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What I'm listening to today: "Dream Sequence", Stefan Torto
When Roland started making Volca-likes it seemed like they'd be watered-down versions of their super-expensive "boutique" virtual analog synths. But then the S-1 ($200) turned out to be *better* than the $600 SH-01A (unique features). Go figure.
Anyway this beatless but surprisingly intense track makes me think of: 80s production bumpers, sunrises with VHS tracking errors, a past when the future still existed.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "nebulosity", BrokenSines
This is a complex virtual/rack modular electronic piece (same musician I linked last week, with the VCV/physical hybrid setup) with slow, thumping beats and enormous, dirty sounds. It feels muggy, like swimming through molasses, or a sleep paralysis dream. Lights twinkle in the distance, but your eyelids are heavy and you cannot lift your head to see them properly.
Speed this up 180% and you can dance to it.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Melody Oracle + Wave Expander + B2600", A Magic Pulsewave
This is a short sound trip wherein chiptune tones are devoured by and re-emerge from clouds of echo fog. The track is created on, apparently, some sort of triangle, or multiple triangles possibly, festooned with lights and fractalline, possibly-occult designs. I don't actually know what's happening here and I have made a conscious decision to not find out.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Emotional Noises 230527", ナカヤマコウジ
This is a short, cryptic noise electronica piece with avant-garde beats, some cool shimmery dubby noises and weird feedback. Made on the Make Noise Trio, though you can see a Korg NTS in the background doing goodness knows what.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "SynTesla IX DIY Synthesizer DEMO", Pj Tardiveau
This YouTuber designed and handbuilt(?) a 7-voice polysynth on the design principle of "it should look like a submarine control panel". I'm reasonably certain the unit in the video is the only one that exists. The track is a single looping chord sequence but Pierre continuously retunes the knobs to, apparently, every sound the synth can produce so there's a song structure. Also breakbeats.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Music for Body Lockers", Chocolate Weasel
I am in the woods this weekend and this is what we are listening to in the woods.
This is a cool electronic funk track with Parliamentary synths and classic 80s hip hop samples. I do not know anything at all about this band. This just happened to be the best track on an old Ninja Tune compilation album that was on my friend's phone music collection. I would describe this as "a jam".
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Cwejman, Trogotronic, Make Noise - 1st patch in the Needham Woodworks case with Eskatonic power", James Plotkin
An *incredibly* dirty modular synth jam with fast, borderline-IDM beats. Often modular synth music tends to single repeating measures in a way that doesn't lend itself to drum sounds, but this rack's so large it's able to support multiple complex parts and lots of different things going on. What do you call this? Dance industrial?
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "metronom", Duality Micro
Korg, who created a lot of synths including most of the good modern budget gear, once released a DS game. "Game", that is. KORG DS-10 was a little synthesizer/sequencer on a DS cart. (It was later released for Switch and iPhone/iPad as "Korg Gadget".)
This is a 2023 track composed on the DS-10 (with some very subtle bass guitar accompaniment) with a overpowered, Kraftwerky kick drum and a bumping groove. It's fun!
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "four ( empress effects zoia, moog mother 32, make noise 0-coast )", i saw the SINE wav
Some excellent ambient/drone. Seems at first like it's just going to be unattended wom wom wom zone-out noises for 13 minutes, which would also have been good, but a few minutes in the musician starts more actively guiding things and some DC-offset popping noises that appear at first to be recording errors start to clump together into rhythmic percussion.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Vegas Bound & Down", brokensines
A fun dance techno jam with cool clicky beats, skittering tones and some absolutely enormous sidechains. Good energy level. The video description makes reference to VCV rack, meaning this song was apparently made with a mix of physical modular synths and virtual modular synths on a PC, but the VCV part isn't shown on camera so it's not clear how that works.
The video has a flashing warning due to vfx.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Phase Shift", Hobboth Music
This one requires a bit of patience but it pays off. This is a modular jam based around two acid synth lines running at slightly different tempos so they run in and out of sync with each other. The introduction, like the first couple minutes, just lets this run unadorned. But then the musician starts adding complications and the piece transforms into complex, multilayered ambient. It's good music to zone out to.
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