DEPTHS OF THE NET was a
with the intention of posting obscure music every day from all over the musical
sphere that I encounter on my endless safari through the wide world of web,
for two years and counting!
If you own any of this and want me to change or remove it I gladly will,
and though might take me a while to get to them suggestions are also appreciated.
And now for something completely different!
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...SIGNING ON
DoTN has emerged from it's slumber as MEDIA FRAGMENTATION
Daily posts will cotinue for the foreseeable future, plus intermittent download shares, rips, whatnot and what have you.
Come on by sometime!
SIGNING OFF...
It's been a hell of a time running this blog. Being able to explore music and
art in all it's wild forms, and the joy of being able to share it with everyone
else, has meant the world to me. I still don't know how many people checked this
regularly, but I like to think there's as couple people who got introduced to
new music they like and had a good time here. As a result of settling down I've
decided to close DoTN to focus on college and life and whatnot.
DoTN signing off -
Until we meet again,
So long and goodnight.
To anyone arriving here late: I was something of a teenage edgelord when I started this,
so it sort of traces the path of me going from deranged idiot to decent person over the
course of it's run, so tread lightly and try not to judge anything before 2023 too hard.
October 31st, 2023 - Kittynxc - Key 2 My <3 EP
Year: 2020
Label: nightcore4totalsluts
Genre: Nightcore, dance
u could be the key 2 my <3
u could be the one 4 my <3
October 30th, 2023 - Sicko Mobb - Kool Aid
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Bop
I ain't paranoid or shit
It just no foolin me baby
And them nights keep me right
Come cruise with me baby
And I lean like a racer
Watchin' out for my haters
Keep a rifle with a laser
Come cruise with me baby
October 29th, 2023 - Lauren Bousfield - Locked into Phantasy
Year: 2012
Label: none
Genre: Unclassifiable art music
That was everything that I owned
Now abrading
Whole body arched up into the night
Mommy I want horseback riding lessons
Cascading in pale off white
Kneeling down in the street
Here comes everything
October 28th, 2023 - CORDIFORM - ALL NITE
Year: 2014
Label: none
Genre: Nightcore
Oh, winter melts under the summer skies, the summer skies
The seasons change, our hearts will stay the same, yeah, stay the same
We got that burning feeling; start a fire, start a fire
Give it a shout, let's make it hot
Come on, baby
October 27th, 2023 - Ponibbi - HEARTSKIP
Year: 2014
Label: none
Genre: Nightcore
cuz when im w/ u
dont u ever forget
that u make my heart skip <3
October 26th, 2023 - Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Year: 2015
Label: IAMSOUND
Genre: Indie folk, folk rock, Americana
Deep into the night with the moonlight as my guide
I go wander through the pines and make my way to nature's shrines
and I look up to the sky and I know you're still alive,
but I wonder where you are, I call your name into the dark
October 25th, 2023 - Ö, Nömak, A. G. Cook - AFK
Year: 2022
Label: PC Music
Genre: Deconstructed club, IDM
glass shards in vast empty spaces, glittering screen fragments
computer rendered lipgloss gel in jagged simulacra
human beauty in distorted visage
away from keyboard
October 24th, 2023 - Jerobeam Fenderson - Oscilloscope Music
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Electronic, experimental, data sonification
ENTER DIGITAL ANALOG VISION
TECHONOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT REITERATION
TOO MUCH LIGHT
October 23rd, 2023 - 65daysofstatic - Hole
Year: 2005
Label: Monotreme
Genre: Post-rock, math rock, glitch, radio broadcast recordings
The explosion that destroyed our city,
razed our home and turned our fields into wasteland
was nothing compared to what was now happening to those who survived
October 22nd, 2023 - DOSS© - The Way I Feel
Year: 2014
Label: Acéphale
Genre: Dream trance
? i'll tell you if i stay up all night
someone to follow into the night
healing healing
i feel, i feel, i feel ?
October 21st, 2023 - Serious Thugs - Meal for 2 (Raving Kru) - Live at X0YO, London
Year: 2013
Label: none
Genre: Dance-pop, bubblegum bass, euro-trance
this goes out 2 the raving kru
sexy ladies let me see u
sand is gold and the seas r blue
love's on the plate its a meal 4 2
October 20th, 2023 - rojutoma.com - Rosaline
Year: 2013
Label: none
Genre: huh
?? ?^•?•^?
October 19th, 2023 - safetensors - WRONG
Year: 2023
Label: Winds Measure
Genre: Musique concrète, reductionism, ambient
British living room, sofa, chairs, strange furry mammal or large
cocoon or huge crystal structure or large mollusc or large gelatine
cuboid, 1950s
now THIS is the digital art music I've been waiting for, thank you
cave home, domestic, futuristic, house plants, living room, staircase, waterfall, soft lighting, 1960s
October 18th, 2023 - Cassie - Don't Let Go
Year: 2019
Label: none?
Genre: Contemporary R&B
More than my man, you're my homie
Got a lot of shit that you love me through
Ooh, you're the one, you're the only
Got a different smile and it's thanks to you
Be chillin' like a mofo
Even when I'm going loco
You always keep it so cool
Baby, don't let go
October 17th, 2023 - Andrea Polli - Sonic Antarctica
Year: 2009
Label: Gruenrekorder
Genre: Field recordings, spoken word, data sonification, sound art
cold cold cold cold cold cold cold
cold cold cold cold cold cold
cold cold cold cold cold
cold cold cold cold
cold cold cold
cold cold
so cold
October 16th, 2023 - ???? [Yasunao Tone] - Musica Simulacra
Year: 2011
Label: ATAK
Genre: Data sonification, sound art, glitch
4516 poems found in the Man'yoshu ("Ten Thousand Leaves"), apparently
over 2000 hours of recording. Playable on Mac and Windows if you can
score it on CD-ROM or on YouTube a bit more conveniently.
October 15th, 2023 - lilangelboi - Release U
Year: 2014
Label: LOGO
Genre: Nightcore
pretty sure this video isn't official but fuck it it's PERFECT
i'm getting flashbacks to signing along to pop like this with my
vsco aesthetic obssessed middle school best friend, we would've
loved this so much
TONIIIIIIHGHHGHGHTTTTTTTT
October 14th, 2023 - Steve Roden & Brandon LaBelle - The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
Year: 1999
Label: Meme
Genre: Lowercase, minimal
It's like being wrapped in a cold blanket in a cold house
with rain pounding on the roof and fog outside the windows
and the world is small and still and quiet.
Sounds like an owl sleeping outside on a day like that
in a little hollow in a tree coated in moss and lichen
chirring in it's sleep.
October 14th, 2023 - Limewire Boys - What've You Done?
Year: 2017
Label: Ecco Gang Records
Genre: Post-nightcore
prettiest cover i've ever seen
flowers and jpeg compression on foreign flip phones
the world is always getting smaller
October 12th, 2023 - John Hudak and Miguel Angel Tolosa - Garten
Year: 2014
Label: Winds Measure
Genre: Musique concrète, reductionism, ambient
Is your silence too loud? John and Miguel got you covered
with forty minutes of sound art-ish drone that feels like
sleeping dreamlessly beneath a layer of ice in a snowy forest.
Twilight falls; all is silent and the world is still.
October 11th, 2023 - Roger - Unlimited
Year: 1987
Label: Reprise
Genre: Contemporary R&B, synth funk
Synth-fueled funk was the last place I expected to hear
proto-autotune but when I did it hit like a brick with how
ahead of it's time it is. It couldn't sound more 80s if it
tried but is still completely fresh and I'm increasingly realizing
how much modern pop music is ripping off [and butchering] what
this sound achieved on day one.
October 10th, 2023 - Kitty - Frostbite
Year: 2014
Label: none
Genre: Dance pop
As a kid I always imagined going to parties and being a rebellious
teenager and this is probably what I thought it would sound like.
This is dance pop in a perfect world, easily the ultimate culmination
of all the genres it draws from into a single perfect whole that real
life radio dance pop just doesn't hold a candle to. Second Life is
easily the most beautiful, life-affirming thing I've ever heard and
it goes fucking HARD with the DnB production and the ambient interlude.
I choose to be with you in all my lucid dreams
October 9th, 2023 - Tim de Jongh - Shawn Wasabi 8-bit Remakes
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Chiptune
The days are starting to get colder, so might as well hold on
to what little summer is left with some chiptune covering future bass
electronica that's simply radiating warm carefree vibes like stray
beam of sunshine. It's disappointingly short, but two tracks of
sugary pixellated tropical vibes is far better than nothing.
October 8th, 2023 - Кино [Kino] - Группа крови
Year: 1988
Label: Gold Castle
Genre: Post-punk, new wave
Today's contribution comes from someone I met at school and who introduced me
to some albums I never would've heard of otherwise, which is the whole point
of DoTN anyway, right? I can't do justice to his empassioned, literally
banging-on-the-table-for-emphasis retelling of the band's history and
it's relationship with censorship and underground art in the USSR, but
I can say that if you have any interest in post-punk, new wave,
80s rock, or music outside the usual geopolitical entertainment sphere, you
can't go wrong with this.
October 7th, 2023 - DOSS© - Puppy
Year: 2020
Label: LuckyMe
Genre: Dream trance
In 2013, DJ Internet Visions [aka Internet Club] coined the term Puppy Trance
to describe their work, and here it finally comes into it's own, even if only
by pure coincidence. It calls to mind every peaceful, joyful memory in my life
but instead of being sadly nostalgic, it's just uplifting, gathering positive
energy and momentum and throwing you into the future with all this to fuel your way.
Nothing bitter in this sweetness. It's exactly as cute as you could ever want.
October 6th, 2023 - Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom (Lil Data TidalCycles Live Coding Edit) & shantishield - next level charli x taylor #JerseyClub
Year: 2019
Label: none
Genre: Bubblegum bass (vs. algorave + jersey club + kawaii future bass)
Rather than spam this page with my current bubblegum bass obsession,
I'll just cram it all into one day and get it over with. Hopefully
this can show the potential of the genre beyond it's expected
glittery sugary sweetness and sterile mechanical deconstruction,
here thanks to the influence from a couple of other genres. In one
we've got a live coded, computer generated edit of a Charli track
into glitchy, abstracted minimal DnB that feels more cubist than
anything. The second one is a pop/BB mashup, transformed by a jersey
beat into a banger stuck halfway between a late-night club and top-40s
radio play. The last one might as well be experiment of how much can be
done with a single sampled line and the answer is a lot, there's probably
an entire EP worth of material hidden in here somewhere. This concludes
my rambling description, thank you for tolerating me.
October 5th, 2023 - HEXAHEDRONE - DeATh
Year: 2012
Label: none
Genre: Ambient, drone
In 2017 or something this was the first google result for drone music for some
reason, somehow this nobody bandcamp droner hit the absolute jackpot and got to
be the face of the genre for a while, which is just as well since it's a great
introduction to the style. The actual music is probably paulstretch based if the
occassional wooshings are any indication, but if so, it's the best use of the
program I've ever heard. Not totally monolithic, not too active, and the pairing
of this meditative drone with the bonkers cover is just transcendent.
Sleep to this and ascend to the fifth dimension guaranteed.
October 4th, 2023 - Kitty Pryde - JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!!
Year: 2012
Label: none
Genre: Cloud rap
I'm coming to the uncomfortable realization that while I consider Justin
comically overhated but still unlistenable, most things that sample him
come out fantastic and this is the worst manifestation of this trend yet
because it's one of the best cloud rap tracks I've ever heard but is something
I would not show to my friends under any circumstances. Immense respect
to Kitty for making this though, these lyrics over Donkey-Kong sample borderline
witch house is ascendant.
I'm thirteen, what is lean, what is dream pop?
October 3rd, 2023 - Charli XCX - No Angel (Future Guy Remix)
Year: 2022
Label: none
Genre: Future bass
It always seems to me that the EDM-kinda remixes that blow up on YouTube
with millions of views and those with a couple hundred on Soundcloud are
barely different. This genuinely sounds like something that should be
on all of those [blank]Nation channels in the best way, everything good
about future bass and trap and pop with some bubblegum bass sugar glitter
sprinkled on top for good measure, as all party anthems should.
October 2nd, 2023 - Aests - The Classics
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Future funk
Aests is pretty unique among future funkists for the emphasis
they place on chopping. Just extending a portion or looping a chorus
or doing some crazy vocal chops isn't enough for them - more often
then not the whole song is shredded and put back together almost
entirely new. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but RYM considers it glitch
so that ought to say something about what we're dealing with here.
A dose of reinvented city pop energy straight to the
October 1st, 2023 - johto - winter chill•
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Lofi hip hop
There's something deeply satisfying about cookie cutter
lofi hiphop. It's not super innovative or anything but
the energy is like a time capsule of those mid-late 2010s
livestreams before they blew up. If it clicks, it's just a portal
to instant and complete chill. Rainy day recommendation.
September 31st, 2023 - Justin Bieber ft. TRONICBOX - What Do You Mean it's 1985?
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Synthpop, sophisti-Pop
Anyone else know that fake Beatles album from someone who claimed to have
fallen into another universe where they never broke up? This has no such
story attached, but the vibes of another parallel timeline briefly,
bewilderingly, and incredibly intersecting with our own for just long enough
to exchange a mysterious cassette that should not but but that thankfully is.
If this is up your alley, everything TRONICBOX touches is gold, please give
it a shot.
September 29th, 2023 - OtterPocket - This is a plea
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Electronic, noise
If I drop an "electronic" in the genre field you know it's gonna be something
wonky as all hell and here we are, with a bandcamp noise artist no one has heard
of dropping an album of... stuff? The instrumentals reminds me of witch house when
it manages to be identifiable, the drums are more like digital tribal rhythms sometimes,
there's definitely a noisiness looming over the whole thing, and with it's formlessness
it feels like the chaos flowing beneath the surface can suddenly break and the fragile cohension
can be lost. OtterPocket manifests from nowhere and drops us off in unknown, unstable, and
unsafe territory without a word of explanation besides that their house was woodworm and they're
broke. Hope all is well, wherever you are.
September 28th, 2023 - DaymanOurSavior - EXTREME MEME MUSIC MEGAMASHUP
Year: 2014
Label: Winds Measure
Genre: Soundclown, mashup
The fine line between exquisite nostalgia and unspeakable cringe has never been finer
but I'll err on the side of nostalgia. The fact that I encountered stuff like this
alongside more serious experimental music and considered them on par with each other
probably molded me into who I am today, and the outdated memes are overshadowed
by the sheer skill and obvious love put into it. You can TELL Dayman was having a
blast the whole time and that's really the important thing in music.
September 27th, 2023 - Sylvan Grey - Ice Flowers Melting
Year: 1981
Label: Fortuna
Genre: New Age, Finnish Folk Music
Wandering instrumental improvisations mingled with compositions,
the title is very apt; as fragile as ice crystals melting with a breath.
The Kantele sings like a voice of snow and fog and distant
visions of natural wonder. (Maybe I should've waited a couple months before
posting this, since it's also the best Christmas album I know that has
nothing to do with Christmas at all.)
September 26th, 2023 - las gradas del edificio que dan a la fotocopiadora - notas, seguidas de un pequeño refrigerio
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Ambient noise wall?
What a perplexing thing. I love finding releases like this that are like
someone throwing a sculpture at you that is probably meant to represent something,
or maybe it's not a sculpture at all and some kind of machine? Either way the
person who threw it ran away into the crowd so now you're just left with this
incomprehensible assembleage to put on your mantle or throw away or leave for
someone else to find. I'll take the third option so now it's your problem.
It looks Ferrarro-esque and I think I found it through hypnagogic new age circles,
but it sounds way more like Steve Roden peaceful mechanistic clinking and chiming,
and is tagged with all kinds of weird HNW genres I've never heard of.
September 25th, 2023 - unknown acoustic guitar guy - found demos (circa 1996)
Year: 1996 (2023)
Label: A⊗B
Genre: Found sound, singer songwriter
Looks like it's found sound week over here. Awkward pop songs, intensely personal
and endearing and likely not intended for anyone but the artist and their friends to
hear, but at the same time rendered ghostly by their namelessness. Some cassette
specter is belting out goofy acoustic songs from a cozy bedroom outside of space and
time for you without caring whether you're really listening or not. The same label
also has some other found cassette curiosities, and even the normal A⊗B releases
have a heavy aura I can't quite pin down. Possibly cursed.
September 24th, 2023 - themawt - franklin pieces 1 1993-1994
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Rock, folk, lofi
I'm not sure who or what this is or how I found them, but there's something
fascinating about looking through what's essentially someone's private, tape-recorded
demo collection. Together with all the google screenshot covers of houses,
it feels less like an album proper and more like a biography, like I'm sitting
in the next room over and hearing my neighbor practice guitar. Certainly
doesn't hurt that the guy really does know what he's doing, too.
September 23rd, 2023 - Simply Jack - Bump Dis 017: Summer Jackin' in The Winter
Year: 2020
Genre: Electropop
I can personally attest that if you go far enough into experimental music to the point of
listening to like nightcored static and shortwave artifacts or something eventually you
just come out of the other side of the world and just listen to pop again. No idea what
I was looking for to end up here but from the sub-1000 listen underground of soundcloud
comes a sick DJ set of upbeat summer energy that would probably work super well at an IRL
club. Could use a 20% speed boost but I'm not complaining, fun and cool and what more do you need?
September 22nd, 2023 - @sleep.y aka BITCOIN A$$A$$IN AKA YUNG CRYPTOCURRENCY
Year: 2017-2018
Genre: Instrumental hip hop
Always a good day when I turn over some digital rock and find
something unexpected, unexplained, or just plain rare underneath.
Today's one of those days, so I hope you enjoy three rare lofi hiphop
tracks from a producer who, to the best of my knowledge, has vanished without
a trace he was ever here. Who knows what he's up to now. winter [bump] is
genuinely one of my favorite lofi tracks, as smooth and chill as it gets,
rus.avi x ganjasalad is just plain weird since, I've never heard another
lofi artist do that kinda stutter effect or rely so much on noise.
I threw in his PFP and track art for songs that have since vanished into the ether.
Hope @sleep.y's having a good day wherever he is.
September 21st, 2023 - The Sick Kitten
Year: 1903
It's proto-cat video time again, and this time with
historical significance to boot: this short film actually
has the first documented close-up shot in cinema ever,
and it's of a kitten. The world makes me smile sometimes.
some commentary from the catland gang
September 20th, 2023 - Winter Carousel - Works 2001-2006
Year: 2001-2003?
Genre: Noise, experimental
Winter Carousel was a playful noise/experimental duo from
the 00s influenced by whimsical vintage animation, stagework,
and entomology. Aspiring to being "cute, poppy and kid-like,"
their produced some truly unique music, and although their
insect-costume antics and aggressive, surreal songs seem to be
almost completely forgotten, I took the liberty of creating
a kinda discography compilation (or at least as can best be
scraped together from all over the internet 20 years after the
fact) to shed some light on these weirdos.
September 19th, 2023 - Francisco López - DSB
Year: 2020
Label: Oporto
Genre: Musique concrète, sound collage, field recordings
It's like being in a submarine in the middle of
an active warzone, either under fire or crushing
paranoia, completely alone with only cold automated
systems and dimly glowing screens for company.
It's rare that field recordings are so visceral
and real but I have difficulty believing this
is a collage of normal recordings and not something
out of the belly of the war machine.
September 18th, 2023 - 清水靖晃 [Yasuaki Shimizu] - 案山子 (Kakashi)
Year: 1982
Label: Better Days
Genre: Art pop, jazz fusion, post-minimalism
I won't waste your time with a summary today besides to say that
nothing takes me a simple happy place quite like this. There's
magic here and even if you hate the music somehow just look at the
cat, it makes my day just thinking about it. セミ取りの日 is genuinely
one f my favorite tracks of all time. That's all. Goodnight
September 17th, 2023 - Cool ✨ Teens - Beautiful Daydream
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Electropop
I'll say it without a shred of irony or shame that Roses by the Chainsmokers
is against all odds a piece of electropop perfection, the epitome of
mid '10s nostalgia, forever frozen in a VSCO-filter soaked 2015 summer.
Cool Teens (with a little help from BFF) gives it a fitting
revamp as an NxC-style future bassish bouncy pop banger, all the better
to capture whatever that era means for you. Actually, forget that,
it's the sound of the summer every summer, or more like a rose-tinted (unintentional)
memory of your favorite summer. Maybe it's even more fitting that I post this as school
kicks back up and the days are getting colder. We could be beautiful~
September 16th, 2023 - Moss Memory - Enter the Forest
Year: 2019
Label: none
Genre: Noise
Wouldn't it be cool if we had a genre name for this kind of sound?
I propose micronoise. Noise music with a focus on quiet, organic
sounds, not clean like onkyo or minimal like lowercase, but just
small, mildewy, living, damp and dusty sounds like looking through
a microscope at some microscopic world covered in lichen.
If micronoise were to exist, I think this is as good an example as any.
Lush but low fidelity, dripping, surreal noisescapes of soft anxiety
like falling asleep on a bed of moss, vaguely aware of
some looming threat but overwhelmed by hallucinatory comfort.
Inhale spores.
September 15th, 2023 - Motohiko Hamase (浜瀬元彦) - Intaglio
Year: 1986
Label: Shi Zen
Genre: Jazz fusion, post-minimalism, ambient
Jazz is actually a genre I have little (like, no) experience with.
Listening to this was genuinely like walking around on a foreign planet.
Everything is dreamlike and alien but feels just like home in a million
new colors and shapes. Can't tell if it's the genre or just this album
but it's an experience and a half.
September 14th, 2023 - Woo - Into the Heart of Love
Year: 1990
Label: none
Genre: New age, psychedelic folk, ambient pop
I won't lie, I'm just posting this for "Make Me Tea." Sorry if I get
personal on here ever, but a lot of my past folk / indie posts were
kind of emo and bittersweet because they were related to my loneliness which
was because I was looking for meaning in the wrong places. Lately though I've
had a kind of epiphany and realized where I should look for meaning and what actually
makes me happy and songs like this embody that. For the first time in a long time I'm
not yearning or fantasising, but finding happiness in the things that I really am and care about.
I would invite you all over for tea if I could and we could sing some nice songs and you
can listen to me rave about owls for a while and I can listen to what things you think about.
September 13th, 2023 - Chris Marker - An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl
Year: 1990
Genre: Experimental
An owl is an an owl.
An owl is an owl is an owl. An owl.
That's owl, folks!
(God, I love this so much. So many of my central memories
are set in nature preserves and aviaries, memories covered in fog
and rain and blurry surrealism only replicable with VHS fuzz
and low fidelity, and this cuts straight to the core of what
makes me tick. I like to think that if you peeled my soul down
like the layers of an onion all you'll find at the center is
something like this. Who is who? Who is whoooooo?)
September 12th, 2023 - Jim Andron - Tetris (CD-i) Original Soundtrack
Year: 1992
Label: Philips
Genre: Video game music, lounge, new age
I can safely say that 98% of vaporwave albums are abject failures at
evoking nostalgia compared to this hidden masterpiece of VGM, BGM, and
sequencer music in general. Somewhere between the soundfont, the
low bitrate, and the lovely melodies themselves shine the light of the
past's future, or the future's past, an imagining of simple times to come
or that once were, captured and contained and quietly powerful in it's,
god I can't really do it justice. I don't think I spent my childhood
playing games like this, but I *feel* like I'm sitting in a 90s computer
room, light shining in the window, discovering the internet and computer
games and everything the 21st century had to offer. I finally understand that
"nostalgia for a life I've never lived" that everyone is going on about in
vaporwave comment sections that I always assumed was an exaggeration, but
honestly it's palpable. Bravo, Jim. Good work.
September 11th, 2023 - Timothy Leary, Ph.D. - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Year: 1966
Label: ESP
Genre: Spoken word, sound collage, guided meditation?
Good old Timothy Leary. It's rare that ideals of peace and love can make
"The Most Dangerous Man in America," but listening to this it's easy to
see how fascinated and excited this could make a young and curious generation
hungry for change and meaning, and also how older generations viewed him as
all but a terrorist. I can't tell if the hippies won or not; the machine
they tried to dismantle pretty much absorbed them like a white blood cell
with a pathogen, but much like virus DNA can find new life in it's host, part
of the hippie spirit has definitely left a permanent mark on the collective
consciousness, at least in America. One way or another, it's worth it to hear
it from the man who was convinced he had one chance in ten to enlighten the world.
Also if this isn't your speed, there's a version by the same new a few years earlier
that was actually a completely different record, this time a musically accompanied
guided LSD trip complete with 60s editing and SFX. It's unintentially silly and
aged kind of funnily, but it's quite the experience taken as it is.
September 10th, 2023 - Le roman de Renard [The Story of the Fox]
Year: 1937
Genre: Fantasy, comedy, puppet animation
Although this page is mostly music, sometimes something special comes
up, which is the case here so surprise movie night time. Most early
films I've checked out have age moderately to poorly, either supported
by the novelty of the medium alone or outdated references and humor, winding
up more or less obsolete. This is a delighful exception. Turns out the story
of a trickster fox outsmarting just about everyone and leaving a trail of
mischief and chaos in his wake is as old as time, and the humor in this often hasn't
aged a day.
September 9th, 2023 - Iglooghost - Clear Tamei
Year: 2018
Label: Gloo
Genre: Drill'n'bass, wonky, bubblegum bass, glitch hop
I know Iglooghost isn't the most obscure, but when I first heard this
it blew my mind all over the fucking wall and after spending years
immersed in the most out-there electronic stuff imaginable, it still
sounds like it was made in the 2170s, maybe 2160s at the absolute earliest,
not the year of our lord twenty fuckin eighteen. It is absolutely full
to the brim with more sounds than most dense sound collages I know and is more
chaotic than any 90% of mashcore out there and it's a rare and blessed release with this
kind of ethereal beauty, all in one clean 4:20 (seriously) dose of auditory
(also the music video makes my feel physically sick, it's great but abstractly nauseating,)
OK I'll just shut up now but POINT IS if you're an eletronic music nerd this song is pretty much crack
have fun
September 8th, 2023 - 1 - Recovery
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Experimental, glitch
I found an experimental musician in the wild!!!
Actually he found me when I was stealing coffee from
the college cafeteria, somehow word of my audacity
adventures somehow made it's way through the grapevine
(how? I have no idea) and we spent the next while talking
about genres and stuff, it was fun and I want you to listen
to it. It reminds me most of some of the insane musique
concrete stuff from the 1960s that nevertheless managed
to sound futuristic even today, only more digital and repetitive
which isn't a problem if it sounds as sick as this.
Go support my boy Ryan (or whatever his name was, I forgot already)
September 7th, 2023 - AC/PC - Stairway to Heaven
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Hyperpop, glitch pop, DnB, folk rock
There is NOTHING I love more than the most insane, absurd,
stupid ideas being pulled off with full knowledge of it's
absurdity but without one iota of irony or crumb of cynicism,
just unadulterated love for music that in a logical universe
should not be. That about takes us to Stairway to Heaven,
the most underrated overrated song of all time, reborn as
a trance-fueled breakbeat-backed PC music masterpiece. If you
time travelled and played this at a Zepplin concert there
would be fatalities. If you played this at a concert nowadays
there would probably also be fatalities.
September 6th, 2023 - Unknown artists - Music from a Kwale Cell Phone: Sengenya Festival
Year: 2023
Label: Dagoretti Records
Genre: Kenyan music, ethnomusicology, field recordings
Another one I have little cultural context for but fuck it,
the world's a massive place and I refuse to stick with just
one corner of it when there's stuff like this out there.
Passed anonymously from cell phone to cell phone before finally
winding up in sound collagist hands, the low fidelity, crowd
noise, and music itself create an impossibly intense atmosphere
to lose yourself in. It's an exciting listen that does an excellent
job at capturing the feeling of the festival and I'd recommend
reading the description too. I've been interested in ethnomusicology
even before I got into experimental music, and making or collecting
recordings like this would be a dream come true.
September 5th, 2023 - GOTH GIRL - DEATHMASK
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Harsh noise
Some people keep diaries, some make scrapbooks, GOTH GIRL
screams through blasted-out electronics every day for
a year. It seems very cathartic to make and listen to and
the short tracks makes it far more enjoyable than most massive
noise comps. I'd actually recommend it as a stepping stone for
anyone new to harsh noise; I'd hesitate to call it fun because
of it's catharctic, violent inspiration but there's definitely
a lot to get out of it.
September 4th, 2023 - relief - sounds for bathroom
Year: 2017
Label: none
Genre: New age
The title sounds silly but just give it a shot, I promise.
relief is an aptly chosen name, since somewhere in these
slow peaceful sounds is a little door to an endless garden
where everything is quiet and still. I'd recommend closing
your eyes for it's under 9 minute runtime and see what
mundane, peaceful memories might come back. It reminds me of
walking outside as a kid. If you're in a rush, the first two
tracks are best IMO.
September 3rd, 2023 - Annapurna Devi - Debut Surbahar Recital (New Delhi, 1950)
Year: 1950 (released 2008)
Label: none
Genre: Hindustani classical music
Hopefully this doesn't sound disrespectful, but I can't
tell if this bootleg from 1950 hit the James Ferraro aesthetic
(hypnotic sound, low fidelity, compressed B&W slightly-off
cassette shaped cover, dreamlike atmosphere) right on the head,
or if what hypnagogic pop has been searching for all this time
was epitomized by complete accident decaded prior and we're just
trying to get it back. I don't think the fact that this feels
so surreal has to do entirely with my unfamiliarity with the genre.
September 2nd, 2023 - Tim Hart & Maddy Prior - Folk Songs of Old England Vol. 1
Year: 1968
Label: Tepee
Genre: English folk
After hearing lots of neo/psych/avant/modern folk I went into
this just trying to explore more traditional music and see what's
at the roots, not really expecting it to connect, but to my
surprise I could not find a single bad song, and it ranges from
light comedy, sailing songs, to dark fairy tales in a single
cohesive listen. If any kind of folk is up your alley, I'd suggest
giving it a shot; at worst it gives some context for the soil from
which other styles formed, at best you'll find a new path to
travel down.
September 1st, 2023 - HARDCURE - Hardcore Guided Meditation, Vol. 1 ⚕️
Year: 2019
Label: none?
Genre: Hardcore, noise, ambient
This unironically works for destressing because it's
hard to worry about much when your brain has been reduced
to the consistency of mush. It's incredible that this novelty
single genuinely has more energy packed into it than 95%
of hardcore out there, and the three bonus tracks are sort
of filler but if you're more a noise-ambient enjoyer maybe
give them a listen but just remember CHILL the FUCK OUT
just CALM the FUCK DOWN
August 31st, 2023 - Various - Nobody Like You When You're 23 Artists Covering the Same Song
Year: 2020
Label: Chirp Records
Genre: Indie, emo, pop punk
The dedication to the concept is immense and it goes from genuinely good
to funny to overdone to please god make it stop to transcendent. I've never
loved an album so much that could just as easily be used for psychological
torture. What the hell is call ID?
August 30th, 2023 - thescientist - Popcore
Year: 2011
Label: none
Genre: Dance pop, nightcore
I could not imagine anything more unreasonably perfectly 2011 than this,
it feels like the kind of thing that could only be made in retrospect
a decade later to capture the spirit of the era but it's here,
it's real, and it's magnificent. All the overplayed early '10s pop
hits, nightcored and mixed with rave and breakbeat samples into
a 20 minute wall of rave for a new generation. I'm getting flashbacks
to being at the skate rink as a little kid when some of these were
on the radio, all around good vibes.
August 29th, 2023 - feelsreel - COVERED IN SQUID INK, MOUTHFUL OF PUPPY CHOW
Year: 2023
Label: First Aid Kitten Records
Genre: Outsider emo, scenecore
There's an increasing trend in fifth wave emo to make releases
so personal and idiosyncratic that almost no one but the artist
can fully understand it and it feels almost like an invasion
of privacy to listen to. Stuff like this makes no attempt to
follow patterns or make itself comprehensible or approachable
to the listener, presumably combining everything that the artist connects
with at a spiritual level (here being a jumble of spoken word, chiptune,
kitten-like screamo, and scene fixation) into a whole that has so much
deeply special about it that it's tricky to describe. I'd say
Garden Angel exemplifies this style, but feelsreel is part of their
expanding crew and does it as well as anyone and it succeeded admirably
in it's goal to make me "giggle or like smile or soemthing ok".
Thank you, feelsreel <3
Hello Seattle, I am a mountaineer
In the hills and highlands
I fall asleep in hospital parking lots
And awake in your mouth
August 28th, 2023 - Unknown artist - Bring back my kitty to me
Year: 1890 - 1929
Label: none
Genre: Acapella, childrens music
Today I discovered an incredible resource, an archive of over 15,000
cylinders recorded from the 1890s to the 1920s containing just about every
kind of music, speech, and daily ephemera from over a hundred years ago you
could imagine. Spoken letters, birdsong, conversation, bands, and all manner
of music, mostly home-recorded, which gives it a special, strange atmosphere.
Thousands of lofi, unique, mostly home recordings, completely abandoned by
time and often left stripped of context or origin - I wouldn't say it's eerie,
but it gives off the same feeling as staring overboard into a black ocean.
Hopefully this one captures the spirit of the archive well - at once charming,
cute, a bit chilling, and just a fragment snipped from someone's life and washed
up on the digital shore.
August 27th, 2023 - Forest - Full Circle
Year: 1970
Label: Harvest
Genre: Psychedelic folk
Never have I gone from not knowing of a band's existence
to having a new favorite album in the span of 43 minutes
before, but here we are. The world it creates is quaint,
mysterious, full of childlike joy and celebration
immediately adjacent to existential fears and all wrapped
up by the swirling sound of drunken ministrels around
a fire. "Do Not Walk in the Rain" is almost folk pop (circa 1970,)
"Famine Song" is a sparse but beautifully harmonic acapella,
and I'll leave the rest of the nooks and crannies and unmarked
forest pathways for you to find on your own. This month's highlight for sure.
Childhood came to me again, dust and cobwebs left a pain
That ploughed the furrows of the dead
And burning woodsmoke filled my head
August 26th, 2023 - EchoDDT - I Miss My Little Runaway (Please Run Back To Me)
Year: 2019
Label: DMT Tapes
Genre: Synthwave emo
Yes, I will keep on posting DMT Tapes monthly until you like it.
That being said, this is not their usual vaporwave fare: EchoDDT
brings together a vaporwave ethos, pop punk background, synthwave
stylings, emo lyricism, and a 90s club fascination into a single,
neon, glamourous, glow-in-the-dark whole. It's like sobbing while
circling at top speed at the skate rink and deserves to be taking
over the charts with it's retro-future-parallel-timeline energy and
not sitting on DMT with like 200 listeners max. Life isn't fair it
seems, but at least we've got a hell of a tune going on.
August 25th, 2023 - Microstoria - _snd
Year: 1996
Label: Thrill Jockey
Genre: Ambient, glitch
Absolutely incredible, this record nailed the
post-internet aesthetic that would blow up a-la 7FORM
20 years later, in 1996. That might as well be post-internet,
pre-internet (not really but shhh), point is this is nothing
short of visionary in visuals and sound alike. Restrained, corporate,
human, and meditative all come to mind but don't really capture it.
It's like the inside of a sleeping information network, the peaceful
dreams of a T-Mobile server in a mall's basement. Cold and soothing
and warmly inhuman in one zen whole.
August 24th, 2023 - deadxbug - i was born and i died the same day
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Emo rap
This one has a really interesting interplay with yesterday's emo rap.
That one was genuinely naive and homemade, whereas this one is sort of
too, but very conscious of it. Not that it's insincere, it just knows
what it's doing, which is merging bedroom pop sounds (deadxbug is better
known under their bedroom pop moniker bedbug) into a hip hop context
and creating something unbelievably chill and greater than the sum of it's
parts. Between the super autotuned vocals and the super lofi production and
the super cutesy sounds (I think the first one samples Animal Crossing !!)
it's an instant favorite in my book and I hope you like it too.
August 23rd, 2023 - sørrowful tears - death to my heart
Year: 2019
Label: none
Genre: Emo rap
I've heard plenty of emo rap, but none of it has
quite this peculiar energy. Thematically and production
wise it's completely by the numbers for the genre - breakups,
angst, general emoisms, cloudy beats - but there's something
naive and endearing about it. There's pretty much not a rhyme
on the entire thing, it might as well be freestyled at some
points, the singing is autotuned to the max and still goes
out of tune, and it's lyrically as blunt and 7th-grade-diary as humanly
possible. This might make it suck in some people's minds, but when I go
to emo rap this is just the vibe I need. I wonder where sørrowful tears is now.
August 22nd, 2023 - 4Dboy - Wizard
Year: 2011
Label: none
Genre: Chiptune
Some sweet, old skool style chiptune beats, apparently
made with actual hardware, and it shows in the authentic
sound as much as 4Dboy's obvious love for what he does.
2011 and 1991 merge into a single prophesied whole
not to be misses. I can just imagine him sitting on his floor, surrounded
by old game systems and clunky computers banging out the tunes
from the bottom of his 8-bit soul. You go, man.
August 21st, 2023 - Six in the morning - Like a G6 in the morning
Year: 2019
Label: 218
Genre: Glitch, plunderphonics
While my opinion may be swayed by the fact that G6 is a masterpiece,
I think you'll like this even more if you hate it. Hearing the sound of
the early '10s being mutilated and reinvented in something between a YTP
and glitch music is just magical, and I know in my heart that this would have gone
insanely hard in an actual club back when the original dropped. Whoever 6iTM is,
you're either nuts or brilliant, good job. (Wait wait actually holy shit, is this live?
Did you do this live?? If so, I could only imagine the energy in the room where
this manifested.)
August 20th, 2023 - From First to Last - Emily (UV Remix)
Year: 2011
Label: none
Genre: Dubstep, emo
If this isn't the most 2011 thing I've ever heard, what is?
An emo classic, completely unironically worked into brostep.
The growling club-ready (but very dated) electronics completely
clash with the lovely acoustic guitar loop, or at least should,
but instead it feels like a choreographed battle sequence.
Just wait until you hear the vocal chopping. Also fun fact, Skrillex
played in From First to Last, which is presumably why this happened.
Thank god it did.
August 19th, 2023 - Claudia Sheffner - Logic Dissolution, Burial of the Daywalkers
Year: 2019
Label: ubiquitous anomalies
Genre: Vaporwave
The entire history of western music comes together into a
titanic beast of unknowable beauty and elegance, which immediately
collapses under it's own weight into a mangled, shambling
mass pulling itself everywhere at once, pleading to be killed
with half of it's mouths and laughing with the others. Maybe
I'm overstating it, but you know those harsh noise sets that
are pretty much yanking wires, flailing, and electronic violence?
This is like if you combined that energy with a classical
radio DJ. I really, really wonder what a live performance
of something like this would look like.
August 18th, 2023 - Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ Ｄｉｇｉｔａｌ - Ｗａｓｔｅｄ Ｄｉｇｉｔａｌ
Year: 2015
Label: DMT Tapes
Genre: Vaporwave
Late night drives on empty highways, exhaustion basked in
the light of a fuzzy television signal, telephone networks
playing hold music to each other endlessly, and dreamlike
half-real cityscapes are some of the fragmentary visions
embedded in the sludgy surface of this late night lofi journey
from deserted memory to deserted memory. Utter isolation
has never felt so warm and soft. Maybe it's safe to shut your eyes
for a moment.
August 17th, 2023 - Pacific Purgatory - momotaro (samothraki) demo tape
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Indie rock
There's plenty of indie music out there that bares it's
heart wide to the world, but little that does it as completely
and infectiously as this. It's less self-expression as much as
explosive decompression, a blast of the human condition
straight from Pacific Purgatory's struggling, beautiful soul
as filtered through lofi guitars, surf rock, and idiosychratic
poetry. Stay strong, man. I love you.
August 16th, 2023 - σníkα - b♥f♥fs
Year: 2014
Label: none
Genre: Bubblegum bass
Out of all the bubblegum bass out there, I have not
been able to find a single track quite like
this one. Instead of an electropop or deconstructed club
or other influence, it's built around a cute but completely
nonmusical spoken word and features EDM builds taken completely
out of context, a completely abstract song structure, and
despite everything avoids feeling experimental at all, seemingly
just as natural and coherent as a radio pop song. Really something
special, a flash in the pan of a parallel universe's music scene
briefly intersecting with our own in 2014 and never being seen again,
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August 15th, 2023 - Unknown Caller - inevitable destruction of the universe mixtape 2k18
Year: 2018
Label: DMT Tapes
Genre: Vaporwave
In another, better world, when hardvapour reared it's ugly head,
this is what it sounded like instead. The rawring twenties hit
two years early in a plunderphonics hellworld fit for
summoning rituals in a 7/11 parking lot. If nothing else,
the description is a holy text to me, please read it.
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August 14th, 2023 - persona - yuiy7u8i6
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Electronic
Techno bliss, evoking memories and hopes and blending it
all together into a timeless notion where all is beauty and
the world is still for two minutes and twelve seconds.
It would perfectly fit some kind of emotional montage,
a bit bittersweet but with a bright future looming ahead.
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August 13th, 2023 - w3bcam - im dreaming me n u r forever
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Ambient pop, ambient trance
Between 2geevvvrrrrr from a couple days ago, this, and some PC Music stuff,
the concept of recreating pop songs as ambient masterpieces is one of the best
musical ideas in recent history. Never thought Justin Beiber would sound like
drifting through the stratosphere disembodied in bliss, but here we are.
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August 12th, 2023 - Glitter Fortress - Spiraling Blacklight Party
Year: 2015
Label: none
Genre: Nightcore
94 tracks of nightcored trap, trance, and EDM to lose yourself in.
Like seriously, there should be a warning on this thing, it's absolutely
monolithic and I could easily spend the next few months just processing it.
If you click with this kind of sound, this just might be the motherlode.
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August 11th, 2023 - Microsoft Phones Design - Tones 2013
Year: 2013
Label: Microsoft
Genre: SFX, electronic
Maybe I'm just a sucker for clean sound design or corporate aesthetics
but this is more fun than an official Nokia ringtone mixtape should ever be.
A couple legitimately threw me off with how out there they were and I would
probably listen to them as full songs if given no other context.
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August 10th, 2023 - love again - 2geevvvrrrrr
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Ambient
And if yesterdays post takes pop perfection into the realm
of low fidelity bedroom recorded tenderness, this takes it
the opposite direction, right to the rarefied atmosphere at
the edge of heaven and earth where even the ice freezing
in your lungs has a beauty all it's own. A realization of
Carly Rae Jepsen's potential as the blissful end credits
of existence itself. Digital euphoria.
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August 9th, 2023 - qt2f - ag cook superstar hehehe im qt2f
Year: 2021
Label: none
Genre: Acoustic emo
The original A. G. Cook track is one of the most uplifting
unreal works of electronic and / or pop music I have ever heard,
never quite dropping but building and building energy that it just
leaves you with at the end to do with as you please. This version
flips it right on it's head and turns it into a heartrending
acoustic rendition, tripping over itself and almost being lost
in it's own lofi recording as much as the original soars in it's
studio clarity. It just makes me wanna give qt2f a hug, honestly.
Hope all is well.
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August 8th, 2023 - Starset - Vessels
Year: 2017
Label: Razor & Tie
Genre: Alternative rock
Far far from obscure, but most people here haven't heard it
and I'd be happy to get another pair or two of ears on it.
Between the soaring cinematic melodies, dramatic but heartfelt
lyrics, and constant cosmic metaphors, it's about as blunt as
rock gets, but the sheer lack of subtlety is more than compensated
by it's power. Musically there's more going on than meets the eye too
(time signature screwery, lots of electronic mingling,) I was huge into
this in middle school, and out of everything I liked
this this aged the best.
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August 7th, 2023 - SleepResearch_Facility - Stealth
Year: 2012
Label: Cold Spring
Genre: Dark ambient, isolationism
Made using recordings in the hangar of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
during maintance, this dark ambient release evokes high technology,
encrypted signals, classified datum, unerring precision, and a distant,
frigid humanity behind it all. It's like the murmurs of a sleeping
military data grid.
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August 6th, 2023 - MeowSynth
Year: 2009
My life is complete. I feel like I've done everything
there is to do and this entire playlist is the theme
to being able to sit back and relax. I hope you enjoy
it as much as I do.
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August 5th, 2023 - KATY PERRY FT. HATSUNE MIKU - FIREWORKS (DJ SUPERMONKEYBALL REMIX)
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Techno, vocaloid
There hasn't been a vocaloid release here yet, I think, a deficiency
in desperate need of correction. Vocaloid is not a world I'm very far
into but you don't need to be to appreciate the joy of hearing pop
tunes sung by a cute robot, especially on a simple but sweet techno
beat like this.
Also the original rocks in it's own right, the weird blurred line of electronic
and acapella is really interesting!
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August 4th, 2023 - Unlabeled / unidentified files mixtape
Year: 2016-2023?
It's another self-shilling episode! This time it's a compilation of various unlabeled files
from my hard drive. Someone found one of the songs, but the rest remain unidentified. Featuring
ambient, indie folk, vaporwave, breakcore, DnB, and MIDI, it's unlikely the rest will be found
(most probably never saw a real release, wherever I picked them up from is anyone's guess)
but that's part of the charm in the end. Enjoy!
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August 3rd, 2023 - Afterbirth - Who's In There?
Year: 1988
Label: Boom Shanka Records
Genre: Heavy metal
A handful of teenage lunkheads get together in their garage and
try their hand at heavy metal. I can only imagine how incredible this
sounded in their minds but the end result is nothing short of outsider.
There's a song about a teacher they hate that calls him a "faggot french fry,"
immediately followed by a guitar solo based on "Mary Had A Little Lamb."
Despite the different genres I'm reminded of Night Dolls with Hairspray if
it was 100% genuine and made by a band with a brain cell between the three of them.
Rock on, you glorious bastards.
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August 2nd, 2023 - Various - Crack III - Lost Juke/Footwork Compilation
Year: 2014
Label: None
Genre: Juke, footwork
During the period after Myspace's relevance and before it's total collapse,
their servers were rotting away, managed by a company that seemingly couldn't
care less, and which left it vulnerable to glitches that allowed once-private
tracks from imeem (a 2003-2009 social media network bought by Myspace) to show
up in searches, allowing this dedicated user to collect a vault of lost historial
footwork available essentially no where else. While I can't exactly claim to get the full effect given
my utter inexperience with the genre, it's easy to get something out of this
time capsule. Capturing the real underground sound of the genre in that era, it's
way less conventionally dancy and goes farther into experimentation than a good deal
of intentionally experimental albums, and much of it has never been formally released,
instead being passed around as mp3s and unheard for years before being dug up for these comps.
Real raw DIY shit.
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August 1st, 2023 - 500 - Home & You
Year: 2020
Label: Genome 6.66 Mbp
Genre: Ambient trance
In the late 2010s and really spawning in 2020 seems to be a
kind of nameless post-trance scene that neglects danceability
and sometimes percussion entirely in favor of creating some of the
most lovely sounds I think I will ever hear. It's as delicate as a
flower and as faded as a dear memory and as strong as an angel
with a sword of flame. Words falter to describe how I feel about this
but I suppose inner peace and divine homecoming is as good as any.
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July 31st, 2023 - Noism - ±
Year: 2008
Label: Crucial Blast
Genre: Cybergrind
What's pretty special about this is that it's every basic component of metal,
gutted and rearranged into the most rapid-fire, dangerously condensed version
of itself imaginable. There are extratone albums faster, grindcore albums noisier,
experimental albums louder, but where it shines is that all of the elements are
unmutilated, unmodified, just rearranged in utter recognizability in utterly the
wrong ways. It doesn't even sound angry or aggressive in it's speed/intensity,
it's as mathematical and sterile an endeavor as the cover would imply, which I mean
entirely positively.
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July 30th, 2023 - Robert Bearns & Ron Dexter - The Golden Voyage Vol. 1
Year: 1977
Label: Awakening Productions
Genre: New age
"The Golden Voyage... Experience
A Galactic Exploration Through Celestial Harmonics
A Totally New, Unique Concept In Stereophonic S-O-U-N-D Frequencies
He who seeks the golden ring must reach for it
Fly the crystal carousel through a temple garden
Become the orchestra of creation, while a tapestry of delicately woven melodies aloft you into the Quasars."
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July 29th, 2023 - kittenmilk - Kindergarten
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Twee, acoustic
Super naive twee, acoustic guitar with just a couple notes
and childish lyrics to match the album cover. I don't think
twee gets any more concentrated and DIY than this but it's
just perfect as what it is. If nothing else, "anything 4 u"
ought to bring a smile to your face.
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July 28th, 2023 - The Smiths - This Charming Man (GHOST DATA Remix)
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Aether pop, dreamsynth
Thought I dreamed this when I remembered it in the morning since it was such
a specific combination of two artists I love but never thought would intersect
in a million years and haven't been happier to be proven wrong. Turns out that
This Charming Man is backed just as well by soaring synthwave as by jangle pop.
It's rare that synthwave confronts it's 80s obsession this head on and even stranger
that the result of 80s song + 80s worship genre ended up in musical territory
completely beyond its influences, I don't think we'll catch up to it for some time to come.
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July 27th, 2023 - fanks - she big on my time til i rush
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Acoustic
I can't tell if this is a wonderful testimony to the fact that there's
a tender and heartfelt core to be found in almost anything or the fact
that my standards are dropping to record lows. That said, this Big Time
Rush cover is one of the most charming tracks I've found in a while.
Makes me smile and reminds me that it'll all be alright in the end.
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July 26th, 2023 - Unknown ("The Journey Ends")
Year: Pre-1999
Label: none
Genre: Rock
It turns out that behind the "most mysterious song on the internet"
phenomenon lies an entire community dedicated to unearthing and identifying
unknown songs and rogue scraps from all over the internet. Many of these
have been found, but far more have not yet been uncovered and even more
remain almost totally unknown, collected on the handful of youtube accounts
dedicated to archiving such things. One of these is "The Journey Ends," whose
fragmented lyric is an almost perfect description of the unidentified song
phenomenon itself.
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July 25th, 2023 - Jedwill1999 + Fraxiom - Garfieldcore
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Hyperpop, experimental hip hop
2020 was a different time. The "garfy / iCarly" line was the most visceral
musical experience I have had in recent memory, it sounds like someone had
a gun to his head and was forcing him to freestyle about fucking garfield.
If I had a stroke while listening to this I probably wouldn't notice.
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July 24th, 2023 - Oda - Face to Face
Year: 2004?
Label: Avex
Genre: Eurobeat
Subtly beat-driven ambience, completely coated with percussion and
changing sounds but somehow as hypnotic and sprawling as the purest drone.
It's like walking in a garden. I wish there were places with empty rooms
and green fields and completely clear skies to play this in.
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July 23rd, 2023 - chang s - Furl Retail UR/UX
Year: 2014
Label: Psalmus diuersae
Genre: Ambient, glitch
Subtly beat-driven ambience, completely coated with percussion and
changing sounds but somehow as hypnotic and sprawling as the purest drone.
It's like walking in a garden. I wish there were places with empty rooms
and green fields and completely clear skies to play this in.
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July 22nd, 2023 - mich - lucky one
Year: 2017
Label: none
Genre: Indie folk
Life is too short for me to be embarassed of my fondness
for blatant soft uwu tumblr aesthetic indie music.
If you were in middle school when this kind of sound blew
up you would be too, and more of it holds up than you'd expect.
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July 21st, 2023 - flipnoteanimation12709 - flipnoteanimation12709
Year: 2020
Label: Sunligh Records
Genre: Plunderphonics
As someone who grew up largely in the 2010s and recorded samples through
my computer speaker before I knew about youtube to mp3, it hits a special
kind of home. The spirit of mislabeled low-quality Kazaa and Limewire mp3s lives on.
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July 20th, 2023 - @wintercouplet (Media Human)
Year: 2019
Label: 7FORM
Genre: Ambient, SFX
There's just something so peaceful about these, it's like the
sound effects for a hypermodern sterile-white utopian smart home
or operating system designed for spiritual balance. Shouts out to
soulseek for life.
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July 19th, 2023 - Alfred Wolfsohn - Vox Humana: Alfred Wolfsohn's Experiments in Extension of Human Vocal Range
Year: 1956
Label: Folkways
Genre: Experimental acapella
I know I mentioned something like this before, but little "experimental" music
music is experimental in the same sense as a science experiment, genuinely
and methodically testing boundaries and deriving results. This is one of the
rare LPs that takes just that attitude, pushing the human vocal range
beyond it's standard limits and exploring, less for inherent musical value and more
for academic research purposes, what the cords are actually capable of.
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July 18th, 2023 - Telestrion - Telestrion
Year: 2007
Label: Electric Mind Records
Genre: Stoner + psychedelic + space rock
Most psychedelic and stoner rock has a kind of sludgy sound
that this avoids entirely, coming through loud and clear
and loaded with 90s rocking vibes, howling guitar passages,
and a sense of journeying. Rock usually isn't my genre, but the
cover was incredible and I was not let down.
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July 17th, 2023 - blonie - Answering Machine Messages & Prank Calls
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Spoken word, braindance
Lofi spoken word answering machine memos and decades-old jokes between
friends, mingled with break-infused braindance into something I can't
evenly compare with any other release I know of. blonie's aesthetics,
music, and mindstate seems solidly locked into the 00s electronic scene
and I mean that as high praise.
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July 16th, 2023 - beansclub - bootleg tape vol.1
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Sextrance
Rave-ready pre-nightcored trance rmxs with an edge of
crusty jpeg hexd compression and nocturnal delirium, like
toward the early morning end of an all-nighter rave when
your body is moving but your mind is easily in another
dimension entirely.
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July 15th, 2023 - @pat_16120 - “eternal love/guided by light” EP 16/1/20
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Ascendant post-trance
Two of the tracks here are most club-friendly but still otherworldly and saturated
with an unreal sense of light, and the others take the structure of old-school euphoric
trance, remove the drums entirely, and stretch transcendant buildup into it's own dimension.
It sincerely feels like being visited by a benevolent but alien entity who can only be perieved as
a vision-filling fractal pattern. My heart is being pulled skyward and my body is just dragging
along tethered behind it. Virtual Self is gonna be left in the dust if this is where we're going.
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July 14th, 2023 - [unknown artist] - i see ghosts cover (k3lyxoxx)
Year: 2020 (or 2019)
Label: none
Genre: Soundcloud emo
(new no cover image btw)
I'm doing my best to figure out who this is since it's absolutely
gorgeous and seems to have been deleted years ago. The original song
was pop-punk backed emo rap, and this version takes it in a more minimal,
hyperpop-ish direction. Even with silly lines about zip folders and
flower emojis, both this and the k3lyxoxx version feel tender to the core.
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July 13th, 2023 - Lines of Sight - Lines of Sight
Year: 2003
Label: Chuckbeat Records
Genre: Indie rock
Emotional indie rock seemingly from California? that
crossed 20 years and the width of the country to end
up in a local Goodwill and then here. Seemingly inactive
since 2004, Lines of Sight is almost totally forgotten
with only a single track available online, but somehow
despite a decade plus of slumber, Chuckbeat is still online.
It really is a time capsule.
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July 12th, 2023 - MSCP - The MSEP
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Alternative, punk
Local high-school rock band, found at a Christian thrift store.
It's from 2009 and their MySpace URL is MSCPangstyangst. While
my non-electronic genre knowledge is pathetic and not enough to
identify what exactly to call this, I can tell you that it has a
tribute to Billy Mays and is 200% a product of it's time. Take as you will.
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July 11th, 2023 - Lil Koi - POND TALK EP<3$
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Soundcloud rap
This is probably the conclusion of my music taste collapsing into utter
nonsense but I'll take it. In 2018, the soundcloud rap group Hinoni (featuring
pvscale, capoxxo, lil soda boi, etc.) formed, and eventually included pvscale's
little brother, who was 13 at the time. Of course the lines are silly and it's
full of every late 2010s soundcloud rap cliche, but it's genuinely well done
and Koi is dripping enough confidence to carry it for miles. I legitimately
think my self confidence got bumped up a degree or two just in his presence.
With a backing crew of established producers and collaborators, he immediately
reaches his potential, and if the soundcloud rap sound is too strong here, try
freeze, a genuine emo rap masterpiece, and his capo collaborations (empathycrazy goes harddddd)
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July 10th, 2023 - [unknown artist] - Borda Tape Cut [Found by Elysia Crampton]
Year: 2015
Label: DISmagazine
Genre: Indigenous Andean music, Huayno
If only I knew enough (read: anything) about Andean music to comment on this in
something resembling an insightful way. All I can say is that found tapes are
always fascinating and this is far enough displaced from my normal musical world
that it feels like a separate branch of the human experience.
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July 9th, 2023 - Olde Fox Den - Roots and Tunnels
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Comfy synth
Sounds like the soundtrack to an animated short you have blurry VHS memories of,
wholesome animals in the forest having little adventures, with mushroom umbrellas
and a vaguely-hinted monster, all ending in coming home late for tea, playing in
an empty version of your childhood bedroom, just like you remember it but no one's home.
Sonically, it's remarkable how well it captures the sounds and styles of old-school
dungeon synth, thematically turned completely on their head. I hope the have a
happy little time in the snow.
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July 8th, 2023 - 16kbp Future Nostalgia - 16kbp Future Nostalgia
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, lobit, ambient dub
A similar feeling to staring into a house of mirrors or kaleidoscope filled with
fragments of childhood memories. The sense of nostalgia is present, but no signal
is making it through intact, and everything is seen at the bottom of (or from the
bottom of) a lake with a constantly rippling surface. At least the lilypads are still.
Music for sleeping cities. On a more musical note, I wouldn't have even noticed it was
lobit unless you mentioned it to me.
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July 7th, 2023 - The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Doctor Who Sound Effects
Year: 1978
Label: BBC
Genre: Sounds and effects
I'm not a Doctor Who fan, but even without any context whatsoever this
is still a worthwhile collection of soundscapes, unrecognizable noises, and
almost accidental avant-garde. The BBC Radiophonics Workshop was known for
pioneering experimental techniques (tape music, musique concrete) and presenting
it to the public, as well as pushing the boundaries of electronic music just
as the necessary technology was being made available. It's rare that "futuristic"
music from the 60s holds up, but when it does, it's practically eternal.
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July 6th, 2023 - Not Even Hope - Mona Lisa Cat
Year: 2008
Label: Dadaist Audio
Genre: Experimental
kibby + 00s netlabel glitch noise = cool
very good kibby very good noises
that is all goodnight
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July 5th, 2023 - User 2222 - Tending To The Earthworms In The Meadow
Year: 2021
Label: Curiosity Shop
Genre: New age
The ultimate audio manifestation of the phrase "it will all be alright in the end."
Feels like a hug from someone you trust when you're feeling down.
At once soaring and majestic but nothing gradiose or dramatic.
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July 4th, 2023 - greenhouse - _SNDWRK/gh
Year: 2022
Label: HALLEY LABS
Genre: IDM
Until now, when I thought "HALLEY LABS" my mind just corrected it
to Lapfox Trax and Emma to Renard, their new music just kind of
flew under my radar and I focused on the older output. This changed
that for good, while I was busy relistening to some 2011 album
of theirs they have been busy taking their sound in completely new
dimensions. I've never been able to get into IDM before now, but this
has all the appeal of the genre with all the musical backing of someone
who's been doing electronics since before I was born. Might open someone's
eyes to the genre, it definitely did for me.
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July 3rd, 2023 - zen michelin (kiki) - Nazca Lines
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Indie pop?
It's been a few years since Kiki made an appearance on here, so it's
more than overdue for their return. The storytelling is disarmingly
sincere and open as ever, this time not about benevolent ghosts or steel
mills but about michelin's mythology of the Nazca lines. I don't know if
it's based on an actual myth, but it easily sounds like it could be.
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July 2nd, 2023 - Jennifer Walshe - A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Early music, generative music
Something this legitimately fascinating and unreal is hard to come by,
even in the world of experimental music where further and stranger is the rule.
It's as much an academic work as anything, as fitting on a thesis as a tape.
I can only imagine the feeling of sitting in front of a computer, listening
to corrupted noise and washes of static slowly give way to your own,
horrifically malformed voice.
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July 1st, 2023 - Michael Reimann - Crystal Pyramid Sounds
Year: 2008
Label: Acron
Genre: New age
Seemingly an artifact from the healing spiritual chakra aligning pure energy
new age subculture, which I usually vibe with so off to a good start, this time
focused on an invented instrument made out of crystals in the shape of a pyramid.
If you give any credence to healing vibrations or sacred geometry you might get
something out of this, if not it's a unique new age, droney with a fair mix of
melodic elements. I'm still on the lookout for Pyramide I-XII, which seem to be CD only.
I apologize for the spotify link from the bottom of my heart, I might rip and reupload it elsewhere.
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June 30th, 2023 - DJ Set - DJ SET 01
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Bubblegum bass, nightcore
It's a relief to see that the old-school soundcloud NXC
scene is still being kept alive in certain circles, and the
fact that nobody even knows who this person is doesn't hurt.
This is the mix that 2016 wishes it made, downright lost in time.
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June 29th, 2023 - Operation Sodasteal - SPiDERFUCKER
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Synthpunk
Crunkcore / breakcore / hyperpop-influenced pop punk about building
a cult. Exactly as silly and glorious as that description entails,
and quite more coherent than you might expect, plus the crucified
sparkledog is the cherry on top. Not sure if it's just my copy but
the version I ripped from soundcloud is haunted and makes lobit
glitchy howling noises for as long as I try to play it, presumably
forever, which is very on brand.
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June 28th, 2023 - Garfield - Keep Cool, Cat!
Year: 1995
Label: Metronome
Genre: Eurodance
I cannot imagine what series of events led to an
officially licensed Garfield eurodance album with a
track titled "Getting High" but I'm all for it.
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June 27th, 2023 - Vektroid - Starflight Iguana
Year: 2010
Label: None
Genre: Tape music, sound collage
A tape collage with wide expanses of dead noise, no-fi warbled
samples, stray cassette shrapnel, and some of the murkiest
hypnagogic pop / proto-vapor to rear it's head this side of
eternal september. An abridged list of things this makes me
think of:
- the computer at my grandfather's house I would make MS paint art in
- Tuscon, Arizona
- pottery shards and musty basements
- delirium
- Coast 2 Coast AM
I would do so much to broadcast this in full in the open desert
at night without explanation, prelude, or context.
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June 26th, 2023 - dead bart - forever forever
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Cloud rap
Words describing it fail. Pages relating it shrivel. Tales recounting it end.
Like looking up in the sky and seeing a heard shaped cloud drifting by.
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June 25th, 2023 - zawmbi3 - CASTlES iN THE SKiES (i_O)
Year: 2022 (pretty sure it was originally 2020 though idk)
Label: None
Genre: Hyperpop?
For fucks sake we *need* a cohesive name for this blend of
emo rap / rave / happy hardcore / hyperpop / crunk. Scenecore
makes me feels silly to say but I can't think of anything better
You know exactly what I'm talking about, it started in around 2018,
blew up in 2020, and is probably at its best when it merges trance
and or rave classics with it's new style into the best music I wouldn't
show my friends or family if you put a gun to my head.
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June 24th, 2023 - Astro The Fox + NO_ID - BREAKWAVE PARADISE
Year: 2017
Label: Elysian Tunes
Genre: Breakwave (ravework also sounds cool)
There's been numerous combinations of breakcore and vaporwave,
but I think this is the closest anyone has come to hitting
the nail on the head. It isn't just amen breaks on slowed sampled
(though that is pretty cool too,) but has serious production value
with the way it's seamlessly merged into a whole. The thought
and care shines clear through, and I think it would definitely
be an enjoyable listen even if you're only into one of the constituent genres.
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June 23rd, 2023 - DJ 6YRథ్٣٣A ЗАО - NATUREPISTOLS2009
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Deep internet hardstyle??
Updated might be slow for a bit, I'm on an RV trip with the family
all week. I've been tired as hell and when we don't have what I like
to eat I usually don't so my blood sugar's nonexistent, and while I wouldn't
suggest inducing delirium like that, it goes together with this bootleg
like nobody's business. I'm only now discovering this underground Soundcloud /
YouTube scene that far as I can tell is completely nameless but is defined by
warped effects, hard/jumpstyle music, unsettling early internet visuals,
layers and layers of SFX and tags, and an impenetrable atmosphere of nightmarish
240p psychedelia. I feel exactly like I'm tripping real bad on laced exstacy in a club
in a post-Soviet country. If this isn't enough, *please* try ▯▯. I have never felt less safe
listening to an mp3.
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June 22nd, 2023 - user-177606669 - 90182374589172354
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Pop rap, ambient
I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the growing underground
soundcloud scene that's slowly merging (hyper)pop, internet rap, and ambient
music into a singular whole. There's more producers than I can even keep track
of who are releasing euphoric drone or original piano tracks right next to nightcored hip hop with
seemingly no distinction between the two, and the more I look the more I realize
how late I am since I'm only now discovering it and there's plenty who have taken
it to an art form already. I cannot believe I'm saying it but the future of internet
music is in good hands. (This is far from the best example of the style, but it's
still a good and striking example of it.)
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June 21st, 2023 - Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra / Mindaugas Piecaitis / Nora the Piano Cat - CATcerto
Year: 2009
Label: None
Genre: Modern classical
I will not be describing this, you just have to watch it yourself.
This isn't laziness, it's just worth it on it's own.
(I do have plans though to transcribe Nora's part of the concerto into
MIDI and possibly do an ambient rendition of it, we'll see.)
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June 20th, 2023 - Karnaboy - my best friend
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Pop
It's been a while since I cried so I guess it was just about time.
Can't think of a better song to do it to. Life is hard sometimes but it's
all right in the end.
My best friend, these things can hurt sometimes
Things may end, that’s just a part of life
We can play pretend until you feel alright
Hold my hand, my friend, you’ll be just fine
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June 19th, 2023 - SCREAMR - SCRUMS BOOTLEG MORALLY AMBIGUOUS FURRY DOGCORE MEGAMIX XXX PLEASE-DONT-SUE-ME EDITION
Year: 2019?
Label: None
Genre: Speed/break/mash/shitcore with sparkledog tendencies
(That isn't the actual cover but I didn't save it and the original upload is long gone so w/ever)
This came on during my 4-hour bikeride today right as the delirious bliss was setting
in and it was beautiful. All kinds of cores, distorted to crap, coated in that annoying kind
of glitter that gets everywhere and never gets out, perfect for harassing anyone in your
vicinity with listenable music taste and / or reducing your frontal cortex to the consistency of
apple sauce and rendering it incapable of doing anything but imagining oversaturated colors
and experiencing braindead delight.
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June 18th, 2023 - Plant Club
Year: 2009
The random clicking of YouTube profiles in comment sections and the discovery of
videos with under 200 views is an essential human experience and the more I watch
this the more I am convinced that it unironically contains the answer to all of life's
questions. Whoever made this could write the Dialogues but Socrates could never make Plant Club.
"So to believe in nothing is to believe in everything, so why not believe in everything?"
The secrets of the universe being told to you though the lo-fidelity, sped up and pitched down voices
of likely drugged out teenagers. If you like Five Starcle Men, just drop what you're doing and observe.
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June 17th, 2023 - lovelyanimal - Music Of Animal Song (2020 Minimix)
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Free improv? (animal music)
If anything naive or outsider interests you, this is where it all peaks.
I can't imagine anything more innocent and free of human
cynicisms than music made my animals, and to my surprise not only is that
out there, someone thought to make a collage / mix of it's highlights.
As expected it's mostly random key clunking and plucking, but nothing
I have heard has come close to this in capturing the silly happiness
of childhood. It's also fun to try to figure out who's making what or
imagining the process behind it.
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June 16th, 2023 - lil soda boi - my life is wonderful / 我的生活很奇妙 (wǒ de shēng huó hěn qí miào)
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Soundcloud rap
Sometimes I miss how in past decades some artists used elaborate packaging and
inconvenient formats to make their music almost interactive art, ranging from
unconventional bonus items or containers to straight up antireleases. Fortunately,
this trend has kinda continued to the internet era, and definitely extends beyond the
internet weirdo music usual suspects - this relatively established soundcloud artist
dropped an EP exclusively in China, presumably requiring fans to fake their settings or
register alt accounts to listen to it and reupload for others. It's strangely processed
and unusual in general, but the post-internet collage beauty of the cover is an adaquate
representation of it's contents. My faith in art still being alive is routinely restored
from angles I never expected.
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June 15th, 2023 - leop4rdi - a process of learning and understanding
Year: 2023
Label: Soul Feeder
Genre: Ambient trance
Remember last week when I said that the happiness + emotionalness = euphoria?
leop4rdi understands this and milks it for all it's worth in a virtuous attempt
at capturing all the beauty of human emotion into ambient dream trance and the result
would be considered chill-out music if it wasn't so intense at a whole different level.
I've never heard of leop4rdi before but this grabbed me by the scruff of my neck
and isn't letting go. A world suffused with light, not always easy but always worthwhile.
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June 14th, 2023 - Francisco López – Untitled #272 [Antarctica Variations]
Year: 2017
Label: Somnimage
Genre: Field recording, sound art
Funny how there's some natural places that do a better job at being
certain kinds of music (HNW, ANW, drone) than most of that genre does,
and where is that better illustrated than in drifting glacial ice masses
and the vibrations from seals, sprawling on for 24 hours (a tiny snippet
of an implied forever) of sparse, frigid sound. If there's anything I would
attribute the term "soundscape" to, it's this. I feel cold.
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June 13th, 2023 - Ben Lunato - i've seen them kissing, out in the hallway
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, classical
Ben Lunato is in my opinion one of the most remarkable visual artists around,
existing entirely within the underground where net art, 3-D rendering, game
design, and digital nightmares merge into a beautiful paranoid soup, and it would
seem the maximalist lunatic world he's built occassionally breaks into calm zones
of blissful lucidity. It's the audio equivalent of a hug from a concerned
friend and the cover photo of someone looking lost in a sunsoaked garden is as
accurate as any.
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June 12th, 2023 - binwydd - bydol
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Welsh folk music, vaporwave
Unlike most novelty vaporwave, this doesn't feel like it's
trying too hard (or trying much at all) - it just is what it is
in a little bubble of simplicity and peace somewhere between rural
hills and an ultra-obscure bandcamp page. The divide between the
cultures that spawned the source material and final product only
adds another layer of hazy, dissociated harmony. According to Discogs
it was recorded at a public location, so it might even be sourced from
a live performance. A soothing sleep on uneven grounds.
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June 11th, 2023 - Proxima64 - Proxima64 Synth Improv Stream
Year: 2023
Label: none
Genre: Retro synthesizer
Not an actual release, just a little bootleg I threw together (or split apart)
after a really cool improv stream. The amount of fun being had recording this is
audible and the usage of genine retro synths (and Proxima64's contagious enthusiasm about
all forms of 80s-90s technology) only builds to it. Half of these tracks could easily
be opening jingles for operating systems that never were and the other half is fitting
for an equally plausible but unreal video training tape or video game level.
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June 10th, 2023 - Eco Futurism Corporation - Ecomodern vol.1
Year: 2015
Label: Eco Futurism Corporation
Genre: Eco Grime
Odd to think that for ever massive internet genre that everyone has heard of,
there's a myriad little ones that never blew up but maintain some form of truly underground existence
in the digital shadow biosphere. Among these is Eco Grime, defined by it's use of nature sounds
within a deconstructed club and weightless grime context, adjacency to new age and utopian virtual styles,
and fascination with idyllic hyperfuturistic green imagery. Eco Futurism spawned the phenomenon,
so is as good a place to begin as any. It's like a glimpse into another world, crystal clear but equally unreal,
both musically and thematically. If you like Blank Banshee, don't miss out.
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June 9th, 2023 - User-177606669 - meow (+ remixes)
Year: 2022
Label: none
Genre: Hyperpop
user-177606669 is a fascinating project. If you remember 7FORM (are they
still active? (edit: yep)), where it's myriad users all with access to
the same page and producing eclectic music with a general internet
ethos, what they did with experimental, user does with hyperpop (although
their genres are utterly all over the place genre-wise.) Since there's over
100 members and they're uploading multiple times daily it's easy for good
stuff like this to get buried in the deluge, but it's absolutely worth diving
into. My faith in the zoomer music scene is restored. Thank you.
meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow
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June 8th, 2023 - Jorge - True Friendship
Year: 2017
Label: BLUE INSTINCT
Genre: Ambient, experimental
Somewhat like emotion x's happy - feelings-laden plunderphonics
internet ambient - but about friends(?) instead of hospital stays.
It does a remarkable job at telling a story without revealing anything,
empty of content but and motion but presenting a stage full of suggestive
silhouettes. The faint glitter of post-nightcore around the edges
doesn't hurt, either. I wish I knew more, but I don't think I ever will.
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THEN EVERYTHING STOPPED AND THE ANGEL SAID
June 7th, MC Boing - Boing BeatYear: 2021
Label: Mad Decent
Genre: Bubblegum bass, jumpstyle
I can safely say that the entirety of hardcore electronic music
has been leading to this single song, which has rendered happy hardcore
and adjacent genres complete. Nothing else I have heard has compressed this
much joy into under 100 seconds, and also I wanna mention that while happy
music can be kinda goofy and not emotional, IMO in order for music to be
truly euphoric it has to be emotional, like it reaches into your heart,
pierces it with a fucking spear, and lifts it straight into highest heaven.
The emotion gets into your soul like a trojan horse before shedding it's bittersweet
skin and releasing pure bliss. This accomplishes that beautifully and
Hannah's vocals sound like a literal angel. CANNOT wait to play this live
and have everyone hate it. Yes, I'm aware I'm gonna be unbelievably sick of it
very soon but for now I am rocking.
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June 6th, 2023 - snow.txt - tha keyboard kittah single!!! :3 & Legendary Passages - The Epitome of Theseus
Year: 2022 & 2015
Label: none
Genre: Plunderphonics + ambient & spoken word
The fun part about these double posts is kinda playing one off of the other,
where they kinda fit together but it isn't immediately obvious how. When
these ended up in my bookmarks somehow something sorta clicked, even
if they couldn't be more different. The idea of simultaneously playing ancient
texts and silly internet plunderphonics is the epitome of this page, anyway.
Eternal archetypes shine through.
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June 5th, 2023 - Sky High - Flower Child & trueteas - live demos 29/07/2020
Year: 2019 & 2020
Label: none
Genre: Garage rock & outsider emo
Yet another daily double of random bandcamp finds, this
time a weirdo garage rock parody that feels utterly lost
in time and clearly recorded directly to tape (dubbed "high
school" and "bad," and an improvisatory emo session from
Russia and recorded on Hi8. The former is a strange mangled
version of teenage rock music, the other is equally outsider
but saturated with sincerity.
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June 4th, 2023 - edwrd - dream fragments
Year: 2020
Label: none
Genre: Ambient, experimental
Ambient meets poetry meets folk in various levels of
harmony and distortion. I'd describe the cover (which I'll
admit drew me in in the first place) as "suburbia worship,"
a phrase I don't think anyone else has used but comes totally
naturally to me as a kind of aesthetic philosophy I can't put
into words otherwise. Point is, if any of it's constituent genres
appeal to you, edwrd won't let you down. A half hour of analog
digital embrace.
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June 3rd, 2023 - Skoddie - Sinebeat Equations & Michael Cherdchupan - traveling through the early tracker drafts
Year: 2018
Label: none
Genre: Glitch & Sequencer and tracker
Two releases for today because why not, one of raw static modulated
into wild rhythmic glitch pieces with equations somehow ("whatcha listening
to?" "oh, just some 48k{(t%511)^(t&t%255)|(t&t%511)|(t&t%1023)|(t|t%2047);}")
and some sweet sequencer melodies from the 90s dredged up from a dusty hard drive.
"summer's draft" feels like soft rave music, it just has to be experienced and
is like 90% likely to bring a smile to your face, or maybe I'm just too easily
pleased by silly computer music. Enjoy either way.
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June 2nd, 2023 - Ariflare - AHO Remixes II
Year: 2016
Label: none
Genre: Breakcore
I don't care if it's 2016, this is pure old skool breakcore vibes,
with heavy hardcore influence but more than enough subtly and melody
to make the balance. There's Renard and NDaD on here, if that isn't
enough to get you into it, I'm out.
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June 1st, 2023 - ghost and tape - Vár
Year: 2017
Label: home normal
Genre: Ambient
As delicate as a blossom and as ephemeral as the first day of spring
after a long winter, caught in a photograph complete with JPEG compression.
Something soft to think back on.
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May 31st, 2023 - Hyper Combo Finish - Hyper Combo Finish
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Pop punk
Thank you for bearing with me, here's some semi-deleted
furry pop punk for your troubles. Not sure if it's just this
or if it comes with pop punk territory, but there's the
definite feeling of false nostalgia, like it brings up a memory
of playing video games with your middle school friends in a
timeline that didn't actually happen.
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May 30th, 2023 - .onion - we belong to him
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Experimental vaporwave
I would describe the atmosphere of this as unwholesome, but that implies a certain
humanity or lack thereof this exists squarely outside of. It reminds me heavily
of a darker deep internet, both feeling like
altered states, digital debris, sketchy websites, and unsecured webcams.
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May 29th, 2023 - Charli XCX - 1999 (Dan Larkin Remix)
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Happy hardcore
It should be illegal for something to go this hard god dammit, I cannot listen
to it without jumping up and quasi-raving like a dumbass. IMO pretty much all pop
has a core of beautiful energy at it's core waiting for a proper remix to take it out
of it's bland commercial context and let it truly flourish like a seed germinating.
I very much like the original 1999, so this is taking a pre-made banger and injecting
it with enough sugar and ectasy to give you visions and cranking the result to 11.
Can't believe I used to hate on pop remixes and / or soundcloud hardcore, I have now
seen the light god bless
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May 28th, 2023 - Uruk-Hai - A Night in the Forest
Year: 2004
Label: Drama
Genre: Fantasy ambient, dungeon synth
Nocturnal, medieval, unreal, nailing every last point of dungeon
synth idealism in a way most of the genre misses. Worlds away and
in ages long forgotten but so close you can almost touch it, just
don't stray far from the fire's glow and ignore the faint music
from the treeline.
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May 27th, 2023 - cyberbitch26 - Ayesha Erotica X Terrorcore
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Terrorcore, mashup
I refuse to listen to Ayesha ever but this looks pretty fire based
on the spectrogram alone. Hopefully someone without my reservations
can more fully enjoy it, product of pop-hardcore soundcloud underground
weirdness that it is.
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May 26th, 2023 - Noise Goes Pop - Noise Goes Pop: Volume 2
Year: 2019
Label: Noise Goes Pop
Genre: Noise, pop
If you've ever wanted to hear top 40s pop twisted into power electronic wailing
and harsh noise, first of all there's definitely something wrong
with you and second of all, someone else has thought of it already
and beautifully brought it fruition. Everything from the Beach Boys
to Britney Spears goes into the noise machine and comes out flaming
and screaming. Recommended for those who adore and despise pop alike.
Also, this is how links will work from here on out since it looks cool
and I enjoy reliving the experience of failing my HTML college class.
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May 25th, 2023 - The Happy Club - The First 2 Demo Tapes
Year: 2020
Label: Stupid Decision
Genre: Indie rock, punk
Not sure if anyone here has listened to Hard Christ but this definitely
reminds me of him, for whatever that means. Catchy emo melodies from
California to light up yr summer if that's what you're into.
Download here.
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May 24th, 2023 - Antique Pony - museum of blood
Year: 2012
Label: None
Genre: Math rock, post-punk
My experience with math rock is minimal so maybe this is par for the course,
but listening to this feels like being in a place I know I shouldn't be and
leaves me feeling unsettled, like being in a rickety old house where the floor
under your feet might fall through into god knows what if you stand in one place
for too long. It's rare music can be both relatively fast and rock-oriented but
still feel dusty and sickly, but this manages the paradox admirably.
Download here.
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May 23rd, 2023 - cattybatty - ⭒✰☞pEepb0cKs☜✰⭒
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune
There's something deeply wholesome about amateur beepbox doodles. I feel
like we all did this, and cattybatty did it better than most.
Not sure how everyone else's 2016-2018 period was (aka when this was recorded)
but I spent it goofing online and pretty happy and this feels just about like that.
Soul healing juice.
Download here.
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May 22nd, 2023 - DJ ChaseChase - Metal Hippie Fuckers and Secret Club - Don't Ride Your Bike on a Research Chemical (Time Travel)
Year: 2021
Label: Vivarium Recordings
Genre: Digital hardcore, sound collage
Alternate soundtrack to listening to footwork on your laptop and playing YTPs off your phone
while high out of your mind in a public place. For once this isn't based off of personal experience
but it still sounds pretty accurate. Big respect for making a 32 minute continuous track that goes
everywhere and keeps momentum as well as this does.
Download here.
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May 21st, 2023 - Public Realm Services - Private Urban 2017 Security Casual Rejection & Evan Lindorff-Ellery - Tape Collage Piece 2011
Year: 2017 & 2023
Label: A⊗B & Falt
Genre: Field recordings & musique concrete tape music sound collage yada yada
I was unsure if either of these deserved their own post, so they get to share.
One is a field recording from one of the first bandcamp pages I ever found and helped
open my eyes to the weirdness internet music could actually entail, the other is a curious
little collection of archival lofi tape debris. Sounds so separated from their source like
mirrors facing mirrors that all context is lost (really, does any of this sound like how it
felt to be there?) and it gets a new kind of intimacy. Neat.
Download here and here.
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May 20th, 2023 - Plastic Neesound - 侵入者
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Internet field recordings
Since 2016, Plastic Neesound has been building a mixed reputation dumping album
after post-nightcore album, some simple speed-ups and some destructive sound
collages or brain-hurting plunderphonics. However, over the years they've become
increasingly comfortable with deviating from the formula and have started dropping
projects unrelated to nightcore entirely, of which this is the most significant
so far, more in line with deep internet found sound than anything that's come before.
Maybe it's less interesting if you haven't been a Neesound observer for years, but
even outside it's context it's a haunting collection of digital scraps and snippets,
all the ephemera of daily life run though computerized compression and forgotten again
and again. It's the equivalent of framing blurry photos taken from stranger's 2011 camera
rolls as an art exhibit, or better yet projecting them onto the wall to disappear moments later.
"Memories of people who the world forgot. I hope they're doing well." I do, too.
Stream here.
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May 19th, 2023 - WAIXING - DONT TRY TO READ INTO IT
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: ???
Rare I find something that totally baffles me but I was going through my 2018
bookmarks and somehow dredged this up. You gotta wonder where the artist is now,
seeing as we haven't heard anything since this bizarre debut demo of outsider something or other.
It's like bedroom pop made my someone who only heard secondhand descriptions of bedroom pop
through a game of telephone and decided to make some.
Download here.
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May 18th, 2023 - Phil Maguire - aural documents #1
Year: 2016
Label: verz
Genre: Field recordings, glitch, sound art
(Sorry I forgot to write a description yesterday, it kinds works with the
album but in reality I just forgot all day) Incidental glitch music, field recordings
from damaged equipment. Sounds like the humming heart of some data field,
Ryoji Ikeda-esque.
Download here.
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May 17th, 2023 - R. - Windows 98 Forever
Year: 2018
Label: The Basement Labs
Genre: Drone, vaporwave
Sometimes paulstretch wankery is all you need, you know?
Download here.
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May 16th, 2023 - nightcore/sped up {} go kitty go!
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Nightcore, eurodance
Some things I don't want to post here but simply sit and gnaw at the
back of my mind like termites on a house until I do something about it
and today is one of those days if it is not immediately apparent. The
2011/2021 connection is clear and time is a flat fucking circle
(Also I found some random bandcamp codes in my room I don't want, not sure
if my friend used them or not but try 7grw-xgwv, ncrd-5nml, and 83ed-b7yr
if you wanna)
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May 15th, 2023 - Windows XP Guy - This Is Why I Was Bullied
Year: 2015 (recorded 2006-2008)
Label: None
Genre: Lofi, outsider
Child with unsupervised computer access has short-lived outsider music
career using found instruments, MIDIs, and the lowest-fi mic money can buy.
I'm drawing a blank on how I found it and no one else seems to have any information
whatsoever. Possibly cursed, this kid is gonna crawl out of the nearest CRT monitor
a week from now and kill me.
Listen here.
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May 14th, 2023 - Пикато - Demo (2013)
Year: 2013
Label: Popsakal
Genre: Russian shit rap
It sounds more like how the cover looks than I can describe. If you've ever
wished to experience being a drunken russian teenager fucking around with your
friends and recording improvised gangsta rap on your Nokia, my friend it is your
lucky day.
Download here.
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May 13th, 2023 - ␍◥☳ ⏨⍳⏨⎹⎹⍲⍝↸⏨♨♸ ☃⑆ - ᧟␢ⓠ¦¦¦¦҂ ⏁⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧⏧ ᧻℆↩№᭩༛©⇪⎾┫D
Year: 2018
Label: Swamp Circle
Genre: Glitch, noise
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May 12th, 2023 - dDJ AngelBoi - ParaDise LOVE MIX
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Nightcore, eurobeat
How TF didn't I post this yet wtf, I thought it would be like one of my first?
Silly internet music at it's finest, just look at that tumblr. I've been thinking
lately about post-irony and all that jazz and realized there's a huge difference
between post-irony and neo-sincerity, which is really just sincerity backed
by self-awareness. There's tons of people who accuse stuff like this, post-nxc,
even vaporwave of being (post)ironic when really it's the most wholehearted
sincere stuff out there, even if it has a little glitter sprinkled on top. The
ouroboros has eaten it's own tail and couldn't be happier. Party on, dudes.
Stream or download here.
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May 11th, 2023 - BRUCE FALKIAN - IDL
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Electronic
Imagine making one of the best PC music remixes I've ever heard and
uploading it with this shitpost as cover art, I almost didn't listen to it. Genuinely
incredible work from a literal who, the multiple pop song sample-interpolations
against the blank slate of IDL is just art.
Stream here.
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May 10th, 2023 - Slough - DOUGHPAMINE
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Pop
I won't share too much as to avoid looking like a weirdo but
I'd highly suggest checking out doughy daniels (or at least
the parts of his online identity that haven't been long-deleted.
Seems to be a combination of creative genius, performance art, and
mental episodes but I don't want to seem like a gawking onlooker, the
guy is genuinely one of my favorite virtual presences and I wish him only the best.
This EP dropped a year before his rise to quasi-fame and when I spent
months looking for it I expected outsider music or rap, not back-to-back
bangers of self-described "sci-fi pop." Legendary in a better timeline.
Stream here.
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May 9th, 2023 - iku - Let's Bae! (Five Year Anniversary Edition)
Year: 2020
Label: Lostfrog
Genre: Picopop, happy hardcore
If yesterday's sugar dose didn't leave you with a stomachache or hangover,
this one can ensure that fate, in addition to vomiting rainbows and the like.
Seriously, there is little more contagiously energetic than Hey Cutie,
I heard it on my phone, dropped what I was going, and did laps around campus
until it ended then collapsed on the stairs. I'm glad school's out soon so this
page can stop being a log of dumb shit I've done in public under the influence
of music like this.
Download here.
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May 8th, 2023 - cutiecore - hi cutie!
Year: 2018
Label: Pedicure Records
Genre: Nightcore
I've definitely mentioned it before, but I have an undying love for the
weird NXC scene. Connected soundcloud accounts, nightcore uploads, high levels
of friendship and camaraderie, stock photos and other highly aestheticised visuals,
thrived between like 2015-2017 but definitely is still around to some degree
thanks in no small part to Pedicure Records <3 <3 ANYWAY this brings us to cutiecore,
one of the best releases from the scene, guaranteed to take your summer experience to
thee Next Fuckin Level. Banger after banger, probably straight outta ytmp3.cc and Audacity.
Gotta love it.
Download here.
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May 7th, 2023 - Akiroinochi - Secrets
Year: 2013
Label: None
Genre: Electronic
Cutesy electronics, some breaks, some chiptune, some
assorted -core influences without going over the edge.
If lolicore isn't your speed but you're open to some of
that energy, this might be for you.
Download here.
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May 6th, 2023 - BROKEN_CANYON - Sleep Drone 2
Year: 2017
Label: &TIME
Genre: Drone
There's just something about impeccable stock photos on white
backgrounds, immaculate and eternal drones, clean computer data and
digital ephemera. A sense of sterility and inhumanity but not in a cold
and soulless way contrary to the real world, but in a way that makes peace
with it. Clinical grade tranquility and post-internet new age meditations.
Every passing day takes me closer to 21st century nirvana.
Download here.
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May 5th, 2023 - Tony Scott, Shinichi Yuize, & Hozan Yamamoto - Music for Zen Meditation and Other Joys
Year: 1965
Label: Verve
Genre: New age
Not totally sure how much this is 60s record exoticism and how much actual
traditional music, probably a healthy dose of each. Regardless of how much
it mirrors actual Zen it's one of the earliest New Age releases ever, and is
very much in the spirit of new age as a whole - the musical and philosophical
elements are taken out of their original context and kind of rearranged, but
the spirit is there and as long as you're getting something out of it. We
all have our path to follow, no one way.
Listen here.
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May 4th, 2023 - plastic rock - tennis
Year: 2019
Label: FOTOSHOPPE CO.
Genre: Vaporwave
Materialized, drops 9 minutes of vaporwave fire, deletes their original bandcamp,
never shows their face again. Legend. I wish I could wander around SketchUp suburbia
with some VR goggles to this and bask in the png sun.
Download here.
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May 3rd, 2023 - Unicode Dreamer - Hope EP
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Between tiku sens, Tsubaki Yeah!, and this, 2018 was a hella year for
chiptune-ish lolicore-adjacent wholesome ambient. If this is up your alley,
listen to Jelly Apricot, and the other way around too, then go outside,
turn your face to the sky, and let your sins wash away in the sunlight.
Download here.
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May 2nd, 2023 - Online Dreams - Punk Rock!
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune, bedroom pop, LSDJ
![Online Dreams - Punk Rock!](src="https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2774570890_10.jpg")
Emo chiptune meets attempted indie and punk rock with bedroom pop production
and a heavily JPEGed AI-generated Garfield staring at you from the bandcamp banner.
DIY outsider hand-drawn psychedelia will never not be the coolest thing and this is no exception,
I feel like I'm listening to some weird local band or demos stolen from someone's phone.
Download here.
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May 1st, 2023 - be lost - snow forgotten
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Snow days as a kid and memories stored on old reel to reels, shadows
watching from under frosted trees. All the things you thought you could
see out of the corner of your eyes watching like angels. Forgotten imaginary
friends in some eternal limbo somewhere. The song has ended but an echo will
forever remain.
Download here.
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April 30th, 2023 - slow-blink & purring - in the clouds
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Cats blink slowly to show trust and comfort and is probably the closest
thing to an "I love you" you're going to get from them, and this is the closest
thing to a slow-blink you can get across the world wide web. If you haven't installed
a program to listen to mp3s at varying speeds (not sure if that exists for non-Winamp, idk)
do so now and check this out at various slower speeds as it goes along until by the end
it's crawling by at a sleepy pace and it feels like you're sitting on the Windows XP
hillside watching the sky.
Download here.
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April 29th, 2023 - Silent Snow - Down With This Sort Of Thing
Year: 2008
Label: Love Torture Records
Genre: Breakcore, dubstep, DnB
Homemade electronica circa 2k8 straight outta (probably)
suburban bedroom in a plethora of styles from dubstep and breakcore
to "piano, cello, and drums," "fuck'd," and "chaarrlt". Not convinced
this isn't an alien with minimal understanding of human culture
doing it's best to infiltrate a netlabel.
Download here.
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April 28th, 2023 - Robad Pills - Put Down That Clove And Get A Fucking Life (The Goth EP)
Year: 2004
Label: SickMode
Genre: Breakcore
Cheers I'll drink to that 2006 absolutely nonsense bro
Self-described post-jungle, true old skool netlabel shit
(the fact that SickMode is STILL kicking is beyond inspiring too)
Download here.
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April 27th, 2023 - Chris Mercer - Animal Communication Works
Year: 2020
Label: Sideband
Genre: Modern classical, tape music, nature recordings, electroacoustic
Amidst a sea of allegedly experimental music that retreads the same grounds
as ever, some lights brightly shine with ideas I never would've thought of in ages.
Lots of human-animal music uses animal sounds in a human musical context, like
Jingle Cats or Hatebeak, but this goes in the polar opposite direction.
If you're interested in more human-animal duet music, try this on for size.
Listen or purchase here.
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April 26th, 2023 - Quentin Leonetti - live 2020
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
Dissociative new age, compression odes to frozen nature, drowsy fog banks
enveloping you whole and taking you home. Unsettled enough to prevent dreams
but too fragile and free to be anything but. Hypnagogic visions of ghostly
forest battles and dusty mythological fragments. The house settling around
you is deafening in the storm. The sky is perfectly clear.
Download here.
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April 25th, 2023 - Tiny Music – Epitaph
Year: 2011
Label: Notice Recordings
Genre: Free improvisation, folk
Aimless exploration; the description compares it to wandering through a house
which is a better description than I would've been able to provide. Old,
dusty, coming to pieces if you handle it without utmost care. Whispers of a radio
tuned to nothing.
Listen here.
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April 24th, 2023 - 🝰 - pictochat love letters
Year: 2023
Label: Net Positive Records
Genre: Ambient
Absolutely healing, audio medicine. I've been looking for this EXACT
album for ages and now it's like something clicked into place as
a single cherry petal blows by on the wind. Hell, making
this has been my creative goal for years now and someone beat me to it,
god bless em. We went though years of hexdbient and post-vaporwave weirdness
to get to get here and I'm so happy.
we'll meet again soon
under the light of sunset
or the glow of your computer screen
or the sleepless ambiance of the city
i will be wherever you are whenever you need me
fear not
:heart:
Download here.
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April 23rd, 2023 - The Ballad of Holland Island House
Year: 2015
Label: None
Genre: Folk and/or short film
Saw this with a bunch of other short films when it came out and it never
fully left me. Not sure if I'm posting it for the sake of the song or the
footage but both the former is haunting and the latter is even more creative.
Watch here.
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April 22nd, 2023 - Bitter Sweet Departures - Controversial
Year: 2013
Label: None
Genre: Electropop
Forgotten electronic scene-as-all-hell pop punk featuring autotune overuse,
MIDIs, and all the songwriting you'd expect from a project like this. The cover
literally has rainbow hair, should tell you everything you need (I say that with
love of course,) if a personal little time capsule of brightly colored emoish dance tunez
sounds up your alley give it a go.
Download here.
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April 21st, 2023 - Various Artists - 23 Seconds ov Time Volume 11 : "One Channel / All Frequencies"
Year: 2015
Label: Autonomous Individuals Network
Genre: Yeah
Noise, experimental, field recordings, you know the drill for these kind of underground
net comps. In addition to being time-themed which always leads to interesting results,
the entire site is a fascinating browse if the paranormal or occult are of interest.
Download here.
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April 20th, 2023 - Gandalf The Grey – The Grey Wizard Am I
Year: 1972
Label: None
Genre: Psychedelic folk rock
This one's been lurking in my bookmarks for years and has finally come out
of hiding. Apparently recorded by a one-man band in his bedroom (with his ceiling
painting of Middle-Earth residing in another part of the apartment) and
released privately, I'd say the Grey Wizard more than accomplished his vision
despite (perhaps because of) it's homemade nature. I grew up surrounded by fantasy
realms and cannot really describe how this makes me feel.
Listen here.
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April 19th, 2023 - FATAL ERA – 2052 @ コンピュータ思い出
Year: 2017
Label: Cyber Dream Records
Genre: Vaporwave, nightcore, modern classical
Nocturnal nightcore jams for abstract storytelling and nights lost in
cyberdelic euphoria. No nonsense, just remarbably sweet and simple
songs that cut straight to the heart in a way I'm at a lack to describe.
It's absolutely not melancholy, it's like listening to vaporwave for the first time.
Maybe I'm just overhyping it. You decide.
Listen / buy here.
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April 18th, 2023 - The Detroit Spinners - Spaceballs
Year: 1987
Label: Atlantic
Genre: Soundtrack, dance pop according to RYM
I'm pretty sure I saw this movie before I saw actual Star Wars and probably
know it better and now it's your problem. The fact that I only know of one
person (plus myself) to sample ludicrous speed in a speedcore / extratone track is unforgivable.
Listen here.
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April 17th, 2023 - 坂本龍一 [Ryuichi Sakamoto] – 子猫物語 ~The Adventures Of Chatran~
Year: 1986
Label: MIDI
Genre: Soundtrack, synthpop
I clicked for the cat. It's a very good cat. I did not regret it and I learned about
a cool movie you can also watch here. I love the internet sometimes.
Listen here.
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April 16th, 2023 - Sascha Müller – Locutus
Year: 2010
Label: 4m@-records
Genre: Techno
I do believe this is the lowest quality music video I've
ever seen by a long shot, it's practically a slideshow, which
makes sense considering it's original release on floppy disk.
For an ant-sized song, it's surprisingly sick though; based on
the 3 or so examples I've found so far, electronic music and TNG
samples go together excellently and this continues the trend.
Download or watch here.
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April 15th, 2023 - Grab bag day #2. live noise!!!
Another compilation of stuff I had saved and can't think of enough to say to justify
their own posts, this time focusing on noise / noisy performances. Max volume and / or fuck off!!
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April 14th, 2023 - DJ Circadian Rhythm - Day/Nite Cycle (Relaxing VGM Mix)
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Video game music, BGM, ambient
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
...
(you are now well rested!)
Listen here.
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April 13th, 2023 - 義民路二段380巷57弄,Xinpu Township - Near the tunnel
Year: 2017
Label: radio aporee
Genre: Field recordings
Really posting this to get more eyes on the radio aporee project.
The idea of being able to take a virtual trip to anywhere on earth
and hear it's unique audio fingerprint is mindblowing and unthinkable
anytime before the last decade or so. Just imagine if this kind of thing
was integrated into google maps.
Download here.
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April 12th, 2023 - Various Artists - International Email Audio Art Project, Volume 1
Year: 2010
Label: HalTapes
Genre: Noise, avant garde, experimental
It's a 2k10 era netlabel noise comp, you know the drill by this point.
As much as they are dime a dozen, they still have so much personality
that one more can never hurt. There's such a sense of sky's-the-limit
do-whatever-the-fuck-I-want attitude that isn't super conducive to great
music but does faillessly lead to a fun experience.
Download here.
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April 11th, 2023 - Part E-Fowl - GABBER KICK とても楽しい PARTY GRIND ハイープになれ GET HYPE
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Cybergrind, spazzpop
I'm reminded of Machine Girl, Bubblegum Octopus, and EchoDDT and that's all in
the first track. "Party grind" is as good a descriptor as any, positive hardcore
digital blastbeats and chiptune scream duets fit for a totally out of this world rave.
Download here.
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April 10th, 2023 - DJ Windows XP - Sometimes I Feel Happy, Sometimes Sad
Year: 2017
Label: Who's Susan
Genre: House
This page has a serious house deficiency. Has there been a single house
post in the 2 years (dear god) of running it? I've never listened to house
in my life but it seems like a glaring flaw so here's DJ Windows XP to
remedy that. Five tracks of funky lofi house with an oldschool sound and
the occassional windows sound effect to live up to the name. What more could you want?
Download here.
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April 9th, 2023 - Grab bag
I spent no fewer than 6 hours a day for the last
several days sifting through four years of bookmarks.
Must've been like 7000 in there. It was nightmarish but I
did find some stuff I'll just throw in here out of confusion
as to what else to do with it. Enjoy?
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April 8th, 2023 - (T-T)b - Pizza Planet
Year: 2015
Label: Pterodactyl Squad
Genre: Chiptune, bitpop
Emoticon alias? Check. Summery uplifting chiptunes? Check.
All systems go. You can launch a rocket powered exclusively
by glitter and sparkles on this thing.
Download here
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April 7th, 2023 - デッド お尻 リーン - Youtube 2007-2014
Year: 2019
Label: FOTOSHOPPE CO.
Genre: Vaporwave
Sometimes meme-y looking a e s t h e t i c bullshit
spits out something miraculous, and while I'm not
yet convinced this is one of those times, it's
genuinely pretty sick. Called up memories of when I
found jumpscape videos and other nonsense at the age
of 8, channelsurfind the mid-decade limbo away.
Download here
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April 6th, 2023 - Jazzy Ryuuji & Friends - Let's Rick Roll Again
Year: 2020
Label: Seikomart
Genre: Future funk, vaporwave
It had to happen sooner or later. The fact that we got
to 2020 before an entirely Ricked-out vapor album emerged
is more perplexing than anything. Knowing this is out there
is almost a relief, like I checked something off my to-do list.
Download here
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April 5th, 2023 - Red Slime Revolution - Red Slime Revolution
Year: 2012
Label: None
Genre: Chiptune
Of Hello Kitty Suicide Club infamy comes a surprisingly
competent and cool project of Gameboy-esque chiptune. 00s
net electronic vibes throughout, and the silliness of their
HKSC cybergrind madness shows through just as much as their
genuine skill.
Download here
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April 4th, 2023 - Gunk TV, James Ferraro, Raw Thrills, Greatest Hits, Outer Limits Recordings, Ariel Pink – GunkTV Volume 1
Year: 2010
Label: Gunk TV Records
Genre: ????
100% pure tape warbling generation lossy gunk home videos,
trash TV spiritualized to the point of abstraction, collaged
from countless hours spent surfing the airwaves - let's rock.
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April 3rd, 2023 - Back to the Future the Ride - Back to Back to the Future the Ride
Year: 2010
Label: Deathbomb Arc.
Genre: Outsider ambient
The sounds of a lost soul lingering alone in delirious blurred
childhood memories of blacklight neon arcades, 80s skate rinks,
and obsolete theme rides. The light's on but no one's home.
Download here
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April 3rd, 2023 - Bhalos - Aquix: The Texture of Water
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: VGM
Water level purgatory drifting
Low-poly meditations
Digital shrine fountains
Listen here
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April 2nd, 2023 - monker178 - WHOLE NEW (D&S) [MONKER178_SPLINTER]
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Jersey club
The 30-second sample this uses has been central to my musical world for a long time.
It's the audio equivalent of falling helplessly in love and reminds me of so much every
time I hear it, but since the original track quickly breaks into bassy electronics the
euphoria is interrupted, but no longer with this remix of a remix. I don't ever want to
go home.
Listen here
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April 1st, 2023 - Frutiger Aero
I'll the the opprotunity to use april fools day to post an abstract concept instead
of a musical artifact. I've been surrounded and fascinated by this aesthetic style
my entire life and didn't know it's name until now and it was like a puzzle piece
clicked into piece somewhere in my soul. (Also this works extremely well with
yesterday's cover.)
Read more here
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March 31st, 2023 - Various - Arecibo Chronicles Vol.1
Year: 2011
Label: Sangoma Records
Genre: Psytrance
This label seems to be heavy on the psychedelic side of psytrance
and just look at that glorious photoshop abomination. Another electronic
artifact buried in the sands of time.
Listen or buy here
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March 30th, 2023 - Furcadia OST
Year: 1996
Label: Dragon's Eye Productions
Genre: MIDI, soundtrack
Why didn't ant of you guys tell me about Furcadia?? The aesthetics
are everything I could have possibly wanted out of furry art
the fantasy theme is impeccable, like half the visuals look
new-agey, and the OST is classic. Disappointed I didn't find it
sooner but better late than never, you're all welcome to join in.
Listen here, download here
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March 29th, 2023 - Lorri Alison - 黒い心 black heart
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Radio broadcast recordings, sound collage
Conet project, eat your heart out. If anything like this went
through the number station frequencies we'd be flinging nukes in minutes.
Listen or buy here.
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March 28th, 2023 - Various - Call Me Maybe
Year: 2012
Label: Mabson Enterprises
Genre: Calling you, maybe
To be honest I'm posting this for the Dan Deacon remix. Unironic
plunderphonics brilliance, excellent as noise and pop and whatever
the fuck else he was going for. Just look at that tiny bandcamp cover,
2k12 seal of authenticity right there. A product of it's time that aged
badly in a good way, like a contaminated wine that became hallucinogenic.
Download here.
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March 27th, 2023 - A. G. Cook - Beautiful(XVNNiBOii Remix)
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Happy hardcore, hands up, nightcore
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(* ˘⌣˘)◞[♪]♥[♬]ヽ(•‿• )(*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ
]♥[]♥[♪♪♪♪₊‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚
ᕱ⑅ᕱ ♡‧₊˚ ☁️𓂃 ࣪☾.∧,,,∧ ( ̳• · • ̳)
づ♡𐐪𐑂𐐪𐑂./づ~🍨˃̵ᴗ˂̵
𓆩♡𓆪
(sooo much I could post but I don't want to overwhelm the page with pc stuff
but also listen to this mix pleaaaase it made my week)
Listen here.
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March 26th, 2023 - Bakery Story Soundtrack
Year: 2010
Label: Storm8
Genre: Soundtrack
My friend used to be obsessed with this game and when I went over
to his house he'd play it for hours and the one minute looping soundtrack
is engraved into my ear bones to this day. Found it again in a little fit
of nostalgia and thought I'd bother this page with it, nice little BGM
selection that it is.
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March 25th, 2023 - esc 不在 - midi dungeon
Year: 2011
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave, new age
Absolutely immaculate energies from a semi-buried early vapor classic.
Vektroid gives the magic touch to new age samples and the result
takes you straight to a world of empty offices overgrown by nature
and haunted overtones overlaying spiritual peace achieved through
personal computing.
Listen here.
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March 24th, 2023 - Arecibo – Trans Plutonian Transmissions
Year: 1994
Label: Atmosphere
Genre: Ambient
Somewhere between a drugged-out dancefloor sequence and a half-scrambled
signal from the stars, featuring some of the best titles I've ever heard
and I will not make an out-of-this-world or stellar pun, dammit.
Apparently the lighter, space-oriented side of the usually darker-themed
Lustmord, so it's always interesting to see artists put their talents to
different use.
Listen here.
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March 23th, 2023 - ☝︎ nxc muzak ☟
Year: 2015-2016
Label: MAV Records
Genre: NxCmuzak (Elevator music, nightcore)
You have reached the top floor of internet music. Please get off, and
remember to watch your step.
Download collected discographyhere.
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March 22nd, 2023 - Pan American - Quiet City
Year: 2004
Label: kranky
Genre: Ambient, post-rock
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March 21st, 2023 - Lipgloss Twins - Doodle
Year: 2016
Label: PC Music
Genre: Bubblegum bass
Jesus fucking christ I listened to this song ONCE, immediately copied it to my phone,
and listened to it on loop while prancing around my college campus for an hour
in a state of amorphous optimism and saw lisa frank esque furry art when I closed my eyes.
I befriended someone named Pat or something by cleaning up the sticks and trash around campus
then rushed home so I could keep listening to it and haven't stopped. It's like IDM brony music
and since I'm not a brony I don't have any immunity to this so it cuts clear through my psychic immune
system and takes over. I'm lucky I don't have any responsibilites today because I'm pretty much debilitated.
Send medical help
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March 20th, 2023 - Conlon Nancarrow
To make a complex story short, Conlon Nancarrow was a composer active from the 40s
through the 90s who used mechanical player pianos to their full potential by writing
inhumanly complex pieces that no person could play if they tried, exploring advanced
music theory shit I'm too dumb to even pretend to understand but the wikipedia looks
more like a mathematical thesis than anything. Some of them use irrational and extreme
tempos like √2/2 and 1683/4, to give you a taste. One of very few artist I know who
truly deserves the term experimental, he's basically a mad scientist who pioneered black
MIDI in the 60s. Absolutely wild and probably even more so if you know anything about music,
the best I can do is stare in confused awe like a kid reading a theoretical physics textbook.
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March 19th, 2023 - Kiya Lina - My Waffle and Me
Year: 2013
Label: None
Genre: Dancefloor DnB, nightcore
F U C K I N G
C L A S S I C
I can only hope my shitty remix of this got a little more attention to the original
Listen here.
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March 18th, 2023 - The Weather Channel - Weatherscan Music
Year: 2011 (recorded 2006)
Label: None
Genre: Easy Listening
Your current local conditions: cruising around on a bright summer's day
in the background of stock photo suburbia... Ephemera forever 🤘
Download here.
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March 17th, 2023 - a l e x - Sleep Next to Me
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Lofi hip hop
Anyone else had a mid-late 2010s lofi hip hop phase? I went through
countless beattapes day in day out but this is one that stuck with me
even as a single track in a genre full of soundalikes. Definitely in the
top 10 tracks in the genre and even if lofi isn't your thing, there's definitely
appeal for fans of bedroom pop and home recordings.
Listen here.
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March 16th, 2023 - John Hinckley - I Was Down and Out
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Folk, singer-songwriter
There's a couple ways I could approach this but if you aren't
familiar with the legend himself yet, it's a story definitely worth hearing.
Honestly, I'm just proud of the guy for recoving from about the worst
life choice you could possibly make, pursuing his dreams, and creating some
sincerely good art in the process. I'm wishing him the best,
Listen here.
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March 15th, 2023 - Mr Worf - Klingcore
Year: 2009
Label: None
Genre: Breakcore
Pure old skool breakcore, little on the way of melody and lots on the side
of intricate chopping, hardcore elements, and creative sampling. You can
just hear how much fun the guy had making it and it all shines clear through.
Not sure how essential or not it is to be a trekkie to have as good a time
with it as I did but if you are, don't fuckin miss!!
Listen or buy here.
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March 14th, 2023 - DJ Goodbye Babylon - 11:56 "DENISE RICHARDS" MIX
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Vapor, hardcore, jungle, lobit, ???
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❌❌❌Injustice will fallVA9ORWAVE2014 (29 streams lol, we're hitting
the bottom of soundcloud (THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THRU))
Listen here.
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March 13th, 2023 - ADHD NFL BLITZ - ADHD 10
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave, broken transmission
I found this shortly after it releases and it haunted me for years
until I heard the opening sample again when randomly searching and
felt something click into place what was dislodged for so long that
I forgot it was there. I can't guarantee your reaction will be similar
but I just had to get it out there.
Download here.
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March 12th, 2023 - Afrika Pseudobruitismus - Are You Experienced Sonic Afrika?
Year: 2012
Label: None
Genre: Hypnagogic pop
Please, please delve into this person's online presence. Start
with the bandcamp, then the blogspot. It is a worthwhile way to spend
your morning and expand your consciousness into realms it wasn't designed for.
It's like I'm locked in a room with only a TV playing the X-Files copied
between five VHS tapes and a stack of 90s National Geographic magazines
and am given an injection of LSD every time I should be sleeping
Download here.
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March 11th, 2023 - Positronic Brain - Set Phasers to Thrash
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Thrash metal
Thrash metal isn't my usual ball of wax but the odd periphery of
nerd rock is always interesting terrority to explore. There's probably
like 10 people out there whose interests fit with this perfectly,
with unrealistic luck one of this will find this.
Listen here.
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March 10th, 2023 - Sierra Sounds
Year: 1972
Genre: Esoteric field recordings
On October 21, 1972, deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, journalist
Al Berry and outdoorsman Ron Morehead recorded what they claim are the
sounds of multiple bigfoot communicating verbally with each other and
the two men. I can't quite do the story justice, reality or fiction, but
I hope this is enough to get you interested and researching on your own,
it's wild, not to mention utterly game-changing if there's truth to it.
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March 9th, 2023 - COMPUTER ANGEL - MobileMe.com
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Vaporwave, lobit
In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm living in the vaporealm
RN so you're all coming with me. This is the fourth or fifth Eir
post in the history of this page but it's been like 18 months so I
don't care (I'm allowed one eirpost per 60 days) ANYWAY weather
channel surfing AM radio vibes, immaculate immaculate immaculate
I had it on loop all morning just radiating chill and my glitchy
mess of a computer didn't seize up for once, thank you computer angel <3
Download here.
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March 8th, 2023 - 100mi - songsevery1hasheardb4
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: Nightcore, mashup
fuck it random rym find time goodnight nyall
Listen here.
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March 7th, 2023 - Little Mac Tonight - Breakfast Tomorrow
Year: 2015
Label: DMT Tapes FL
Genre: Vaporwave
Yes, it's utter Late Night Delight worship, but it does it so well that I daresay
it outdoes the source material. At worst it's good, at best (which is like 80% of it)
it's god-tier smooth jamz for cruising in summer nights and feeling casually
on top of the world, one hand on the wheel and the other around a styrofoam cup of Crystal Pepsi.
Download here.
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March 6th, 2023 - V@LeRiC - 50C14L (M3D14) L1F3
Year: 2018
Label: Pedicure Records
Genre: Bubblegum bass?
We live in a post-PC Music world and it's time we start acting like it
by making more wonky bubblegum bass with blurred parody and sincerity
and copious social media namedropping. More vocals, more extreme, more
more more extreme vocals
Listen & download here.
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March 5th, 2023 - stardrifter - interstellar travel
Year: 2017
Label: FANTASY☆DELUXE
Genre: Vaporwave
Hold music for the Voyager transmissions, early 3D renderings of
flight paths and gravity wells, grainy VHS documentaries on the
mysteries of deep space, a dusty Carl Sagan book.
Download here.
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March 4th, 2023 - Vatican Shadow - Pakistan Military Academy
Year: 2011
Label: Hospital
Genre: Industrial, ambient techno
"...a figure wearing black, hat turned backward, ammo vest bulging, and standing with arms
outstretched [...] crucifed, and ready for revenge..." "Music for assassins
on the world-scale board game upon which it isn't clear who is winning or what
side you are on."
Listen here.
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March 3rd, 2023 - [Chris Dimaculanga] DEATH GRIPS X SOPHIE - SO HARD
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Mashup
Death Grips mashups have long been oversaturated meme territory but this is one of
the best out there, complete with disturbing high quality editing on par with an actual
music video. Sometimes I want to watch this but have to stop myself because it's sickeningly
sweet but kind of fucked energy will cling onto my brain all day. Good stuff.
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March 2nd, 2023 - SOMALIA - MURUGO LEH MUDUG
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Ambient, field recordings, deathdream
My search through old pages turned up empty handed but I'm not totally convinced
I haven't posted this already since it is the greatest ambient track of all time.
Nothing hits home like it. Cyberpunk music is rendered obsolete. Even if that's
just my opinion, safe to say it rocks and I *cannot* believe it's buried on some
random Dream Catalogue adjacent bandcamp when it probably belongs with the Disintegration
Loops and Birth of a New Day.
Download here.
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March 1st, 2023 - The Almighty Cloud - Sustainable Future Village
Year: 2015
Label: Cardboard Future
Genre: Metrosong
Trust, innovation, sustainability, efficiency, productivity,
inclusion, unity, community, synergy, balance, fulfillment,
commitment to a common goal. Welcome to the future.
Download here.
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February 28th, 2023 - eSerenity™ - Zen Garden
Year: 2020
Label: Natural Virtue
Genre: Ambient, metrosong
Your desktop is organized. Your mind is clear.
Your world is clean. Your heart is pure. Your work is
turned in weeks before the due date and the pay raise
is on it's way. You come home to a quiet house.
Download here.
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February 27th, 2023 - r o s e˙t i n t - the rose˙tape
Year: 2016
Label: None
Genre: Lofi hip-hop
Tempted to call this lofi glitch-hop, since it combines the
[IDK if I ever wrote the rest of this review since it's
gone now that I'm scrolling back and I'm too lazy to rewrite it,
TLDR wonky glichy beat tape without losing the chillhop heart and ethos]
Download here.
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February 26th, 2023 - Cult Of Terrorism - Songs for William Basinski
Year: 2014
Label: MAV Records
Genre: Ambient, glitch
Please, hug me when the world ends.
Download here.
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February 25th, 2023 - EchoDDT - Ultra Zone Skate Plex
Year: 2020
Label: V I R T U A 94 Records
Genre: Synthpop, bedroom pop, emo, vaporwave
Truth be told I'm still listening to and processing this one but I can
tell you it's something special. One of those musical artifacts that have
been cooking in the collective subconscious for years, just waiting to be
brought to life. Though the concept itself is cool, it's more than that
it goes hard as hell. Forget crying in the club, find me sobbing in the skate
rink going 40 MPH.
Download here.
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February 24th, 2023 - Trent Sinclaire - BAMBINO MASSIVE
Year: 2016
Label: Raddons Records
Genre: Mashcore
Bit of a rough day on planet okosan here, so might as well bring it up with some old-skool
(2016 but fuck u know what I mean) feel-good mashcore! Lapfox & Shoebill fans, don't miss out,
this ranks among the best tunes out there if you're looking for uplifting vibes, distorted pop
samples, and breakbeats with happy faces and dog ears drawn on them.
Listen here, download here.
February 23rd, 2023 - (oTo)
Year: 2001-2003
Genre: Experimental, noise, ambient, noise rock, psychedelia, field recordings,
lofi, techno, free improv
Big archive of early 00s DIY tape weirdness, complete with very entertaining descriptions
and riddled through with conduits to lofi pocket universes of melted sound
and clouds of space dust.
Explore here
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February 22nd, 2023 - noisetripper - noisetripper mutilation
Year: 2022
Label: None (possibly NERDKORE?)
Genre: Mashcore
The cover speaks volumes. This is dance-rave-mash-break-speedcoretone
up to par with the best of the genre, would fit in perfectly with (if
not improve on) the Dance Corps / Annoying Ringtone era. Up and coming
breakbeat dumbass legend here, calling it now.
Download here.
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February 21st, 2023 - Various - beyond locked doors [ambient mix]
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
The imagery here is ExACTLY what I've been searching for for years
and fills a piece of my soul I didn't even know was there, and that's not
even getting into the sound. Internet ambient, deep internet, and Insecam
fans, please give it a go.
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February 19th, 2022 - Miki Yui - Small Sounds
Year: 1999
Label: BMBLAB
Genre: Lowercase, microsound, field recordings
Small fragile sounds, whispers from all over, not all pretty but not all
intended for human ears either. Like wandering through a beautiful place usually
packed, all alone.
Listen or buy here.
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February 18th, 2022 - wet sock society - goodnight sleepy cat
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Lofi, acoustic
dreamy amateur acoustic lofi indie bedroom pop with a blurry cover, you know the drill
but it's still somehow sweet and special and warm and fuzzy and it's not even two minutes
goodnight sleepy head
Download here.
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February 17th, 2022 - Otomo Yoshihide - The Night Before the Death of the Sampling Virus
Year: 1992
Label: Extreme
Genre: Sound collage, spoken word, noise, tape & turntablism
I heard someone call this "proto-spamwave" and that about hits the nail on the head.
Visionary sample mashing collapsing structures covered in graffiti broken transmission
beating your enemies with a rusty radio antenna bad trip digital fractals on microwaved VHS
you found in the dumpster, can't fuckin believe it's from 1992 this could've been released
today and still would've broken ground
Listen here (or for full experience, seek your soul and listen on shuffle)
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February 16th, 2022 - Stèv - Windmills EP
Year: 2011
Label: Mahorka
Genre: Electro-acoustic (trip hop, dubstep, IDM)
Acoustic instruments, electronic beats and accompaniments,
warm vibes throughout. I even swear there's a music box in
there, definitely some magic lurking under the surface.
Download here.
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February 15th, 2022 - Evan Valentine - Fish Food EP
Year: 2005
Label: Lifeform Project
Genre: IDM
Slightly wonky IDM tunes that make me feel like a koi living a simple
life in a pond somewhere. Some influence fading in from breaks, ambient, folk?
Sleeping under the shade of a waterlily without a name or past or future.
Download here.
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February 14th, 2022 - Glenn Jones - The Wanting
Year: 2011
Label: Thrill Jockey
Genre: American primitivism
Listen here.
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February 13th, 2022 - railpressureflip - Breaking Ties
Year: 2010
Label: None
Genre: Classical?
An buried gem in the sea of early youtube, covered in 360p digital dust but
plucking at the heartstrings just the same. Between the forgotten upload,
dark room, and song itself it's as powerful a rendition as the original.
Love undying and linkrot angel wings.
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February 12th, 2022 - Cat Chamber - Demo
Year: 2006
Label: None
Genre: Childrens music, spoken word, folk, minimal synth
Lo-fi folk with lyrics provided by a 6 year old and her dad on guitar.
This feels less DIY and more homemade, like a scarf or a cookie or a scrapbook.
It's been 17 years, I wonder where they're at now.
Listen here.
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February 11th, 2022 - ベリキャンディ - Locus-1
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Mallsoft, hexd
This isn't the greatest exploration of the concept but it's absolutely
enjoyable for what it is and opens up possibilities I'm not sure we're
ready for yet. Mallsoft and hexd have been running pretty much parallel
courses (internet-based trendy scenes based on burying "normal" music
in an obscuring haze) and bringing them together clicks like puzzle pieces.
I just hope it doesn't end here.
Download here.
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February 10th, 2022 - Twotimer - Knowledge is Power
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Plugg, cloud rap
This stupid album ruined my day because I couldn't stop thinking about it
and now I feel the need to inflict it on all of you. I'm not a soundcloud
scene expert so this might be terribly wrong but I'm pretty sure that since
Haunted Mound blew up it swung open the door for artists exploring highly
aestheticised, borderline ridiculous themes and characters, which is exactly
where Twotimer comes in. On one hand the visuals click with me to a disturbing
degree, on the other hand, musically speaking we're speeding into a strange future
at twice the speed limit with our eyes closed.
Listen here.
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February 9th, 2022 - Γιάννης Μαρκόπουλος [Yannis Markopoulos] - "Ο Στρατής Θαλασσινός ανάμεσα στους αγάπανθους" και άλλα τραγούδια
Year: 1973
Label: Columbia
Genre: Greek Folk Music
man idfk at this point i've been meaning to listen to this for like 3 years now and
finally got to it, didn't let down. i know nothing about the genre so
my descriptions would fail inherently but the fact that there's god only knows
how many local obscure records like this we'll never hear is staggering. i'm
just glad we got this one and that I live in an era where I can turn on my magic
internet box and listen to greek folk music whenever i feel like it
Listen here.
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February 8th, 2022 - mustie=DC - Precious Step
Year: 2017
Label: None
Genre: J-pop, brostep
Kawaii brostep, what a time to be alive. Far from a novelty, it actually has the best
of both worlds, cutesy j-pop energy and the -step to take it to another saccharine level.
I'm not an expert on the Japanese happy hardcore kemono scene but it definitely seems
to be a phenomenon, which this very much fits in with.
Download here.
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February 7th, 2022 - Ami Yoshida - Tiger Thrush
Year: 2003
Label: IMJ
Genre: Acapella onkyo
It's not music in any conventional sense, just sparse vocal experiments,
stretching the human voice to lengths it probably should not be going
(with some slight help from computers.) If the title's any indication you
can think about it as the crys and calls of some nonexistent bird, and at
least it's proof that there's still plenty of unexplored territory.
Download here.
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February 6th, 2022 - suzukiiiiiiiiii - MIX
Year: 2019
Label: Commune Disc
Genre: Uhhhhhhhhhh can I get a Future Jazz, Ambient, House, Lo-Fi, Tech House, Chillwave,
Downtempo, Deep House, Disco, Noise, Conscious, J-Rock, Jazzy Hip-Hop, J-pop,
Soft Rock, Pop Punk, Karaoke, Kayōkyoku
There's a lot happening here but I'm not too sure what it is. I'm guessing
this was done at home and recorded onto a phone sitting on the speaker?
Either way very lofi, eclectic, and shines through with a mysterious
personality.
Download here.
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February 5th, 2022 - bine☃ - THINGS WILL BE BETTER FROM NOW ON
Year: 2014
Label: None
Genre: Instrumental hip-hop, vaportrap
Cloud trap for wandering around impossibly expensive luxury stores
and driving too fast at night. Nokia videos and high-end everything.
Sparkles like glitter, cool as a mall fountain. My stocks improved.
Download here.
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February 4th, 2022 - Yuka Ijichi - Peanuts Butter
Year: 2010
Label: Sloow
Genre: Psychedelic folk
Slightly trippy, somewhat childish lofi folk tunes, super sweet acoustic lullabies, People
Around Me pulls at my heartstrings like a loom and the cover is adorable. I don't
see what there isn't to love. I like to think Peanuts Butter is the cat's name. I might
print it and put it on my wall.
Download here.
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February 3rd, 2022 - K. Keyboardsson - Kitty Forest
Year: 2020
Label: None
Genre: Ambient (trance)
Part gorgeous ambient, part utter fucking heaven trance. Electronics made out of
divine rays of light and joy that genuinely makes you feel like the cat on the cover.
Life is simple and good and the fact that under 200 people have heard this is criminal.
Download here.
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February 2nd, 2022 - Yikii - [no one can save me]❀ 2012-2016
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Art pop, glitch pop
ASCII art winter digital snowfall post post pop ambiances <3<3<3 Nibiru12
Download here.
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February 1st, 2022 - Hokkaido Protocol - Lost Protocol
Year: 2017
Label: Evaporated Sounds
Genre: Vaporwave
Phaser-heavy vapor tunes that disappear as abruptly as they materialize,
five minutes of foggy digital vapor ephemera to sooth web-weary souls.
Download here.
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January 30th, 2022 - Ryoji Ikeda | data-verse 1, 11 MAY - 24 NOV 2019, Venice Biennale
Year: 2019
Genre: Glitch, ambient
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January 29th, 2022 - Milieiu - A Small Fire in the Snowy Woods
Year: 2023
Label: None
Genre: Ambient
I've never even heard of this artist before but they somehow turned up
in my email and I'm so glad, it's exactly what I needed. It deserves
each and every second of it's twelve hour run time. Utter peace,
snow and embers, winter winds.
Download here.
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January 28th, 2022 - Free Weed - Free Weed
Year: 2011
Label: Gnar Tapes
Genre: Lofi rock, stoner pop
And here we see the other side of poor teenage decision making
in lofi rock form. If birdbath is the edgy kid in the back of
the class with no friends, Free Weed is the friendly stoner
who isn't in class to begin with. I'm just gonna steal the
Tiny Mix Tapes review of another one of Free Weed's albums:
"[...] like a scene from some early-90s teenage movie celebrating
beer, drugs, and summer break [...] pop-punk and fun enough to
soundtrack an entire film from the irresponsible-teenagers-making-bad-decisions genre."
Listen / buy here.
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January 27th, 2022 - birdbath - strawberri
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Lofi rock
Indie rock lofi noise pop saturated with adolescent angst,
a classic combination but one pulled off well enough here to put
it up there with the likes of teen suicide. Angry, angsty and aimless
tunes for high school shut-ins.
Download here.
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January 26th, 2022 - Sture Palmér & Jeffery Boswall - A Field Guide To The Mammal Voices Of Europe (Record 1)
Year: 1975
Label: SR Records
Genre: Field recordings
A bit on the academic side but still really interesting
for both how it sounds and the biosphere it represents. I hope
all these species are still doing well, nearly 50 years on.
Download here.
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January 25th, 2022 - Kitten Liturgy - Boyfriend
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Slacker rock
very sweet song, almost reminds me of some old rock'n'roll
with it's guitar melody and disarming innocent lyrics
makes me smile :3
Download here.
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January 24th, 2022 - Sangam - Messiah
Year: 2018
Label: Night Light Tapes
Genre: Ambient
A city at night, hidden in fog, rain, or snow, converted directly to audio.
Isolation, inhumanity, ceaseless noise suffused in silence, peace, beauty,
radio towers pulsing in the small hours on the horizon.
Download here.
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January 23rd, 2022 - Ian Hawgood - A Life in Abstract Colours
Year: 2008
Label: Resting Bell
Genre: Drone
It sounds exactly like that cover looks: late-night walks, the urban beauty of street lights and
early-morning, clarity through exhaustion.
Listen & download here.
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January 22nd, 2022 - The Gray Field Recordings - Hypnagogia
Year: 2005
Label: Anticlock
Genre: Avant-folk
Utter anxiety in the form of sillhouettes half-seen beyond the glow of firelight, decaying branches,
and bumps in the night as funnelled through misused instruments. An interesting and worthwhile
parallel with dark ambient though a darkened folk lens.
Listen & download here.
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January 21th, 2022 - 3 Doors Down - Here Without You (Andy's Hardcore Remix)
Year: 2021
Label: None
Genre: Dancecore
Something about the beat and amen choppage here is infinitely pleasing to me
to say nothing of the masterful rock ⇒ rave-worthy dancecore remix. I could see
it being a classic, not languishing in sub 1000 plays obscurity.
Listen & download here.
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January 20th, 2022 - [No Artist] - Mars Audio Recordings
Year: 2022
Label: NASA
Genre: Field recordings
If you're not into field recordings, you gotta admit this is an awesome achievement for humanity. If you are
into field recordings, listen to this now. Being able to hear the lonely hum of machinery in the void
between the planets or the windstorms of another world is mind bending, something no generation before
us has been able to do and not ad gift we're guaranteed forever.
Listen & download here.
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January 19th, 2022 - ⦓🍊⦔ タンジェリン - Redefining ♾️ Infinity
Year: 1978
Label: NHK
Genre: Vaporwave, ambient
Sorry for the back to back ambientposting, it's winter here and that's the mood I generally
fall into. If it makes it any better, Redefining ♾️ Infinity is a fairly literal release, attemping to
sacrifice neither quality nor quantity in making a solid 24-hour wall of slushy drones and chill
ambient plunderphonics to soundtrack slow-motion nature footage, obsolete software demos,
and your own journey to nirvana.
Download here.
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January 18th, 2022 - Rapture Adrenaline
Year: 2009
Genre: Found Footage, Video Art
The blue moon has come when I post a film instead of a release, but this one stays music
adjacent, being one of James Ferraro's filmmaking ventures. True to form, it's nothing
resembling an actual film and is actually the visual equivalent of plunderphonics, splicing
degraded shards of 90s media into an 80 minute soup of explosions, Y2K futurism, celebritty
appearances, televised nostalgia, and all the horrors and wonders of a teenagehood spent frying
your brain sitting too close to the TV screen late at night.
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January 17th, 2022 - 三枝成彰 [Shigeaki Saegusa] - Trace of the Stars
Year: 1978
Label: NHK
Genre: Instrumental, space ambient?
When thinking about this release you gotta keep in mind what we did (and didn't)
know about space in 1978. We didn't have any detailed photos of many of the worlds in
the solar system, to say nothing of the universe beyond: so much was a blur shrouded
in scientific (and less than scientific) speculation. Don't get me wrong, space is still
a source of nigh infinity wonder and mystery, but the 70s understanding or lack thereof of it
shines clearly though this release.
Listen here.
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January 16th, 2022 - Hot Leather - Brain Poison
Year: 2019
Label: None
Genre: Synthpunk
I'll admit the songwriting's barebones, but the melodies are solid and it's
good fun all around. It has the innocent, almost twee lyrics and happy punk
energy of Quarterbacks from a month or so ago with a fair dose of 100 gecs
(Hot Leather has remixed them so it's not like I'm just coming up with that.)
Listen here.
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January 15th, 2022 - Blue Marker Bandit - RACC ON CRACK
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Mashcore
Can't go wrong with furry mashcore, it's always a good time. Strays well from
the Renard roots and through intention or a differing skill set ends up doing
it's own thing in it's own style.
Download here.
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January 14th, 2022 - Space Invaders - 99% Orgasm
Year: 1991
Label: Captain
Genre: Rap rock
WORLD IS A FUCK
99% PISS
Listen here.
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January 13th, 2022 - 屋上のスキマ 白いソラ - Theoretical Frameworks Of Microharmony And Inharmonicity:
The Effect Of Counterstructural Stereo Distribution And Perceptual Dissonance In The Context Of A Static Timbre Paradigm Superset
Year: 2020
Label: minutewalls
Genre: Ambient noise wall
No, that is not the title of my thesis paper, it's just something a bit different this time,
an ANW mini-music video with an energy I find hard to describe. It's human but almost brutally clinical.
Watch here.
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January 12th, 2022 - Treasure Hunt - PD050: GUSHERS
Year: 2017
Label: Pedicure Records
Genre: Nightcore, deconstructed club, IDM
A weird, weird bundle of ultra-sugary bubblegum bass nightcore sweet enough to rot your teeth
and malformed deconstructed dance IDM to glue them back into your mouth in postmodern
structures to make a new smile you'll love forever or your money back.
Download here.
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January 11th, 2022 - tfwamirite - my bed squeaks all wrong
Year: 2022
Label: unlucky wind
Genre: Lolicore, breakcore, jersey club
The remix album you never knew you needed and / or never needed in general
(First 2023 post woo hooo *party horn noises*)
Download here.
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January 10th, 2022 - Energy Star - Domestic Music
Year: 2017
Label: Become Eternal
Genre: Ambient
The same energy as buried 80s Japanese new age tapes, like it was just
hidden away and quietly buzzing along like a small hibernating creature all these decades.
Listen or buy here.
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January 9th, 2022 - capoxxo - singles
Year: [unknown]
Label: None
Genre: Emo rap
To be honest, it's the sheer scale of this thing that makes it work, kind of like
those massive 天気予報 albums. The songs are individually good, don't get me wrong, but
it's best listened to in full, letting all of them blur together into a teenage rapper
fantasy haze of parties, breakups, random drug name drops, self-loathing immediately
followed by euphoric bragging, and happy hardcore. (The Beatles sample hit like a brick too)
Listen here.
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January 8th, 2022 - raccoon king - Do Not Let Me Die
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Soundcloud rock
Teenage depression, soundcloud punk, Sematary influence, and enough catchiness to back it all up
into something more than respectable.
THOUSAND ACRES AWAY
TAKE ME OUT AND SHOW ME PAIN
DO NOT LET ME DIE
I'VE COME SO FAR
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January 7th, 2022 - DJ TRENDKILL - DOPESICKK MIXTAPEE ##1
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Trance, kellersynth
The whole thing's sick once you get into it but PLEASE listen to the absolute tune
at 4 minutes in. It's a very simple track but every single second is trance perfection:
vaguely emotional, rave-worthy anthemic melody, dark vocal sample out of nowhere, and the
rest is surely something too. There's probably more kellersynth upcoming here if this is any indication.
Listen here.
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January 6th, 2022 - Kid Trash - My Star Space
Year: 2018
Label: None
Genre: Digicore, emo rap, happy hardcore
Listen here.
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January 5th, 2022 - Mungyodance 3: The Third Rave
Year: 2008
Published by: VULPvibe Entertainment
I guess this is less of a strictly music page since once in a blue
moon there's a movie or game, but the spirit is the same. Anyway,
Mungyodance was a series of three rhythm games developed my Lapfox
(Halley Labs) similar to Dance Dance Revolution and it's suffused with
the 00's VULPvibe era's distinctive style (which to me at least is
nostalgic, happy, and reminds me of the good things in life.) It's playable
with both the keyboard or a dance pad (I blew 50$ on one for the sole
purpose of this game.)
Download here.
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January 4th, 2022 - Catz Theme / Meow Meow Lullaby
Year: 2006
Label: Nintendo
Genre: Childrens music, folk
I've sunken to the point where I'm posting random shit I found on soundcloud
reupload accounts. I never played (or knew about) Catz but his makes me smile
and I hope it does the same for you. The joy of kittenhood.
Listen here.
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January 3th, 2022 - supersheep - Superbee
Year: 2022
Label: None
Genre: Drone
angels
radio towers
software
sleeping states
Download here.
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January 2nd, 2022 - Catbeats - Catbeats
Year: 2018
Label: Swedish Columbia
Genre: Chillhop, bitpop
It sounds exactly like it looks. Maybe I'm misremembering but wasn't this
around when lofi hiphop was making waves and this cutesy / chill
aesthetic / sound became inescapable? Not sure if things got better or worse
since, but 2018 was a different time.
Listen or buy here.
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January 1st, 2022 - Lacrosse - This New Year Will Be for You and Me
Year: 2007
Label: Tapete
Genre: Twee pop
Easily the sweetest, most underrated album I know of, as tender and sentimental
as it is fun and energetic and catchy. Every single track is top-tier pop songwriting,
saturated in twee naivity but with all the musical skill to back it up into something
truly special. Touches on loneliness, depression, and plans not working out, but keeps
positive and optimistic throughout. Taught me that the world is as pure as you are.
Listen or buy here.
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Inspirations and cool sites to check out:
OBSCURE MUSIC DAILY - "Delivering the best obscure frequency arrangements since whenever" (This page is a blatant ripoff of it)
Yeah I Know It Sucks - "an absurdist review blog"
Anomaly Index - "music's conceptual anomalies and wanton obscurities"
low internet - "sharing experimental/outsider music i find on the internet"
PRE-2023 [CLICK ORBS BELOW]
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