1. "Push for Woogies", tvvt

This is an acid techno jam posted directly to the synthesizer subreddit by its creator this Monday. It's based around what I think is a Moog Sub37, and a bunch of Electron boxes. It's messy but very fun; I like how the first 20 seconds or so sound like just random noises until the bass drum drops and suddenly everything snaps into place.

2. "Techno jam / polyend tracker,tr-6s,j-6", Takashi Kusano

This is a desk jam using some boxes from Roland's recent attempt to approximate the Volca line, specifically the "It's like a TR-606 with sliders? Sort of?" box and the "It's like a Jupiter-08 with a chord sequencer? Sort of?" box.

The opening just-drums part goes on maybe a little longer than I would have let it, but once the j-6 comes in it gets "hype". Overall enjoyably dirty techno.

3. "Laidback Dub session # DubTechno studio Jam (Tempest SpaceEcho Prophet6 Perfourmer Strymon..)", VØSNE

VØSNE has a bunch of good videos of live sets doing laid-back dub. (In this context, "Dub" means "instrumental reggae for nerds".) This is… a live set of laid-back dub. This one's forty minutes long and starts as a few minutes of just ambient echoes, but the drive keeps building the entire time and once it's built it's got a great goove.

4. "Soma Pulsar 23 - Dark Minimal performance", Deaftone Audio

A small, hissy percussion piece ("microhouse"? Is this what "microhouse" is? Maybe nanohouse?) with some really good sounds, including an acid bassline rigged out of a Pulsar drum channel. In my opinion a good way to spend four minutes.

5. "Particle Hands", HELL F.O

HELL F.O has a bunch of fun stuff posted— they've appeared in these posts before— and it's practically all abstract, ambient noise music. So this track is an interesting surprise just by being a completely listenable, borderline-pop dance techno piece. Still some interesting sound design, mind you! But drop this into a club set with some bass EQ and I think the crowd would eat it up.

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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!"

2. "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.

3. "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

4. "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.

5. "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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