etherdiver

etherdiver, 1 day ago to music

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:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/05/17/opm-four-flavors-of-electronic-and-one-weird-trip/

Listen, fav and boost for good karma and a long life!

@music

etherdiver, 1 day ago to random

Can I entice you to listen to my 2023 album Psychedelic Ghost Stories? 10 tracks of weird, spacy post-industrial psychedelia, alien electro dub, & the music you hear in a bad dream. Wizard synth anthems and ghostwave jams; sounds like tripping on Halloween.

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories

etherdiver, 4 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to electronicmusic

I've picked up a few dozen new friends since I last posted this so it's time again...

If you haven't listened to my 2023 release Psychedelic Ghost Stories, can I entice you to do so? It's a ten track album of weird, spacy post-industrial psychedelia, alien electro dub and the music you hear in a bad dream. Wizard synth anthems and ghostwave jams fired in the crucible of classic games and film music; sounds like tripping on Halloween.

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories

@synths
@electronicmusic

etherdiver, 6 days ago to music

Let's hear some #OPM! This time, new #music from @cpacaud @keefmarshall @MOULE @CrowsLabyrinth and @stefan in a diverse array of genres including #BassGuitar #ambient, #chiptune #ADHDcore, #HouseMusic, some unusual #breakbeat #IDM and a wild #Jazz meets #PostRock and #Prog track!

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/05/17/opm-four-flavors-of-electronic-and-one-weird-trip/

#NewMusic #OtherPeoplesMusic #Listen #ListenToThis #MusiciansOfMastodon

@experimentalmusic
@electronicmusic

etherdiver, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

Hey, @mirlo is it possible to embed tracks/albums from Mirlo into Wordpress blogs? I can't figure it out if it is...

EDIT: OF COURSE IT IS, I am just not terribly observant. It's right there when you hit the "Share" button.

etherdiver, 6 days ago to random

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:

https://www.etherdiver.com/ships-log/

Or sub to the RSS feed or newsletter so it comes to you!

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.

#OtherPeoplesMusic

etherdiver, 8 days ago to random

Who's got music they want me to check out? Send me your links!

Up to 15 mins worth of music, hosted on a service that allows payments and/or messages directly to the artists (self hosted, #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, @mirlo, jam.coop, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc but NOT Spotify, Tidal etc).

Oh and you have to follow me in some respect (I'll follow back! Looking for community, not "fans" or whatever).

More details in this relatively short blog post:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/04/opm-other-peoples-music/

etherdiver, 8 days ago to random

Great insight from @hilljam's newsletter yesterday:

"my work got much better when I stopped worrying so much about what other people thought and delved more wholeheartedly into my idiosyncratic interests."

If you are an artist, of any type, at any level of success, and you aren't already putting this into practice as the core of your artistic journey, do it now. It's the single biggest thing you can do to make your art better, AND more satisfying to create.

Chase your dreams, not trends!

etherdiver, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

Godsdamn it, Pittsburgh Modular, if you could stop making badass synths that I feel like I can't live without for a while, that'd be great!

(This is in reference to the new Voltage Lab 2, as well as last year's Taiga, to a lesser degree.)

Especially since they're not cheap 😅

(No shade intended, I KNOW they're actually very cheap for what all they can do, but the raw cost is eye-watering to a indie artist who doesn't make $10's of thousands a year from music making.)

#gear #GearSquad

etherdiver, 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to RadioControl

Explore the wilder, more #experimental side of my work with Metaphysical Shitposting, an evolving collection (new tracks added about once a month) of #drone, #ambient and #soundscape pieces, with the occasional splash of musique concrete, #kosmische and #noise mixed in to keep things interesting.

Lots and lots of #ModularSynth work here, plus some #strange stuff like #Soma #Terra, tape loops, toy instruments and more.

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/metaphysical-shitposting

@experimentalmusic
@modularsynth
@synths

etherdiver, 10 days ago to newmusic

Look here, it's #NewMusic for you! Every week I cover 5+ new acts, listen to ~15 min worth of stuff, then tell you all about it so you can check out the ones that seem intriguing. This week we had a couple different flavors of #ambient and New Age, some #neoclassical (that also works as ambient 😅 ) and a really distinctive #rock track. Check them out!

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/05/10/opm-ambient-new-age-and-other-mostly-mellow-music/

#NewAge #Music #ListenToThis #MusiciansOfMastodon

etherdiver, 11 days ago to movies

Well dang. Roger Corman dead at 98. That's a good long run! Dude made a lot of movies that helped make me the weirdo I am today.

Roger Corman: The Little Shop of Horrors cult B-movie director dies aged 98 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-17127556

#RIP #movies #FilmLegend

etherdiver, 12 days ago to music

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:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/05/10/opm-ambient-new-age-and-other-mostly-mellow-music/

But I know some of you don't like clicking off Mastodon, so here we go..

#OtherPeoplesMusic #MusicWriting #NewMusic

etherdiver, 14 days ago to random

Spotify to raise prices, then pay musicians even less.

If your music is on Spotify, why? Are you so successful that you enjoy subsidizing Spotify executives' extravagant lifestyles?

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-songwriters-less-mechanical-royalties-audiobooks-bundle-1235673829/amp/

#FuckSpotify #SpotifyIsAScam #GetOffSpotify

etherdiver, 15 days ago to music

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!

(More Info here: https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/04/opm-other-peoples-music/ )

#OPM #OtherPeoplesMusic #music #ListenToThis

etherdiver, 15 days ago to random

Oh shit, this sucks. Steve Albini dead at 61.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/steve-albini-has-died-at-61/

I've been following this guy on and off since high school, more or less, so this really, really hits home for me. RIP to a great one.

etherdiver, 16 days ago to random

I've been promoting this album for more than a year now, but I know a lot of you have just joined the party and probably haven't heard it yet... So if you're a new(ish) follower who hasn't checked it out yet, give Psychedelic Ghost Stories a try...

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories

10 tracks of ethereal ghostwave and other-worldly wizard synth perfect for listening to on the couch, in the dark, with headphones while on drugs.

But also fine for any other listening scenario!

Enjoy and boost, please!

etherdiver, 18 days ago to random

Sunday afternoons are a great time to relax with a #joint and peruse my discography... So what are you waiting for?

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/music

etherdiver, 19 days ago to music

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:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/05/03/opm-filk-metal-and-famous-musicians/

Please support these musicians with your follows, favs, and finances!

#NewMusic #OtherPeoplesMusic

etherdiver, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to Metal

Happy #BandcampFriday! Here's this week's new #music write-ups covering music from @randulo @zaivala @elroachy @radiophobicsherkpop @dht_ @psychoalpastor @limebar and @dereisenhofer in a diverse of genres including #filk, #metal, #house and more!

Give them a #listen, give them a #boost! And don't forget there's 20+ more other artists covered in recent posts!

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/05/03/opm-filk-metal-and-famous-musicians/

#OPM #OtherPeoplesMusic

etherdiver, 20 days ago to random

Oh shit, Sam Ash music stores are all closing. Literally the end of an era; they've been around for 100 years!

Most of us who've been doing this music thing for years have bought something from a Sam Ash store in person or online at some point. Pore one out, I guess...

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2024/05/03/sam-ash-closing-its-doors-after-serving-musicians-for-100-years/

#MusicBusiness #retail #MusicStore #gear #GearTalk

etherdiver, 20 days ago to random

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:

https://www.etherdiver.com/ships-log/

etherdiver, 20 days ago to experimentalmusic

If you're looking for something #weird and #experimental for your #BandcampFriday list, try out The Alchemical Process of Modular Synthesis, my second release of 2023. I didn't heavily promote this one, because a) it came hot on the heels of my premier 2023 release, Psychedelic Ghost Stories, and I was more keen to get the word out on that one, and b) because it's pretty out there and likely to alienate a fair number of listeners 😅

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-alchemical-practice-of-modular-synthesis

@experimentalmusic
@modularsynth

etherdiver, 21 days ago to music

Never really realized just how great a year 1989 was, musically speaking, but this list is hard to argue with:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1prqk6JLsFGqz8nTlbj2JfX/12-classic-albums-that-define-1989

#music #MusicHistory #MusicWriting

etherdiver, 23 days ago to music

Big thank you to the generous fan who just paid nearly twice the asking price for my discography! It means a lot to me!

And hey, everybody else can go have a listen and hear what was so good that someone paid twice the asking price for it:

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/music

#ThankYouForYourSupport
#music #MusicCommunity