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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:54:02 UTC mcc

   For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

   If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

   Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

   And here's the thread for "year three":

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:53:58 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Musica Ricercata no.7", György Ligeti as performed by Grégoire Blanc

     This is from a set of twelve piano pieces composed in 1953 by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, as arranged for analog synthesizer and dual theremins in December 2023 by Blanc. (The mood is enormous, the future that 1981 promised us.) Ligeti would go on to write the "Monolith music" from 2001. Grégoire Blanc would go on to do his laundry

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

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:53:58 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "The River - 3 guitar ambient jam with drones and synths in the forest w/Sam Bell and Pete Ferguson"

     The YouTube channel "drone-in-the-woods" is truth in naming. This is some gentle ambient post-rock and it is, indeed, performed live in the woods by three guitarists. I'm not usually one for "happy music" but I dig this. It's like if Godspeed You Black Emperor had worked their issues out and got real into Boards of Canada.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFB2cicKoE

     Anatoly Shashkin💾 repeated this.
   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:53:58 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "So close", Floppi

     This is a soft, seductive DOS tracker track. It appears to use one single sample, so it's basically like a 2 minute electric piano solo, if the electric piano had infinite sustain. Sometimes with tracker tunes I can find a *little* history, but all I find googling is a forum post claiming the track was first released in 1997; and that the author is Finnish, and died in 2022.

     Scenestream tags: "Calm keygen" "Sad sinewave"

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOmJ__yI84

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:53:59 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "【Moog DFAM Jam】", Sakai Meno

     Noisy, scrungly fast industrial beats on some modular equipment. There's a slower, spread-out elbow-room version of this track on the same YouTube channel (id MT13WMugmmA) but I like this compact 2-minute version. It sounds very determined.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZe3xc267I

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:53:59 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "wierdness", recordingtruck

     I love noise! I really do! The Bastl Kastle is a chaotic "modular" system with two of Atmel's tiniest, weakest chips in each unit, & little wires instead of plug cables. All it does is scream. This musician has cross-wired three of these to make a wonderfully amusical sequence of moaning bleeps interrupting each other. It has its own internal machine logic. Your human brain can't make sense of it. Just float in it

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjsYsw22gM

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:53:59 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to: "Nightmare", KNOWER

     KNOWER is an incredible, funky, YouTube-bait band consisting of "The Bank Account Song Guy", Genevieve Artadi, and literally whoever else is in the building. They have a channel full of sessions live-recorded in a generic suburban house with noise foam taped to the wall and the band all wearing gimmick t-shirts. You should listen to them. As an intro, here's some funk featuring the bass stylings of Daphnycore artist MonoNeon.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERCkf0j8pPM

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:54:00 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Spit", Kittie

     I love metal but I don't think I am a very sophisticated listener of it. I struggle with the squawky vocals and the occasional long samey stretches. Kittie delights me by bringing aggressive variety to their presentation, especially in this one old, unusually compact track that rapidly switches registers from death-metal screams to intelligible English as if tracking manic mood swings. You think dick is the answer but it's not

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184fj8XPbhE

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:54:00 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "extinct bird gathering", Luna SC

     From this musician's "tmod" series of songs performed live on a wall-sized modular synthesizer rack, this is a fresh-feeling electronic composition with gorgeous sound design. Crunchy beats and warm metallic everything else. I'm not going to say this is dance music exactly but it is definitely music to bob your head to

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvPOkVla6Tg

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:54:00 UTC mcc

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     • AGF : poemproducer

     What I'm listening to today: "greim93", AGF / @poemproducer

     AGF does poetry, VJing, noise music and Theory (so if you are looking for eastern European left feminism she is very worth a follow).

     This is a immaculately sculpted noise collage wherein hisses and thumps stalk you through a fog of microsounds, constantly threatening to congeal into a beat but then instead doggedly remaining just outside the edge of your perception

     https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/track/greim93

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:54:01 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "/", Second Woman

     You've heard of the "Shepard Tone", right? That's a sound design trick where a sound appears to continuously increase in pitch without ever retreating back down to give itself space. There's a variant of that for drum beats called a "Risset Rhythm".

     This song, from a Telafon Tel Aviv/Belong collaboration, uses the Risset trick plus some seriously weird production to make a dreamy, alien, not-quite-danceable dance track:

     https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/track/-

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 19:54:01 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "8888 + ParipiDestroyer + POLYS", Freaky Tweaky

     This is a fun, satisfying acid jam on three small devices by different small-batch designers in Japan.

     The devices are all little handheld things based on trim pots and breadboard buttons, sized like business cards and Altoids tins; one is a gorgeous reproduction of the 808, another a gorgeous reproduction of the 303, and the third an odd Roland J8-like prototype. The Pocket Operator is reborn

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDSO_KzSaQ8