mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Rossum Panharmonium + Instruo Lubadh + Plaits + Rings", Sascha Neudeck
This is an intense, fascinating ambient journey through a series of sounds and textures, with sparky serrated-edge waves cycling in and out of your perception. Intermittent scrolling subtitles at the bottom of the video explain, in an entirely unhelpful level of detail, how the modular patch driving the track was created.
Stereo or headphones recommended.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Gaia floating in me", Cube
80s samplers had limited resolution— 12 bit DACs, limited sample memory. Early hip hop leaned into this, finding low sample rates gave drums a pleasant crunchy feel. This 2008 MS-DOS tracker jam makes great use of similar limitations, especially at the start where the resolution goes so low it's like a bitcrush effect. Actually, this entire track is incredibly sick. It sounds like a rave in Donkey Kong Country.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Luxe", Holy F*** + Alexis Taylor
This is one of my most-listened tracks on Tidal; I think of it as a pandemic classic. It's Rapture-y synthrock, one of those songs that lays out a series of elements then lets them all converge at once like a magic eye becoming an image.
There's a ("Mea Culpa" inspired?) music video that comes close to meeting the song's surging energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6gP4IijTCM but warning, flashing. Or listen on Bandcamp:
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Quick Jam with the Moog Mavis", HeadyBeatShell
This is a fun dance techno duet between a simple analog synth and some complex digital synths. Good robot noises and some really effective production for a desktop jam. The Mavis doesn't have a sequencer hooked up so the musician has to play the little toy frontplate keyboard all the way through.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Cruel like Flint", Amon Tobin
So after "Foley Room", drum&bass-adjacent jazz god Amon Tobin went in a *very* odd direction, focusing on complex live shows and ever-more-fine-tuned monophonic sounds. His newer stuff's pretty challenging even for me…!
But this one track from a sampler album of the label he founded really does it for me. Mind-expanding timbres and a quirky rhythm, a cool mix of his old and new sounds. Like feedback dubstep.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "found a hatch", riueru
This one's simple but strange, a randomly lurching tourgroup of synth lines driven by a randomness source and an irrationally-phased LFO. It starts suddenly and cuts off suddenly and in between shows a thoughtful, incredibly human degree of subtlety and emotional variation. But there's no human in the loop. It's beautiful and a little unsettling.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "live @ Red Ink, Providence 5/6/23", Cryptwarblr
If I told you to trust me— would you take my hand and take a step with me off the edge, into the abyss? This is what I now ask of you. This is a ten-minute performance on a card table at a leftist community bookstore. The noises here alternate quiet and violence— sharp, intense, unpredictable. There's a structure to it, I think. There's a meaning in here somewhere. I can't see it but I feel it
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "MESS MOOG SYSTEM 55 WAVEFORM", Christian Hogue
Five minutes of sinewaves composed on the legendary and extremely rare Moog 1973 modular analog system, illustrated on an analog oscilloscope. Starts with a simple line of tones and evolves into menacing, increasingly overdriven multipart antiharmony. Makes a really intense mood. Warning, parts are a bit high pitched.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Jamuary 02 2022", Waveformer
A virtuoso synth performance, leading you through a series of sounds and moods. Recorded live on the standard low-end setup of a Microfreak and three separate echo pedals, it's dark and expressive. If this had been recorded in 1990 it would have been distributed accompanied by a video of a long CGI tunnel like at the end of "2001", or maybe a slowed-down VHS of a handcam walking unsteadily through some woods.
Anatoly Shashkin💾
@mcc OCP is crushing this a bit. It's an 800kb file, so the samples are better than what's in this video.
mcc
@dosnostalgic oh, ok. the crushiness is actually my favorite thing about it lol
Anatoly Shashkin💾
@mcc This is sort of what it sounds like, although this time I feel like the bitrate of the upload muffled things too. A lot of it is actually quite clear in a decent player.
https://youtu.be/oNh5jS0RDVE?si=O6-04q1hDMeX56Rm
mcc
@dosnostalgic We gotta figure out how to embed a wasm mod/xm player in a web player like Jason Scott does with DOS games
Anatoly Shashkin💾
@mcc MODArchive had a web player since forever. I just haven't thought about it in a long time.
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=134416
mcc
@dosnostalgic oh hype
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