What I'm listening to today: "shapely hedgerows of the dying world", Dragon Warrior
Shuffling, comfy instrumental folk / indie pop in the Elephant 6 style. Feelings like Polaroids of early mornings. You might know this musician as Brother Android or Harrison Lemke, depending on what genre you encountered him in.
https://dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/track/shapely-hedgerows-of-the-dying-world
What I'm listening to today: "Dual Monomachine IDM with new aftermarket +Drives from MachineStore", MIDERA
An enormous emotion. Thinky techno production with a human pop core and a touch of chiptune feel on the drums.
I think we're at the point where this particular type of 00s electronic sound is as old now, as the 70s-80s sounds Boards of Canada was evoking in the 90s were then. Meaning the progressive parts of Boards of Canada now themselves qualify for nostalgia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr3idTvkp-A
What I'm listening to today: "OB6 Dub Techno", dc11
The musician says this emerged from setting up a new synthesizer, so what I imagine happened: They were trying to make that "chonkchonkchonk" noise from reggae, stumbled into an amazing-sounding semi-repeating pattern, went "I have to stop everything and find a way to make this a song" and built a life support system around it. Result:
Lovely little ambient meditation over a 128bpm heartbeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXeiQ6KdWM
If ur bored stop at ~5:00
What I'm listening to today: "New Instrument, new sound!", Fron Reilly
A short demo of a musical instrument created by this YouTuber/woodworker. It'sā¦ kind of a brilliant idea, actually, simultaneously shocking and in-retrospect obvious.
The video is 100 seconds of abstract noises that, if you'd played it for me without the video, I could tell you how to create with FFTs and DSP techniques but would not have believed was a recording of a completely acoustic device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHIcU3g8Ps
What I'm listening to today: "The Terrorist", DJ Vadim & Motion Man
Motion Man is an Oakland rapper so far under the radar he has no Wikipedia page and at least one album of his I've listened to is not on Allmusic. If you know him it's probably from a guest spot he did on someone else's song, probably Kool Keith's, and you remember him because he absolutely steals every track he appears on.
Here, for a 1999 DJ Vadim single: Villainous pronouncements over supersaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rOYGk6TV_o
What I'm listening to today: "Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra" (Overture), Friedrich Gulda
I don't know much about Gulda, but apparently his career was marked by a desire to work in both classical music but also jazz (back in an era when jazz was still cutting edge and/or illegal). This 1980 piece feels like he was asked to compose a concerto but he just really, really wanted to make funk music. This slaps. This cellist is fucking shredding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYTQQtwYYbQ
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@mcc@mastodon.social woah neat find! How did I not know this person, apparently a teacher of Abbado and Argerich? Amazing determination to go his own way.
mcc