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patricia taxxon is a musician and youtuber who has released 43 albums

last month she released a jawdropping microtonal pop single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2478o311QcQ

and followed it up with a video explaining how and why she made it

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

then followed that up with a cyberstep banger, a truly wild pitchshifting stevie wonder cover and one of the best piano ballads I've heard in years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_czBcs7tFtE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNELQfAwY94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V8yd5qgf4g

then proceeded to release a trilogy of albums (containing all of the above) over the course of 3 days, with an overarching concept drawn from oskar schlemmer's triadische ballett. these are her 5th, 6th and 7th albums of 2020 so far. they're absolutely phenomenal pop, techno, classical and whatever else she's chosen to throw in there. above all there is a love of melody and the possibilities of melody, and everything is so confidently realised

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9BYV4M-jdI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l1-l7vD3Mc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb2UkNZpO6M

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I listened to your first five links--faves: How & Why Made, "Pretty," also Gelb. So far, I like her music better when she's the one singing, the less processing of her voice the better, also liked the brief instrumental-only passages of Gelb. Will listen to more albums later this week, thanks for posting.

there is so much amazing music, this for instance is just incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD6Z10D7spU

doraemon/foley artist/pix & bit would seem to be the big 2019 trilogy, if you can just ignore her other 7 albums of last year alone (and i'll surely get around to them)

ilm is good again. maybe this hasn't been a waste of twenty years!

Pix & Bit has a fiddle track

just because you CAN release records doesn't mean you SHOULD release records

The basic compositional idea in "Spiral Staircase" is really interesting and I think the composition could work (but lol "pop song"). The electronic timbres are not very interesting imo, though, and I feel like the idea might come across stronger with a more accurate singer - assuming that I understand it correctly: the first half of the first verse is in 12tet in C and then she modulates to B half-flat for the second half but the melody here is still essentially supposed to be in 12tet, just a quarter-tone flat? Because if that's correct (and the musical setting and her description suggest this), I think she's singing a bit out of tune, especially when she has to leap, such that her G half flat veers near F natural and her C half sharp gets close to C natural territory. If she is actually trying to hit these quarter-tones, then cool but that seems like it would be a pretty different idea.

Alternatively, maybe if the whole thing were done with acoustic or amplified instruments with imperfect intonation and she sang it all in her offhand way, that might also work?

Sorry, I meant G half sharp veers near G natural, iirc.

it's a pretty good effort considering she's never touched microtones before! we all have to start somewhere. i quite like her singing voice (some don't) but yeah trying to sing accurately in quartertones is a pretty herculean task

j. playing grinch up there. why not create? she's even said on Twitter that she hopes to slow down and spend longer on projects, this is basically all practice and training at this point. the fact that so many of the results are so great already is kind of astonishing

the subjective fact, according to me, that is (she has a video about the impossibility of objective truth)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCuxCv22iI

Spiral Staircase is really interesting, particularly in conjunction with the visuals, until the precise point when it becomes a song. Would pay for an instrumental.

Just started listening to Schwarz, I am a huge sucker for gorgeous synths set against harsh granular shit. Her stuff sounds so fresh to me. That feeling is why I started listening to electronic music in the first place.

i love spiral staircase until the dry vocal comes in

it'll grow on you!

'pix & bit' is an absolute start-to-finish knockout of a record, it is up there with 'gelb' and 'rosa' and maybe more weirdly consistent than either despite being 71 minutes long. i've hardly been able to listen to any other artist for a week

there's a lot to dig through, but so far the hyperpop of Beauty is the one for me.

feel like a track like Moons would hit harder if it had been mastered properly, but if she paid to get things mastered we wouldn't get an album a day, so

abundance mindset

Jyväskylä is very good, maybe my favorite so far.

she ranked it first of all her albums on twitter a while back - it isn't my favourite but then i definitely skew towards her ultramelodic stuff

opening track of Victory Lap ('Hello, I Ruined Music') is possibly the best mash-up i've ever heard, and i've heard everything Cicierega has ever done in that field: https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/victory-lap

& seeing as Pix & Bit is still the best album, here's its Neocities page: https://pixandbit.neocities.org/

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/heavens-sun

'best mbv cover' might have a new winner folx

Hm, what is it that clicks with you about this cover? I'm not really sold on the rapping - is this sampled? Do like "Spiral Staircase" quite a bit.

just love the actually-very-convincing schnaussian electrogaze meets high energy shout-rap thing, it's bracing and odd and it works imo

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/fresh-tapes-2

now with added Backxwash

her 'mainstream pop album' and accompanying longform youtube video about pop music are coming tomorrow. it might well be that my favourite pop record of 2020 isn't out yet

she's done an ambient instrumental album and it's kind of incredible (if not THAT ambient at points, more a sort of chilled classical thing)

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/crocus

Fabulous stuff, this.

crocus 3-6 is a genuinely stellar run of music

It is! The whole thing is straight-up gorgeous though. I like how she varies and steers it towards neo-classical, though only in a nuanced way. It's playful but within a pretty clearly defined space.

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/walks-of-lung

Her new one is particularly good imo. By her own admission, went binging on Autechre then wrote an EDM pop album

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/visiting-narcissa

This is fantastic. Some sounds maybe too directly autechre-influenced (not that that's a crime or anything) but not all, way more kinetic than lots of recent ae and huge fat tunes on top.

sean booth's repping pays off :D

it's amazing yes, welcome aboard

whole album's great but 'her bed' is pretty safely the most successful autechre-but-not-autechre i've ever heard

Ahhhhh, this is wonderful. She releases a bit too much for me to keep up but so glad I caught this one.

love this

the only record i find myself returning to is 'endless' but this is right up there

"Careful, beaver" from the new one is very dope and unlike anything I've heard from her

"Visiting Nascissa" is great but I wish it had more going on in the low end. I'm sure it was a considered decision, that doesn't mean I have to agree with it.

my friends, it is here

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/techdog-1
https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/techdog-2
https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/techdog-3
https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/techdog-4

she was already furry autechre but here's the hypermelodic IDM megapiece we've all been craving. it does NOT disappoint

absolutely cannot stand the aesthetic but I guess I can listen with my eyes closed.

WAIT THO

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/techdog-5

Hah, nice! I'm excited to dig into these.

I really enjoy Patricia Taxxon's music. A few months ago I used some of the more ambient cuts from Traveler, Hotel, Aeroplane, Doraemon, and The Good Night in a documentary series I was working on. She was super cool about it! Her music really enhanced the vibe.

WUH

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/techdog-6

BUH!

https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/techdog-7

12 1/2 hours of the heart of the dog, building to a truly incredible climax