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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June 30th, 2023 - DJ Set - DJ SET 01
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Bubblegum bass, nightcore
It's a relief to see that the old-school soundcloud NXC
scene is still being kept alive in certain circles, and the
fact that nobody even knows who this person is doesn't hurt.
This is the mix that 2016 wishes it made, downright lost in time.
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June 29th, 2023 - Operation Sodasteal - SPiDERFUCKER
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Synthpunk
Crunkcore / breakcore / hyperpop-influenced pop punk about building
a cult. Exactly as silly and glorious as that description entails,
and quite more coherent than you might expect, plus the crucified
sparkledog is the cherry on top. Not sure if it's just my copy but
the version I ripped from soundcloud is haunted and makes lobit
glitchy howling noises for as long as I try to play it, presumably
forever, which is very on brand.
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June 28th, 2023 - Garfield - Keep Cool, Cat!
Year: 1995
Label: Metronome
Genre: Eurodance
I cannot imagine what series of events led to an
officially licensed Garfield eurodance album with a
track titled "Getting High" but I'm all for it.
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June 27th, 2023 - Vektroid - Starflight Iguana
Year: 2010
Label: None
Genre: Tape music, sound collage
A tape collage with wide expanses of dead noise, no-fi warbled
samples, stray cassette shrapnel, and some of the murkiest
hypnagogic pop / proto-vapor to rear it's head this side of
eternal september. An abridged list of things this makes me
think of:
- the computer at my grandfather's house I would make MS paint art in
- Tuscon, Arizona
- pottery shards and musty basements
- delirium
- Coast 2 Coast AM
I would do so much to broadcast this in full in the open desert
at night without explanation, prelude, or context.
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June 26th, 2023 - dead bart - forever forever
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Cloud rap
Words describing it fail. Pages relating it shrivel. Tales recounting it end.
Like looking up in the sky and seeing a heard shaped cloud drifting by.
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June 25th, 2023 - zawmbi3 - CASTlES iN THE SKiES (i_O)
Year: 2022 (pretty sure it was originally 2020 though idk)
Label: None
Genre: Hyperpop?
For fucks sake we *need* a cohesive name for this blend of
emo rap / rave / happy hardcore / hyperpop / crunk. Scenecore
makes me feels silly to say but I can't think of anything better
You know exactly what I'm talking about, it started in around 2018,
blew up in 2020, and is probably at its best when it merges trance
and or rave classics with it's new style into the best music I wouldn't
show my friends or family if you put a gun to my head.
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June 24th, 2023 - Astro The Fox + NO_ID - BREAKWAVE PARADISE
Year: 2017
Label: Elysian Tunes
Genre: Breakwave (ravework also sounds cool)
There's been numerous combinations of breakcore and vaporwave,
but I think this is the closest anyone has come to hitting
the nail on the head. It isn't just amen breaks on slowed sampled
(though that is pretty cool too,) but has serious production value
with the way it's seamlessly merged into a whole. The thought
and care shines clear through, and I think it would definitely
be an enjoyable listen even if you're only into one of the constituent genres.
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June 23rd, 2023 - DJ 6YRథ్٣٣A ЗАО - NATUREPISTOLS2009
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Deep internet hardstyle??
Updated might be slow for a bit, I'm on an RV trip with the family
all week. I've been tired as hell and when we don't have what I like
to eat I usually don't so my blood sugar's nonexistent, and while I wouldn't
suggest inducing delirium like that, it goes together with this bootleg
like nobody's business. I'm only now discovering this underground Soundcloud /
YouTube scene that far as I can tell is completely nameless but is defined by
warped effects, hard/jumpstyle music, unsettling early internet visuals,
layers and layers of SFX and tags, and an impenetrable atmosphere of nightmarish
240p psychedelia. I feel exactly like I'm tripping real bad on laced exstacy in a club
in a post-Soviet country. If this isn't enough, *please* try ▯▯. I have never felt less safe
listening to an mp3.
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June 22nd, 2023 - user-177606669 - 90182374589172354
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Pop rap, ambient
I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the growing underground
soundcloud scene that's slowly merging (hyper)pop, internet rap, and ambient
music into a singular whole. There's more producers than I can even keep track
of who are releasing euphoric drone or original piano tracks right next to nightcored hip hop with
seemingly no distinction between the two, and the more I look the more I realize
how late I am since I'm only now discovering it and there's plenty who have taken
it to an art form already. I cannot believe I'm saying it but the future of internet
music is in good hands. (This is far from the best example of the style, but it's
still a good and striking example of it.)
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June 21st, 2023 - Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra / Mindaugas Piecaitis / Nora the Piano Cat - CATcerto
Year: 2009
Label: None
Genre: Modern classical
I will not be describing this, you just have to watch it yourself.
This isn't laziness, it's just worth it on it's own.
(I do have plans though to transcribe Nora's part of the concerto into
MIDI and possibly do an ambient rendition of it, we'll see.)
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June 20th, 2023 - Karnaboy - my best friend
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Pop
It's been a while since I cried so I guess it was just about time.
Can't think of a better song to do it to. Life is hard sometimes but it's
all right in the end.
My best friend, these things can hurt sometimes
Things may end, that’s just a part of life
We can play pretend until you feel alright
Hold my hand, my friend, you’ll be just fine
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June 19th, 2023 - SCREAMR - SCRUMS BOOTLEG MORALLY AMBIGUOUS FURRY DOGCORE MEGAMIX XXX PLEASE-DONT-SUE-ME EDITION
Year: 2019?
Label: None
Genre: Speed/break/mash/shitcore with sparkledog tendencies
(That isn't the actual cover but I didn't save it and the original upload is long gone so w/ever)
This came on during my 4-hour bikeride today right as the delirious bliss was setting
in and it was beautiful. All kinds of cores, distorted to crap, coated in that annoying kind
of glitter that gets everywhere and never gets out, perfect for harassing anyone in your
vicinity with listenable music taste and / or reducing your frontal cortex to the consistency of
apple sauce and rendering it incapable of doing anything but imagining oversaturated colors
and experiencing braindead delight.
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June 18th, 2023 - Plant Club
Year: 2009
The random clicking of YouTube profiles in comment sections and the discovery of
videos with under 200 views is an essential human experience and the more I watch
this the more I am convinced that it unironically contains the answer to all of life's
questions. Whoever made this could write the Dialogues but Socrates could never make Plant Club.
"So to believe in nothing is to believe in everything, so why not believe in everything?"
The secrets of the universe being told to you though the lo-fidelity, sped up and pitched down voices
of likely drugged out teenagers. If you like Five Starcle Men, just drop what you're doing and observe.
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June 17th, 2023 - lovelyanimal - Music Of Animal Song (2020 Minimix)
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Free improv? (animal music)
If anything naive or outsider interests you, this is where it all peaks.
I can't imagine anything more innocent and free of human
cynicisms than music made my animals, and to my surprise not only is that
out there, someone thought to make a collage / mix of it's highlights.
As expected it's mostly random key clunking and plucking, but nothing
I have heard has come close to this in capturing the silly happiness
of childhood. It's also fun to try to figure out who's making what or
imagining the process behind it.
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June 16th, 2023 - lil soda boi - my life is wonderful / 我的生活很奇妙 (wǒ de shēng huó hěn qí miào)
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Soundcloud rap
Sometimes I miss how in past decades some artists used elaborate packaging and
inconvenient formats to make their music almost interactive art, ranging from
unconventional bonus items or containers to straight up antireleases. Fortunately,
this trend has kinda continued to the internet era, and definitely extends beyond the
internet weirdo music usual suspects - this relatively established soundcloud artist
dropped an EP exclusively in China, presumably requiring fans to fake their settings or
register alt accounts to listen to it and reupload for others. It's strangely processed
and unusual in general, but the post-internet collage beauty of the cover is an adaquate
representation of it's contents. My faith in art still being alive is routinely restored
from angles I never expected.
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June 15th, 2023 - leop4rdi - a process of learning and understanding
Year: 2023
Label: Soul Feeder
Genre: Ambient trance
Remember last week when I said that the happiness + emotionalness = euphoria?
leop4rdi understands this and milks it for all it's worth in a virtuous attempt
at capturing all the beauty of human emotion into ambient dream trance and the result
would be considered chill-out music if it wasn't so intense at a whole different level.
I've never heard of leop4rdi before but this grabbed me by the scruff of my neck
and isn't letting go. A world suffused with light, not always easy but always worthwhile.
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June 14th, 2023 - Francisco López – Untitled #272 [Antarctica Variations]
Year: 2017
Label: Somnimage
Genre: Field recording, sound art
Funny how there's some natural places that do a better job at being
certain kinds of music (HNW, ANW, drone) than most of that genre does,
and where is that better illustrated than in drifting glacial ice masses
and the vibrations from seals, sprawling on for 24 hours (a tiny snippet
of an implied forever) of sparse, frigid sound. If there's anything I would
attribute the term "soundscape" to, it's this. I feel cold.
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June 13th, 2023 - Ben Lunato - i've seen them kissing, out in the hallway
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, classical
Ben Lunato is in my opinion one of the most remarkable visual artists around,
existing entirely within the underground where net art, 3-D rendering, game
design, and digital nightmares merge into a beautiful paranoid soup, and it would
seem the maximalist lunatic world he's built occassionally breaks into calm zones
of blissful lucidity. It's the audio equivalent of a hug from a concerned
friend and the cover photo of someone looking lost in a sunsoaked garden is as
accurate as any.
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June 12th, 2023 - binwydd - bydol
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Welsh folk music, vaporwave
Unlike most novelty vaporwave, this doesn't feel like it's
trying too hard (or trying much at all) - it just is what it is
in a little bubble of simplicity and peace somewhere between rural
hills and an ultra-obscure bandcamp page. The divide between the
cultures that spawned the source material and final product only
adds another layer of hazy, dissociated harmony. According to Discogs
it was recorded at a public location, so it might even be sourced from
a live performance. A soothing sleep on uneven grounds.
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June 11th, 2023 - Proxima64 - Proxima64 Synth Improv Stream
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Retro synthesizer
Not an actual release, just a little bootleg I threw together (or split apart)
after a really cool improv stream. The amount of fun being had recording this is
audible and the usage of genine retro synths (and Proxima64's contagious enthusiasm about
all forms of 80s-90s technology) only builds to it. Half of these tracks could easily
be opening jingles for operating systems that never were and the other half is fitting
for an equally plausible but unreal video training tape or video game level.
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June 10th, 2023 - Eco Futurism Corporation - Ecomodern vol.1
Year: 2015
Label: Eco Futurism Corporation
Genre: Eco Grime
Odd to think that for ever massive internet genre that everyone has heard of,
there's a myriad little ones that never blew up but maintain some form of truly underground existence
in the digital shadow biosphere. Among these is Eco Grime, defined by it's use of nature sounds
within a deconstructed club and weightless grime context, adjacency to new age and utopian virtual styles,
and fascination with idyllic hyperfuturistic green imagery. Eco Futurism spawned the phenomenon,
so is as good a place to begin as any. It's like a glimpse into another world, crystal clear but equally unreal,
both musically and thematically. If you like Blank Banshee, don't miss out.
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June 9th, 2023 - User-177606669 - meow (+ remixes)
Year: 2022
Label: none
Genre: Hyperpop
user-177606669 is a fascinating project. If you remember 7FORM (are they
still active? (edit: yep)), where it's myriad users all with access to
the same page and producing eclectic music with a general internet
ethos, what they did with experimental, user does with hyperpop (although
their genres are utterly all over the place genre-wise.) Since there's over
100 members and they're uploading multiple times daily it's easy for good
stuff like this to get buried in the deluge, but it's absolutely worth diving
into. My faith in the zoomer music scene is restored. Thank you.
meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow
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June 8th, 2023 - Jorge - True Friendship
Year: 2017
Label: BLUE INSTINCT
Genre: Ambient, experimental
Somewhat like emotion x's happy - feelings-laden plunderphonics
internet ambient - but about friends(?) instead of hospital stays.
It does a remarkable job at telling a story without revealing anything,
empty of content but and motion but presenting a stage full of suggestive
silhouettes. The faint glitter of post-nightcore around the edges
doesn't hurt, either. I wish I knew more, but I don't think I ever will.
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THEN EVERYTHING STOPPED AND THE ANGEL SAID
June 7th, MC Boing - Boing BeatYear: 2021
Label: Mad Decent
Genre: Bubblegum bass, jumpstyle
I can safely say that the entirety of hardcore electronic music
has been leading to this single song, which has rendered happy hardcore
and adjacent genres complete. Nothing else I have heard has compressed this
much joy into under 100 seconds, and also I wanna mention that while happy
music can be kinda goofy and not emotional, IMO in order for music to be
truly euphoric it has to be emotional, like it reaches into your heart,
pierces it with a fucking spear, and lifts it straight into highest heaven.
The emotion gets into your soul like a trojan horse before shedding it's bittersweet
skin and releasing pure bliss. This accomplishes that beautifully and
Hannah's vocals sound like a literal angel. CANNOT wait to play this live
and have everyone hate it. Yes, I'm aware I'm gonna be unbelievably sick of it
very soon but for now I am rocking.
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June 6th, 2023 - snow.txt - tha keyboard kittah single!!! :3 & Legendary Passages - The Epitome of Theseus
Year: 2022 & 2015
Label: none
Genre: Plunderphonics + ambient & spoken word
The fun part about these double posts is kinda playing one off of the other,
where they kinda fit together but it isn't immediately obvious how. When
these ended up in my bookmarks somehow something sorta clicked, even
if they couldn't be more different. The idea of simultaneously playing ancient
texts and silly internet plunderphonics is the epitome of this page, anyway.
Eternal archetypes shine through.
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June 5th, 2023 - Sky High - Flower Child & trueteas - live demos 29/07/2020
Year: 2019 & 2020
Label: none
Genre: Garage rock & outsider emo
Yet another daily double of random bandcamp finds, this
time a weirdo garage rock parody that feels utterly lost
in time and clearly recorded directly to tape (dubbed "high
school" and "bad," and an improvisatory emo session from
Russia and recorded on Hi8. The former is a strange mangled
version of teenage rock music, the other is equally outsider
but saturated with sincerity.
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June 4th, 2023 - edwrd - dream fragments
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Ambient, experimental
Ambient meets poetry meets folk in various levels of
harmony and distortion. I'd describe the cover (which I'll
admit drew me in in the first place) as "suburbia worship,"
a phrase I don't think anyone else has used but comes totally
naturally to me as a kind of aesthetic philosophy I can't put
into words otherwise. Point is, if any of it's constituent genres
appeal to you, edwrd won't let you down. A half hour of analog
digital embrace.
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June 3rd, 2023 - Skoddie - Sinebeat Equations & Michael Cherdchupan - traveling through the early tracker drafts
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Glitch & Sequencer and tracker
Two releases for today because why not, one of raw static modulated
into wild rhythmic glitch pieces with equations somehow ("whatcha listening
to?" "oh, just some 48k{(t%511)^(t&t%255)|(t&t%511)|(t&t%1023)|(t|t%2047);}")
and some sweet sequencer melodies from the 90s dredged up from a dusty hard drive.
"summer's draft" feels like soft rave music, it just has to be experienced and
is like 90% likely to bring a smile to your face, or maybe I'm just too easily
pleased by silly computer music. Enjoy either way.
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June 2nd, 2023 - Ariflare - AHO Remixes II
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Breakcore
I don't care if it's 2016, this is pure old skool breakcore vibes,
with heavy hardcore influence but more than enough subtly and melody
to make the balance. There's Renard and NDaD on here, if that isn't
enough to get you into it, I'm out.
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June 1st, 2023 - ghost and tape - Vár
Year: 2017
Label: home normal
Genre: Ambient
As delicate as a blossom and as ephemeral as the first day of spring
after a long winter, caught in a photograph complete with JPEG compression.
Something soft to think back on.
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May 31st, 2023 - Hyper Combo Finish - Hyper Combo Finish
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Pop punk
Thank you for bearing with me, here's some semi-deleted
furry pop punk for your troubles. Not sure if it's just this
or if it comes with pop punk territory, but there's the
definite feeling of false nostalgia, like it brings up a memory
of playing video games with your middle school friends in a
timeline that didn't actually happen.
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May 30th, 2023 - .onion - we belong to him
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Experimental vaporwave
I would describe the atmosphere of this as unwholesome, but that implies a certain
humanity or lack thereof this exists squarely outside of. It reminds me heavily
of a darker deep internet, both feeling like
altered states, digital debris, sketchy websites, and unsecured webcams.
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May 29th, 2023 - Charli XCX - 1999 (Dan Larkin Remix)
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Happy hardcore
It should be illegal for something to go this hard god dammit, I cannot listen
to it without jumping up and quasi-raving like a dumbass. IMO pretty much all pop
has a core of beautiful energy at it's core waiting for a proper remix to take it out
of it's bland commercial context and let it truly flourish like a seed germinating.
I very much like the original 1999, so this is taking a pre-made banger and injecting
it with enough sugar and ectasy to give you visions and cranking the result to 11.
Can't believe I used to hate on pop remixes and / or soundcloud hardcore, I have now
seen the light god bless
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May 28th, 2023 - Uruk-Hai - A Night in the Forest
Year: 2004
Label: Drama
Genre: Fantasy ambient, dungeon synth
Nocturnal, medieval, unreal, nailing every last point of dungeon
synth idealism in a way most of the genre misses. Worlds away and
in ages long forgotten but so close you can almost touch it, just
don't stray far from the fire's glow and ignore the faint music
from the treeline.
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May 27th, 2023 - cyberbitch26 - Ayesha Erotica X Terrorcore
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Terrorcore, mashup
I refuse to listen to Ayesha ever but this looks pretty fire based
on the spectrogram alone. Hopefully someone without my reservations
can more fully enjoy it, product of pop-hardcore soundcloud underground
weirdness that it is.
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May 26th, 2023 - Noise Goes Pop - Noise Goes Pop: Volume 2
Year: 2019
Label: Noise Goes Pop
Genre: Noise, pop
If you've ever wanted to hear top 40s pop twisted into power electronic wailing
and harsh noise, first of all there's definitely something wrong
with you and second of all, someone else has thought of it already
and beautifully brought it fruition. Everything from the Beach Boys
to Britney Spears goes into the noise machine and comes out flaming
and screaming. Recommended for those who adore and despise pop alike.
Also, this is how links will work from here on out since it looks cool
and I enjoy reliving the experience of failing my HTML college class.
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May 25th, 2023 - The Happy Club - The First 2 Demo Tapes
Year: 2020
Label: Stupid Decision
Genre: Indie rock, punk
Not sure if anyone here has listened to Hard Christ but this definitely
reminds me of him, for whatever that means. Catchy emo melodies from
California to light up yr summer if that's what you're into.
Download here.
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May 24th, 2023 - Antique Pony - museum of blood
Year: 2012
Label: None
Genre: Math rock, post-punk
My experience with math rock is minimal so maybe this is par for the course,
but listening to this feels like being in a place I know I shouldn't be and
leaves me feeling unsettled, like being in a rickety old house where the floor
under your feet might fall through into god knows what if you stand in one place
for too long. It's rare music can be both relatively fast and rock-oriented but
still feel dusty and sickly, but this manages the paradox admirably.
Download here.
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May 23rd, 2023 - cattybatty - ⭒✰☞pEepb0cKs☜✰⭒
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune
There's something deeply wholesome about amateur beepbox doodles. I feel
like we all did this, and cattybatty did it better than most.
Not sure how everyone else's 2016-2018 period was (aka when this was recorded)
but I spent it goofing online and pretty happy and this feels just about like that.
Soul healing juice.
Download here.
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May 22nd, 2023 - DJ ChaseChase - Metal Hippie Fuckers and Secret Club - Don't Ride Your Bike on a Research Chemical (Time Travel)
Year: 2021
Label: Vivarium Recordings
Genre: Digital hardcore, sound collage
Alternate soundtrack to listening to footwork on your laptop and playing YTPs off your phone
while high out of your mind in a public place. For once this isn't based off of personal experience
but it still sounds pretty accurate. Big respect for making a 32 minute continuous track that goes
everywhere and keeps momentum as well as this does.
Download here.
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May 21st, 2023 - Public Realm Services - Private Urban 2017 Security Casual Rejection & Evan Lindorff-Ellery - Tape Collage Piece 2011
Year: 2017 & 2023
Label: A⊗B & Falt
Genre: Field recordings & musique concrete tape music sound collage yada yada
I was unsure if either of these deserved their own post, so they get to share.
One is a field recording from one of the first bandcamp pages I ever found and helped
open my eyes to the weirdness internet music could actually entail, the other is a curious
little collection of archival lofi tape debris. Sounds so separated from their source like
mirrors facing mirrors that all context is lost (really, does any of this sound like how it
felt to be there?) and it gets a new kind of intimacy. Neat.
Download here and here.
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May 20th, 2023 - Plastic Neesound - 侵入者
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Internet field recordings
Since 2016, Plastic Neesound has been building a mixed reputation dumping album
after post-nightcore album, some simple speed-ups and some destructive sound
collages or brain-hurting plunderphonics. However, over the years they've become
increasingly comfortable with deviating from the formula and have started dropping
projects unrelated to nightcore entirely, of which this is the most significant
so far, more in line with deep internet found sound than anything that's come before.
Maybe it's less interesting if you haven't been a Neesound observer for years, but
even outside it's context it's a haunting collection of digital scraps and snippets,
all the ephemera of daily life run though computerized compression and forgotten again
and again. It's the equivalent of framing blurry photos taken from stranger's 2011 camera
rolls as an art exhibit, or better yet projecting them onto the wall to disappear moments later.
"Memories of people who the world forgot. I hope they're doing well." I do, too.
Stream here.
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May 19th, 2023 - WAIXING - DONT TRY TO READ INTO IT
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: ???
Rare I find something that totally baffles me but I was going through my 2018
bookmarks and somehow dredged this up. You gotta wonder where the artist is now,
seeing as we haven't heard anything since this bizarre debut demo of outsider something or other.
It's like bedroom pop made my someone who only heard secondhand descriptions of bedroom pop
through a game of telephone and decided to make some.
Download here.
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May 18th, 2023 - Phil Maguire - aural documents #1
Year: 2016
Label: verz
Genre: Field recordings, glitch, sound art
(Sorry I forgot to write a description yesterday, it kinds works with the
album but in reality I just forgot all day) Incidental glitch music, field recordings
from damaged equipment. Sounds like the humming heart of some data field,
Ryoji Ikeda-esque.
Download here.
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May 17th, 2023 - R. - Windows 98 Forever
Year: 2018
Label: The Basement Labs
Genre: Drone, vaporwave
Sometimes paulstretch wankery is all you need, you know?
Download here.
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May 16th, 2023 - nightcore/sped up {} go kitty go!
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Nightcore, eurodance
Some things I don't want to post here but simply sit and gnaw at the
back of my mind like termites on a house until I do something about it
and today is one of those days if it is not immediately apparent. The
2011/2021 connection is clear and time is a flat fucking circle
(Also I found some random bandcamp codes in my room I don't want, not sure
if my friend used them or not but try 7grw-xgwv, ncrd-5nml, and 83ed-b7yr
if you wanna)
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May 15th, 2023 - Windows XP Guy - This Is Why I Was Bullied
Year: 2015 (recorded 2006-2008)
Label: None
Genre: Lofi, outsider
Child with unsupervised computer access has short-lived outsider music
career using found instruments, MIDIs, and the lowest-fi mic money can buy.
I'm drawing a blank on how I found it and no one else seems to have any information
whatsoever. Possibly cursed, this kid is gonna crawl out of the nearest CRT monitor
a week from now and kill me.
Listen here.
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May 14th, 2023 - Пикато - Demo (2013)
Year: 2013
Label: Popsakal
Genre: Russian shit rap
It sounds more like how the cover looks than I can describe. If you've ever
wished to experience being a drunken russian teenager fucking around with your
friends and recording improvised gangsta rap on your Nokia, my friend it is your
lucky day.
Download here.
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May 13th, 2023 - ␍◥☳ ⏨⍳⏨⎹⎹⍲⍝↸⏨♨♸ ☃⑆ - ᧟␢ⓠ¦¦¦¦҂ ⏁⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧ ᧻℆↩№᭩༛©⇪⎾┫D
Year: 2018
Label: Swamp Circle
Genre: Glitch, noise
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May 12th, 2023 - dDJ AngelBoi - ParaDise LOVE MIX
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Nightcore, eurobeat
How TF didn't I post this yet wtf, I thought it would be like one of my first?
Silly internet music at it's finest, just look at that tumblr. I've been thinking
lately about post-irony and all that jazz and realized there's a huge difference
between post-irony and neo-sincerity, which is really just sincerity backed
by self-awareness. There's tons of people who accuse stuff like this, post-nxc,
even vaporwave of being (post)ironic when really it's the most wholehearted
sincere stuff out there, even if it has a little glitter sprinkled on top. The
ouroboros has eaten it's own tail and couldn't be happier. Party on, dudes.
Stream or download here.
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May 11th, 2023 - BRUCE FALKIAN - IDL
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Electronic
Imagine making one of the best PC music remixes I've ever heard and
uploading it with this shitpost as cover art, I almost didn't listen to it. Genuinely
incredible work from a literal who, the multiple pop song sample-interpolations
against the blank slate of IDL is just art.
Stream here.
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May 10th, 2023 - Slough - DOUGHPAMINE
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Pop
I won't share too much as to avoid looking like a weirdo but
I'd highly suggest checking out doughy daniels (or at least
the parts of his online identity that haven't been long-deleted.
Seems to be a combination of creative genius, performance art, and
mental episodes but I don't want to seem like a gawking onlooker, the
guy is genuinely one of my favorite virtual presences and I wish him only the best.
This EP dropped a year before his rise to quasi-fame and when I spent
months looking for it I expected outsider music or rap, not back-to-back
bangers of self-described "sci-fi pop." Legendary in a better timeline.
Stream here.
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May 9th, 2023 - iku - Let's Bae! (Five Year Anniversary Edition)
Year: 2020
Label: Lostfrog
Genre: Picopop, happy hardcore
If yesterday's sugar dose didn't leave you with a stomachache or hangover,
this one can ensure that fate, in addition to vomiting rainbows and the like.
Seriously, there is little more contagiously energetic than Hey Cutie,
I heard it on my phone, dropped what I was going, and did laps around campus
until it ended then collapsed on the stairs. I'm glad school's out soon so this
page can stop being a log of dumb shit I've done in public under the influence
of music like this.
Download here.
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May 8th, 2023 - cutiecore - hi cutie!
Year: 2018
Label: Pedicure Records
Genre: Nightcore
I've definitely mentioned it before, but I have an undying love for the
weird NXC scene. Connected soundcloud accounts, nightcore uploads, high levels
of friendship and camaraderie, stock photos and other highly aestheticised visuals,
thrived between like 2015-2017 but definitely is still around to some degree
thanks in no small part to Pedicure Records <3 <3 ANYWAY this brings us to cutiecore,
one of the best releases from the scene, guaranteed to take your summer experience to
thee Next Fuckin Level. Banger after banger, probably straight outta ytmp3.cc and Audacity.
Gotta love it.
Download here.
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May 7th, 2023 - Akiroinochi - Secrets
Year: 2013
Label: None
Genre: Electronic
Cutesy electronics, some breaks, some chiptune, some
assorted -core influences without going over the edge.
If lolicore isn't your speed but you're open to some of
that energy, this might be for you.
Download here.
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May 6th, 2023 - BROKEN_CANYON - Sleep Drone 2
Year: 2017
Label: &TIME
Genre: Drone
There's just something about impeccable stock photos on white
backgrounds, immaculate and eternal drones, clean computer data and
digital ephemera. A sense of sterility and inhumanity but not in a cold
and soulless way contrary to the real world, but in a way that makes peace
with it. Clinical grade tranquility and post-internet new age meditations.
Every passing day takes me closer to 21st century nirvana.
Download here.
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May 5th, 2023 - Tony Scott, Shinichi Yuize, & Hozan Yamamoto - Music for Zen Meditation and Other Joys
Year: 1965
Label: Verve
Genre: New age
Not totally sure how much this is 60s record exoticism and how much actual
traditional music, probably a healthy dose of each. Regardless of how much
it mirrors actual Zen it's one of the earliest New Age releases ever, and is
very much in the spirit of new age as a whole - the musical and philosophical
elements are taken out of their original context and kind of rearranged, but
the spirit is there and as long as you're getting something out of it. We
all have our path to follow, no one way.
Listen here.
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May 4th, 2023 - plastic rock - tennis
Year: 2019
Label: FOTOSHOPPE CO.
Genre: Vaporwave
Materialized, drops 9 minutes of vaporwave fire, deletes their original bandcamp,
never shows their face again. Legend. I wish I could wander around SketchUp suburbia
with some VR goggles to this and bask in the png sun.
Download here.
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May 3rd, 2023 - Unicode Dreamer - Hope EP
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Between tiku sens, Tsubaki Yeah!, and this, 2018 was a hella year for
chiptune-ish lolicore-adjacent wholesome ambient. If this is up your alley,
listen to Jelly Apricot, and the other way around too, then go outside,
turn your face to the sky, and let your sins wash away in the sunlight.
Download here.
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May 2nd, 2023 - Online Dreams - Punk Rock!
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune, bedroom pop, LSDJ
![Online Dreams - Punk Rock!](src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2774570890_10.jpg")
Emo chiptune meets attempted indie and punk rock with bedroom pop production
and a heavily JPEGed AI-generated Garfield staring at you from the bandcamp banner.
DIY outsider hand-drawn psychedelia will never not be the coolest thing and this is no exception,
I feel like I'm listening to some weird local band or demos stolen from someone's phone.
Download here.
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May 1st, 2023 - be lost - snow forgotten
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Snow days as a kid and memories stored on old reel to reels, shadows
watching from under frosted trees. All the things you thought you could
see out of the corner of your eyes watching like angels. Forgotten imaginary
friends in some eternal limbo somewhere. The song has ended but an echo will
forever remain.
Download here.