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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:10:14 UTC mcc

   What I'm listening to today: "Chino", Madlib

   This track, also from 2021, is two minutes long and like some sort of platonic form of effortless cool; there's something primal in its funky simplicity. Other than the professional snap on the EQ it feels like literally anytime in the last 80 years you could imagine there's a room in the world you could walk into and there'd be a piano, and people clapping, and you'd hear exactly this sound. There is rhythm, and also blues

   https://madlib.bandcamp.com/track/chino

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:10:14 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Soviet RITM-2 Synth and Loop Pedal", Slightly Nasty

     This is a dark, engrossing soundscape made entirely on the РИТМ-2, a synthesizer produced in 1984 in the Soviet Union and often described as Moog-like. This specific unit has been modified for additional sound body, but the musician insists it was done with vintage germanium transistors— in other words, it's a modification that could have plausibly been done by a user in Russia in the 80s.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs88-Qz84VY