music on my mind
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I recently created a topster for myself. I don’t usually do these kinds of things, but I restricted it strictly to music that I downloaded and was released in 2024. here’s that topster:
I’m not going to bother listing out all of what’s on here–I feel like doing so would just result in a glob of music that people would just skim over without much thought into it. instead, I think I want to make it an occasional thing to post about music that’s particularly on my mind, which I feel more accurately represents what is my current earworm. in any case, here’s the music on my mind right now
leumas - bloom
I’m sure this quote from someone I showed this to sums this up quite nicely:
[20:44] Yuri Lowendtheory: wow this is the least intense dariacore ive ever heard
this album treads a fine line between “plunderphonics” and “uh, mashcore? dariacore?”. those words probably mean nothing to most people reading this, so I’ll just try to describe what I like about it. it’s almost like a sample collage, but rather than going down the likes of incoherent random darts and more confusion than music, everything flows into each other in a very… laid back way. if you’ve listened to dariacore by leroy, you’d see what I mean by the distinction of this album. it oddly feels like an album I can chill too–I’m actually listening to it while writing this post, lmao. definitely one of my favorite albums released this year, and probably up there with my top-tier albums ever. definitely looking at this artist some more
favorite track: timeshare. the segment from 0:40 to 1:10 is so… dreamy? I love how they layered the vocals with the instrumental–it’s a perfect fit
tdstr - 7 Grand Dance
a spiritual successor to internet brainrot, this album is (very nearly) entirely in 7/4 time signature, just like good ol’ vsnares. unlike vsnares, however, we aren’t stopping at silly little “breakcore”–we’re going beyond the percussion and embracing the samples of cyberspace. good fucking shit right here. music nerds and internet nerds unite
favorite track: don’t tell me. kicks to make you spasm
under.net - under.net compilation vol.1
I first heard of beansclub when I was randomly scrolling through bandcamp one day with the tag “sextrance” and came across his bootleg comp vol. 1. ever since then I’ve been following his musical journey, and I feel the culmination of what he and his copatriots have made in this one compilation album has resulted in one of the best trance albums ever. it’s not all “pure trance”–LGBT for example leans elsewhere–but damn does it never sound boring. synths are repetitive enough to be trancy but not repetitive enough to be boring. the perfect mix. get lost in this one
favorite track: this one’s really tough. I mean, rl1805 - LGBT is one of the catchiest songs I’ve ever listened to, but beansclub - hanshin feels like I’m going to a different realm of existence. so probably both
wawawa - plastic symphonies: the evidence I was here
I’ve been trying to find someone who encapsulates all venetian snares. I’ve never been able to find that perfect sound that hits the mark–not to say that people who diverge from his classic works are bad, but I just want… more. then wawawa came along. this album feels like you could tack all the tracks into Rossz Csillag Alatt Született and nobody would be able to tell what tracks vsnares made and what tracks wawawa made. and that’s not to say it’s a “bland copy”. everything about it is perfect. wawawa gives their own flair to their work, reminiscent of I guess… nostalgia? it sounds like what vsnares is meant to sound like in 2024. an excellent pick. glad I follow wawawa
favorite track: plastic symphony. I mean, it’s the title track. why not go all out on it?
ハヤトムラカミ - 糸波
and now for something completely different. this album is unlike any other piece of ambient work I’ve heard. one of the tracks appears on a different compilation album, but this is the one complete work of all four of them. it feels like I’m dying. but. not really. it feels like I’m leaving for a brief moment, taken on a 30-minute journey to explore the clouds while everything else disappears around me. a sense of being in a dream, yet also more than enough sounds to ground me in the present–to not lose focus. I listen to this when I want to escape for a bit. just lie my head down and get lost in the atmosphere it creates. I hold this one dear to me
favorite track: 糸波Ⅳ. a brief visit to a cosmological cafe, near the end of the journey, where voices bustle and slowly you get ushered down to the world of the living. gives me chills when listening to it, and that’s something music almost never does to me
so. that’s the music on my mind. until next time