mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Polyend Tracker // An undercover ambient machine", Dexba
This is a Selected Ambient Work made on the Polyend Tracker, but Dexba doesn't seem to be… using it correctly, or not in the normal way? This is a composition machine, but in the video he's somehow playing it live as an instrument, possibly with coordination/interference from a precomposed project.
Rain, echoing piano, skittering beats of the kind people in 2010 would call "glitchy".
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "SNCF Lo-Fi Hip-Hop ▶ YAMAHA SU10 Unquantized Beat", Q_yr Ko
Okay, this one is a *bop*. Made on the SU10, a 1996 portable sampler resembling a much worse version of Yamaha's cult-beloved QY line, most of the appeal here is the contortions the musician had to go through to get the SU10 to do anything at all. Watch their fingers; it can't do sequencing, so they're toggling fixed-length loops made on a PO-33. Fun stuff.
Note: Yes, *that* SNCF.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Nerdseq & Assimil8or Live Mix 170823", 27 Arches
A 20-minute techno set performed on a modular rack. Acid basslines, industrial hardness and atmospherics. A really good emphasis on sound design. This is music with a viewpoint, the viewpoint is that more echo is ALWAYS better, and they do make a strong case.
The Nerdseq is in the bottom left—it's a tracker built into a eurorack module. You can see them composing the music on it as it plays.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Live Techno mix set.", Th3Pock3tOp3rat0r
This is a shockingly sophisticated medley of dance pieces on the cheapest available hardware: two Pocket Operators and two toy Korg touch-strip synths, in a single chain of 1/8-inch cables.
The music itself is joyous & noisy distorted, 90s house with better production, or worse maybe, a single set of blown-out speakers set up at the other end of an echoey gym.
Makes me think of Axiom Verge.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Analogue Fields", Stefan Torto
This is a stark, moody synthwave piece by Stefan Torto (no cat this time). All sounds are produced on just the budget Volca Keys (the big keyboard is a MIDI sequencer, and the little box on the right is adding the echo). Simple but powerful, music like cold, distant wind.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Radiation day", Ekzil
This is a simple but satisfying desktop synth jam with a kinda club techno feel. I feel like if I'd been played this song without context I'd have dated it to 2003. It's got a nice complex song structure and it's fun to watch the musician manage live-mixing the instruments by hand.
For some reason, this song makes me think of the Baba is You soundtrack.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Ambient jam w/ Soma Cosmos, Take 5, Polymoon, Marantz cassette tape piano, and guitar", Jay Hosking
In this unimaginatively titled but gorgeous piece, Jay builds in a looper a bed of layers of keyboard sounds (from a 2021 descendent of the Sequential Prophet descendent, and one actual piano), then plays soulful guitar over it. Music for something cinematic to happen over, the protagonist confessing love or saying goodbye for the last time.
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