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
What I'm listening to today: "ahvenlampi" (deep house edit), phonex (remixed by xavier)
An ancient tracker scene file named "deep_house_edit.xm" @leona@mastodon.social found and showed me. Created January 2000, remixed April 2000. Gorgeous vibes, eurodance dreams, the unique timbral feels of sample trackers used to their utmost, a $50 Casio keyboard reaching for the heavens.
Click "play".
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=153555
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: "All Fours", Void Femmes
This is the solo project of @lexfeathers@tenforward.social, bassist of Waxlimbs (and creator of the "prepared typewriter" piece if you remember me linking that). This EP is a series of off-kilter and incredibly sick dance pieces, swinging industrial deritus and bodies falling from the roof of the factory and clattering thudding to the ground and wait why exactly were they storing bodies up there?
https://voidfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/all-fours
What I'm listening to today: "ahvenlampi" (deep house edit), phonex (remixed by xavier)
An ancient tracker scene file named "deep_house_edit.xm" @leona@mastodon.social found and showed me. Created January 2000, remixed April 2000. Gorgeous vibes, eurodance dreams, the unique timbral feels of sample trackers used to their utmost, a $50 Casio keyboard reaching for the heavens.
Click "play".
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=153555
What I'm listening to today: "Rogue Fossil", Virus
This was recommended to me by a Bluesky user after I said I wanted "either metal with jazz drumming or jazz with metal drumming". I'm not sure this is that, but it definitely slaps. This is like if Labradford was satanist, I guess? Or if Tool took pot instead of heroin. Video is like slow hypnosis. Heavy dissonant playing the bass with a pick, close and claustrophic, the entire renaissance faire breathing down your neck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=220eDjcDSlM
What I'm listening to today: "All Fours", Void Femmes
This is the solo project of @lexfeathers@tenforward.social, bassist of Waxlimbs (and creator of the "prepared typewriter" piece if you remember me linking that). This EP is a series of off-kilter and incredibly sick dance pieces, swinging industrial deritus and bodies falling from the roof of the factory and clattering thudding to the ground and wait why exactly were they storing bodies up there?
https://voidfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/all-fours
What I'm listening to today: "Four", Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds
Nils Frahm is an artist with whom I am Much Enamored, whose thing mostly is he records albums where all he does is play the piano softly and it's incredibly gripping. Occasionally though Nils dabbles in Electronic Instrumentation and gorgeous ambient music results.
https://erasedtapes.bandcamp.com/track/four
What I'm listening to today: "Rogue Fossil", Virus
This was recommended to me by a Bluesky user after I said I wanted "either metal with jazz drumming or jazz with metal drumming". I'm not sure this is that, but it definitely slaps. This is like if Labradford was satanist, I guess? Or if Tool took pot instead of heroin. Video is like slow hypnosis. Heavy dissonant playing the bass with a pick, close and claustrophic, the entire renaissance faire breathing down your neck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=220eDjcDSlM
What I'm listening to today: "Ambient Machine Live 17", Takeo Watanabe
Can I convince you to take a risk?
This is a 17 minute set from a series recorded in random remote locations, this one based on a tape machine and pedal looper. The first few minutes are a bit vague— he seems to just be messing around. But he's feeding the looper. Stop paying attention around minute two, leave it in the background, suddenly around minute seven you'll find yourself in another galaxy.
https://youtu.be/oAPUoFP3yxI?si=4sZ6PZ8s5fnLHCp6
What I'm listening to today: "Four", Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds
Nils Frahm is an artist with whom I am Much Enamored, whose thing mostly is he records albums where all he does is play the piano softly and it's incredibly gripping. Occasionally though Nils dabbles in Electronic Instrumentation and gorgeous ambient music results.
https://erasedtapes.bandcamp.com/track/four
What I'm listening to today: "Pause Tape", JJ Doom
These sessions by MF DOOM and Jneiro Jarel were recorded during (what was at the time believed to be) a temporary stay in Britain after DOOM got ejected from the US. Jarel's an interesting guy and this deliriously weird B-side I think has the most of his own personality of anything from the collaboration. Is this literally a pause tape? I don't have space to explain what this means but I think this might be a pause tape
https://mfdoom.bandcamp.com/track/pause-tape
What I'm listening to today: "Ambient Machine Live 17", Takeo Watanabe
Can I convince you to take a risk?
This is a 17 minute set from a series recorded in random remote locations, this one based on a tape machine and pedal looper. The first few minutes are a bit vague— he seems to just be messing around. But he's feeding the looper. Stop paying attention around minute two, leave it in the background, suddenly around minute seven you'll find yourself in another galaxy.
https://youtu.be/oAPUoFP3yxI?si=4sZ6PZ8s5fnLHCp6
What I'm listening to today: "Raedawn", Victor Vaughn [MF DOOM]
So I think the idea with DOOM was that his various recording names aren't personae, but are supposed to be aliases for the same shadowy supervillain, popping up in different places. Or maybe he was just trying to evade record label contracts. Anyway! Here DOOM goes so hard on the progressive production he breaks through all the way into the genre I keep trying not to describe as "IDM"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GXOD1I6iY
What I'm listening to today: "Pause Tape", JJ Doom
These sessions by MF DOOM and Jneiro Jarel were recorded during (what was at the time believed to be) a temporary stay in Britain after DOOM got ejected from the US. Jarel's an interesting guy and this deliriously weird B-side I think has the most of his own personality of anything from the collaboration. Is this literally a pause tape? I don't have space to explain what this means but I think this might be a pause tape
https://mfdoom.bandcamp.com/track/pause-tape
What I'm listening to today: "Hush the Crowd", J-LIVE
This 2003 track was, I think?, recorded while the artist was trying to balance a rap career with working as a public school English teacher, and is basically an anthem for the frustrated artist, or maybe a lovesong to their fans. I am currently in the process of winding down a game studio and the bit here beginning with "Besides, what's your options?" haunts me.
https://realjlive.bandcamp.com/track/hush-the-crowd
What I'm listening to today: "Raedawn", Victor Vaughn [MF DOOM]
So I think the idea with DOOM was that his various recording names aren't personae, but are supposed to be aliases for the same shadowy supervillain, popping up in different places. Or maybe he was just trying to evade record label contracts. Anyway! Here DOOM goes so hard on the progressive production he breaks through all the way into the genre I keep trying not to describe as "IDM"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GXOD1I6iY
What I'm listening to today: "Crumb Snatchers", MF Grimm
This incredibly hardcore 2005 album is an attempt to reconstruct a 1994 debut rap album that got shelved after a shooting left Grimm temporarily unable to see or speak, and permanently in a wheelchair. From there Grimm's career threads erratically through underground rap and comics; notably he was a very early collaborator/booster/roommate of MF DOOM but apparently that artistic relationship ended kinda badly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkSPQ4TCDY
What I'm listening to today: "Hush the Crowd", J-LIVE
This 2003 track was, I think?, recorded while the artist was trying to balance a rap career with working as a public school English teacher, and is basically an anthem for the frustrated artist, or maybe a lovesong to their fans. I am currently in the process of winding down a game studio and the bit here beginning with "Besides, what's your options?" haunts me.
https://realjlive.bandcamp.com/track/hush-the-crowd
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