mccWhat 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
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
Ice Cube- Jackin For Beats
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
メトロノーム同期 (32個)
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)
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
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
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.
Dual Monomachine IDM with new aftermarket +Drives from MachineStore
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
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.
New Instrument, new sound!
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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
Terrorist
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
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
Cwejman/Verbos Dub
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.
Carrier
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".
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
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
hkmori - YOULL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE
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
Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
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—
Devil Stuff
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.
[SP404 Beat] Silence.Golden - Heart's Desire
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"
RJD2 - The Mashed Up Mixes - Diplo of Hollertronix Meets RJD2
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) -
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
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)
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.
Minimal Ambient w/ GAME BOY & reface DX | Small drops 2025-08-02 by atnr
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
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
Speciation - Passepartout Duo
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
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
a773 - finally [funky/jazz modular/generative groove]
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
Mood piece from one machine to another
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
Tetris (CD-i) Music - Level 0
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
Orange (Dirtywave M8)
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
Mocktapus, Rocktapus, Unlocktapus Rex (feat. Philosophy Major)
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.
White Paws (Subharmonicon, DFAM)
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
a773 - while you were gone [warm and melodic glitch jazz in 7/8]
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.
Dr. Octagon: Biology 101
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.
Cosmic Interlude
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.
Breakbeat Era - Time 4 Breaks
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?
Etran de LAïr Imouha (Official Music Video)
Imouha (Official Music Video)🎸✨ 🎸✨ 🎸✨ from "100% SAHARA GUITAR", the new album by Etran de L’Aïrhttps://tinyurl.com/100saharaguitarhttps://etrandelair.ban...
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
Breakbeat Era - Late Morning
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.
a773 - icm [funky modular jazz]
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?
Hold Tight London
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
Erm...Yes, This Is Yamaha RS7000
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.
AudCalc, Zeptocore, Phantasmal Force, GREAT CONJUNCTION Micro Synth Coordination
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?
souvenir d'autrefois, by Trhä & Midoran
from the album Trhä & Midoran
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
板歯目 ‐「沈む！」（Official Music Video_2022年3月1日リリース)_BANSHIMOKU
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
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
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.
Biomechanical Disruption ‐ My cancerous body in music
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?)
StereoMan - Time III: plastic ego
What I'm listening to today: "Benevolent Incubator", Icarus / @olliebown
A Certain Type of Jazz thrown through the sample blender in a Certain Way, makes me think of Amon Tobin or the Michael Fakesch solo albums or Four Tet remixing Andrew Bird. Fantastic groove. Has an arc to it, a tension, a single set of sounds gradually evolves from manic solo drumming to a gentle indie guitar-pluck lullaby before dissolving completely into incoherent nervous glitches.
Benevolent Incubator, by Icarus
from the album Six Soviet Misfits
What I"m listening to today: "The Torrents of Destruction Overwhelmed Me", thoughtForm Max
Extended metal guitar solo, but with no guitar, done entirely on Roger Linn's isomorphic grid controller. Every pad on here has per-note expression via both pressure and how you wiggle your finger within the square, enabling techniques not usually possible on a keyboard synth. I imagine a lone figure playing this to a sunrise at the edge of some desert plateau in Big Bend in Texas
LinnStrument • The Torrents of Destruction Overwhelmed Me
What I'm listening to today: "Mo Mophatt Roger", Attack Sustain
Does anyone reading this like NOISE here are three minutes of buzzsaw noises simply exploring the sounds of a newly-obtained pair of distortion pedals. Good amplifier worship audio. Would've assumed this was all guitar feedback if I didn't have the video
Mo Mophatt Roger
Ellyse@mcc wow. that was rather uncomfortable. how do you experience it?
@ellyxir something large and hostile and quietly, underneath it, something soft and warm and inviting
aoanla
PunnO)))@mcc This rocks, thanks for sharing. Really great texture on the sounds.
I had to go figure out what the little monitor they were using was, it's a "tc electronic Clarity M Stereo," which is like a modern take on the Tektronix 760A stereo audio monitor. It's way more expensive than the 760A used to be, but way less expensive than they are now (they got Techmoaned).
Bloognoo@mcc
That was beautiful. Part of me wanted it to blend into HellRaiser too.
https://youtu.be/1M4FG1UXH5w
That was beautiful. Part of me wanted it to blend into HellRaiser too.
https://youtu.be/1M4FG1UXH5w
Motörhead - Hellraiser
Brian Campbell@mcc Ooh, thoughtForm Max. He's one of the folks I found on YouTube, who sold me on the idea of getting a Linnstrument; he really works the different expression axes.
He also has a really nice series on MPE sound design in Surge XT, a FLOSS synth plugin, which is really helpful for designing sounds that can use the full expressiveness of the Linnstrument: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHt37ZsMaZaT-dJ3q-8Jt527e7fyBfTV
MPE Sound Design for Surge XT
@mcc Another Linnstrumentalist I discovered recently who I find interesting is Jeff Hopkins: https://www.youtube.com/@JeffHopkinsMusic
Discovered him through daily live streams in Jamuary, now after Jamuary he's doing weekly live streams. He has a really interesting approach of adding even more expression by combining the Linnstrument with an analog Eurorack wind controller; having the wind controller be fully analog rather than MIDI means you can do some interesting mouth controlled nearly audio-rate modulations.
fredrik wallberg@mcc Sounds lovely. I’m currently sketching out an implementation of MIDI Polyphonic Expression for a synth project at work and have been looking for performances like this — thanks for sharing!
@quesebifurcan this is the other linnstrument demo I really like https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108580038779105857
Ollie Bown@mcc thanks. I meant to post this, the full archive. (But you've found the best track). https://icarusarchives.bandcamp.com/
Icarus Archives
This 'Icarus' is the electronic duo of Ollie Bown and Sam Britton, formed in London (UK) in 1997. These archives will compile and present all of their work to date, making it available as free downloads. It is never intended that these archives will have physical copies of Icarus releases available to purchase. Where these exist, please contact the relevant labels or search Discogs for them.
@olliebown thank u for linking ur music before I found it through your mastodon hello post
LR@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
Misty
John Kaniarz@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
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@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
Evgeniy Latuhin@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
Noxie 
@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
jeraldina
☁️@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
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JP@mcc @misty slightly lesser-known tracker soundtrack from that Epic publishing era: Age of Wonders (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o-7rPnZhXo
Age of Wonders - Soundtrack
Devine Lu Linvega@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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu21RohzHMw
J.A.シーザー「J.A.Seazer 」||| 惜春鳥「A bird's spring lament」
@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.
@mcc One quote I like a lot: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/quotes
@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
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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
@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..
Cindʎ Xiao 🍉@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
Virtual Star Hasseigaku - Shoujo Kakumei Utena Soundtrack 2 I 01
Kevin Granade@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.
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scy@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.
Tori Amos - Lovesong
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hatzka@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