DEPTHS OF THE NET was a perpetual work-in-progress project
with the intention of posting obscure music every day from all over the musical
sphere that I encounter on my endless safari through the wide world of web,
for two years and counting!
If you own any of this and want me to change or remove it I gladly will,
and though might take me a while to get to them suggestions are also appreciated. And now for something completely different! ░▒▓ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▣ ▓▒░
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
FREE DOWNLOAD!!!! サンセット.mp3.exe أزمة النفط ميانمار NO VIRUS
❌❌❌Injustice will fallVA9ORWAVE2014 (29 streams lol, we're hitting
the bottom of soundcloud (THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THRU))
Listen here.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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"