because every forum needs a music thread I'm enjoying 'Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93' a compilation album of upbeat synthy tunes made by Ghanaians living in Germany. https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ghana-special-2-electronic-highlife-afro-sounds-in-the-diaspora-1980-93 https://open.spotify.com/album/1LSTqJhdSVLvkxWpzwkYPv
Kisses Sweeter than Wine - Jimmie Rodgers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6FA6H-bctU Candy - The Blasting Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TJvqYvJ9oM Glory, Amen - The .357 String Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPoUY_ikq9o Van Leaving Blue - St. Cinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUw7OKBBjds Dance Like the Day Before You Die - Mood Area 52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klbkjSi6phA
Listening to this on vinyl for the first time in a year after hearing a 30 minute rant from a girl I have a history with and still have a thing for confess that she's been in an emotional relationship with her married boss for a year while she waits for him to get a divorce. It's hitting pretty good.
Bumping this before it disappears into the abyss... XX things I have been into in the last few months: 1. New Irish Folk à la Lankum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhqpQiXnFx0 Lankum - Go Dig My Grave Moody, droney, explosive. Not all all like jolly, old-timey irish folk music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s14qzghTdPU John Francis Flynn - Bring Me Home, pt. ii: I Would Not Live Always Repepitive lyrics, incredible instrumentals 2. Russian Electro Punk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXjx-Kaj5RM STVOL.TV — LOCKED CLUB LIVE SET This set has unmatched energy and might be the best party music I have heard in years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgxJ2Y7xpms RLGN & DUMMFÖUND - Mahaut 3. Warp-related/influenced artists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn1upHX9gbQ Rival Consoles - The Giant Swing Glitchy, ambienty goodness from London. I encourage everyone to check out Rival Consoles' output https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkXxQL-nyQw Midnight Star - The Midas Touch (Hell Interface remix). First released in 1999 as a limited release of 500 units. There will probably a day in the future where I am drunk enough to pay 200 bucks for the vinyl on Discogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d8bJeCODc Christ. - Blue Shift Emmissions The guy was a part of Boards of Canada once and it shows. But he has his own, moodier and less warped style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzbQhBj7MO0 Never liked these Youtube "vibe mixes" for years as they all came across as knockoff muzak/video game pastiche/Lo-Fi Beats For Contextless Zoomers... but lately I've been acclimating to listening to vibe playlists as opposed to being an anal-retentive trve music album listener. Yeah, I know they're "DJ mixes" or at least supposed to be descended from them, but they're obviously different in how they center visual/conceptual aesthetic as opposed to the focus on music flow in a standard mixset. How times change. Great picture too.
Update: couldn't make it more than 20 minutes in - such dull music and mixing. Posted too fast. Will wait next time. Fuck Youtube mixes.
For studying/playing chess: Dub Techno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVt6wNCcT58&pp=ygULZHViIGVsZW1lbnQ%3D Slow and heavy, repetative: Electric Wizard Devils Bride https://youtu.be/ioOlNg3imOI Satyr IX https://youtu.be/qhm-Q4U7g1o Ambient: The new Röyksopp https://youtu.be/t6yxvAtKASE Good lyrics: John Prine https://youtu.be/OLVWEYUqGew
I only listen to Baroque music these days. Antonio Bertali - Chiacona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdgmn4mg7oU Jean Gilles - Laudate nomen Domini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF7lqHmSw1o Jean Gilles - Requiem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfzjO_6Tl0&list=PLggvVsXDCFg9LhSjk2Cb_Ed-_SrhUH5fR Michael Praetorius - Dances from the Terpsichore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BtvXWs3gwI
The Mystery Lights - Purgatory album (special props for Mighty Fine & All Mine, Cerebral Crack) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7jB0p1mp5A5p9GRY1ZVU4g5vBy96bgq Justin Townes Earle - Starter Won't Start (Bad Gasoline) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmClBQHNUJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk677khGbUI
Goodwill haul 23-03-2025 Alash - Buura (Mongolian folk music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xOjNvc4-8k&list=PLatlXE4uwf0yILuRAwwwRzfk3QaNfmNjv Jalando la carreta - Traditional songs from Nicaragua https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8n1uIyG7bU Khine Htoo - Gaung See Tay (Burmese rock) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euwBsKrKe1s&list=OLAK5uy_m3o_Ll4Yun4IM1sZTO1mINlm3ST4P-bNs&index=2 Nitzer Ebb - Belief (Industrial) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvIEZZ7R7nE µ-Ziq - royal astronomy (Drum n Bass/Acid Techno) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox9qbovwckc Overall, very above average for what I usually find in this area. Lot of authentic Bong electronica, especially unusual for this place. Someone must have moved here and either bailed or died.
Forgot to mention I didn't buy most of the Bong electronica but I might go back and get it if I have some time.
The mu-ziq is lowkey kind of quirked up. I knew him as a pretty good artist but this is like, approaching toy box sort of kawaii thing going on. I was hoping for more solemn techno based on what I knew about the artist having sampled him long ago. But hey, the thrill of finding an album like this in this a-cultural dump is worth the $2.
>>1397 Well, to be fair it was released in 1999, so it's probably less inspired by video game music and more the inspiration on which video game music composers draw from. Not entirely, as there were certainly video games in 99, but probably less so than something like this released today.