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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September 30th, 2022 - sadworldbeats - Sadworld Beat Tape #3
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Instrumental trap
The hardest 11 minutes of your life, I swear. Perfect mix of melodies and
distorted bass for maximum wall-punching power. (I also highly recommend
his actual content (also, this is what Gibby is up to these days.))
Listen to it here.
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September 29th, 2022 - みっちりねこマーチングバンド [Mitchiri-Neko Marching Band] - みっちりねこマーチ (Mitchiri-Neko March)
Year: 2013
Label: None
Genre: March, children's music
Soul healing juice. I cannot say more.
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September 28th, 2022 - Purzum - Filosofeline
Year: 2021
Label: Weregnome
Genre: Comfy synth
There is nothing I can say that the cover doesn't tell you. I wish it was
comfy black metal somehow, but it absolutely doesn't disappoint as
comfy synth and definitely stands on it's own merits, parodies aside.
Download it here.
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September 27th, 2022 - Kuricorder Pops Orchestra - Yotsuba&♪
Year: 2005
Label: Geneon
Genre: Imaginary soundtrack
If you know Yotsuba this needs no introduction and if you don't, you should
for your own sake. I wish my life sounded like this. I wish all our lives
sounded like this.
Listen to it here.
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September 26th, 2022 - ショコラ (CV: 八木侑紀)、バニラ (CV: 佐伯伊織)、アズキ (CV: 井澤詩織)、
メイプル (CV: 伊藤美来)、シナモン (CV: のぐちゆり)、ココナツ (CV: 水谷麻鈴) - Shiny Happy Days
Year: 2020
Label: Avex
Genre: J-pop
Presented without comment.
Download it now
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September 25th, 2022 - mothguts - m⛧othguuutssss soundc!!!!!louddd bootleg (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Breakcore, ambient
First heard this in a mix and it took me totally by suprise. mothguts perfects
the ambient breakcore soundcloud scene sound with all the perfect imperfections
of DJ Sailor Moon's messy amens, bitcrushed and lobit production to give it a lofi
atmosphere, and all the dream haze of an unreal foggy day. 110% someone to keep
an eye on.
Download it here.
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September 24th, 2022 - Lights Strung Like Stars - Fall Demo
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Emo
Lofi emotional screamo laden with cinematic samples, raw recordings, and all the energy
and more to accomplish their vision. Nice mix of acoustic guitars in there too.
Download it here.
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September 23rd, 2022 - Junior War
Year: 2013
Switching it up today with a movie instead of music. If you're stuck in all the wrong
hellsites you might've run into Ryan Trecartin's masterpiece I-Be Area of Death Grips
sampling fame (which I cannot recommend enough, fry your brain with this ASAP if you
haven't already.) A little bit of digging pulls up Junior War, which is a fucking insane
collage of footage shot at an unsupervised, out of control high school party circa 2000 featuring
unhinged teenage nonsense, vandalism, and police intervention. I don't know what he was going
for but he accidently made the greatest documentary / found footage film ever.
Watch it here.
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September 22nd, 2022 - emotegi - junji ito
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Trap
I have little experience with modern (t)rap but this combines all the trends I've seen
around and liked in a succinct single. Emo trap influenced minus the sad lyrics,
it's a very fun listen. The fact that it quotes several lines of blink-182 in the middle
tells you all you need to know.
Listen to it here.
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September 21st, 2022 - Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville
Year: 1853 - 1860
Label: None lol
Genre: Spoken word, acapella, found sound
Before Edison, the phonograph, the music industry, and all other recorded sound comes
Leon Scott and a peculiar device called the phonautograph, which left markings visualizing
sound on blackened sheets of paper. It had no method for playback and the resulting waves
were supposed to be read like words, which proved unfeasible. 150 years later, researchers
managed to digitize it, in all it's garbled glory. It absolutely sounds like something from the 1850s,
but it's worth it at least to hear a one-second 1853 guitar solo, and I'd be lying if I said it
didn't have something deeply unsettling about it.
Listen to it here.
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September 20th, 2022 - 고은 어린이합창단 - 하나님의 성품을 닮아가는 법 레위기의 말씀찬양
Year: 2010
Label: [????]
Genre: Christian children's music, glitch
One of a small but growing canon of albums that only got attention due to someone
screwing up. What should be a Korean children's choir CD got mangled in the
digitalization process, rendering much of it into looped scraps and the result
at times is some of the best IDM I've found yet. The purely glitched-out tracks
have an innocent and calming but messed-up feel to them and listening to the album
as a whole is nerve-wracking since you never know when you're gonna get thrown
into the vortex.
Listen to it here.
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September 19th, 2022 - Various Artists - Googlecore
Year: 2011
Label: None
Genre: Googlecore
Googlecore was microgenre spawned in the depths of the RYM forums when users discovered
how to make Google Translate make funny / bizarre sounds. It's short life was tragically cut off
when Google patched whatever part of their software learned to beatbox. However, the scene
wasn't completely forgotten, as litterbin makes sure with their best-of mixtape. It's
some of the strangest fucking sounds I've found in a long time and a good reminder to
anyone who thinks they've heard it all, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Download it here.
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September 18th, 2022 - Various Artists - URL60 - June 20, 2021
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Yeah (mostly hip-hop and electronic)
A one-hour URL fest featuring 60 artists in one-minute chunks of mashups,
internet trap, trance, vaporwave, memes, DnB, and much more. It's such a
stupid idea that the fact it happened, and *worked*, is as mindblowing as
the experience itself. I love the net sometimes.
Watch it here and download to it here.
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September 17th, 2022 - lithoan - Skype™
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Plunderphonics, glitch
This is what you hear as your neural implant experiences a minor bug causing your
entire brain's contents to be overwritten with innumerable copies of Skype.
Download it (minus the original cover, sadly) here.
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September 16th, 2022 - Phantom Spire / Hauntefaerie - Black Spells over Wallachia
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Black metal
Intensely raw, fast, but equally intensely melodic, this settled my eventual
descent into black metal. Everything about it clicks even from an outsider
of the genre and the blazing synth(?) blows it out of the water. The faeries
are coming and you won't be ready, might as well accept your fate
Buy / listen to it here.
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September 15th, 2022 - polaroid sunset - Ｓｕｍｍｅｒ Ｓｕｎｓｅｔ
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Breakbeat
I *know* it's an unedited amen break over a looped sample, I *know* it's
techically lazy as hell, but god is it perfect. Intensely nostaglic
and tender. Makes my heart hurt. (The b-side is also cool as hell.)
Listen to it here.
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September 14th, 2022 - Gamers In Exile & My Selfish Desire – Split Your Cerebrum
Year: 2001
Label: Unbearable Recordings
Genre: IDM
Headfuck IDM with all sorts of crazy instruments and panning, abstract electronics,
and associated nonsense. I have no idea how people can sit down and just make these
songs that seem like they could only exist in the head of an alien raver. It's not
nearly as out there as some breakcore / hardcore IDM though and still has a chill side.
Shout out 2 Butchered Soldier 4 dredging this 1 up.
Listen to it here.
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September 13th, 2022 - DICK WOLF! - DICK WOLF!
Year: 2010
Label: None
Genre: Math rock
I have no idea how this excellently-titled self-released math rock demo crawled from
Chicago to a Nowhereville, Pennsylvania thrift store but here we are and I'm
happy it did. It's still growing on me but the tamed chaos of math rock with self-described
"experimental pop" writing is a unique and cool combination.
Download it here.
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September 12th, 2022 - 天気予報 - Runaway Tide
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Dark ambient
It's very rare music strikes me as genuinely disturbing, especially without
resorting to Sotos-ish shock tactics, and I didn't expect it out of 天気予報
who I usually think of as very homey, comfy signalwave. This does the trick.
It's the soundtrack to some kind of half-remembered childhood nightmare without
any of the nostalgia that would imply but all of the surreal blurriness and
panic. I could just imagine someone running in fear from some unthinkable
vagueness, they pause, sensing something horribly wrong, turn around to behold
this album cover, and this starts playing. Pure dread music.
Download it here.
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September 11th, 2022 - 에큐메노폴리스 - 태풍
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, slushwave
I'll confess I rolled my eyes when I first saw this since North Korean vaporwave
has been explored several times before and IMO didn't succeed as more than a novelty.
There goes those expectations, seeing as this is both some of the best slushwave
and ambient I've heard in a while. 번영 is an etherial dreamlike blend of subtle motion
and unchanging drone, and my only complaint is that 태풍 is a fraction of the length it could be.
With any luck, 에큐메노폴리스 isn't someone's one off project and there's more to come.
Download it here.
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September 10th, 2022 - V.A. – 5 Seconds Compilation Part IV
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Experimental, noise
Maybe I enjoy these short-themed compilations too much since this is like the fifth one I've
posted here but who gives, they're always good fun. This one comes more from the noise scene instead
of the vaporwave and chiptune scenes as seen before, but it still has plenty of variety and it's
interesting to see each artist's style, juxtaposed at terminal velocity.
Download it here.
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September 9th, 2022 - cat sounds - covers and kittens and more v2
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune
Some happy little video game covers, and even if it's "just" MIDIs it's just
as endearing as the cover suggests. It's been two years, cat sounds come back.
Download it here.
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September 8th, 2022 - Morgan Greenwood - Winter
Year: 2011
Label: None
Genre: IDM
Ambient-influenced IDM from 2005-2007. As the months are getting colder I'm
feeling this style more and more and you can bet I'll have this one on rotation
once frost and foggy breath enters the picture. It's just as chill and healing as the
cover suggests and doesn't shy away from a well-controlled drill'n'bass flurries
now and again.
Download it here.
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September 7th, 2022 - Gammal Sed - Blót
Year: 2010
Label: Legion Blotan
Genre: Raw black metal, noise
Not even halfway through September but I'm prepping for NBBMN and already finding
gems in the (emphasis on) rough. I've said shit-fi before but I mean it this time,
it's hard to get more primitive than this and it genuinely evokes the esoteric ritual
atmosphere so much of the genre strives for. I'm actually hesitant to post it here since
it sincerely doesn't feel like something you should be telling people about, but I guess
I'll suffer whatever fae-folk curse I get for it.
Download it here.
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September 6th, 2022 - 吉川洋一郎 [Yoichiro Yoshikawa] - The Miracle Planet
Year: 1988
Label: Io-Factory
Genre: New age
Made for TV new age, neoclassical, and easy listening background music in
the greatest way. Incredibly soothing and fits into the background without
any ambient pitfalls. I'll admit most of my understanding of this kind of music
is secondhand from artists like 天気予報 but I might just go with the originals now.
Download it here.
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September 5th, 2022 - Judaswiege - The Lonely Man Strikes With Absolute Rage
Year: 2010
Label: None
Genre: Raw depressive black metal
Absolute shit-fi recordings, blasted out vocals, a movie sample, and a frail repetitive DSBM
guitar are all that's needed to evoke all the lonely wrath it's theme would suggest. It
conjures very well the image of a teenager losing his mind in his room, as that's probably not
entirely unlike the circumstances that led Judaswiege to record it.
Listen to it (possibly in part?) here.
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September 4th, 2022 - Mineral Water - Kiss
Year: 2020
Label: Door Gallery
Genre: Post-nightcore
Euphoric nightcored trance loops falling into and out of all kinds of
noise and ambient distortions to angelic if bizarre effect on side A
and it's demonic counterpart on side B with a straightforward hardcore
dance track.
Download it here.
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September 3rd, 2022 - GREATHUMOUR - CHOOSE THE SPECULUM
Year: 2020
Label: Cybergrunge.net
Genre: Glitch
Digital spazz noise glitch shards (most of just a few seconds) for fried
attention spans and half-melted hard drives.
Download it here.
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September 2nd, 2022 - Green Rust - either
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Waqs continues to delight and confuse me. I don't know anyone else who
who would bury some of the best ambient music out there behind nonsense
titles and an ugly stock texture, but that's just the kind of thing he
does. I love this guy, it's more than possible to get into his art but you
can tell he's not doing it for you or any other audience, but for his
own idiosyncratic / incomprehensible vision.
Stream / buy it here.
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September 6th, 2022 - KOLA KID - JOBLESS WORK
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune, microrave
I left youtube on autoplay by accident and this came up and I was hooked in
seconds. Without hardcore kicks or fancy breaks it conjures up some of the
most energetic rave-worthy tunes I've ever heard. This is what chiptune
was made for all these years.
Listen to it here.
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September 5th, 2022 - Cirno9 [Various] - Cirno⑨
Year: 2014
Label: Cirno⑨
Genre: Chiptune
I'll admit I know jack about Touhou so I'm not getting the full experience
here but you don't need too much context to appreciate some great chiptune.
Different styles presented by different artists packed into a fun little
compilation (with a jazz track to boot!)
Download it here.
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September 4th, 2022 - Youchien Dream – Little Songs
Year: 2014
Label: Tapirs Records
Genre: Drum'n'bass
"Little Songs" is a very apt title, five short chiptune / DnB tracks
with cute melodies and simple but effective production. To add to the
charm, almost all of Youchien Dream's discography is lost to a dead
self-published label (I was only able to find this by accident in a
mediafire link 8 years deep in a last.fm comment box of an inactive user.)
Download it here.
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September 3rd, 2022 - Various Artists - Oh! Moro Volume 5
Year: 1992
Label: ○か×
Genre: Noise
Since a lot of earlier noise was so heavily performance-based, much is lost
in translation to record, a gap this tape does it's best to mend. Footage
from the noise and extreme rock underground of Japan at the time that succeeds
as much as video can at capturing the insane energy flowing in the scene (also
features some atmospheric in-between clips that would make for good signalwave
covers, hint hint.)
Watch it here.
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September 2nd, 2022 - Marcel Broodthaers - Interview with a Cat
Year: 1995 (rec. 1975)
Label: Marian Goodman Gallery
Genre: Spoken word
From the cat angle there's a number of good mews and mraows in here.
and the hopelessly doomed idea of intewviewing a cat is amusing enough
but there's a transcript here if you don't speak french. Marcel questions
the change of art, the value of it, etc. all the while recieving only
mrows in response. It reminds me of the thought-provoking confusion of a koan
or maybe it's a 70s shitpost. You tell me.
Download it here.
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September 1st, 2022 - Le Page - Emma's House (The Field Mice Cover)
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Indie pop
A lovely indie pop interpretation of a twee classic from an Athens-based band.
The style is quite different from the original but complements it very well
and the accent is perfect too.
Download it here.
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August 31st, 2022 - tear - light memory
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Ambient for childhood dreams / to die happy to. I have no idea who this is but they're going places.
Stream it here.
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August 30th, 2022 - KARATECHNO Live at Club Metro 2014.11.14
Year: 2014
Genre: Rave, hardcore techno(?)
If I was into karate I'd be losing it right now even then I have to admit it's cool as hell
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August 29th, 2022 - Tinyfolk - Phoning It In 03/09/06
Year: 2006
Label: None
Genre: Twee, lofi
20 minutes of too-pure-for-this-world ukelele twee played through a phone line
featuring silly nonsense, sweet love songs, and a sincere sense of innocence.
All I can say is that I wish Tinyfolk only the best in the world.
Download it here.
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August 28th, 2022 - LINKROT GODS - HARDCORE NEVER DIES
Year: 2022
Label: GAO GAO!!
Genre: Vaporwave, experimental
It's rare I drop everything I'm doing and listen to a completely new album repeatedly
after hearing a few seconds of it, even rarer that it's mostly based on the same 2-verse
loop, even more so than it's fucking will.i.am. ft. Justin Beiber vaporwave, but here we
are. It's up there with the best of eccojams in turning throwaway lines from vaguelly-nostalgic
pop songs into euphoric sea-of-sound mantras (also, definitely stick around for the gorgeous
ambient section halway through.) Overall, one of my favorite plunderphonic finds lately.
Download it here.
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August 27th, 2022 - OS2 // WARP - 100
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Post-nightcore, experimental
Instant post-NXC classic, and that's ignoring it's absurd length and structure.
You can tell just by the tracklisting you're in for something special, and
the actual content doesn't disappoint, using nightcore techniques on a wide
variety of source material and using it's incrementally creeping lengths to
explore more and more soundscapes until eventually there's a whole discography's
worth of experimentation hidden in there. It's existence is just too stupid to
be true but is and it's incredible.
Download it here.
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August 26th, 2022 - 黒魔 – れんあい！さっきゅれっしょん！
Year: 2011
Label: Neotine Records
Genre: Nerdcore techno
Renai Circulation receives two revamps, one more or less straightforward
and the other far more restructured and out there but no less groovy.
If nerdcore means anything to you, download now.
Download it here.
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August 25th, 2022 - 🜍____ - _'s Forecast
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave, broken transmission
Repetitive, hypnotic signalwave loops inspired by Internet Club, backing a slew of multilingual
broadcasts, clashing and vying for signal space in 20 different languages. Creates the surreal
atmosphere so much vaporwave strives for, uncovers new territory and feels at once chill and frantic.
Your TV set's broken and something's very wrong but you can't be bothered to change the channel.
Download it here.
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August 24th, 2022 - Various Artists - Nanoloop 1.0
Year: 2002
Label: Disco Bruit
Genre: Chiptune, experimental
Some strange chiptune, like the classic 8-bit noises being used in every way
they weren't meant to while still sticking to the clean chip sound. No screaming
or bitcrushed walls of noise here, just electronic experimentation that would make
for a good soundtrack for a game that doesn't exist but I wish it did.
Download it here.
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August 23rd, 2022 - *0 - The Rats - The Rat's Revenge (Part I / Part II)
Year: 1965
Label: Black Cat
Genre: Garage rock
Stupid teenage garage rock about rats circa 1965, you can just tell
how much fun they were having with this one. THE RATS, THE RATS
Listen to it here.
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August 22nd, 2022 - 翡乃イスカ vs. 梅干茶漬け - Ultra Happy Miracle Bazoooooka!!
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Happy hardcore, chiptune
High-octane chiptune melodic bliss backed by hardcore / complextro elements that take it
from sweet and catchy to next level sugarrush euphoria. Cute and happy and overall sounds like ^________^
Download it here.
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August 21st, 2022 - Itching - Gyre
Year: 2021
Label: Outsider Art
Genre: Field recordings, noise, death industrial
Noise music originated in people finding musical uses for nonmusical sounds,
namely the grinding and clashing of machinery, a forula later extrapolated into
industrial music. Cat's purring, especially when energetic, is often compared to a motor.
It's a small leap to make and Itching bridges it. I can't say it's the greatest
purr-based noise can be, but it's purr based noise so you'll get no complaints here.
Download it here.
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August 20th, 2022 - Neutral Punk Hotel - Never Mind The Aeroplanes Over The Sea...
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Punk
Silly idea, admirable execution. I know embarassingly little about punk or NHM so
I'll shut up now but if either of those are your thing, check this out.
Download it here.
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August 19th, 2022 - Ahulabrum - Magonia
Year: 2005
Label: None
Genre: Raw black metal
Experimental, ultra lofi black metal strangeness obsessed with
extraterrestrials. Whether real entities or bizarre manifestation of some
repressed human aspect, something's out there and Ahulabrum won't let you
forget it.
Download it here.
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August 18th, 2022 - Aikagi - Waterproof Leaf
Year: 1999
Label: Blackbean and Placenta
Genre: Twee
Some nice indie rock / twee pop with a childish atmosphere for a
rainy day, what more to say.
Download it here.
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August 17th, 2022 - Emit - Unknown Presences Whisper
Year: 2002
Label: Dark Whispers
Genre: Black noise, black ambient
Sorry for the 56 kbps rip, best I could do on short notice but it probably
only adds to the experience. Tape-warbled synth droning of the most disorienting kind,
ultra-lofi nature(?) recordings, what could be black metal guitar, flailing about
into abstract sick noise, and screaming to match. Much black metal strives to be
fucked up sounding but this album genuinely seems unwell.
Download it here.
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August 16th, 2022 - Ghh Shl - Brave Cats
Year: 2015
Label: Strange Guy Records
Genre: Experimental
Strange dungeon synth from Ukraine, predicting the comfy synth visuals by years
but instead filled with intense melodies and all kinds of catfight snarls. Very short and
reminiscent of a video game, sound effects and all. The sound of battle in Catland and
all the glory and blood that comes with it.
Download it here.
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August 15th, 2022 - *0 - Inflation (*0 0.000 Remix)
Year: 2002
Label: Mu
Genre: Microsound
One of most eccentric remix albums out there, as it's source, *0's 0.000, contains
only two tracks (intro and outro) with audible sound - it's all below or above human hearing,
so these artists had to make audible the inaudible before even starting with remixing.
It's not unlike abstract art made in fanciful false color using raw data from infrared
or ultraviolet detectors.
Buy it here.
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August 14th, 2022 - Various - RRR 500: Various 500 Lock-Grooves by 500 Artists
Year: 1993
Label: RRR
Genre: Experimental
I can't do this justice but if microtracks, huge eclectic compilations, and
proto-net underground weirdness are for you, this thing is up your alley.
Download it here.
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August 13th, 2022 - Wolfgun ft. Rchetype - Scarborough Fair
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Drum'n'bass
The traditional folk classic is given a rock-DnB spin with far better results
than that has any right to have. A dose of energy right to the core while retaining
beauty of the original.
Download it here.
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August 12th, 2022 - Jana Winderen - The Wanderer
Year: 2016
Label: Ash
Genre: Lowercase
The cover leaves a little bit of vagueness as to whether this is made from hydrophone
recordings taken in areas where zooplankton live or from microrecordings of zooplankton
themselves but I desperately hope it's the latter because it sounds just like the world
of tiny, alien-seeming animals that live all around us. Captivating either way and just
one more reminder of the strange world we live in.
Download it here.
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August 11th, 2022 - channel select - DAYTIME
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave, future funk
channel select bridges future funk's catchiness and bounce with
classic vaporwave's lofi fuzz and chilled out sound to incredible
effect. From the vaults of bandcamp but worthy of the vaporwave charts.
Another recommendation brought to my attention viewers like you.
Download it here.
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August 10th, 2022 - Into the Rhine - Demo
Year: 2011
Label: None
Genre: Acoustic black metal
In spite of pagan folk and black metal's proximity, much acoustic black metal
I've been able to find have been pisstakes
or didn't quite live up to the union's potential. Now and again though,
a band has the vision and talent to pull it off, as is the case here.
All the "wrong" instruments, all the necessary energy and aggression, very unique stuff.
Download it here.
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August 9th, 2022 - The Catatonic - Beautiful Daydreaming
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Classical, field recording, experimental
The Catatonic is influenced by The Caretaker's works and extends it's
exploration into schizophrenia, this particular release being themed
around lucid moments and peaceful interludes. I (thankfully) cannot
verify whether it's an accurate portrayal of the disorder it's based
upon, but one way or another it's a pleasant listen of piano pieces.
Listen to it here and download a rip here.
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August 8th, 2022 - frail - everloved
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Heavy as an avalanche, light as a feather. Tired ambient meanderings
on sickness and sensitivity. Reminds me a ton of Emotion X, if that means
anything to you.
Download it here.
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August 7th, 2022 - bulldog eyes - hospital playroom ep
Year: 2013
Label: none
Genre: Lofi rock
Bulldog Eyes is more well known but this EP got deleted and fell more
or less by the wayside. It has no filler, packs no punches, is catchy
as hell, and and is as tender and sweet as it is desperate and angry.
If you're an angsty shit like me check this one out if nothing else.
Download it here.
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August 6th, 2022 - Jia Peng Fang - Moonlight
Year: 2006
Label: Pacific Moon Records
Genre: Neoclassical, new age
Absolutely gorgeous melodies and harmonies from instruments I rarely
get to hear. I feel like I've been waiting for Cherry Blossoms
my entire life.
Download it here.
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August 5th, 2022 - Digital Mills - The Marketplace
Year: 2016
Label: Cardboard Future
Genre: Metrosong
Unlock your true marketing potential and meet 21 century problems
with 21st century solutions. We're talking a groundswell of technological
innovation and you're invited, so what are you waiting for? The future
is cardboard and you wouldn't have it any other way.
Listen to it here.
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August 4th, 2022 - Find Him and Kill Him - Demo Tape
Year: 2001
Label: None
Genre: Hardcore punk
6 tracks, less than 5 minutes, the only rip comes from a tape left in a hot
car for a decade but still pure hardcore punk energy all the way. Apparently
the vocalist went on to become a school principal of all things.
Listen to it here or download it .
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August 3rd, 2022 - Spirits - Coping Mechanisms
Year: 2017
Label: Ecco Gang Records
Genre: Post-rock, emo (black metal?)
First-wave post-nightcore artists NEOCAFE and Proxy Hornet join forces to
make, of all things, original music combining post-rock, emo, and black metal.
The end result is way better than that description probably made it sound,
invoking hospital visits and yearning and much else.
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August 2nd, 2022 - Battle Lolis - Fifteen & Wartorn
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: NESBM
Battle Lolis has been combining black metal melodies and structure, chiptune instruments,
and child soldier / military themes for a decade now. After years of private releases
and almost no online presence, they've decided to make their discography available with
a new series of albums that have perfected their craft. War-cry melodies full of frantic
energy and melancholy that ascends it's seemingly absurd basis and becomes more than
the sum of it's parts. Even if the titles and themes are offputting, I'd urge you to give this a shot
if you've enjoy black metal, chiptune, or epic melodies, it took me by surprise.
Download it here.
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August 1st, 2022 - Charles Manson Mashup Crew - 21 In Prison
Year: 2022
Label: a ten pound note found in the drain
Genre: Breakcore
I don't know what I expected from the title and cover but it wasn't a mashcore-sounding breakcore
track that sounds like a forgotten Shoebill or old-school Renard song in both quality and style.
Hopefully CMMC isn't a mysterious one-off alias and there's more where this came from.
Download it here.
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July 31st, 2022 - Hatsune Miku - Domino's App w/ Hatsune Miku
Year: 2013
Label: Dominos
Genre: Vocaloid, J-pop
I've been aware of the infamous ad behind this for years now, but only now
stumbled across the music from the app itself and it's surprisingly good
and no doubt would be even more so if you're already into vocaloid.
Download it here or listen to it here.
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July 30th, 2022 - ambientkitty - a sunday morning meditation
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
This one's incomplete without the video of it's performance.
Little more to say, it's just
Download it here.
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July 29th, 2022 - MACINTOSH 512KE - GREENHOUSE
Year: 2021
Label: Shatterfoil Industries
Genre: Wavevapor
Floral Shoppe parodies are plentiful and more often shitposts than not but
this one made my day, thank you anon. The definitive genre-starting vaporwave
release from the next timeline over, at once enjoyable and unsettling in a
way like hearing it for the first time again. (Imagine waking up one day,
something's slightly off but you don't know what, until you're greeted with this
staring back from your music library.)
Download it here.
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July 28th, 2022 - Gianni Oblio - SUF-EDGELAND vol.2 [2003]
Year: 2022
Label: Frequency Sub-Zero
Genre: Vaporwave, ambient
The soundtrack to huge empty grassy spaces outside of time. The surreal
description definitely helps but the hum-infested woozy droning stands
well enough on it's own to paint a picture of something completely
mundane and everyday that gets more and more uncanny the more you look at it.
Download it here.
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July 27th, 2022 - Youthful Masturbation Techniques live @ Hampton Inn Room 1514
Year: 2012
Genre: Noise
Noise has an unfair reputation as being chin-scratching modern art, when most of it's
scene is far less serious, of which this is THE example. Nothing like far too many people
crammed into a hotel bathroom, goofing off as someone plays the contact mic'd fish and
someone else plays the trash can with a shower, all ended by security breaking it up like
all good shows. The channel, Johnny Cash (better known as Breakdancing Ronald Reagan) is a
gold mine of shows like this.
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July 26th, 2022 - Secrets - WARP ZONE
Year: 2022
Label: STEEL WORKS
Genre: Vaporwave
Another gem someone brought to my attention, Secrets chops and cuts
and melts what I assume are electronic and pop samples into absolutely
dreamy vaporwave tunes, leaning alternately to the ambient and rave-y
side of things but just as otherwordly throughout. Get lost in the digital
haze and virtually party until everything's a blur.
Download it here.
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July 25th, 2022 - The Boston Crab - Loveless @ 8kbps
Year: 2012
Label: None (released on a forum post)
Genre: Lobit, shoegaze
Hard to tell if this was originally made as an experiment or a joke, but either
way it's an interesting new view on a shoegaze standard. All the original appeal
of the album is still there, just filtered through such tiny mp3s it's like
attending a concert from a bottom of a pool. I encourage you to export your favorite
albums (or make me do it if you want) in 8kbps, it's a great way to bring new
light to something you've heard a million times.
Download it here.
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July 24th, 2022 - Chippy Nonstop - Alone (Depressed Tenager Remix)
Year: 2013
Label: None
Genre: Pop?
I'm not very well versed in this sound so take it with a grain of salt but this remix is most of decade old and still
sounds recent. Reminds me most of PC Music, going all in with catchy pop and euphoric electronic elements. The fact it's
by "Depressed Teenager" should tell you the kind of self-aware but still sincere feel it has.
Download it here.
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July 23rd, 2022 - fwncrps - skate witches (teen suicide cover)
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Lofi rock
Skate Witches is something of a classic among overly-covered lofi rock songs but fwncrps (is it "Corps" or "corpse"?)
presents an interesting take on it. The autotune here is probably going to sound perfect or atrocious to you but
in my mind it works perfectly with the track.
Download it here.
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July 22nd, 2022 - Various Artists - ☆ 24EFFECTS ☆
Year: 2009?
Label: None?
Genre: Video game music
Found this while exploring some recommendations, a Yume Nikki-themed remix album salvaged
from a dead site. It presents a plethora of electronic styles, chill piano to raveworthy
breakbeats, all the better if you know Yumi Nikki but stands strong on its own. Check
out the original page here, cool stuff.
Download it here.
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July 21st, 2022 - Cat Tower - Her Majesty's Tower
Year: 2020
Label: WereGnome Records
Genre: Dungeon synth
I can't help but think of dungeon synth now as similar to vaporwave a decade ago.
For better or worse, it got popular hype, causing an influx of new artists, new
individualistic subgenres popping up monthly, and in just the couple months that
comfy synth was out by the time of Cat Tower, it had already eaten it's own tail
and subverted its own subversions of dungeon synth cliches. Maybe I'm reading too
much into it. Anyway, Her Majesty's Tower is a quality volume of dark dungeon
synth, not unlike slow battle marches at times and ambient laments at others, presumably
told from the perspective of a grandiose cat overlooking her domestic kingdrom from
atop her tower. (It would be good stuff even without the cat themes.)
Liste or buy it here.
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July 20th, 2022 - girl.mask@yahoo.p - ♥♥♥ fvck the wxrld ♥♥♥
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Plunderphonics
I'm partially the reason this exists so I can't not love it, but even if you
don't know the original songs its one of the most unique vaporwave albums
out there. Consisting of flips of acoustic sentimental folk songs (and
some post-rock and spooky dark ambience for good measure,) the only thing
that I know sounds similar is this. Vaporfolk 2k?? forever
Download it here.
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July 19th, 2022 - Vziel Projet - ...of Prolonged Isolation
Year: 2010
Label: Genetic Trance
Genre: Neoclassical, dark ambient
On posts or lists about eccentric, prolific, or underground musicians, I've never seen Vziel
make an appearence, which should be criminal. They've been active for well over a decade, constantly
creating in the realm of lobit, ambient, experimental, HNW, and neoclassical, collecting a terrifying
array of aliases and spawning multiple labels along the way. I haven't gone too far into their sprawling
discography but this seems as good an into as any; strangely processed melancholic piano that embodies
a sense of distortion and isolation.
Download it here.
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July 18th, 2022 - stephy - cat songs
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Experimental (many styles)
I clicked exclusively for the cat and got a bizarre experience instead.
Bass-rumbling dark ambient, vaporwave, crunchy HNW, weird sci-fi sounding
experimentation, ear-destroying harsh noise, piano improvs, drone,
minimal techno, and that's just the first third. Each tracks stands in
a world of it's own but builds a nearly five-hour expanse when stacked together.
Download it here.
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July 17th, 2022 - forcefeeded - only time (enya cover)
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Pop punk
A short, eccentric burst of autotuned pop punk glory, reinterpreting Enya of all things.
Incredibly fun in every way for all of it's one minute and twenty three seconds.
Download it here.
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July 16th, 2022 - Glass In Late Fall - Glass In Late Fall
Year: 2022?
Label: None
Genre: Antifolk?
First post from a comment, thank you. Glass In Late Fall consists exclusively of solo acoustic guitar,
vocals, and background noise so prominent it might as well be a band member (which is a plus from me
off the bat.) I couldn't put it much better than anon: "It makes me feel like I'm playing the guitar
with drunken, depressive thoughts running through my mind." I took the liberty of ripping the tracks
(seemingly only available on youtube) and adding metadata for offline listening.
Download it here.
Stream it here.
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July 15th, 2022 - ebookjapan - various tracks
Year: Uploaded 2021, recorded earlier
Label: None
Genre: Outsider acoustic, ambient
This isn't a real release, just a jumble of tracks taken from ebookjapan's soundcloud
that have since gotten deleted or redone. All of them were seemingly done years before
they ever uploaded anything. It's a pleasant collection of synth and acoustic works,
rough around the edges but all the better for it. Not much more I can say but I quite
like it for all the nothing that's worth.
Download it here.
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July 14th, 2022 - fuvk - something deliberate
Year: 2016
Label: Z Tapes
Genre: Bedroom pop
Four folk / indie pop / whatever tunes to pull at your heartstrings. The typical
themes of love and loneliness are spun and explored in a very unique way and fuvk's
incredible melodies pair with them perfectly. If this is your thing check out almost
tuesday, the album this was originally paired with.
Download it here.
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July 13th, 2022 - ill never forget the time that you tried to kill yourself in front of me - hold my hand while it bleeds with yours blue sunset
Year: 2022
Label: None?
Genre: Emo, experimental, noise
A unique collage of acoustic emo, spoken word, field recordings (sometimes so
distorted I thought it was an electric guitar at first) and noise. Track 3's
an incredible song on it's own, check that out at least. I hope ill never forget
is doing well, wishing you the best.
Download it here.
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July 12th, 2022 - Ananta - Inside My Room, Watching The Rain
Year: 2007
Label: Rain
Genre: Field recordings, drone
New age and relaxation music pales in comparion to what this achieves with the absolute
bare minimum. Muted rain, endless droning, and just like that it's one of the most healing
things I've heard in a long time. It's length isn't too out there by today's standards,
but it was quite ahead of it's time.
Download it here.
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July 11th, 2022 - Bull Of Heaven - 086: The Longest Distance Between Two Places
Year: 2009
Label: None
Genre: Post-rock, spoken word
Bull of Heaven's infamous, but between their notorious monoliths lie many more accessible
and interesting releases that slip through the cracks, among them being this one. An esoteric
religious ramble drones (and I really mean it) metallically over one of the most melancholic
loops I've heard in recent memory. Think DSBM intro that never ends or the most depressed
psychotic podcase of your life.
Download it here.
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July 10th, 2022 - valley wren - cold dawn on the hills
Year: 2021
Label: Small Worm
Genre: Vaporwave
Last ambient noise wall post, I promise. More meditative, multilayered crackle and rumble,
here soundtracking cold grass, mist-soaked predawn, sleepy empty world. Sounds like flowers
growing or roots shifting.
Download it here.
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July 9th, 2022 - Unknown - Unknown (Buddha Zen Hotel)
Label: None?
Genre: Chinese classical
A relaxing collection of classical music, near as I can tell put together and distributed
by a hotel so I have no idea of it's actual origins. More information would be appreciated,
but it would work incredibly well for vapor samples if anyone is so inclined.
Download it here.
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July 8th, 2022 - Reynols - 10.000 Chickens' Symphony
Year: 2000
Label: Drone
Genre: Field recording, sound collage
One side's chicken-accented dark ambient: the other is chicken noises, layered myriad times until it
becomes indistinguisable from harsh noise. I wish I had people to discuss this with because I've heard
people think of it as a meme release, as calming, as a statement on animal abuse and vegetarianism,
etc. When it comes down to it, the band's actual reasoning was "why not," so your response to it is
more a mirror than anything.
Download it here.
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July 7th, 2022 - grrid (arctic ops) - QUAD DAMAGE
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Trance
A seven minute DJ mix is a rarity and grrid doesn't waste a second, filling it with
breaks, psytrance beats, and 00s FPS nostalgia galore. The result would work equally well
for getting a rave started and for raising hell in the virtual combat arena.
Download it here.
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July 6th, 2022 - Various - Music To Get A Tape Deck For
Year: 2009
Label: Catch The Falling Leaves
Genre: Ambient, folk
Four songs in radically different styles but all taking different routes to the same gentle
destination. It feels like a day spent in the forest, as expressed in the language of acoustic
guitars and noisy ambience alike.
Download it here.
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July 5th, 2022 - DJ Poyo POYO - Poyo Mix
Year: 2016
Label: HRR
Genre: Post-nightcore
The bits of straight-forward nightcore don't last very long before DJ Poyo
POYO throws you back into the glitchy mess they deconstruct various OPs into. Feels
like trying to download anisong from sketchy sites and getting something else entirely.
Download it here.
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July 4th, 2022 - Junko - Sleeping Beauty
Year: 2002
Label: Élevage De Poussière
Genre: Acapella noise?
The vocalist of Hijokaidan strikes out on her own and the result rivals the band's own harshness
using only an abused set of vocal cords. I can't recommend this as a pleasant listen but it's
perched as one of the most extreme oddities in noise. It's hard to get more minimal and distressing.
Download it here.
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July 3rd, 2022 - 死 C O M P U T E R 死 - ２１ＳＴ ＣＥＮＴＵＲＹトラジェディー
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Slushwave
"Zoomerwave" sounds like total shit but this is an example of a dumb seeming concept
executed admirably. Early 2010s pop hits are put through the slushwave machine and
turned into looping slow-motion bittersweet soundtracks. If you have nostalgic memories
attached to these songs, this'll probably hit home: if not, it's not a bad slushwave
experience either way.
Download it here.
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July 2nd, 2022 - FM3 - Buddha Machine
Year: 2005
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
The Buddha Machine is device created or used by FM3 to play ambient loops on a self-contained
mini soundsystem. It's a very elegant, simple design and it's music is no less and no more.
Individually, the loops range from seven to forty seconds but are easy to get lost in despite
or because of their cycling.
Download to it here.
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Bandcamp's full of great music but I'm unhappy with the fact that most of my posts are from 2020 onward and
from there. I'll still definitely share recent bandcamp music but in July onward I'll try to do some virtual
crate digging and go a little deeper. Also, I appreciate all the kind comments! I'm in the process of downloading
all the suggested releases and even if I don't post them I'll definitely check them out, cool stuff so far ^_^
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July 1st, 2022 - yandere - dreams of oblivion ep
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, J-rock?
Half angsty, half hopeful, yandere (more well known for their emotional trap songs)
provides one track of ambient and three of melodic J-rock that goes all in with the
guitar but still remains etherial. Very cool use of different instrument styles to
create something energetic but emotional.
Download to it here.
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July 30th, 2022 II - Ushinawareta Tamashī - Yuki
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: HNW / ANW
Felt a bit bad about the SIGNALVOID post since it was pretty much filler and I never
really listened to it. To make up for that, have Yuki. Conventional HNW aesthetics
are replaced with beautiful Japanese artwork and blown-out harsh walls are given up
in favor of a soothing crackle. Like the best of walls, it's definitely a sound you
can get lost in, feels to me like listening to snow settle. Zen static.
Download to it here.
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June 30th, 2022 - Various Artists - SIGNALVOID
Year: 2012
Label: None
Genre: Noise, experimental
263 one-minute tracks by a plethora of noise and experimental musicians, designed for shuffled playback
to create a constantly changing wall of abstract sounds. Pretty impressive compilation in scale alone,
to say nothing of content.
Download to it here.
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June 29th, 2022 - /a/ sings Dou Kangaete mo Watashi wa Warukunai
Year: 2013
Label: None
It's stupid as all hell but I've wanted to post it since forever because it's just too much fun.
As 90% of the comment section points out, it's a song about being a social reject
as sung by a crowd of social rejects. Everything about it is perfect.
Download to it here.
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June 29th, 2022 - あにちゅー selecta Year End Party Special!!! 2021-12-30
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Anisong, j-pop, hiphop
My context for this is minimal as I stumbled across it by accident, but it's
over six hours of anisong sets played by five DJs. No tracklisting, so you'll
have to take it as is, which is probably the best way. Some of the other events
in the MEGA are similar and even longer, so there's more where this came from.
Download to it here.
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June 28th, 2022 - Louie Zong - Cats
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Folktronica?
I know Louie is well known on youtube but the chance you've heard Cats is low and the
chance you need to hear it is high. Five short instrumentals filled with chill cat-inspired
vibes. As kitsch as it gets but if you're into that this is probably your thing.
Download to it here.
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June 27th, 2022 - Various - Chippin' Party! #01
Year: 2016
Label: ああ...翡翠茶漬け...
Genre: Chiptune, happy hardcore
Some happy chiptune to brighten your day with more than a little
happy hardcore mixed in. The different artists all have their own
style but all go toward a coherent euphoric vision.
Download to it here.
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June 26th, 2022 - Infinity Frequencies - Sunset Limited
Year: 2012
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave
Before settling into the looped Japanese CM computergaze style they've become known for,
Infinity Frequencies made more conventional vaporwave with RnB and pop samples.
Sunset Limited is some of the best vaporwave in it's style: chill, sultry, with a
barely perceptible tinge of uncanny valley offness to it.
Download to it here.
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June 25th, 2022 - Sunset9 - Abandon In Peace
Year: 2001?
Label: None
Genre: Rock
Surfed a couple thrift stores and brought this home, surprisingly good local rock. Seemingly
still active from 2000 until now, but this is the only release of theirs I know of, and had
no online presence until now. Behind the MS Paint cover lies a band that draws a number of
influences from classic rock and wouldn't sound very out of place on the radio. Cool stuff.
Download to it here.
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June 25th, 2022 - Voyager Golden Record
Year: 1977
Label: NASA?
Possibly the most famous record (and eventually, probably the only record) in existence,
it's good to be informed of just what messages we're throwing out into the void. As illuminating
as it would no doubt be for other civilizations, it's equally interesting to see our own world
from as close to an outside view as possible. Essentially a sampler for our entire species.
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June 24th, 2022 - Winter Carousel - [Stray Tracks]
Year: 2000s
Label: None
Genre: Experimental
This isn't an actual album, but a collection of my digital archeology efforts on this
project. A playful noise / experimental duo active from 2001-2004, their remaining
presence is understandable scattered. This consists of youtube finds, various images, and
mp3s from their dead site. Musically, it's a bit of old-school noise,
pseudo-industial songs, and silly experiments.
Download to it here.
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June 23rd, 2022 - -_- - schh766Hb_lol
Year: 2019
Label: 7FORM
Genre: Experimental, field recordings
If I recall correctly, this was based entirely around the screenshot that was used as
the cover. It's a very unique compilation of various artists interpretations of online
calls and interaction. There's deep interet style youtube collages, extreme lofi
field recordings, random spoken word, and others. A lot of 7FORM is only superficially strange
but this is a different beast. For fans of pure internet music.
Download to it here.
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June 22nd, 2022 - Michael Prime - One Hour As Peyote
Year: 2005
Label: Mycophile Records
Genre: Sonification?
We all want to escape our stressful human lives sometimes, so why not give up for
a little while and enjoy being a plant instead? One Hour As Peyote is about as close
as you can get, being made of edited bioelectrical recordings of it's titular flora.
Sounds a bit like abstract ambient glitch music being played from underwater. Oddly comfy.
Download to it here.
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June 21st, 2022 - Vzaéurvbtre - Urvdrèm Uatrè Uètre
Year: 1995
Label: None
Genre: Dark ambient
You can find far more information on them elsewhere, but in short, Les Légions Noires
was a circle of avant garde black metal musicians from France who did as much as possible
to maintain their secrecy while building a wall of rumors and whispers about them. Despite
their tapes extreme rarity, rips have been popping up sporadically since; this one lacks
accompanying cover art, as far as I can tell. It's a lofi mess of lamentful moaning and
screaming backed only by an equally lamentful and dissonant violin. Rides the line of dark
absurdity and genuine eerieness.
Download to it here.
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June 17th, 2022 - Mr. Brain Sander - Craigslist
Year: 2008
Label: Anti-Everything
Genre: Noise, spoken word, experimental
I don't like this release but I can't disregard it. It's a collection
of sexual spam and trash from Craigslist, spit out rapid-fire with breakcore
and noise backing - essentially a reflection of the comically trashiest facet of the
internet and humanity. Nowhere near as objectively disturbing as most power
electronics classics but there's an additional layer of strangeness, seeing
that the artist is known for "stand up tragedy" performance art, daily self-portraits,
and drug experimentation. Probably don't open that link at work.
Download to it here.
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June 20th, 2022 - Cartoon Cats! - Juvenilia
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Psychadelic rock
Stumbled across the cover looking for cat pictures, thought it would be some /mu/
meme gusic album, turns out it's a criminally underated psychadelic rock venture
that's alternately dramatic, euphoric, and apocalyptic. It sounds almost timeless
and features seriously vivid and surreal songwriting. Absolutely give it a shot if
you like rock music or if the word art rainbow cat draws you in too.
Download to it here.
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June 19th, 2022 - Stranger_ - stranger9
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Plunderphonics, experimental
Warped suburban nostalia as told in equal parts vaporwave, chiptune,
and harsh noise. Longing, confusion, and forgotten fragments of
a distorted past. Strangely emotional.
Download to it here.
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June 18th, 2022 - OD Kokemus - Viimesii Päiviä
Year: 2014
Label: TKKNT Tapes
Genre: Memphis rap
I don't understand a word and can't find translations but it hooked me immediately.
Some tracks have a more standard hip hop sound, many are darker and reminiscent
of witch house, even featuring an excellently-used Burzum sample. As cold and isolated
as the cover would suggest.
Download to it here.
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June 17th, 2022, Part II - 100 smears - 1000 smears
Year: 2020
Label: ABSOLUTE TRASH MEDIA
Genre: (Hyper)pop smears
I would feel stupid if I have this a day of it's own but it was genuinely
interesting enough to warrant some mention. 1000 gecs, by now as familiar
as the back of your own hand to anyone in the meme mashup hellworld that
is ATM and similar labels, is compressed and expanded into an ambient
rework, seemingly inspired by Buttress O'Kneel's "pop smears" genre.
Despite being a blatant shitpost, it's worthwhile for anyone who liked
the original or otherwise knows it too well.
Download to it here.
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June 17th, 2022 - Chuck Persons - A.D.D. Complete
Year: 2012
Label: Software
Genre: Vaporwave, sound collage, broken transmission
Everyone knows Eccojams but adjacent to it ran a lesser known project pushing Chuck Person's
nostalgic plunderphonics in a more fragemented dimension. Everyone who makes a big deal out of
▣世界から解放され▣ as the "end of vaporwave" need to listen to this and realize that vaporwave
began as a deconstructed mess. Snippets of Eccojams, commercials used in Replica, along with myriad
other pieces of pop culture debris and detritus is swept up and compacted into a nonstop sound
collage that presents the leftover shards of decades of forgotten media. If that's too pretentious,
it also kind of sounds like if your remote's channel-switch button got stuck down.
Listen to it here.
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June 16th, 2022 - Rutherford Chang - We Buy White Albums
Year: 2013
Label: None
Genre: Experimental rock, classic rock
This has to be one of the most creative plunderphonics(?) / cultural
recyling projects I've ever seen and you'll understand it the second you
look at the cover. Using the White Album as a literal blank slate, it collects
hundreds of copy's decades of debris and personal history, both visually
and audibly. All while the original remains recognizable, the slight flaws in
it's physical iterations increasibly build until it becomes a warped noisy mess
in the most fascinating way possible.
Download to it here.
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June 15th, 2022 - Propergol – Ground Proximity Warning System
Year: 2006
Label: Annihilvs & Stridulum Recordings
Genre: Dark ambient, death industrial
Dark ambient and industrial noise provide backing for radio broadcasts from
planes on the way down and related recordings you'll hopefully never have to
actually hear. Simultanously captivating and chilling in true power electronics
fashion.
Download to it here.
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June 14th, 2022 - Jan Ryhalsky - Iron Skeletons
Year: 2015
Label: LOM
Genre: Field recording
Somewhere near the Russia / China border, Jan visited an abandoned cement factory
and used geophones (the kind of device used for seismic recordings) to collect
it's almost subaudible vibrations. The result's some frigid dark ambient.
Not entirely unlike howling wind from inside a cave or cosmic background noise.
Download to it here.
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June 13th, 2022 - Viper - Im Tha Mastermind Behind ALL Summer 2021 Events But I Forgot To Rap Over It
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Hip-hop, lolicore
A small crowd of greenscreen Vipers dancing in front of North Korean missle tests
was the image I never knew I needed.
Listen to it here.
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June 12th, 2022 - Zazier - TARGETED INDIVIDUAL
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient pop, hip hop
Zazier tends to make music themed on the sketchy borders of erratic behavior and
technology misuse. (My favorite release of his until now was this now-deleted bonus
media collection with DATAPANIC.) Moving beyond CCTV-induced paranoia, this album
explores the nightmare reality of TIs through a blend of instrumental hip-hop,
ambient pop, vaporwave influence, and downtempo.
Download it here.
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June 11th, 2022 - Mysel - Mysel
Year: 2011
Label: бидлокор
Genre: Lobit, neofolk
Acoustic Ukrainian neofolk in a whole 9 kbps. Three relatively long tracks of guitar and shouted
and sung vocals (the latter two of which are more on the ambient / folk side of things.) I wish
I knew what it was about.
Download it here.
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June 10th, 2022 - ◉ - ②
Year: 2022
Label: Cataura
Genre: Ambient, lobit
I might be shamelessly shilling my own label but it's for a good cause. ②
is a half-hour or so 16kbps piece of minimal, endearing ambient. It makes
me think of rainy ponds and manga landscapes and definitely takes you
somewhere peaceful far away.
Download it here.
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June 9th, 2022 - My Lovely Figment - Lost Rehearsal June 4th 2010
Year: 2010
Label: None
Genre: Noise
Tried sifting through /mu/ sharethreads for something I've given up hope of finding but
came back with this instead. No information or mention available on the indexed internet.
Eighty five minutes of a minimal feedback loop wavering through a variety of tones and textures.
A nice example of non-harsh, non-ambient noise.
Download it here.
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June 8th, 2022 - Slime Portal - October Nightmare
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave
Vaporwave concept albums are a dime a dozen but this one's a gem among them. Completely captures
distorted childhood nightmares and half-forgotten Goosebumps episodes, at once cartoonishly spooky
and genuinely eerie. (Also, there's something of a story hidden in the mp3s if you know where to look.)
Download it here.
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June 7th, 2022 - Various - The 1st Anniversary Tracks of Kor. Lap. Ca <.Eng>
Year: 2013
Label: Kor. Lap. Ca.
Genre: Ambient, downtempo, abstract
Gotta love it when the internet brings together different sides of the world
(here, Canada and Korea) to create cool stuff. This combines Lapfox reworks and
original pieces in a great variety of genres and styles. Even better if you know
the originals but most still stands up on it's own.
Download it here.
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June 6th, 2022 - BITCRUSHER - FOUR FIENDS
Year: 2020
Label: Tribe Tapes
Genre: Harsh noise wall
One of the most unique takes on HNW to come up in a long time. In a genre
based on unchanging noise, drained dead with countless projects, that's an
accomplishment of itself. BITCRUSHER uses corrupted 8-bit textures to bring
glitchy and absorbing sounds to their walls. "No bathroom breaks, no outside world, no walking away from the screen."
Download it here.
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June 5th, 2022 - Abstract Avenue - Audio Port
Year: 2004
Label: legoego
Genre: Ambient, downtempo, abstract
Beats and atmospheres between the peaceful, the trippy, and the nostalgic.
Really takes you somewhere else, although little saying where that place might be.
(The online Archive player is messed up on this page, offline listening would probably work best.)
Download it here.
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June 4th, 2022 - Saito Koji - 57
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Ambient (post-rock?)
I already posted Saito Koji a while back but it feels wrong not to put this
one here, as it's some of the most healing music I've heard in a long time.
Very simple, 40 minutes of the same guitar chords soaked in reverb, but it
summons the most peaceful imagery for me, like being told things will be fine
and believing it doubtlessly. Hopefully you'll get something out of it too.
Download it here.
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June 3rd, 2022 - The Teenage Mutant Breakcore Pirates - The Teenage Mutant Breakcore In What The F*CK Is Breakcore
Year: 2005
Label: None
Genre: Breakcore
Spawned in the sludge of 2005 Soulseek chatrooms and featuring artists like
Hyena666 and Angry Teenagers Who Want To Kill People, you couldn't ask for
a better example of underground breakcore from this era. Heavy, absurd, or
both, it smashs fragements of dated pop culture to pieces with kicks, breaks,
noise, and pirated software. Never pay for music, always illegally download.
Download it here.
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June 2nd, 2022 - Hell Dude - One Big .rar, Full Of UtilityLimb Tribute Grindcore
Year: 2013
Label: None
Genre: Grindcore
A 2012 surreal humor twitter account, now in grindcore format. "Teens" genuinely rocks despite being
all of nine seconds and the rest is certainly worthwhile and unique for the genre in both sound and origin.
Download it here.
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June 1st, 2022 - DM DOKURO - UNDERTALE: The Underground Radio
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune, DnB, breakcore, soundtrack
Say what you will about the game but the OST has stood the test of time and this is more than a fitting
tribute to it. A variety of genres, reworking the originals in different styles and adding cool new spins on them.
DOKURO's love for the soundtrack really shines.
Download it here.