What are you listening to?

[Serenegoose]

I think this guy has to be my favourite musical discovery of the year. Trawling Bandcamp for I don’t remember what and landed on his page - can’t stand witch house and its ilk normally, but Øfdream is, well, I cannot stop playing his stuff. Listen to his older releases and it’s obvious he’s come on in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, and his more recent tracks absolutely demolish the spoOoOoOoky nonsense he seems to be lumped in with (this track appears on a free compilation, as does another, and he’s the best thing on both by miles). No silly horror movie samples, no Hail Satan, no misplaced feedback, no stupid fonts, just god damned awesome production.

That’s a really excellent track.

[Eight_Rooks]

That’s a really excellent track.

If you haven’t gone looking already, his Bandcamp page is here; the first compilation which that track appears on is here; the second is here (again, middling compilation at best, but another really excellent track of his); and his Soundcloud is here. His older stuff is okay, but much more typical witch house silliness - the two Bandcamp EPs and the tracks on those compilations are well worth grabbing, however, IMO. All PWYW, no minimum.

This guy is not as good overall, but also stands pretty far out from the crowd:

Russians seem to be really into this stuff (obviously it’s a tiny subculture, AFAIK, but still).

[Spacewalk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvOnvr-VQfI

Lunar (fucking) Womb.

[Eight_Rooks]

Just because Darius Burst: Chronicle Saviours is on the front page, and people wonder why anyone would pay $50 for a game about little spaceships shooting other little spaceships.

There’s one reason. Well, that and the giant robot fish. Still one of the greatest sound teams in the industry.

[sabrage]

Just because Darius Burst: Chronicle Saviours is on the front page, and people wonder why anyone would pay $50 for a game about little spaceships shooting other little spaceships.

I don’t really think anyone who’s at all familiar with the games or the kind of people who enjoy them (fuck off, 2hu players) is really wondering that.

[Eight_Rooks]

I don’t really think anyone who’s at all familiar with the games or the kind of people who enjoy them (fuck off, 2hu players) is really wondering that.

Eh, it was one of them… rhetorical questions. Or something. It’s late, I’m tired.

Still, it does bug me that people can’t look and see more money and craftsmanship and effort has clearly gone into thing A rather than thing B, which - while it doesn’t make either of them bad - means certain people would happily pay lots more for the first one. I think Final Fantasy X is crap, but I can easily understand why someone would rather play that than the latest Kemco shovelware JRPG on mobile. Like I said on the front page, I think the genre has become almost permanently devalued in a lot of people’s eyes, and while I can understand why - hell, I even think the devs did it to themselves in large part - it’s still frustrating. But anyway. Whole other argument, not music-related.

[sabrage]

Well, you got me ripping my Darius Gaiden CD, so that’s something.

[Eight_Rooks]

Or something more relevant, Great Thing’s music (I just 1CC’d Darius Burst on the iPad while reaching him for the first time. Okay, on Easy, but still).

They do so many things that used to piss me off about VGM, and the goth bands my friends listened to in my formative years, yet for some reason with Zuntata most of it works. It’s not just sentimental attachment to Taito’s franchises, either (though okay, that is part of it).

[DiamondDog]

[coldvvvave]

I officially admit I broke down and stopped looking for new music myself. Why do shit when blogs do it for you! Following id:yd is probably not the worst compromise I ever did in my life and I still have a half a dozen bands I watch out for anyway (for some reason id:yd haven’t heard of my all time favorite fix8:sed8). This 3teeth bad is not even very good. Show it to a metalhead and he will probably throw you out of the window because “they use those filthy dj things with keyboards!”. Whatever.

[Fumarole]

I recently discovered Baba Brinkman and cannot bring myself to listen to anything else on Spotify.

[Wenz]

Empress Of - Water Water

[Spacewalk]

I thought he’d be killed by death not cancer. This is rock and roll dying. We’ve only got Alice, Mick and Keith left but then what?

[Anthile]

[Wenz]

Too many options

https://www.youtube.com/results?hl=it&client=mv-google&gl=IT&q=paul+gilbert+full+live&submit=Cerca

[icupnimpn2]

Just because Darius Burst: Chronicle Saviours is on the front page, and people wonder why anyone would pay $50 for a game about little spaceships shooting other little spaceships.

There’s one reason. Well, that and the giant robot fish. Still one of the greatest sound teams in the industry.

Gamera 2000… When I was 16 or 17 I had what was probably a bootleg disc for PSX. What a fantastically fun game. There are little bits of hilarious FMV and then surprisingly fun Panzer Dragon-ish gameplay. Could play it (if I remember) with one person as Gamera and one as some human dude in a fighter plane. Always a hit at parties.

The rest of the game goes pretty perfectly with the music, or vice versa. Memories.

[deft_platitude]

Ostensible Death Grips-alike clipping…

They’re really nothing alike, of course. Their mixtape is even harsher, but it’s also worth checking if this appeals to you at all.

[Zephro]

The Scissor Sister’s first album, after a good round of Peaches and CSS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-0d3cjgfLg

[GameCat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8cOVpK-umQ

This is glorious.

[Wenz]