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mcc , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

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 einem Monat

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 einem Monat

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 einem Monat

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 einem Monat

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 , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

In 2014, Steve Wozniak woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly thought of a possible improvement on the Apple // design he had until that moment entirely missed https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.apple2/c/iiLgD-7INtE

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