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 What I'm listening to today: "2 Miles", 12 Rounds You know that Atticus Ross guy co-credited on all Trent Reznor's film scores? In the 90s he and his wife were a band called "12 Rounds" I'd describe as Portishead crossed with Vampire: The Masquerade. Almost nobody liked this album except me and Trent Reznor (who liked it enough to hire the guy to produce, like, all his albums). Every song on it has something special happening, but this understated track is my favorite. 75 comments
What I'm listening to today: "Choralberg", Alex Siebenhaar In this video, a man wearing a bluescreen for a hat sits on a carpet and steers some racks of synths (and one analog drum machine) through a cryptic, funky melody. Just as you think you understand where it's going, it ends; you find yourself wanting more. What I'm listening to today: "Filthy Miksher - Demo Jam", Deaftone Audio This pairs a Pulsar and an acid bass groovebox with some kind of noisemaker box based on a spring attached to a contact microphone. It starts as ambient noise and then grows into a bumping rhythm without ever containing… anything except noise, actually, so you've just got this gradually escalating percussive techno piece made up of different noise textures. I like it What I'm listening to today: "Ufouria" title theme (iNES 0.9 glitched version), Naoki Kodaka (Sunsoft) iNES 0.9 for Mac OS 9 had an audio bug affecting only a few games (including "Hebereke", aka "Ufouria") causing the noise and PCM channels to be very loud and distorted. In my opinion, this improves the music *tremendously*, giving it a wild industrial/IDM flavor. The first time I played Ufouria it sounded like this, and I didn't know it was a bug. So this is the canonical soundtrack to me. What I'm listening to today: "Hoss featuring the PERKONS HD-01", Generative Jane This one is a wild ride, starting with a blast of strange FM noises and then immediately dropping hard into a gradually-mutating industrial dance beat. This is the kind of music you'd show opening credits to, probably over establishing shots of a futuristic city, or possibly people riding futuristic motorcycles at great speed to no particular obvious destination. What I'm listening to today: "Ambient Improvisation Elektron digitone and Moog Mother 32", Surgeons Girl This track gets a lot of mileage out of fairly minimal elements, synth stabs fighting to rise above the water of a ocean of sorrowful foghorn hums. Sometimes I feel like attempting to describe these pieces makes them lesser and that's definitely something I'd worry about here, this is something meant just to be felt rather than intellectualized. What I'm listening to today: "Verbos + Mimeophon Jam", Deaftone Audio This video is essentially a single held note and some rhythmic clicking for eight minutes, but the musician, hand-driving a complicated modular feedback machine, thoroughly explores every point in the configuration space of that constrained premise, taking you on a journey through a small universe of minimal ambient destinations. It's all very hypnotic and maybe a little sinister. What I'm listening to today: "Modular jam with Volca Modular, Korg NTS-1 and Playtronica Touch Me", ITSME This is a short, peaceful synth piece performed on a tree. Like, uh. This person got hold of a device that converts current (capacitance?) changes from human touch into MIDI, and then they wired it to a small tree. So the harder they squeeze the tree the higher the note on the Volca Modular goes. Anyway, it's a real nice song. |
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What I'm listening to today: "Phantom Limb", Hovercraft
Hovercraft was an experimental noise-rock band from the 90s with an almost total disinterest in "notes". This album's release was dogged by confusing, inaccurate rumors Eddie Vedder secretly performed on it (he was married to the bassist at the time and may or may not have played drums in some of their live shows).
This song has a lovely dark mood; the bassline has been my go-to synthesizer test melody for years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7o2BMR66Sw
What I'm listening to today: "Phantom Limb", Hovercraft
Hovercraft was an experimental noise-rock band from the 90s with an almost total disinterest in "notes". This album's release was dogged by confusing, inaccurate rumors Eddie Vedder secretly performed on it (he was married to the bassist at the time and may or may not have played drums in some of their live shows).