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: "Singularity 157", Echovocation
Long but satisfying Space Music saga. Watch carefully at the bottom and you'll see that what sounds like the lead synth is actually a kalimba (simplified Zimbabwean finger harp). You're basically listening to a long kalimba performance fed into a long chain of modular equipment that filters the sounds into aftershocks and echoes far larger than its input. Interplanetary craft approaching space dock.
Singularity 157 // Kalimba, Injectr, Imitor Versio, Mum M8, Desmodus Versio, Godspeed
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What I'm listening to today: "It’s techno time", Marie Ann Hedonia
It's techno time!!!!!!!!!
It’s techno time
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What I'm listening to today: "Sarah Belle Reid plays the Buchla Touché"
I think of myself as pretty informed on "weird" synths and this one is, to me, REALLY WEIRD.
This is a hyper-rare (they made four. ever) synth, one of the earliest computer-controlled synths, you could reprogram its behaviour using a one-off Forth-like developed just for this device and for this track they made it… not… act like… a piano.
It's… otherworldly. IMO remove all distractions to watch it
Sarah Belle Reid plays the Buchla Touché
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What I'm listening to today: "Teletext Rhythms"
This YouTuber's bio: "I am a terrible but ambitious programmer and procrastinating musician.
In order to avoid finishing music, I decided to write a sequencer for the Nintendo 3DS to keep myself busy."
But I dunno, I think they're doing pretty well. Here's a 20-minute live set (in the sense a DJ set is live) in the Noise Commander prototype running on a 2DS. Good hiphop-aware grooves and some lovely electronic production
Teletext Rhythms - Noise Commander 3DS Tracker-Music Mix
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What I'm listening to today: "Kraftwerk"
Kraftwerk is known for a Specific Sound, their genre-defining electronic work. Did you know before they acquired/learned the electronics they just made prog music? Really good prog music? Florian Schneider's main instrument was the flute? Their first¹ album from 1970 has all the attention to feeling and timbre of electronic music but it's all Instruments and tape. If it sounds like Can that's because they used the same producer.
♫ Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk ❝1❞ (Full Album)
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What I'm listening to today: "Falling In Love", Surface
This 1983 track is a wonderful-feeling midpoint between the last days of disco and 80s pop. I want to gush about each little production choice, every sound feels crafted. That primal synth bass.
I guess this is technically the extended club mix but it's the version that was on Tidal, and the longer runtime matches the song's unhurried, laid-back feel so well.
Falling in Love (Alternate Mix)
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What I listened to today: "Prelude to Fear" / "Creating, Example 1", Primus
Primus is known for a Specific Sound, confident, idiosyncratic, grounded in Les Claypool's virtuoso bass. So it's SUPER interesting to listen to this early, pre-Tim-Alexander demo, where the sound isn't…quite…what it became. Intense funk vibes, just a touch of prog, and Claypool does Voices but doesn't seem to have solidly chosen steampunk yet. At one point he seems to be describing an OODA loop
Primus - Primate Demo (1984)
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What I listened to today: "Show Me What You Got", Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes sampling my favorite Stereolab song ("Come And Play in The Milky Night"). J Dilla beat! Kinda archetypical for Busta, near-miss brilliance, great production, incredible rap flow… & an overlong chorus that drags the whole thing down (the chorus *really* needed a professional singer for guest vocals).
Listen careful on verse 1 for the rap equivalent of a oner. Rhyme scheme is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Show Me What You Got
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What I'm listening to today: "Eutow" (live at Flex/Vienna 1996), Autechre
These days each Autechre tour is like a unique album, but their live sets have always been full of unreleased tracks, alternate versions, mashups¹. Here's a completely screwed version of the danciest track from Tri Repetae++, feeling way slower without changing the tempo, something mesmerizing, a decaying orbit around a black hole, spiraling inexorably inward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGBMpXgnaU
¹ Listen here for Basscadet fragments
Autechre _ Eutow (Live at Flex - Vienna 1996)
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What I listened to today: "BASTL🏰CITADEL｜#4 - Crushed strings ( 🧙♂️FX WIZARD, nRings, uO_C, little nerd )", boop _e_
One of my fav things in modern music tech is Bastl's nano-modular "Kastle"—recently rebooted as the "Kastle 2/Citadel" series, available as either a eurorack module or the Kastle patchwire format & reprogrammable as any of 3 different devices. Here, the FX WIZARD mode glitches the venerable "Rings" Karplus-Strong module. Have I lost you? It's crunchy sounds
BASTL🏰CITADEL｜#4 - Crushed strings ( 🧙♂️FX WIZARD, nRings, uO_C, little nerd )
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What I listened to today: "Secuencia Techno con Syntakt y Microfreak", RM1_music
Super satisfying techno set on two desktop devices. Hard driving thumps, surreal whooshing. At some point I have to face the fact I never actually learned the names of EDM subgenres I just like, listen to everything, and that makes writing these descriptions hard some days. Someone who did the research could probably identify the 3 microgenres here. All I can say is it's highly raveworthy
Secuencia Techno con Syntakt y Microfreak
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What I'm listening to today: "BASTL WAVE🐦⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE", boop _e_
A couple days ago I posted this artist using the Citadel, a eurorack module reprogrammable as any of Bastl's "Kastle 2" devices. Here's the equivalent desktop/handheld device, this time programmed as a "Wavebard", with the eurorack cables replaced with little wires.
Track is a soulful, disorienting dream about being lost in fog while giant glowing blobs of color pass by you, paintsplotches in the mist
BASTL WAVE🐦⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE
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What I'm listening to today: "(Untitled1)", TAKAAT
Picked this up on Bandcamp Friday. "Is Noise". This band are somehow connected to Tinariwen, the group from 1979 called the grandfathers of Tuareg (Saharan) rock music. Here's an epic lo-fi rock album intro, "unedited jam… recorded live to tape in Washington D.C", made in the modern era but coming off plausibly like it could have opened the rawest rock album of 1982. Shredding
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What I'm listening to today: "You Don't Know My Name", Alicia Keys
Keys off her 2003 album doing an effortless, irony-free resurrection of soul-flavored musical styles at least 23 years older than that. Finessed to feel like the kind of thing hip hop samples moreso than hip hop.
I love this song, it's just so guilelessly sweet. This is the kind of aw-shucks just-a-girl romance song Taylor Swift keeps trying to record, but for T it always kinda falls flat. Keys nails it
Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name
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What I'm listening to today: "Sex", the Necks
This is an Australian jazz trio whose "albums" all seem to be very long single pieces. This is their first release, and it hits a satisfying loungy groove in second one then digs in for *an hour*, constantly shifting the whole time, like a knob is being very slowly turned up on a single emotion. If you like electronic music with very long track lengths this basically is jazz custom made for you. Like, Plastikman fans attn
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