What I'm listening to today: "Metric", Bryan Zentz
So there was this first golden age of "techno" in Detroit or whatever, when the genre was new and raw, but then there was this second golden age around 2000, when we (as a species) had gotten really good at the Detroit style and were just making a lot of it. This YouTube account spins a bunch of that era of music on vinyl. This track is a dense crystal structure of dance beats and staccato samples and it is sick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbk--wDbO5E
What I'm listening to today: "Untitled A ( Rock To The Beat )", Ferro
Another from the "Techno Vinyl Records" account's collection, this one's a little more genrefucky, with a more variety, bringing in strange sounds and "House Music" feels. A good gradual buildup.
(Honestly, I linked you that other track yesterday so I could link you this track today. This is how much variety you can get out of a initially-seemingly-rigid genre with some slight changes in texture.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1pBghAeGpU
What I'm listening to today: "Volume", Pylon
@onelson@mastodon.social linked this and I don't know anything about it. It rocks! When I started typing this post I was gonna say something about krautrock but in fact it turns out she is not singing in German, only indistinctly. Wikipedia says this is from Athens, Georgia. Well that explains a lot. Cool crisp Clashy vibes that seem to predict everything that's gonna happen in pop music in the ten years after it was recorded (that's 1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp57WziV07g
What I'm listening to today: "Metric", Bryan Zentz
So there was this first golden age of "techno" in Detroit or whatever, when the genre was new and raw, but then there was this second golden age around 2000, when we (as a species) had gotten really good at the Detroit style and were just making a lot of it. This YouTube account spins a bunch of that era of music on vinyl. This track is a dense crystal structure of dance beats and staccato samples and it is sick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbk--wDbO5E
What I'm listening to today: "Akai S950 - Deep House Music - Vintage Sampler", MikeSynth
Hype little house techno fragment made on a plausible circa-90s vintage hardware setup (1986 Akai rack sampler sequenced by a 2003 Akai sequencer, mixing board as an instrument). Really refreshing vibe, has a bit of a trip-hop feel to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2r1C-kr58
What I'm listening to today: "Volume", Pylon
@onelson@mastodon.social linked this and I don't know anything about it. It rocks! When I started typing this post I was gonna say something about krautrock but in fact it turns out she is not singing in German, only indistinctly. Wikipedia says this is from Athens, Georgia. Well that explains a lot. Cool crisp Clashy vibes that seem to predict everything that's gonna happen in pop music in the ten years after it was recorded (that's 1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp57WziV07g
What I'm listening to today: "Pure Data Breakcore Live Coding", GrundTon
Distant barking. Weird overwhelming synth swells and one of the most unusual treatments of the Amen break I've ever encountered. (EDIT: It turns out to be a Funky Drummer break, which makes it even weirder it turned out like this?!) Generated by PureData and the YouTuber actually has several videos wandering around this same script's configuration space; this seems like the most focused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6YxwYNBJoA
What I'm listening to today: "Akai S950 - Deep House Music - Vintage Sampler", MikeSynth
Hype little house techno fragment made on a plausible circa-90s vintage hardware setup (1986 Akai rack sampler sequenced by a 2003 Akai sequencer, mixing board as an instrument). Really refreshing vibe, has a bit of a trip-hop feel to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2r1C-kr58
What I'm listening to today: "Walk On Girl", Linda from Work
Christine's been listening to this band lately and I really like them. They give me a vibe like whoever Linda is was a riot grrl 20 years ago and now she's 35 and she has a ghastly office job and her life is a lot slower, but she's still in a punk band after work
This is the last track from their album "The Night is Short", which has at least three "oh, I should put that in the music thread" level bangers:
https://lindafromwork.bandcamp.com/track/walk-on-girl
What I'm listening to today: "Pure Data Breakcore Live Coding", GrundTon
Distant barking. Weird overwhelming synth swells and one of the most unusual treatments of the Amen break I've ever encountered. (EDIT: It turns out to be a Funky Drummer break, which makes it even weirder it turned out like this?!) Generated by PureData and the YouTuber actually has several videos wandering around this same script's configuration space; this seems like the most focused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6YxwYNBJoA
What I'm listening to today: "Legendary Wings", Hyakutaro Tsukumo (arranged by Yuu)
This is a General MIDI arrangement of the main theme to Thunder Force V, a sidescrolling shooter made by Technosoft in 1997 for the Sega Saturn. For whatever reason, this is the version I got hooked on!
Rendered on (splitting channels) a Roland SC-8850 and Yamaha MU2000, both of which were released in 1999, so if TF.V had come out just two years later it could have sounded like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdRrnlbu9w
What I'm listening to today: "Walk On Girl", Linda from Work
Christine's been listening to this band lately and I really like them. They give me a vibe like whoever Linda is was a riot grrl 20 years ago and now she's 35 and she has a ghastly office job and her life is a lot slower, but she's still in a punk band after work
This is the last track from their album "The Night is Short", which has at least three "oh, I should put that in the music thread" level bangers:
https://lindafromwork.bandcamp.com/track/walk-on-girl
What I'm listening to today: "More disturbing wave bard sounds", OSVoS
There's a new Bastl Kastle and one of its configurations is a tiny "modular"¹ sample scrambler. This artist did a number of pieces mixing the Kastle 2 with other gear, this one I thought had the most interesting beat (You might prefer "More Wave Bard Experimentation" if you like kalimbas more than I do). Alien Gregorian chants + hip hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcFkUliO6w
¹ Jump wires instead of patch cables…take a look, it's weird
What I'm listening to today: "Legendary Wings", Hyakutaro Tsukumo (arranged by Yuu)
This is a General MIDI arrangement of the main theme to Thunder Force V, a sidescrolling shooter made by Technosoft in 1997 for the Sega Saturn. For whatever reason, this is the version I got hooked on!
Rendered on (splitting channels) a Roland SC-8850 and Yamaha MU2000, both of which were released in 1999, so if TF.V had come out just two years later it could have sounded like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdRrnlbu9w
What I'm listening to today: "Afternoon Chill: Live Electronic Session", Jai Cuzco
This is uh, a bit gentler than the electronic music I usually post.
Chill beats and synth tones, a fluid medley of 2 or 3 songs. It's not clear where in the world this video was taken, only that the view from this guy's window is incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxloiLT3Z1o
What I'm listening to today: "More disturbing wave bard sounds", OSVoS
There's a new Bastl Kastle and one of its configurations is a tiny "modular"¹ sample scrambler. This artist did a number of pieces mixing the Kastle 2 with other gear, this one I thought had the most interesting beat (You might prefer "More Wave Bard Experimentation" if you like kalimbas more than I do). Alien Gregorian chants + hip hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcFkUliO6w
¹ Jump wires instead of patch cables…take a look, it's weird
What I'm listening to today: "Chinurareta Zabi-ke" ("The Bloody Zabi Family"), Takeo Watanabe
We've been watching the original 1979 "Gundam" and the music in it is actually incredibly sick? 70s Children's TV would just effortlessly toss off the rawest funk music.
There's this one obscure cue, it isn't even on the regular OST (you have to go to the extended 45th anniversary soundtrack), it plays during quiet moments. I love the vibe on this, the bass is so emotive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9jKCgNYwuk
What I'm listening to today: "Afternoon Chill: Live Electronic Session", Jai Cuzco
This is uh, a bit gentler than the electronic music I usually post.
Chill beats and synth tones, a fluid medley of 2 or 3 songs. It's not clear where in the world this video was taken, only that the view from this guy's window is incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxloiLT3Z1o
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: "Chinurareta Zabi-ke" ("The Bloody Zabi Family"), Takeo Watanabe
We've been watching the original 1979 "Gundam" and the music in it is actually incredibly sick? 70s Children's TV would just effortlessly toss off the rawest funk music.
There's this one obscure cue, it isn't even on the regular OST (you have to go to the extended 45th anniversary soundtrack), it plays during quiet moments. I love the vibe on this, the bass is so emotive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9jKCgNYwuk
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