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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:19 JST mcc

   For three full years now I've been semi-daily posting a music recommendation in a big long thread, but it turns out 300-post threads kinda break Mastodon, so I have to restart the thread every so often.

   This post is a placeholder. I normally make a YouTube playlist for the previous year to put at the top of the thread, but I've had an awful month and haven't finished that yet.

   But if you want to see year three's *posts*, they're here: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112356066616688565

   And here's year four:

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:06 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Bound For The Floor", Local H

     Grunge is really good actually and there's some great gems if you look a layer or two deeper than the big 3 acts. This, from 1996, is a late (last?) gasp of "alternative rock" before slick acts like Creed and Matchbox 20 took over the space completely. It's a beautiful sustained single note, a monotone intonation, a hoarse, frustrated yell.

     Supposedly this album is about how much it sucks to live in Illinois.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Oe5YKhzCE

     Kim Scheinberg repeated this.
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     What I'm listening to today: "Dawless Dreamz #2", Glemii

     Here Korg's long-forgotten ur-groovebox, the Electribe, does a duet with an actual Game Boy to create what the musician calls "ambient jungle". This is one minute long and feels fantastic, objects from the past breaking through the envelope of time to show a glimpse of the beautiful feature we deserve.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5BxV5gk8Ac

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:07 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: Yoyaku instore session, Karla Böhm

     Here is a Belgian DJ spinning an hourlong techno set in a record store in Paris. Chill deep house beats, slowly transitioning into French Touch over the course of the set. Great feeling throughout. I think this video was produced as promo for the store, as the camerawork is unusually professional for this sort of video.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCt_JY--F78

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     What I'm listening to today: "End Of The Abyss | Erica Synths Steampipe + Perkons x Soma Cosmos | Drone Day 2025 Live Jam", Travis Benjamin Simpson

     Evolves in a way which suggests internal narrative, a journey through a long dark pipe. This is intense, atmospheric, horror-movie music given an unusual color by the fact it is being performed in a bright, sunny backyard with a pink flamingo. Three boxes, two near-designed for ambient drone, but the third is…a drum machine?

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rowPfubpPp4

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:07 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Citrus Cirrus", Muscises

     It's hard for chiptune to surprise me at this point, but this surprised me. Impossible sounds coming out of the Sega Genesis sound-chip pair, funk music that has returned from the planet Jupiter with terrifying psychic powers, an evening drive in a convertible while the skyline of an impossible ruined city rises in the distance. A plausible soundtrack for your dreams

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

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:08 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Goldener Reiter", Joachim Witt

     A long time ago I got captivated by this odd 1980 Krautrock track, with its weird mix of melancholy and peppy, 90s CGI video, and breaking into English with "und I'm feeling up" in the chorus. I was wrong about everything! The video (now copyright-claimed off YouTube) was for a 1994 remix and re-synced with the original audio; there's no English; and the lyrics are about medical abuse so uh, CW German speakers

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6RLXwKBz_g

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:08 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "BLK ZMBY", billy woods

     As far as I can tell, this song is intended as a political condemnation of the living dead. Mr. woods makes hip-hop with complex and layered messaging, some of which is not intended to be Legible to me personally. This track is slow murky deep fried jazz

     "In 2023, Woods published a children's book titled A is for Anarchist.[11][27]"

     https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/track/blk-zmby

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:08 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Funknitium-99", Fearofdark

     This guy is a prolific Bandcamp/YouTube tracker musician, and here he pulls out some fusion funk with an immaculately crisp, clean energy. If you like the music in Sonic the Hedgehog levels listen to this

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvPBEJVwn8

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:09 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Metric", Bryan Zentz

     So there was this first golden age of "techno" in Detroit or whatever, when the genre was new and raw, but then there was this second golden age around 2000, when we (as a species) had gotten *really good* at the Detroit style and were just making a lot of it. This YouTube account spins a bunch of that era of music on vinyl. This track is a dense crystal structure of dance beats and staccato samples and it is sick

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbk--wDbO5E

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:09 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Untitled A ( Rock To The Beat )", Ferro

     Another from the "Techno Vinyl Records" account's collection, this one's a little more genrefucky, with a more variety, bringing in strange sounds and "House Music" feels. A good gradual buildup.

     (Honestly, I linked you that other track yesterday so I could link you this track today. This is how much variety you can get out of a initially-seemingly-rigid genre with some slight changes in texture.)

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1pBghAeGpU

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:10 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Pure Data Breakcore Live Coding", GrundTon

     Distant barking. Weird overwhelming synth swells and one of the most unusual treatments of the Amen break I've ever encountered. (EDIT: It turns out to be a Funky Drummer break, which makes it even weirder it turned out like this?!) Generated by PureData and the YouTuber actually has several videos wandering around this same script's configuration space; this seems like the most focused.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6YxwYNBJoA

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:10 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Akai S950 - Deep House Music - Vintage Sampler", MikeSynth

     Hype little house techno fragment made on a plausible circa-90s vintage hardware setup (1986 Akai rack sampler sequenced by a 2003 Akai sequencer, mixing board as an instrument). Really refreshing vibe, has a bit of a trip-hop feel to me.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2r1C-kr58

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     • Owen Nelson

     What I'm listening to today: "Volume", Pylon

     @onelson linked this and I don't know anything about it. It rocks! When I started typing this post I was gonna say something about krautrock but in fact it turns out she is *not* singing in German, only indistinctly. Wikipedia says this is from Athens, Georgia. Well that explains a lot. Cool crisp Clashy vibes that seem to predict everything that's gonna happen in pop music in the ten years after it was recorded (that's 1980)

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp57WziV07g

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:11 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "More disturbing wave bard sounds", OSVoS

     There's a new Bastl Kastle and one of its configurations is a tiny "modular"¹ sample scrambler. This artist did a number of pieces mixing the Kastle 2 with other gear, this one I thought had the most interesting beat (You might prefer "More Wave Bard Experimentation" if you like kalimbas more than I do). Alien Gregorian chants + hip hop

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcFkUliO6w

     ¹ Jump wires instead of patch cables…take a look, it's weird

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:11 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Legendary Wings", Hyakutaro Tsukumo (arranged by Yuu)

     This is a General MIDI arrangement of the main theme to Thunder Force V, a sidescrolling shooter made by Technosoft in 1997 for the Sega Saturn. For whatever reason, this is the version I got hooked on!

     Rendered on (splitting channels) a Roland SC-8850 and Yamaha MU2000, both of which were released in 1999, so if TF.V had come out just two years later it could have sounded like this.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGdRrnlbu9w

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:11 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Walk On Girl", Linda from Work

     Christine's been listening to this band lately and I really like them. They give me a vibe like whoever Linda is was a riot grrl 20 years ago and now she's 35 and she has a ghastly office job and her life is a lot slower, but she's still in a punk band after work

     This is the last track from their album "The Night is Short", which has at least three "oh, I should put that in the music thread" level bangers:

     https://lindafromwork.bandcamp.com/track/walk-on-girl

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:12 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Rei Ayanami", Brian Altano

     This is an EP I love from 2019, which remixes various songs from the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" OST as megastructure trip-hop, and although there's only 7 songs every one is a banger. Here's a "big beat" version of Rei's theme:

     https://brianaltano.bandcamp.com/track/rei-ayanami

     In my friend group our traditional road trip music is this EP and also that 2Mello album where he complains about people coming up to him in the supermarket and asking him to make beats

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:12 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "unleashed voices", Black Cookies

     What the musician calls a "lo-fi tape loop ambient experiment". Super evocative. Sounds on free-running tape, four tracks on the left deck, one on the right, three separate echo pedals. Watch and you can see each little action the musician does to manipulate the sound, listen and you can hear all these little chunky sounds where the tape has mechanical imperfections. Deeply physical music.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHoNdR9BUE

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:12 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Chinurareta Zabi-ke" ("The Bloody Zabi Family"), Takeo Watanabe

     We've been watching the original 1979 "Gundam" and the music in it is actually *incredibly sick*? 70s Children's TV would just effortlessly toss off the rawest funk music.

     There's this one obscure cue, it isn't even on the regular OST (you have to go to the extended 45th anniversary soundtrack), it plays during quiet moments. I *love* the vibe on this, the bass is so emotive

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9jKCgNYwuk

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:12 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Afternoon Chill: Live Electronic Session", Jai Cuzco

     This is uh, a bit gentler than the electronic music I usually post.

     Chill beats and synth tones, a fluid medley of 2 or 3 songs. It's not clear where in the world this video was taken, only that the view from this guy's window is incredible

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxloiLT3Z1o

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:13 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Push Pull", Mark Thibideau

     If you're up on electronic music genres: Imagine 90s French house but strip out the funk and substitute 00 dub techno instrumentation?

     If you're not: Chill dance music for sitting in your chair. There are a lot of really cool sounds and I liked how good the sounds were, they were all like swoop swoop chikchikchik

     2019 release. Apparently this artist is from Ontario

     https://stomping-grounds.bandcamp.com/album/lividus-ep

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:13 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "only in it for Euro Cash", Doak 16

     Been listening to this YouTube synth collector's tracks all morning. This isn't the friendliest ["Remember it"] or the most provocative ["an ewok…"] track in the channel backlog…

     But *oh*, I love the drums in this one! I love the way it comes together like a magic eye, nonsense into sense. Dense, dreamy, unique

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfPn5zJXXg8

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:13 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Outside In", Linkwood

     This track opens the other Raica ambient mix I was talking about Tuesday. It's just a really good frozen moment. Quiet, crackly, passes quickly. The sound of something starting, and then silence. A Feel

     https://linkwood.bandcamp.com/track/outside-in

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:13 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "303 Day", Wizart

     YouTube musicians have this tradition of making tributes to the Roland 303 acid bassline machine on March 3. Here's a lovely midtempo live jam made with Behringer's modern 303 reproduction, several modern Roland desktop reproduction units¹, and some guitar pedals. A good groove such as one might blast at the LAN party in 1999.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJp4XEU-yA

     ¹ Including a 303, meaning at a certain point you can catch him actually running TWO 303s AT ONCE

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:14 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "curtain sequence", Silhouette Synthesizers (Pit Przygodda)

     This guy designs and manufactures unusual synthesizers on the concept of converting images into sounds. Sweep a line across part of an image, read brightness data from underneath your line, convert it to waveform or spectral data. He's posted various demos of his synths at work on YouTube, of which this is one of the less flashy but more musically interesting examples. Morning bell

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF4aNc96JYQ

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:14 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Relaxing Experimental Ambient [Vinyl Studio Session]", Raica

     Here a lady who runs a record store in Seattle for experimental music spins some mind-expanding space-journey ambient techno in a kitchen (not her kitchen, just *a* kitchen). A good solid 75-minute block of unnameable emotions.

     (There's a second set by the same DJ on the same YouTube account which had some good highs, but I didn't find that other one as consistent.)

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9nk7pqcGk

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     What I'm listening to today: "The Lie That Is Sin", YOB

     My friend Ro recommended this when I said I liked doom metal. This live version (0:00-12:18 in the video) takes what was already a pretty great song and slows it down, picks apart each element and leaves it torn open on a dissecting table, luxuriates in each little sound, floating in isolation, icebergs on a dark ocean

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnPu9RU28HE

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     • Daniel M Karlsson

     What I'm listening to today: "7 string IR test", Daniel M Karlsson

     Posted by @t36s as part of a series of computer sound synthesis tests, I'm not sure I understand it exactly but I *think* he used a recording of a string instrument as an echo characteristic and then by agitating it produced super realistic synthesized string plucks. Gorgeous little superresonating classical guitar improvisation with touches at once obviously human-driven and obviously computer-generated

     https://social.ordinal.garden/@t36s/114661161710502396

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:15 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "All Fours", Void Femmes

     This is the solo project of @lexfeathers, bassist of Waxlimbs (and creator of the "prepared typewriter" piece if you remember me linking that). This EP is a series of off-kilter and incredibly sick dance pieces, swinging industrial deritus and bodies falling from the roof of the factory and clattering thudding to the ground and wait why exactly were they storing bodies up there?

     https://voidfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/all-fours

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:15 JST mcc

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     • Leon ._.

     What I'm listening to today: "ahvenlampi" (deep house edit), phonex (remixed by xavier)

     An ancient tracker scene file named "deep_house_edit.xm" @leona found and showed me. Created January 2000, remixed April 2000. Gorgeous vibes, eurodance dreams, the unique timbral feels of sample trackers used to their utmost, a $50 Casio keyboard reaching for the heavens.

     Click "play".

     https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=153555

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:15 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Canton", Nils Frahm

     Did I mention I really like it when Nils Frahm plays the piano? This piece is so gentle it feels, when he finishes, as if he was never there. A whisper, a bubble. You are aware someone spoke but not a word they said. You wake from a dream and find you can't remember what you dreamed of

     https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/track/canton

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:16 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Pause Tape", JJ Doom

     These sessions by MF DOOM and Jneiro Jarel were recorded during (what was at the time believed to be) a temporary stay in Britain after DOOM got ejected from the US. Jarel's an interesting guy and this deliriously weird B-side I think has the most of his own personality of anything from the collaboration. Is this literally a pause tape? I don't have space to explain what this means but I think this might be a pause tape

     https://mfdoom.bandcamp.com/track/pause-tape

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:16 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Ambient Machine Live 17", Takeo Watanabe

     Can I convince you to take a risk?

     This is a 17 minute set from a series recorded in random remote locations, this one based on a tape machine and pedal looper. The first few minutes are a bit vague— he seems to just be messing around. But he's feeding the looper. Stop paying attention around minute two, leave it in the background, suddenly around minute seven you'll find yourself in another galaxy.

     https://youtu.be/oAPUoFP3yxI?si=4sZ6PZ8s5fnLHCp6

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     What I'm listening to today: "Four", Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds

     Nils Frahm is an artist with whom I am Much Enamored, whose thing mostly is he records albums where all he does is play the piano softly and it's incredibly gripping. Occasionally though Nils dabbles in Electronic Instrumentation and gorgeous ambient music results.

     https://erasedtapes.bandcamp.com/track/four

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:16 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Rogue Fossil", Virus

     This was recommended to me by a Bluesky user after I said I wanted "either metal with jazz drumming or jazz with metal drumming". I'm not sure this is that, but it definitely slaps. This is like if Labradford was satanist, I guess? Or if Tool took pot instead of heroin. Video is like slow hypnosis. Heavy dissonant playing the bass with a pick, close and claustrophic, the entire renaissance faire breathing down your neck

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=220eDjcDSlM

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:17 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Brothers Feel Fly", Dr. Dooom [Kool Keith]

     Kool Keith built his own around fluidly shifting identities with elaborate cover stories, dense wordplay, and sci fi references. So you can maybe understand how he'd feel a LITTLE miffed at Daniel Dumile.

     This is from a run of late 90s albums where Keith was basically constantly going "hey, has anyone else noticed analog synthesizers make incredible noises?!". Always ten years ahead of every trend

     https://koolkeith.bandcamp.com/track/brothers-feel-fly

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:17 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Crumb Snatchers", MF Grimm

     This *incredibly* hardcore 2005 album is an attempt to reconstruct a 1994 debut rap album that got shelved after a shooting left Grimm temporarily unable to see or speak, and permanently in a wheelchair. From there Grimm's career threads erratically through underground rap and comics; notably he was a very early collaborator/booster/roommate of MF DOOM but apparently that artistic relationship ended kinda badly.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkSPQ4TCDY

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:17 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Hush the Crowd", J-LIVE

     This 2003 track was, I think?, recorded while the artist was trying to balance a rap career with working as a public school English teacher, and is basically an anthem for the frustrated artist, or maybe a lovesong to their fans. I am currently in the process of winding down a game studio and the bit here beginning with "Besides, what's your options?" haunts me.

     https://realjlive.bandcamp.com/track/hush-the-crowd

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     What I'm listening to today: "Raedawn", Victor Vaughn [MF DOOM]

     So I think the idea with DOOM was that his various recording names aren't personae, but are supposed to be aliases for the same shadowy supervillain, popping up in different places. Or maybe he was just trying to evade record label contracts. Anyway! Here DOOM goes so hard on the progressive production he breaks through all the way into the genre I keep trying not to describe as "IDM"

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GXOD1I6iY

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:18 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Wabi-sabi", a-symmetric

     This is an "electro-acoustic" ensemble featuring @pangrus , a Merveilles user who makes his own instruments, from an album that mostly sounds like an argument between a digeridoo and a violin at the far end of a train station. This one track is a lovely, evocative melange of what I think of as "shine noises" punctuated by electronic-sounding warbles that feel like jazz music being crushed in a pneumatic press

     https://a-symmetric.bandcamp.com/track/wabi-sabi

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:18 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Pikopiko", neu neu neu

     This is a really nice Japanese post-rock album I hit at random on YouTube. This one track (begins at 3:40 in video) is game boy chiptune noises beautifully integrated into layered guitar and drums carefully tuned to clip but just a *little*. Consider the symmetry between violins and the game boy sound chip. Consider that you wouldn't be able to make out the lyrics even if you spoke Japanese. Ponder the shoes

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIT1rb_tXfg&t=220s

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:18 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "List of Demands (Reparations)", Saul Williams

     Position paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children.

     I was originally gonna post "Grippo" today and make a joke about people reading this feed getting directly called out by the lyrics. But then I just started listening to the album and was like… no. List of Demands

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDMtaIcrfQ0

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:18 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Great Day (Four Tet Remix)", Madvillain [MF DOOM]

     There's this amazing EP where Four Tet remixes MF DOOM's breakout album, and swaps Madlib's grubby funk smoothly out for his own headphones electronica. This one takes what was one of the original album's best tracks to start with and distills something truly transcendental out of it, built on garbled Spanish guitar and almost no beats

     https://madvillain.bandcamp.com/track/great-day-four-tet-remix

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:01:19 JST mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Adder (version)", Blackbird Raum

     The original of this song is slow and wrenching and sung by a woman who sounds on the verge of tears. This version is just screaming, bagpipes and screaming. It is very much The Mood.

     Were I a bird a bull would step on me
     Were I a bull a butcher I would see
     And if I were a butcher, my apron would be clean
     Were I a bird a bull would step on me

     https://blackbirdraum.bandcamp.com/track/adder-version

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     What I'm listening to today: "The Scene is Dead", Dubmood

     Sandblast-your-brain FastTracker2 chiptune electronica track. Just refuses to stop moving for seven minutes. There are so many ideas in this one! The author says they began this track in 2012 and completed it in 2024, so apparently the scene was dying for a very long time.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVcHrL2ZwCM

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     What I'm listening to today: "Space Fall" (part 3.5), r beny

     Most of my musical diet the last 5 years has been YouTube live bedroom synth sets and if anyone got me on this kick, it was r beny, who did it early and, tbh!, best.

     This r beny live set is from a 2021 group concert at the Colorado Modular Synth Society. Opens with clockworky electronica, ends with an intense rework of the song on his YouTube channel as "Waldorf Iridium Ambient". In between: fog-haze ambient

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD5obUv52xQ&t=1579s

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     What I'm listening to today: "Tiny Setup, HUGE Sound: Jungle with the PO-33 KO! + Monotron Delay", Pocket Trax

     The Pocket Operator and Monotron Delay remain the bang-for-buck champions of the desktop synth world, "toy" devices that at one time retailed for $60-80 in the Guitar Center checkout line (…before inflation…) and pair beautifully.

     This shockingly hard track shows just how far you can push these little PCBs. Lightspeed 12-bit drum & bass

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIlK_16Wal8

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     What I'm listening to today: "Wanted", Hiromi

     Some chill loungey jazz by a Japanese pianist and her band. Wonderful feel.

     This is the kind of music that trip hop was processed from and I believe trip-hop fans should listen to some of the raw uncut stuff once in a while, perceive the woman who casts the shadow. Actually I'm not sure there ARE any trip-hop fans under 40. Maybe liking Portishead in 2025 is the equivalent of liking jazz in 1998. But I did like jazz in 1998

     https://hiromimusic.bandcamp.com/track/wanted

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     What I'm listening to today: "When The Catholic Girls Go Camping, The Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme.", GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!

     Basically whenever I listen to Tera Melos, Tidal recommends this next. It's actually a pretty good four-minute primer on "math rock"!

     What is Math Rock, at core? It's jazz. It's just jazz with rock instruments. Or maybe metal with jazz instruments. In the 70s we called this prog, now it's math or post rock. Anyway here's guitar played very fast

     https://giraffesgiraffes.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-catholic-girls-go-camping-the-nicotine-vampires-rule-supreme

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     What I'm listening to today: "The Ocean Floor" (part 1), Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo)

     In Japan, Mario Paint got a sequel for the 64DD (an N64 peripheral that added internet access, mouse support, and a floppy drive). The music for Mario Artist is *amazing*. This track is moody fusion jazz, vaporwave in 1999; it pushes the N64 to the limit, synthesizing most things but then dropping in what seems to be an entire realtime guitar track. (I think part 2 samples Massive Attack.)

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzM_G80xL0c&list=PL-pEm4IqI6c_DfCBqt5VBvR-atgwqTlZB&index=100&pp=iAQB8AUB

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     What I'm listening to today: " DRIVIN' ", Fox Capture Plan

     *Incredibly* funky Tokyo jazz, tons of energy and wild futuristic synths that just slam you from the start like you're a movie character who just opened the forbidden box and it was full of otherworldly light that disintegrates you instantly. But like, in a smooth jazz kinda way. Do you like electric piano

     https://foxcaptureplan.bandcamp.com/track/drivin

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     What I'm listening to today: "Level 3", Jim Andron

     The Phillips CD-I is one of the most infamous video game system failures ever, and it hides a secret: *The CD-I Tetris game had a bizarrely kind of amazing soundtrack.* 10 tracks (I also love "level 0") of the kind of pure vibes "Vaporwave" was trying to chase in the 2010s slowing down 80s r&b. This version comes pre-slowed down! Strange murky easy-listening swamp jazz, general MIDI instruments only

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVEtOL6Kho&list=PLFCp1PLqgPzCrfc4BALfINUs7ueJMkUcP&index=4

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     What I'm listening to today: "4 dollar casio sa5 processed through EQD avalanche run, afterneath and transmisser reverb", Anne Sulikowski

     Gorgeous, slow ambient music composed live on [see above]. Time-lapse video of clouds over cliffs, a cat sleeping for nine hours, chunky kalimba echoing over brainfog. Three blocks away there is a cement mixer running, just at the edge of your hearing, far enough the acoustics of the street turn the grinding into soothing white noise

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5Oqd-JB-8

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     What I'm listening to today: "Slack", Gar Hoover

     Here's the PO-33/Monotron Delay tiny power combo again, making what the musician calls "Chill House" with more than a bit of French touch. Stands out from its genre with some strange sample freaking (is that Paul McCartney??).

     Notice the YouTube synth community pro tactic of leaving some random objects on the desktop for Visual Interest.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18VSdLHR2H8

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     What I'm listening to today: "kickstart my heart", elricfd

     oversaturated brainglaze vaporwave fuck music

     This URL was in a text file on my computer where I must have stashed it at some point. I have no idea what this is and I do not remember where I got it from. Bandcamp informs me this musician is the inventor of "Frasierwave". Ok

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_3D7deeIeY

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     What I'm listening to today: "[You Caught Me] Smilin'", Sly and the Family Stone

     My favorite track from "There's a Riot Goin' On", possibly the most stoned funk album ever made. I have heard so many weird stories about the production of this album, and I don't know which ones are true. Everybody sounds like they just woke up. Everybody sounds like they love making music. The music itself sounds like it's drunk

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfljDrx9Tho