rolling 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, br

hi guys :)

that haunting post by Lamp about hipsters and how if you are a hipster and 35+ you have to have serious substance abuse issues

lmao

my contribution to this thread is that the first 3 tonstartssbandht lps are being reissued. one of the formative bands of that era for me. new vid for the 2009 classic '5 FT 7'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGIgcVbs-S8

very good cat ... also DIY venue building interiors ... really my two favorite things rn

new dds track is p fun
https://deathsdynamicshroud.bandcamp.com/track/judgment-bolt

― nxd, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 4:32 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hell yeah, really looking forward to this album. They also stand out among the vaporwave milieu for doing really spectacular live sets. I saw them at Electronicon in 2019 and I remember their set feeling a notch above most of the other acts that day, or at least more pro/polished in comparison.

oh hello flopson, your presence here reminds me that Blanche Blanche Blanche have a new one out too (albeit a live album where their existing content is reworked)

https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/fiscal-remote-distilled

― imago, Monday, March 14, 2022 2:08 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Amazing. It actually looks like a situation where the live arrangements of older songs were recorded "live in the studio" rather than in concert.

Speaking of, I'm still wrapping my head around all the 2021 releases by Zach Phillips-helmed projects, each one an avant-prog-pop masterpiece of a different flavor:

Zach Phillips - Feed A Pigeon, Breed A Rat (imaginary radio revue with a different guest vocalist on each song)
Blanche Blanche Blanche - Seashells (great, super-overlooked "comeback" from these legends. Musically probably their mellowest, but still absolutely unhinged with some of the funniest lyrics I've ever heard)
Fievel Is Glauque - God's Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess (ZP + vocalist Ma Clément and a rotating cast of backup players, addictive proggy jazz-pop miniatures. Seems to be the most popular of these albums by far--currently 1,880 ratings on RYM vs. less than 500 combined for the other three)
Perfect Angels - Exit From the Ultra-World (ZP + Olia Eichenbaum on vox, bossanova/easy-listening aesthetic so probably the most accessible of the bunch, but the writing is still in how-many-chords-and-time-changes-can-I-fit-in-a-two-minute-pop-song mode. Beautiful cover of Karin Krog's "The Meaning of Love")

Anyone else dig these? I just think it's a stunning achievement to have dropped all four of these albums in a single year. It's weird, complex yet hooky ADHD pop that I find endlessly replayable.

I've been wondering what Utopian Virtual is, but not curious enough to check it out
I just assume all those genres justify people who can't write a song that can be played in public but are good with names for bedroom sonic experimentation
It's like a parallel industry at this point: "outsider house", stuff marketed for 2.0 Internet, with limited to no crossover or legacy
I remember early PC Music, Maint Attrakionz, Lil B, and the insane efforts at making them idols and canonizing, I guess it worked to some extent

utopian virtual is making sure you check out whatever fire-toolz is up to

had no idea zach phillips was so prolific last year, have only heard the FIG album! a lot to visit...

Yeah I think Nonlocal Forecast (Fire-Toolz/Angel Marcloid project) is like the ultimate realization of whatever "Utopian Virtual" is (basically Ferraro Far Side Virtual-core)

Re: Zach Phillips If you like the Fievel album you're sure to appreciate the other three from 2021. I'd start with the solo album, which covers the most stylistic ground.

https://urradioangel.bandcamp.com/album/radioactive-boss-baby (stabscotch sideproject while we wait for Prison Jar; is a BLAST)

This is rad but i believe i was promised pokemon itt

having fun listening to 'Feed A Pigeon, Breed A Rat' this morning, cheers for the recs

new release from the authorship of my favourite album of 2017

https://haord.bandcamp.com/album/real-gems-for-little-jewels

some recent stuff i've enjoyed (apols if linked elsewhere)

https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/armed-to-the-teeth-l-m-o-m-m
not your usual hausu release, but to the same high quality

https://fennecsound.com/album/a-couple-of-good-days
a really strange party album

can't find it on bandcamp but this is a little wiggly delight: https://www.discogs.com/release/21891046-Silicon-Scally-Field-Lines

New Fievel Is Glauque EP, sounding mighty fine four songs in. Higher-fi than the full-length + Wings cover!

https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/a-rodynes-ep

^^ liking that a lot

not sure which genre in the thread title this fits in, maybe dariacore?

the submissives - chirp like a bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC3MsXF9D7G

Any thoughts on the new Bladee/Ecco2k album Crest? I'm loving it--ethereal electro-dream-pop sprinkled with a truckload of aural fairy dust.

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

I feel like I've seen Bladee/Drain Gang get some hate around these parts, but I've been pretty deep into the stuff for a minute. For me the weakest part of their music is the limited-range singsong nature of the melodies, but there's something I find really moving and engaging about the aesthetic in general. Bladee's EXETER is a good place to start if you're unfamiliar--gorgeous minimal production, super concise.

bladee is a guy whose creativity i respect but whose, for lack of a better term, wimpy-ass vocals make it hard for me to listen for extended periods. i did dig 2020's 333 album a bit, and i'm a massive fan of drain gang producer gud's output in general.

the above song isn't really speaking to me, i'm afraid.

Yeah I feel you, his vocals are definitely love-it-or-hate-it. EXETER is an all-Gud production, which might be why it stands out above most of his other stuff for me.

enjoyed it but much prefer the ecco stuff I've heard before

i really liked gud's collab ep with rx papi from last year and wish he'd work outside the drain gang a bit more often

Hadn't heard that Rx Papi/Gud ep, checking it out now. Contrast of aggro bars + chill ethereal beats is amazing. Thanks for the rec

Fievel shows: 3/31 Brooklyn // 4/1 Brattleboro VT pic.twitter.com/HSfkArbEJf

— zach phillips (@fievelisglauque) March 25, 2022

Very glad I noticed Fievel Is Glauque playing tomorrow night 3/31 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The venue address is by request, was able to get it from Zach Phillips. If you're around and want to go you can webmail me for it or reach out to Zach directly

Sorry to clog up the thread with so much ZP content, just think he's doing great things these days lol

Ohhh the new Fievel Is Glauque EP is indeed a delight!!

any chat about the vitesse x album?
90s beat x ethereal vocals

ZP is also a poet, this was just released: https://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/678701135391014912/gpdf298gpdfe055-zach-phillips-human-light

^HIS MIND

New Death's Dynamic Shroud is very pop. Not sure if it's James or Tech singing, but it's pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qUUF9kyztI

Aaaaahhh they're moving onto PHASE TWO

ooh that's pretty good, looking forward to more where that came from

yeh really dig this

love this new Brainwaltzera album

https://brainwaltzera.bandcamp.com/album/itsame

https://soundcloud.com/dranon_23/day-break-prod-e5

This is interesting to moi, maybe the rest of you here:
https://kahomatsui.bandcamp.com/album/boywife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzF2VHaFKg0

hey flopson! ... could be some point in my personal timeline when i stopped paying attention or my relationship to contemporary music changed? ... before I turned 35 ... which reminds me of that haunting post by Lamp about hipsters and how if you are a hipster and 35+ you have to have serious substance abuse issues

― sarahell

for the record it doesn't _have_ to be serious substance abuse issues, it just has to be something that fucks you up really really bad for a very long period of time.

beep beep

beep beep https://t.co/CouXfqMgVq

— neggy gemmy (@NeggyGemmy) May 25, 2022

That's fun, but mostly in the late-90s nostalgia sense— I understand the appeal, obviously, but it's not doing enough that's different to really stand out for me.

any chat about the vitesse x album?
90s beat x ethereal vocals

― nxd, Saturday, 9 April 2022 13:13 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

been listening to this all morning, tremendous record imo, lovely dreamy vapourrave

It's kind of what I wanted from the last CFCF album

https://underwater-computing.bandcamp.com/album/phantasm

Underwater calm, sunlight streaming in from above

New Neggy Gemmy is fun but not on the level of her best stuff (e.g. "Bad Baby," "You Never Knew," "You Weren't There Anymore"... Still have high hopes for the album tho

the Vitesse X album is pretty dope, maybe it doesn't quite live up to its best moments (especially the first track which is just a total dream) but I think it does a great job capturing the vibe of a certain era without sounding like a straight throwback

re: Neggy Gemmy, I really do not like the name change but she's on a similar level. a bit darker and edgier perhaps. I'll always love her for sampling Tim & Eric's "Raz" on "No Rum"

speaking of Death's Dynamic Shroud I just started listening to their live album and it's super good. kinda distills everything great about them. been enjoying some of the recent stuff too (Faith in Persona & Transcendence Bot), I think the new one is gonna rule

Oh yeah Live From Japan is amazing. Especially track 5, the one that samples/vaporizes Taeko Ohnuki

This was a cool dds live set too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysptCu15Itg

damn, that's great too. very cool how the live versions of their studio tracks are very different, a lotta vaporwave artists don't do that

https://databurst.bandcamp.com/track/d-e-e-p-t-i-s-s-u-e

surprised to see no discussion of dazegxd on here. his new album vkiss is a blissed-out mix of hyperpop and plugg, with a prevailing aesthetic that borrows a good deal from the best parts of cheesy 90s eurodance

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

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

sounding intriguing, will give the album a bash, even if all of that kind of makes it magdalena bay lite

there's no rock in there, so i'd say it's pretty distinct from mag bay even if they do draw from similar aesthetic inspirations

Yet another hit from DDS. Getting more of a prog vibe from this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azB_8kjIUuw

wow that's incredible, hope there's an album on the way that'll include all of the singles from this year

yeah digging the Virtual Girls Band as well, I remember searching pretty hard for this sort of sound like 15 years ago

Can I plug my Chaka khan vaporwave album here?
https://ncxkd.bandcamp.com/album/chakawave-ep

link isn't working

the Vitesse X album is quite a bit stranger than I remembered. kinda has this music from the other side of the wall vibe to it. 100% Electronica is putting out a lot of really cool records like this, where they're 90s throwbacks but in a "this is what music in 2023 might've sounded like in an alternate timeline" kind of way.

IDK what hyperpop is anymore, but enjoying Trust Fund Ozu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFs_F7hk5L8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVtZTtSD06M

Three new Death’s Dynamic Shroud albums released today. I can’t keep up with all this, but I’ll try.

you'll try.......living like this?

two of them are remakes of previous fanclub-only albums apparently. i'm seeing people on rym compare one to the blue nile (???) so i will check that one out at least

it sounds like Midnight Tangerine and Keys to the Gate were both essentially remade from scratch, though I haven't heard the originals. I have heard Transcendence Bot though and it's great. I think that one is just being released as-is.

i finally got around to listening to a Rebzyyx comp a friend made, it's good stuff but there's also a lot of weird drama regarding impersonators and stuff and damn the Internet is fucked up, you know?

OK so WTF is this "Denpa" shit, anyway? Like hikikomori hyperpop that's obsessed with moe... like 4chan people but cisgender? Or something? It seems, like... adjacent to this thread. Somehow.

Anyway it sounds good but it also sounds like the dialectic is maybe kind of fucked? I don't know.

why does the new death's dynamic shroud sound like Muse?

Specifically talking about Keys To The Gate. I didn't even realize they had several other new ones out until I looked at this thread.

They released three LPs on the same day a few weeks ago

pretty nice they're still keeping up the insane release schedule despite their music becoming less sample-based

that said they've kind of got a weird dynamic going on where "death's dynamic shroud" is more an umbrella term for anything the three members do, in fact I think of their 50+ albums only maybe 3 or 4 of them have actually been actively worked on by all three. it would be like if everything the members of YMO did was released under the name "Yellow Magic Orchestra". still pretty amazing consistency from them, I don't think there's a single dds release I've actually disliked

why does the new death's dynamic shroud sound like Muse?

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:50 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg sick, I will hear it tomorrow

listening to it and i don't really hear the muse