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What I listened to today: "Sigma Stage 1" (Mega Man X), Setsuo Yamamoto (Capcom)

The tone on this is so unusual for a video game! Mega Man X wants to make a case it's a serious, realistic story after the googly-eyed cartoon adventures of the NES Mega Mans. The series' writing can't always sell this but the music kinda succeeds. This track noticeably breaks from the stages before, foregrounding the note of sorrow Capcom wants us to believe underlies Mega Man's adventures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI8_kTRDyWI

Mega Man X OST - T24: Sigma Stage 1

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mcc

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "Tonverk 1.1.0 - Mas Grainer / Boom Bap + Granular Synthesis", SNDCTRL

Elektron are the kings of DAWless/desktop sequencing, but they've never made a polyphonic unit until the Tonverk this year. If the YouTube synth community is any guide this landed with a wet thud, until they added a granular synth in an update and now everybody loves it. Here a net producer tries the new mode on some experimental hip hop and hits gold on the first try

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

Tonverk 1.1.0 - Mas Grainer / Boom Bap + Granular Synthesis

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mcc

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "Untitled", Berlin Dub Sessions

Dub techno uses the sonic palette of dub reggae to make something different, and this uses the sonic palette of dub techno to make something… surprising, a series of musical riddles, dense rhythms that overtake and trip over themselves. One for the crowd that likes minimal techno and listening to dance music on headphones. Turn up the bass.

From 2003.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv6hHrAXiBk

Berlin Dub Sessions - Untitled (2003)[Dub Techno]

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mcc

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "friendly compounds", Lime68k

From a collection of unreleased tracks @1x1 dropped this month. Barrage of nonstandard scattershot beats and mysterious metal FM sounds. On this I imagine like you gave a bunch of four year olds instruments and they're just kind of going to town making joyful noise but the four year olds are all robots so all they can make is industrial space future sounds

https://lime68k.bandcamp.com/track/friendly-compounds

mcc

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "friendly compounds", Lime68k

From a collection of unreleased tracks @Lime dropped this month. Barrage of nonstandard scattershot beats and mysterious metal FM sounds. On this I imagine like you gave a bunch of four year olds instruments and they're just kind of going to town making joyful noise but the four year olds are all robots so all they can make is industrial space future sounds

https://lime68k.bandcamp.com/track/friendly-compounds

mcc

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "Ondes Martenot + Montreal Assembly's Count to Five pedal", Light

Cross-century ambient music (or we're closer to Satie than Eno here, so "furniture music"?). A 1930s proto-synthesizer¹ arranged via the thing "guitar pedal" means in the 2020s (a microcontroller/computer in a small box with a foot interface). Slow cinematic score for establishing shots, sunbeams, people in dim cafes waiting for something

¹ 2010s reproduction, search "Ondomo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sm4sYrE6mQ

Ondes Martenot + Montreal Assembly's Count to Five pedal

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mcc

@[email protected] · 4 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "MICHIGAN SYNTH WORKS Bella Analog Mono Synth", Gianfranco Carone

It is the end of the year and I am too tired to write a good summary for this track. So I am just going to say:

This video contains BEEP and BANGING NOISE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JfSs8ICuxQ

MICHIGAN SYNTH WORKS Bella Analog Mono Synth

YouTube

mcc

@[email protected] · 3 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "The Puny Humans at Hammy Wammy 2 of 3"

What if I took a break from the music recs thread but I kept posting recs I just stopped researching or making any effort to explain them. What is this video? What is happening here, who are these people, why is the guitarist wearing that mask? I don't know. I actually don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ozxalkq744