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 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. 174 comments
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. What I'm listening to today: "Industrial Raga 1", Vadjuse The Ornament is a machine for algorithmically sequencing triggers. One of its trigger output modes is "connect to ground", and wiring those outputs to the touch plates on the Lyra simulates the touch of a human finger. So in this one a PO-32 drum machine plays highly distorted beats while the ornament is picking out a note sequence on the Lyra's finger keys, producing something intense and unsettlingly alien. What I'm listening to today: "Modular Jam#1 - Verbos Electronics", Maarten Vandamme Incredibly quiet and gentle, this one is a few minutes of soft hissing hums with sharper melodic synths bubbling under the surface. The piece is performed on a Buchla-style modular suitcase; the "Verbos" is the touch keyboard, which is screwed into the suitcase along with the synth modules. What I'm listening to today: "New Jazz Underground Live! #2", New Jazz Underground These are some dudes who crowdfund recording their jazz band performances and posting them on YouTube and they just happen to be super good. I found them through a track they called "Sad Boy Anthem" but they've got a bunch of these full-length 50-minute-ish "Live!" performances up and that's the real gold. I listened to a few of their livestream sets and this one was my favorite. What I'm listening to today: "3x NYMPHES and 1 spare hour to shoot a video", Dimitra Manthou As the title says, a synth designer/cofounder at Dreadbox had a slow afternoon one day, so she grabbed a Nymphes and over an hour dubbed it on itself 3 times to make this strange little song. It's short but it turned out really compelling, there's a fascinating mood to it. It tastes to me like aluminum. What I'm listening to today: "Finding Beauty in Distortion", Raucous Studio Six minutes of meditative "weird noises" based around using an analog implementation of an OR gate as a distortion filter. Mostly very quiet actually, but full of lovely subtle moments. A good demonstration of how one can perceive rhythm in otherwise ambient works through simple things like a repeating click or a phaser pedal. Headphones recommended. |
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What I'm listening to today: "[D]RONIN + Soma COSMOS + Eventide PITCH FACTOR", Giovanni B
A looper with automated chaotic phasing, an octave doubler, and a… "horror playground live rig"? This person appears to have built a kind of prepared piano without the piano part, a random chunk of wood with guitar pickups and vibratey bits of metal stuck into it at random, ostensibly so they can make horror movie soundtracks?, in practice for making Einsturzende Neubauten grooves.
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What I'm listening to today: "[D]RONIN + Soma COSMOS + Eventide PITCH FACTOR", Giovanni B
A looper with automated chaotic phasing, an octave doubler, and a… "horror playground live rig"? This person appears to have built a kind of prepared piano without the piano part, a random chunk of wood with guitar pickups and vibratey bits of metal stuck into it at random, ostensibly so they can make horror movie soundtracks?, in practice for making Einsturzende Neubauten grooves.