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mcc , vor einem Tag

@Ronflaix @foone Wait so if you agree to a lorem ipsum license does that mean you are legally agreeing that nobody seeks pain for the sake of pain itself

mcc , vor 10 Tagen

@foone So if WHAT

mcc OP , vor 14 Tagen

Early in COVID a part of me was like "well now we are wearing masks all the time, I'll have an excuse to not show people my ugly transsexual face". But then what I almost immediately discovered is that not only is my face extremely cute and the only reason I thought otherwise was body dysmorphia, but also my face is my most feminine feature, and when I hide it my "correctly gendered by strangers" rate plummets. Since I'm continuing to regularly mask, this has actually become a very large problem

mcc OP , vor 14 Tagen

Hey btw how do I say "Your city smells like somebody ate a pack of cloves then vomited it back up" in French

mcc OP , vor 20 Tagen

I am in the France

mcc , vor 22 Tagen

@foone I would go so far as to call it a veritable vtuber vtable

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

@foone I have encountered Steve Wozniak IRL… I was at NASA* and Steve Wozniak zoomed by on a Segway

• Used to be a yearly concert event at NASA Ames on the anniversary of the Yuri Gagarin flight

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

@foone hm. How's "Battle for Dream Island" look. Like any good

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

@foone Baffling

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

@foone Hmm, I'm logged into google search which means it in principle knows my Android download history, but I don't know if privacy policy allows it to check that.

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "High-tech Low-life", Slowerpace

This artist has a series of albums framed as OSTs of nonexistent Playstation 1 games. This song for example supposedly plays during the opening cinematic of "Pyromaniacs" (tagline: "Violence Is Sometimes The Only Way"), apparently a Shadowrun game that failed to secure the license at the last second.

This track's got a great feeling, a warm blanket in the chill, sounds like if µ-ziq had tried to do trip-hop.

https://slowerpace.bandcamp.com/track/high-tech-low-life-intro

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "memory", hkmori

If you've seen a video bouncing around instagram/tiktok with a funny cartoon drummer and titled "Breakcore in a nutshell", that's hkmori, from her song "anybody can find love (except you.)".

This is my favorite hkmori song, where she executes the breakcore formula expertly (and moodily) but mixes it up by dropping in dense clusters of 808 kick drums where the Amen chops would normally go, resulting in a really unique sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX-efXxODu0

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Dracula Forever", Clarke Jaxton Motorbike

This YouTuber has a series of live-performance electronic jam videos, in each case accompanied with floating captions telling a little short story. It's fun! The stories are good.

This track's simple but is a real bop. Made with 2023 vintage devices but has an 80s feel because those two devices happen to be Roland's desktop SH-101 clone and Teenage Engineering's new take on an 80s lo-fi sampler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGfQjV9bKc4

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "PlayStation jungle Mix 2 | drum & bass, Frutiger Aero, liquid, Y2K, intelligent", Dopo Goto

This uses similar instrumentation to Goto's "Mix 1" for a totally different feel, instead of focused and driving this is laid back and dreamlike. There's an emotion I don't know how to describe, there's a kind of this warm feeling in the nerves of my spine when I'm either on the verge of falling asleep or about to start crying. This is that in music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owldd4hs7wQ

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "DigiLogTokyo Microne, Synthernet 8888, CSK ParipiDestroyer, and ACID bass synthesizer prototype", Tekitounix

A short, frantic acid piece, so fast it feels like it's about to run off its rails at any moment. Goes real hard and ends with you wanting more. Just another 30 seconds please

I previously linked a jam on this same trio of handheld devices, but in that one the third device was an unlabeled breadboard. I guess it's named the Microne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBR87qm6dvs

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "THEM5000 (Monomachine only track)", Dataline

A futuristic, kinda IDM-y electronic jam. Flits stream-of-consciousness between several different ideas while maintaining the same dark groove. Actually kinda feels like a little mixtape, except for the fact it is six minutes long. Nice energy.

Made on the Monomachine, the old idiosyncratic Elektron box that defined the sound of SOPHIE and Quaristice-era Autechre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8nyRgppkng

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Set U Free", Planet Soul

So it's the mid-90s, I'm in junior high, I love techno but it's not so easy to come by in Texas. But 104.1 FM, the pop-rock radio station for Moms, will play "dance music", & some of it's pretty good. And then there was the "Planet Soul" song, which was great. This song's weird, progressive, does strange things with tempo, but its laid-back groove is so accessible even KRBE will play it, as long as it's after 8 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip6OmReVmIY

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Sweet Dreams", La Bouche

When I think about 90s "dance music" (I don't even know what actual genre I'm even talking about. "Eurodance"? Was that later?) I think La Bouche. They were the Archetype. All their hits sounded about the same, they all had cheesy production and cheesy raps and were all extremely effective. This works, it really works, this music was created with a Purpose and it succeeds at it hard. Listen without judgement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9McVO9hpUE

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I listened to today: "Straight Up", Paula Abdul

If I ever have to explain to someone what the Synclavier was, I will simply play them this song.

This song might actually be the exact point the 80s pop production style peaked. There's so much going on here! The sampled flutes. The Scarface visual gimmick on the the video. I spent years wondering why the worst possible retaliation she could imagine inflicting on her partner was to go "a ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El1kgCqD7Xk

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I listened to today: "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)", En Vogue

Here's a song from that brief, magical junction point in the 90s when hip-hop, r&b, pop, "dance music", and the OST to the SNES "Paperboy 2" were all briefly the same genre. And then there's the video, which increases the sense of all things conjoining by loading up with 50s R&B imagery. 90s kids, you've heard this song but have you ever really listened to it? This is a bop. This is so charming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIuYQ_4TcXg

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "You're Not Alone", Olive

Eventually the "dance music" era of the 90s (soft rock radio will play some techno) gave way to the "electronica" era (rock radio will play some techno). Right on the border in late 1996 dropped this lovely europop song with some legitimately hype sampler work. Listen to this in stereo (headphones or whatevs).

Bonus: This "lyrics" video upload was mis-encoded and starts glitching interestingly about 20 seconds in

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

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Crazy for Love", D'Breez (Autechre remix) (alleged)

I've mentioned the super-rare "MASK" record series of untitled, anonymous b-sides by friends of Skam Records. From MASK 500 (500 copies printed), which had a theme of unauthorized remixes of 80s hits, here's Æ doing an otherworldly but highly danceable mix of a song that now appears to be lost media (I can't find the original or its lyrics and the Internet barely records the band existing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1bTis9ee3U

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Crazy (Acoustic) (Instrumental)", Seal

We don't talk about this but Seal is extremely good. From the "Maxi-Single" for Crazy, my theory is the concept on this track was they had two separate Crazy remixes that, each, didn't quite feel worth putting on the single by themselves, so they wodged them together on one track and said "okay, now it's interesting enough". It is a good vibe actually. General MIDI jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6TfY6J-oTU

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Techno Live Jam 3 || Subharmonicon, Dfam, Eurorack, Ableton", Sorrowless

This is a driving electronic jam I think I'd describe as "industrial" or "dark trance". The sounds are made on a couple modular synth racks so a neat property of this one is far as I can tell all the drums are being generated live from analog circuitry. Intense, exceptionally clean, effective production and it's all done on some evening's whim for uploading to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsVyQ1zS3mY

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Desmorph", AcidTonic

Made on one of those wall-sized modular synth racks, the artist describes the video with "Loose ended live improv. First take."

A chill but determined groove undergirded by erratic drums, with a sense of low menace starting to creep in in the second half. Good zone-out music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkh9xgNaplU

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Battery Driven", quadratschulz

This is a quirky little hiphop jam on a small collection of handheld/toy synthesizer equipment. Featuring 808 tom bips, Chase Bliss pedal mangling, and extended vocals by Miku Hatsune. For serious. That stylophone looking thing is the "Gakken Otona no Kagaku NSX-39 Pocket Miku Singing Keyboard", an officially licensed Vocaloid product. Skranky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeSrYpB53JU

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Sound Check pre serata - 03052024", Michele Giletto

A modular synth jam based around the Make Noise Shared System. It's thumping and intent, Detroit style, with feedback as a musical element. It builds a really cool feel out of minimal elements, I like the way the rhythm seems to kind of catch on itself.

This one's 10 minutes long, if that's too long for you 6:20 would be a okay time to stop as it enters a kind of separate movement then.

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

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Titan", S 57

Dense faux-retro synths and breaks accompanied by psychedelic MPEG-glitch visuals. I'd call this a dark dance track but it actually may be moving a little too fast to dance to. It's intense.

A space probe you sent out in the 1970s has finally after years of silence sent back a signal but now somehow it is evil and corrupted. That's what you're watching here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRgtbYur6ps

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to you today: "i'll let you know", Kalla

I continue to be fascinated by the genderfucked zoomer breakcore artists. This is a short blast of drill & bass, a quick sharp splash of water in the face. I think this is one of the standard jungle breaks but they're using it in an unusual way.

As with the previous Kalla track I linked, this is a SoundCloud/YouTube exclusive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjH1RZt1eu4

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Dominant Male Monkey Mother F* ☠️ Ambient // Evil Live Jam ☠️", Winterkeep

So I'm listening to this and at first my reaction is "the title promises this live jam is going to be evil, but this really isn't very evil at all?". But then it gets evil.

Gentle organs with a tinge of dread giving way, to skittery beats and saw phase crackle and bass headaches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUq8DyEvuw

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Étude for Modular Synthesizer No. 1", Modular Beat

"Modular Beat" is a YouTube channel that posts near-daily modular experiments which, oddly, almost never contain beats. Here's a song that doesn't remotely sound like it was made on a modular synthesizer, an incredibly charming piano serenade backed by uncanny strings. The piano sounds incredibly human and acoustic but apparently is the result of a complex phasing algorithm (from a Norns).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dcMfcQkPk

mcc OP , vor 29 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Volca Drum Techno Pattern #9", Mateusz Wicher

A skeletal detroit techno track made entirely on a series of budget/toy devices, all visible in frame. A complicated pattern on the Volca Drum, and the Pocket Operator Arcade, which is usually used for bleepy chiptune noises but here gets filtered to produce uncharacteristic spooky pads. It's got a nice focused groove.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFPh9B1thfA

mcc OP , vor 28 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Wonder Panorama", Ippo Yamada (Dual YM2612 remix by rigid_atoms)

This is emulation. But I want you to imagine a monstrosity: Someone disassembles two Sega Genesis units, removes the sound chips, wires them to a breadboard and commands them to play at once. And then arranges a song from "Mega Man ZX" for it. This arrangement has an impossible-feeling sparkle to it. The millennial brain knows, at a deep level, a Genesis can't make this sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0aZ_oypvHg

mcc OP , vor 27 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "The Angler", Mateusz Wicher

A lo-fi, indistinctly unsettling hip hop jam getting a lot of mileage out of desktop equipment. Roland's 2021 refresh of their old 00s sampler, glitchy guitar and some noodling on the Volca Keys. The YouTube summary describes the genre as "Boom bap".

The voiceover sample is from an interview with surrealist horror artist Zdzisław Beksiński, so, extra content on this one for any Polish speakers reading this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f11FIys81lg

mcc OP , vor 26 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "4 (part 1)", MSK (Dusan Zatkovsky)

This is a FastTracker2 (DOS) song from 1996, one of a few dozen untitled tracks this artist composed around that time. Starts with bitcrushed ambiance and then rises into epic dance beats. I feel like this track crystalizes the moment in which it was created in an amazing way. Makes me think of dark screens with glowing text and spaceships rising in low earth orbit and other things that existed in 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OOdGqr7EqQ

mcc OP , vor 25 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Ghosts", 潘PAN

Taiwanese trap music. On this track Pan Wei Ju raps in Mandarin about generational trauma and domestic violence*, over booming, ominous beats produced by Clams Casino. Just a really grippingly chaotic piece of nightmare music

• It was only after I listened to this song a bunch of times I realized the official music video, linked below, has an English translation in the expanded YouTube description. It hit me really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIedFzs-8s

mcc OP , vor 24 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "deep dark places", Frederick Aloysius Palowaski

To film this video the musician seems to have stuck his phone inside a modular synthesizer, revealing a cavern-like space beneath the loops of the cables. He then plays for you the ambiance of this dark space. Slow booming echoes of a tortured cymbal sample over meandering Karplus-Strong bass, a dream constantly on the verge of becoming a nightmare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMH4nTzuwjY

mcc OP , vor 23 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Prague", David Prescott

This was recorded in Boston in 1987 and distributed exclusively on cassette tape (by an experimental music label in Germany named "Prion Tapes"). A symphony of noise, too loud to really be "ambient", this is an hour* of feedback and mysterious unknown electronics. Coil fans take note

• What I'm really trying to call your attention to here is "Side A" (the first 28 minutes) but side B does have its own nice prog vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMwKkn2xWI

mcc OP , vor 22 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Cristal Baschet- Bass Euphone Song", yatsoosh

This dude built, from raw metal, an all-acoustic unamplified instrument based on the "Cristal Baschet" designed by the Baschet brothers in the 50s. The idea is you glide wet fingers on glass rods, and the vibrations are amplified by those giant metal plates. Having built the instrument the guy composed a song for it, which he also sings accompanying lyrics to, in Latin.

It's… incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqBuoT_0zM

mcc OP , vor 21 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Upside- Down VHS III", A Beautiful Burning World ft. FERRIFET

So if I understand this correctly, this is VHS footage where the tape's been removed from the cassette & re-inserted upside down, causing it to play back backward and all messed up. The artist sets this video to some noise ambiance from a previous collaboration and it hits the tone perfectly. I realize I describe a lot of music as "ominous" but oh my god this is super ominous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGQER_XF00