TUNES N SHIT
the same 3 genres over and over
the same 3 genres over and over
I immensly enjoy music, and I don't think I've ever gone a day in my life without listening to at least a few chords of my favorite songs. Below is a collection of albums/EPs, singles, and certain tracks that I love and keep coming back to. The day I stop updating this page is the day I die.
THE MONEY STORE
Death Grips, Album, 2012This was the first Death Grips album I actually sat down with. The harsh rap and harsh industrial beats create a euphroic discord that simply cannot be found anywhere else. I'm in love with it.
Favorite Tracks: Lost Boys, I've Got Footage
0 + 2 = 1
Nomeansno, Album, 1991Another great album by Nomeansno. It's more fluffy/monologue-y than Wrong but it's still just as good with the same amount of tooth.
Favorite Tracks: 0+2=1, Everday I Start to Ooze
Crime... For... Revenge
Ultra-Violent, EP, 1983Only 3 tracks in a little over 6 minutes, this little EP does a lot. Apparently this is the only EP produced by Utra-Violent before disbanding. They came and left with a bang(er), for sure. The whole EP is very raw.
Favorite Tracks: Crime for Revenge
Finely Honed Machine
Foetus Über Frisco, 12" Single, 1985An excellent single from Foetus/JG Thirlwell. This track is very punchy and bouncy; the sharp samples used for the beat are truely industrial. Very catchy.
It's Album Time
Todd Terje, Album, 2014A funky, groovy, wonderful sounding synthwave and jazz marriage. All the tracks are midtempo bops that could make anyone smile. A very fun listen and great music to create stuff to.
Favorite Tracks: Intro (It's Album Time), Inspector Norse
Orphans
Aphex Twin, EP, 2017Though super short, this EP is a great introductory and refamiliarizing work of AFX. It covers his synth-heavy and sample-heavy styles in 4 tracks, though the first 2 tracks are remixes of Luke Vibert's track Spiral Staircase.
Favorite Tracks: Nightmail 1
Flow
Foetus, Album, 2001Flow is a very chaotic album, somehow amalgamating big band and punk/industrial. All the tracks seem to be connected at the hips so to speak, as their openings and endings are very different, but all carry similar midsections.
Favorite Tracks: Grace of God, Heuldoch 7B, Kreibabe
MUSIC HAS THE RIGHT TO CHILDREN
Boards of Canada, Album, 1998Boards of Canada's debut album is still regarded as one of the best they've ever made. A lovely journey between synthetic soundscapes pockmarked with ominous vocal samples.
Favorite Tracks: An Eagle In Your Mind, Sixtyten
Unhappy Refrain
wowaka, Album, 2011An excellent collection of VOCALOID works by the one and only wowaka. Though this album is capitalized by Rolling Girl, it has many more great tracks, some even passing the aforementioned.
Favorite Tracks: アンハッピーリフレイン, 日常と地球の額縁
Neurovision
Telex, Album, 1980IMO, the best collection of Telex's work that has been published. Showcases and transitions between Telex's loose and varying synth-filled style.
Favorite Tracks: We Are All Getting Old, En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventures
Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock, Album, 1973Y'know when a character is having a 70's inspired drug trip and a certain type of wavy, chill music plays? That's this album, but with a bit more synth. Put it on and relax.
Favorite Tracks: Chameleon
Achievement
pilotredsun, Album, 2016Unmistakable collection of pilotredfsun's signature MIDI tunes. The songs all carry an archaicness, and a strange familiarity at the same time. A goofy listen, espeically if you've seen the video equivalents of each track.
Favorite Tracks: canals, bodybuilder
Made In GDR
L'Attentat, LP/Album, 1987A very raw and angry punk LP from behind the Iron Curtain. True noisy, messy punk, and the German language seems to only heighten this. It's not kind on a first listen, though.
Favorite Tracks: Friedensstaat
Mechanical
The Quarks, 7" Single, 1981Mechanical is a seemingly forgotten synthrock gem from its prime time period. A goofy little track about the prospects of technology growing over the 80's.
Budd
Rapeman, Album, 1988WIP
Favorite Tracks: Budd