Rolling "Experimental Is A Shitty Descriptor But Whatev" 2017

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https://ouijaboys.bandcamp.com/

Atari-controlled MIDI organism vs. free-blowing, Califone turntable feedback, crickets, birds etc.

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 15 January 2017 01:10 (seven years ago) link

https://likeavillain.bandcamp.com

Saw her live a couple weeks ago and she was astonishing. Mostly treated vocals and clarinet.

JoeStork, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link

https://indexical.bandcamp.com/album/organvm-perceptvs

deep learning analysis of pop song wave files, breaking them into individual instruments, creating artifact-riddled sheet music which is then played in real time by large ensembles and it sounds incredible -- at first it sounds as if it's filled with timing errors and wrong notes, but all the 'wrongness' is actually over-precise analysis of some of the original arrangements, and as you listen over time and the pieces somehow hold together and get tighter and tighter, you realize that they kind of aren't strictly errors, there's some kind of turbo-charged high level thinking going on

whole album is completely amazing, especially 'ring of fire', 'jungle boogie' and 'crazy', but I think they made a good choice leading with the madonna

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link

Some very quiet sound art stuff that has been feeling pleasant today: https://jeffreydavidmorton.bandcamp.com/album/ini-al-andering-usic

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link

https://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/track/conversions-of-the-three-copal-perils-emanation-body

this track is oh my god

Dinsdale, Friday, 27 January 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link

Enjoyed it

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, 28 January 2017 03:40 (seven years ago) link

wow the Happy Valley Band is excellent

example (crüt), Saturday, 28 January 2017 05:20 (seven years ago) link

Online audio installation streaming 24/7 until Feb 28. In their (Instant Places') words, "an evolving sound sculpture composed of three-minute modules with three seconds of silence between each module. ":

In the online audio installation Carbon Sugar Air, Instant Places generates and broadcasts slowly evolving sound objects inspired by the natural forms and processes of lichen symbiosis.

http://naisa.ca/carbon-sugar-air/

[Full disclosure: I know these people as well as Jeff Morton, who made the last thing I linked.]

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Sunday, 29 January 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link

I can't keep track of where droney stuff goes these days but this is good, from the guitarist of Implodes

https://soundcloud.com/hitd-3/sets/matt-jencik-weird-times

na (NA), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, that was good. Does he have more stuff like that?

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link

https://infrequencyeditions.bandcamp.com/album/particles-waves

excellent work

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link

that Jencik album (xxp) is my first great record of 2016, any genre. beautiful stuff.

alpine static, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link

he is a kind person too
i'm glad his album is getting some exposure!

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link

i found out about it from marc masters on twitter. it is really good. it made me check out implodes, who are OK but not really my thing.

na (NA), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link

i like implodes
he also played with slint! remember when we went to see the slint movie?
matt j also did a solo guitar thing at the hideout that was really enjoyable (part of the monthly resonance series)

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link

thanks for the Jencik, I've only sampled the first few tracks so far but I feel like this is going to be right up my alley

Dinsdale, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link

well fuck sleep I'm going to listen to the whole thing

Dinsdale, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:41 (seven years ago) link

I liked Noyes/Olsen too. I want to listen again when I can play it louder.

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 2 February 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link

jamming to and enjoying this right now
https://mascarponediscos.bandcamp.com/album/true-history

nxd, Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:24 (seven years ago) link

the pull track is just a sped up version of thinking plague's "organism". speaking of which thinking plague has a new one set to drop tomorrow. their last few records were so cheery! i'm sure it will be an upbeat and uplifting experience.

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 February 2017 12:57 (seven years ago) link

ugh seriously half this record is just chunks of _in this life_ sped up. i don't know what the other half is but i'm betting jaikel didn't have anything to do with creating it. jaikel better hope steve feigenbaum never finds out about his "album".

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link

yeah wtf

ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link

I mean I'm not against sampling/manipulation as a form of making music but this is just zero-effort nonsense

ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:24 (seven years ago) link

ha wow! in the age of vaporwave I am getting used to barely altered varispeed appropriation and still somehow having it feel legitimately 'authored' but for whatever reason, this guy putting his name on this seems notable for moral slippage

just happy to be on a board with members that can trainspot Thinking Plague in a 90 minute window, maybe the alt reality where 'In This Life' is standard album that every prog rock fan venerates is real after all

Milton Parker, Friday, 10 February 2017 01:12 (seven years ago) link

/is _a_ standard album

Milton Parker, Friday, 10 February 2017 01:13 (seven years ago) link

Happy Valley band is quite funny for those two songs but not sure if I could take a whole album of it

ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 10 February 2017 11:26 (seven years ago) link

probs fav album art of the year, records p good too (choice cut is 'all deth is u')
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/drip-mental

nxd, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 10:39 (seven years ago) link

I've been getting into Andrea Pensado's Soundcloud. Meticulous digital noise compositions.

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link

nxd that is great and it belongs on my thread not this one just fyi

imago, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link

yes, this is silly. but arbitrary vanities of nebulous difference doth a messageboard make

imago, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:19 (seven years ago) link

wowzers that hausumountain label is a veritable treasure trove of variegated mentalism thanx nxd !

massaman gai, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link

yeh that walkthrough album is really cool, one of my favs of last year

nxd, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link

https://billygomberg.bandcamp.com/album/transition

v richly detailed and textured drone-ish material

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 16 February 2017 00:02 (seven years ago) link

Guys: http://caseysokol.com/?page_id=793

V cool interactive algorithmic/generative piece that is different each time you play it.

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 20 February 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link

new stuff from Draugurinn. dark ambient Norse-obsessed stuff from France (which admittedly sets off a couple of "who's yr crew" alarms)

pretty nice

https://draugurinn.bandcamp.com/

though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 20 February 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link

https://joshuasabin.bandcamp.com/album/terminus-drift

New release on Subtext, FFO last year's Roly Porter, Paul Jebanasam

Dinsdale, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 13:04 (seven years ago) link

some great stuff here cheers dudes
put it on last years time travel thread but the stuff at haord records is all worth a listen
https://haord.bandcamp.com/music

nxd, Thursday, 23 February 2017 11:41 (seven years ago) link

from last year but i didn't see a mention anywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M52I0gnuipE

like the durutti column meets 2001-era chiptune/idm meets footwork (??)

clouds, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link

That one's really pleasant, groovy.

My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 27 February 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link

yeah euglossine was on my 2016 longlist, definitely one of the better vaporwave records of '16

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 27 February 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link

yeh voted for the title track in the tracks poll! really great record

nxd, Monday, 27 February 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link

some friends of mine made an excellent drone record

https://aimlow.bandcamp.com/album/scratched-out

a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 27 February 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link

have we talked about impossible nothing's "phonemenomicon"? all of the buzz seems to come directly from piero scaruffi, but i've gotten through to "s" and i'm liking it.

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, 4 March 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link

https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-points-on-the-angle-nrr44

new Graham Lambkin tape

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link

all of the DISPLAY series here is good. 10 - 15 min tracks by WWWINGS, Kid Smpl, etc

https://soundcloud.com/displayseries

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link

wow, this track (and the other two on the EP, but especially this one)
https://soundcloud.com/danse-noire-records/gil-many-1

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 March 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link

Yikes, this track is nutso. Took me a few listens but this is crazy good.

Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Friday, 17 March 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link

Quite like those DISPLAY tracks

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Monday, 20 March 2017 01:15 (seven years ago) link

Maybe on the melodic end for this thread but I like this : https://missingorgans.bandcamp.com/album/old-speakers
Nice cover too

na (NA), Monday, 20 March 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link

wow, this track (and the other two on the EP, but especially this one)
https://soundcloud.com/danse-noire-records/gil-many-1

This is wild, I love it.

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link

i really like this record!
a mash up of sorts of lots of stuff i've been enjoying recently

nxd, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 08:28 (six years ago) link

https://tenthcourt.bandcamp.com/track/supercell

Wolf Shield - Supercell. This recent release is a little more interesting than the usual electronic/pop stuff coming out, to my ears at least.

carpet_kaiser, Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link

some things i enjoyed over the weekend - sorry that they don't all fit here

IT IT - formal odors https://ititpgh.bandcamp.com/album/formal-odors
'this heat' kinda experimental art pop

infinite bisous - w/love https://infinitebisous.bandcamp.com/album/w-love
very relaxing ambient pop

golden teacher - sauchiehall withdrawal youtube.com/watch?v=GFpnkgd6iok
this track is giving me 'liquid liquid' vibes

nxd, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link

Golden Teacher are ace!

paolo, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

Glad this one is coming out, such a cool banger: https://soundcloud.com/do-the-astral-plane/loft-heffalump-szare-remix-1

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread as well as all the tracks from rolling attention deficit 2017 -> 999999999999 -> 999999999999999999 (division be damned), organized sorta-not-really chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Art Rock, Noise and Experimental Sounds Thread(s) Spotify Playlist

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link

man you're really asking for a 700-word l.jagz post

na (NA), Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link

hopefully he posts it on the other thread though

na (NA), Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link

thank you for thinking of us

― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:35 (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link

you're no fun

na (NA), Thursday, 7 December 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

This duo improvisation on solo marimba with real-time Ableton Live processing goes to some beautiful places: https://dbergeron.bandcamp.com/releases
(Marimba player was a colleague years ago.)

No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link

four weeks pass...

hey no new threads yet?
sorry if i missed them

this off the quietus today is p good
http://thequietus.com/articles/23902-slow-place-like-home-when-i-see-you-ice-cream-album-review

i haven't heard anything by him before but its certainly soothed this quite grey morning :)

nxd, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link

there's a new thread that I pledged to merge my own concern with but it's taken off in a very bobbins-y direction that i really want little to do with

will check this out though!

#TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link

bring back time travel

nxd, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link

Rolling Experimental Electronic & Misfit Club Music 2018

the lack of a comma between 'experimental' and 'electronic' is pissing me off and making me think i need to start something time-travelly, yeah. i don't even think orange milk would be so welcome there

listening to slow place like home! intriguing so far...

#TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link

oh this is good!

#TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link

feels like what might have happened if the beta band had followed up heroes to zeroes, in a good way

#TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link

Yeah this is p good

♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link

went through it twice, safe to say my favourite record of the year so far!

nxd, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link

l e v a r t e m i t k c a b g n i r b

― nxd, Wednesday, 24 January 2028 12:25 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

? (seandalai), Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link

Do we have a rolling thread for retro, completely un-experimental, electronic music? Y'know: the sort of thing released by Polytechnic Youth, Castles In Space, A Year In The Country and the like.

Jeff W, Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link

some great news!
fire toolz vs nmesh :D
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/fire-toolz-release-interbeing-remix-collection-suite-309-shares-nmeshs-absolute-cut-throat-remi

might just start a thread for time travel, noiselectronic, experimental, bleep bloops, vaporwave, orange milk 2k18?

nxd, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link

it would need to be distinct enough from the 'experimental electronic' thread already in play but yes!

imago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link

what is orange milk?

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link

label responsible for death's dynamic shroud, giant claw, loads of other exciting US electronica. is elysia crampton on them?

imago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link

ah! thank you

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link

crampton isn't but they're still great

imago, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link

xps good shout i'll remove the electronic bit

nxd, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link

Hmmm yeah, I guess I think of Orange Milk as being a little less functional, more cartoon-y, maximal, and heavier on internet detritus collage than what I'm into personally. Cool that they seem to have really found an audience though.

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link

sounds like a description of haord music!

nxd, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link

what makes Orange Milk different from the other dozen labels that release giant claw, death dynamic shroud.wmv etc?

brimstead, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link

not too much i guess, i didn't put too much thought into the thread name but shudda outlined genres rather than labels in hindsight

nxd, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link

two months pass...

Park Jiha: Communion -- really lovely Korean multi-instrumentalist stuff

https://parkjiha.bandcamp.com/album/communion

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link

yeah, saw this one on bandcamp daily (I think?) it's really nice

Dinsdale, Friday, 20 April 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link

v relaxing listen - great stuff

nxd, Monday, 23 April 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link


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