CM is awesome - not only arguably the leading practitioner of a not insignificant genre but almost certainly its primary chronicler and scholar as well
― imago, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
like, it is so great when a musician is also a scholar of their music
― imago, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
but it's called "dungeon" because its single unifying trait is it's meant to recall the feel of being in an 8-bit dungeon
ah ha .. ta for the clarification.was wondering.i was more focused on the synth aspect as opposed to the dungeon.now i know for a fact this is not for me.
― mark e, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
digging a lot of this stuff, tbh
― gbx, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
was super into these in 2013...
abandoned places giantlands:https://abandonedplaces.bandcamp.com/album/giantlands
which sounds like a haunted golden axe arcade cabinet
erang another world another time:https://erang.bandcamp.com/album/another-world-another-time
which sounds like the title of the second song - "hymn to my teenage broken dreams"
...but I never really found anything else quite as satisfying. not back then, anyway. looks like I have some catching up to do.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
i am somewhere between amused that this stuff exists and somewhat embarrassedly intrigued; it would've absolutely owned me when i was fourteen.ten minutes in, I am still waiting for my first random encounter.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
You are at a wedding reception. The bride is dressed in white leather and the reception is being catered by British Baking Show's Kim-Joy.>GO EAST
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
erang another world another time:
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm)
this is not me
that "abandoned places" sounds pretty nice, like the soundtrack to a lost colin baker doctor who episode (possibly "yellow fever and how to cure it")
by and large though very little of the dungeon synth i've heard sounds as good as todd porter's tunes for the ultima vi soundtrack on a roland, which, yes, is a high bar to set, but the bar is there nonetheless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv__aZzmXBA
― errang (rushomancy), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
The new Chaucerian Myth is sounding amazing so far!
― imago, Sunday, 20 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
reliably great, growing w/every release
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 21 January 2019 03:21 (five years ago) link
Piano intro sets this up as the Mellon Collie of Chaucerian Myth. Which I know may sound like cursing to JCLC but actually this album is entirely amazing.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 January 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
The new new one sounds even better! Such melodies!
― imago, Monday, 4 March 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
If you need an epic dsynth fix, Old Sorcery aka Warmoon Lord's Strange and Eternal is your ticket. Comes with a noticeable 70s/prog electro aura.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 20 October 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9sfnTGm5a8
Music to accompany an AD&D module that came with the record.
full album
― lukas, Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
it's not quite dungeon synth proper but i wrote a blog post this week about yuzo koshiro and motohiro kawashima's 1996 soundtrack to the playstation/saturn port of zork i
https://weirdthingsonbetamax.blogspot.com/2020/05/unsung-video-game-soundtracks-zork.html
fans of dungeon synth should definitely check it the hell out
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 May 2020 05:44 (four years ago) link
New Daryl Groetsch dungeon synth side project:
https://endlessfog.bandcamp.com/releases
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, 12 July 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
Was listening to that earlier. Very on point titlewise.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 July 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
I haven't gone through the entire thread and listened to everything, but looking for music that splits the difference between dungeon synth and say Pink Floyd's More or Obscured by Clouds (i.e. psychedelic dungeon synth).
― the colour out of space (is the place) (PBKR), Sunday, 25 October 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
aka "acid dragon"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 October 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
Digging this mushroom-themed dungeon synth album, great autumnal forest vibes:
https://mycologia.bandcamp.com/album/assorted-mushrooms-of-new-england
Alias of Adam Matlock, who has played with Anthony Braxton and seems to have many other dungeon synth aliases that I haven't explored yet.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
loving this (aindulmedir), winter music for bibliophiles and hermits:https://aindulmedir.bandcamp.com/album/the-winter-scriptures
― brimstead, Monday, 18 July 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
just the jams i'm needing today, thx
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
NTS put out this compilation recently:https://n-t-s.bandcamp.com/album/ascendIt serves as a primer to the genre as well as a deep dive into its 90s origins.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 27 March 2023 12:16 (one year ago) link
anybody have any comfy synth faves? https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/58365/1/the-inside-story-of-comfy-synth-the-internets-snuggliest-microgenre?amp=1
― brimstead, Friday, 30 June 2023 21:03 (ten months ago) link
A friend picked up a cache of this stuff secondhand - quite taken with Tiny Mouse's Little Ones Journey.
― etc, Monday, 3 July 2023 00:01 (ten months ago) link
xxp i quite liked boomkat's review of that comp
Manna for BM fiends, D&D players and RPG questers; the next NTS compilation surveys the fetid bedroom-scape of dungeon synth music with a dozen gems plucked from obscure early ‘90s records.
‘Ascend’ holds a torch to black metal’s most atmospheric urges with exquisite, cherry-picked cuts compiled by Sam Strang with Bruno Halper (Emotional Rescue, NTS) and Will Dickson. Leading on from their expert surveys of private press folk, amapiano, and singeli, they turn sharply, bitterly inward with an icy grip of hard-to-find aces that can be hailed as the roots of what is now known as dungeon synth music.
The sound is surely familiar to dimples of black metal’s 2nd wave, and the sort of scene-setting, Midi-eval intros favoured by likes of Mortiis or dodgy cunt Burzum - particularly their inspiration from Tangerine Dream’s Conrad Schnitzler and Klaus Schulze that also leaches into ‘90s RPG computer games such as Diablo or indeed Skyrim in the modern day. Sniff your pits; you’ll know if that’s you: and if so, this set is another good excuse not to leave the house for as long as possible.
The fantasy begins with a stately invitation to join the kingdom of darkness extended by Evol (the Norwegian one), and proceeds from the enchanted pads of Corvus Neblus to the pulsating form of Asmorod, thru toens evoking flashbacks to kids TV gameshow ‘Nightmare’ in ‘Vindalv’s ’Swærfl Stimma’, taking in immersive durational wonders by Apeiron, Lunar Womb and Neptune Towers, beside the lustrous strings of Secret Stairways, and the wheeze of Kadotus609 primed to soundtrack alchemical experiments with Gatorade and Oreos or turn your next garage raid for rizlas and bacon into a gauntlet of suburban zombie NPCs and local hell-hounds.
ACE!!!
― ava (paolo), Monday, 3 July 2023 08:39 (ten months ago) link
i am an indiscriminate lover of dungeon synth. i will listen to most of it. my fave comfy synth might be grandma's cottage though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtBjuWw1Xvw
― scott seward, Monday, 3 July 2023 16:59 (ten months ago) link
I love the idea of dungeon synth / comfy synth etc, but I'm often let down by the execution. I assume this is meant more as background music for DnD sessions or something but it's very repetitive and there's very little change or dynamics in each piece. I'd just like it if there were a little more variety or change-ups
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:14 (ten months ago) link
Also, is anyone else having difficulty reading that Dazed piece? On my laptop screen half the text is obscured by a menu box
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:15 (ten months ago) link