Note: Today's mixtape is two hours and 24 minutes long, so if you don't have that much time, if you're going to listen to just one track below I recommend "PlayStation jungle Mix 2", which is only an hour
This is one hour of pure vibes. Muffled, laid-back 90s-future jungle atop a visualization of a lo-fi cyber city and songs with names like "A Song to Fall Through Textures" "A Song to "Insert Disc 2" "A Song to Remember Aeon Flux". It says "mix" but it's more like one piece of original music with nine movements, powerful focus music, like ambient but high-energy
- "High-tech Low-life", Slowerpace
This artist has a series of albums framed as OSTs of nonexistent Playstation 1 games. This song for example supposedly plays during the opening cinematic of "Pyromaniacs" (tagline: "Violence Is Sometimes The Only Way"), apparently a Shadowrun game that failed to secure the license at the last second.
This track's got a great feeling, a warm blanket in the chill. Sounds like if µ-ziq had tried to do trip-hop.
- "memory", hkmori
If you've seen a video bouncing around instagram/tiktok with a funny cartoon drummer and titled "Breakcore in a nutshell", that's hkmori, from her song "anybody can find love (except you.)".
This is my favorite hkmori song, where she executes the breakcore formula expertly (and moodily) but mixes it up by dropping in dense clusters of 808 kick drums where the Amen chops would normally go, resulting in a really unique sound.
- "Dracula Forever", Clarke Jaxton Motorbike
This YouTuber has a series of live-performance electronic jam videos, in each case accompanied with floating captions telling a little short story. It's fun! The stories are good.
This track's simple but is a real bop. Made with 2023 vintage devices but has a lush 80s feel because those two devices happen to be Roland's desktop SH-101 clone and Teenage Engineering's new take on an 80s lo-fi sampler.
This uses similar instrumentation to Goto's "Mix 1" above for a totally different feel, instead of focused and driving this is laid back and dreamlike, dreamlike as in, in places it appears to be actually trying to simulate the experience of being asleep.
There's an emotion I don't know how to describe, there's a kind of this warm feeling in the nerves of my spine when I'm either on the verge of falling asleep or about to start crying. This is that in music
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- "DigiLogTokyo Microne, Synthernet 8888, CSK ParipiDestroyer, and ACID bass synthesizer prototype", Tekitounix
A short, frantic acid piece, so fast it feels like it's about to run off its rails at any moment. Goes real hard and ends with you wanting more. Just another 30 seconds please
I previously linked a jam on this same trio of handheld devices, but in that one the third device was an unlabeled breadboard. I guess it's named the Microne.
- "THEM5000 (Monomachine only track)", Dataline
A futuristic, kinda IDM-y electronic jam. Flits stream-of-consciousness between several different ideas while maintaining the same dark groove. Actually kinda feels like a little mixtaptcohoe, except for the fact it is six minutes long. Nice energy.
Made on the Monomachine, the old idiosyncratic Elektron box that defined the sound of SOPHIE and Quaristice-era Autechre.
