DEPTHS OF THE NET is an perpetual work-in-progress project
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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December 31st, 2022 - Needletooth - mountains of hope
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Bedroom pop, lofi
This wraps up 2k22. What a fucking year.
Turn on some outsider lofi indie ambient stuff and let yourself heal in the light of 2k23.
Just look at that cover. I feel better already.
Download here.
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December 30th, 2022 - Camp Wonderful - Camp Wonderful
Year: 2018
Label: Blank Publishing
Genre: Bedroom pop
The cover says it all, weirdo dusty bedroom pop seeping out of forgotten
Goosebumps books and old tape decks. Most tracks don't break two minutes.
A worn pumpkin-pattern blanket on a foggy day.
Download here.
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December 29th, 2022 - Emily Bewley – Blood Vomit
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Ambient pop
Bit of an odd post today since this release doesn't actually exist anymore that I can find.
The bandcamp was wiped last year and the one remaining track I got off youtube is gone now too.
I'm not even sure if it has 4 or 5 tracks (Discogs lists 4, Google has 5.) The surviving song
is an ambient-ish lament to sickness and disorders.
Listen here.
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December 28th, 2022 - heelflip
Year: 2021-present
Label: none
Genre: Lofi, bedroom punk
He never properly released anything and I don't feel like making another bootleg
soundcloud comp so whatever. Crime obsessed angsty teen bedroom punk, catchy
and fun for me at least.
Download here.
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December 27th, 2022 - Various – A Prospect Of The Sea
Year: 1991
Label: Cloud Production
Genre: Twee, indie pop, poetry
The ultimate slice of 90s indie pop, as far as I'm concerned. Heartfelt poetry,
severe tape disintegrations, local bands that seemingly don't exist outside this comp.
It's enough to put songbirds and a halo round your head.
Download here.
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December 26th, 2022 - Tatsuro Yamashita - Discography
Year: 1970s onward
Genre: Kayōkyoku, new music, AOR
Incredible archive put together by a friend of mine, all the Yamashita you could ever
need in your life, copyright be damned.
Download here.
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December 25th, 2022 - Various - A Christmas Gift From Twee To You
Year: 2015
Label: [none??]
Genre: Twee
MERRY CHRISTMAS
A nice little heart warming Christmas twee comp in a variety of styles between
naive ukelele twiddling and (relatively) polished indie pop with a few surprises
here and there.
Download here.
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December 24th, 2022 - Various [Indonesian Noise] - [Tribute To] My Bloody Valentine - 26th Loveless // PURPLE LOVELESS
Year: 2017
Label: Gerpfast Record
Genre: Noise, noise rock
Loveless, rendered barely recognizable through noise and other extreme reinterpretations.
Like an affectionate hug suddenly tightening into a suffocating embrace.
Download here.
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December 23rd, 2022 - 王长存 (Wáng Chángcún) - Homepage
Year: 2012
Label: [unknown]
Genre: Experimental, ambient
I don't knw who this guy is, what this is, or where I got it.
I can find no information online or elsewhere. An utterly inhuman
world of digital abstraction. Just look at this spectrogram.
Something's gone terribly wrong in the system and you're embedded inside it.
Download here.
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December 22nd, 2022 - So Much For Best Friends / Koala Tea Time - Split
Year: 2015
Label: Elsewhere Records
Genre: Screamo
4-track split from self-decribed "emo-folk saddeners" and "skramzers/feel-havers"
bringing you several different kinds of downer screamo energies.
Download here.
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December 21st, 2022 - 0decathexis0 - pinkshinyhyperblast
Year: 2012
Label: 37564
Genre: Shoegaze, grindcore
Grindgaze? Shoegrind? Kicks either way and proves there's still plenty
of ground for rock music to explore in the 21st century.
Download here.
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December 20th, 2022 - 2a03fox - amenpunk's not dead
Year: 2022
Label: unlucky wind
Genre: Amenpunk
Hard-hitting pop punk breakcore bangerz, real early '10s vibes. Wears it's
influences right on it's sleeve without being a clone of any of them
and doing it's own distinct flavor of shameless amen-infested mashcore.
Fucking fun!!!!!!!
Download here.
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December 19th, 2022 - Maneki Neko - muichi motsu
Year: 2014
Label: Magniph
Genre: Ambient, new age
Drifting but absolutely not aimless, mediative but not (really) sleep-inducing.
Some top tier new age that 100% lives up to it's name, with all the soothing
and strange energy of a beckoning cat.
Listen or buy here.
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December 18th, 2022 - Sullen Eyes - Sullen Eyes
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Twee
Pure distilled weapons grade twee. The fact that such an overwhelming bundle
of sweetness could be put together in 2021 gives me hope for this world and
every single track is peak catchy pop songwriting too.
Download here.
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December 17th, 2022 - Fortunes, an experimental comedy
Year: 2014
A short film, not music, but I stumbled across this by accident for the first time since 2018 and it still
holds up. あなたは哀れで怠け者です ｆｕｃｋ
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December 16th, 2022 - She Her Her Hers - Stereochrome
Year: 2014
Label: Magniph
Genre: Shoegaze, alternative rock
Alt rock accessibility with uncompromising shoegaze atmosphere and emotions.
As happy as it heartrending. Doesn't get more human than this.
Listen here.
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December 15th, 2022 - ZENIAK — Tomboy Dream [Prod. Aww Boy]
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Happy hardcore, emo rap
The 2019 scene/emo/happy hardcore scene is something I'm ashamed to admit my nostalgia for
but it really was a once-in-a-lifetime burst of creative energy, there's still echoes of
it now but the 2019-2020 heyday was something else. Case in point here, all of it's influences
are right on it's sleeve but it still feels almost beyond them.
Download here.
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December 14th, 2022 - dissociative youth - discography
Year: 2017-2018
Label: None
Genre: Lofi, acoustic, ambient
I took the liberty of compiling as much of dissociative youth's discography into
a bootleg for easier listening. Despite being mostly a collection of demos sourced from
friend's DMs, group chats, and scattered online uploads the amount of talent and unique
energy this guy had shines clearly through. Features some lovely lofi acoustic guitar
sentimental songs saturated with soothing but painful emotions, some experimental / ambient
pieces, and a few combinations thereof.
Listen here.
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December 13th, 2022 - wych elm - School Shooter // Bag Of Worms
Year: 2017
Label: Quit Yr Job Records
Genre: Indie rock ("dream punk")
I'm not sure what dream punk is but it's the perfect description for this. At once soothing
with slow tempos and almost laidback melodies, but with lyrics and a general aura of discomfort
and danger. Not the soundtrack for blatant bedroom rock angst or outbusts of teenage punk edginess,
more a slow-burn repressed time bomb.
Listen here.
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December 12th, 2022 - User 771815816 - I WAS COMINGDOWN WEN I WAS getting onthe PLANE / REGULAR IS PERFECT REULGAR IS PERFECT FOR U AND ME
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Experimental hip hop, emo rap, hyperpop, noise
The most perfect, seamless combination of late '10s emo rap, absolutely blown out noisy production,
and industial sounds, all with a bizarre sense of aesthetics that shines through every element of it's sound.
I can't honestly do it justice. Internet rap can end here and I'd be happy.
Listen here.
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December 11th, 2022 - PilzKrieger - Inzest, Kinderschändung, Zeremonie
Year: 2018
Label: Teufelsbürgen
Genre: Extratone
TRVE KVLT ËXTRATONË. The bizarre end result of a one-man movement reviving
90s black metal aesthetics and attitudes through the most unrelenting, pure old skool
speedcore there is. Nothing but screaming, distorted samples, and kicks that want to kill you.
It WILL sound like total shit at first, but after a couple tracks you can't get enough.
Get your pop m1dy and TQBF the fuck out of here.
Listen here.
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December 10th, 2022 - Cold Hart & Yawns - Good Morning Cruel World
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Emo rap, pop punk, alternative rock
This isn't obscure but it's my site and I decide what nonsense to post. Soundcloud rap - pop punk
alt rock fusion in a variety of moods and styles but consistently high quality. Very inspired by emo
in every sense but with a distinctly positive bent, touching on depressing themes without wallowing in it.
Listen here.
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December 9th, 2022 - wormy - dandelions above my ears<3
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Bedroom pop
Lofi bedroom pop dreamlike innocence magic. A warm hug in hazy melodies and blurry childhood memories.
Download here.
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December 8th, 2022 - Silver Dove - passive (someone is missing you)
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: HNW, ambient
The most beautiful noise wall I've ever heard. The only thing I can compare it to is 光の緒, but this is less of the
piano BGM direction and more of ambient drone beneath layered blankets of noise, and as far as interesting
textures go this is top tier too.
Download here.
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December 7th, 2022 - Jingle Cats - Meowy Christmas
Year: 1993
Label: Jingle Cats Music
Genre: Christmas
The fact that this exists makes me unreasonably happy even if it's high quality
interrogation music. "[...] it took more than 1,000 meows, screeches and growls
to assemble the 20 melodies of their debut album" says it all.
Listen here.
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December 6th, 2022 - Pinkshinyultrablast - Happy Songs for Happy Zombies
Year: 2009
Label: Odd Box
Genre: Shoegaze, noise-dream-twee pop
The perfect merging of twee sweetness, shoegaze atmospheres,
and noise pop heaviness, hailing from 2k9 Russia of all places.
If shoegaze is up your alley you've probably heard of this but it's
still not at all one to be missed (and it's a short'n'sweet EP too.)
Listen here.
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December 5th, 2022 - catface - my colors!
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Pop punk
Can't believe I nearly cried to an excessively autotuned furry over MIDI guitars singing about painting
You never really let the dreamlike days go
But really does anyone? I don't know
Sometimes it's good to let your colors flow
Listen and download here.
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December 4th, 2022 - Various - 環境音楽 (Kankyō ongaku): Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980–1990
Year: 2019
Label: Light in the Attic
Genre: Ambient, new age
Pretty sure YouTube's been throwing 80s Japanese new age tapes at most people
for a while now, which is just as well considering what easily could've been cassette-bound
ephemera found a new, well-deserved audience. This is as good an intro as any to this scene?
sound? culture? whatever it was that feels completely timeless and outside of the universe of clutter.
Instant transport to a nature-based post-modern future that didn't pan out in our timeline.
Listen here.
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December 3rd, 2022 - J Sanders & NGHTGRV - FUNKDRIVE
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave
I used to see the term "vaporfunk" thrown around and thought it was a bit stupid to be
honest, but now I see why it exists. Old school vapor slowed jamz with all the energy
of future funk at a fraction of the tempo and totally saturated with hedonistic night
city driving atmospheres.
Download here.
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December 2nd, 2022 - Amnjk - 私立Cocmo学園女子中等部 E.P (Shiritsu Cocmo Gakuin Joshi Chutoubu EP)
Year: 2004
Label: RDC
Genre: Breakcore, trip hop, dark ambient
More mid-00s otaku music since we're all about variety round here. (Referring to
What a Happiness!!, not the Christmas nightcore album.) REAL old-school proto-lolicore
RDC recordz shit, but it's not all big eyes and glitter, some dark beats here too.
Real weird to think this is almost as old as I am.
Download here.
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December 1st, 2022 - Maikel6311 - It's Christmas!
Year: 2011 (recorded 2009)
Label: None
Genre: Nightcore, trance
Shoot me with a glitter gun it's december already
Get festive bitch.
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November 30th, 2022 - Various - Touch Ringtones
Year: 2001
Label: Touch
Genre: Experimental, sound effects, field recordings, found sound
A reflection on digital technology and mobile phones, circa all the way back in 2001. An interesting time capsule
and interesting to see how quick attitudes chage (also you know I'm a sucker for huge compilations of microtracks -
this one features 99 ringtone-length "songs" and recordings from two minutes to 0:06.)
Download here.
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November 29th, 2022 - 天音 [Amane] - What a Happiness!!
Year: 2006
Label: Angelic Quasar
Genre: J-core
(* ^ ω ^) (o^▽^o) ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ (´ ∀ ` *) (⌒▽⌒)☆ (´｡• ω •｡`) ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶ <(￣︶￣)>
(￣ω￣) (◕‿◕) ＼(≧▽≦)／ ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ (´▽`) (≧◡≦) (⌒ω⌒) (^‿^) (≧ω≦) ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ ☆
～(‘▽^人) (☆▽☆) ヽ(o^ ^o)ﾉ ∑d(°∀°d) (o´∀`o) ｡ﾟ( ﾟ^∀^ﾟ)ﾟ｡ (o_ _)ﾉ彡☆ ｀;:゛;｀;･(°ε° )
。.:☆*:･'(⌒―⌒))) ☆*:.｡.o(≧▽≦)o.｡.:*☆ (°▽°) (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ヽ(>∀<☆)ノ ＼(￣▽￣)／ (o˘◡˘o)
(╯✧▽✧)╯ ( ‾́ ◡ ‾́ ) (๑˘︶˘๑) (´･ᴗ･ ` ) ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶ ( ´ ▽ ` ) o(≧▽≦)o (¯︶¯) \(★ω★)/ o(>ω<)o
(ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ ( ˙꒳˙ ) (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ (✧ω✧)
Listen here.
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November 28th, 2022 - QUARTERBACKS - QUARTERBACKS
Year: 2015
Label: Team Love
Genre: Twee punk
Joyful'n'bittersweet naive twee lyrics about school and love and disappointment
and friends in a small town and dogs over ultra-short, high octane punk.
Sweet adolenscent energy verload.
Download here.
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November 27th, 2022 - Wolf Hotel - 07734
Year: 2018
Label: concuss
Genre: Experimental hip hop
The lonely, strange midpoint between the Conet Project and an abstract hip hop mixtape,
and it's not just number station sampled beats. The two are merged like some Frankensteinian
beast slowly but ceaselessly lumbering after you through dead channels and dark hallways.
Download here
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November 26th, 2022 - Nagareboshi - Bootleg
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune, hardcore
Absolutely hard, melody-driven chiptune / bitpop with an unmissable
goreshit cover to close it all off. I'm still working through it but every
track is remarkable in it's own way.
Listen here or download here
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November 25th, 2022 - Hiromasa Suzuki / 東海林修 - 海のトリトン Synthesizer Fantasy
Year: 1983
Label: Animex
Genre: Progressive electronic, soundtrack
It might be 80s ambient electronica but that's the most 2k12 vaporwave cover I've ever seen,
which is so amusing to me. In the 80s it was anticipating the future (which it did perfectly,) since the
future then fell in love with the past and emulated it. Strange world. Cool tunes.
Listen here.
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November 24th, 2022 - Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center - Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Year: 1964
Label: Columbia
Genre: Experimental, academic electronic music
Stereo Electronic Music No. 1 feels like my brain is being shredded through a computer in 2022 and surpasses most
experimental music in terms of energy and insanity. I'd lose it hearing this in 1964. Reminds me of Venetian Snare's
IDM. FUCKIN 60s FLASHCORE, ARE YOU SEEING THIS? All it needs is spastic kicks and you're good to go.
Listen here.
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November 23rd, 2022 - Juche - Juche
Year: 2012
Label: None
Genre: Metro-ko
Alongside the 2012 vaporwave boom, a small group of /mu/tants had slightly differing ideas.
Instead of basking in the comforting glow of television ads, artists in the metro-ko scene turned it off and went
outside to wander the grey cityscape itself. In the words of someone I'm shamelessly plagiarizing, "If vaporwave
was the bright distraction on TV, Metro-ko was the bleak room housing the television set." Combining imagery of
North Korean propaganda stations, Kowloon Walled City's transcenent claustrophobia, and lonely electronic genres,
Juche dropped one album before the scene evaporated into the city fog as fast as it began.
Download here.
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November 22nd, 2022 - PACHINKO MACHINE MUSIC - PACHINKO MACHINE MUSIC
Year: 2016
Label: Wasabi Tapes
Genre: Sound collage, field recording
Frying your brain chasing the high of winning, surviving on fast food and rushing back to the parlor.
Millions of pachinko balls rolling around inside your skull, a hundred machines echoing in your dreams
for years to come.
Listen here.
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November 21th, 2022 - Microbe - Mbs Wackbeats
Year: 2001
Label: Liveanimationprojects
Genre: Instrumental hip hop
Judging by the cover I'd expect an early 90s kvlt dungeon synth tape but it's actually
Finnish hip hop instrumentals, although all the dark, lofi, isolated DS vibes are still there behind
the beats. Still fit for noctural walks and or rituals in the woods.
Listen here.
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November 20th, 2022 - Printed Circuit - Movements
Year: 2006
Label: Catmobile
Genre: Synthpop
I stumbled across this by total accident years and years ago and it grabbed me instantly. I have no idea
what decade this sounds like it's from but it's perfect semi-robotic nocturnal synthpop and the 240p quality
is the icing on the cake.
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November 19th, 2022 - Xera - Lliendes
Year: 2006
Label: None
Genre: Asturian folk, celtic electronica
Traditional celtic instruments and folk vocals in a 21st century electronic context with almost rock sounds at times
works better than any interesection of those three have any right to. Who knew?
Listen here.
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November 18th, 2022 - Cult of the Lizard God - Enchanted
Year: 1995
Label: None
Genre: Post-punk, psychedelic black metal
Just look at that artist name and those genre tags and tell me this doesn't rule.
For prancing with the little people and conducting strange rituals in the middle of the
faery circle you just ate a mushroom from.
Listen here.
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November 17th, 2022 - Neptune Towers - Caravans to Empire Algol
Year: 1994
Label: Moonfog
Genre: "Avantgarde Astral Alien Synth"
None of the instruments but all the raw, heavy feel of a metal album played in dark synths broadcast from
the heart of a dark nebula. Like some ritual from an unlit planet millions of years before humanity even looked
at the heavens, or like looking at a star and seeing it stare right back at you.
Listen here.
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November 16th, 2022 - Ecrylian - d a t a f i l e _ 2 1
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Jungle, rave
I clicked for the Asriel cover and got an album of surprisingly old-school jungle / rave DnB.
Very good vibes from this one.
Download here.
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November 15th, 2022 - Precious - A Promise
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Dungeon synth
It's an interesting part of humanity that makes us explore tragedies when we don't have to,
revisit suffering and hardship buried under hundreds of years of history and channel it
into art in the modern day. Heartrending and artful and bitterly, bitterly cold.
Download here.
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November 14th, 2022 - syzy2 - 4 25 2021 caught up in circles
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Glitch, indietronica
Euphoric post-post pop stuttering and glitching it's way to JPEG'd heaven.
Listen here.
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November 13th, 2022 - 868 - Don't Get Lost In Heaven
Year: 2022
Label: Curiosity Shop
Genre: Ambient, pop, mashup
I know ambient pop is a genre but this combines the two in a way that transcends any crossover
I've heard before. I can't believe I'm describing a mix that starts with Britney Spears as angelic
but nothing else does it justice. Between post-cloud rap pushing further and further
into ambient territory and increasingly minimal / emotional sounds getting popular in soundcloud
circles it was only a matter of time before we reached it's heavenly conclusion.
Listen here.
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November 12th, 2022 - Various – Dream House Compilation (The Dream Comes True)
Year: 1995
Label: Discomagic Records
Genre: Progressive trance, dream house
Not usually a fan of this kind of music but I stumbled across the first track and it's just very very nice.
Cool compilation of dated, forgotten house / trance to lose yourself in for a while.
Listen here.
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November 12th, 2022 (double posting 4 shitpost saturday) - Minty 9 - Bad & Baldrs
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Mashup
God fucking dammit
Download here.
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November 11th, 2022 - Darkwood - Ins dunkle Land
Year: 2009
Label: Heidenvolk
Genre: Neofolk
A doomed soldier's thoughts in dying days, black clouds over battlefields and
aimless meanderings waiting around abandoned gardens waiting for bombs to rain,
and many other similar scenes evoked by simple but touching acoustic guitar strumming
and bleakly beautiful lyrics. I'm well aware this project's politics are sketchy at best and I don't
endorse or agree with whatever he's going for here but there's a message beyond it worth hearing.
If nothing else, give the English tracks (2-5) a listen, this could be cut to just those and make
the perfect neofolk EP.
Listen here.
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November 10th, 2022 - Rocketship - Garden of Delights
Year: 1998
Label: Nonstop Co-op
Genre: Ambient
It's always cool to see a great band turn to a style different from their usual one and
put their talent to good use in odd ways. This is a prime example: Rocketship's famous
album uses ambient / drone interludes between some tracks, which here are given full focus
and allowed to shine in their own right. "Pulsing synths and reversed looped samples make
this mellow classic great to relax, wake up, or take drugs to."
Listen here.
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November 9th, 2022 - mil ataris por segundo - when you love someone its easy to see yourself covered in their blood
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Midwest emo
Midwest emo and Oyasumi Punpun go together like twee and cats or gorenoise and encephalitic
post-urethral hemorrhaging of dessicated carcinomas. I'm not sure how I didn't realize this sooner.
Download here.
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November 8th, 2022 - Bulbasaur Adderall - HM10
Year: 2015
Label: DMT Tapes
Genre: Experimental vaporwave, ambient
The first part is drug-scrambled experimental vapor that'll probably appeal
to a few readers so give it a go but I'm mostly posting it for A) the general
aesthetic that's kept me interested in it for 4 years and counting now and B)
the gorgeous final track. True hidden gem of ambient vaporwave that somehow got buried
in Bulbasaur Adderall of all things. Strange world.
Download here.
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November 7th, 2022 - Moines du temple Daitokuji de Kyôto - Japon : Zen Hôyô, Liturgie du Bouddhisme Zen
Year: 2010
Label: Ocora
Genre: Shōmyō
It's been a while since I posted some obscure genre from another country so here
we are again to remind you that you're never gonna hear a tiny fraction of what's out there.
I lack the religious / cultural background so much of it is totally lost on me but the atmosphere
it creates is unmatched. Recommended uninterputed dark room listening.
Listen here.
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November 6th, 2022 - Various - Drop Name Records Volumes 1 & 2
Year: 2005
Label: Painfree Foundsound Institute
Genre: Speed/break/hardcore
I don't even need to say anything about this, you can tell exactly who, when, and what this just by looking at it.
I also now know where wUB.Man69 got his swag.
Download here.
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November 5th, 2022 - Ancient bog attitude - Music in Public Spaces
Year: 2017
Label: Ancient bog attitude
Genre: Field recordings, found sound
Listening to someone listening to someone listening to music. We need to go deeper,
someone play this in a public place and record it. I'm suprised some employee at a
nearly-abandoned mall doesn't play mallsoft off of the speakers when no one's around.
Download here.
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November 5th, 2022 - slowslicing - ...BECAUSE IM YOUNG NOIDED AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Mashup
It's two-for-one shitpost saturday. 15 year old me would've been vibrating in
excitement at this thing and it's far from bad now. Athoth A Go Go! is still
untouchable no matter what you do to it.
Download here.
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November 4th, 2022 - DJ K1RA - Messy
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Hardcore, trance, gabber
I was expecting typical breakcore but got a very very pleasant surprise.
I suck at describing most electronic music but there's hardcore elements,
house and DnB, trance synths, all in all TONS of atmosphere and euphoric
melodies for a solid HOUR AND A HALF. I haven't finished it since every track
has so much to enjoy. IDEK who DJ K1RA but you have my attention.
Download here.
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November 3rd, 2022 - ＫＡＳＨ Ｎ＇ ＫＡＲＲＹ ＳＨＯＰＰＩＮＧ ＣＡＲＴ - AM Transport Company (1AM-5AM) ／／ DMT-447
Year: 2017
Label: DMT Tapes
Genre: Vaporwave, house
Not "experimental" in the sense a lot of experimental vaporwave is, no distortion or glitching or anything,
but still really weird. Half of it feels like hardvapour from a better timeline where it didn't mostly suck,
part of it is just strange vapor without sounding like normal vapor, but all of it exudes a very noctural
vibe that goes perfectly with it's story. If I had to drive between isolated buildings in the small hours alone,
you know what I'd be playing.
Download here.
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November 2nd, 2022 - Buchanan and Goodman - The Flying Saucer (Part 1) / Flying Saucer (Part 2)
Year: 1956
Label: Luniverse
Genre: Break-in, sound collage
That time proto-plunderphonics hit #3 on the charts somehow, AKA
possibly the first mashup ever, AKA that time two musicians got taken
to court for making plunderphonics and responded by making a plundephonics
single about getting taken to court. Some things never change.
Listen here.
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November 1st, 2022 - Hexode - CP 1919, 318 MHz
Year: 2014
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Pure, distilled droning for two tracks, uninterrupted in monolithic glory
and completely lost in fog. Dark shapes half seen in twilight haze and motionless
moonlight sillhouettes and radio towers flickering on a city horizon. The third
track brings the perfect ambient melody into the equation, positively dripping with
fairytale sorrow. And it has a cat on the cover. I can't ask for more.
Download here.
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October 30th, 2022 - АДЛИН - PHUCKED UP
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Drift phonk
Russian rap with very heavy electronic and melodic influences, a lot of the time it feels
like hip hop riding on the back of house, pop, and even hardcore at points. Very atmospheric
(even more so if you don't speak Russian), emotional but not depressed or sappy, and overall
a hidden gem in the soundcloud scene.
Download here.
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October 29th, 2022 - Shako-Pani - Habanero Sketch x365
Year: 2008
Label: None
Genre: Breakcore, DnB
I never knew I was looking for this album my entire life but here we are and god, GOD
is it some sweet stuff. I could've put anything by Shako-Pani here and it would hold up,
a master in the craft of catchy melodies, cute electronic sounds, and breaks galore.
If lolicore ever seemed interesting but the edginess put you off, give this a go.
Listen to it here.
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October 28th, 2022 - Delcada - Beta Uprising
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Rap? Rave?
One of many weird and wonderful artifacts from the happy hardcore / soundcloud rap
merger of 2020. That was a weird year.
Selling drugs to children, I love terrorism
Listen to it here.
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October 27th, 2022 - DDRKirby(ISQ) - Goodnight Meowmie Original Soundtrack
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: VGM
Some nice cute background music tunes and dark paulstretched droning. I came for
the cat but got something quite different. I'd recommend the game as much as the album,
very unique stuff.
Download here.
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October 26th, 2022 - Henry Flynt - You Are My Everlovin / Celestial Power
Year: 1986
Label: None
Genre: Avant-folk, drone
Appalachian folk instrument blending with hindustani classical in a tape music mess,
left to dissolve in condensed leftover 60s psychedelia. Outside of conventional
reality but somehow well within some US state you've never thought about much.
Listen to it here.
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October 25th, 2022 - DDRKirby(ISQ) - Goodnight Meowmie Original Soundtrack
Year: 1970
Label: Bovema EMI
Genre: Psychedelic folk, contemporary folk, fairy tales
Playfully witchy folk tunes brought to you by a hippie duo. What's not to love?
The wildfire is word of mouth
Mushrooms rise out of the ground
I sprinkle the seeds of all my dreams around
(Apparently they became prominent Christian musicians after this lol)
Listen to it here.
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October 24th, 2022 - The Marshmallow Kisses - I Wonder Why My Favorite Boy Leaves Me an EP
Year: 2004
Label: None
Genre: Twee Pop, Shibuya-kei
It's fucking called The Marshmallow Kisses, what do you think it is?
What can I say that isn't already screamed just by looking at it?
Lovey dovey twee purity for idealistic springtime love, whispers
followed by laughter and smiles and all drenched in lonely joy.
Listen to it here.
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October 23th, 2022 - Dan Efex - Epiloguek
Year: 1996
Label: Pure Acid
Genre: Goa Trance, Hard Trance, Acid Trance
I don't know enough about trance / acid to do it justice but
if you're into forgotten rainbow tie die 90s rave cassettes this is gonna rock.
Listen to it here.
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October 22nd, 2022 - ~飲酒^,~,^漂白~ - lullabies for the mentally crippled
Year: 2016
Label: Tsundere Violence
Genre: Mashcore
Mashcore is just an approximation, in the wide world of stupid speedbreakmashshitcore
I don't know anyone who sounds like this guy. Somewhere between JAPSHITFUN's endless
shredded net culture barrage and more conventional hardcore-n-breaks-on-mashed-up-pop
mashcore, it's in a class of it's own in being at once totally random, impressively coherent,
and a buried gem of stupid hardcore internet music. Come back, man!
Download it here.
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October 21st, 2022 - Travel Kyoto - Futurist Haikus and Tiki Dreams
Year: 2012
Label: Magic Rub
Genre: Space Age Pop, Hypnagogic Pop
I can smell the airport, feel the morning fog, see the fake plants in spotless lobbies
just looking at the cover, and it's only uphill from there. Can you imagine the impact something
like this would've had in a world without vaporwave already crowding it for room?
Kyoto awaits.
Listen to it here.
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October 2th, 2022 - Various - Field Recordings of Russiak
Year: 2020
Label: Broken Tape
Genre: Goa Trance, Hard Trance, Acid Trance
Flip phone audio quality, unclear subject matter, unknown artists.
The orbs lost in the haze say all you need to know.
Listen to it here.
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October 20th, 2022 - Body 13 - #154: Receive the Supplication of a Dead Man's Hand
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
After listening to this I spent all day thinking about the cover origin and showed it
to everyone I knew one by one. I originally didn't connect the incredible ambient
album it is to the majestic idiot on the cover but now that I think about it, imagine
listening to this while endlessly and serenely scanning the desert from 50 feet up.
Download here.
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October 18th, 2022 - Rad Magma - One Night in Neo Kobe
Year: 2012
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune, synthwave
Every time I post a chiptune album I say some variation on "soundtrack to the best
game no one's played" or something like that and I hate to sound like a broken record
but I'm gonna do it again. To be fair, it 100% conjures images of late night video game
marathons right next door to high-tech low-life hackers and criminals.
Download here.
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October 18th, 2022 - pscu - تشتبك السيوف (World War 2020 - Episode Three)
Year: 2016
Label: H.V.R.F. CENTRAL COMMAND
Genre: Deconstructed club, nasheed
Western electronic intermingling with more traditional Arabic music and sounds has been
ongoing for some time, but this is probably the strangest merging I've seen, made all the
more interesting by the fact that it's genuinely great as a record. The treatment given to
rap remixes and club music is instead superimposed onto (probably pro-terrorist) nasheeds into a disturbingly
coherent whole.
Download here.
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October 17th, 2022 - Tape Sounds - Fall Dorm Recording
Year: 2013
Label: Carpi
Genre: Ambient, tape music, americana
If you're gonna check out anything this week, make it this. Does Arizona, Nevada, cacti,
or the phrase "high desert" make you feel anything special? What about acoustic instruments
and / or tape rot? Does 2000s James Ferraro speak to you (preferably through the TV or in dreams?)
Give this a listen, it convinced me ambient americana was more than an RYM novelty.
Listen here.
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October 16th, 2022 - 王阳明 - 乾坤
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Experimental vaporwave
Odd, looping vapor seemingly themed around daoism and ancient Chinese
philosphy. Despite all it's deconstructions and strangeness it never
veers too far off onto the experimental path, forever holding onto it's
peculiar hazy comforts.
Download here.
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October 15th, 2022 - 12 Frozen Radios - Signals In Isolation
Year: 2014
Label: None
Genre: Dark ambient
Siberian winds. Abandoned research stations. Doors blocked by snow. Perpetual twilight.
Through it all a forgotten transmitter in the subbasement of an isolated Soviet military outpost,
broadcasting to no one until the power runs out.
Download here.
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October 14th, 2022 - Terror Cell Unit - Dedicated To All Spree Shooters
Year: 2019
Label: Nefarious Activities
Genre: Power electronics
I was hesitant to post this for a while since it's obviously beyond edginess and probably
got me bumped up a row on a couple watchlists, but this album took me from "meh" toward PE
to rather blown away. Terror Cell Unit isn't fucking around with wandering noise filler:
these are genuinely structured songs, and even if I don't know if the message is condemnatory or genuine,
it's power comes through in all the horror and sick glory of a one-man apocalypse.
Listen here.
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October 13th, 2022 - もね – ててう
Year: 1982
Label: XA Record
Genre: Scum, lofi, punk?
Shout out to audrey for this one, I never would've dig this deep on my own but here we are
and I couldn't be happier with this, toy punk played on toy instruments. They use bubbling as
vocals at one point and it reminds me the songs I made as a kid on random instruments I got
access to, in the best way.
Listen here.
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October 12th, 2022 - BreakfastFork - A State of Perturbation
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune
I think this person goes to my old school? Either way I found them through a friend of a family member
without any expectations and was pleasantly suprised by the little chiptune adventure it took me on.
Recommended for fans of chill VGM and simple beep boop tunes.
Listen here.
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October 12th, 2022 - valyri - hantasi_i_know_what_it_takes_to_be_an_american_man_cover.mp3
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Electropop?
I'm in the process of figuring out who made this and where I got it, I'll probably have the answer once
I can access RYM on the school internet where I'm not IP blocked. [Update: it's valyri!] Origin aside, it takes a bizarre
vaporwave americana track from Hantasi and reinterprets it into an absolutely incredible electronic track.
Simultaneously euphoric and strained and bursting at the seams with it's own energy, an accomplishment considering
it isn't fast or manic.
Download here.
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October 11th, 2022 - TCLB - Sonification
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Sonification, ambient
A couple days ago I shared a sonification album derived from the human genome. Interesting as it was,
it sounded pretty much like the raw data it was, and probably didn't fully show off the potential beauty
hidden in technical data. Enter TCLB. He's more known for his field recordings but before choosing that route,
he made four lovely sonification tracks that go more in an ambient direction, associating notes with numbers
and deriving odd and oddly soothing sounds out of tracklistings and weather datum. (This is not an official album:
track 4 is from a compilation and the other 3 are from an abandoned soundcloud and never saw a real release.)
Download here.
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October 10th, 2022 - cboyardee [Various Artists] - DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
Year: 2012
Label: none
Genre: Chiptune, VGM
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED
Download here.
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October 9th, 2022 - Various Artists - Selected Brobient Works, Vol. 1
Year: 2020
Label: Vivarium Recordings
Genre: Brone
Fucking brone, I've seen it all now. Some vaporwave influence, lots of drone and ambient, all melded
out of brostep sources into an uncanny but often beautiful amalgam. I've always thought brostep's sound design
was really interesting and this takes it out of it's EDM shackles and lets it lurk the musical world unhinged and
formless.
Download here.
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October 8th, 2022 - garden state - forever home
Year: 2022
Label: none
Genre: Glitch, IDM, ambient
I have no clue how this was made, as it feels very intricate and is absolutely massive
in every sense of the word. Nature recordings, glitch, ambient, vaporwave, IDM, and who
knows what else, all absorbed by and endlessly persued over by the semisapient AI in an
abandoned ultramodern smart home in the sky.
Download here.
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October 7th, 2022 - Unknown Chầu Văn Performance Troupe - Street Performance
Year: 2019
Label: 7FORM
Genre: Vietnamese folk music
Another one that I lack proper context to really say much on besides that the gorgeous
cover perfectly conveys what you're gonna hear, a phone recorded slice of another culture
and musical traditional crashing into my own via the magic of the world wide web.
Download here.
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October 6th, 2022 - Sintel - Sonification of Human Genome Assembly [GRCh38]
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Sonification, noise
The raw data of the human genome, processed and sonically interpreted for human ears in the form of harsh noise
and glitch. It seems a lot of people experimented with importing raw data into Audacity and checking out the
static, beeps, and other broken mechanical sounds, and this is the literal biological equivalent as our own source code.
Download here.
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October 5rd, 2022 - #HDBOYZ - THV 1080p
Year: 2011
Label: None
Genre: Boyband, electropop
Years before PC music's ultracorporate inhumanly sugary pop and almost a decade
before hyperpop entered the picture, HDBOYZ were rocking the excessively autotuned
post-post-y2k hyperdigital boy band sound. I simply cannot believe 2011 produced this
without some kind of time travel involvement, there will never be a time this is not ahead of.
Experience here.
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October 4th, 2022 - Destructive Floating Rot In The Heliamphora - Demo #2
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Gorenoise
Flower-obsessed goregrind reflections on beautiful desert poison.
Download here.
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October 3rd, 2022 - Bermuda Hay - Music for Plain Bread
Year: 2020-2022 (ongoing)
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, glitch
I was fully expecting a bandcamp shitpost or at most some paulstretch drone or something,
and definitely not something as high quality as this. Soothing ambiance kept alive and
active by a peaceful kind of glitchiness. All the natural sounds of analog ambient
backed and guided by subtle digital forces, and you can always come back for more - it's been
updated rougly monthly for a few years now.
Listen to / buy it here.
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October 2nd, 2022 - DJ Armok / Pillbox / DJ Bishop - Dungeon Rap: The Introduction
Year: 2019
Label: Natural Sciences
Genre: Memphis rap, dungeon synth
This release completely discards actual musical history and creates a parallel timeline
where the late 90s find a dungeon synth / memphis rap underground spawning. This sampler
from a scene that never was delivers all you'd expect and more. Dark beats, medieval melodies,
and I got through the whole thing unsure of what language it's in.
Listen to / buy it here.
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October 1st, 2022 - Plinth - Wintersongs
Year: 1999
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, folk
Yes, I am on a cat cover art streak. If Purzum from a few days back is a kitten's simple
bliss by the hearth, this reminds me of an old cat curled up inside during a snowstorm.
Through a variety of sounds and instruments, some seemingly toys, it's as comfy and
endearing as it is tired with the occassional eerie shadow in the corner. Welcome to October,
it's only getting colder from here on out.
Listen to it here.
