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mcc , 5 months ago to random

Loads YouTube recommendations page Okay I find it difficult to explain how excited I am right at this moment

mcc OP , 5 months ago

sickos.jpg yes… ha ha ha, yes!!!

mcc , 1 year ago to random

For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "I LEARNED THIS BEAT IN CUBA.... THEN ADDED SOME DISTORTION 😊", Max Sansalone

Waveforms do weird things when you clip or distort them. Harmonics burst into being, pitches mysteriously double.

In this track, a drummer performing alone alternates rhythmic sections with sections where he hits the stompbox and suddenly his drumkit bursts into melody as every sound transforms. Cool demonstration, nice drumline, stands well on its own as a song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gde0UMa33w

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "Destiny+ Entanglement Space 4xDSP with Czochralski Cells and Prism Circuits panels", James Plotkin

An exercise in bizarre sound design on two of Destiny+'s strange, extremely large (Plotkin can't fit them both in frame) synth units, this is made of big swoopy kick drum sounds that fall so slowly they cross the border and become bass notes. I'm… not sure if you're going to love how this sounds or it will just really annoy you. One of the two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONrcHkRVGXk

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "20231231 145", sv1

Max/MSP is a open-ended music tool, a commercial fork of PureData. It lets you fine-control every element of making a song, from sound design to mixing, using a visual programming language or by building your own UIs.

For this artist's last album, he YouTubed himself making the tracks in Max, so you can see the bespoke-UI instrument he built for himself. Skittery beats & seductive alien echo sounds. Kinda Ryoji Ikeda ish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydtAzMbydgQ

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "Funky Stars", Quazar

This is a poppy eurodance DOS tracker tune from 1997. Feels good, slick production, moody 80s/early 90s feel.

After 2000 the artist behind this .xm went on to have a conventional career as a producer, making club techno remixes for a bunch of hip hop artists plus Madonna under the name "Axwell", then cofounding Swedish House Mafia ("Don't You Worry Child").

This track is listed on some mod archives as "Hybrid Song".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C95D6imxGc

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "E370 and Fumana", Martin Rotaveria

This is an immaculate mood on a modular rack, like a dirty metallic sunrise. Generated algorithmically/generatively by a bunch of crosswired synth modules free-running without human intervention. Confession, I think this is a little long— if this had been my track I'd have let it run to about 2:56 then switched off the drums, then stopped the recording at 4:06. You can just hit stop whereever feels right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icCptvuXJ44

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "Can You Feel", Torchkas (Namco WSG remix by Abstract 64)

The sound chip in the "Pac Man" arcade cabinets turns out to be a really fascinating piece of engineering, a 4-bit wavetable synth like the tiniest, cheapest Korg Wavestation.

Covering a vaporwave chiptune originally for SNES, A64 makes a song using only the "Pac-Man" waveforms and a WSG emulator, and it's so evocative. Definitely the best song I've ever heard to sample "Pac-Man".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQ31UdIXNc

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "XYZ", Boards of Canada

John Peel was a beloved BBC DJ on a mission to call attention to underrated music. "Peel Sessions" were a recurring segment where he'd get bands to record 4-ish songs at the BBC, then play them on his show. When BOC came in they dropped this wild otherwise-unreleased tune pushing at their own genre boundaries. What sounds like Spanish classical guitar and hard IDM beats like they've only used on a few songs. Hypnotic.

https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/track/xyz-peel-session

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "jan 14", Jon Coe

A short, fun track mixing some very cheesy (wait, let's say "retro") synth/drum sounds into an inexplicably hype beat, like uptempo vaporwave.

This was made on— I'm pretty sure, the poster doesn't explain— the Yamaha AW16G, a desktop "hardware DAW" from 2002; this could be used as both a mixer and a sampler, so I don't know if any other equipment is also used. I also cannot explain what is happening in the final minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfTjtN4gzJA

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "Not Tomorrow", Committee Committee

In this video two women (one wearing a tracksuit embroidered "The Boys") sit on a living room carpet with a collection of synthesizers and play a dark, pounding electronic unpop song that makes me think of the style of 90s Underworld with the tone of 90s Depeche Mode. This was recorded in December 2020 as one of a series of videos the pair describe on their YouTube as having been a COVID lockdown activity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k91Oj9TtNdU

mcc OP , 5 months ago

What I'm listening to today: "Electro-acoustic Improvisation", Ipek Eglini

In this video a woman in Doc Martens has driven wooden stakes into a piano, turning it into a percussion instrument. She then bangs the keys and (literally, with a hammer) the strings inside, while making bird noises into a headset mic. Then she turns to a bank of electronics she's been ignoring, and DJ-scratches her own bangs and chirps. Then she does both at once. Pure ecstatic sound, no notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsJG_M-9HCQ

whitequark , 5 months ago to random

everyone knows what a motherboard is but has anyone ever seen a fatherboard?

mcc , 5 months ago

@whitequark if there are motherboards and daughterboards but no fatherboards, this implies that computers are an all-female parthenogenic species

vampiress , 5 months ago to random

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mcc , 5 months ago

@vampiress I've heard from some people that what broke it was it starting to get grimdark post-9/11y and flubbing it.

(I've only seen bits of the first season, which I liked.)

vampiress , 5 months ago to random

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mcc , 5 months ago

@vampiress awesome

vampiress , 5 months ago to random

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mcc , 5 months ago

@vampiress User story: As A TRANS PERSON, I need A PAK