DEPTHS OF THE NET was a
with the intention of posting obscure music every day from all over the musical
sphere that I encounter on my endless safari through the wide world of web,
for two years and counting!
If you own any of this and want me to change or remove it I gladly will,
and though might take me a while to get to them suggestions are also appreciated.
And now for something completely different!
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...SIGNING ON
DoTN has emerged from it's slumber as MEDIA FRAGMENTATION
Daily posts will cotinue for the foreseeable future, plus intermittent download shares, rips, whatnot and what have you.
Come on by sometime!
SIGNING OFF...
It's been a hell of a time running this blog. Being able to explore music and
art in all it's wild forms, and the joy of being able to share it with everyone
else, has meant the world to me. I still don't know how many people checked this
regularly, but I like to think there's as couple people who got introduced to
new music they like and had a good time here. As a result of settling down I've
decided to close DoTN to focus on college and life and whatnot.
DoTN signing off -
Until we meet again,
So long and goodnight.
To anyone arriving here late: I was something of a teenage edgelord when I started this,
so it sort of traces the path of me going from deranged idiot to decent person over the
course of it's run, so tread lightly and try not to judge anything before 2023 too hard.
October 31st, 2023 - Kittynxc - Key 2 My <3 EP
Year: 2020
Label: nightcore4totalsluts
Genre: Nightcore, dance
u could be the key 2 my <3
u could be the one 4 my <3
October 30th, 2023 - Sicko Mobb - Kool Aid
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Bop
I ain't paranoid or shit
It just no foolin me baby
And them nights keep me right
Come cruise with me baby
And I lean like a racer
Watchin' out for my haters
Keep a rifle with a laser
Come cruise with me baby
October 29th, 2023 - Lauren Bousfield - Locked into Phantasy
Year: 2012
Label: none
Genre: Unclassifiable art music
That was everything that I owned
Now abrading
Whole body arched up into the night
Mommy I want horseback riding lessons
Cascading in pale off white
Kneeling down in the street
Here comes everything
October 28th, 2023 - CORDIFORM - ALL NITE
Year: 2014
Label: none
Genre: Nightcore
Oh, winter melts under the summer skies, the summer skies
The seasons change, our hearts will stay the same, yeah, stay the same
We got that burning feeling; start a fire, start a fire
Give it a shout, let's make it hot
Come on, baby
October 27th, 2023 - Ponibbi - HEARTSKIP
Year: 2014
Label: none
Genre: Nightcore
cuz when im w/ u
dont u ever forget
that u make my heart skip <3
October 26th, 2023 - Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Year: 2015
Label: IAMSOUND
Genre: Indie folk, folk rock, Americana
Deep into the night with the moonlight as my guide
I go wander through the pines and make my way to nature's shrines
and I look up to the sky and I know you're still alive,
but I wonder where you are, I call your name into the dark
October 25th, 2023 - Ö, Nömak, A. G. Cook - AFK
Year: 2022
Label: PC Music
Genre: Deconstructed club, IDM
glass shards in vast empty spaces, glittering screen fragments
computer rendered lipgloss gel in jagged simulacra
human beauty in distorted visage
away from keyboard
October 24th, 2023 - Jerobeam Fenderson - Oscilloscope Music
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Electronic, experimental, data sonification
ENTER DIGITAL ANALOG VISION
TECHONOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT REITERATION
TOO MUCH LIGHT
October 23rd, 2023 - 65daysofstatic - Hole
Year: 2005
Label: Monotreme
Genre: Post-rock, math rock, glitch, radio broadcast recordings
The explosion that destroyed our city,
razed our home and turned our fields into wasteland
was nothing compared to what was now happening to those who survived
October 22nd, 2023 - DOSS© - The Way I Feel
Year: 2014
Label: Acéphale
Genre: Dream trance
? i'll tell you if i stay up all night
someone to follow into the night
healing healing
i feel, i feel, i feel ?
October 21st, 2023 - Serious Thugs - Meal for 2 (Raving Kru) - Live at X0YO, London
Year: 2013
Label: none
Genre: Dance-pop, bubblegum bass, euro-trance
this goes out 2 the raving kru
sexy ladies let me see u
sand is gold and the seas r blue
love's on the plate its a meal 4 2
October 20th, 2023 - rojutoma.com - Rosaline
Year: 2013
Label: none
Genre: huh
?? ?^•?•^?
October 19th, 2023 - safetensors - WRONG
Year: 2023
Label: Winds Measure
Genre: Musique concrète, reductionism, ambient
British living room, sofa, chairs, strange furry mammal or large
cocoon or huge crystal structure or large mollusc or large gelatine
cuboid, 1950s
now THIS is the digital art music I've been waiting for, thank you
cave home, domestic, futuristic, house plants, living room, staircase, waterfall, soft lighting, 1960s
October 18th, 2023 - Cassie - Don't Let Go
Year: 2019
Label: none?
Genre: Contemporary R&B
More than my man, you're my homie
Got a lot of shit that you love me through
Ooh, you're the one, you're the only
Got a different smile and it's thanks to you
Be chillin' like a mofo
Even when I'm going loco
You always keep it so cool
Baby, don't let go
October 17th, 2023 - Andrea Polli - Sonic Antarctica
Year: 2009
Label: Gruenrekorder
Genre: Field recordings, spoken word, data sonification, sound art
cold cold cold cold cold cold cold
cold cold cold cold cold cold
cold cold cold cold cold
cold cold cold cold
cold cold cold
cold cold
so cold
October 16th, 2023 - ???? [Yasunao Tone] - Musica Simulacra
Year: 2011
Label: ATAK
Genre: Data sonification, sound art, glitch
4516 poems found in the Man'yoshu ("Ten Thousand Leaves"), apparently
over 2000 hours of recording. Playable on Mac and Windows if you can
score it on CD-ROM or on YouTube a bit more conveniently.
October 15th, 2023 - lilangelboi - Release U
Year: 2014
Label: LOGO
Genre: Nightcore
pretty sure this video isn't official but fuck it it's PERFECT
i'm getting flashbacks to signing along to pop like this with my
vsco aesthetic obssessed middle school best friend, we would've
loved this so much
TONIIIIIIHGHHGHGHTTTTTTTT
October 14th, 2023 - Steve Roden & Brandon LaBelle - The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
Year: 1999
Label: Meme
Genre: Lowercase, minimal
It's like being wrapped in a cold blanket in a cold house
with rain pounding on the roof and fog outside the windows
and the world is small and still and quiet.
Sounds like an owl sleeping outside on a day like that
in a little hollow in a tree coated in moss and lichen
chirring in it's sleep.
October 14th, 2023 - Limewire Boys - What've You Done?
Year: 2017
Label: Ecco Gang Records
Genre: Post-nightcore
prettiest cover i've ever seen
flowers and jpeg compression on foreign flip phones
the world is always getting smaller
October 12th, 2023 - John Hudak and Miguel Angel Tolosa - Garten
Year: 2014
Label: Winds Measure
Genre: Musique concrète, reductionism, ambient
Is your silence too loud? John and Miguel got you covered
with forty minutes of sound art-ish drone that feels like
sleeping dreamlessly beneath a layer of ice in a snowy forest.
Twilight falls; all is silent and the world is still.
October 11th, 2023 - Roger - Unlimited
Year: 1987
Label: Reprise
Genre: Contemporary R&B, synth funk
Synth-fueled funk was the last place I expected to hear
proto-autotune but when I did it hit like a brick with how
ahead of it's time it is. It couldn't sound more 80s if it
tried but is still completely fresh and I'm increasingly realizing
how much modern pop music is ripping off [and butchering] what
this sound achieved on day one.
October 10th, 2023 - Kitty - Frostbite
Year: 2014
Label: none
Genre: Dance pop
As a kid I always imagined going to parties and being a rebellious
teenager and this is probably what I thought it would sound like.
This is dance pop in a perfect world, easily the ultimate culmination
of all the genres it draws from into a single perfect whole that real
life radio dance pop just doesn't hold a candle to. Second Life is
easily the most beautiful, life-affirming thing I've ever heard and
it goes fucking HARD with the DnB production and the ambient interlude.
I choose to be with you in all my lucid dreams
October 9th, 2023 - Tim de Jongh - Shawn Wasabi 8-bit Remakes
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Chiptune
The days are starting to get colder, so might as well hold on
to what little summer is left with some chiptune covering future bass
electronica that's simply radiating warm carefree vibes like stray
beam of sunshine. It's disappointingly short, but two tracks of
sugary pixellated tropical vibes is far better than nothing.
October 8th, 2023 - Кино [Kino] - Группа крови
Year: 1988
Label: Gold Castle
Genre: Post-punk, new wave
Today's contribution comes from someone I met at school and who introduced me
to some albums I never would've heard of otherwise, which is the whole point
of DoTN anyway, right? I can't do justice to his empassioned, literally
banging-on-the-table-for-emphasis retelling of the band's history and
it's relationship with censorship and underground art in the USSR, but
I can say that if you have any interest in post-punk, new wave,
80s rock, or music outside the usual geopolitical entertainment sphere, you
can't go wrong with this.
October 7th, 2023 - DOSS© - Puppy
Year: 2020
Label: LuckyMe
Genre: Dream trance
In 2013, DJ Internet Visions [aka Internet Club] coined the term Puppy Trance
to describe their work, and here it finally comes into it's own, even if only
by pure coincidence. It calls to mind every peaceful, joyful memory in my life
but instead of being sadly nostalgic, it's just uplifting, gathering positive
energy and momentum and throwing you into the future with all this to fuel your way.
Nothing bitter in this sweetness. It's exactly as cute as you could ever want.
October 6th, 2023 - Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom (Lil Data TidalCycles Live Coding Edit) & shantishield - next level charli x taylor #JerseyClub
Year: 2019
Label: none
Genre: Bubblegum bass (vs. algorave + jersey club + kawaii future bass)
Rather than spam this page with my current bubblegum bass obsession,
I'll just cram it all into one day and get it over with. Hopefully
this can show the potential of the genre beyond it's expected
glittery sugary sweetness and sterile mechanical deconstruction,
here thanks to the influence from a couple of other genres. In one
we've got a live coded, computer generated edit of a Charli track
into glitchy, abstracted minimal DnB that feels more cubist than
anything. The second one is a pop/BB mashup, transformed by a jersey
beat into a banger stuck halfway between a late-night club and top-40s
radio play. The last one might as well be experiment of how much can be
done with a single sampled line and the answer is a lot, there's probably
an entire EP worth of material hidden in here somewhere. This concludes
my rambling description, thank you for tolerating me.
October 5th, 2023 - HEXAHEDRONE - DeATh
Year: 2012
Label: none
Genre: Ambient, drone
In 2017 or something this was the first google result for drone music for some
reason, somehow this nobody bandcamp droner hit the absolute jackpot and got to
be the face of the genre for a while, which is just as well since it's a great
introduction to the style. The actual music is probably paulstretch based if the
occassional wooshings are any indication, but if so, it's the best use of the
program I've ever heard. Not totally monolithic, not too active, and the pairing
of this meditative drone with the bonkers cover is just transcendent.
Sleep to this and ascend to the fifth dimension guaranteed.
October 4th, 2023 - Kitty Pryde - JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!!
Year: 2012
Label: none
Genre: Cloud rap
I'm coming to the uncomfortable realization that while I consider Justin
comically overhated but still unlistenable, most things that sample him
come out fantastic and this is the worst manifestation of this trend yet
because it's one of the best cloud rap tracks I've ever heard but is something
I would not show to my friends under any circumstances. Immense respect
to Kitty for making this though, these lyrics over Donkey-Kong sample borderline
witch house is ascendant.
I'm thirteen, what is lean, what is dream pop?
October 3rd, 2023 - Charli XCX - No Angel (Future Guy Remix)
Year: 2022
Label: none
Genre: Future bass
It always seems to me that the EDM-kinda remixes that blow up on YouTube
with millions of views and those with a couple hundred on Soundcloud are
barely different. This genuinely sounds like something that should be
on all of those [blank]Nation channels in the best way, everything good
about future bass and trap and pop with some bubblegum bass sugar glitter
sprinkled on top for good measure, as all party anthems should.
October 2nd, 2023 - Aests - The Classics
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Future funk
Aests is pretty unique among future funkists for the emphasis
they place on chopping. Just extending a portion or looping a chorus
or doing some crazy vocal chops isn't enough for them - more often
then not the whole song is shredded and put back together almost
entirely new. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but RYM considers it glitch
so that ought to say something about what we're dealing with here.
A dose of reinvented city pop energy straight to the
October 1st, 2023 - johto - winter chill•
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Lofi hip hop
There's something deeply satisfying about cookie cutter
lofi hiphop. It's not super innovative or anything but
the energy is like a time capsule of those mid-late 2010s
livestreams before they blew up. If it clicks, it's just a portal
to instant and complete chill. Rainy day recommendation.
September 31st, 2023 - Justin Bieber ft. TRONICBOX - What Do You Mean it's 1985?
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Synthpop, sophisti-Pop
Anyone else know that fake Beatles album from someone who claimed to have
fallen into another universe where they never broke up? This has no such
story attached, but the vibes of another parallel timeline briefly,
bewilderingly, and incredibly intersecting with our own for just long enough
to exchange a mysterious cassette that should not but but that thankfully is.
If this is up your alley, everything TRONICBOX touches is gold, please give
it a shot.
September 29th, 2023 - OtterPocket - This is a plea
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Electronic, noise
If I drop an "electronic" in the genre field you know it's gonna be something
wonky as all hell and here we are, with a bandcamp noise artist no one has heard
of dropping an album of... stuff? The instrumentals reminds me of witch house when
it manages to be identifiable, the drums are more like digital tribal rhythms sometimes,
there's definitely a noisiness looming over the whole thing, and with it's formlessness
it feels like the chaos flowing beneath the surface can suddenly break and the fragile cohension
can be lost. OtterPocket manifests from nowhere and drops us off in unknown, unstable, and
unsafe territory without a word of explanation besides that their house was woodworm and they're
broke. Hope all is well, wherever you are.
September 28th, 2023 - DaymanOurSavior - EXTREME MEME MUSIC MEGAMASHUP
Year: 2014
Label: Winds Measure
Genre: Soundclown, mashup
The fine line between exquisite nostalgia and unspeakable cringe has never been finer
but I'll err on the side of nostalgia. The fact that I encountered stuff like this
alongside more serious experimental music and considered them on par with each other
probably molded me into who I am today, and the outdated memes are overshadowed
by the sheer skill and obvious love put into it. You can TELL Dayman was having a
blast the whole time and that's really the important thing in music.
September 27th, 2023 - Sylvan Grey - Ice Flowers Melting
Year: 1981
Label: Fortuna
Genre: New Age, Finnish Folk Music
Wandering instrumental improvisations mingled with compositions,
the title is very apt; as fragile as ice crystals melting with a breath.
The Kantele sings like a voice of snow and fog and distant
visions of natural wonder. (Maybe I should've waited a couple months before
posting this, since it's also the best Christmas album I know that has
nothing to do with Christmas at all.)
September 26th, 2023 - las gradas del edificio que dan a la fotocopiadora - notas, seguidas de un pequeño refrigerio
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Ambient noise wall?
What a perplexing thing. I love finding releases like this that are like
someone throwing a sculpture at you that is probably meant to represent something,
or maybe it's not a sculpture at all and some kind of machine? Either way the
person who threw it ran away into the crowd so now you're just left with this
incomprehensible assembleage to put on your mantle or throw away or leave for
someone else to find. I'll take the third option so now it's your problem.
It looks Ferrarro-esque and I think I found it through hypnagogic new age circles,
but it sounds way more like Steve Roden peaceful mechanistic clinking and chiming,
and is tagged with all kinds of weird HNW genres I've never heard of.
September 25th, 2023 - unknown acoustic guitar guy - found demos (circa 1996)
Year: 1996 (2023)
Label: A⊗B
Genre: Found sound, singer songwriter
Looks like it's found sound week over here. Awkward pop songs, intensely personal
and endearing and likely not intended for anyone but the artist and their friends to
hear, but at the same time rendered ghostly by their namelessness. Some cassette
specter is belting out goofy acoustic songs from a cozy bedroom outside of space and
time for you without caring whether you're really listening or not. The same label
also has some other found cassette curiosities, and even the normal A⊗B releases
have a heavy aura I can't quite pin down. Possibly cursed.
September 24th, 2023 - themawt - franklin pieces 1 1993-1994
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Rock, folk, lofi
I'm not sure who or what this is or how I found them, but there's something
fascinating about looking through what's essentially someone's private, tape-recorded
demo collection. Together with all the google screenshot covers of houses,
it feels less like an album proper and more like a biography, like I'm sitting
in the next room over and hearing my neighbor practice guitar. Certainly
doesn't hurt that the guy really does know what he's doing, too.
September 23rd, 2023 - Simply Jack - Bump Dis 017: Summer Jackin' in The Winter
Year: 2020
Genre: Electropop
I can personally attest that if you go far enough into experimental music to the point of
listening to like nightcored static and shortwave artifacts or something eventually you
just come out of the other side of the world and just listen to pop again. No idea what
I was looking for to end up here but from the sub-1000 listen underground of soundcloud
comes a sick DJ set of upbeat summer energy that would probably work super well at an IRL
club. Could use a 20% speed boost but I'm not complaining, fun and cool and what more do you need?
September 22nd, 2023 - @sleep.y aka BITCOIN A$$A$$IN AKA YUNG CRYPTOCURRENCY
Year: 2017-2018
Genre: Instrumental hip hop
Always a good day when I turn over some digital rock and find
something unexpected, unexplained, or just plain rare underneath.
Today's one of those days, so I hope you enjoy three rare lofi hiphop
tracks from a producer who, to the best of my knowledge, has vanished without
a trace he was ever here. Who knows what he's up to now. winter [bump] is
genuinely one of my favorite lofi tracks, as smooth and chill as it gets,
rus.avi x ganjasalad is just plain weird since, I've never heard another
lofi artist do that kinda stutter effect or rely so much on noise.
I threw in his PFP and track art for songs that have since vanished into the ether.
Hope @sleep.y's having a good day wherever he is.
September 21st, 2023 - The Sick Kitten
Year: 1903
It's proto-cat video time again, and this time with
historical significance to boot: this short film actually
has the first documented close-up shot in cinema ever,
and it's of a kitten. The world makes me smile sometimes.
some commentary from the catland gang
September 20th, 2023 - Winter Carousel - Works 2001-2006
Year: 2001-2003?
Genre: Noise, experimental
Winter Carousel was a playful noise/experimental duo from
the 00s influenced by whimsical vintage animation, stagework,
and entomology. Aspiring to being "cute, poppy and kid-like,"
their produced some truly unique music, and although their
insect-costume antics and aggressive, surreal songs seem to be
almost completely forgotten, I took the liberty of creating
a kinda discography compilation (or at least as can best be
scraped together from all over the internet 20 years after the
fact) to shed some light on these weirdos.
September 19th, 2023 - Francisco López - DSB
Year: 2020
Label: Oporto
Genre: Musique concrète, sound collage, field recordings
It's like being in a submarine in the middle of
an active warzone, either under fire or crushing
paranoia, completely alone with only cold automated
systems and dimly glowing screens for company.
It's rare that field recordings are so visceral
and real but I have difficulty believing this
is a collage of normal recordings and not something
out of the belly of the war machine.
September 18th, 2023 - 清水靖晃 [Yasuaki Shimizu] - 案山子 (Kakashi)
Year: 1982
Label: Better Days
Genre: Art pop, jazz fusion, post-minimalism
I won't waste your time with a summary today besides to say that
nothing takes me a simple happy place quite like this. There's
magic here and even if you hate the music somehow just look at the
cat, it makes my day just thinking about it. セミ取りの日 is genuinely
one f my favorite tracks of all time. That's all. Goodnight
September 17th, 2023 - Cool ✨ Teens - Beautiful Daydream
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Electropop
I'll say it without a shred of irony or shame that Roses by the Chainsmokers
is against all odds a piece of electropop perfection, the epitome of
mid '10s nostalgia, forever frozen in a VSCO-filter soaked 2015 summer.
Cool Teens (with a little help from BFF) gives it a fitting
revamp as an NxC-style future bassish bouncy pop banger, all the better
to capture whatever that era means for you. Actually, forget that,
it's the sound of the summer every summer, or more like a rose-tinted (unintentional)
memory of your favorite summer. Maybe it's even more fitting that I post this as school
kicks back up and the days are getting colder. We could be beautiful~
September 16th, 2023 - Moss Memory - Enter the Forest
Year: 2019
Label: none
Genre: Noise
Wouldn't it be cool if we had a genre name for this kind of sound?
I propose micronoise. Noise music with a focus on quiet, organic
sounds, not clean like onkyo or minimal like lowercase, but just
small, mildewy, living, damp and dusty sounds like looking through
a microscope at some microscopic world covered in lichen.
If micronoise were to exist, I think this is as good an example as any.
Lush but low fidelity, dripping, surreal noisescapes of soft anxiety
like falling asleep on a bed of moss, vaguely aware of
some looming threat but overwhelmed by hallucinatory comfort.
Inhale spores.
September 15th, 2023 - Motohiko Hamase (浜瀬元彦) - Intaglio
Year: 1986
Label: Shi Zen
Genre: Jazz fusion, post-minimalism, ambient
Jazz is actually a genre I have little (like, no) experience with.
Listening to this was genuinely like walking around on a foreign planet.
Everything is dreamlike and alien but feels just like home in a million
new colors and shapes. Can't tell if it's the genre or just this album
but it's an experience and a half.
September 14th, 2023 - Woo - Into the Heart of Love
Year: 1990
Label: none
Genre: New age, psychedelic folk, ambient pop
I won't lie, I'm just posting this for "Make Me Tea." Sorry if I get
personal on here ever, but a lot of my past folk / indie posts were
kind of emo and bittersweet because they were related to my loneliness which
was because I was looking for meaning in the wrong places. Lately though I've
had a kind of epiphany and realized where I should look for meaning and what actually
makes me happy and songs like this embody that. For the first time in a long time I'm
not yearning or fantasising, but finding happiness in the things that I really am and care about.
I would invite you all over for tea if I could and we could sing some nice songs and you
can listen to me rave about owls for a while and I can listen to what things you think about.
September 13th, 2023 - Chris Marker - An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl
Year: 1990
Genre: Experimental
An owl is an an owl.
An owl is an owl is an owl. An owl.
That's owl, folks!
(God, I love this so much. So many of my central memories
are set in nature preserves and aviaries, memories covered in fog
and rain and blurry surrealism only replicable with VHS fuzz
and low fidelity, and this cuts straight to the core of what
makes me tick. I like to think that if you peeled my soul down
like the layers of an onion all you'll find at the center is
something like this. Who is who? Who is whoooooo?)
September 12th, 2023 - Jim Andron - Tetris (CD-i) Original Soundtrack
Year: 1992
Label: Philips
Genre: Video game music, lounge, new age
I can safely say that 98% of vaporwave albums are abject failures at
evoking nostalgia compared to this hidden masterpiece of VGM, BGM, and
sequencer music in general. Somewhere between the soundfont, the
low bitrate, and the lovely melodies themselves shine the light of the
past's future, or the future's past, an imagining of simple times to come
or that once were, captured and contained and quietly powerful in it's,
god I can't really do it justice. I don't think I spent my childhood
playing games like this, but I *feel* like I'm sitting in a 90s computer
room, light shining in the window, discovering the internet and computer
games and everything the 21st century had to offer. I finally understand that
"nostalgia for a life I've never lived" that everyone is going on about in
vaporwave comment sections that I always assumed was an exaggeration, but
honestly it's palpable. Bravo, Jim. Good work.
September 11th, 2023 - Timothy Leary, Ph.D. - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Year: 1966
Label: ESP
Genre: Spoken word, sound collage, guided meditation?
Good old Timothy Leary. It's rare that ideals of peace and love can make
"The Most Dangerous Man in America," but listening to this it's easy to
see how fascinated and excited this could make a young and curious generation
hungry for change and meaning, and also how older generations viewed him as
all but a terrorist. I can't tell if the hippies won or not; the machine
they tried to dismantle pretty much absorbed them like a white blood cell
with a pathogen, but much like virus DNA can find new life in it's host, part
of the hippie spirit has definitely left a permanent mark on the collective
consciousness, at least in America. One way or another, it's worth it to hear
it from the man who was convinced he had one chance in ten to enlighten the world.
Also if this isn't your speed, there's a version by the same new a few years earlier
that was actually a completely different record, this time a musically accompanied
guided LSD trip complete with 60s editing and SFX. It's unintentially silly and
aged kind of funnily, but it's quite the experience taken as it is.
September 10th, 2023 - Le roman de Renard [The Story of the Fox]
Year: 1937
Genre: Fantasy, comedy, puppet animation
Although this page is mostly music, sometimes something special comes
up, which is the case here so surprise movie night time. Most early
films I've checked out have age moderately to poorly, either supported
by the novelty of the medium alone or outdated references and humor, winding
up more or less obsolete. This is a delighful exception. Turns out the story
of a trickster fox outsmarting just about everyone and leaving a trail of
mischief and chaos in his wake is as old as time, and the humor in this often hasn't
aged a day.
September 9th, 2023 - Iglooghost - Clear Tamei
Year: 2018
Label: Gloo
Genre: Drill'n'bass, wonky, bubblegum bass, glitch hop
I know Iglooghost isn't the most obscure, but when I first heard this
it blew my mind all over the fucking wall and after spending years
immersed in the most out-there electronic stuff imaginable, it still
sounds like it was made in the 2170s, maybe 2160s at the absolute earliest,
not the year of our lord twenty fuckin eighteen. It is absolutely full
to the brim with more sounds than most dense sound collages I know and is more
chaotic than any 90% of mashcore out there and it's a rare and blessed release with this
kind of ethereal beauty, all in one clean 4:20 (seriously) dose of auditory
(also the music video makes my feel physically sick, it's great but abstractly nauseating,)
OK I'll just shut up now but POINT IS if you're an eletronic music nerd this song is pretty much crack
have fun
September 8th, 2023 - 1 - Recovery
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Experimental, glitch
I found an experimental musician in the wild!!!
Actually he found me when I was stealing coffee from
the college cafeteria, somehow word of my audacity
adventures somehow made it's way through the grapevine
(how? I have no idea) and we spent the next while talking
about genres and stuff, it was fun and I want you to listen
to it. It reminds me most of some of the insane musique
concrete stuff from the 1960s that nevertheless managed
to sound futuristic even today, only more digital and repetitive
which isn't a problem if it sounds as sick as this.
Go support my boy Ryan (or whatever his name was, I forgot already)
September 7th, 2023 - AC/PC - Stairway to Heaven
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Hyperpop, glitch pop, DnB, folk rock
There is NOTHING I love more than the most insane, absurd,
stupid ideas being pulled off with full knowledge of it's
absurdity but without one iota of irony or crumb of cynicism,
just unadulterated love for music that in a logical universe
should not be. That about takes us to Stairway to Heaven,
the most underrated overrated song of all time, reborn as
a trance-fueled breakbeat-backed PC music masterpiece. If you
time travelled and played this at a Zepplin concert there
would be fatalities. If you played this at a concert nowadays
there would probably also be fatalities.
September 6th, 2023 - Unknown artists - Music from a Kwale Cell Phone: Sengenya Festival
Year: 2023
Label: Dagoretti Records
Genre: Kenyan music, ethnomusicology, field recordings
Another one I have little cultural context for but fuck it,
the world's a massive place and I refuse to stick with just
one corner of it when there's stuff like this out there.
Passed anonymously from cell phone to cell phone before finally
winding up in sound collagist hands, the low fidelity, crowd
noise, and music itself create an impossibly intense atmosphere
to lose yourself in. It's an exciting listen that does an excellent
job at capturing the feeling of the festival and I'd recommend
reading the description too. I've been interested in ethnomusicology
even before I got into experimental music, and making or collecting
recordings like this would be a dream come true.
September 5th, 2023 - GOTH GIRL - DEATHMASK
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Harsh noise
Some people keep diaries, some make scrapbooks, GOTH GIRL
screams through blasted-out electronics every day for
a year. It seems very cathartic to make and listen to and
the short tracks makes it far more enjoyable than most massive
noise comps. I'd actually recommend it as a stepping stone for
anyone new to harsh noise; I'd hesitate to call it fun because
of it's catharctic, violent inspiration but there's definitely
a lot to get out of it.
September 4th, 2023 - relief - sounds for bathroom
Year: 2017
Label: none
Genre: New age
The title sounds silly but just give it a shot, I promise.
relief is an aptly chosen name, since somewhere in these
slow peaceful sounds is a little door to an endless garden
where everything is quiet and still. I'd recommend closing
your eyes for it's under 9 minute runtime and see what
mundane, peaceful memories might come back. It reminds me of
walking outside as a kid. If you're in a rush, the first two
tracks are best IMO.
September 3rd, 2023 - Annapurna Devi - Debut Surbahar Recital (New Delhi, 1950)
Year: 1950 (released 2008)
Label: none
Genre: Hindustani classical music
Hopefully this doesn't sound disrespectful, but I can't
tell if this bootleg from 1950 hit the James Ferraro aesthetic
(hypnotic sound, low fidelity, compressed B&W slightly-off
cassette shaped cover, dreamlike atmosphere) right on the head,
or if what hypnagogic pop has been searching for all this time
was epitomized by complete accident decaded prior and we're just
trying to get it back. I don't think the fact that this feels
so surreal has to do entirely with my unfamiliarity with the genre.
September 2nd, 2023 - Tim Hart & Maddy Prior - Folk Songs of Old England Vol. 1
Year: 1968
Label: Tepee
Genre: English folk
After hearing lots of neo/psych/avant/modern folk I went into
this just trying to explore more traditional music and see what's
at the roots, not really expecting it to connect, but to my
surprise I could not find a single bad song, and it ranges from
light comedy, sailing songs, to dark fairy tales in a single
cohesive listen. If any kind of folk is up your alley, I'd suggest
giving it a shot; at worst it gives some context for the soil from
which other styles formed, at best you'll find a new path to
travel down.
September 1st, 2023 - HARDCURE - Hardcore Guided Meditation, Vol. 1 ⚕️
Year: 2019
Label: none?
Genre: Hardcore, noise, ambient
This unironically works for destressing because it's
hard to worry about much when your brain has been reduced
to the consistency of mush. It's incredible that this novelty
single genuinely has more energy packed into it than 95%
of hardcore out there, and the three bonus tracks are sort
of filler but if you're more a noise-ambient enjoyer maybe
give them a listen but just remember CHILL the FUCK OUT
just CALM the FUCK DOWN
August 31st, 2023 - Various - Nobody Like You When You're 23 Artists Covering the Same Song
Year: 2020
Label: Chirp Records
Genre: Indie, emo, pop punk
The dedication to the concept is immense and it goes from genuinely good
to funny to overdone to please god make it stop to transcendent. I've never
loved an album so much that could just as easily be used for psychological
torture. What the hell is call ID?
August 30th, 2023 - thescientist - Popcore
Year: 2011
Label: none
Genre: Dance pop, nightcore
I could not imagine anything more unreasonably perfectly 2011 than this,
it feels like the kind of thing that could only be made in retrospect
a decade later to capture the spirit of the era but it's here,
it's real, and it's magnificent. All the overplayed early '10s pop
hits, nightcored and mixed with rave and breakbeat samples into
a 20 minute wall of rave for a new generation. I'm getting flashbacks
to being at the skate rink as a little kid when some of these were
on the radio, all around good vibes.
August 29th, 2023 - feelsreel - COVERED IN SQUID INK, MOUTHFUL OF PUPPY CHOW
Year: 2023
Label: First Aid Kitten Records
Genre: Outsider emo, scenecore
There's an increasing trend in fifth wave emo to make releases
so personal and idiosyncratic that almost no one but the artist
can fully understand it and it feels almost like an invasion
of privacy to listen to. Stuff like this makes no attempt to
follow patterns or make itself comprehensible or approachable
to the listener, presumably combining everything that the artist connects
with at a spiritual level (here being a jumble of spoken word, chiptune,
kitten-like screamo, and scene fixation) into a whole that has so much
deeply special about it that it's tricky to describe. I'd say
Garden Angel exemplifies this style, but feelsreel is part of their
expanding crew and does it as well as anyone and it succeeded admirably
in it's goal to make me "giggle or like smile or soemthing ok".
Thank you, feelsreel <3
Hello Seattle, I am a mountaineer
In the hills and highlands
I fall asleep in hospital parking lots
And awake in your mouth
August 28th, 2023 - Unknown artist - Bring back my kitty to me
Year: 1890 - 1929
Label: none
Genre: Acapella, childrens music
Today I discovered an incredible resource, an archive of over 15,000
cylinders recorded from the 1890s to the 1920s containing just about every
kind of music, speech, and daily ephemera from over a hundred years ago you
could imagine. Spoken letters, birdsong, conversation, bands, and all manner
of music, mostly home-recorded, which gives it a special, strange atmosphere.
Thousands of lofi, unique, mostly home recordings, completely abandoned by
time and often left stripped of context or origin - I wouldn't say it's eerie,
but it gives off the same feeling as staring overboard into a black ocean.
Hopefully this one captures the spirit of the archive well - at once charming,
cute, a bit chilling, and just a fragment snipped from someone's life and washed
up on the digital shore.
August 27th, 2023 - Forest - Full Circle
Year: 1970
Label: Harvest
Genre: Psychedelic folk
Never have I gone from not knowing of a band's existence
to having a new favorite album in the span of 43 minutes
before, but here we are. The world it creates is quaint,
mysterious, full of childlike joy and celebration
immediately adjacent to existential fears and all wrapped
up by the swirling sound of drunken ministrels around
a fire. "Do Not Walk in the Rain" is almost folk pop (circa 1970,)
"Famine Song" is a sparse but beautifully harmonic acapella,
and I'll leave the rest of the nooks and crannies and unmarked
forest pathways for you to find on your own. This month's highlight for sure.
Childhood came to me again, dust and cobwebs left a pain
That ploughed the furrows of the dead
And burning woodsmoke filled my head
August 26th, 2023 - EchoDDT - I Miss My Little Runaway (Please Run Back To Me)
Year: 2019
Label: DMT Tapes
Genre: Synthwave emo
Yes, I will keep on posting DMT Tapes monthly until you like it.
That being said, this is not their usual vaporwave fare: EchoDDT
brings together a vaporwave ethos, pop punk background, synthwave
stylings, emo lyricism, and a 90s club fascination into a single,
neon, glamourous, glow-in-the-dark whole. It's like sobbing while
circling at top speed at the skate rink and deserves to be taking
over the charts with it's retro-future-parallel-timeline energy and
not sitting on DMT with like 200 listeners max. Life isn't fair it
seems, but at least we've got a hell of a tune going on.
August 25th, 2023 - Microstoria - _snd
Year: 1996
Label: Thrill Jockey
Genre: Ambient, glitch
Absolutely incredible, this record nailed the
post-internet aesthetic that would blow up a-la 7FORM
20 years later, in 1996. That might as well be post-internet,
pre-internet (not really but shhh), point is this is nothing
short of visionary in visuals and sound alike. Restrained, corporate,
human, and meditative all come to mind but don't really capture it.
It's like the inside of a sleeping information network, the peaceful
dreams of a T-Mobile server in a mall's basement. Cold and soothing
and warmly inhuman in one zen whole.
August 24th, 2023 - deadxbug - i was born and i died the same day
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Emo rap
This one has a really interesting interplay with yesterday's emo rap.
That one was genuinely naive and homemade, whereas this one is sort of
too, but very conscious of it. Not that it's insincere, it just knows
what it's doing, which is merging bedroom pop sounds (deadxbug is better
known under their bedroom pop moniker bedbug) into a hip hop context
and creating something unbelievably chill and greater than the sum of it's
parts. Between the super autotuned vocals and the super lofi production and
the super cutesy sounds (I think the first one samples Animal Crossing !!)
it's an instant favorite in my book and I hope you like it too.
August 23rd, 2023 - sørrowful tears - death to my heart
Year: 2019
Label: none
Genre: Emo rap
I've heard plenty of emo rap, but none of it has
quite this peculiar energy. Thematically and production
wise it's completely by the numbers for the genre - breakups,
angst, general emoisms, cloudy beats - but there's something
naive and endearing about it. There's pretty much not a rhyme
on the entire thing, it might as well be freestyled at some
points, the singing is autotuned to the max and still goes
out of tune, and it's lyrically as blunt and 7th-grade-diary as humanly
possible. This might make it suck in some people's minds, but when I go
to emo rap this is just the vibe I need. I wonder where sørrowful tears is now.
August 22nd, 2023 - 4Dboy - Wizard
Year: 2011
Label: none
Genre: Chiptune
Some sweet, old skool style chiptune beats, apparently
made with actual hardware, and it shows in the authentic
sound as much as 4Dboy's obvious love for what he does.
2011 and 1991 merge into a single prophesied whole
not to be misses. I can just imagine him sitting on his floor, surrounded
by old game systems and clunky computers banging out the tunes
from the bottom of his 8-bit soul. You go, man.
August 21st, 2023 - Six in the morning - Like a G6 in the morning
Year: 2019
Label: 218
Genre: Glitch, plunderphonics
While my opinion may be swayed by the fact that G6 is a masterpiece,
I think you'll like this even more if you hate it. Hearing the sound of
the early '10s being mutilated and reinvented in something between a YTP
and glitch music is just magical, and I know in my heart that this would have gone
insanely hard in an actual club back when the original dropped. Whoever 6iTM is,
you're either nuts or brilliant, good job. (Wait wait actually holy shit, is this live?
Did you do this live?? If so, I could only imagine the energy in the room where
this manifested.)
August 20th, 2023 - From First to Last - Emily (UV Remix)
Year: 2011
Label: none
Genre: Dubstep, emo
If this isn't the most 2011 thing I've ever heard, what is?
An emo classic, completely unironically worked into brostep.
The growling club-ready (but very dated) electronics completely
clash with the lovely acoustic guitar loop, or at least should,
but instead it feels like a choreographed battle sequence.
Just wait until you hear the vocal chopping. Also fun fact, Skrillex
played in From First to Last, which is presumably why this happened.
Thank god it did.
August 19th, 2023 - Claudia Sheffner - Logic Dissolution, Burial of the Daywalkers
Year: 2019
Label: ubiquitous anomalies
Genre: Vaporwave
The entire history of western music comes together into a
titanic beast of unknowable beauty and elegance, which immediately
collapses under it's own weight into a mangled, shambling
mass pulling itself everywhere at once, pleading to be killed
with half of it's mouths and laughing with the others. Maybe
I'm overstating it, but you know those harsh noise sets that
are pretty much yanking wires, flailing, and electronic violence?
This is like if you combined that energy with a classical
radio DJ. I really, really wonder what a live performance
of something like this would look like.
August 18th, 2023 - Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ Ｄｉｇｉｔａｌ - Ｗａｓｔｅｄ Ｄｉｇｉｔａｌ
Year: 2015
Label: DMT Tapes
Genre: Vaporwave
Late night drives on empty highways, exhaustion basked in
the light of a fuzzy television signal, telephone networks
playing hold music to each other endlessly, and dreamlike
half-real cityscapes are some of the fragmentary visions
embedded in the sludgy surface of this late night lofi journey
from deserted memory to deserted memory. Utter isolation
has never felt so warm and soft. Maybe it's safe to shut your eyes
for a moment.
August 17th, 2023 - Pacific Purgatory - momotaro (samothraki) demo tape
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Indie rock
There's plenty of indie music out there that bares it's
heart wide to the world, but little that does it as completely
and infectiously as this. It's less self-expression as much as
explosive decompression, a blast of the human condition
straight from Pacific Purgatory's struggling, beautiful soul
as filtered through lofi guitars, surf rock, and idiosychratic
poetry. Stay strong, man. I love you.
August 16th, 2023 - σníkα - b♥f♥fs
Year: 2014
Label: none
Genre: Bubblegum bass
Out of all the bubblegum bass out there, I have not
been able to find a single track quite like
this one. Instead of an electropop or deconstructed club
or other influence, it's built around a cute but completely
nonmusical spoken word and features EDM builds taken completely
out of context, a completely abstract song structure, and
despite everything avoids feeling experimental at all, seemingly
just as natural and coherent as a radio pop song. Really something
special, a flash in the pan of a parallel universe's music scene
briefly intersecting with our own in 2014 and never being seen again,
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August 15th, 2023 - Unknown Caller - inevitable destruction of the universe mixtape 2k18
Year: 2018
Label: DMT Tapes
Genre: Vaporwave
In another, better world, when hardvapour reared it's ugly head,
this is what it sounded like instead. The rawring twenties hit
two years early in a plunderphonics hellworld fit for
summoning rituals in a 7/11 parking lot. If nothing else,
the description is a holy text to me, please read it.
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August 14th, 2023 - persona - yuiy7u8i6
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Electronic
Techno bliss, evoking memories and hopes and blending it
all together into a timeless notion where all is beauty and
the world is still for two minutes and twelve seconds.
It would perfectly fit some kind of emotional montage,
a bit bittersweet but with a bright future looming ahead.
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August 13th, 2023 - w3bcam - im dreaming me n u r forever
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Ambient pop, ambient trance
Between 2geevvvrrrrr from a couple days ago, this, and some PC Music stuff,
the concept of recreating pop songs as ambient masterpieces is one of the best
musical ideas in recent history. Never thought Justin Beiber would sound like
drifting through the stratosphere disembodied in bliss, but here we are.
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August 12th, 2023 - Glitter Fortress - Spiraling Blacklight Party
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Nightcore
94 tracks of nightcored trap, trance, and EDM to lose yourself in.
Like seriously, there should be a warning on this thing, it's absolutely
monolithic and I could easily spend the next few months just processing it.
If you click with this kind of sound, this just might be the motherlode.
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August 11th, 2023 - Microsoft Phones Design - Tones 2013
Year: 2013
Label: Microsoft
Genre: SFX, electronic
Maybe I'm just a sucker for clean sound design or corporate aesthetics
but this is more fun than an official Nokia ringtone mixtape should ever be.
A couple legitimately threw me off with how out there they were and I would
probably listen to them as full songs if given no other context.
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August 10th, 2023 - love again - 2geevvvrrrrr
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Ambient
And if yesterdays post takes pop perfection into the realm
of low fidelity bedroom recorded tenderness, this takes it
the opposite direction, right to the rarefied atmosphere at
the edge of heaven and earth where even the ice freezing
in your lungs has a beauty all it's own. A realization of
Carly Rae Jepsen's potential as the blissful end credits
of existence itself. Digital euphoria.
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August 9th, 2023 - qt2f - ag cook superstar hehehe im qt2f
Year: 2021
Label: none
Genre: Acoustic emo
The original A. G. Cook track is one of the most uplifting
unreal works of electronic and / or pop music I have ever heard,
never quite dropping but building and building energy that it just
leaves you with at the end to do with as you please. This version
flips it right on it's head and turns it into a heartrending
acoustic rendition, tripping over itself and almost being lost
in it's own lofi recording as much as the original soars in it's
studio clarity. It just makes me wanna give qt2f a hug, honestly.
Hope all is well.
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August 8th, 2023 - Starset - Vessels
Year: 2017
Label: Razor & Tie
Genre: Alternative rock
Far far from obscure, but most people here haven't heard it
and I'd be happy to get another pair or two of ears on it.
Between the soaring cinematic melodies, dramatic but heartfelt
lyrics, and constant cosmic metaphors, it's about as blunt as
rock gets, but the sheer lack of subtlety is more than compensated
by it's power. Musically there's more going on than meets the eye too
(time signature screwery, lots of electronic mingling,) I was huge into
this in middle school, and out of everything I liked
this this aged the best.
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August 7th, 2023 - SleepResearch_Facility - Stealth
Year: 2012
Label: Cold Spring
Genre: Dark ambient, isolationism
Made using recordings in the hangar of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
during maintance, this dark ambient release evokes high technology,
encrypted signals, classified datum, unerring precision, and a distant,
frigid humanity behind it all. It's like the murmurs of a sleeping
military data grid.
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August 6th, 2023 - MeowSynth
Year: 2009
My life is complete. I feel like I've done everything
there is to do and this entire playlist is the theme
to being able to sit back and relax. I hope you enjoy
it as much as I do.
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August 5th, 2023 - KATY PERRY FT. HATSUNE MIKU - FIREWORKS (DJ SUPERMONKEYBALL REMIX)
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Techno, vocaloid
There hasn't been a vocaloid release here yet, I think, a deficiency
in desperate need of correction. Vocaloid is not a world I'm very far
into but you don't need to be to appreciate the joy of hearing pop
tunes sung by a cute robot, especially on a simple but sweet techno
beat like this.
Also the original rocks in it's own right, the weird blurred line of electronic
and acapella is really interesting!
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August 4th, 2023 - Unlabeled / unidentified files mixtape
Year: 2016-2023?
It's another self-shilling episode! This time it's a compilation of various unlabeled files
from my hard drive. Someone found one of the songs, but the rest remain unidentified. Featuring
ambient, indie folk, vaporwave, breakcore, DnB, and MIDI, it's unlikely the rest will be found
(most probably never saw a real release, wherever I picked them up from is anyone's guess)
but that's part of the charm in the end. Enjoy!
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August 3rd, 2023 - Afterbirth - Who's In There?
Year: 1988
Label: Boom Shanka Records
Genre: Heavy metal
A handful of teenage lunkheads get together in their garage and
try their hand at heavy metal. I can only imagine how incredible this
sounded in their minds but the end result is nothing short of outsider.
There's a song about a teacher they hate that calls him a "faggot french fry,"
immediately followed by a guitar solo based on "Mary Had A Little Lamb."
Despite the different genres I'm reminded of Night Dolls with Hairspray if
it was 100% genuine and made by a band with a brain cell between the three of them.
Rock on, you glorious bastards.
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August 2nd, 2023 - Various - Crack III - Lost Juke/Footwork Compilation
Year: 2014
Label: None
Genre: Juke, footwork
During the period after Myspace's relevance and before it's total collapse,
their servers were rotting away, managed by a company that seemingly couldn't
care less, and which left it vulnerable to glitches that allowed once-private
tracks from imeem (a 2003-2009 social media network bought by Myspace) to show
up in searches, allowing this dedicated user to collect a vault of lost historial
footwork available essentially no where else. While I can't exactly claim to get the full effect given
my utter inexperience with the genre, it's easy to get something out of this
time capsule. Capturing the real underground sound of the genre in that era, it's
way less conventionally dancy and goes farther into experimentation than a good deal
of intentionally experimental albums, and much of it has never been formally released,
instead being passed around as mp3s and unheard for years before being dug up for these comps.
Real raw DIY shit.
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August 1st, 2023 - 500 - Home & You
Year: 2020
Label: Genome 6.66 Mbp
Genre: Ambient trance
In the late 2010s and really spawning in 2020 seems to be a
kind of nameless post-trance scene that neglects danceability
and sometimes percussion entirely in favor of creating some of the
most lovely sounds I think I will ever hear. It's as delicate as a
flower and as faded as a dear memory and as strong as an angel
with a sword of flame. Words falter to describe how I feel about this
but I suppose inner peace and divine homecoming is as good as any.
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July 31st, 2023 - Noism - ±
Year: 2008
Label: Crucial Blast
Genre: Cybergrind
What's pretty special about this is that it's every basic component of metal,
gutted and rearranged into the most rapid-fire, dangerously condensed version
of itself imaginable. There are extratone albums faster, grindcore albums noisier,
experimental albums louder, but where it shines is that all of the elements are
unmutilated, unmodified, just rearranged in utter recognizability in utterly the
wrong ways. It doesn't even sound angry or aggressive in it's speed/intensity,
it's as mathematical and sterile an endeavor as the cover would imply, which I mean
entirely positively.
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July 30th, 2023 - Robert Bearns & Ron Dexter - The Golden Voyage Vol. 1
Year: 1977
Label: Awakening Productions
Genre: New age
"The Golden Voyage... Experience
A Galactic Exploration Through Celestial Harmonics
A Totally New, Unique Concept In Stereophonic S-O-U-N-D Frequencies
He who seeks the golden ring must reach for it
Fly the crystal carousel through a temple garden
Become the orchestra of creation, while a tapestry of delicately woven melodies aloft you into the Quasars."
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July 29th, 2023 - kittenmilk - Kindergarten
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Twee, acoustic
Super naive twee, acoustic guitar with just a couple notes
and childish lyrics to match the album cover. I don't think
twee gets any more concentrated and DIY than this but it's
just perfect as what it is. If nothing else, "anything 4 u"
ought to bring a smile to your face.
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July 28th, 2023 - The Smiths - This Charming Man (GHOST DATA Remix)
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Aether pop, dreamsynth
Thought I dreamed this when I remembered it in the morning since it was such
a specific combination of two artists I love but never thought would intersect
in a million years and haven't been happier to be proven wrong. Turns out that
This Charming Man is backed just as well by soaring synthwave as by jangle pop.
It's rare that synthwave confronts it's 80s obsession this head on and even stranger
that the result of 80s song + 80s worship genre ended up in musical territory
completely beyond its influences, I don't think we'll catch up to it for some time to come.
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July 27th, 2023 - fanks - she big on my time til i rush
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Acoustic
I can't tell if this is a wonderful testimony to the fact that there's
a tender and heartfelt core to be found in almost anything or the fact
that my standards are dropping to record lows. That said, this Big Time
Rush cover is one of the most charming tracks I've found in a while.
Makes me smile and reminds me that it'll all be alright in the end.
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July 26th, 2023 - Unknown ("The Journey Ends")
Year: Pre-1999
Label: none
Genre: Rock
It turns out that behind the "most mysterious song on the internet"
phenomenon lies an entire community dedicated to unearthing and identifying
unknown songs and rogue scraps from all over the internet. Many of these
have been found, but far more have not yet been uncovered and even more
remain almost totally unknown, collected on the handful of youtube accounts
dedicated to archiving such things. One of these is "The Journey Ends," whose
fragmented lyric is an almost perfect description of the unidentified song
phenomenon itself.
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July 25th, 2023 - Jedwill1999 + Fraxiom - Garfieldcore
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Hyperpop, experimental hip hop
2020 was a different time. The "garfy / iCarly" line was the most visceral
musical experience I have had in recent memory, it sounds like someone had
a gun to his head and was forcing him to freestyle about fucking garfield.
If I had a stroke while listening to this I probably wouldn't notice.
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July 24th, 2023 - Oda - Face to Face
Year: 2004?
Label: Avex
Genre: Eurobeat
Subtly beat-driven ambience, completely coated with percussion and
changing sounds but somehow as hypnotic and sprawling as the purest drone.
It's like walking in a garden. I wish there were places with empty rooms
and green fields and completely clear skies to play this in.
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July 23rd, 2023 - chang s - Furl Retail UR/UX
Year: 2014
Label: Psalmus diuersae
Genre: Ambient, glitch
Subtly beat-driven ambience, completely coated with percussion and
changing sounds but somehow as hypnotic and sprawling as the purest drone.
It's like walking in a garden. I wish there were places with empty rooms
and green fields and completely clear skies to play this in.
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July 22nd, 2023 - mich - lucky one
Year: 2017
Label: none
Genre: Indie folk
Life is too short for me to be embarassed of my fondness
for blatant soft uwu tumblr aesthetic indie music.
If you were in middle school when this kind of sound blew
up you would be too, and more of it holds up than you'd expect.
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July 21st, 2023 - flipnoteanimation12709 - flipnoteanimation12709
Year: 2020
Label: Sunligh Records
Genre: Plunderphonics
As someone who grew up largely in the 2010s and recorded samples through
my computer speaker before I knew about youtube to mp3, it hits a special
kind of home. The spirit of mislabeled low-quality Kazaa and Limewire mp3s lives on.
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July 20th, 2023 - @wintercouplet (Media Human)
Year: 2019
Label: 7FORM
Genre: Ambient, SFX
There's just something so peaceful about these, it's like the
sound effects for a hypermodern sterile-white utopian smart home
or operating system designed for spiritual balance. Shouts out to
soulseek for life.
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July 19th, 2023 - Alfred Wolfsohn - Vox Humana: Alfred Wolfsohn's Experiments in Extension of Human Vocal Range
Year: 1956
Label: Folkways
Genre: Experimental acapella
I know I mentioned something like this before, but little "experimental" music
music is experimental in the same sense as a science experiment, genuinely
and methodically testing boundaries and deriving results. This is one of the
rare LPs that takes just that attitude, pushing the human vocal range
beyond it's standard limits and exploring, less for inherent musical value and more
for academic research purposes, what the cords are actually capable of.
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July 18th, 2023 - Telestrion - Telestrion
Year: 2007
Label: Electric Mind Records
Genre: Stoner + psychedelic + space rock
Most psychedelic and stoner rock has a kind of sludgy sound
that this avoids entirely, coming through loud and clear
and loaded with 90s rocking vibes, howling guitar passages,
and a sense of journeying. Rock usually isn't my genre, but the
cover was incredible and I was not let down.
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July 17th, 2023 - blonie - Answering Machine Messages & Prank Calls
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Spoken word, braindance
Lofi spoken word answering machine memos and decades-old jokes between
friends, mingled with break-infused braindance into something I can't
evenly compare with any other release I know of. blonie's aesthetics,
music, and mindstate seems solidly locked into the 00s electronic scene
and I mean that as high praise.
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July 16th, 2023 - beansclub - bootleg tape vol.1
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Sextrance
Rave-ready pre-nightcored trance rmxs with an edge of
crusty jpeg hexd compression and nocturnal delirium, like
toward the early morning end of an all-nighter rave when
your body is moving but your mind is easily in another
dimension entirely.
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July 15th, 2023 - @pat_16120 - “eternal love/guided by light” EP 16/1/20
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Ascendant post-trance
Two of the tracks here are most club-friendly but still otherworldly and saturated
with an unreal sense of light, and the others take the structure of old-school euphoric
trance, remove the drums entirely, and stretch transcendant buildup into it's own dimension.
It sincerely feels like being visited by a benevolent but alien entity who can only be perieved as
a vision-filling fractal pattern. My heart is being pulled skyward and my body is just dragging
along tethered behind it. Virtual Self is gonna be left in the dust if this is where we're going.
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July 14th, 2023 - [unknown artist] - i see ghosts cover (k3lyxoxx)
Year: 2020 (or 2019)
Label: none
Genre: Soundcloud emo
(new no cover image btw)
I'm doing my best to figure out who this is since it's absolutely
gorgeous and seems to have been deleted years ago. The original song
was pop-punk backed emo rap, and this version takes it in a more minimal,
hyperpop-ish direction. Even with silly lines about zip folders and
flower emojis, both this and the k3lyxoxx version feel tender to the core.
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July 13th, 2023 - Lines of Sight - Lines of Sight
Year: 2003
Label: Chuckbeat Records
Genre: Indie rock
Emotional indie rock seemingly from California? that
crossed 20 years and the width of the country to end
up in a local Goodwill and then here. Seemingly inactive
since 2004, Lines of Sight is almost totally forgotten
with only a single track available online, but somehow
despite a decade plus of slumber, Chuckbeat is still online.
It really is a time capsule.
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July 12th, 2023 - MSCP - The MSEP
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Alternative, punk
Local high-school rock band, found at a Christian thrift store.
It's from 2009 and their MySpace URL is MSCPangstyangst. While
my non-electronic genre knowledge is pathetic and not enough to
identify what exactly to call this, I can tell you that it has a
tribute to Billy Mays and is 200% a product of it's time. Take as you will.
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July 11th, 2023 - Lil Koi - POND TALK EP<3$
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Soundcloud rap
This is probably the conclusion of my music taste collapsing into utter
nonsense but I'll take it. In 2018, the soundcloud rap group Hinoni (featuring
pvscale, capoxxo, lil soda boi, etc.) formed, and eventually included pvscale's
little brother, who was 13 at the time. Of course the lines are silly and it's
full of every late 2010s soundcloud rap cliche, but it's genuinely well done
and Koi is dripping enough confidence to carry it for miles. I legitimately
think my self confidence got bumped up a degree or two just in his presence.
With a backing crew of established producers and collaborators, he immediately
reaches his potential, and if the soundcloud rap sound is too strong here, try
freeze, a genuine emo rap masterpiece, and his capo collaborations (empathycrazy goes harddddd)
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July 10th, 2023 - [unknown artist] - Borda Tape Cut [Found by Elysia Crampton]
Year: 2015
Label: DISmagazine
Genre: Indigenous Andean music, Huayno
If only I knew enough (read: anything) about Andean music to comment on this in
something resembling an insightful way. All I can say is that found tapes are
always fascinating and this is far enough displaced from my normal musical world
that it feels like a separate branch of the human experience.
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July 9th, 2023 - Olde Fox Den - Roots and Tunnels
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Comfy synth
Sounds like the soundtrack to an animated short you have blurry VHS memories of,
wholesome animals in the forest having little adventures, with mushroom umbrellas
and a vaguely-hinted monster, all ending in coming home late for tea, playing in
an empty version of your childhood bedroom, just like you remember it but no one's home.
Sonically, it's remarkable how well it captures the sounds and styles of old-school
dungeon synth, thematically turned completely on their head. I hope the have a
happy little time in the snow.
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July 8th, 2023 - 16kbp Future Nostalgia - 16kbp Future Nostalgia
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, lobit, ambient dub
A similar feeling to staring into a house of mirrors or kaleidoscope filled with
fragments of childhood memories. The sense of nostalgia is present, but no signal
is making it through intact, and everything is seen at the bottom of (or from the
bottom of) a lake with a constantly rippling surface. At least the lilypads are still.
Music for sleeping cities. On a more musical note, I wouldn't have even noticed it was
lobit unless you mentioned it to me.
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July 7th, 2023 - The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Doctor Who Sound Effects
Year: 1978
Label: BBC
Genre: Sounds and effects
I'm not a Doctor Who fan, but even without any context whatsoever this
is still a worthwhile collection of soundscapes, unrecognizable noises, and
almost accidental avant-garde. The BBC Radiophonics Workshop was known for
pioneering experimental techniques (tape music, musique concrete) and presenting
it to the public, as well as pushing the boundaries of electronic music just
as the necessary technology was being made available. It's rare that "futuristic"
music from the 60s holds up, but when it does, it's practically eternal.
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July 6th, 2023 - Not Even Hope - Mona Lisa Cat
Year: 2008
Label: Dadaist Audio
Genre: Experimental
kibby + 00s netlabel glitch noise = cool
very good kibby very good noises
that is all goodnight
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July 5th, 2023 - User 2222 - Tending To The Earthworms In The Meadow
Year: 2021
Label: Curiosity Shop
Genre: New age
The ultimate audio manifestation of the phrase "it will all be alright in the end."
Feels like a hug from someone you trust when you're feeling down.
At once soaring and majestic but nothing gradiose or dramatic.
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July 4th, 2023 - greenhouse - _SNDWRK/gh
Year: 2022
Label: HALLEY LABS
Genre: IDM
Until now, when I thought "HALLEY LABS" my mind just corrected it
to Lapfox Trax and Emma to Renard, their new music just kind of
flew under my radar and I focused on the older output. This changed
that for good, while I was busy relistening to some 2011 album
of theirs they have been busy taking their sound in completely new
dimensions. I've never been able to get into IDM before now, but this
has all the appeal of the genre with all the musical backing of someone
who's been doing electronics since before I was born. Might open someone's
eyes to the genre, it definitely did for me.
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July 3rd, 2023 - zen michelin (kiki) - Nazca Lines
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Indie pop?
It's been a few years since Kiki made an appearance on here, so it's
more than overdue for their return. The storytelling is disarmingly
sincere and open as ever, this time not about benevolent ghosts or steel
mills but about michelin's mythology of the Nazca lines. I don't know if
it's based on an actual myth, but it easily sounds like it could be.
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July 2nd, 2023 - Jennifer Walshe - A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Early music, generative music
Something this legitimately fascinating and unreal is hard to come by,
even in the world of experimental music where further and stranger is the rule.
It's as much an academic work as anything, as fitting on a thesis as a tape.
I can only imagine the feeling of sitting in front of a computer, listening
to corrupted noise and washes of static slowly give way to your own,
horrifically malformed voice.
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July 1st, 2023 - Michael Reimann - Crystal Pyramid Sounds
Year: 2008
Label: Acron
Genre: New age
Seemingly an artifact from the healing spiritual chakra aligning pure energy
new age subculture, which I usually vibe with so off to a good start, this time
focused on an invented instrument made out of crystals in the shape of a pyramid.
If you give any credence to healing vibrations or sacred geometry you might get
something out of this, if not it's a unique new age, droney with a fair mix of
melodic elements. I'm still on the lookout for Pyramide I-XII, which seem to be CD only.
I apologize for the spotify link from the bottom of my heart, I might rip and reupload it elsewhere.