Seven songs for you, in order of gradually increasing chaos.
Some hard rave music, 90s-style (but recorded this year): a 10-minute flowing set of various songs played on the EMX-1 groovebox— a precursor to the Volca, but aimed at professional DJs rather than hobbyists¹. In 2004 when this device was released these sounds would have probably sounded five years out of date, but listening now in 2022 sounding like it's from 1999 only makes it sound charming.
(Eggbug will claim to you that this URL is incorrect, but Eggbug LIES!!! The video loads fine if you click the link.) (EDIT 2023-APR-02: At some point this video was removed from YouTube, so the preview is now retroactively correct.)
So the concept here is real simple: This guy got a new synthesizer and he's trying it out, by feeding in a single semi-randomized sequence (bottom left) and turning knobs. The result is like watching something go in and out of focus, as different knob configs make more or less musical sense (with the coherence peaking around 2:00, where it reaches a state I would describe as "danceable" and "hype").
The XPO is based around stereo so headphones recommended.
- "Unstability", Hidenobu Ito
One of the best ever songs ever to emerge from the early 00s "Glitch" genre was this track from the soundtrack of Boogiepop Phantom, a mostly-forgotten anime, by a mostly-forgotten artist named Hidenobu Ito (checking Google finds various reviews from circa 2000 highly praising noise-music albums he released around that time, and... a bandcamp still being updated today, where he appears to exclusively post lo-fi beats for porn soundtracks?). Several cut-up synth lines (or maybe just a Reaktor script?) collide together and spill ruptured tonal organs all over the floor.
The bass in this YouTube rip is unfortunately a little de-emphasized, so subwoofer or headphones recommended.
- "Mutable Marbles experiment., eastern drone swedgling.", Jonny Riddles
"Marbles" is a randomness generator for modular racks, but for structured randomness, it's designed to make values cluster. Here it's being used to pilot timbres of hypnotic clanging noises—like gongs swinging in the wind somewhere distant at the edge of your hearing, but made of metal not of this world, gritty and distorted.
Warning, the mix is biased a bit to right ear.
- "Tribute", Guano Apes
The Guano Apes were a nu-metal one-hit-wonder² on German radio in the late 90s. (This isn't their hit, that was "Open your Eyes.") I wound up owning their album by coincidence, and it's neither bad nor exceptionally good, except for the final track³, where they cut loose and made something unforgettable and weird. "Tribute" starts as funky metal then… devolves? I can't quite describe it. There's a sense of dread throughout, the vocalist is trying to communicate something she seems to think is very important but is struggling to communicate in English.
I really like the cover of this album, by the way.