- "Time Eater", Gold Panda (Ssighborggg and Luna re-cover)
Gold Panda is an electronic musician I'm fond of, one of those sample-oriented hip-hop-sorta artists on the Bonobo/Blockhead model. This is one of Gold Panda's better songs being performed, with samples replaced by a live-instruments arrangement, by an American/Korean math-rock group and a traditional Korean gayageum player. I would describe the effect as "rocking".
- "Puppygirl Forever", @minasheep (@lynnedrum remix)
This is "breakcore" (is this breakcore? I think it is breakcore), cheerful happy hardcore pop, but in this remix it's going just a little too hard, the accelerator's pushed just a little too much, giddy until it gets a sort of a sinister edge, like a upbeat sugar high gone just a little too far, like… okay I guess like a puppy girl that's just a little too excited. I was trying not to say it
- "System Jam #3", Edd Butterworth
A lot of the live synth jam videos on YouTube are either posted by, or made possible by equipment donations by, the companies that make the synth equipment, as semi-covert ads. The good news is instead of buying the equipment you can just watch the videos. This video was posted by ALM/Busy Circuits to show off their eurorack line, but by itself it's a funky weird-noises rave with captivatingly screwy beats.
- "∆°S-P-3-C-1-3-S_U-N-K-N-0-W-N°∆", Th3Pock3tOp3rat0r
One for the "doing the most with the least" category, this is Teenage Engineering's cheap toy sampler/drum machine run into Korg's cheap toy echo unit. The sound here is huge, the PO-33 is pushed to the limit of its sequencing abilities and the track is hard and driving, electro rock with a touch of 80s feel. Imagine a hypothetical 00s metroidvania that the only reason you remember it is this one song from the soundtrack.
This is a 70-minute live set of industrial-y rave techno, based on a mix of live synthesizers (with the Swarm at the center) and pre-recorded Ableton loops. A couple different days now I've listened to this while working and both times I could not tell you what happened during that hour, I just entered this totally hypnotized trance state.
⬇️ Click below for modular drum solo ⬇️
- "Modular Synth Triggered by Drum", Djo HxC
This track pairs a sick modular-synthesizer Cool Noise with the trick (I linked a couple of these earlier in this post series) where a drum is rigged to fire a trigger on the eurorack, playing a note keyed to the synth's current pattern. So the drummer is kind of playing drums and bass synth at once. And then: drum solo. This is kind of short and it doesn't really go anywhere, but it's fun while it lasts.
