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For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151
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:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7"What I'm listening to today", Year 1
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...YouTube
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 ...YouTube
Provided to YouTube by ColumbiaModern Industry · FishboneFishbone℗ 1985 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.Released on: 1989-01-23Engineer, Producer: David KahneCo...YouTube
Provided to YouTube by DistroKidFall Asleep · Big JoanieFall Asleep℗ The Daydream Library Series distributed by Cargo RecordsReleased on: 2018-09-03Auto-gene...YouTube
Listen to Ultraísta: https://ffm.to/ultraistamusic.oydSubscribe to Ultraísta's YouTube channel: https://smarturl.it/Ultra_YTFor the latest news sign up to th...YouTube
live playing a hōgaku conductor over a clocked system (drum sequencers, audio generator, a second hōgaku, filters, delays)first half of video shows the syst...YouTube
初めまして！じあと申します。はじめてのMV制作です。Miliさんの楽曲RTRTが大好きで制作しました！こちらが原曲です→ https://youtu.be/IcpzqZrpLVMMiliさんの曲はどれも魅力的ですよ！動画編集やアニメーションなど、初めての事ばかりで色々悩んだり苦戦しました。動画編集に関しては触れて...YouTube
Vladislav Delay - Toive (taken from Tummaa, 2009)http://vladislavdelay.comhttp://theleaflabel.com/vladislavdelayVideo directed by Carolina Melis and Lorenzo ...YouTube
What style of music do you think this is?#dawless #90s #2step #burial #musician #housemusic #futuregarage #electronicmusic #homestudio #vintagesynth #vintage...YouTube
Join Megamix, a place for Megaman fans and remixers! Anybody can join it, feel free ^^ https://discord.gg/VteVBwRThis was a re-arrange made for Noah Copeland...YouTube
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupUntitled (How Does It Feel) · D'AngeloVoodoo℗ 1999 Virgin Records America Inc.Released on: 2000-01-01Producer, St...YouTube
Taken from Like A Good Old Friendhttps://plz.ffm.to/likeagoodoldfriendI See You SometimesFeaturing JeshiVideo by Richard Phillip Smith and Noah Burke2021 PLZ...YouTube
The album version of this track is available to stream here: https://spoti.fi/2ZLbpJaOr buy at my bandcamp: https://bit.ly/3b6i2v3You can download the PO-32 ...YouTube
Ever since I came back home I've been pushing out tracks non stop. finally got something of a workflow going it seems. Not looking forward to editing it all ...YouTube
Música: Rantseni Urbán Estrada (@rantseni)Álbum: [Divagar]Ciudad de México | Nov 2015https://linktr.ee/rantsenihttps://www.instagram.com/rantseni////////////...YouTube
NEW EP!! Choose your platform here https://linkco.re/EHUeq3txor buy on bandcamp https://0101.bandcamp.com/album/pixelize-iiArtwork by yknsugar (https://twitt...YouTube
EDIT: Sorry, I messed up. These music posts usually go in a big thread but I accidentally made this one standalone. I have moved this post here:
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113188480884784203Retro Vibes: Creating Synthwave Tracks with Yamaha QY70
Step into a world where retro meets futuristic as I dive into the mesmerizing sounds of synthwave on the Yamaha QY70 electronic instrument. Join me on this m...YouTube
I found this module in Tom's Hardware Pentium 4 5GHz overclocking video, which made me discover tracker music. The module can be heard at the 40-second mark ...YouTube
I finally found the time to jam some hard industrial Techno. It‘s not perfect and on some points it gets a bit weird but it was fun and destroys :DYouTube
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesInfoldings 2 · Mark Fell · Will GuthrieInfoldings / Diffractions℗ 2021 NAKIDReleased on: 2021-01-29Auto-generat...YouTube
Provided to YouTube by MasterworksTheme for The Irishman · Robbie RobertsonTheme for The Irishman℗ Compilation 2019 Maisie Music Publishing, LLC., under exc...YouTube
#drumandbass #junglemusic #cassette Here's a cassette dub of some tracks from my Hourglass LP released on Omni Records UK. Tracks were recorded to an old cas...YouTube
Unfinished song and visual sync testGate signal from DAW being sent to S&H which drives PM inputs of X/Y channels on MainbowYouTube
Track by a0n0 from the album Underground Sea available onhttps://a0n0.bandcamp.com/track/underground-seaVisual by Artiom Constantinovhttps://artiomconstantin...YouTube
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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??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NT3Kls8JekEarth - Coda Maestoso in F (Flat) Minor (by Autechre)
from Legacy of Dissolution (2005, Southern Lord)I do not own nothing.YouTube
Open.Circuit (Assunta Alegiani and Pedro Ferreira) improvisation session with Lumanoise v4, Lumamix and Multicassa for the audio of handmade 16 mm analogue ...YouTube
A messy little feedback patch on the music easel this morning aided by some prepared guitar and Lyra tape loops. Just a little bit of room reverb added in po...YouTube
I did a set with only 3 modules. Morphagene, ikarie, black joystick 2 PLUS (technically still modular gear but not in the rack) mood, 0CTRL and komma kommand...YouTube
A recreation of my open mic submission for Cambridge Electronic Music. It feels great to get the Tascam out and about once again with a fresh set of looped d...YouTube
First proper experiment with the Makenoise Strega! Agitation Function used to self-patch to the external signal input and mix with the internal oscillator to...YouTube
A micro (63kb) DnB track which appeared on an ASCII art / music disk by Hoffman.4ch 8bit Amiga MOD recorded in ProTracker 2.3D clone with 10% stereo separation.YouTube
official video for my bloody valentine – ‘you made me realise’. directed by douglas hart. restored in 2021.subscribe to my bloody valentine on youtube: https...YouTube
download the patch here: https://www.patreon.com/ArtiomConstantinovhttps://twitter.com/ArtConstantinovhttps://www.instagram.com/artiom_constantinovhttps://ww...YouTube
It’s widely accepted that noise and music are two different things.But what actually is music? Is it just mere entertainment, the true origin of human langua...YouTube
Full moon got meStill tryin to make this Max MSP patch stableSound is the Intellijel Atlantix, Flurry, and Sealegs for the most part.YouTube
Autechre Live At Oscillate, Birmingham 1993. Written & Performed By Rob Brown And Sean Booth. https://autechre.bleepstores.com/YouTube
Cause 4 Concern -- Symptom EPLabel: Renegade Hardware -- RH32Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12", EP Country: UKReleased: 21 May 2001Genre: ElectronicStyle: Drum n BassA...YouTube
from the album What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side?Khodumodumo
from the album "Extruded Nonlocality Immersion," available here:https://indricothere.bandcamp.com/album/extruded-nonlocality-immersionfor the synth nerds:the...YouTube
Bandcamp / https://masaakihaga.bandcamp.com/instagram / https://www.instagram.com/masaaki.haga Twitter / https://x.com/MR90910linktree / https://linktr.ee/m...YouTube
from the album Improvised Noise Works, vol. 1N.Excelsia Audioworks
I like this one better played it backwards 🤷♂️Corrosion distortion with phase looper and reverb againYouTube
This is a practice session for some live shows. It's a piece I've been working on and playing live, refining as I go. I thought I'd share its in-progress sta...YouTube
Our planet the voice by CroakerFile format: .it ( ImpulseTracker )File size: 751 KBPlayed and recorded in Open Cubic Player and Dosbox staging.https://modlan...YouTube
Get Mili's album “Miracle Milk” here: https://mili.lnk.to/jJKqCIDMili 2nd Full Album "Miracle Milk"2016/10/12 - release -■Now On Sale / 発売中■Special Site : ht...YouTube
Provided to YouTube by Saihate RecordsMeatball Submarine · MiliMiracle Milk℗ 2016 Saihate RecordsReleased on: 2016-10-12Lyricist: momocashewComposer: MiliAut...YouTube
from the album Let's LamentMili
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.andi on cohost
Here I am with another video, featuring a demo of how the patch sounds with the system in its most compact form—using only the main case. I've been having gr...YouTube
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. Often modular synth music tends to single repeating measures in a way that doesn't lend itself to drum sounds, but this rack's so large it's able to support multiple complex parts and lots of different things going on. What do you call this? Dance industrial?
https://youtu.be/0IXoRwSTP1ECwejman, Trogotronic, Make Noise - 1st patch in the Needham Woodworks case with Eskatonic power
Heavy bass is the Trogotronic 679 being filtered by a Xaoc Belgrad, into a Natural Gate and then the Mimeophon. Higher sequence is the Cwejman VM1s into an E...YouTube
An audiovisual accompaniment for 'Orval Shurf', from the EP 'Poor Dead Satellite!'. Visualiser by Beck Cooley.YouTube
Friendica software. To learn how to make your own, go look at https://friendi.ca
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:
https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/track/-
/, by Second Woman
Spectrum SpoolsThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDSO_KzSaQ8
8888 + ParipiDestroyer + POLYS
YouTubeI 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184fj8XPbhE
Spit
YouTubeFrom 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvPOkVla6Tg
tmod 3 (extinct bird gathering)
YouTubeAGF 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
https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/track/greim93
greim93, by AGF
AGF ✸ poemproducer ✸ Antye Greie-RipattiNoisy, 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZe3xc267I
【Moog DFAM Jam】
YouTubeI 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjsYsw22gM
wierdness
YouTubeKNOWER 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERCkf0j8pPM
Nightmare - KNOWER
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRQiiPDXTGo
Ligeti - Musica ricercata: No.7 - Cantabile | arr. for theremin & analog synthesizers
YouTubeThe 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFB2cicKoE
The River - 3 guitar ambient jam with drones and synths in the forest w/Sam Bell and Pete Ferguson
YouTubeThis is a soft, seductive DOS tracker track. It appears to use one single sample, so it's basically like a 2 minute electric piano solo, if the electric piano had infinite sustain. Sometimes with tracker tunes I can find a *little* history, but all I find googling is a forum post claiming the track was first released in 1997; and that the author is Finnish, and died in 2022.
Scenestream tags: "Calm keygen" "Sad sinewave"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOmJ__yI84
Floppi - So close
YouTubeThis came up when I was in a fugue of listening to every Amiga chiptune I could find, and is apparently the backing track to "Enigma", an Amiga 3D rendering demo the group Phenomena made for "Anarchy Easter Party 1991" in Sweden. A gorgeous mishmash of vibes, half of them from 1980s new wave rock and the other half from somewhere deep in outer space where a dying species orbits a black hole in quiet contemplation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcTPUoFUN3I
Amiga music: Firefox & Tip - Hyperbased (Enigma demo theme)
YouTubeSome 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDpeHQUSWT0
It's All Nothing Until It's Everything - KNOWER
YouTubeI 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
https://nebulasciwax.bandcamp.com/track/bound-by-secrets
Bound by Secrets, by Nebula
NebulaThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsZz4bwEYQ
Playstation 1 nostalgia ambient atmospheric jungle drum and bass mix
YouTubeThis 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.
https://slowerpace.bandcamp.com/track/high-tech-low-life-intro
High-tech Low-life {intro}, by slowerpace 音楽
slowerpace 音楽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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX-efXxODu0
hkmori - memory
YouTubeThis 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGfQjV9bKc4
"Dracula Forever" -- EP-133 K.O. II and Roland S-1
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owldd4hs7wQ
PlayStation jungle Mix 2 | drum & bass, Frutiger Aero, liquid, Y2K, intelligent
YouTubeA 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBR87qm6dvs
DigiLogTokyo Microne, Synthernet 8888, CSK ParipiDestroyer, and ACID bass synthesizer prototype
YouTubeA 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8nyRgppkng
Dataline - THEM5000 (Monomachine only track)
YouTubeSo 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip6OmReVmIY
Set U Free
YouTubeWhen 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9McVO9hpUE
La Bouche - Sweet dreams (Official Video)
YouTubeIf 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".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El1kgCqD7Xk
Paula Abdul - Straight Up (Official Music Video)
YouTubeHere'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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIuYQ_4TcXg
En Vogue - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) (Official Music Video) [HD]
YouTubeEventually 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLojuBjppDc
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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1bTis9ee3U
D'Breez / Crazy for Love [Autechre Remix]
YouTubeWe 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6TfY6J-oTU
Crazy (Acoustic) (Instrumental)
YouTubeThis 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsVyQ1zS3mY
Techno Live Jam 3 || Subharmonicon, Dfam, Eurorack, Ableton
YouTubeMade on one of those wall-sized modular synth racks, the artist describes the video with "Loose ended live improv. First take."
A chill but determined groove undergirded by erratic drums, with a sense of low menace starting to creep in in the second half. Good zone-out music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkh9xgNaplU
Desmorph
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeSrYpB53JU
quadratschulz - Battery Driven
YouTubeA 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NExSjzAbHg
Sound Check pre serata - 03052024
YouTubeDense 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRgtbYur6ps
Titan
YouTubeI 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjH1RZt1eu4
kalla - i'll let you know
YouTubeSo 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUq8DyEvuw
Dominant Male Monkey Mother F* ☠️ Ambient // Evil Live Jam ☠️ winterkeep
YouTube"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).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dcMfcQkPk
Étude for Modular Synthesizer No. 1
YouTubeA 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFPh9B1thfA
Volca Drum Techno Pattern #9 (with PO-20 Arcade and Monotron Delay)
YouTubeThis 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0aZ_oypvHg
MMZX - Wonder Panorama (Dual YM2612 Remix)
YouTubeA 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f11FIys81lg
the angler | boom bap, instrumental hip hop, lofi | Roland SP-404 MKII | Korg Volca Keys
YouTubeThis 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OOdGqr7EqQ
MSK (Dusan Zatkovsky) - 4 (part 1)
YouTubeTaiwanese 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIedFzs-8s
潘PAN - Ghosts (Official Music Video)
YouTubeTo 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMH4nTzuwjY
deep dark places
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMwKkn2xWI
David Prescott – Prague (1988)
YouTubeThis dude built, from raw metal, an all-acoustic unamplified instrument based on the "Cristal Baschet" designed by the Baschet brothers in the 50s. The idea is you glide wet fingers on glass rods, and the vibrations are amplified by those giant metal plates. Having built the instrument the guy composed a song for it, which he also sings accompanying lyrics to, *in Latin*.
It's… incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqBuoT_0zM
Cristal Baschet- Bass Euphone Song
YouTubeSo 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGQER_XF00
Upside- Down VHS III
YouTubeI'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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRg9HPGvJEg
LYRA-8 + Modular Synth // Experimental Drone
YouTubeGosh, 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-TvAZvk810
4-23-24A Bastl Generative Patch
YouTubeI 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
https://grouper.bandcamp.com/track/she-loves-me-that-way
She Loves Me That Way, by Grouper
GrouperWe'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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVRZ8LQ7TA
"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UVsOB5sm6s
[Atari ST] Ultrasyd - Thunderdome (Chip Part) (Oscilloscope View)
YouTube"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001Z0sHkD_0
Music 2000 - Illogical (PSX)
YouTubeA 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5XSSjLQis
Koreless - Seven
YouTubePureData 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULBP8iouw4I
audioreactive generative visuals with pure data
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBMoIYrJW_s
Diode Milliampere - Samsara
YouTubeA 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGztUisl6NM
Buring The Summer - Lofi Ambient Downtempo Live Jam || Digitakt, 0-Coast, Astronaut V
YouTubeI'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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvicVnFM28
mononoo - yea, but can it ,*#*\_! ?
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WCVixA6es
One for the haters
YouTubeDream pop that feels like suddenly waking up, with tendrils of sleep still clinging to your brain. Really feels like less a song as just an emotion there's no word for, packaged into an mp3 file, something you swim in as Barroo croons to you over cool abstract synth noises. I really like this album overall but this track really stands out. A loud quiet thing
(PS: Yes, the ":3" is part of the artist name)
https://heylol.bandcamp.com/track/waves
waves, by kendall :3
kendall :3Chill 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:
https://nappynina.bandcamp.com/track/lougie
Lougie, by Nappy Nina
Nappy NinaThis 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.
https://ykort.bandcamp.com/track/the-last-time-i-met-u-2
the last time i met u, by ykort
ykortA 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_4vYIm2vE
One for the lovers
YouTubeI'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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u3DvNBLuW0
tmod 21 (haunted days)
YouTubeI'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
https://social.ordinal.garden/@t36s/112711240332343492
This is from "hsptltrx", a 3-track release that (as creator @Lime explained when she posted a link on Mastodon last week https://mastodon.social/@Lime@post.lurk.org/112763721974182176) 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
https://lime68k.bandcamp.com/track/grtrax1
grtrax1, by Lime68k/1x1
Lime68k/1x1Saul 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GVrcTAeD0E
Twice The First Time
YouTubeKendrick 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GghFQ8ryEU
untitled 02 | 06.23.2014.
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIDKZSF6y8k
Goodie Mob - Black Ice (Sky High) ft. Outkast
YouTubeThis 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esXFNTlLxUA
Antipop Consortium - Dead in Motion
YouTubeKendrick 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5eT6TaEtPI
Kendrick Lamar "LOOK OUT FOR DETOX"
YouTubeOkay 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzY2-GRDiPM
Def Poetry Jam - Saul Williams (Coded Language)
YouTubeRight 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".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXPWQqXv2zM
A Life In The Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)
YouTubeAmbient-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.
https://francisharris.bandcamp.com/track/useless-machines
Useless Machines, by Francis Harris
Francis HarrisThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkyqP-g_LrY
Larry Cuba - Calculated Movements (complete film)
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwy9elleJrg
Rumble of Ancient Times (RoAT) - Jam 6
YouTubePrepared 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHvYGXmHmY
Void Femmes @ SIXNINEHAUS (Toronto, ON) - July 7th, 2024
YouTubeThis 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpAer45c20I
2024-04-16 AV
YouTubeThe 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9JsnJndxk
The Monster Pursues
YouTubeThis 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iIlON8mLKk
robotic xylophone
YouTubeThere'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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zCRguToPg
Onde Magnétique OM-1 Jam
YouTubeDISKQ'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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLE5frRQ7Ak
"level up" - lxr-02 x pocket operator arcade sketch
YouTube"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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUkNtcdxc9s
breakcore/glitch patch in plug data (aka pure data)
YouTubeAE 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSL9NXx4ZXM
HLT - A Lost Transmission (AE MODULAR DEMO)
YouTubeUltrasyd 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hqakKlStKg
Polyend Tracker : First Test & Jam
YouTubeA 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSk-JcOUAzo
Genèse - 0.312%
YouTubePlaid 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
https://plaid.bandcamp.com/track/clock
CLOCK, by Plaid
PlaidHere'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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRh2XBLcKdI
Equinox - Love Fantasy
YouTubeThis 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67yYu3FDBE
SY85 and MMT-8 jam
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-1haZDxik
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 ( https://mas.to/@Jyoti/112691268659076228 )
Jyoti Mishra says this song was recorded live in one take.
This track is *unbelievably* sick! Crispy, Warp-ified techno, from the era hip-hop was still on the Braindance agenda
Jyoti Mishra
2024-06-27 23:51:37
Theme for a Late Night Documentary About the Dangers of Drug Abuse
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