening to today: "CHASM GARDEN", GIRL HELL 1999
This is some 80s goth industrial, but recorded in 2024. Chunky bass and black lipstick and people with unclear gender and unparseable expressions dancing. Forty years of apparent activity only for us to wind up in the same dark basement
One time on old Twitter I made a post recommending black metal group Couch Slut, and Megan Osztrosits the vocalist of Couch Slut showed up out of nowhere and was like "you should listen to 'I'm 14', it has trumpet in it". So I listened and you know what? It did, it totally did
An abrasive noisewall howl collapsing into miserable jazz, comforting like the feeling of tears coming on warm like blood slopping out of a wound
What I'm listening to today: "Scaffolding", Frail Body
I linked this band Tuesday with a track I described as "not the gentlest entry point". This is a better entry point! It's still very loud thrash metal of course but it's more melodic, catchy even. Good blastbeats.
I have 200 characters left? So: There's this thing where when trans women have more feminine voices than me I'm like "good for them!", but when cis men can sing in a higher register I just get jealous lol
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What I'm listening to today: "Funeral Dyke", Couch Slut
If you're going to listen to Couch Slut (and I do think you should listen to Couch Slut) this song is probably the best place to start. Honestly maybe this is just the track I'd give someone as an intro to death metal overall. All the best feels the microgenre has to offer, loud unapologetic and screaming, but there's lots of texture and hey, you can even make out some of the words!
What I'm listening to today: "Modestly", Nappy Nina featuring Maassai
The smoothest rap flows, over a beat that would make Boards of Canada burn with jealousy that they weren't the ones who made it. Maybe I don't want to be heard
Nappy Nina is prolific, and judging from the consistently excellent guest vocalists on her tracks seems to have a direct line of connection to each one of the most laid-back rappers in the greater Brooklyn area
What I'm listening to today: "Small Mr Man Pants", Odd Nosdam
Delirious noise casserole by the producer from cLOUDDEAD, with sounds both strange and satisfying. Music you can wrap around you like a big warm blanket, surely at some point you will have to get up into the big cold difficult world but not right now, right now you have found a place that is warm and comfortable and you can stay floating in your warm comfortable cloud, you can stay here a little longer.
What I'm listening today: "bookoo bread co", scallops hotel
Deliciously weird rap, a beat that sounds like a CD on fast-forward skip but funky, laid-back vocals that seem to be coming at the track sideways. It's easy for me to say this place isn't beautiful
2 minutes even. This musician appears to release music under like 8 different names and I can't tell which one's the original. "R.A.P. Ferreira"? Definitely heads up on this artist for anyone who likes "spoken word"
What I'm listening to today: "Street Magic", Roc Marciano and The Alchemist
Gummy funk, the quietest jazz drum line, shoes stuck to the sidewalk. Time itself had to slow down to match the speed of this guy's rapping. I'm not cool, despite what you might have assumed, I'm rude
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What I'm listening to today: "Neal Cassady Starts Here", Fatboy Slim
This is a strange b-side mashup of pieces of "The Weekend Starts Here" with a long, unedited clip of Neal Cassady doing a sound check, speaking unthinking for five minutes so there's continuous sound on the mic. I just find this track a wonderful space to float in, there's a certain unresolvable tension to it
Hasn't been any Astralwerks in this thread series, somehow. I should do something about that.
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What I'm listening to today: "Stone Soup", Nappy Nina and Moor Mother
Moor Mother works Nappy Nina's formula into glitchy jazz. Black woman equalizer of the nonsense. Incredible groove on this one, chill hammock swing transitioning into fast fluid free-jazz drums.
What I'm listening to today: "RB3", Nosaj Thing and Jacques Greene
I have this problem where I am constantly getting Nosaj Thing and Odd Nosdam mixed up? Anyway here's Nosaj Thing with that one guy who does the good remixes. Vocal samples like intrusive thoughts and bass sounds like wheels turning on rails
A 4-track FastTracker tune from 2003, making chiptune on an imaginary soundchip with four basic waveforms chosen by the musician. Good hooks and an intent energy, like an airplane taking off. Pay attention while you listen to see how long it takes you to notice this song has only waveforms, no conventional percussion (except oops, I just pointed it out).
Watch in the top right of this video for artist commentary.
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What I'm listening to today: "Reef Rain", Soaring Tortoise Orchestra
A man in a suit sits in his basement and plays an electric guitar with a violin bow. Fans of noise/drone and Godspeed You! Black Emperor take note. A lovely performance, in which Mr. Tortoise shows in various subtle moments real technical mastery of the instrument he's abusing. Under ocean light through surface vibes.
If you don't understand the sounds you're hearing note the looper pedal at his feet.
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This is the missing seventh track from that mixtape; I left it out because it wasn't proto-punk, instead a chaotic blend of four types of rock, "ecstatic noise ritual", prog punk with a free jazz ethos. The album cover here, btw, is drawn by Ms. Buchanan.
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What I'm listening to today: "Record Companies", Tricky
Over the years Tricky has repeatedly compared himself to an angel, a demon, God. On this track he conveys a vision of Hell, in the most clear form he himself has ever seen it: The "Big Five" music industry. Tricky's vocals and lyrics are often so laid-back as to sound almost distracted but on this one single track he sounds really, legitimately angry.
Unchained, sinister jam rock / jazz rhythm section on tilt
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I linked Obnox on Wednesday, here's one more slice of his uncategorizable style. This one's less rock and more of a hip hop groove, AM radio wall of sound, vocals drenched in echo and strings drenched in tremolo. And 808. Because what *isn't* improved by adding 808, right?
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What I'm listening to today: "Quitting Is Hard, Not Quitting Is Harder", Cynthoni feat. AgonyOST
From the EP "SMOKE IT TO THE BUTT" this is Cynthoni, who is the same person as SEWERSLVT, "featuring" AgonyOST, who's widely believed but never proven to be the same person as SEWERSLVT. Your own past self as a guest artist.
Dark exuberant dance music, anti-sugar explosion, bouncy happy a little sad. Unique feel even for JVNE, it sounds like if Burial tried to make hyperpop
What I'm listening to today: "Artificial Death in the West", Death Grips
This group is MC Ride produced by (with?) my favorite drummer (Zach Hill) and they've got a very particular formula, which by all logic I ought to be a huge fan of but I mostly find it bewildering. This is the one Death Grips track where it Makes Sense to me. Cheap synthesizers and incoherent yelling producing a dark sorrowful vibe of infinite size and revealing the hidden truths of the universe.
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Your last sentence kinda resonates in me. The first time I experienced Death Grips was through a Siivagunner mashup and because I didn't understand quite well the lyrics (pardon my french), the little I understood could have been somehow interpreted as something eldritch and depressing.
i feel like once every five years i have Death Grips Day where it's like oh this is going to be my entire personality now and then the next day i'm like, woops
ha i just had to listen back to it, been a while. so good. the vibrating synth line backbone of this track is doing so much for that infinite size / hidden truths. love how loose but confident so many of the sound design choices in the album feel. and the lyrics are always straddling lines, this was maybe their peak? Money Store was good too but i don't think i dug anything after these two, not particularly.
What I'm listening to today: "Like Your Eyes", Roopen
Here's some more of Roopen's "1992 in 2024" POV-Ray electronica. This one's a chill hip-hop/acid journey, I barely know how to describe it except by rattling off a list of music groups 1997-2004 and then adding "…and there's a 303 in there somewhere".
Music to install Slackware to, music to play at 2 AM in an empty computer lab with half the lights off. Guitar loops echoing over displacement-map reflective oceans
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What I'm listening to today: "PISS GHOST", Girl Hell 1999
My favorite Girl Hell song, kind of the prototype of what Girl Hell 1999 is doing. Just really nailing the 80s goth music feel but the production's modern and super sick, and instead of doing what we did in the 90s and just kinda standing around looking subtly androgynous in a mesh shirt and maybe *maybe* risking a leather skirt occasionally, this is just screamingly loudly overtly trans. Been in my head all week
"cassette drumfunk/jungle". Arcologies is a direct-to-YouTube jungle artist who specializes in sprawling mixtapes, but here they deliver a compact, immensely satisfying 5 minutes of hardcore d&b, wall of beats over a video constructed by sampling a 1985 "Twilight Zone" episode.
Makes me think of those old Roni-Size-clique tracks where they seem to be trying to stretch between-track interstitial deritus into a full song.
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What I'm listening to today: "some noises", M. Loer
A complicated, forbidding night landscape of ambient noise— two minutes long but a lot is happening. Apparently the sound is all filtering, no synthesis; the input is a pile of guitar pedals and one naked PCB, and a MIDI mixer panel that they explain in comments is controlling an array of delay pedals, making the sound stack up on itself in different ways. Huddled in the shack until the storm/marching ghost army passes
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What I'm listening to today: "Techno dub jam" / "Dub Techno Jam", Mark Cee
Cee has a channel full of lovely live-recorded visible-process jams, with a bias toward "dub" / abstract reggae. I can't decide which of his videos I want to post today, so I hereby break my format. Here's 2 videos; pick one.
1 year old, Perkons drum machine plus Super 6 synth; music to be asleep to:
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What I'm listening to today: "'Caught Up While Dreaming' Meng Qi Wing Pinger & Ouroboros Alea", Stephano Gavilanes
The Wing Pinger is a strange handmade instrument from Beijing, based on "filter pinging"; here crosswired with a mysterious wooden block from New Orleans. Synths as art objects themselves, things with personalities. Bouncy clicks and erratic swells, there seems to be a pattern here but it makes sense only to the machine, the structure lives only in voltages
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What I'm listening to today: "Dreamstone", Nightbeat
DOS sample-tracker music from 2004. Soft and gentle and laid back, with hints of epic 80s rock threaded in. Music for watching an indescribable vista between dimensions, universes setting behind one another. The theory was correct, the machine worked. You made it.
A message from the composer briefly flashes at the beginning of this video, reading "Greetz to the D4rkn3ss people and everyone else who deserves it."
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What I'm listening to today: "'Excalibur' (AlfaVox System A1905 analog synthesizer and Buchla Thunder)", Stephano Gavilanes
The YouTube summary describes this as "An experimental piece inspired by the novel of King Arthur 👑" (…how so?).
Imagine you're playing an adventure game on a 90s PC with a SoundBlaster 16. You're climbing down into the sewer, sneaking into a medieval city. Now imagine the soundtrack's by experimental atonal composer Leon Kirchner. What you hear:
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What I'm listening to today: "Truck is Jarig", 4mat
A really fun, chiptune-flavored tracker tune. Created for Razor1911s "Winner Intro" demo in 2011 (on… Amiga?). Apparently Truck is a demoscene guy and it was his Jarig. If you dig up the original XM file it's only 54 seconds long but this video does a loop somewhere.
I think this is the music that they play in the little room you go to between reincarnations. Good work. You did it. Here's your score. Play again? (Y/N)
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I briefly met 4mat back in the day - I think he's working on the Amiga here. Amigas classically had 4 channels, 2 in the left speaker and 2 in the right.
@marlies okay so the reason i mention "rob is jarig" is that there's actually a *second" Truck Is Jarig, which is a demo remaking an older demo named Rog Is Jarig. The music is not similar. So if the two Truck Is Jarigs *are* unrelated this suggests two separate people made demoscene adjacent works ten years apart noting a birthday of Truck
@halcy YouTube is so cruel to pixel art and most YouTube videos are probably bigger than a wasm emulator plus the original demo. But that's hard to cleanly host 🙁
@gsuberland @Truck @marlies nor mine, but I actually went to TuM that year and I really liked the looking down at city flyby and now that I think about it that may have inspired part of this youtube.com/watch?v=ymGCeG9_6c…
edit: holy SHIT that looks ugly on yt. I think when we originally uploaded it it looked a lot better. must have been reencoded since :|
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@halcy Well what I mean is I have encoded many pixel-aesthetic videos which look fine on my computer and look more or less fine uploaded to Vimeo but when I upload to YouTube they look like crap, unforgivable crap, and there is nothing I can do about it
for my 3DS demo captures I generally just upscale 3x and pillarbox to 720p, that helps immensely. But obv that is not the most natural thing to do. Pretty sure this video was uploaded just how it came out of the scan converter, at……. some very low res
What I'm listening to today: "'Artifacts of the Krell' (Ouroboros Alea Analog Synthesizer & Meng Qi Wingie 2)", Stephano Gavilanes
The "Krell patch" in modular synths is a technique where you rig the falling envelope of each note to trigger a new note. If the note lengths are allowed to vary this creates strange rhythms, pendulums swinging out of sync. The inventor of this technique named it after the extinct aliens from Forbidden Planet, imagining it to be their music.
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What I'm listening to today: "Pelog Polyrhythms - Eurorack groove | Chaos, Rings, Twin Waves, Beads", nk
On modular synthesizer and OP-Z, a fun mix of the human-engineered and machine-generative. Kinda bouncy. Almost every element is erratic and skittery and driven by semi-randomized algorithm (electronic slap bass and beats, and a series of chirpy tinkly noises of indistinct nature) but then it's all tied together into coherence by a human-programmed synth line.
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What I'm listening to today: "Caramelldansen on a nuclear siren"
This is a "Whelen Engineering WS-3000 siren", manufactured in 1981 for the Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Plant in Florida, decommissioned in 2013 and scavenged by this YouTuber. It turns on a motor pivot and in the event of a nuclear emergency is designed to play voice announcements that are audible miles away. Here it is running at 0.5% power and playing the nightcore remix of "Caramelldansen", by Caramell.
What I'm listening to today: "Teufelsberg Domecast #13", Tobias Freund
A haunting 50-minute performance from a series where various musicians perform in an abandoned cold war surveillance station, for its natural acoustics. Gorgeous minimalism, tones rise and fall like tides, an ocean made of stars, a lifetime spent as a mote of dust in the dream of a space whale. Performed on MS-20 and a mysterious rack of [guitar pedals? modular units? There's a moogerfooger in there]
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What I'm listening to today: "Things Can Be Calm", Daniel Villarreal with Jeff Parker and Anna Butterss
Chill slow-burn post-rock. Kinda a jazzy spanish guitar thing going on. A frozen morning moment, a sunrise on pause, VHS tracking errors and all. Yes, it does hold this groove for eight minutes straight. How long can you levitate
Unrelated to this particular song but I wanted to thank you for these shares, on a previous post you shared some chiptunes which led me to find one of my current favorite artists. Thanks!
What I'm listening to today: "Saul's Bellows", Soaring Tortoise Orchestra
Drone meditation from Mr. Tortoise's basement. Some cheap Korg handhelds, that pseudo-Leslie speaker (watch on the left) and at least two pieces of electronics I can't identify, running a throbbing machine heartbeat behind a solo on a suspiciously handmade-looking organ with a surprisingly mournful sound. As the sun sets the eyes of an old mind peacefully survey the roboticized landscape
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What I'm listening to today: "M2", Alessandro Cortini
Cortini continues releasing multiple albums a year, and it's all good stuff, but this one aberration of a track really caught my ear. It's got the "this synthesizer is the size of a room and he salvaged it from a university in the 1970s" bit, but the rest is… acoustic guitar?? Great surreal groove. This is a Ghost. You get what I mean, right? If you know who Alessandro Cortini you know what a Ghost is. It's Ghostlike
What I'm listening to today: "Out of the Blue", George Harrison
I was going to link you some chill deep house today but then Christine wound up listening to "All Things Must Pass" while practicing Street Fighter this morning and now this is all I can think about. Come on, this is great. Funky honky tonk by Paul McCartney's least favorite Beatle (and your favorite). 11 minute improvisation. Despite what the liner notes may claim, Eric Clapton is NOT on this track.
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This mysterious YouTube account only posts videos of the nightmare devices created by "Destiny Plus". Here a violently self-patched object makes sounds that start a bit irritating, then the floor drops out and suddenly you are floating in a liminal transdimensional space without reference points. You no longer feel your body except for the needles which comprise your skin. Lovecraft flutes are briefly audible on the wind
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imagined a postapocalyptic civilization discovering this 2000 years into the future like the antikythera mechanism and somehow managing to power it up and hear these sounds ... what would it do to them 🤯
It's great how different but similarly enjoyable it feels to listen to this at 0.25x speed. ^-^ Like listening to the ambient chatter on a crowded street populated entirely by machines.
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What I'm listening to today: "Fizzled", Ambient 64
Fresh, cool fusion jazz for the Sega Genesis sound chips. A group of robots break out into a choreographed dance number on the streets of Miami.
(The Genesis actually had two soundchips; alongside its distinctive FM synth it included the Master System sound chip, for backward compatibility. But not every game made meaningful use of both chips. This track works out both chips heavily.)
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One of my favorite cover artists near-exclusively works with the YM2612. Based on oscilloscope animations I think they also use the PSG. youtube.com/@savagedregime8176
What I'm listening to today: "A techno jam, starring: Pulsar 23", Saga
I've been listening to this YouTuber's desktop jams all morning and I think this is the one I'd recommend. 15 minutes of varying beats with immaculately sculpted sound design, all made on one very convoluted rewiring of the Pulsar-23 industrial-strength drum machine from SOMA. A hard-driving noise symphony, yet the entire thing is danceable, assuming you have between four and six legs (inclusive).
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What I'm listening to today: "Death", Blackbird Raum
I visited Santa Cruz sorta regularly when I lived near there. I did not know they had an anarchist folk music collective. But it was the kind of place that, when I learned last year that they do have an anarchist folk music collective, I was not at all surprised. Here's a spiky yelly get-yourself-thrown-out-of-the-rennfaire jam from 2023, with some fun rock production flourishes.
What I'm listening to today: "Derpaderpachipchip", Wolk
For a 2023 demoscene event, this is some goofy, charming, off-kilter chiptune for an Amiga tracker. (Is this polka, technically?!)
I have this mental image of a bar closing down, and as people shuffle out the Amiga commandeers the piano and starts making a racket. Amiga, go home, you are drunk.
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What I'm listening to today: "'Like-Minded' Koma Elektronik Chromaplane with Biofeedback", Stephano Gavilanes
This unusual device combines two probes designed to convert electrical interference to sound, together with a shallow white box whose surface is intentionally covered in interesting sources of electrical leakage. I saw this as a Kickstarter and I'm super excited to see it finally filtering into the hands of musicians.
What I'm listening to today: "Sufffdub" (Datassette remix), T-Flex
I got this out of the "Emergency Listening Procedure" mix by Kurnowhere. (Remember? The person who seemed sad on Monday.) Jungle bass with clicky poppy braindance beats. Relentless energy moves in darkness
What I'm listening to today: "In the Window of Time", Lisa Lerkenfeldt
This woman did a project where she left some reel-to-reel tape loops (and the machinery to play them on) out in the sun for a year to decay. "Disintegration Loops" by design. Here she plays the piano accompanied by one of her loops. The tape player itself is mic'ed, and its rattling sounds give the whole thing a nice tactile feel. Gentle and haunting
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What I'm listening to today: "Skullcrusher", yeule
This sounds to me like the best 90s goth club industrial, Curve or something. But it's not from the 90s, it's not even out yet, the album comes out this May. The artist is a Zoomer and judging by the album title ("Evangelic Girl is a Gun") seems to be obsessed with anime. Goths… goths never change.
It is 1986. You are SNK. You decide your new arcade game will have the ultimate in digital sound technology. You install an ADPCM chip for voice samples. You commission an in-game pop song and idol Kaori Shimizu to sing it. You release it as a single.
You send it to your US staff to localize. They re-record the vocals on what sounds like an office PC microphone.
Oh, just thought it was funny that singing the song for Psycho Soldier apparently garners so much attention that it warrants a (non-"deleted for notability") footnote in another similarly-named J-pop idol 😁.
What I'm listening to today: "Multiplying my absurdities", Helena Hauff
Bits of acid dance but the knobs turned up until it becomes something else, industrial or gamelan music or something. Really unique vibe, POV ray pads and metal teeth and the 808 claps
What I'm listening to today: "Cream", Mannequin Pussy
A friend of mine has been really excited about Mannequin Pussy lately. This band has a satisfying sort of "indie rock, but with jaunts into punk and metal" thing going on. I was going to post "I Don't Know You" from their 2024 release today, but then I decided no, *this* is my mood for today (by which I mean: Yelling).
What I'm listening to today: "Twin Geeker", Paris Texas
Bumping electro rock with the medieval flow
I got really excited when I saw this group's name like oh, hip hop group from Texas, hi5! It turns out they're from LA and just like Wim Wenders. But also they like Wim Wenders so like, still hi5! just for a different reason
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What I'm listening to today: "Haze", Magnetic Family
There's this YouTuber from Seoul named "zerofourtwozero" with a cute bit: she makes themed DJ sets and then dresses up in themed outfits to spin them. Like, club wear for her UK garage set, a 1920s evening gown for her trip-hop lounge set. I got this track from her "bittersweet house" set. Outfit/vibe: warm comfy lazy clothes for lounging around the house on a cold day.
From a Bastl event. Intense and cinematic, an unsettling dream slowly coalescing out of fog.
I find this recording most interesting if I imagine extending it. Like, if instead of one take of a live performance it had been built into something larger. If this is the score to a scene from a movie, what's happening in it? Or maybe I imagine at exactly 2:38 heavy drums coming in and continuing for the rest of the piece.
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UK "Progressive House"¹ from 2001. White label vinyl press, with a sticker on the front giving the artist's phone number, fax and email. Frickin *techno*!! Ever-shifting dance landscape, bass like bubbling lava, little dub feelings flitting through like sparrows. This is the genre in its purest, uncut, most unapologetic form. Music for opening a time bridge to 1999
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@tomjennings What really bothers me is it *really* feels like there was a reclassification point in the 90s where a group of music that was previously "house" was retrospectively reclassified as "trance", and suddenly "house music" only qualified if you had soul samples or a diva. i never really recovered from that
What I'm listening to today: "Retina" (live version), Othercast
Organ solo into a looper pedal. A man scurries frantically around a desk trying to make the gentlest possible sound. A monk inscribing on vellum the shape of a falling star. This performance appears to be taking place inside a synth store
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What I'm listening to today: "Vertraut", Klangstabil
I am so tired today and this is what the world feels like right now. Fuzzy flashes of city transit through sleep deprivation fog. The city as a warm blur, pulled around your fuzzy mind like a blanket. Pounding on your head, stabs of pain, bombs dropping, you don't care, you don't care.
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What I listened to today: "sk_dream_iteration", argarak
"Pure data ambient music" recorded for a compo on Battle of the Bits. Pure Data is a modular synthesizer made of math, or more like a visual programming language for music; BOTB is a very fun site that does the equivalent of game jams for music.
Swelling FM bells and skittery glitch drums and an algorithm splayed out and dissected on a surgical table. Doesn't really go anywhere, but the journey to nowhere is nice.
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What I'm listening to today: "Sing Along", Sturgill Simpson
So one day this successful country artist, burned out, angry at his label (and, according to one possibly-apocryphal story, extremely high on pot in a mental rehabilitation facility) goes "on tilt" and decides his next album is going to be metal-tinged hard rock and he is going to hire the mangaka of Afro Samurai to make a 40-minute anime pastiche short film scored by it.
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What I'm listening to today: "Vampyric Comet", Keys To The Astral Gates And Mystic Doors
Four track distant screaming death metal. Could have been recorded anytime in the last forty years. Brian Eno supposedly once said that metal is a type of ambient music and this is I think the kind of music he meant. Oddly soothing for all the screaming, this soft cassette exhalation, like trying to hold on to a balloon that is larger than you are.
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What I'm listening to today: "AmbientDrone24070802", Hiroki Kaneko
A hum, a hiss, a figure stepping out of blank white nothingness. Compelling ambient with an internal narrative and satisfying phaser-pedal effects. Modular synthesizer for shoegaze fans
(People who find modular synths specifically interesting: Notice the "Vector Space" slab in the middle; it's what's supplying the stereo/positional audio effects.)
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What I'm listening to today: "Your Connection Was Interrupted", Binary Marionette
Busy-signal funk/ what if Coil were Zoomers. I'm not entirely clear on what this artist was trying to do but whatever it is, it's pretty loud. I once saw a diagram of when metal becomes demagnetized, each clump of iron atoms individually magnetized but in different directions and when my brain is under incredible stress that's what it feels like it's doing. That's what this song feels like
@ertchin There are "songs" that make you feel through melody and then there are noise collages that make you feel something by simply directly stimulating sensations in your brain and honestly, I *love* the second genre
What I'm listening to today: "Half-Speed Bias no.4 - Experimental Ambient with Reel-to-Reel Tape Loops", Paul Cousins
Back in the 60s/70s when electronic music was in the chaotic process of being invented, there was a brief period they called it "tape music" (CF "San Francisco Tape Music Center"), a term that's hard to describe today as the ideas it comprised all became fundamental to either basic music recording, or hip-hop
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What I'm listening to today: Herbie Hancock, Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Ronald Bruner Jr & Chris Dave live at Peppermint Club in Los Angeles, CA, April 5, 2018
So at Robert Glasper's 40th birthday party there's a jazz set going and as far as I can tell they figured out Herbie Fucking Hancock was in the audience and pulled him up on stage like hey, do a solo. Turned out *sick*.
Found this video trying to look up the bassist, "Thundercat". The bass is 🔥. Everything is 🔥
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What I'm listening to today: "behringer td-3 & volca kick", Browng Nash
Garage acid. No not uk garage, suburban garage. This bare-bones video pits a 303 clone against the weirdest Korg Volca, the one that does nothing but make different kick drum sounds. The video seems to have been recorded from a cell phone mic, so the video has a kind of spacy binaural quality where the sounds have been filtered through the acoustics of the room. Tiny rave in the laundry room
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What I'm listening to today: "Beat 3" / "Beat 9", Derby macht Sachen
The PO-33, which I think I've linked here before, is a fascinating handheld device with the aesthetic of a Tiger Electronics handheld with the plastic case removed, and the inner power of the best circa-1990 hip hop samplers. Here's a video with 22 12-bit beats made with one. The two I liked were "Beat 3" (3:26, trip-hop, link below jumps here) and "Beat 9" (10:25, dubstep?, link in video description).
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@ELLIOTTCABLE I fell in love with them hard but in the long run I found they didn't have a lot of longetivity and the batteries aren't happy just sitting unused.
What I'm listening to today: "Daytona 500", Ghostface Killah ft. Raekwon and Cappadonna
What if I told you the Wu-Tang Clan invented the AMV? The greatest "Anime Music Video" ever made predates the rest of the genre by a decade and was an official 1996 music video for Wu Tang at the height of their powers. Working in a vacuum yet understands every rule of the genre from word go. Match vocalists to characters. Frequent cuts, keep action on screen. RZA produces, of course
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as a German, this is very much filthy enough for me to immediately assume this is your April Fool‘s and I can’t tell if it’s silly of me to even point that out.
Some simple but intense tracker music from 2004 (possibly earlier?). Driving trance music. I imagine this having a low budget music video set in the streets of a large European city at night, wherein people (probably the musician[s] who made the song?) are filmed grainily from a distance getting in and out of cars, performing errands of a mysterious but—as discerned from their serious demeanor— important and illegal nature.
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What I'm listening to today: "ORCA 15092019", Compact Machine
Orca is a highly parallel two-dimensional programming language (like Befunge) created by 100 Rabbits (@neauoire / @rek). You build machines out of ASCII art and the machines make music. This lovely chill trance livecoding jam shows off Orca's strengths: Euclidean rhythms naturally falling out of the mechanics rather than as a "feature" you have to turn on; text editing as a method for realtime mix control.
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I started following you for the eclectic music posts and am not disappointed! German Gangster Diss Track w/ Spongebob visuals directly followed by a tracker music. 😍🎼💪
What I'm listening to today: " Eurorack ambient for meditation: Oxi One, Eurorack, iPad", Hessence
A robot plays the piano as if a five year old were hitting keys at random but, through some incredible coincidence, only hitting notes in tune. Slow evolution that sneaks up on you, tones start out feeling random like ocean waves breaking and receding but over the course of ten minutes become sculpted, composed
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What I'm listening to today: "TAPE LOOP ORCHESTRA", AMULETS
The cassette-based "tape loop" is interesting because you're physically limited to not just how much tape you can fit into the cassette, but how much you can keep spooled in constant tension. AMULETS works around this by unspooling the cassettes and looping the tape around an altar-like spindle. Does the "tape sound" *really* differ that much from digital? Well, it does when you do this. Gorgeously goody sound
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What I'm listening to today: "groove 5.1", AGF / @poemproducer
Minimal Detroit anti-house, rhythm like something suspended and gently swinging, hyperfocus hum. This is what I imagine taking [name of drug redacted] feels like. Imagine a piece of sculpture for which the "sculpture" part consists entirely of the placement of large standing rocks in a field
@poemproducer is redacting the drug name good because it avoids triggering people who have had a bad experience? I was intrigued and started listening, and it does kind of remind me of the times I've had anxiety attacks on weed, but then occasionally there's a shift in my perception and I *get it* and it's groovy for a second before the next unsettling thing comes in... 10/10 thanks for the recc definitely bookmarking this.
What I'm listening to today: "Untitled (61)", Duster
Mysterious, muggy indie rock I can only describe with terms like "distant" and "blurry". I've never heard of this band but Wikipedia says they're a big deal, so I assume this is the music the bands I was listening to in 1998 were listening to.
As far as I can tell from contradictory information online, this "album" is material this band recorded in the 90s and leaked to a forum sometime around 2018. Track ends @ 6:15
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What I'm listening to today: "You Were A Great Teacher", Cylob
MacInTalk Pro Fred sings the sorrow of his heart
**What the fuck is this album**? It's named "PLACEHOLDER". Okay so there's the synthesized voice and the Aphexy beats/funk FM, but there's… there's something I don't understand going on with the notes, like the key it's in. Something's wrong, on purpose, something is trying to get under your skin. I think this might be atonal or 12-tone or something.
What I'm listening to today: "Camelwithoutfilter", Pedro
This is a FastTracker II composition from 1998 (!) and is a glorious bit of chaos with its finger perfectly on the pulse of music at its moment. Big Chemical-Brothers beats, nu-metal style guitar sample incursions and a bassline you may immediately recognize as being a heavily chopped up sample of "Brown Paper Bag" by Roni Size & Reprazent. If someone had played this for me in 1998 it would have rocked my *world*.
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What I'm listening to today: "Torn" (Wacko Magneto version), Ednaswap
Millennials will recognize this as a bippy 90s pop song by an Australian soap actress, but Natalie Imbruglia's producer originally wrote that song for his *old* band. Ednaswap recorded 1994 and 1997 versions of this song; both are good, but 1997 is like being attacked by a ghost.
You know how movie trailers like to re-record pop songs in slow mournful versions? Here the mournful version came *first*.
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The 1994 version (from their self titled album) is really interesting because it's a lot more similar to the Imbruglia version but *just* different enough to feel funny
My favourite rendition of this, which is a few levels of meme deep (and for some reason I can’t seem to find on YouTube): dailymotion.com/video/x2pm2fb
From the direct-to-Soundcloud album LOBOTOMY CORE (track starts at 12:24). This is really fun actually! Funky little surf rock track with a weirdly apocalyptic feel, or maybe that's just the visualizer. I don't say this often but I think this qualifies as a "ditty"
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What I'm listening to today: "Power Line Drones", Bottle Makes Music
Crackles and warbles and wobbles and just generally lots of lovely quiet texture. Apparently made entirely on the Make Noise 0-Coast. The whole day you're busy and there's this sound outside, someone's doing work or something and you're trying to ignore it, ignoring it getting louder and louder, ignoring the sound of your undoing
A homage to the pioneer of Drone Music, La Monte Young. A simple MakeNoise 0-Coast patch with the benefit of of grid-free recording means we are not tethered to the power-lines which this selection of
What I'm listening to today: "Adventures of Rad Gravity" title theme, George Sanger (Interplay) (uncredited)
Rad Gravity is an utterly forgettable NES game. It's not fun, no one likes it. The music's not memorable—
*Except* for this *INCREDIBLE* title screen theme. This is an act of violence against the listener and I love it. Avant-garde chiptune— "The Fat Man" sped up free-jazz sax fingering to funk speeds and called it Nintendo. Imagine this on saxophone & clarinet.
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hi Andi. I like Rad Gravity. I played it a lot when I was a kid and I think about it often. It left a big impression. I LOVE a game that feels so ambiguous about whether it was designed to be a certain way, or if it was accidental.
@onelson There are at least two of us! I was _obsessed_ with it as a kid. It's just... REALLY goofy, for a NES game. "Chase down an ice cream truck through a garbage dump to rescue the kidnapped sentient navigational computer from your spaceship" is just a delightful premise for a level, I don't care how obnoxious the platforming is.
What I'm listening to today: "iron hits", Tndr Chkn
Trying to describe techno genres makes you feel like an overbearing sommelier. "Hard trance with a hint of gabber…"
Hard-driving electronica on a combo of cheap Volca grooveboxes, expensive Elektron grooveboxes, vintage Korg grooveboxes, and a couple Ableton control devices…this dude seems to have achieved the dream of collecting all the entry workhorse gear but then *actually integrating it all*.
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This mysterious artist, who might be named either "Nobxdyy" or "HUSHHH" (?), released an (excellent) album named "DMNZ" in 2023, then later deleted it from all sales and streaming services. Two tracks from DMNZ survive on streaming due to being b-sides on HUSHHH singles.
This one's haunting, vaporwavey deep house, walking down dark streets with that feeling where you haven't slept for so long it's like you're dreaming already
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Alexander Brandon composed this song for Unreal Tournament 1999, but it was never used in the game. This is incredibly sick! Breakbeats and 90s acid sounds, and at least one bit of sound design that surprised me so much to hear in a tracker song that I briefly assumed on first listen this was made in the 2020s. The hook is the exact feeling of piloting a spaceship as it bursts up through the tropopause cloud layer
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What I'm listening to today: "Mystery or Misery", Vegyn
I like this artist for his natural blend of edm and rap production styles, and his collection of music videos of random people randomly dancing in random urban settings.
This is a late 2024 track with that feeling of early-2000s, DJ-Shadow-inspired "instrumental hip hop", Blockhead or RJD2 (or Apparat maybe). Early morning lights are off, room is lit by shafts of sunlight. World feels peaceful, time has stopped
What I'm listening to today: "Insomniac Olympics", Blockhead
Absolutely delicious sounds. Heavy beats over Aaron Copland. When this originally dropped it spurred a certain amount of debate among my college friends about what the heck the noise in the hook even is
Normally I always prefer the longer version of any song in any electronic genre, but for this song I think the video edit is the superior version. It just feels more structured.
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2013 jungle going extremely hard. Jungle and D&B have formal definitions somewhere but to me the defining characteristic is a sense of darkness, a sense of something looming or moving rapidly, unseen sensed only by the wind of its passage. There is a relief in this, a warm oblivion, release into primal unthought
What I'm listening to today: "Guest in the Machine", Soaring Tortoise Orchestra ft. Reedboy
I've previously linked this guy making noises with weird machines in a basement. This video answers a question: What if there were *two* guys making noises with weird machines in the basement? The answer is there would be *twice as many noises*.
Foam float dream ocean / a piano argues with itself / loops on loops on loops / exposed insulation / every emotion at once. Ween shirt
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What I'm listening to today: "Genkai-1", Biosphere
In February 2011, inspired by a photo of the Mihama plant perched on a tiny offshore island, this musician developed a fixation on Japanese nuclear power plants, and the idea they may be built in areas susceptible to earthquakes or tsunamis; and recorded an album in which every track is named after one, completing work on February 13.
Bumping analog synths and clicky hip-hop beats. Enigmatic retrofuturism in the video.
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i picked this song to post today and then was like "wait, it's an album about japanese nuke plants? was this recorded before or after fukushima?" and then I saw that quote and D:
"On March 17th I received the following message from a FB friend: "Geir, some time ago you asked people for a photo of a Japanese nuclear powerplant. Is this going to be the sleeve of your new coming album? But more importantly: how did you actually predict the future?"
What I'm listening to today: "Witch's Love Song", Barbara the Gray Witch
This is the only "song" from a 1968 album of otherwise spoken-word occult educational material. Hypnotic and compellingly unsettling, its sense of "music" appears to be drawn from sci-fi movie scores like Forbidden Planet and the era of early electronic music where people were using the word "electroacoustic" and making oscillators by electrifying bedsprings
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What I'm listening to today: "Maybe Just Once", Nine Inch Nails
"Pretty Hate Machine" has currents of 80s new wave/pop throughout. But there's two tracks that were *rejected* from Pretty Hate Machine (known from the widely distributed boot, "Purest Feeling"), where the NIN sound hasn't solidified and pop dominates. Since Reznor's innovations are now well incorporated into pop music, these hybrids now sound more surprising than the final tracks. This one's pure new wave.
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Honestly, I feel like Reznor's voice in the PHM era often sounds a bit like Weird Al Yankovich. (This similarity becomes even more striking if you've listened to "Microscopic Bacteria".)
What I'm listening to today: "Artichoke", Cibo Matto
To me there's something wonderful about songs which Feel Like the last song on an album
Left-field 1996 hip hop by two girls who'd just moved to New York from Japan & didn't know a lot of English yet, so all their lyrics on this first album were about food because that was the vocabulary they knew best. If they wanted to talk about something else they had to make a food metaphor. Check the unique, subtle sampler work
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I love them! I feel like “Spoon” feels like the last song on an album and the closing credits song to the neo-noir film for which the album was a soundtrack heh
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What I'm listening to today: "Fastest Horse In Town", Sturgill Simpson
So people on this website don't much seem to like it when I post slow psychedelic metal freakouts but, you know what I like? Slow psychedelic metal freakouts.
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This was the last thing I ever posted on Cohost. It's the last track from Matmos's self-titled album. (Matmos are a cute gay couple with some of the most interesting thinking on sample-based music out there; they were Björk's backing band for a while.) This track is basically perfect. It has an incredible sense of finality, to me.
As of this post I've been doing this music thread for 3 full years. I hope you've enjoyed it.
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@froufox They were part of the live band on the Vespertine tours and did additional production on Vespertine and Medulla, though I don't know how much or on what tracks. (I've seen a quote from Björk where she expresses frustration that people tend to credit the innovative production elements of her music to her male collaborators rather than herself.)
Matmos have shared details of a new album, titled Metallic Life Review. Spanning six tracks, the record was made entirely with sounds derived from metallic objects as the duo comprised of Drew Daniel and M.C.
@froufox If you listen to just 1 of their works, I think I'd recommend the album "A chance to cut is a chance to cure". The last two tracks are constructed entirely from samples of recorded surgeries, one of the tracks is based around samples from a magnetic tape that got fucked up from being left on top of an electromagnet during LASIK, and there's one amazing atmospheric track they performed by "preparing" (attaching electric guitar pickups to) their pet rat's cage and then striking/bowing it.
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Uno studio sostiene che i siti precedentemente al primo posto possono perdere il 79% del traffico se i risultati appaiono sotto la panoramica di Google.
Ogni tanto viene fuori che non ho mai ascoltato niente di qualche artista abbastanza famoso.
Questa è la volta di Mac DeMarco .
Come ho scritto qualche tempo fa anche qui, c'è stato un periodo in cui ho ascoltato solo musica elettronica e quindi mi sono perso almeno 6/7 anni di musica rock e rap.
Non so come sia possibile, ma l'altro giorno mi sono ritrovato un mp3 da 3 mb della sua Rock and Roll Night Club nel cellulare (c'entra sicuramente Soulseek) e ascoltandolo ho pensato che era figo che gli mp3 suonassero così male.
Purtroppo suonano maletto anche i *.flac di questo suo mini album di debutto del 2012.
In generale suona tutto LOFI, ma alcune tracce suonano LOFI in maniera sbagliata e il colpevole non sembra essere il nastro usato per registrare quanto del passaggio in digitale e del tentativo di rendere tutto più radiofonico.
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Rock and Roll Night Club, è una title track che ti fa venire voglia di COMPRARE IL DISCO, ma dopo ti ritrovi con almeno 3 canzoni con lo stesso arpeggino che una volta è carino, ma due diventa stucchevole (soprattutto se suona progressivamente sempre più staccato e fuori contesto rispetto al resto della canzone. La canzone appunto è molto bella ha un tocco anni 50 e c'è il buon Mac che fa il verso ad Elvis, ma tutto attorno è abbastanza psichedelico.
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96.7 The Pipe
Ci sono questi intermezzi stile radio. Carino. [/youtube]YsCTkObEZJE[/youtube]
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Baby's Wearing Blue Jeans è un pezzo molto romantico. Io qui ci sento un po' i Joy Division, ma il mood generale è più rilassato. Ha sempre un po' quel discorso delle chitarrine che la rende simile alla traccia 1.
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One More Tear to Cry inizia proprio con quel maledetto arpeggino, ma c'è anche un organetto. Questa è proprio identica a Rock 'N' Roll Night Club visto che c'è anche lui che fa di nuovo il verso a Elvis.
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European Vegas inzia con degli accordi molto carini, ma poi riparte quel fraseggio arpeggiato che mi fa salire il nervoso. Questa canzone mi piace. Il ritornello mi prende bene.
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106.2 Breeze Fm è un altro intermezzo radiofonico con un bel momento in cui il nostro cerca di sintonizzare l'apparecchio su questa fantomatica Breeze Fm.
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Me and Jon Hanging On
Qui si cambia un po' registro, mi pare ci sia un po' più di allegria in arrivo e le influenze Beatlessiane rendono il tutto più spensierato, anche se pesantemente psichedelico. Tutto è scordato e fuori tempo.
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She's Really All I Need è una bella canzone d'amore di quelle in cui amore fa rima con cuore. La linea melodica è più dolce del solito e De Marco ci regala anche un assoletto di chitarra tutto chorussato. Grande dai.
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Moving Like Mike
Un bel rock blues, sempre pesantemente influenzato dai 4 di liverpool
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I'm a Man
Mi sono affezionato alla voce di questo ragazzo e devo ammettere che nelle ultime tracce tira fuori dei riff migliori e si è allontanato dalla formula dei primi brani. I'm a Man è una brevissima canzone rock in stile anni 80. Tipo un B side, ma una delle mie preferite, complice anche un bel coretto uplifting che risolleva gli animi.
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Me & Mine per me è una canzone degli Stones passata al tritacarne.
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Only You è il tritacarne, un ritornello stralunato e ululato alla luna la rende unica, per me un'altra delle migliori del disco.
Una traccia in cui si manifesta l'estro creativo del nostro al di fuori dal citazionismo. Forse la migliore del disco.
Il disco dura una mezz'oretta, le canzoni sono brevi e abbastanza pop, ma l'ascolto alla fine non è dei più semplici, complici le chitarre scordate e la bassa fedeltà.
È un bel dischetto? Certo.
Forse un po' troppo ricco di citazioni e in cui troppo spesso la componente personale e innovativa portata dal nostro Mac riguarda più l'aspetto tecnico/artistico della produzione e registrazione che la scrittura.
Non ho badato molto ai testi che mi sembrano comunque in secondo piano. Ma magari sbaglio.
Spinto dal clamore mediatico sprigionato dall'uscita dell'ultimo album, decido di ascoltare Tyler, the creator. Ma l'ultimo singolo non mi piace molto. Chiedo allora consiglio, alla mia cerchia di amici online, su come posso approcciarmi a questo artista per me sconosciuto. La maggior parte consiglia Flower Boy e Igor. Non sono mancati i veri fan, i quali mi hanno suggerito di ascoltare tutta la discografia in rigoroso ordine cronologico. Ma non lo farò. Inizio con Igor, perchè mi piace la copertina.
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IGOR THEME
Parte bello emozionante, molto americano, bello il pianetto in stile Jamiroquai.
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EARFQUAKE
Sintoni stile Juno appoggiati sulle solide basi di una 808 che boom boboom boom. POP! Però pop un po' a la Justin Timberlake. No me gusta.
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I THINK
Parte con un beattone uptempo e un bassone sporcone, ma subito sento un flow che mi ricorda Stronger Di (Kan)YE. Credo sia palesemente un omaggio. Proprio molto simile l'idea ma più dirty.Mi piace comunque più di Stronger.Belli i coretti "I think I'm falling in love/This time I think is for real".Bello il bridge jazzoso e pure il finale.
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BOYFRIEND
Questa è una traccia che da quello che ho capito c'è solo sul vinile, e su youtube 😁.
Soul del futuro (quindi del presente). Mi piace molto il Kick. Questo fino ad ora è il mio pezzo preferito. Anche perché sembrano due tre pezzi diversi e adoro questa schizofrenia. Non so chi rappa però.Chi è che fa sta vocina? Pensavo fosse un feat, invece è lui?!? Grande!
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EXACTLY WHAT YOU RUN FROM YOU END UP CHASING
Sarebbe la coda del pezzo precedente ed è una strofa praticamente:
"exactly what you run from, you end up chasing(Say it, say it) like, you can't avoid, but(Hey hey) just chasing it and just like trying (say it, say it)Giving it everything that you can, there's always an obstacle"
True story.
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RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Traccia arrangiata benissimo per me. Mi piacciono molto i synth e sono un fan degli arpeggi. Poteva durare forse un minuto in più (stile però con questo titolo:) ).
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NEW MAGIC WAND
Inizia con un beat bello saturo, il rullante è uno sparo e le due note di basso che si ripetono ossessivamente accompagnano una cantilena che sembra parlare di un triangolo amoroso in cui una ragazza ostacola una relazione, che l'autore vorrebbe vivere al 100% : "Don't call me selfish, I ain't sharin'This 60-40 isn't workin'I want a hundred of your time, you're mine". GELOSONE! La secondo strofa droppa duramente e ci ricorda che, in fondo, Tyler è -anche- un rapper. Bene! Un mio amico mi ha detto che questo è il disco di Tyler in cui si parla in maniera più aperta del suo essere queer e qui (mi sbaglierò magari) la bacchetta magica non è solo quella che l'autore userebbe per fare sparire questa rivale in amore. Come le altre tracce fino ad ora, Magic Wand si evolve tra il rap e la canzone pop/soul e in questo caso il lato pop viene coadiuvato dai coretti di Santigold e Jessy Wilson.
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A BOY IS A GUN*
Campione col vocal in stile Kanye (ancora). Vedo infatti su Wiki che il campione è lo stesso usato per Bound (2). Pezzo che il nostro si dice avesse coprodotto per Ye nell'album Yeezus (assieme ad Hudson Mohawke, ma qui sfociamo quasi nel leggendario). Stranamente il sound generale però mi ricorda più quello di Mf Doom, non so perchè.Almeno fino a quando arrivano i (soliti) coretti soul. Sarò io stanco, alla fine di una lunga giornata di lavoro, ma mi sembra ci sia un po' di confusione con tutte ste vocine che si accavallano. Al momento questa è la traccia che mi è piaciuta meno. La canzone in parole povere dice che, se anche sei innamorato, fidarsi è bene e non fidarsi è meglio. Da dove provenga il titolo "a girl is a gun" invece ve lo andate a vedere su Wikipedia.
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PUPPET
Sarà merito degli ospiti illustri, ma questa è veramente bella.Ritorna il Soul "de na volta", le armonizzazioni e i coretti che tanto amiamo (cantati ancora dall'attore Jerrod Carmichael).Nel finale le dissonanze aumentano e ci prepariamo al peggio.10
WHAT'S GOOD
Break classicissimo (e abusato), tutto un po' noioso fino a quando non dice "DRACULA! DRACULA!" e parte il bassone distorto.Il mood generale è cambiato ed è tutto più dark, più forzatamente schizofrenico e, io credo, meno ispirato.
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GONE, GONE / THANK YOU
Dopo tanta sofferenza e oscurità arriva una bella canzoncina con la chitarra.La memoria va subito ad Andre 3000 (quando non suonava il flautino).Una canzone pop allucinata sulla quale tranquillamente puoi cantare sopra: "My baby don't mess around. Because she loves me so And this I know fo sho (uh)" etc etc. Questi sono due pezzi che il nostro ha voluto unire. Verso metà ritorna la voce pitchata, che non amo. verso 5 min e mezzo si apre una coda melodicamente stralunata.
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I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE
È una traccia carina, con una trovata divertente (la vocina che canta il titolo in maniera un po' schizzata e caricaturale) .Il tono generale è allegro. Un organetto distorto disegna un riff dall'andatura collinare. È TORNATO IL SOLE, ANCHE SE È UN MOMENTO TRISTE.
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ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?
La bella voce di Pharrell spicca in questa traccia, dove sono le scelte del Tyler produttore a fare la differenza. Un altro pezzo che, se non fosse per i suoni utilizzati, il kick prepotente e il taglio lisergico, potrebbe appartenere a qualche soul man contemporaneo di Otis Redding. Peccato che si incastri un po' il tutto in una cantilena a tratti troppo ripetitiva e poco sviluppata. Bello e catartico il finale in crescendo.
Quando è uscito il primo disco di Tyler, The Creator, ascoltavo quasi solo Electro/Maximal/Fidget o roba della Ed Banger Records. Anche roba che se la ascolto adesso mi faccio due risate eh. Rap ne ascoltavo poco. E quasi solo italiano: prevalentemente roba romana. Ricordo nitidamente che era roba fighissima, tipo Giacomo Cannas e tutto il Truce Klan.Ma anche roba grezzissima, tipo ODEI, Er Gitano etc. Quando usci Igor stavo in fissa con la roba Dubstep del 2008, che mi ero perso perché nel 2008 ascoltavo Electro (appunto, si chiamava Electro, ma non era quella che ora si chiama Electro). Mentre ascoltavo questo disco e scrivevo questa recensione, a un certo punto mi sono fermato per fare indigestione di Selected Ambient Work vol II di Aphex, approfittando di una nuova edizione in CD, rilasciata da Warp, per il trentesimo aniversario. Poi ho ascoltato molto Spira di Daniela Pes (e ho scritto una recensione al volo). Poi, per festeggiare un altro trentennale, mi sono ascoltato ripetutamente SXM dei Sangue Misto. Mentre lasciavo in disparte Tyler, per ascoltare questi altri 3 album, ho pensato a quanto mi desse realmente piacere ascoltarli. Cosa che non posso dire, purtroppo, per quanto riguarda IGOR. Forse questa sensazione è dovuta al fatto che ho iniziato ad ascoltarlo in maniera molto analitica, a volte ascoltando anche solo una traccia alla volta. Forse però è come dice mio padre: "a fine serata rimangono sul tavolo le bottiglie di vino meno buono". Più probabile ancora che questo sia un disco che inizia molto molto bene e che piano piano tradisca le aspettative dell' ascoltatore. Comunque l'ho ascoltato tanto. Voto 7.5
I am watching Andor at last, and just got to one of the scenes filmed in Valencia. I still lived there when this was filmed, and by happenstance ran past Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències multiple days while they were filming. #andor #starwars #valencia
Il sole 24 ore sull'andamento degli stipendi nell'ultimo anno: "I settori con gli aumenti più consistenti sono stati i ministeri (+6,9%), il comparto militare-difesa ed energia elettrica (+6,7%) e le forze dell’ordine (+5,8%). Nonostante ciò le retribuzioni reali rimangono ancora inferiori del 9% rispetto ai livelli del 2021"
@SmilaBlomma apperò! Io invece ho fatto il conto dei miei stipendi e i miei sono fermi a ottobre '24. Cioè quello è l'ultimo stipendio che mi hanno versato, tipo un paio di settimane fa.
ma cristo ma non è possibile ma il presidente della cooperativa va solo in bibicletta e mangia solo fagioli? o sennò, dove sta il cortocircuito? il pubblico non paga la coop. ? non ho parole, ottobre 2024
La prefettura non ha pagato 4 trimestri (da luglio 2024 a giugno 2025) e la coop aveva aperto ad aprile stanno facendo quello che possono, la maggior parte di loro è in buona fede e si sta indebitando con mezzo mondo.. Non per difenderli ma per dare a Cesare quel che è di Cesare.
Volevo aprire questo profilo mostrando il primo libro che mi ha fatto venire voglia di imbarcarmi in questa avventura.
"Pokémon no Shima" è un libro creato dal duo The Cabin Company e pubblicato da Shogakukan.
Attraverso il registro dell'illustrazione per bambini, l'avventura mostrata è un'allegoria della crescita del fan Pokémon, dai primi approcci esplorativi alla volontà di tramandare la scintilla di curiosità e meraviglia a chi verrà dopo.
"La creatività, il gioco, la passione e la sperimentazione, in quanto modi di organizzazione sociale, non sono tanto un mezzo per ottenere qualcos'altro, quanto sono essi stessi fini della vita sociale comune, indicando una via d'uscita dal predominio dell' economia."
Da un po' mi sto avvicinando alla musica classica. Ogni ascolto è una piacevole scoperta. L'altro giorno stavo ascoltando Beethoven e ho esclamato :" Oh mica Mahler!" #Freddure #Dadsjoke @❄️🧊 Freddure 🧊❄️
Forse sarebbe il caso di arricchire la Netiquette, in modo da estendere la sua ala protettrice anche sopra il Fediverso.
Serve, secondo me, un capitolo "Fediquette".
Per cominciare aggiungerei alla Fediquette questa regola:
- non si possono pubblicare link ad articoli, post o contenuti che per essere fruiti richiedono il pagamento di un abbonamento o l'obbligo ad accettare cookies che non siano tecnicamente necessari al funzionamento del sito.
Discorso ostico ma di recente ho scoperto questo servizio archive.fo/ . Basta inserire l'URL della pagina con illeggibile, e la converte in una riformattata (direi senza CSS) nell'organizzazione tipografica ma ameno leggibile.
So it wasn't sarcasm.
stanno facendo quello che possono, la maggior parte di loro è in buona fede e si sta indebitando con mezzo mondo.. Non per difenderli ma per dare a Cesare quel che è di Cesare.
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