What I'm listening to today: "Adder (version)", Blackbird Raum

The original of this song is slow and wrenching and sung by a woman who sounds on the verge of tears. This version is just screaming, bagpipes and screaming. It is very much The Mood.

Were I a bird a bull would step on me
Were I a bull a butcher I would see
And if I were a butcher, my apron would be clean
Were I a bird a bull would step on me

https://blackbirdraum.bandcamp.com/track/adder-version

What I'm listening to today: "The Scene is Dead", Dubmood

Sandblast-your-brain FastTracker2 chiptune electronica track. Just refuses to stop moving for seven minutes. There are so many ideas in this one! The author says they began this track in 2012 and completed it in 2024, so apparently the scene was dying for a very long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVcHrL2ZwCM

What I'm listening to today: "Space Fall" (part 3.5), r beny

Most of my musical diet the last 5 years has been YouTube live bedroom synth sets and if anyone got me on this kick, it was r beny, who did it early and, tbh!, best.

This r beny live set is from a 2021 group concert at the Colorado Modular Synth Society. Opens with clockworky electronica, ends with an intense rework of the song on his YouTube channel as "Waldorf Iridium Ambient". In between: fog-haze ambient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD5obUv52xQ&t=1579s

What I'm listening to today: "Wabi-sabi", a-symmetric

This is an "electro-acoustic" ensemble featuring @pangrus , a Merveilles user who makes his own instruments, from an album that mostly sounds like an argument between a digeridoo and a violin at the far end of a train station. This one track is a lovely, evocative melange of what I think of as "shine noises" punctuated by electronic-sounding warbles that feel like jazz music being crushed in a pneumatic press

https://a-symmetric.bandcamp.com/track/wabi-sabi