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bandcamp friday, if you like it fast and hard

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It’s almost the last Bandcamp Friday of 2020, and maybe it’s the last Bandcamp Friday ever, so I decided to make a list of great music I got in 2020 and list it here. The post turned out to be rather big, so I split it up into several posts by genre (sort of) because y’all don’t like reading long posts anyway.

So here’s post number one, and it’s all about hard techno and industrial style beats. Don’t forget to stuff them in your Bandcamp wishlist!

I was looking for the Man Made Evil TOA remix when I ran into Dither’s full album The Architect on Bandcamp. This is a banger of an album if you like your beats on the industrial side of techno. It’s not just a collection of tracks, but it really is worth the name album, as it takes you through a musical landscape from beginning to end. Well-balanced and full of good tunes.

Foreign Objects by Strange Arrival is another hard industrial release I like a lot. Fits in nicely with things from TOA and PRSPCT.

Helios Is Dead by Mutagenesis is a great dark techno/industrial album if you’re in for something a bit different. It’s atmospheric, noisy and industrial sounding. I’m not sure what genre this is exactly. Doomcore? Darkcore? Who cares, it goes boom boom boom and it sounds great.

PRSPCTXTRM 019 by Fracture 4, more top-notch banging industrial. This is an older release, but because of Bandcamp Fridays I went through the PRSPCT back catalog and dug up this gem. Fracture 4 never disappoints!

More beats tomorrow, so stay tuned.

chilling in covid times

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Times are tough and stressful for everyone right now. So perhaps a bit of ambient and chill tunes can help to relax a little in this taxing times.

I blogged about Moby’s Long Ambient release a while ago, and I recently found out he also released a second installment of great, long ambient tunes to chill to for free. I love to put these on when I try to get some sleep on a flight. But I guess I won’t be doing that anytime soon.

Check out LA1 & LA2 here.

Also check out my other ambient posts if you want some more music to chill too. Plenty of good free stuff in there to soothe those nerves.

battle beats vol two breakcore compilation

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A while ago I saw this Facebook post in a breakcore group pass by with a call for submissions for a compilation album on some net-label. So I checked some of my unfinished tunes and found something suitable to finish and submit.

So here it is. The album turned out to be a “glorious mess” of very different types of breakcore tunes. Check it out if you want to be surprised and feel like listening to a something different. I bet you’ll find something cool you like in there. If not, no big loss. You can listen to the full album here and on Bandcamp, and download for free if you want.

chill and drones 2

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TAMT presents F-lithium - ...This Place Could Be My Undoing coverBad Sekta is a bit of an oddball British label releasing all sorts of electronic music, and recently they released 35 minutes of dark drone-y ambient you can download for free.
Since I like free music, I downloaded it through the online shop and gave it a whirl. Turns out this long-piece of dark ambient seems to be putting you into the metal bowls of spaceship flying through dark uncharted sectors of the galaxy. Or something like that. Anyway, it’s great to put up in the background and have it loop a few times, which you won’t notice, and get some work done.
So download Tamt presents F-Lithium, “…This Place Could Be My Undoing” and get spacin’.

Now that where at it, how about revisiting a good source for tons of ambient live mixes recorded to the trusty mp3 format? Remember the Chillits ambient festival? Well they have most of their live sets online, so you can pick and choose between hours of chilled beats, ambient sounds and other down-tempo tunes mixed and selected for your pleasure by top notch ambient DJ’s. If there is such a thing.

You can pick from the 2017 mixes, but mixes from previous editions are available too.
From the 2017 mixes, these are my mostly beat-less favorites: Brian Behlendorf, Dave Espionage, Indy Nyles, Jeremy Meadows, Souls and Cities, Subnaught, and Verdun 1916.
Also check my other ambient posts for more chilled goodness.