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What I listened to this week: Rumble of Ancient Times

Here's a mixtape for you that slowly transitions, over 7 tracks, from noise pop to regular pop.

  1. "Soma RoAT Exploration N°2", HELL F.O

This is based on the Soma "Rumble of Ancient Times", an opinionated/toy synth based on configuring four drone voices and triggering them with a pad. The normal problem of noise synths is they sound cool but wind up just making one undifferentiated drone; the ROAT solves this by making four drones.

Here the ROAT is combined with Korg's desktop drum-modeling synth to make a cool and nicely structured glitch hop jam. "It's just like listening to real music!"

  1. "Soma ROAT Jam - Mélodie d'automne", Sidney Cote Nadon

This one uses two Rumble of Ancient Times units plus an Akai sampler to make dance techno with the ROATs' various noise generators providing the sirens, swells and background beepy noises you expect to be drifting in and out in the background of such music. It jams. If you liked whatever "Electro" was in 2008 ("Electroclash"? Was that the same thing?) you'll probably like this.

  1. "random noise 079", glenn clyatt

A bizarre journey back and forth and back again across the border between music and noise, this uses a Bastl Kastle and a chiptune synth to pile together bizarre noises until suddenly the noise coalesces into some pretty cool sounding dance techno!… before just as suddenly slowing down 800% and becoming one of, depending on your mindset,

  1. An out-of-body bliss state as chill alien timbres lead you on a psychedelic trip
  2. Absolute terror, as something you cannot see or escape (perhaps the song itself?) is crying out in pain and despair
  1. "Koma Krell | 0-Coast | Field Kit | Part Two | Extended Cut", Bottle Makes Music

The "Krell Patch" is a setup various synthesizers make possible to construct, where the closing envelope at the end of one note triggers the start of the next note. The name is supposedly a reference to the movie "Forbidden Planet". This Krell is augmented with a synth-controlled radio and the fellowship hall from a suburban church used for natural echo.

TLDR: This is 12 minutes of beeps.

  1. "live stream #1 … subroom signals", substan

substan posts a lot of chill electronic music on YouTube; I've linked him in my Mastodon recommendations thread before. This is an absolutely lovely two-hour-long (!) flowing set of chill-beats ambient songs performed by substan, alternating "music they'd play in a yoga class" and "music to program to" with flavors of acid and dubby clicks-and-cuts floating in and out. It is massive; every song in this set individually is a song I'd recommend by itself.

Basically, if you like Future Sound of London, then listen to this.

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What I listened to last week: Random noise

  1. "random techno 172(118bpm) Polyend Tracker, Moog Grandmother, Bastl Softpop SP2, Thyme, Korg NTS-1", glenn clyatt

Does anyone remember "dub"? For a while in the early 00s we had this techno genre we called "dub", which was an annoying name because it was inspired by but not the same as dub reggae. Anyway this guy posts daily-ish synth doodles on YouTube and this particular one has strong dub vibes. Good energy here, starts chill and builds.

  1. "Cruel", Tori Amos

"Songs from the Choir Girl Hotel" had a markedly different style from basically every other Tori Amos release (she got a backup band, basically) in a way that Tori Amos herself did not actually seem to like, but wow, what a unique album. Each of the first 9 tracks is a standout in some way but "Cruel", a song which has no piano at all but anchors itself around incredibly dirty electric bass, has always been my favorite.

  1. "random noise 076 SOMA RoAT, NTS-1", glenn clyatt

This is two tracks by the same guy in one post I guess? Whatever. This is a good ominous ambient piece with the "Rumble of Ancient Times", SOMA's toy 8-bit synth, combined with Korg's DIY reverb filter. It's made from two improvised takes spliced together so it has a really good movement structure to it ("it's like listening to a real song!"). If you can listen to this on speakers with bass that's an amazing experience.

  1. "22 Minutes of Live Modular Techno \\ Verbos, Make Noise Easel, Pulsar 23", Raucous Studio

This is a live set of that hardkore classic 90s style four on the floor techno.

It's somewhat of note that it's being made with a collection of modern synths (like the Pulsar and Strega, to say nothing of the modular synth rack) that I associate more with noise/ambient, but rather than grabbing your attention the sculpted noises just integrate cleanly into the groove.

  1. "SUMMER COMES EARLY TONIGHT", thofabyq

This is a super chill lo-fi hip hop beats track on the PO-12 and PO-33 toy synthesizers (a drum machine and a sampler). Soul singing chopped up into vaguely pleasant but entirely asemic syllabic soup.

 
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