It's #Fedivision Friday, and to help the participating musicians along I've dedicated this week's #OPM write-ups to covering some of the entries. I couldn't do all 72 (!) but I did do all 16 of my mutuals' entries! Read them here:
And revel in the wild variety of music of the Fediverse. From doomy cyberpunk techno to giallo-inspired twee psychedelia, this is a deep class, with lots of intriguing music to discover. Dive in, and enjoy!
I'm going to try to write up all the #fedivision entries by my mutuals for this week's #OPM, so if You're a mutual and put in an entry, please LMK so I can be sure to include yours.
I'll probably be able to find most of them on my own but I'm likely to miss at least a a few unless you tell me specifically to look for yours...
(Also, if you don't want to be written about you can let me know that too.)
Here's a digest of this week's #OPM writeups! 5 tracks from indie Fediverse #music artists to expand your musical horizons. Unusual ambient, wild ADHDcore, and more this week!
If you want the full, undigested versions (i.e. where I have more to say about each one than will fit in a single post) of these writeups, they are here:
Lush, organic and cinematic, this is the sound of #jazz crashing into post rock while the ghost of #prog looks on with approval. Twisty, unusual rhythms and interesting harmonic movement realized by an array of impressive musicians, including both traditional rock/jazz players but also strings and more. Sounds like someone made a movie out of the weirdest dream you ever had and this is the score.
Opening with a dense, layered breakbeat/IDM track overlaid with a poem, some field recordings of surf and some pitched percussion, this reads like a modern take on turn-of-the-century electronica (maybe something like Mouse on Mars, or perhaps a more hyped up Banco de Gaia), which is a fun sound that I haven’t heard in a minute. Of interest to anyone who thinks that electronic music took the wrong fork circa 2002 or so.
Happy hardcore meets #chiptune in an old-school platformer! At least until it takes a turn into something else– and then launches into yet another direction 30 seconds later. A high-energy trip thru some groovy old-school sounds, energetic rhythms and a lot of different ideas that'll please you ADHD types who find it hard to get thru 5 minutes of a single style. Utterly charming and never a dull moment.
I’m not up enough on the current dance music scene to slot this into a genre, but it clocks in at 120 bpm or so, has some pretty snappy drums and a gorgeously lush arrangement full of sweeping synth sounds, ear-catching vocal stabs and other warm timbres. The vibes are sort of progressive, even trancey, but at a deep house tempo. A well-produced dance track that I wouldn’t be sad to hear out clubbing.
#Ambient music created entirely with a bass guitar and effects, you say? Oh, and it’s largely improvised live, without overdubs? Wipe that doubt away, this works quite well! Opener (and title track) “Consolation” is a mournful dirge of an ambient drone that expresses the vibe of its name well via sliding tones and a powerful sonic presence; the rest is an equally ambitious take on the same base (bass) elements.
Enjoy the writing, make sure you actually listen to the ones that sound intriguing and, of course, support these artists with your follows, favs and, if you can afford it, your finances.
If you do like the writing and/or need more new music, you can find more on my site with the #OPM tag. If you really like the writing, you could always buy me a coffee:
Finished this week's #OPM, it'll go live tomorrow morning (8 am Eastern time). Nice eclectic bunch of tunes this week! House music! Ambient! Weird IDM/breakbeat! Jazz/prog/post-rock! ADHDcore! Find it all tomorrow at:
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BTW, if you submitted this week but don't see your music in tomorrow's post, don't worry: I just got A LOT of subs. Yours will be in the next one or two, promise.
Here's the weekly digest thread of my #OPM post: 5 writeups of new (to you, probably) artists and #music for your listening pleasure. #Rock, several flavors of #ambient and #NewAge and more await you within!
Of course, you can read the whole thing, with longer writeups than fit in a single post, here:
Who's got some music they'd like to have heard and written about? Need a few good tracks for this week's write-up. Send me links to what you're currently promoting!
Here's the weekly #OPM digest ! A one-stop guide to #music selections from 8 Fediverse #Musicians . It's a great place to get some #BandcampFriday selections, or maybe find a new favorite artist.
As always, you can find a permanent archive of these, with slightly longer writeups, at my blog. The permalink for this week's is here:
Just finished writing up this week's batch of other people's music (#OPM) blurbs. Got some interesting stuff this week! Filk! Metal! Music from a guy who's played in multiple bands whose names you'd recognize! Several tracks that sound like they belong on a soundtrack to something!
It goes live around 7:30 am Eastern, just in time for #BandcampFriday, and you can subscribe to the blog or my RSS feed if you don't want to miss it:
It's a good way to prep for the next #BandcampFriday, or just meet some of your musical neighbors. Read it here (and be sure to actually listen to some/all of the list!):
Got some pretty interesting submissions this week for #OPM! It'll go live on the blog tomorrow AM and I'll have a thread with a digest version here later in the day.
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