What I'm listening to today: "Rei Ayanami", Brian Altano
This is an EP I love from 2019, which remixes various songs from the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" OST as megastructure trip-hop, and although there's only 7 songs every one is a banger. Here's a "big beat" version of Rei's theme:
https://brianaltano.bandcamp.com/track/rei-ayanami
In my friend group our traditional road trip music is this EP and also that 2Mello album where he complains about people coming up to him in the supermarket and asking him to make beats
What I'm listening to today: "unleashed voices", Black Cookies
What the musician calls a "lo-fi tape loop ambient experiment". Super evocative. Sounds on free-running tape, four tracks on the left deck, one on the right, three separate echo pedals. Watch and you can see each little action the musician does to manipulate the sound, listen and you can hear all these little chunky sounds where the tape has mechanical imperfections. Deeply physical music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHoNdR9BUE
What I'm listening to today: "303 Day", Wizart
YouTube musicians have this tradition of making tributes to the Roland 303 acid bassline machine on March 3. Here's a lovely midtempo live jam made with Behringer's modern 303 reproduction, several modern Roland desktop reproduction units¹, and some guitar pedals. A good groove such as one might blast at the LAN party in 1999.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJp4XEU-yA
¹ Including a 303, meaning at a certain point you can catch him actually running TWO 303s AT ONCE
What I'm listening to today: "Rei Ayanami", Brian Altano
This is an EP I love from 2019, which remixes various songs from the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" OST as megastructure trip-hop, and although there's only 7 songs every one is a banger. Here's a "big beat" version of Rei's theme:
https://brianaltano.bandcamp.com/track/rei-ayanami
In my friend group our traditional road trip music is this EP and also that 2Mello album where he complains about people coming up to him in the supermarket and asking him to make beats
What I'm listening to today: "Outside In", Linkwood
This track opens the other Raica ambient mix I was talking about Tuesday. It's just a really good frozen moment. Quiet, crackly, passes quickly. The sound of something starting, and then silence. A Feel
https://linkwood.bandcamp.com/track/outside-in
What I'm listening to today: "303 Day", Wizart
YouTube musicians have this tradition of making tributes to the Roland 303 acid bassline machine on March 3. Here's a lovely midtempo live jam made with Behringer's modern 303 reproduction, several modern Roland desktop reproduction units¹, and some guitar pedals. A good groove such as one might blast at the LAN party in 1999.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJp4XEU-yA
¹ Including a 303, meaning at a certain point you can catch him actually running TWO 303s AT ONCE
What I'm listening to today: "only in it for Euro Cash", Doak 16
Been listening to this YouTube synth collector's tracks all morning. This isn't the friendliest ["Remember it"] or the most provocative ["an ewok…"] track in the channel backlog…
But oh, I love the drums in this one! I love the way it comes together like a magic eye, nonsense into sense. Dense, dreamy, unique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfPn5zJXXg8
What I'm listening to today: "Outside In", Linkwood
This track opens the other Raica ambient mix I was talking about Tuesday. It's just a really good frozen moment. Quiet, crackly, passes quickly. The sound of something starting, and then silence. A Feel
https://linkwood.bandcamp.com/track/outside-in
What I'm listening to today: "Push Pull", Mark Thibideau
If you're up on electronic music genres: Imagine 90s French house but strip out the funk and substitute 00 dub techno instrumentation?
If you're not: Chill dance music for sitting in your chair. There are a lot of really cool sounds and I liked how good the sounds were, they were all like swoop swoop chikchikchik
2019 release. Apparently this artist is from Ontario
https://stomping-grounds.bandcamp.com/album/lividus-ep
What I'm listening to today: "only in it for Euro Cash", Doak 16
Been listening to this YouTube synth collector's tracks all morning. This isn't the friendliest ["Remember it"] or the most provocative ["an ewok…"] track in the channel backlog…
But oh, I love the drums in this one! I love the way it comes together like a magic eye, nonsense into sense. Dense, dreamy, unique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfPn5zJXXg8
What I'm listening to today: "7 string IR test", Daniel M Karlsson
Posted by @t36s@social.ordinal.garden as part of a series of computer sound synthesis tests, I'm not sure I understand it exactly but I think he used a recording of a string instrument as an echo characteristic and then by agitating it produced super realistic synthesized string plucks. Gorgeous little superresonating classical guitar improvisation with touches at once obviously human-driven and obviously computer-generated
https://social.ordinal.garden/@t36s/114661161710502396
What I'm listening to today: "Push Pull", Mark Thibideau
If you're up on electronic music genres: Imagine 90s French house but strip out the funk and substitute 00 dub techno instrumentation?
If you're not: Chill dance music for sitting in your chair. There are a lot of really cool sounds and I liked how good the sounds were, they were all like swoop swoop chikchikchik
2019 release. Apparently this artist is from Ontario
https://stomping-grounds.bandcamp.com/album/lividus-ep
What I'm listening to today: "The Lie That Is Sin", YOB
My friend Ro recommended this when I said I liked doom metal. This live version (0:00-12:18 in the video) takes what was already a pretty great song and slows it down, picks apart each element and leaves it torn open on a dissecting table, luxuriates in each little sound, floating in isolation, icebergs on a dark ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnPu9RU28HE
What I'm listening to today: "7 string IR test", Daniel M Karlsson
Posted by @t36s@social.ordinal.garden as part of a series of computer sound synthesis tests, I'm not sure I understand it exactly but I think he used a recording of a string instrument as an echo characteristic and then by agitating it produced super realistic synthesized string plucks. Gorgeous little superresonating classical guitar improvisation with touches at once obviously human-driven and obviously computer-generated
https://social.ordinal.garden/@t36s/114661161710502396
What I'm listening to today: "Relaxing Experimental Ambient [Vinyl Studio Session]", Raica
Here a lady who runs a record store in Seattle for experimental music spins some mind-expanding space-journey ambient techno in a kitchen (not her kitchen, just a kitchen). A good solid 75-minute block of unnameable emotions.
(There's a second set by the same DJ on the same YouTube account which had some good highs, but I didn't find that other one as consistent.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9nk7pqcGk
What I'm listening to today: "The Lie That Is Sin", YOB
My friend Ro recommended this when I said I liked doom metal. This live version (0:00-12:18 in the video) takes what was already a pretty great song and slows it down, picks apart each element and leaves it torn open on a dissecting table, luxuriates in each little sound, floating in isolation, icebergs on a dark ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnPu9RU28HE
What I'm listening to today: "curtain sequence", Silhouette Synthesizers (Pit Przygodda)
This guy designs and manufactures unusual synthesizers on the concept of converting images into sounds. Sweep a line across part of an image, read brightness data from underneath your line, convert it to waveform or spectral data. He's posted various demos of his synths at work on YouTube, of which this is one of the less flashy but more musically interesting examples. Morning bell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF4aNc96JYQ
What I'm listening to today: "Relaxing Experimental Ambient [Vinyl Studio Session]", Raica
Here a lady who runs a record store in Seattle for experimental music spins some mind-expanding space-journey ambient techno in a kitchen (not her kitchen, just a kitchen). A good solid 75-minute block of unnameable emotions.
(There's a second set by the same DJ on the same YouTube account which had some good highs, but I didn't find that other one as consistent.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9nk7pqcGk
What I'm listening to today: "Canton", Nils Frahm
Did I mention I really like it when Nils Frahm plays the piano? This piece is so gentle it feels, when he finishes, as if he was never there. A whisper, a bubble. You are aware someone spoke but not a word they said. You wake from a dream and find you can't remember what you dreamed of
https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/track/canton
What I'm listening to today: "curtain sequence", Silhouette Synthesizers (Pit Przygodda)
This guy designs and manufactures unusual synthesizers on the concept of converting images into sounds. Sweep a line across part of an image, read brightness data from underneath your line, convert it to waveform or spectral data. He's posted various demos of his synths at work on YouTube, of which this is one of the less flashy but more musically interesting examples. Morning bell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF4aNc96JYQ
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