ITT recommend music to a specific ILXOR

are you ever listening to something and thinking, "man, (this specific ILXOR) would love this!" but are, like me, too sheepish to send ilxmail? then this thread is for you!!

apologies if this has been done before but I tried a bunch of searches and they came to naught. I did find an Audioscrobbler thread but I don't scrobble and I assume a lot of you don't either.

To start things off, every time I listen to The Black Queen's Fever Daydream I think, "DJP should really hear this if he hasn't..."

https://youtu.be/o8t_9SxvSV8

I had something for brad too but I can't recall it right this second...

(and, on a similary synthy but much brasher tip, Odonis Odonis' No Pop.)

looooooool I saw this thread pop up and literally went "ooh man I hope this is a recommendation for me, Simon knows his shit"

<3

A fine sign, that!

this is legit

seriously this is the shit, wow

Oooh I have often thought of starting a thread like this! Of course now I'm blanking on any of those particular recommendations but glad to know this is here

from 2014.
for brad
had high hopes for this crew, but nothing happened as per usual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF64CqN46S0

I quite like that Black Queen track but not mad on the vocals, personally.
I'd love it if anyone had recommendations for me, though.

wtf a bunch of my post got eaten? started with:

I'm bad at keeping track of most ilxors' tastes but I scanned a bunch of yr recent posts and for some reason feel compelled to recommend the not-quite-ambient instrumental band Tape, who you may or may not have already heard (I don't see them mentioned much these days), nicely perched btwn active and passive listening;

Emil.y I’m not totally sure if I know your tastes but i saw a local artist called Dialing In perform a couple years ago and she absolutely blew me away, iirc a mixture of field recordings and loops/noise and Eastern European folk melodies. Don’t exactly know which of these to recommend but https://dialingin.bandcamp.com/music

Everybody tell me your starsigns and I will reccommend which Shamen remix most perfectly matches your vibrational frequencies!

p.s. this is a joke in case that is not immediately apparent ^^^

I have no expectation of anyone having any thoughts about my taste, but if anyone has any recommendations of anything at all recorded between 1939 and 1942, they would be very welcome right now.

Just listening to Dialing In now and it's very up my street, thank you JoeStork! I might actually nab some of this for my radio show.

Simon, I think I might have heard Tape before, but trying to check is a bit of a nightmare as they're basically ungooglable, gah.

try searching on discogs then use album names there or tracklistings to youtube/spotify them?

Tape are very good, yes.

try searching on discogs then use album names there or tracklistings to youtube/spotify them?

― Oor Neechy

Good shout. And now I see that Simon's post about 'Luminarium' was a Tape album.

I have no expectation of anyone having any thoughts about my taste, but if anyone has any recommendations of anything at all recorded between 1939 and 1942, they would be very welcome right now.

― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

The album 'Native Brazilian Music' was recorded in the early hours of a day in 1940 aboard the deck of the S. S. Uruguay, while the ship was harboured in the port of Rio de Janeiro. The idea behind the initiative to record the 'legitimate' Brazilian popular music came from Leopold Stokowski, one of the most famous conductors in the western world at the time, during a tour he did with the All-American Youth Orchestra throughout South America. But to fully grasp the context of the album's recording, we need to go back to the previous decade

NativeBrazilianMusic:80thAnniversary

no idea if it's on spotify. it's on youtube as a playlist

I think brad (and ppl who are into bradly things) might dig the new album by toronto art-pop weirdos Bernice, who are sort of akin to a much artier men I trust. lots of sax elsewhere on the album as well. also their spotify banner image is excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5vAoQZefy8

hi sorry if wrong thread.

i would love to be able to recommend something to someone, but instead i have a request.

there's a specific type of sound that i've heard on records for most of my life. a good friend once described it as "if you could see music, it's like looking out at it through a rainy car window in a bright city at night." there was a meme in the guitar pedal community about it a while back: people were basically trying to rebrand bit crusher pedals by describing them as having a "G R A N U L A R" sound. i don't have the knowledge to put words to it otherwise, so i just say it's when sound becomes pixelated (something something vaporwave?) and i've always wanted to know 1. why does it sound like that? and 2. where can i hear more?

recently hearing fishmans brought this back into the front of my mind — just how fascinated i've always been with this sound. here's an example of it in their song "新しい人" from 1996:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQTWrT2K3co

it's really subtle, but there's a sample or something going in the faint back of the mix there right from the start. just droning. but somehow harmonically with everything else?

i'm sorry to do this, but i feel i need to post some of my own music as an extra example. i have used bit crushers and even dabbled into ring mods and some of those fancy granular deals because they all helped me chase this sound. but there was one pedal that just nailed it out the box and that's my ever-cherished lofi analog delay (i feel like this might also go a long way to explain the science behind how that sound is created). here's a mono doodle i recorded a couple years ago using a lot of gear; all of it went through that delay. i use it all the fucking time.

do you hear what i hear? is there a name for that sound? where did it come from? what are some other fun places it pops up?

Granular fx/synths break sound apart into 'grains' and the sound is def similar to heavy bit-crushing and extreme time stretching to my ears. I have a few granular plugins that I still use a lot (Hysterisis, Pigments), but I really associate this sound with '90s idm, like it's all over the first TTA album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfmLaGFtyRA

XP - I used a great program called Audiomulch a lot of years ago and it had a few granular engines in it, you could adjust harmonic settings to create like a tuned-wind effect. It was free 10+ years ago, it seems to have a lot more features nowadays and is for, but still looks pretty good.

I love the bitcrushed choir sound in Aphex twin’s “cow cud is a twin”, kinda hard to tell if it’s synthesized or a sample..I think that’s a lot of the appeal for me, that ambiguity.

that ambiguity.

bingo. as a listener, it makes me feel like the melody / harmony is in another "language" that i don't fully speak but that i understand enough to get by.

i listened to fahrenheit fair enough while computering and enjoyed it. i found "lotus above water" quite striking. thank you!

i've noticed this sound also pops up in a lot of ambient / "new age" / kankyo ongaku, though it mostly seems incidental in those cases. an artifact of a certain type of synth / time-based effect that was popular in that scene maybe?

also wanted to mention bjork's medulla as another example of where this sound pops up a lot. specifically the song "desired constellation" really exploits it.