Obligatory Music Poasting Thread

[JohnTrent]

Also share your favorite compositions form Bach, I've been enjoying his music a lot recently.

So much to choose from...










I don't know which part to extract from the Koroliov performance. 

I like Genocide Organ. You ever listen to Brighter Death Now? I like a few tracks on the Necrose Evangelicum album:

[Muskox]

Also share your favorite compositions form Bach, I've been enjoying his music a lot recently.

[Kasarix]

I don't often bother to share EDM since it is usually very simple, but I've been witnessing a tangible increase in electro swing in Japan, which I find fascinating for a few reasons.
Japanese electro swing has been around for about 8 years thanks to a small handful of artists making Touhou arranges, but in the past 2-3 years I've seen several projects spring up making original tracks; I can name several who make it regularly and a couple dozen who do it occasionally.
I have neither the insight nor the prose to document it and make conclusions on how it's gaining popularity, but I will point out some things:
-Several of these artists have acknowledged Undertale, whether by remix or being a fan.
-Artists related to the rhythm gaming world (I.e., Camellia,) are aware and produce it on occasion.
-The phenomenon of vtuber music videos include electro swing on occasion, often thanks to the Fake Type group producing the music for the vtubers.

I enjoy it more than western electro swing, mostly due to the creative production quality, less formulaic style, and not inheriting the generic "1920s debauchery" theme that most electro swing tracks contain. I expect it to increase in popularity as Japanese EDM grows in general, as Japanese EDM artists tend to juggle and experiment with different genres instead of focusing on a particular one as western artists do.

Attached is a cover of a remix of a vocaloid track, one of the more eccentric ones I've seen.

[anthony]

I don't often bother to share EDM since it is usually very simple, but I've been witnessing a tangible increase in electro swing in Japan, which I find fascinating for a few reasons.
Japanese electro swing has been around for about 8 years thanks to a small handful of artists making Touhou arranges, but in the past 2-3 years I've seen several projects spring up making original tracks; I can name several who make it regularly and a couple dozen who do it occasionally.
I have neither the insight nor the prose to document it and make conclusions on how it's gaining popularity, but I will point out some things:
-Several of these artists have acknowledged Undertale, whether by remix or being a fan.
-Artists related to the rhythm gaming world (I.e., Camellia,) are aware and produce it on occasion.
-The phenomenon of vtuber music videos include electro swing on occasion, often thanks to the Fake Type group producing the music for the vtubers.

I enjoy it more than western electro swing, mostly due to the creative production quality, less formulaic style, and not inheriting the generic "1920s debauchery" theme that most electro swing tracks contain. I expect it to increase in popularity as Japanese EDM grows in general, as Japanese EDM artists tend to juggle and experiment with different genres instead of focusing on a particular one as western artists do.

Attached is a cover of a remix of a vocaloid track, one of the more eccentric ones I've seen.

Very interesting. Great thumbnail choice. I kneel before Japanese taste in all things.




As for me, still admiring The Misfits lately.

[Guest]

Speaking of VTubers, I've recently been really enjoying the songs of the VTuber Kaguya Luna. VTubing is a very interesting thing, as most cultural developments from Japan are, but Luna seems to be the only VTuber whose music is actually good. What really strikes me about it is the vital element, it feels so real... there's a sort of intensity to it that doesn't at all exist in pop music, which is absurdly artificial. Unlike the SSRI-fried popstars of America, Luna actually enjoys what she sings. Very enjoyable. Anyways, it's tough to describe it well, so just have a listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83RoLomfl8

[Muskox]

As for me, still admiring The Misfits lately.

It's the season for music like this.

[Earth Rabbit]

Something perhaps little-known about me is that I find talk of our circulatory system —and especially medical instrumentation relating to it — intolerably disgusting, enough that thinking too intensely about it causes me to faint. This has been true of me since I can remember, and I've been embarrassed by it on a few occasions.

Of the eight or so times I've been made to faint in my adult life, three of them taken place while I was listening to this song by pure coincidence:



The first occurred witnessing the volume of blood begotten of slamming my car door on my finger. Another was brought on by cutting my hand open moving a box of tiled flooring. The last took place while reading a passage describing intravenous drug use. 

All this to say I can no longer listen to this song without a degree of discomfort, a shame because it was my favorite song by this band.

[Guest]

Something perhaps little-known about me is that I find talk of our circulatory system —and especially medical instrumentation relating to it — intolerably disgusting, enough that thinking too intensely about it causes me to faint. This has been true of me since I can remember, and I've been embarrassed by it on a few occasions.

Of the eight or so times I've been made to faint in my adult life, three of them taken place while I was listening to this song by pure coincidence:



The first occurred witnessing the volume of blood begotten of slamming my car door on my finger. Another was brought on by cutting my hand open moving a box of tiled flooring. The last took place while reading a passage describing intravenous drug use. 

All this to say I can no longer listen to this song without a degree of discomfort, a shame because it was my favorite song by this band.

Don't worry Tewi, there's always Longhouse Season!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GORKV_...lrdWdhemVy

Hatsune Miku is the greatest popstar of our generation

[august]

[Guest]

https://youtu.be/x2hOEfGTr24?si=EvahFM98yKNhNFswe

[JohnTrent]

EDIT: 10/25/23:

Adding this track from Urfaust.

[FuarkBoy]

[august]

The Italians and the Japanese did very good work to make anything stemming from "jazz" sound nice to listen to.

[JohnTrent]

[anthony]

The rare New York Jew Artist who was actually both an artist and good.

[Guest]

https://youtu.be/j14PgxHghjQ

Nick Drake was perhaps the only real Sensitive Young Man to ever walk this earth.

[august]

[Guest]

https://youtu.be/hyTVMqENskM?si=gOCjGjA9zz8mTlpo
Yes I’m aware it’s associated with TNO trannies

[Muskox]

What a great song. Never heard that version. Sometimes I wonder what might have been if the mid-century Italian music industry had been more focused on playing to its own strengths rather than making knockoffs of music from elsewhere. There was a contemporary Italian song in one of my dreams last night, but when I woke up I could only remember the melody of one of the lines and only one word from it. I thought it might have been "Non ho l'età," but it wasn't. Maybe it was just something my mind invented.

[august]

What a great song. Never heard that version. Sometimes I wonder what might have been if the mid-century Italian music industry had been more focused on playing to its own strengths rather than making knockoffs of music from elsewhere.

I'm glad you enjoyed that one. Very much in the same vein as Piccioni and the rise in popularity of experimenting with the mixing of orchestral and jazz sounds. There's a certain ambiance that he and others were very good at capturing, so no surprise that his sound fits so well in films. In a way but not quite the same, it's like how you may hear Rachmaninoff used in older films. It feels very natural in scene.

I've also thought about how the Italians during that time loved letting others' music trends (mainly American) influence it. I think it really was just how massive both Phil Spector and lounge music were. Though, what probably saved the Italians from just being considered as aping the American sound is the simple fact that their language itself is way more musical linguistically. The original Mina/Gino Paoli lyrical version is Spector's Wall of Sound but in a language that so much more frequently uses letters less common in English words, like Z or Q, and where basically every single word ends in a vowel. I mean, I guess this pretty much explains opera perfectly.