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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:06 UTC mcc

   What I'm listening to today: "YAMAHA SU10 DNB JAM", Electromachines

   Armed with the terrible Yamaha portable sampler I was talking about last week, plus one of Korg's "Monotron" toys and a voice sample from a really old interview with Squarepusher, this musician goes hard on some budget-bin drum & bass. Got those kind of wobwob synths you normally associate with dubstep, but it isn't dubstep, it's drum & bass.

   It really has that 1997 feel

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xaLnnQPNNs

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:05 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Torture by Tao"

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_TJVc5z_KY

     Tao is an apparently legendary Atari ST chiptune/demoscene composer (http://rockabit.weebly.com/tao.html) who started in 1991 with the goal of recreating C64 SID sounds on the Atari, and wrote his own tracker synth to get more accurate sounds. This is a 1999 track made in someone else's SID-on-Atari simulator ("Sid Sound Designer"). The point of interest here though is this is just a really rocking track, with a great high-energy mood.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:06 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Mood // Lyra-8 // Drums - Ambient Creation", André Davies

     This is a deliriously weird video that I don't think I'd find that weird if I only had the audio. With just audio you'd think "oh, horror movie soundtrack music". With the video, you've got a man seated at a drumkit proceeding to make what seems to be every possible sound other than the sound of a man playing the drums. A step up from metal plates and contact mics maybe? Is this jazz

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKoJtowx6HM

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:06 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening today: "TANMO", BENDYmusic

     Two minutes of mysterious noise, recorded with mysterious electronic boxes on what appears to be a table in a cafe. The feedback wobbles and distorted kicks interweave with passing snippets of conversation from the cafe and a radio which I think is actually patched into the recording device. If you love noise as much as I do you will dig this two minutes

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPpmFyAlCw

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:59:06 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Level Incomplete", Bas Mondblau

     Bas here has a YouTube account containing hundreds of decent drum & bass jams made with Elektron's desktop grooveboxes, most of them in the style I would describe as "Dreamcast menu music". This one's the most interesting one I've found so far, on a slightly different wavelength. Chill, jazzy and LTJ-Bukem-ish, this is an airy flight through fluffy synth-pad clouds and skeletal d&b beats.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDtSFiVakHY