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#Rumble of Ancient Times

mcc
@mcc

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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