What I'm listening to today: "severe brain damage by dominator"

This is a 1996 "octamed" modfile/tracker tune for the Amiga soundchip that simply goes as hard as it possibly can, dialing in some sort of acid sound and then slowly turning one of the knobs more and more until it actually breaks. Simultaneously a audience-pranking brainfuck and a thoughtful mix of dance genres; the drum line feels like it might be one of the "classic" breaks but I can't identify which one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsro5DpnWNA

severe brain damage by dominator (1996)

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What I'm listening to today: "Close your Eyes (Autechre Corporation Street rmx)", Anodyne

One time Autechre dropped a whole ass Funky Drummer loop on a track and it ruled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nl4GaPMcx0

Anodyne - Close your eyes (Autechre Corporation street remix)

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What I'm listening to today: "Jackin for beats", Ice Cube

On this track Ice Cube states an intent to steal every other rapper's beats, then follows through. Despite the claim of "jacking" Cube actually did pay for sample clearance on every beat used here, leading to a situation where 112% of this track's revenue is owed on sample royalties. If you buy this track on Apple Music, Ice Cube loses money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Vn12rvPfM

Ice Cube- Jackin For Beats

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What I'm listening to today: "メトロノーム同期 (32個)", Ikeguchi Laboratory, Tokyo University of Science

This is an entirely physical effect. Place two or more metronomes on a table and start them at different times. The metronomes will acoustically couple through the table and gradually interfere with each other until their oscillations move into perfect alignment.

You might have heard of this trick before! But try just listening to it. Like really listen

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

メトロノーム同期 (32個)

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What I'm listening to today: "Weekly Beats #8 - Dustin'", Tristan Baldi

Elektron are giants in modern "DAWless" music production, a path they started on¹ with the pair of idiosyncratic "machine" synthesizers released starting in 2001. Here on a machinedrum with hacked firmware is a chill song for laying on a machine beach sipping coolant, watching a square sun set. Takes off once the beat comes in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8AgGXOi-J4

¹ I intentionally ignore the SIDStation here

Weekly Beats #8 - Dustin' (Machinedrum)

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What I'm listening to today: "Brutal", HarrytheHat

Core-competency Jungle from an EP¹ made on a restricted set of instruments (2 Pocket Operator samplers, 1 Monotron Delay, 1 Volca Bass dialed into 303-mimic acid mode).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsbwnOX8aQo

Heavy but smooth; Millenials will immediately have flashbacks to late-90s racing games. Of course this isn't the hardware people would have used in the 90s, it just has the same number of bits².

¹ Full EP here https://harrythehat225.bandcamp.com/album/pocket-jungle-v1

² Twelve

Brutal 🔨 (full jam) Lofi Jungle Po33/VolcaBass/Monotron

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What I'm listening to today: "shapely hedgerows of the dying world", Dragon Warrior

Shuffling, comfy instrumental folk / indie pop in the Elephant 6 style. Feelings like Polaroids of early mornings. You might know this musician as Brother Android or Harrison Lemke, depending on what genre you encountered him in.

https://dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/track/shapely-hedgerows-of-the-dying-world

shapely hedgerows of the dying world, by Dragon Warrior

from the album Sweetheart of the Planetarium

Dragon Warrior

What I'm listening to today: "Dual Monomachine IDM with new aftermarket +Drives from MachineStore", MIDERA

An enormous emotion. Thinky techno production with a human pop core and a touch of chiptune feel on the drums.

I think we're at the point where this particular type of 00s electronic sound is as old now, as the 70s-80s sounds Boards of Canada was evoking in the 90s were then. Meaning the progressive parts of Boards of Canada now *themselves* qualify for nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr3idTvkp-A

Dual Monomachine IDM with new aftermarket +Drives from MachineStore

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What I'm listening to today: "OB6 Dub Techno", dc11

The musician says this emerged from setting up a new synthesizer, so what I imagine happened: They were trying to make that "chonkchonkchonk" noise from reggae, stumbled into an amazing-sounding semi-repeating pattern, went "I have to stop everything and find a way to make this a song" and built a life support system around it. Result:

Lovely little ambient meditation over a 128bpm heartbeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXeiQ6KdWM

If ur bored stop at ~5:00

OB6 Dub Techno

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What I'm listening to today: "New Instrument, new sound!", Fron Reilly

A short demo of a musical instrument created by this YouTuber/woodworker. It's… kind of a brilliant idea, actually, simultaneously shocking and in-retrospect obvious.

The video is 100 seconds of abstract noises that, if you'd played it for me without the video, I could tell you how to create with FFTs and DSP techniques but would *not* have believed was a recording of a completely acoustic device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHIcU3g8Ps

New Instrument, new sound!

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What I'm listening to today: "The Terrorist", DJ Vadim & Motion Man

Motion Man is an Oakland rapper so far under the radar he has no Wikipedia page and at least one album of his I've listened to is not on Allmusic. If you know him it's probably from a guest spot he did on someone else's song, probably Kool Keith's, and you *remember* him because he absolutely steals every track he appears on.

Here, for a 1999 DJ Vadim single: Villainous pronouncements over supersaws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rOYGk6TV_o

Terrorist

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What I'm listening to today: "Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra" (Overture), Friedrich Gulda

I don't know much about Gulda, but apparently his career was marked by a desire to work in both classical music but also jazz (back in an era when jazz was still cutting edge and/or illegal). This 1980 piece feels like he was asked to compose a concerto but he just really, really wanted to make funk music. This slaps. This cellist is fucking *shredding*

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

⚠️Loud static at 0:41

Friedrich Gulda - Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra: Overture

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What I'm listening to today: "Cwejman/Verbos Dub", Lucas Marchal

Last week I linked this guy doing synth unboxing experiments, here's what he sounds like doing a completed track. Dark, intent dub using the full spectrum of electronic production. Slipping silently under abandoned awnings and cloudy skies as your robotic pursuers nip constantly at your heels. Glance up and your gaze is met by the first touches of rain, and a dual-rotor helicopter blotting out the sun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTD7iqVjRs

Cwejman/Verbos Dub

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What I'm listening to today: "Carrier",
Brandon McGhee

Extremely satisfying, semi-live electronic jam, feels like early Boards of Canada. Authentic-sounding/non-authentic analog synths on the Microfreak, lo-fi hip hop beats on the SP-404, and enormous Zoia reverb. What you see is what you get. Cool disintegration outro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WELUnqz6R00

Carrier

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What I'm listening to today: "Cryptic Flow", ME9AM0N

I was given the prompt "Lo-fi hip hop to have anxiety to". Trap music for blown out speakers and those Japanese crosswalk machines that play the creepy childrens' song. Basically the kind of music you'd find on a cassette tape in a street gutter and when you listen to it it makes your stereo haunted.

Apparently they call themselves "Memphis cult".

https://soundcloud.com/memphiscult/cryptic-flow-me9am0n-16

Cryptic Flow - ME9AM0N

Cult Link https://linktr.ee/memphiscult Buy Merch - https://memphiscult.com/ Artist Link - https://linktr.ee/splyxer Discord Server: https://discord.gg/sVwfB4fph6 Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6n9s

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What I'm listening to today: "YOULL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE", hkmori

Sad girl breakcore anthem. This is what it feels like to be queer in 2025. Too loud. Too loud. Everything is too loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6GmJC1ic4o

hkmori - YOULL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE

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What I'm listening to today: "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt", DJ Shadow

This album hit electronic music like a meteor. Apparently real heads already knew who DJ Shadow was and Dan the Automator had been working with him for years, but the first I'd heard of DJ Shadow was this song coming on Rice Radio 91.7 FM circa 1997 and I can draw you a diagram of exactly where on San Felipe St I was driving at the time because the moment is seared so clearly into my memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HORLJvUMs08

Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt

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What I'm listening to today: "Devil Stuff", Evil Nine

The first half of the 2000s saw this explosion of headphones-friendly "instrumental hip hop" whose existence I chalk up to DJ Shadow, if not as a direct inspiration then at least for convincing the record labels this stuff could sell. (Or maybe it was "Praise You".) Here's some fun big beat music made of metal samples. Yeah uh, my mom's boyfriend's kids are into this devil stuff from listening to Black Sabbath—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKeAt3zdiYk

Devil Stuff

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What I'm listening to today: "Heart's Desire", Awkward McLain

A Bandcamp beatmaker goes in for a bit of lo-fi hip hop and astral projection. Lovely crisp feeling.

The box is SP-404mk2, the most recent of a series of surprisingly incremental updates to J Dilla's favorite sampler, with the main effect AFAICT to add, like, USB and SD card support and the stuff that makes a device actually convenient to use in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czR2NlmWE2g

[SP404 Beat] Silence.Golden - Heart's Desire

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What I'm listening to today: "The Mashed Up Mixes - Diplo of Hollertronix Meets RJD2"

During that 10 minutes of mainstream craze for "mashups", lo-fi hip hop virtuoso RJD2 invited a few artists to make DJ mixtapes out of his his back catalog. There's also a good one by "Haul & Mason", but this mix stuck in my head forever for a segment that strings together Cat Power, Slick Rick and Steve Reich, and later on what's still to me the definitive version of Outkast's "Roses"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5h1o8XRnk

RJD2 - The Mashed Up Mixes - Diplo of Hollertronix Meets RJD2

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What I'm listening to today: "Jellyfish", Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo)

There is a weird pattern in video games:

- The "water level", in any game, is usually everyone's least favorite, but

- The "water level" often has the coolest, most memorable music of the game.

Upthread I linked some "ocean vibes" music from Mario Artist for N64DD. That game has *three* ocean-themed songs, all bangers; here's my other fav. Charmingly cheesy hold-music jazz transitioning into trip-hop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DlaLKT3q8&list=PL-pEm4IqI6c_DfCBqt5VBvR-atgwqTlZB&index=95

Mario Artist: Paint Studio - Drawing Track #1 (Jellyfish) -

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What I'm listening to today: "What Does Your Soul Look Like?, Pt. 3", DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow followed up his major-label "debut" with an (incomplete) overview of his pre-"debut" indie releases. The information economy of the late 90s was less developed than that of today & getting into DJ Shadow in 1998 was a *little* confusing. Whatever! Here's the most rocking track from "preemptive strike". This *fucking* piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9VIDrDXJmc

PS: Shadow fans listen to the Mighty Atom Endtroducing mix

What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 3

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What I'm listening to today: "Durationplex", Sevish

This musician describes this track as an exercise in golden-ratio "maxxing"; the (xenharmonic) tuning scale is based on ϕ, the (polyrhythmic, constantly shifting) rhythms are based on ϕ, the FM timbres are based on ϕ. Experientially all you can tell is that the musician was doing something *very specific*, which you can grasp the shape of but not understand

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

( This track is also on Bandcamp: https://sevish.bandcamp.com/track/durationplex )

Sevish - Durationplex (golden ratio music)

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What I'm listening to today: "Small drops 2025-08-02", atnr

"Minimal Ambient". Giant reverb landscapes. Sitting on a dark hill, your hair mussed by gentle breeze, watching on the horizon the spaceships take off.

Made by combining Yamaha's modern DX7 revival, an original Game Boy, and three guitar pedals, one of which only exists to simulate the sound of cassette tape; someone probably *could* have made this exact music in 1989, in principle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSBqiEHJmH0

Minimal Ambient w/ GAME BOY & reface DX | Small drops 2025-08-02 by atnr

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What I'm listening to today: "Fly to the Leaden Sky", Manabu Namiki

This is the stage 1 music from "Battle Garegga", an incredibly maximalist top-down shooter made in 1996 by former Compile staff. This is from the 2016 PS4/XBox rerelease, so the original onboard chip synthesis is replaced with slightly different instrumentation including crisper drum samples that really do improve this one track. A giant glowing idol to the 1980s, an exuberant tower of electric guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-ENkufyCY&list=PLguGBzflGahMxYlXtQxX5e4yuqPMWKBAn&index=3

Battle Garegga Rev 2016 perfect edition ー 03 - Fly to the Leaden Sky Stage 1 Valley

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What I'm listening to today: "Speciation", Passepartout Duo

An old technique in ambient music is "phasing", where you play two loops of different lengths and let them go in and out of sync, creating different interesting patterns. It's a truism this requires electronics or tape, because two humans trying to play out-of-sync tempos would confuse each other. These two seem to be actually doing a live phase performance, dueling xylophone and gameboy-style squarewave loops

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

Speciation - Passepartout Duo

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What I'm listening to today: "Souzou Suru", Haru Nemuri

High-energy Japanese rap with seriously weird production. My wife was listening to this and now I'm listening to it.

https://specific.bandcamp.com/track/souzou-suru

Every lyrics site swears up and down she's saying "Touch my Yes", not whatever it is you thought you heard.

( If you're enjoying yourself by the end of this song maybe listen to the next one on the album, which I like for its mid-90s-arcade-shooter-style sampled guitars… https://specific.bandcamp.com/track/bang )

Souzou Suru, by HARU NEMURI

from the album Shunka Ryougen

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What I'm listening to today: "Finally", a773

This Danish musician uses the modular synth rack— usually the domain of weird noise ambient— for a purpose I've never seen it turned to: incredibly sincere Fusion Jazz. 80s fusion did use simple, early synths— and modular also tends toward the simple, because simple base tones respond best to layering in complications. So there's a lot of plausible 80s feel but with the strangest mystery sounds slipping through the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MYf2p-0TmQ

a773 - finally [funky/jazz modular/generative groove]

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What I'm listening to today: "Mood piece from one machine to another", Sonaura

Three minutes of degraded humming, drone piece on two cassette tape machines one of which seems to be having serious problems. The desert in late evening, a wisp of smoke moving in a way smoke shouldn't. A transmission you pick up briefly on the radio and then can't find again. Do you hear it? No, it's gone. As far as recordings of degraded humming sounds go I'd say this is a pretty good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXA3_VCYc98

Mood piece from one machine to another

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What I'm listening to today: "Level 0", Jim Andron

In the 90s there was a thing called "smooth jazz". I think boomers probably understood it, but I was never clear how it was different from "easy listening music".

This opener from 1992's famously odd "CD-I" version of Tetris is easy-listening music transcended to the point you can understand why people like the genre. Hold music pulling at your heartstrings, incredibly cheesy FM piano over shockingly hype bass work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwDWKf-78

Tetris (CD-i) Music - Level 0

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What I'm listening to today: "Orange", Tristan Baldi

Chill tabla groove on the Dirtywave M8, a small handheld tracker. Big warm analog-style pads and lots of fun little sound design scribbles low in the mix. Sun shining through some sort of medium, like the fronds of trees or the smog of southern California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3_AeLUMVQA

Orange (Dirtywave M8)

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What I'm listening to today: "Mocktapus, Rocktapus, Unlocktapus Rex", Prince Charming featuring Philosophy Major

I'm … I'm really not sure what's happening here! A two-minute hip hop hallucination, two or three stations fighting for control of your FM radio, a bunch of musical instruments thrown in a dryer and they turned it on. Sometimes my brain sort of demagnetizes and thoughts swarm in all directions aimlessly like bees. What if that felt pleasant? That's this song

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

Mocktapus, Rocktapus, Unlocktapus Rex (feat. Philosophy Major)

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What I'm listening to today: "White Paws", Tristan Baldi

This piece hijacks the Subharmonicon, Moog's idiosyncratic semi-generative synth, to a purpose it's not typically used for: Acid, coaxing some surprisingly 303-like sounds out of it. Combine this with an unusually clicky configuration for the DFAM and you have an unusual, unpredictable, quiet but punchy little electronic jam.

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

White Paws (Subharmonicon, DFAM)

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What I'm listening to today: "While you were gone", a773

This is the fusion-jazz-on-modular-synths guy I linked last Sunday. This track has that "downtempo Sega" feel but leans into the weirdness/jazziness by being in 7/8 time. Most people listening to 5/4 can tell they're listening to "a weird time signature" but 7/8 sounds like "normal music" with a strange pressured feel you can't explain. If you sleep too long the fire goes out you dare to dream and we have no doubt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me-bNxMT7k0

a773 - while you were gone [warm and melodic glitch jazz in 7/8]

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What I'm listening to today: "Biology 101", Dr. Octagon ft. "Chewbacca"

Removed track from Kool Keith's career-redefining "Dr. Octagonecologyst", present on the original indie release but not the Dreamworks version. The point where they apparently went "too far". Too weird, too creative, too surprising, too hard to follow, too "Kool Keith". A Dan the Automator groove slowed down to the breaking point, with a flood of incredibly dense sci-fi rap wordplay running over it.

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

Dr. Octagon: Biology 101

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What I'm listening to today: "Cosmic Interlude", LTJ Bukem

Chill jazzy electronic from the year 2000 with delicious stand-up bass sounds. Bukem spent the mid 90s staking a flag on what he called "Intelligent Jungle" (as far as I can tell he invented "the Dreamcast menu sound") but then as the 90s ended pushed past that and crafted a distinct brand of self-confident instrumental jazz with skeletal drum&bass patterns as support. Would feel at home on a Ninja Tune mixtape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1KIWM-VuAU

Cosmic Interlude

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What I'm listening to today: "Time 4 Breaks", Breakbeat Era

This album was supposed to be the Roni Size clique's breakout moment into pop domination, but a series of odd decisions left it as a one-off artifact that you've either never heard of or are still obsessed with 25 years later. This track shows the project at its best: A pop song structure with heart-gripping vocals and the production gloss of 1999's best D&B production team. Progressive but goes down smooth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4RnLUnFafs

Breakbeat Era - Time 4 Breaks

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What I'm listening to today: "Imouha", Etran de LAïr

Incredible surfrock¹ jam by a band that describes themselves as "the stars of the Agadez guitar scene" (Agadez is the fifth largest city in the Republic of Niger). Do not miss the video-toaster-core video. Dudes rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeytuhn0irM

I found this as the YouTube algorithm's next recommendation after watching "Prisencolinensinainciusol".

¹ Sahara rock?

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What I'm listening to today: "Late Morning", Breakbeat Era

A couple days ago I linked the song from this album I thought had the closest chance of getting mainstream euro radio recognition for this odd Roni Size project. This (incidentally the next song on the album) is the track I think appeals best if you just like SOUNDS. Six minutes onrushing bull head down subway to an afternoon headache, breakbeat jungle boiled down to annihilation of all thought, moksha in motion

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

Breakbeat Era - Late Morning

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What I'm listening to today: "icm", a773

One last track from the musician I've been calling "the fusion-jazz-on-modular-synths guy". So thing is, mixing jazz and electronic music is not odd, it's just what you're *expected* to do is cut up the jazz as a backing for sampled breakbeats. This raises a question: What if a773 made a track with breaks? Turns out it turns out extremely well. Something here for both prog and Ninja Tune lovers. Nice understated bassline groove.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ikmBVXgg-g

a773 - icm [funky modular jazz]

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What I'm listening to today: "Hold Tight London", Chemical Brothers

This is just literally the song stuck in my head today.

Chemical Brothers are underrated TBH. They got some radio play with "Dig Your Own Hole" and I think the electronic heads (in the US?) mentally classified them as pop and tuned out. They continued making jams. I think this might be the best song they ever made. Does it stop being rock music if the guitars are sampled? *Are* these guitars sampled?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXV-jr64szI

Hold Tight London

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What I'm listening to today: "Erm...Yes, This Is Yamaha RS7000", Isobutane

This ungainly 1999 pro groovebox from Yamaha is fairly capable at making techno and hip hop. It… doesn't sound like this at all! Apparently using no external samples only tweaked presets this musician creates a drunken rush of chaotic glitch sounds, a simply wild wobbling bass line and this one sound like an angel got stuck in your crawlspace and is moaning in divine ecstasy until you let it out

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

Erm...Yes, This Is Yamaha RS7000

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What I'm listening to today: "AudCalc, Zeptocore, Phantasmal Force, GREAT CONJUNCTION Micro Synth Coordination", Arman Bohn

I at one point considered myself an authority on small handheld devices that make odd sounds, and I… I recognize exactly two of the six devices on this table. A glorious mess but it all comes together, floats your mind on a melange of algorithmic beeps, chirpy synth beats and bitcrushed Amen like a crashing sea. More is more. I like the buzzy bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhyk4O1cYpc

AudCalc, Zeptocore, Phantasmal Force, GREAT CONJUNCTION Micro Synth Coordination

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What I'm listening to today: "souvenir d'autrefois", Trhä & Midoran

Asked on bsky for metal that makes every bar on the graphic equalizer jam all the way up. Blurry thrashy metal with kinda those stoner jam feels and this amazing softness like cassette tape, every blast of sound is a little bit rounded off. Ends with an inexplicable detour into… like… if I say "title screen music for a strip mahjong tabletop unit in a dingy bar in Kabukichō in 1994" will you understand?

https://trha.bandcamp.com/track/souvenir-dautrefois

souvenir d'autrefois, by Trhä & Midoran

from the album Trhä & Midoran

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What I'm listening to today: "沈む!", Banshimoku

I saw these folks live last night! Shizumu (沈む) appears to be "Sinking" or "Sink!", like a command. The word she yells at the end of the chorus is "ILLUMINATION!" in English. "Banshimoku" is a Japanese name for the Placodont, an extinct triassic reptile. Walking through the market this morning, kept yelling to myself under my breath, the quietest yell, "ILLUMINATION!". May the bridges we burn be the lights that show our way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKsXnZO9_Jo

板歯目 ‐「沈む!」(Official Music Video_2022年3月1日リリース)_BANSHIMOKU

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What I'm listening to today: "Untitled", Åreknuteknyterne

In 1986 a tiny Norwegian cassette label named "Yecch Tapes" released a compilation named "FFFFF" with this song. It would be wrong to say it sounds like it does because these are ghosts reaching out of history to haunt us. That's just the cassette sound. But this sure *sounds* like ghosts trapped outside time, trying to score an epic 80s action thriller, but they're ghosts so it only feels like inexpressible loss

https://tribetapes.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-fffff-version

Untitled (FFFFF Version), by Åreknuteknyterne

from the album Åreknuteknyterne

Tribe Tapes

What I'm listening to today: "Virtual Star Embryology" (Revolutionary Girl Utena ED 2), J.A. Seazer

Ancient times. Perfection. Isolation in the desert.
Atmosphere, atom, a star of causality.
Yes, a child of earth is conceived
The embryo of philosophy.
The endless surface of the torus,
A single organic mechanism
A single perpetual motion.
Ah, it is empty movement!
Just empty movement,
Empty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkwU8yUjM9Y

[FullHD] 少女革命ウテナ 鳳暁生編 Credits Rolling Sequence

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What I'm listening to today: "My Cancerous Body in Music", Entropic Echo

Industrial-grade modular electronica with a focus on gigantic distorted pads. The large block of wood in the corner is a SOMA device that as far as I know works by your body grounding or bridging spontaneous circuits in the electrically active orbs. Hundreds of figures in hooded monk robes trudge determinedly across a gray wasteland. Raindrops pick their way down staircases of leaves.

Cool ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHZvGi2qIw4

Biomechanical Disruption ‐ My cancerous body in music

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What I'm listening to today: "Time III: plastic ego", StereoMan

Fun tracker tune (original upload September 1998) that leans into the uncanny feeling of sample tracker music with stunning results. Echoes of a SNES game where a robot jumps through 2D mazes made of girders, except if one single song from a 1998 game OST went this hard you'd still be talking about it 30 years later. (The ImpulseTracker file is 768k; maybe nobody shipping games wanted to invest that much?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-IV_wats0

StereoMan - Time III: plastic ego

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@mcc that is excellent work, not just for an IT file
@lritter seriously trying to figure out if this artist owned the same synth Aphex Twin did for sampling the notes lol
@mcc @lritter The instrument names reference the MC-202, so very likely, yeah!
@misty @mcc i always wanted to own a MC-505 :(

@mcc @lritter He’s on Mastdon and goes by Esem now. @eesn

Also his Scateren album is on my desert island list.
https://esem.bandcamp.com/album/scateren-remaster

Scateren (remaster), by Esem

13 track album

Esem
@mcc https://modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/StereoMan/time%20iii-plastic%20ego.it (since I can't rely on being able to watch youtube videos anymore, but the video shows in the description a link to the tracker file, I decided to send the link in this reply) #lang_en

@ellenor2000 @mcc thank you for sharing the link. Now I know that VLC player on android is able to play Impulse Tracker tracks.

I would never know it if you did not posted this and I would not fat fingered it

@mcc Ooh this *is* a really nice song! Thank you for sharing!

By 1998 I feel like 768KB wasn't too big a deal anymore; mods in Unreal and Unreal Tournament were around that size

@misty @mcc i have definitely been guilty of writing mods >1MB in and around 1998.
@misty yeah I feel like "just hire demoscene people" was a instant path to an incredible soundtrack in 1998 and only Epic seemed to notice it…??

@mcc There was a *ton* of this going on in the Amiga/shareware period, I feel like it was tapering off into the late 90s...? Maybe it was just a period where more people were going pro right away?

I do find it funny that of all the people to really effectively leverage demoscene composers, *Popcap* were doing a ton of it in the late 90s/early 00s

@mcc @misty epic and will wright (that's why everything in spore is an SDF blobject)
@mcc Woah, I don't know many people who are familiar with J. A. Seazer, how did you find out about his music?

@neauoire Well, through Revolutionary Girl Utena! His ensemble did all the in-episode music (the "fight songs") for the entire anime and the second ending theme, which is what's linked above. I'm pretty sure Utena popularized Seazer more than anything else.

All I know of his stuff is Utena and Throw Away Your Books Rally in the Streets.

@mcc He wrote the music for Death In The Country, worth a watch/listen if you'd like to find out more about his work : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu21RohzHMw
J.A.シーザー「J.A.Seazer 」||| 惜春鳥「A bird's spring lament」

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@neauoire I REALLY LIKE THAT MOVIE! That one's the same director as Throw Away Your Books.
@neauoire It's really interesting, I recommend it! it's messier, and it's a little distracting because it's so early the Japanese New Wave movement it spends a lot of its time inventing things (it feels in a lot of ways like a prototype of Pastoral), but it has Moments.
@neauoire One of the Moments is the entire movie coming to a halt so J.A. Seazer personally can just yell at the camera for three minutes and it's kind of incredible
@neauoire Also if you enjoy this era of Japanese cinema I really really recommend Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
@mcc haha yeah, that's an execellent one too. My wiki has a bunch of references to Funeral Parade Of Roses.
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@neauoire This one is the most "complete-feeling" of the several Japanese experimental nightmare collage films I've seen from that era and additionally kind of doubles as an informal documentary of the gay/trans community in tokyo at the time as it periodically halts the action to do man-on-the-street interviews
@mcc You probably have seen pinnochio 964?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX-P7BNAt8g
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@neauoire No I haven't heard of this one :O

The ones I've seen ( https://letterboxd.com/mcc111/ )…
Pastoral / Throw Away Books
Funeral Parade
A Man Vanishes (1967)
Death By Hanging (1968) (Also Mr. Lawrence and Taboo/Gohatto)
The Man Who Left His Will On Film (1970)

If we are moving forward…
Burst City (1982)
Iron Man Tetsuo 1 and 2

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@mcc Ah! if you've seen Tetsuo, you probably don't need to see Pinochio. I haven't seen Death By Hanging and The Man Who Left His Will On Film, I'll have a look.

There's this movie called Grass Labirynth in the style, that I've been meaning to watch for a long time, but there's hardly ever any seeds to grab it off as a torrent..

@mcc I've seen it, it's been a while, I can't say I've enjoyed it that much tho, other than the music.

I'm so happy to know that you enjoy Pastoral ^__^

@neauoire It's a lot less complete as a film

@mcc YES LETS GOOOOO VIRTUAL STAR EMBRYOLOGY
i love the ED version and the animation in the ED but the full version slaps too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puIRYgFgul4

also would recommend checking out the comparative translation of the lyrics here: https://ohtori.nu/audiology/albums/02/01_Virtual_Star_Embryology.html

I LOVE UTENA

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@mcc I originally watched Utena not long after it came out, and I know so much of it was going right over my head. Since then I've gotten interested in closer reads of works when they deserve it, and Utena certainly qualifies. There's so much there.

@mcc What a great song, thanks for sharing!

Speaking of tape sounds: There's this bootleg recording of Tori Amos performing The Cure's "Lovesong", and it's one of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of music I've ever heard.

And as with the song in your post, the tape imperfections are what makes it so unique and fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1JIEY34hv8

#ToriAmos #Lovesong #TheCure #cover #bootleg #music

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@mcc not to be That Guy but it's really just a statement "it's gonna sink!", not a command (which would be 沈め shizume). in Japanese the dictionary form of a verb is the future tense.
@hatzka So if you listen to the song she is yelling "Shizumu! Shizume!" repeating; lyrics sites seem to agree on this; some japanese-as-a-second-language speakers I checked with to before posting agreed that the ambiguity of both verb forms is enough that when you mix them like that the command form is probably the dominant intent
@mcc huh, that's not something I've heard of before. I guess it makes sense though. sorry for bothering you then.
@hatzka i mean, i'm happy to be corrected, it's just that in this case it doesn't appear obvious to me there's a specific one meaning to correct to
@mcc I also really like Surface to Air from the same album
@mcc Dig Your Own Hole has (probably) my favorite track from them, as it happens, but they have a very strong discog on balance.
@onelson it's so hard for me to say anything but Chico's Groove.
@mcc I've actually never heard this one before, it rules!
@mcc I think they got pigeonholed as another quirky Big Beat band, and that scene dated fast

@mcc https://www.whosampled.com/The-Chemical-Brothers/Hold-Tight-London/ doesn't mention guitars being sampled

Star Guitar, especially in conjunction with the music video, was really one of the main things that inspired me for decades

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@mcc Purely because you mentioned sampled guitars, I will tell the short story of the guitars in Chemlab's 1993 Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar album, because I think it's neat.

They hired a guy to come and noodle on guitar in the studio for a few hours, and recorded everything. Then they sampled what they liked and built the track from the samples. Then paid the player to come back and play those arrangements live. So it has the dynamics of live guitar, but with the mechanical feel of an industrial metal song with sampled guitars.

And I think that's super cool and sounds very good.

@ieure that's wild.

Do you know about "Hookers & Gin" by the Sean Atkins Experience?

@mcc I don't!

@ieure there is a sample on the final track of Portishead's self titled album ("Western Eyes") which in the liner notes is credited to The Shaun Atkins Experience. It turns out one of the Portishead members just knows (from high school, I think?) a Shaun Atkins so they paid him to record a song, pressed exactly one record of it, and then turntabled it into the song.

https://www.facebook.com/portishead/posts/very-sad-news-that-our-old-mate-shaunatkins-has-passed-awaya-truly-lovely-funny-/812825633544740/

Somewhere in the house Geoff Barrow bought w/the money from Dummy is the rarest record in UK electronica.

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Very sad news that our old mate Shaun Atkins has passed away. A truly lovely funny & talented man who's light burnt so bright. Who was the voice of the old crooner at the end of western Eyes from...

@mcc you seen the music video for Get Yourself High? funny but also kinda impressive given the year it came out.
@mcc Easily my favourite CB track — and yes, listening to it on a loop for hours is a thing I have done. 😬
@mcc not my favorite chemical brothers track but it does sound like being on a train