Ether DiverJul 17, 2024

It's time for the weekly digest thread of Other People's Music, because I know some of you don't like clicking on external links. As always, this is a condensed version of my weekly blog post covering independent music. The full version is here:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/07/12/opm-music-is-an-adventure/

As always, please support these artists by listening to their music, following them here on Fedi (for those who are here, anyway) and buying their music if you can.

And boost to get them in front of many ears as possible!

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Camilo Bravo – Volatil

A deep, varied, vibrant and multi-hued mixture of different styles and musical textures. #Jazz, #folk, #prog, #rock, traditional dance and touches of the #blues cavort together in an unbounded stew of influences and ideas. If that’s not enough, they invited their goth, metal and pop pals to drop in here and there. Skillfully concocted out of a mix of acoustic, electric and synthetic elements and everything fits together beautifully.

https://cambraca.bandcamp.com/album/volatil

@cambraca

Volatil, by Camilo Bravo

16 track album

Camilo Bravo
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Jesse Spillane – Their Earlier Stuff Was Better

Smart, playful and fun, these 12+ tracks are love letters to music itself. Rooted in jazz fusion, but wandering where they will, each of these short tunes manages to pack in a lot of ideas and sounds without ever feeling overstuffed or aimless. With bits that seem to reference everything from classical music to Beck, Mr. Bungle and jam bands, this is the output of a restless and omnivorous musical mind.

@jessespillane

https://jessespillane.bandcamp.com/album/their-earlier-stuff-was-better

Their Earlier Stuff Was Better, by Jesse Spillane

13 track album

Jesse Spillane
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Logickal – Amulet

Two tracks of dark, heavy, experimental #techno with #industrial and #IDM influences; the third a slowly evolving piece of minimal, dark #ambient. These tunes bang like classic techno – hard, fast and heavy on the drums – but have a little too much rhythmic complexity and sonic weirdness to strictly qualify. Not to say you couldn’t dance to it, but it would be an adventurous DJ that would play them.

@logickal

https://logickal.bandcamp.com/album/amulet

@experimentalmusic
@electronicmusic

Amulet, by Logickal

3 track album

Logickal
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Armageddon Speaking – “Birds and Fries the Whole World Dies”

The title suggests something heavy and dark but this is actually a pleasant ride thru smeary #ambient and mellow #kosmische. Opening on waves of pretty, shifting synth sounds, it’s about a minute and a half before the simple beat comes in. Bird song and human voices pop in from time to time; the real magic is served by overlapping layers of synth arpeggios and pads.

https://youtu.be/_e7E1W9ucPE

https://bsky.app/profile/armageddonspeaking.bsky.social

@electronicmusic

Birds and Fries The Whole World Dies - Armageddon Speaking

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german mix – “You Don’t Have to Be Sorry”

Strap in for four minutes of horrorcore #EBM spiked with samples from Aliens. The beat and bassline is deeply indebted to old-school #industrial – falling somewhere between slowed down My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and various Belgian acts. That’s orchestrated with some truly uncanny sound design – weird frequencies and borderline unpleasant timbres create an unsettling vibe.

@Music_From_The_80ies

https://soundcloud.com/german-mix/you-dont-have-to-be-sorry

@electronicmusic

You don't have to be sorry

I recorded this under the influence of the movie "Prometheus" by director Ridley Scott, a kind of prequel to "Alien". "We better get back because it will be dark soon and they mostly come at night".

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And that's it for this week! As a reminder, you can find the full writeups, with slightly more detail on all of this music, at this link (also good for permalinking!)

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/07/12/opm-music-is-an-adventure/

If you want to support my writing and coverage of these bands, boosts, favs and follows are a cheap way to do it. If you want to support me in a more concrete manner, there's this:

https://ko-fi.com/etherdiver

Or, alternately, go check out my music and, if you like it, buy some:

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/

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If you'd like to see your music covered here in a future installment (as soon as this Friday!) reach out! The details of how it works are here:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/04/opm-other-peoples-music/

I currently have ZERO backlog, so don't hesitate to send me some music. I need more every week!