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What I'm listening to today: "Ventlaris", Ceephax Acid Crew
Ceephax is (in real life) Squarepusher's little brother. Last night he posted on YouTube this 26-minute live techno performance that apparently shows up in edited form on one of his albums. The jam is accompanied by a lovely video that appears to have been created on an Amiga Video Toaster. He's making basically the same music he's been making since the 90s, but now it's retro which means it sounds futuristic.
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What I'm listening to today: "Mixtur Trautonium (exercise #6)", LudoWic
One last Trautonium piece, this one run through two (!) Space Echos and demonstrating one of the most interesting things to me about the device, that it's capable of Theremin-like trembles and slides but unlike Theremins can do hard edges and discrete jumps. Again, like an electronic violin.
Short and low and has a captivating, melancholy emotion, this just really grabs your heartstrings and yanks.
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What I'm listening to today: "Concept 1 96:01 01:00", Richie Hawtin
Under the name "Plastikman", Hawtin achieved fame as a "minimalist composer" who repurposed dance-techno techniques to sculpt stark sound landscapes. This bumping downtempo is from a previously *very* rare, self-published one-track-a-month limited-vinyl series he did while developing the sound of the Plastikman "trilogy"; now it's on Bandcamp.
Hawtin says he recorded this track on January 1, 1996.
https://richiehawtin.bandcamp.com/track/richie-hawtin-concept-1-96-01-01-00
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What I listened to today: "The industries of the unused mind.", Soaring Tortoise Orchestra
In this video a man in a basement appears to be mastering an ambient track on tape, tweaking the mixing board. But if you watch carefully he's actually just picking up various objects on his desk and staring at them as if he does not recognize them. What is happening here? The music is cryptic, striding a line between epic and creepy, like a guitar solo is being haunted by ghosts.
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What I'm listening to today: "Mixtur Trautonium (exercise #11)", LudoWic
I linked one of LudoWic's Trautonium pieces on Wednesday; here's a more complex one, probably the most complex of these "exercises" he's uploaded, with a soothing, rhythmic clicking (which I can't even figure out where it's coming from) providing percussion. Watch during the little violin-like pitch vibratos throughout; that's not an instrument "effect", he's wiggling his finger on the touch plate.
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What I'm listening to today: "Distances", Fontaine Burnett
Mr. Burnett is a session musician; he's performed with Chaka Khan, the Temptations, the Weather Girls and a dozen other artists, meaning millions have heard him play without ever learning his name. During early COVID he started uploading home performances to YouTube, among them this absolutely lovely jazz piano solo on Roger Linn's "isomorphic" MIDI controller (a piano splattered onto a grid). Watch the fingers.
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What I'm listening to today: "Mixtur Trautonium (exercise #4)" LudoWic
The Trautonium is an early electronic instrument from the 1930s. Instead of a "keyboard" like a post-1965 synthesizer would use players make contact between a resistive wire and a metal plate, allowing fine control more akin to a violin than a piano. In this piece, the musician works the plate (and the pedals?) for a complex and stunning tremolo effect, like a guitar pedal under direct human control.
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What I'm listening to today: "Minimoog and Rhodes Chillout Track", Kurti
In this charmingly guileless video a dude smiles at the camera and then proceeds to perform a song which is pure distilled 1985. Simultaneous solos on a minimoog and a gorgeous-sounding Rhodes electric piano (not a synth), with rhythm provided by an actual one-piece Macintosh Plus DAW hooked up to some MIDI modules. It's at times like this I understand why people liked "smooth jazz".
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