rolling careerist hacks, awkward pandering, transparently manipulative thread 2022

er, 2021

lol @ this title. I have been telling myself I need to listen to the new Tagaq since it came out, maybe this will give me the push I need to get round to it.

Mentioned on the albums poll thread that this is p much the only 2022 album I've spent any time with, think it fits here: Beast Nest - Sicko

Sharmi is cool, love her whole thing.

deliciously whacked-out vocal/electronic madness from ILXor Milton Parker and two other folks:

https://w0bbly.bandcamp.com/album/no-dominio

Is Milton Parker J*n L*******r?!

The Variations MACBA podcast series is probably my favorite music podcast of all time

yes! currently playing in Negativland

really feeling Uwalmassa - Malar, indonesian gamelan x industrial sludge

https://divisi62.bandcamp.com/album/malar

https://pudelprodukte.bandcamp.com/album/dna

Not as electronic as some of the other stuff recently posted, perhaps, but certainly in the weird music camp is a project from some friends that's been getting some nice write-ups— Eyes of the Amaryllis, Sift. https://horn-of-plenty.bandcamp.com/album/sift

I'm into it, but I'm also biased!

also, i lost my weighted ballot, but the albums that i voted for:

Kessler- Ambivalent EP
James Brandon Lewis Quartet- Code of Being
Patrick Shiroishi- Hidemi
Matthew Liam Nicholson- Nine Movements
Fuubutsushi- Good Sky Day
Fuubutsushi- Natsukashii
Fuubutsushi- Yamawarau
Fuubutsushi- Setsubun
Jessica Ackerley and Daniel Carter- Friendship
Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective- Ngủ Ngày Ngay Ngày Tận Thế
Matt Evans- Touchless
Slikback- MELT
LNS & DJ Sotofett- Sputters
Eimar Reidy & Natalia Beylis- Whose Woods are These
Scotch Rolex- Tewari
Skee Mask- Pool
Chris Schlarb & Chad Taylor- Time No Changes
Moon Reflecting- Non-GMO Rain Dance
Rachika Nayar- Our Hands Against the Dusk
xLWBxDRx- prairie spells, a ribbon wove
Anne Bourne- wave
Natural Information Society & Evan Parker- descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
Ahmed- Nights on Saturn (Communication)
ZULI- All Caps EP
Quin Kirchner- Live at Pro Musica

we're doing this on here tbh, i can't stand how overlooked they are

https://blackdresses.bandcamp.com/album/forget-your-own-face

the new one. it's probably the least brilliant album they've done (mostly as it's only 20 minutes long). it's still great. you should all still hear it. it's avant-stupid pop music and it bangs

also can some more of us get on the patty taxxon train for the absolute love of god, try this it's short (and came out the other day)

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

I kind of think we should strive to keep this thread somewhat silo'd from twenty-something RYM/internet stuff like hyperpop, hypnagogic pop, hexD, vaporwave, dungeon synth, cloud rap, nightcore, black midi, future funk, dariacore, seapunk, blown out anime voices, broken transmission etc, but appreciate the enthusiasm loujag

in other words, you meant this to be the ambient thread, not the experimental thread ... right?

Very welcome: noise, free improv, ambient, minimalism, field recordings, out-jazz, musique concrete, modern classical, drone, sound art and some sparing dips into out-there beats (batida, gqom, footwork, singeli)

Less welcome: Anything that's like "the new pop music is digitally clipping pokemon voices" or "I slowed and reverbed the Goonies"

We all share the thread though, so if I'm outvoted, I'm outvoted

We do have jazz and classical threads too fwiw.

donna I am really digging that Uwalmassa album, thank you!

Amy Denio just did a record of vocal/loop stuff:
https://amydenio.bandcamp.com/album/amy-denio-chapel-sessions

this thread title needs a Google Translate

Ann Eysermans – For Trainspotters Only
https://cortizona.bandcamp.com/album/for-trainspotters-only

gimmicky narrative ✔️
transparently manipulative ✔️

I'm kind of with Whiney on this one, but mostly because other than The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid, which is a veritable sea of calm, I haven't been able to get into any squeaky voiced hypergarbage monster mash stuff— I hate pop music, it doesn't help it to make it more annoying lol.

I posted this in the "music that rocks" thread, but maybe it is better suited here.

https://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/empathy-alpha

Dark ambient, synthy sci-fi soundtrack for a non-existent movie, complete with dialogue "scenes"

that Beast Nest thing emil.y posted is almost the perfect difference-splitter between this thread of Serious Experimental and my own toys-out-of-pram hypergarbage offshoot

I'm kind of with Whiney on this one, but mostly because other than The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid, which is a veritable sea of calm, I haven't been able to get into any squeaky voiced hypergarbage monster mash stuff— I hate pop music, it doesn't help it to make it more annoying lol.

Yeah, I'm actually in favour of separating non-notated EA/musique concrète and sound art out of "classical" (not that it appears in that thread much anyway) and free improv out of "jazz", and good with separating brickwalled Ke$hacore (a couple of songs of which I've enjoyed) into its own category.

I much prefer throwing everything into the mix and seeing what sticks, but if imago's cool with having his own hyperstuff thread then I'll just have to bookmark them both and hope I choose the right one when I'm posting.

ofc i am! whiney is right to gatekeep itt, i say that 100% seriously

Finnish folk music duo Akkajee are releasing a creepy video for their song "Lastenkerääjä" (translation: child collector):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEtmTsa5zvo

:O

https://wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/track/sjsj-ii

Less welcome: Anything that's like "the new pop music is digitally clipping pokemon voices" or "I slowed and reverbed the Goonies"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 6:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol dying at this

honestly there is a thin line between people still looping and blooping like it was still the 1980s and ... slowed and reverbed the Goonies

Some stuff I've bookmarked for Bandcamp Friday in March:

p2p- Impossible Burger
https://karenng.bandcamp.com/album/impossible-burger
(Karen Ng with two others does musique concrète, ambient, noise vibes, good shit)

Rachel Beetz- Unofficial
https://orendarecords.bandcamp.com/album/unofficial
(Flautist does eerie noise experimentation, alternately very dreamy and absolutely crushing)

Robbie Lee and Lea Bertucci- Winds Bells Falls
https://telegraphharp.bandcamp.com/album/winds-bells-falls
(whizzy tape manipulation, rare bells, and antique whistles)

(Admittedly cribbed list from Foxy Digitalis, which in its new iteration has been a nice home for weird and under the radar stuff)

agreed, it's super useful. that dude posts a LOT

some sparing dips into out-there beats (batida, gqom, footwork, singeli)

Hey now, between this and the ravey hardcore continuum thread, my club music would be left with very little!

Yeah, tbh I rarely do the Patreon thing but I did for Foxy D because he clearly spends so much time and energy listening to things and writing about them and communicating with people.

this maya shenfeld album is gorgeous

also love those biosphere and beast nest records linked at the start of the thread (just going through sorry!)

some stuff i've enjoyed recently that i think belong here:
Tran Uy Duc - Came
Martin Glass - 21 Commissions For Business
Mike Cooper - Oceans of Milk and Treacle

Pikachu!

Jesus I'm going to end up spending a lot of money on Bandcamp Friday in March, it seems.

New Pan American is a dusty, pastoral little drive

https://panamerican.bandcamp.com/album/the-patience-fader

fell in love with this record over the weekend:
https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/grounded

not on bandcamp at the moment but the new album from debit, "the long count" is worth a listen

A friend gave me this one over the weekend, truly strange and "sketchy" record with a vibe that's somehow both unsettling and relaxing.

https://horn-of-plenty.bandcamp.com/album/catch-up-with-what-party

A few things from Epic Games Friday:

This split tape from Sullow/The Silver Field is really cool, Sullow is psychedelic banjo Henry Flynt hillbilly vibes with some wild improv drumming, The Silver Field reminds me a bit of Current 93 but more chill and not as annoying, really sick tbh, been listening to it non-stop.
https://betwixtbetweentapes.bandcamp.com/album/betwixt-between-8

I mean, you could call this jazz, but it's so fucking weird, Mike Cooper still has it
https://mikecooper.bandcamp.com/album/oceans-of-milk-and-treacle

Sublimity defined with Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Alex Varty
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/pacifica-koral-reef

Yeah, I really wanna hear that Smith/Kaiser/Varty joint in full

Yeh love that Mike Cooper record, will check the other two

Came out last year, can't remember where it caught my eye, but this is pretty sinister, liminal electronic noise

https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/a-o-a

This record is really something else.

https://matchess.bandcamp.com/album/sonescent

It reads like hyperbole, but it is doing a lot of interesting work psychoacoustically— hi-pitched sine waves will emerge from nostalgic folk-pop into muffled fiddling...Like how Basic Channel was doing "a basement techno club from several blocks away," this is like "someone fiddling with synthesis while a band practices next door and also the dumpster is being unloaded outside the window." Really neat.

it's a wonderful record, love the outtro

some recent stuff i've enjoyed

https://bogdanraczynski.bandcamp.com/album/addle
"Marking a change from the high-octane jungle tekno braindance for which he is most commonly known, here we find the Polish American musician in a more melodic and zen-like place of peace, which is ergonomic and decluttered, whilst also bittersweet and tinged with melancholy."

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-from-the-land-islands
interesting story behind this on the page, the final track is absolutely stunning

https://gerryfranke.bandcamp.com/album/found-myself-or-just-i-m-dead
Gerry Franke - Found Myself or Just I’m Dead

https://adelamede.bandcamp.com/album/szabads-g-3
"Szabadság is a navigation. This debut by Adela Mede, recorded in her family home on the Slovakian border with Hungary, searches through the personal, familial, cultural, folkloric and geographic of her past and present."

Some friends have been recording very strange duets under the name Glovenathans. I like this new one, seems to be mostly guitar duets or guitar w/ synth.

https://smilingmind.bandcamp.com/album/nights-on-broadway

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtPbjiBnV0c&t=9895s

this record is wonderful from a couple of british composers:

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/robert-ames-ben-corrigan-carbs/867157-01/

This is some weird neo-folk tribal percussion stuff, extremely for the heads. https://begayer.bandcamp.com/

Seriously, you guys :O

https://lauracocks.bandcamp.com/album/field-anatomies

sounding great, thanks

been listening to the stuff from this thread for the last week or so... cool

i bought the tape of this one, nice lowkey release: https://tssstapes.bandcamp.com/album/nido

i got really into this chinese label earlier this year (dunno if i read about them on ilx or elsewhere), but this new release from them sounds great to me: https://zoominnight.bandcamp.com/album/killed-as-time and i also really like the albums of beatles covers by mai mai also on their bandcamp

take it easy

great stuff ^

People had a lot of dunking to do on that famous Tone Glow article but there really is a whole metric shitton of ambient music out there right now

Seriously, you guys :O

https://lauracocks.bandcamp.com/album/field-anatomies🕸

🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-studies-i-iii

🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

https://lionelmarchetti.bandcamp.com/album/symphonie-2022-improvised-electronic-music-live-studio

Fievel is Glauque opening for Stereolab this fall, y’all

New Monuments – Language Is The Skin
https://tornlight.bandcamp.com/album/language-is-the-skin

v nice

That made me wince, and I like skronky stuff at times.

New Ashley Paul doubles down on the best bits (wobbly drunk clarinet) of 2020's Ray; is tremulous and gorgeous and miraculously avoids overt preciousness:

https://ashleypaul.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-fog

Been meaning to check out that New Monuments record. Also thanks for the tip about new Ashley Paul, technopolis.

Currently listening to Lila Bazooka - Arashiyama, which I think people here might enjoy.
https://ayler-records.bandcamp.com/album/arashiyama

Ambient/EA guitar stuff. I like it more than other Oppedisano I've heard, maybe bc he leans more into the lyrical lead guitar:
https://marcooppedisano.bandcamp.com/album/evening-sky

68yo raspy French contralto chanteuse singing in English, French and Italian over improvised dissonant jazz/rock music that at times recalls the Birthday Party, at other times Van der Graaf Generator.

https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-scale-124cd-2021

I don't know if I really get this thread's remit, but the new Rachika Nayar is impressive. I like it a lot more than her previous album. The way it bursts into ravey technicolor at times never fails to delight (though it might be alienating if all you want is Grouper-y banks of melancholic guitar fog), and in general this sounds like a big step up in ambition and achievement to me

yeh really enjoying it

it's kinda just 'post-rock except cool' but i like that. definitely more ambitious than her previous work

I did get the urge to listen to Seefeel after that final remix track, so you're onto something there. But does that imply post-rock isn't already cool? :(

Satisying noise/drone on solo cello with effects. Clears up about halfway through and some melodic themes emerge. https://markmolnar.bandcamp.com/album/mark-molnar-saturns-son

v nice

Some Bandcamp stuff

- New two-song single from ---__--___, 'Divine Berth'
If you liked last year's 'The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid,' this is the same sort of thing— "new" classical vibes with auto-tuned vocals, very unsettling and great. https://sethgraham.bandcamp.com/album/divine-berth

- A record from Baum Sae, 'Communication'
from the release page: "Baum Sae is a collaborative project between drummer Soojin Suh, and traditional vocalist Borim Kim combined with Gina Hwang on Geomungo, a traditional Korean plucked instrument. Together they formed a new project "Baum Sae" (translation: Night Birds) in 2020, combining traditional Korean musical elements with group improvisations and original compositions." https://soojinsuh.bandcamp.com/album/communication

- lilien rosarian, 'every flower in my garden'
tape manipulation, radio interference, bells, very beautiful hazy music with some occasional moments of "whoa" mindfuck https://lilienrosarian.bandcamp.com/album/every-flower-in-my-garden

- Nick Storring, 'Music from Wéi'
Solo piano, very beautiful and unexpectedly strange— goes from sounding like soundtrack music to sounding like Morton Feldman. Great.
https://nickstorring.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-w-i

Maybe a few others, that's all I have time for right now.

Ah, yeah, I liked the lilien rosarian. Recalled Fennesz, which is v welcome for me. I revisited Storring's My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell recently, which was pleasant. This one seems like it will be quite different.

Also got a new Mike Cooper record, but will comment on his thread.

there a mike cooper thread?
really liking forbidden delta planet blues

there is! just search his name.

yeah, that’s the one— been on repeat the past day or so, excellent record

Love Mike Cooper. Been blasting White Shadows In The South Seas in the car a lot over the years.

Is this where the Loraine James/Julius Eastman thing goes? She has never clicked for me before, but I'm loving it!

That record is shaping up to be real nice.

Lol I never know where anything goes. I want to post about the new Arp album New Pleasures, but it may be too beat-driven for this thread, not dancey enough for the re-deconstructed thread, and not internety enough for the RYM twenty-somethings thread. The whole album is full of beautiful slick City Pop-inspired synth goodness.

couple of records that have been on repeat for me

https://ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-magnesium-173

https://builenradar.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-no-hunger-in-your-shame

Anyone got any ideas for the new thread name

rolling deterministic aleatorics, institutionalized critique, and avant status quo thread

rolling Lydia Tár

shit imago hates 2023

rolling doses, theses, and feces 2023

ooh, what was that snarky tweet where it was like "It was cool to do hyper-real squelchy sounds because of the technology five years ago but now it's played out"

New thread:

rolling frankly annoying quirked up random ass sounds glooped onto a DAW 2023