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mcc OP , vor einem Monat

@megmac Maybe it was a mistake to have all the mobile OSes in the world be made in a ten mile radius in a part of the south San Francisco bay area where it is impossible to do so much as buy a jug of milk without a car.

mcc OP , vor 2 Monaten

What I'm listening to today: "/", Second Woman

You've heard of the "Shepard Tone", right? That's a sound design trick where a sound appears to continuously increase in pitch without ever retreating back down to give itself space. There's a variant of that for drum beats called a "Risset Rhythm".

This song, from a Telafon Tel Aviv/Belong collaboration, uses the Risset trick plus some seriously weird production to make a dreamy, alien, not-quite-danceable dance track:

https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/track/-

mcc OP , vor 2 Monaten

What I'm listening to today: "8888 + ParipiDestroyer + POLYS", Freaky Tweaky

This is a fun, satisfying acid jam on three small devices by different small-batch designers in Japan.

The devices are all little handheld things based on trim pots and breadboard buttons, sized like business cards and Altoids tins; one is a gorgeous reproduction of the 808, another a gorgeous reproduction of the 303, and the third an odd Roland J8-like prototype. The Pocket Operator is reborn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDSO_KzSaQ8

mcc OP , vor 2 Monaten

What I'm listening to today: "Spit", Kittie

I love metal but I don't think I am a very sophisticated listener of it. I struggle with the squawky vocals and the occasional long samey stretches. Kittie delights me by bringing aggressive variety to their presentation, especially in this one old, unusually compact track that rapidly switches registers from death-metal screams to intelligible English as if tracking manic mood swings. You think dick is the answer but it's not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184fj8XPbhE

mcc OP , vor 2 Monaten

What I'm listening to today: "extinct bird gathering", Luna SC

From this musician's "tmod" series of songs performed live on a wall-sized modular synthesizer rack, this is a fresh-feeling electronic composition with gorgeous sound design. Crunchy beats and warm metallic everything else. I'm not going to say this is dance music exactly but it is definitely music to bob your head to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvPOkVla6Tg

mcc OP , vor 2 Monaten

What I'm listening to today: "greim93", AGF / @poemproducer

AGF does poetry, VJing, noise music and Theory (so if you are looking for eastern European left feminism she is very worth a follow).

This is a immaculately sculpted noise collage wherein hisses and thumps stalk you through a fog of microsounds, constantly threatening to congeal into a beat but then instead doggedly remaining just outside the edge of your perception

https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/track/greim93

mcc OP , vor 2 Monaten

What I'm listening to today: "【Moog DFAM Jam】", Sakai Meno

Noisy, scrungly fast industrial beats on some modular equipment. There's a slower, spread-out elbow-room version of this track on the same YouTube channel (id MT13WMugmmA) but I like this compact 2-minute version. It sounds very determined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZe3xc267I

mcc OP , vor 2 Monaten

What I'm listening to today: "wierdness", recordingtruck

I love noise! I really do! The Bastl Kastle is a chaotic "modular" system with two of Atmel's tiniest, weakest chips in each unit, & little wires instead of plug cables. All it does is scream. This musician has cross-wired three of these to make a wonderfully amusical sequence of moaning bleeps interrupting each other. It has its own internal machine logic. Your human brain can't make sense of it. Just float in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjsYsw22gM

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to: "Nightmare", KNOWER

KNOWER is an incredible, funky, YouTube-bait band consisting of "The Bank Account Song Guy", Genevieve Artadi, and literally whoever else is in the building. They have a channel full of sessions live-recorded in a generic suburban house with noise foam taped to the wall and the band all wearing gimmick t-shirts. You should listen to them. As an intro, here's some funk featuring the bass stylings of Daphnycore artist MonoNeon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERCkf0j8pPM

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Musica Ricercata no.7", György Ligeti as performed by Grégoire Blanc

This is from a set of twelve piano pieces composed in 1953 by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, as arranged for analog synthesizer and dual theremins in December 2023 by Blanc. (The mood is enormous, the future that 1981 promised us.) Ligeti would go on to write the "Monolith music" from 2001. Grégoire Blanc would go on to do his laundry

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

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "The River - 3 guitar ambient jam with drones and synths in the forest w/Sam Bell and Pete Ferguson"

The YouTube channel "drone-in-the-woods" is truth in naming. This is some gentle ambient post-rock and it is, indeed, performed live in the woods by three guitarists. I'm not usually one for "happy music" but I dig this. It's like if Godspeed You Black Emperor had worked their issues out and got real into Boards of Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFB2cicKoE

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "So close", Floppi

This is a soft, seductive DOS tracker track. It appears to use one single sample, so it's basically like a 2 minute electric piano solo, if the electric piano had infinite sustain. Sometimes with tracker tunes I can find a little history, but all I find googling is a forum post claiming the track was first released in 1997; and that the author is Finnish, and died in 2022.

Scenestream tags: "Calm keygen" "Sad sinewave"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOmJ__yI84

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Hyperbased", Firefox & Tip

This came up when I was in a fugue of listening to every Amiga chiptune I could find, and is apparently the backing track to "Enigma", an Amiga 3D rendering demo the group Phenomena made for "Anarchy Easter Party 1991" in Sweden. A gorgeous mishmash of vibes, half of them from 1980s new wave rock and the other half from somewhere deep in outer space where a dying species orbits a black hole in quiet contemplation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcTPUoFUN3I

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "It's All Nothing Until It's Everything", KNOWER

Some more KNOWER, but in this one they get a lot more noisy. Bitcrushed bass and chiptune pads. There is jazz piano and a string section in the kitchen. Taco Bell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDpeHQUSWT0

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Bound By Secrets", Nebula

I coaxed this out of the YouTube algorithm during a week I briefly managed to train it to feed me nothing but early-90s jungle recorded from original vinyl. Actually it turns out this song was released in 2014 and exclusively as FLAC, but whatever. This is some atmospheric jungle with a lovely, loose jazz windup at the start. Jungle always gives me a sense of being in darkness and this is like whispers in the night

https://nebulasciwax.bandcamp.com/track/bound-by-secrets

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Playstation 1 nostalgia ambient atmospheric jungle drum and bass mix", Dopo Goto

This is one hour of pure vibes. Muffled, laid-back 90s-future jungle atop a visualization of a lo-fi cyber city and songs with names like "A Song to Fall Through Textures" "A Song to "Insert Disc 2" "A Song to Remember Aeon Flux". It says "mix" but it's more like one piece of original music with nine movements, powerful focus music, like ambient but high-energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsZz4bwEYQ

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 , vor 2 Monaten

@foone omg that must have owned him so hard tho, elon musk hates crabs*

• chatgpt told me this