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What I'm listening to today: "Mini TVs", Chad VanGaalen
Possibly the last good thing Apple did for me was give me a free mp3 of this song. I am endlessly amused, in this live version, by Chad rocking out on his comically tiny guitar. This is some sort of representation of unafraid masculinity. It is small but very loud. I love the timbre of single-mic live recordings like this. I love the blown-out drums.
The television says it loves you. But it does not love you.
What I'm listening to today: "Otherworldly Foe", Hirokazu Tanaka (Nintendo)
Notice this opening with an organ version of the "cave motif", also heard in "Battle Against Belch"; I imagine a teenage Toby Fox noticing this and it *blowing his mind*.
Some great demonstration of the power of the Super Nintendo's sample chip here. Sample trackers often excel at bass sounds, but the breakdown here sounds for all the world like a live rock band. At least on 90s TV speakers
What I'm listening to today: "Kraken of the Sea", Keiichi Suzuki
This is my favorite song from Earthbound. As a kid I called it the "Atomic Robot theme" because you fight the Atomic Robot more times than the kraken. Back then it *blew my mind*, it sounded like the techno I bought on CD, those sampled 303 sounds, but here it was in a video game. At the time nobody had told me how many 90s electronic musicians were using trackers. Aphex Twin was trackers. I didn't know.
What I'm listening to today: "Modern Language", anonymous Nanel Records artist
Here's the B-side of a somewhat mysterious vinyl release named "Nanel006", I guess because it's the 6th Nanel release.
In my fourth year of this thread, I have to admit I've never understood techno micro-genres. Here's some minimal, groovy kicks with the feel of a corridor between two large buildings in Bucharest in 1998. A thin man in a coat is smoking. There's a chain-link fence above you.
Nanel
What I'm listening to today: "Havoc in the Forum", TTNG
I think this is "math rock". Rock song components stuck together in an unfamiliar way, unfamiliar keys and time signatures, guitars swarming like insects, insects suddenly aligning themselves into unnaturally human straight lines, a motion-activated light bulb, an emotion you're not supposed to express out loud. You stole a page from his diary only to discover it was written in a private language known only to him
https://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/track/havoc-in-the-forum