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[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

utterly off-topic but to usher in the weekend (and because I’ve dropped Spotify): what’s some music

no wrong answers just start listing artists and albums you like

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, Telefís). His solo album Black River Falls is beautiful (The Ghost of Limehouse Cut, Black River Falls, Frankfurt Cowboy Yodel)... To say nothing of Microdisney or the Fatima Mansions.

Actually one of the songs on his last album with Telefís was a mockery of TESCREAL beliefs. Space Is Us: "I will live forever in those racks of tin"

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Fish in a Birdcage just released Rule #34 (it is indeed about sex) and Rule #35, Rule #4 (also titled Fish in a Birdcage) is his most famous and Rule #13 is also very good.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i don't have any idea what you'd like so i'll drop some moderately to widely spaced things, all electronic, 90s to now

i've started using soulseek recentlyish and everything is there

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I got no Spotify, and I buy a lot off bandcamp.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had never heard of Girlyman until this morning, and now I've seen two references in one day.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You saw another reference to girlyman? There was a period a decade ago when I played their music constantly and went to every show I could.)

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's an Instagram account called sexchange.tbt that posts trans ephemera from the past ~40 years - website screenshots, articles, old zines. Anyway, they posted the music video for "Young James Dean" by Girlyman.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh man. All the real boys / in their black jeans / called me crazy.

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

Ya that one !

I'd never heard the song before, and it kind of reminded me of a really fascinating essay about James Dean and butch identity.

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Rival Consoles - Howl
Sleep Party People - Heap of Ashes
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Katie Alice Greer - Barbarism
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Some albums, mostly electronic, mostly experimental, that I've been enjoying.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

BABYMETAL x Electric Callboy: https://youtu.be/EDnIEWyVIlE

https://l-a-n-a-r-k.bandcamp.com/track/metallur

https://exwiish.bandcamp.com/track/resident-deceiver

https://paurro.bandcamp.com/track/jingu-kogo-emperatriz-jingu-5

Tuğçe Şenoğul - Bu Rüya Değil

Mon Laferte - Amárrame

Lots of things by монеточка, such as Русский ковчег, for pure outright fun jams.

I have alllllll kinds. Being able to share music in an easy manner is actually a fucking disaster of a problem in recent years. Just try to copy a fucking track name out of something like Spotify or Apple Music.

It's a problem I want to solve.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

some more:

Redhook - Bad Decisions

https://kutiman.bandcamp.com/album/kutiman-feat-melike-ahin-sakla-beni-ep

https://mrspiss.bandcamp.com/album/self-surgery (<- very cool collab album)

Some rather wonderful synth work: https://schlindwein.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-the-sky-solo-synth-works (I have the accompanying moon orb print thingy)

All of this but especially track 2 which makes a remarkably accurate audio representation of what medicating adhd feels like: https://circadianrhythmsrecs.bandcamp.com/album/marwa

https://badafrorecords.bandcamp.com/album/our-days-mind-the-tyme whole album for the feel of it in aggregate. I stumbled across it by hearing track 10 first

A number of things by Silversun Pickups (Panic Switch, all of Swoon, Lazy Eye)

White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground, To Lose My Life

Kontrust - End Of The World

[–] mii@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago

I like recommending slightly obscure stuff to give it a bit more exposure.

Crushes Bones, especially their song Nightshade Drips is a real banger.

Alternative rock band from California, but one of the main people behind the project is the creator or a super obscure but really cool and well-made ARG called House of Aberdeen from a few years back that has since been deleted. I don’t like most ARGs but I really enjoyed that one and was sad when it was all deleted, and then I found out she’s making music now.

Completely different, but the album Haunted by Poe, sister of author Mark Danielewski, is cool. It’s meant as an accompanying piece to his novel House of Leaves, which I recently read again.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and because I’ve dropped Spotify

oh also, since it may be of benefit to you: I did this a few years back too. attempted to get my play history out. that turned out to be a mess, and definitely missed some shit in the export.

then I started looking at what option I had for starting to seed that into something else, and, fuck me. apple music desktop app? no fucking API exposed for search on the streaming half of the app. all the ex-itunes/local shit? plenty hooks. "Apple Music" side? nope.

you have to go get a fucking developer key to be able to hit the Apple Music API to be able to do that. (or to go use a "free service" which handily gives people access to your full fucking library and thus allows them to mine it, and no fucking way go fuck yourselves thank you)

it's fucking mental

[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

exactly! I took this opportunity to start over from scratch (which is why I’m seeking recommendations) with Bandcamp and a pile of automatically organized and tagged FLACs in storage for when Bandcamp enshittifies (coming soon!), and YouTube Music on a friend’s account if I get truly desperate for a shitty recommendation engine

of all these options, the automatically managed pile of FLACs have by far the best API, because you choose what it is (and there’s some very good options even for streaming them to your own devices)

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

maybe you'll find this useful for recommendations https://www.gnoosic.com/