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 What I'm listening to today: "Sanxion" loader music, Rob Hubbard The Commodore 64 had an unusually featureful, musician-friendly and *weird* sound chip. It also had a problem: Games took a *long* time to load off tape. The solution was epic and very long (often 10+ minutes) "loader" songs that played while the game code loaded. The loader for "Sanxion", by C64 master Rob Hubbard, suggests an alternate universe where 00s IDM musicians had a knack for perfect pop hooks. 217 comments
What I'm listening to today ("best techno on Youtube" 7/13): "Square (Volca Keys, Volca FM, OP-1, PO-32)", Leonid Zarubin Mr. Zarubin has a bunch of videos that stand out to me for getting a ton of mileage out of simple, low-end synths and guitar pedals (its not in this one, but some of his best tracks make amazing use of the Casio SA-5 keyboard for children). This one track in particular sticks with me for just having a really great chill feeling to it. What I'm listening to today: "Repellent", Helm This starts as electric/datastream noise then falls into a lovely spacey Burial-like rhythmic groove for the duration, like listening to industrial music being played at the far other end of an abandoned subway station. I dunno. I just liked it. What I'm listening to today: "Modular Experient - 30 Minutes of Generative Eurorack Ambient" This is an endlessly shifting self-playing patch on a synth eurorack sitting out on a back porch. Throughout the take some dudes are visible out of focus in the background. You know, just some dudes hanging out on the porch chilling to mechanically generated aleatoric music scientifically optimized for chilling on the back porch to What I'm listening to today: "Negions Fail" This is a melodic drum&bass track with a lovely feeling to it from the golden age of IDM (circa 2005). The artist is named either "Wisp" or "RWD", it's not clear. I feel like this is something I should have known about at the time it was released but I'd somehow never heard of this artist until I stumbled across this album on YouTube this week. What I'm listening to today: "If You Knew", Le Solitaire This is a simply charming desktop synth duet from 2016 (which for Synth Jam YouTube is basically the paleolithic era). One musician drives the bass and drums while the other one sings into the looper function of an OP-1, constantly tweaking until she's singing in harmony with an entire choir of her own voice. What I'm listening to today: "Mini Jam Monday #8", littleBIGsynths / Mod Maquina A jam from 2016 that does absolutely the most with the absolute least. This sets up a killer hook on one Volca Keys and one Pocket Operator drum machine and then explores it as completely as the sequencing capabilities of the devices allow, and then some, as the musician proceeds to hand-animate what seems like every single knob the Volca has. You could dance to this. What I'm listening to today: "PO-33 & NTS-1 | LoFi | Synthwave jam", Stefan Torto A lo-fi hip hop beats track with a sort of Earthbound feeling to it. The entire complicated track is produced from the PO-33 (the little calculator looking thing on the left, it's a sampler) with Korg's DIY-kit microsynth used to add reverb. What I'm listening to today: "Qu-Bit Aurora getting angry", synthe sizer83 I listen to a lot of extremely varied electronic music and this one is still very mysterious to me. I guess this is "drone". Six minutes of enigmatic hums and distant flutters and clanks. There seems to be a melody, but it's too large and slow to see the entire thing at once. This all appears to be the result of using a reverb filter for something entirely other than reverb. What I'm listening to today: "SOMA Pulsar-23 (a brief sequence to try things out)", TÆT I think I've posted a few tracks before based on SOMA's idiosyncratic instruments; the Pulsar is their take on a drum machine, based around heavy rewirability, chaos injection and a *lot* of distortion. This is a fun robot dance number showing off what the Pulsar can do. |
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What I'm listening to today: "You're No Good"
Terry Riley is a giant of 60s experimental music, but IMO his true legacy is this long-lost artifact, created in 1967 for a nightclub opening and largely buried until 2000. This feels like it *should not have been possible* with pre-digital 1967 tech; it's all tape splicing, one Moog, and a soul song recorded off the radio. You'll think you know where this is going, but you don't.
This is a journey. Headphones recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75QFsgDMHDM
What I'm listening to today: "You're No Good"
Terry Riley is a giant of 60s experimental music, but IMO his true legacy is this long-lost artifact, created in 1967 for a nightclub opening and largely buried until 2000. This feels like it *should not have been possible* with pre-digital 1967 tech; it's all tape splicing, one Moog, and a soul song recorded off the radio. You'll think you know where this is going, but you don't.