- "Nightmare", KNOWER
KNOWER is an incredible, funky, YouTube-bait band consisting of "The Bank Account Song Guy", Genevieve Artadi, and literally whoever else is in the building. They have a YouTube channel full of sessions live-recorded in a generic suburban house with noise foam taped to the wall and the band all wearing gimmick t-shirts. You should listen to them. As an intro, here's some funk featuring the bass stylings of Daphnycore artist MonoNeon.
- "Cantabile, molto legato" (Musica Ricercata no.7), György Ligeti as performed by Grégoire Blanc
This is from a set of twelve piano pieces composed in 1953 by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, as arranged for analog synthesizer and dual theremins in December 2023 by professional thereminist Grégoire Blanc. Ligeti would go on to write the "Monolith music" from 2001. Grégoire Blanc would go on to do his laundry.
There is such a big Mood here. The best way I can describe it is this song feels like the future, but different futures depending on the instrumentation, if you pull out the piano original it feels like film and spaceships, the future we were promised in 1978, but Blanc's electronic arrangement feels focused and dark, the computerized future of 1981.
- "The River - 3 guitar ambient jam with drones and synths in the forest w/Sam Bell and Pete Ferguson", drone-in-the-woods
The YouTube channel "drone-in-the-woods" is truth in naming. This is some gentle ambient post-rock and it is, indeed, performed live in the woods by three guitarists. I'm not usually one for "happy music" but I dig this. It's like if Godspeed You Black Emperor had worked their issues¹ out and got real into Boards of Canada.
- "So close", Floppi
This is a soft, seductive DOS tracker track. It appears to use one single sample, so it's basically like a 2 minute electric piano solo, if the electric piano was magic and had infinite sustain.
Sometimes with tracker tunes I can find a little history, but all I find googling this is
- The track was first released in 1997 (according to a forum post I cannot verify)
- The author is Finnish, and died in 2022.
Scenestream tags: "Calm keygen", "Sad sinewave".
- "Hyperbased", Firefox & Tip
This came up when I was in a fugue of listening to every Amiga chiptune I could find, and is apparently the backing track to "Enigma", an Amiga 3D rendering demo the group Phenomena made for "Anarchy Easter Party 1991" in Sweden. A gorgeous mishmash of vibes, half of them from 1980s new wave rock and the other half from somewhere deep in outer space where a dying species orbits a black hole in quiet contemplation
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