Breaking the format of this thread to note the above posted track, "dark blue room", is credited to an artist named "In_tense" in a couple other places. I am simply out of characters to edit that in lol
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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
Tonverk 1.1.0 - Mas Grainer / Boom Bap + Granular Synthesis
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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.
Berlin Dub Sessions - Untitled (2003)[Dub Techno]
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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
friendly compounds, by Lime68k
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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
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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"
Ondes Martenot + Montreal Assembly's Count to Five pedal
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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
MICHIGAN SYNTH WORKS Bella Analog Mono Synth
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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.
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What I'm listening to today: "Playing with live ideas", Fluxus MT
here is something very very loud
Playing with live ideas
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What I'm listening to today: "Ambient textures with Serge Modular Medusa", Laurent Hilairet
Beautiful, peaceful little "west coast" electronic piece. Makes me think of like early 20th century piano compositions.
Gently floating on a bed of clouds made of supersaws, the structure of a dream, coming on slow, evaporating like mist
Ambient textures with Serge Modular Medusa
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What I'm listening to today: "Amen Break Jungle on Tonverk - MIDI Controlled Elektron Tonverk & Cyclone Analogic TT-303", Slots
Experimental attempt to use Elektron's new multiphonic sampler for drums. Loads in some classic jungle samples & runs an acid synth on top. Starts with a fresh jungle feeling which increasingly fights with something manic and maybe a bit grim. Really raw, goes maybe actually too hard in an interesting way. It's loud and it's hot and it's close.
Amen Break Jungle on Tonverk - MIDI Controlled Elektron Tonverk & Cyclone Analogic TT-303
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What I'm listening to today: "War"
Sinead O'Connor covering Bob Marley stripped down, sharpened, into something like a weapon, piercing into your head. This ran live on TV and nobody noticed how haunting it was because all anyone paid attention to was the career-ending final seconds. No one understood why she did it. The idea of child abuse in the Catholic church was treated as so absurd it couldn't actually be the real explanation. Everyone concluded she was "crazy".
Sinead O'Connor - War (Legendas Em Português)
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What I'm listening to today: "18 12 2025 Techno jam", RM1_music
One Syntakt sequencer, one Microfreak synthesizer, one phone camera and an immaculate live techno set spanning 3 or 4 distinct "songs" over 12 minutes. The world is full of people who can just sit down with two plastic boxes and dash off a performance like this. I have listened to this like 4 or 5 times since it was posted, which makes me like 10-15% of its 41 views on Youtube
Excellent "background music".
18 12 2025 Techno jam
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What I'm listening to today: "Untitled", Korea Undok Group
Mysterious music embedded in a mysterious artifact: a 1982 cassette tape from a Winnipeg experimental music label, meaning, one musician in Winnipeg selling their own cassettes mail order. In 2025 this was re-released on Bandcamp, then de-re-released. Primitive, distant, seductive, calling to you like the fair folk singing in the woods. Click "Stop" at 4:28 or you may find yourself permanently stuck in the 1980s
Korea Undok Group - All Are Punished [Full Album]
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@mcc this is a very good representation of the track thank u very much :]
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