Be Excellent To Each Other

Just got back in from the Manchester Arena and Queen and Adam Lambert was cracking. There's good singers, and then there's Lambert towering above them. Natty threads,.too. Taylor and May still have it by the bucketload, too.

After 3 episodes of Later...

I have decided I quite like the following four acts:

Wet Leg:





Cat Burns:



Poppy Ajudha:



Warmduscher:

I also like the above things, particularly Go

We saw Wet Leg at Green Man last year. They were first up at 5pk on a Thursday and smashed it. They were really good, and i second the "well worth a listen". I wil check the others out.

Radio 3 just played My Lovely Horse during a sequence of equine-related pieces.

Giphy "mind blown":
https://media2.giphy.com/media/WtOdb75cMcjIK2jmTq/giphy-loop.mp4

I'd be more surprised if they played I've A Horse Outside...

Two absolutely gorgeous string quartets on Radio 3's lunchtime concert today. Both the Carwithen and the Brahms were new to me, and the playing was luxuriant.

BBC Sounds link for a very enjoyable hour.

Joe and the Shitboys are great. I saw them last night. This is Joe.

T-shirts from a few bands I saw at the weekend. The sweetchunks band was brilliant.

I haven't looked at this thread in a long time. I'll look forward to listening to that playlist, a great idea.

Scrolling through it was a weird sort of feeling - like a music map of my life - at the top of the list was some stuff I generally recognised but was too young to really be 'into'. And then part way through became song I was quite familiar with from the radio in the car, and then it got to music I liked, music I bought, bands I was into. But then, I kept scrolling and began to realise I didn't recognise much anymore, songs I've never heard and artists I've never heard of. It's clear I started to get engaged with music in my teens and through 20s, but by 30 I'd stopped listening to much 'new' stuff and now... I'm old

And after I finished scrolling, my eyes felt that funny 'still moving' thing, like after focussing on a moving image like movie credits or guitar hero.

That being said, I finally listened to some new (ish) music recently. It seems there's a punk-y part or Australian music that's thriving.




The Chats (here's their breakout song from a few years back) absolutely kill it:



They're so fucking Aussie, raw and funny too.

Went to see Bellowhead in Oxford last night.

Absolutely amazing show, even if the New Theatre isn't really suited for that kind of stuff. Even in the stalls it was quite cramped once everyone started standing up to dance, clap, and jump.

About mid-way through they did a touching tribute to Paul Sartin, playing a recording of him singing to an almost-blacked out stage before slowly starting accompanying him as the lights faded back up. It worked really well.

Probably the first time I've sung along to Roll, Alabama, Roll in a very long time too. Great night and so glad I finally got to see them live.

Radio 3 have been playing "Peter and the Wolf" with David Attenborough as narrator this morning. I'm going to be humming Peter's theme all day now.

Last night's Fado at the Proms was absolutely gorgeous.

Only caught half of it last night but will definitely listen to the whole thing.

I done a techno.

https://on.soundcloud.com/X3YrBHjpP6PjGQaB7

Nice one mate, I'll have a listen when we're back home so it's not just squawking out of a phone speaker.

I liked the first 90 seconds a lot, sounded a bit like MOON, but after the pause it felt like elements should have been added in to that beat rather than taken away. It needed like a crescendo about halfway through where all the elements are vibing for maximum tekno. Two pauses in a 4 minute song is one too many I think as well. Overall though, pretty good start.

Cheers, yeah I agree. As much a learning exercise as anything getting to grips with Ableton. Just wanted to get something finished (umpteen things I started and left) and out there. Absolutely obsessed now with it all.

2 people in South America like it.

My work here is done.

W T F

I did another techno

https://soundcloud.com/mrzardoz/warmth-of-the-void

Yes mate! Some extremely satisfying bleeps and bloops going on there.

The start was very Bladerunner, I liked it.

Belated cheers folks!

This is not the ska you'd expect from The Beat.

Always liked that but have never seen the video! Until now, obv

JM in the zone, once he gets in tune.

Another one! https://on.soundcloud.com/UxQm5u7XfKcYtyzE8

I guess I’m allowed to buy myself another synth as it’s traditional now each time

That is some nice acid there.

Thanks very much!

I’ve been a big fan of Ballacid’s YouTube channel for some time and discovered loads of current new fave artists of mine (MOY, Cignol, James Shinra, Fasme…) and thought I’d message him about that last tune I’d made. He got back in touch straight away AND HES GOING TO FEATURE IT on his channel (57k subs) ZOMG etc

UPDATE: Ballacid did plonk my last one on his channel, got 390 views, 7 likes and 0 unlikes (so far)!

https://youtu.be/gjRGs4vKr_g?si=lECudQ114rIfM5R_

I done another one and I’m not sorry!

https://on.soundcloud.com/8kzz9msuzvocHC4y9

As is customary now, I’ll be off to buy another synth at lunchtime.

This is my favourite one yet!

Properly caught me off guard how weird and funky it was.

The racket at 3.40 about blew my fucking ear drums out though. Maybe sort that out or give a volume warning!!!

I had an idea too. Maybe you could do a rave track featuring the Majula bell thing from Dark Souls 2? Start with the slow bell of majula and then Zardoz it up a bit. I don’t think anyone has done that and people love the Majula track from DS2.

https://youtu.be/SrHk3QkLd60?si=p26n7oN7WkNxJWAL

Ha, cheers Sat! I’m currently drowning in mixing/mastering/compression/saturation YouTube videos at the minute, so future tunes should be betterer (at least in that respect).

Hope this tickle other folks pickles. Not new but wanted to share Trent Reznor’s more easier on the ear and eye’s project: How to Destroy Angels (I love this on every level).
https://youtu.be/Oq3pDuJeMqQ?si=5hg_wZfieKm7EkH2

It might have just been on my headphones. I played it in the car and it seemed fine.

Yeah man I enjoyed that one, it was cool but Sat's right about that bit. I was using ear buds (samsung ones, 'galaxy live' I think) and at that point I felt an uncomfortable pressure in my ears, and the high bit was high innit.

Cheers! Thinking it might be a frequency thing then maybe and your earbuds are reproducing stuff in the top end thats being lost on other speakers. I listen back through headphones, monitors and in my car but I’ll make sure to add earbuds to the test environment too.

My music-doing friend always has multiple methods ranging from studio monitors down to literal Poundland headphones.

Oh and I use my phone speaker too.

Love country. The album slaps, too.

Check the code, reckon.

Aiming to get at least one tune finished each month so here's January's that I've just uploaded to Soundcloud.

I've been hacking away at this since Dec, using bits from all my hardware synths (apart from the recent VL-1) and plug-ins and I've learned a lot along the way so I'm happy with that (I'm not buying anything new in celebration though this time).

L1T - Mr Zardoz

Just in for Feb, Orgacid! That's 2 for 2...

https://on.soundcloud.com/QP5u7