#Listening to Aotearoa by Minuit. I consistently tear up when I hear this song, and especially when I watch the video;
"And if the past's a distant land
Maybe there is no rhyme or reason
And if we salvage what we can
You and me
And yes, it's true we're very young
And we have sticks and stones and bruises
Can we do undo what has been done?
Is this the way destiny chooses?
You and me
You and me
You and me
We are a New Zealand"
#NowPlaying Laurie Spiegel's amazing 1980 album The Expanding Universe.
So many female pioneers in electronic music & musique concrète: Carlos, Derbyshire, Barron, Oram, Oliveros, Radigue, Pade, Ferreyra, Beyer, Jones (Glynis), Ciani, Rockmore, Amacher, Fagandini, Bokanowski, Nova, Toyama, Beat... #electronica#musiqueconcrète#music#electronic
ich spiele heute ab 21Uhr ein kleines DJ Set im @mojo_club Jazz Cafe in Hamburg. Downtempo, Soul, Afro, Electronica und Jazz. Der Eintritt ist frei, vielleicht sehen wir uns ✌️
This morning I glanced at a list of albums Brooklyn Vegan posted about for 2024 records so far this year, and there's a new FOUR TET record from March I feel like I would've missed had I not seen it there-- I hadn't heard about it.
Four Tet is of course Kieran Hebden from London and is some wild, weird and beautiful electronic stuff. There's some great synth and ambient sounds (and beats!) on this one.
'Three' will most likely be among my favorite albums of 2024.
Here's the weekly digest thread of my #OPM post: 5 writeups of new (to you, probably) artists and #music for your listening pleasure. #Rock, several flavors of #ambient and #NewAge and more await you within!
Of course, you can read the whole thing, with longer writeups than fit in a single post, here:
Dark, atmospheric electronic meditations that live in the realms of #breakbeat#ambient, if that is a thing. “Swallow It Up” is a skeletal beat hung with shards of synth textures for the first half before adding another layer or two of percussion and something like a minimal bassline. Spare and haunting. Closing track “For Dad” is a distillation of old-school #electronica channeled into a soundtrack for late-night drives.
Periodic reminder I'm still looking for electronica bands with acoustic drums, either featured in their studio productions or live performances. Streaming platforms' matching algorithms can't be that specific, so any suggestion is welcome and as a starter point, here's Muriatic by Polynation.
As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).
Simply make a direct comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!
in an effort to expand my music library and also share cool stuff, fedi, I beseech thee... lend me your ears (and boosts)
if you listen to, make, or have a friend who makes electronic music that fits any of these descriptions:
sounds like the early 2000s, especially if it's some kind of dnb, jungle, or ambient
nostalgic futurism that isn't dnb or ambient (and especially not synthwave!)
sounds like racing game music from back when it was too good
vaporwave but original (as in, not sample based) and not synthwave
weird and wacky experimental electronica that can work in the background
bass heavy but low intensity music that tickles the brain
just really pretty and interesting ambient or drone stuff in general
please drop names and links here. by all means, plug yourself and your friends if you want to
bandcamp, mirlo, faircamp, and similar links are preferable, but any link will do if those aren't available. extra bonus points if creative commons or similar
I think these styles of music are amazing and rather underrated, especially since a lot of the people who like these styles are just playing random youtube mixes in the background, so they have no idea what they're actually listening to or who to support
I also find this kind of music annoyingly hard to discover, which isn't helped by those mixes either, because most of them are either drawing from the same small handful of artists, or just playing video game soundtracks
I want to change that, even if only a little bit. for that reason, please boost
aside from just hoping to spread this post around, I'd love to write about what I hear on my website eventually too, play it during livestreams with the titles on screen, and of course share it with all my non-fedi friends
I put together my April favourites on Bandcamp via BuyMusicClub. There were some great releases this month I think. Parra for Cuva has finally set up a Bandcamp account with his new Mimose album as well as the new Catching Flies album is also out now, plus a bunch of other great releases. Hope you enjoy! ✨
We have a dark electronica double whammy this week, with the arrival of Pye Corner Audio's 'The Endless Echo' from Ghost Box, and The Night Monitor's 'Horror of the Hexham Heads' from Library of the Occult.
Nightmares on wax...👀
Sometimes YouTube does you right. Reminded me of this song from the 'Born Again Pagans' EP Coil did in 1995, when they felt they were communicating with a spiritual entity named ELpH as they made it. Wild, huh?
GREAT song, too - the whole EP is killer. Hearing this right after it came out when I was in my mid teens was wiiiild
Drawings inspired by Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain. Track No 6, Felt Mountain. For Felt Mountain's Felt Mountain, I have drawn a felt mountain, which symbolises a felt mountain.