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What I'm listening to today: "Boundless pad", Mike Lewis
If you want to make the kind of ambient music that sounds like just one giant chord for three minutes, the Novation Peak is a good synthesizer to go with.
This track is three minutes of stately chord progression absolutely drenched in echo. Extremely satisfying. Imagine someone in a big comfy sweater with a big cup of coffee jumping up and down in front of a sunrise yelling "Yes!! Yes!!! This is so relaxing!!!"
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Piece for tape recorder", Vladimir Ussachevsky
This piece was recorded in 1956 but sounds highly ahead of its time, like if the "drug freakout sequence" music from a 1970s film soundtrack were composed as intentional music, or like if the interstitial junk in a Kid A era Radiohead album were expanded to a full song. I really like this, it gets so much mileage out of tape-jank & exactly four oscillator circuits in a hand-wired configuration.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "roland s-1 dnb drum play", alarky
It's been said the Drum & Bass genre couldn't have happened without Cubase, the software that originally let 90s artists artisanally place all those 1/16-note hi-hats on a grid. This artist on the other hand says who needs grids, and just sorta mashes the buttons on his drum machine front panel. It's messy, but sorta works! Combined with the weirdly overpowered synthesis of the S-1 it forms an intense mood.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "I'm Afraid of Americans", David Bowie (Photek remix)
Heterodox drum & bass artist Photek leans heavily to a kind of minimalism that when it goes too far can feel sparse and strung out. Here the strung-out feel works strongly in the song's favor, as it gives us more time to luxuriate in the voice of David Bowie.
Incidentally I think this mix (from a 1997 remix EP organized by Trent Reznor) might secretly be an early draft of "Seven Samurai"
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Covenant - Live", Abre Ojos
This is the kind of music that is used for dolly shots slowly gliding down spaceship hallways when it is going to turn out later that your spaceship is haunted. Creepy indescribable atmospheric noises and big thumping beats wet with distortion.
You should watch the video if you want some nice psychedelic visualizations (or avoid watching the video if you're unusually sensitive to flashing colors).
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Satie?", Dud Faz
Satie? Is this Satie? I don't know? This is a peppy, pleasantly sloppy jam that plausibly sounds as if it is inspired by, or possibly directly incorporates motifs from, the work of Erik Satie (1866-1925). At one point the musician is performing drums by hitting keys on a piano keyboard. How to describe this? Imagine a dance number breaking out in a 19th-century French factory.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Soma Labs Lyra 8 + Hologram Microcosm Performance [No Talking]", A NEVER ENDING EXPLOSION
This video's thumbnail reads "Tuning the Lyra-8 to a Hungarian Minor Scale". The musician doesn't explain further, but the Lyra's 8 touchpad "keys" *can* be tuned to any arbitrary frequency, so it's good for tuning/scale experiments.
This piece is 16 minutes and makes every second count, a series of giant haunting tones with cryptic, intense emotions.
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