I suspect there's only a very small number of people in my audience who overlap with synth gear YouTube, but let me know if you have any other channels you'd recommend.
If you're involved in electronic music-making and you're not white, please DM me on here.
I've just been watching loads of #SuperBooth footage and was aghast at how overwhelmingly white the whole thing is. I've seen more diversity at EDL marches.
So, I'm gonna try and do something about it. And the first thing is organising.
Hello new folks! There's a lot of you recently, so I thought I'd do an #intro post. I'm an independent #musician who uses Mastodon to spread the word about #IndependentMusic --my own, and the work of others! If you #follow, you'll get lots of recommendations of new, #independent, #underground#music of all kinds! My own favorite is weird #ElectronicMusic, but I listen to and write about all kinds of music.
My first live performance in 12 years made me re-think my studio -- here's how I'm making my studio time more performance-oriented. (This one's for the gear-heads.)
https://yoniden.bandcamp.com/album/meanwhile-in-meatspace
“Meanwhile In Meatspace” was the first Yoni Den long player, released on BandCamp in January 2020. Later that year it was (re)released on HoloJamz with a limited physical release on MiniDisc and Cassette, some sweet merch in the form of Tee Shirts and ArtPrints. Unfortunately, after selling out the MiniDiscs and a bunch of tapes, HoloJamz went to the wall and the orders were never fulfilled.
That’s as close as I ever got to a physical release.
And it kind of soured this Album a little for me, for a short while.
It’s a goofy album.
I loved it when I was making it.
It was made entirely on the Elektron Digitakt, using no track mixdowns, so it’s limited to eight ‘tracks’ or ‘voices’ at any one time. This gives a great minimal lofu kind of vibe to the album. I rarely use more than three drums in a track,(this is true of most of my music! Ha!), it’s mixed by ear in the digitakt and recorded with Zoom H6. I guess it is mostly Instrumental on the Hip-Hop side of Hip-House, your guess is as good as mine.
Today, almost four years on, this is still a goofy album.
I do love it again.
It’s a name your price release on BandCamp, just pop in zero to cop.
I hope you will enjoy it!
in an effort to expand my music library and also share cool stuff, fedi, I beseech thee... lend me your ears (and boosts)
if you listen to, make, or have a friend who makes electronic music that fits any of these descriptions:
sounds like the early 2000s, especially if it's some kind of dnb, jungle, or ambient
nostalgic futurism that isn't dnb or ambient (and especially not synthwave!)
sounds like racing game music from back when it was too good
vaporwave but original (as in, not sample based) and not synthwave
weird and wacky experimental electronica that can work in the background
bass heavy but low intensity music that tickles the brain
just really pretty and interesting ambient or drone stuff in general
please drop names and links here. by all means, plug yourself and your friends if you want to
bandcamp, mirlo, faircamp, and similar links are preferable, but any link will do if those aren't available. extra bonus points if creative commons or similar
I think these styles of music are amazing and rather underrated, especially since a lot of the people who like these styles are just playing random youtube mixes in the background, so they have no idea what they're actually listening to or who to support
I also find this kind of music annoyingly hard to discover, which isn't helped by those mixes either, because most of them are either drawing from the same small handful of artists, or just playing video game soundtracks
I want to change that, even if only a little bit. for that reason, please boost
aside from just hoping to spread this post around, I'd love to write about what I hear on my website eventually too, play it during livestreams with the titles on screen, and of course share it with all my non-fedi friends
New #GUNSHIP album is out! This is not a drill! Also buy shit from #Bandcamp sooner rather than later, in case they get enshittified 😞 you get to /download MP3s/!!! That you can /keep/!!!
I swear to fucking god, one of these days I will snap and start my own #InternetRadio station, "novocals.fm”, where it's all #ElectronicMusic WITHOUT ANY GODDAMN HUMAN #VOICES IN IT 🤬
Some of us have faulty speech-processing centers, and just want the #music without the incredibly distracting tongue-flap noises 😩
(in the meantime, I may have to try and resurrect my brain.fm habit 🤔)
The FSA #Faircamp site is online! There's a couple tweaks to be made, for example, I seem to have gotten at least one release date wrong (copy/paste strikes again), but nothing I'm worried about fixing right away.
Support is always appreciated, but feel free to just listen or take advantage of the "soft" paywall too.
I love this wild, experimental, jazzrock-style chiptune for the Commodore 64 conversion of Bionic Commando (1988), arranged for the 3-channel SID audio chip by Tim Follin, based on the arcade original, composed by Harumi Fujita.
P.S.: If you like this kind of energetic old school chiptune, check out this tune by our own game music composer:
Wonderful #VNVNation show last night. Went with partner and a couple of coworkers.
Ronan was crabby all night about lighting issues; attached video shows him signaling frantically to the crew as he began singing "When is the Future?”. This of course only adds to the fun, in a backhanded way.
My first truly packed concert in #NYC. Many were the elbows delivered unto my gut and stomps upon my toe. This is to say that everyone was dancing and this was a net positive. #ElectronicMusic
An energetic end-of-game victory chiptune track by our music composer Ramon Braumuller, for the Venom Wing Amiga shoot-'em-up game, published by the British Thalamus in 1990.
The tune was made in our own Amiga music editor called SIDmon, and I made part of the game's graphics. 👾🕹️
Just remembered how fun it was to make my Bonkwave track and got really excited for Volume 2 from Bonk Knob Records.
I’m so pumped to be a part of it and to hear everyone’s tracks.