The return of the "What are you listening to now?" thread

[RangeRoverA1]

Cool jazz hip hop (with b&w vid to boot): https://youtu.be/cM4kqL13jGM

[JK]

This is for NOLA BB Fan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-AA1-WnQ0

[spgass]

That Fats song is great!

Speaking of New Orleans music, I've really gotten into a band called Tuba Skinny lately.  They started out as street musicians there but have gone on to record albums and tour the U.S. and overseas.  My parents both liked New Orleans-style jazz aka Dixieland jazz and I remember hearing bands as a kid at festivals.  Their most recent album, Some-Kinda-Shake, is really good.  Without further ado, my favorite song from the album: https://tubaskinny.bandcamp.com/track/im-going-back-home

The aforementioned album is mostly instrumentals...  I'm still working my way through their catalog, but Pyramid Strut is also a good album that features more jazz and blues vocal numbers:   https://tubaskinny.bandcamp.com/album/pyramid-strut

[Cool Cool Water]

H U M A N T I D E

[Cool Cool Water]

H U M A N T I D E

[Cool Cool Water]

H U M A N T I D E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mud_Nz89u8U&ab_channel=Humantide

[JK]

H U M A N T I D E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mud_Nz89u8U&ab_channel=Humantide

Hey, CCW. Fancy seeing you around here. Good luck wth the band! (Sounds great, by the way.)

Me, I've been listening to three amazing mixes recently, two of Sovietwave...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxj6TbbtDk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjeY5b49chE

...and one of Vaporwave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQS379Idss

[JK]

Bioconstructor (1986-1990) was the breakthrough group masterminded by Alexander Yakovlev (second from right), a figure I find endlessly fascinating. Much of his music can be loosely described as a marriage between that of Kraftwerk and Gary Numan.

Yesterday, while cleaning a bookshelf I gave a listen to their 1989 album Демонстрация силы техники, which if my spies have got it right translates as "Demonstration of the Power of Technology".

[JK]

Uploader Dan Fingerman's description says it all (not to forget the ~350 comments):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YgGYE6DUA

Hi peeps. A bit of a different upload today. I found this video on Youtube through a Discord server about Boards of Canada. The original uploader claimed to have found this video on a thrifted VHS tape. People went nuts over the fact this could be unreleased Boards of Canada tracks, but I doubt it. Especially since the tape was found in the USA, according to the original uploader. Some Boards of Canada tracks seem to have been sprinkled in though. I liked the upload so I downloaded it. Turns out the original uploader deleted the entire channel (probably due to hate from people saying it's fake). Never thought I'd be someone to save something from being lost media, but here I am... I doubt it's a lost Boards of Canada release, but it's a really nice collection of music anyway! Hope you enjoy it.

Original description from the now deleted video:

A few or more years ago I used to work at a local Red White & Blue Thrift center and the employees would always get first pick on any of the items that were dropped off. There was a box full of VHS tapes, some of which were horror movies. I grabbed four of the tapes. The tapes have remained on my shelf and never watched any of them until recently over the pandemic when the entire world was in lockdown. I went to go watch The Shining. I took the tape out of it's box and noticed there was no label on the VHS tape. I popped it in and to my surprise this is what was on that tape. I was a little irritated, as I am a big Stephen King fan and was looking to watch the movie. I fast forwarded the tape, but it goes all blank after the music and clouds stop. I figured, some jack-ass decided to over dub cheesy music over some boring video footage of clouds. After all these months, I decided to convert the VHS footage to digital and post it.

No idea who made this tape, whether it's some kind of joke, or what the music is. I tried to use the Shazam music app to see if I could identify, but no luck there. Maybe someone else knows? If I had to make an honest guess, I think possibly the tape is a student experiment for a class and maybe they made a tape compiled of music to throw on top of it and they accidentally put it in the wrong cassette box? Either way, I find it interesting or maybe slightly creepy. I was goin to throw the tape away, but something about the whole ordeal, I find very interesting.

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00: 00:00
01: 00:17
02: 01:30
03: 02:55
04: 03:08
05: 06:14
06: 07:28
07: 09:04
08: 10:07
09: 13:25
10: 14:20 (Boqurant - Boards of Canada)
11: 15:33
12: 18:06
13: 20:05
14: 21:54
15: 22:18
16: 24:40 (Seeya Later - Boards of Canada)
17: 28:42
18: 30:40
19: 32:50
20: 35:44
21: 39:32

[JK]

These are Olga Voskonyan & BIO performing "Нежные слова" (Tender words) from their 2021 album Любовь права (Love is right), with music by the late Oleg Parastaev of Alyans/NRG and lyrics by Olga Voskonyan. Olga's stuff can teeter on the edge of simplistic but it always has a calming effect on me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5sBd92R9k

[JK]

I discovered "Battleflag" by a circuitous route that took me from the remixes of Com Truise to the Belgian outfit Arsenal to their guest singer Shawn Smith to his band Pigeonhed and lastly to the stunning remix Lo Fidelity Allstars made of the Pigeonhed song "Battle Flag":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bh-j4vVbTU

[JK]

Listening to this recent gem by Beach Boy Land's favourite mandolinist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNVPELuCyr0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Nepomuk_Hummel

[JK]

All the way from Birmingham (UK), Humantide are Chris Hickling (lead vox and guitar), Martyn Barran (bass), Richard Hickling (guitar and vox) and Ryan Kerley (drums). This is "The Company Whip":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ua8Zp0ukk

https://www.facebook.com/Humantide/

[JK]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL93D2239252DE7EE8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Could_Only_Remember_My_Name

[RangeRoverA1]

Local band Ivanushki International initial album (1996). Knew hits, grew hearing via TV yada yada. This year Sept. youtube suggested Ivanushki Int. smash hit "Dark Clouds", listened with new ears, liked, checked guys' interviews, live clips. Now big fan since.

Link to the album track playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m90SQHCjMwxhm1Z_SGYnNsvS01FLO_rHc&si=6eoAXx9UWK40tJyG

[spgass]

There’s a local (to me) band called The Fly Birds that just put out a new single entitled Change My Mind  that I really dig.  It’s a slow song with nice harmonies:  https://youtu.be/cZmDmx1wHd4

[spgass]

I’ve been digging this song lately, The Fine Art of Taking it Slow.  Features a sweet sounding voice, an oldies vibe, and well-crafted lyrics:  https://youtu.be/X8B-C_yYO34

[Julia]

Lately Ive been using relaxing vaporwave music as background noise while I read SMiLE stuff. Vaporwave is cool, it's not the most technically impressive or emotionally stirring thing but that's the whole point. It's just trying to calm you down and create a nice vibe to let your mind wander.

I particularly like some of these YouTube videos that have nice "cover art" as the visual. To me, these pictures are half the fun, they're either these slightly creepy yet still somehow enticing places (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWsh4cvSIGY) or traditionally beautiful nature scenery (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnJgnh8EDE) or retro-futurist illustrations right out of Cloud City or Barbarella (https://www.youtube.com/@FutureCityAmbient/videos & https://www.youtube.com/@spiritualbrotherscifi) or Gandalf/Radagast smoking a blunt in the woods at night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU2a-aDy-wk&t=155s) or a Don Draper esque executive lounging after a day in the office (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQ3Di2Gewc & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbcmNwS0YqQ)

I just love this aesthetic so much and can't totally explain why. It taps into that indescribably comfortable feeling you get when you're safe inside on a rainy day, or looking out the window of a busy city street at night seeing all the cars go by and knowing every bright dot in the skyscrapers you're seeing means there's a person there (who could be) doing the same thing. Liminal spaces and lo-fi sounds. There's something profound in the small things like that. Im really glad the algorithm recommended these videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KDtnf_Ai_k

[JK]

Lately Ive been using relaxing vaporwave music as background noise while I read SMiLE stuff. Vaporwave is cool, it's not the most technically impressive or emotionally stirring thing but that's the whole point. It's just trying to calm you down and create a nice vibe to let your mind wander.

You were the first poster at EH to mention vaporwave and I was the second.

Here's my go-to vaporwave video. This wondrous mix courtesy of uploader b r h m is accompanied by evening scenes in the streets and shops of Tokyo, in and around the district called Kabuki-chō (it was the now demolished Koma Stadium that clinched it). Captured on videotape back in mid 1990, it makes for a riveting watch and the kaleidoscopic musical canvas complete with squelching synths complements it perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQS379Idss

[Julia]

Lately Ive been using relaxing vaporwave music as background noise while I read SMiLE stuff. Vaporwave is cool, it's not the most technically impressive or emotionally stirring thing but that's the whole point. It's just trying to calm you down and create a nice vibe to let your mind wander.

You were the first poster at EH to mention vaporwave and I was the second.

Here's my go-to vaporwave video. This wondrous mix courtesy of uploader b r h m is accompanied by evening scenes in the streets and shops of Tokyo, in and around the district called Kabuki-chō (it was the now demolished Koma Stadium that clinched it). Captured on videotape back in mid 1990, it makes for a riveting watch and the kaleidoscopic musical canvas complete with squelching synths complements it perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQS379Idss

Yes! I guess like all genres it has its good and bad examples. Ive heard a lot of crappy vaporwave in the past but these ones here are good. Like I said, love the visuals too--it's half the fun.

Im glad Im not alone in finding obsolete technology or VHS-artifacts charming, which are digitally recreated in some of these videos. It's strange how these random things can evoke such feelings in people

[JK]

Lately Ive been using relaxing vaporwave music as background noise while I read SMiLE stuff. Vaporwave is cool, it's not the most technically impressive or emotionally stirring thing but that's the whole point. It's just trying to calm you down and create a nice vibe to let your mind wander.

You were the first poster at EH to mention vaporwave and I was the second.

Here's my go-to vaporwave video. This wondrous mix courtesy of uploader b r h m is accompanied by evening scenes in the streets and shops of Tokyo, in and around the district called Kabuki-chō (it was the now demolished Koma Stadium that clinched it). Captured on videotape back in mid 1990, it makes for a riveting watch and the kaleidoscopic musical canvas complete with squelching synths complements it perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQS379Idss

Yes! I guess like all genres it has its good and bad examples. Ive heard a lot of crappy vaporwave in the past but these ones here are good. Like I said, love the visuals too--it's half the fun.

Im glad Im not alone in finding obsolete technology or VHS-artifacts charming, which are digitally recreated in some of these videos. It's strange how these random things can evoke such feelings in people

I could watch that Tokyo video all day!

Oh, and there's an amazing story about a mysterious VHS tape about ten posts back. You may have seen it already...