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assorted House music recs

sorted by genre, some of these aren't on streaming but for sure got something on youtube or soulseek. chicago/detroit: Paul Johnson - A Little Suntin Suntin Drexciya - Wavejumper Trasllusiuon - Do You Want to Get Down (vocal) The Other People Place - Let Me Be Me Underground Resistance - Transition Cybotron - Clear Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It Armando - Land of Confusion US east coast: Kerri Chandler - You're in My System (Atmospheric Vocal) Kerri Chandler - Moving In Todd Edwards - Shut the Door Todd Edwards - Restless Soul DJ Technics - Party People french house: Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You Together - Together Crydamoure - Crydamoure Presents: Waves Vol I-II (compilations) Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro Raw-Man - Lovers Gerry Read - It’ll All Be Over (DJ Koze Remix) bloghouse: Justice - Genisis SebastiAn - Embody SebastiAn - Arabest Four Tet - Love Cry Les Sins - Lina Phonat - Love Hits the Fan Surrender - Travellers (Phonat Remix) UK garage/house/techno Burial - Ghost Hardware Leon Vynehall - It's Just (House of Dupree) Leon Vynehall - Duofade Automatic Tasty - The Future is Not What it Used to Be Geode - Embrace Leatherette - Dog Brush Lone - Pineapple Crush Sorrow - Chronicle Underworld - Two Months Off ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ - (̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂v̴̢͚͚͎ȯ̶̞̮͖̑̈́)̸̳̥̰̜̥̺̐ͅ)̴͎̜͍̱̋̌͋̓̾̚ ̷̨ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(۝ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(Ɵʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂:̴͓̞̑̌̂̆̊͋̀:̸͎̟̯̂̓̌:̶̢͙͙͕̠̩͆(̷̮͍͚̫͚͂̍)̵̳̗̊(Ɵʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂v̴̢͚͚͎ȯ̶̞̮͖̑̈́)̸̳̥̰̜̥̺̐ͅ)̴͎̜͍̱̋̌͋̓̾̚ ̷̨ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ vocal house: Disclosure - White Noise Everything But the Girl - Lullaby of Clubland Fcukers - Mothers Kaytranada - Bullets Skrillex - All I Ask of You Neil Frances - It's Like a Dream Skrillex & Four Tet - Butterflies Caribou - Never Come Back Kllo - Affection techno: Precipitation - Yuzawa Experience Sfire - Sfire7 Skee Mask - Rev8617 SOPHIE - Nothing More to Say (Vox) Khotin - Service Provider Gesaffelstein - Pursuit Floating Points - LesAlpx/Coorabell electro/hardstyle: Dog Blood - Turn Out the Lights Phuture Doom - Doom Terror Corps Lil Texas & Danny L Harle - Dreaming T2 - Chocolate Boy (VIP MIX) metaroom - OUT OF CONTROL Labrinth - Last Time (Knife Party Remix) Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Skrillex Remix) Nero - Must Be The Feeling Zedd - Shave it Up future funk: yung bae & luca lush - Slam Jam! yung bae - Party in Me Aritus - Remember Saint Pepsi - Cherry Pepsi oddball: Birdy Nam Nam - Big City Knights Actress - RUNNER Randomer - Bring DJ Koze - Bonfire Leon Vynehall - Mothra Ross From Friends - Thank God I'm a Lizard DJ Warlord - Droom Hudson Mohawke - Bicstan Andy Stott - How It Was Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair - Wait a Minute

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Mar 18, 2024

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assorted saccharine pop

been a while since I did one of these SOPHIE - lemonade Baird - Chasing Deer Jane Remover - Your Clothes Passion Pit - Little Secrets New Musik - Churches underscores - count of three RAH Band - Night Wind Torr - dammit Sylvan Esso - Kick Jump Twist Macintosh Plus - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー Bickle - Naked Sam Gellaitry - Duo A G Cook - Oh Yeah Tennyson - Cry Bird Kitty Craft - Par 5 Toro y Moi - Genius of Love Breakbot - Mystery Benny Benasi - Cinema Anamanaguchi - Everyday, Everynight Zedd - Lost at Sea Madeon - OK Hundred Waters - Wave to Anchor

@royallmonarch

May 23, 2024

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assorted new music recs

sorted by genre, some are forthcoming but all have at least some singles out if not the whole project alternative/singer-songwriter: claire rousay - sentiment, experimental/sound collage artist makes an indie guitar ballad album, think boygenius with weirder production South Hill Experiment - South Hill & Friends, S/H/E are like The Wrecking Crew but in modern times. basically a jam band fronted by two brothers who feature a rotating cast of other musicians/vocalists/rappers. this EP is their latest collaborative project with some folks Laetitia Sadier - Rooting for Love, solo album of the frontwoman of Stereolab. production has some electronic quirks but mostly kind of alt rock at its core. lots of songs are in french, themes of love and conflict and commentary on social concepts electronic: Nourished by Time - Catching Chickens EP, this guy is like the David Byrne of rnb in terms of unique vocal affectation and song concepts. instrumentation is very inspired by 80s/90s club music and early digital production Thy Slaughter - Soft Rock, actually a very energetic electronic pop record, the last PC music release EVER :( Squarepusher - Dostrotime, idm wackiness but in the best way. if you just want to jump head first into some bleep bloop drum break madness this is your album (first track is chill guitar instrumental tho) shoegaze/dream pop Punchlove - Channels, some CLASSIC style shoegaze here, less pure walls of sound and more melodic and rhythmically driven but though that typical fog you'd expect from the genre crushed - extra life, vocals are great, production blends triphop/dream pop so the atmosphere across the record is stunning but groove-driven

@royallmonarch

Mar 14, 2024

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WATCHING MOVING WATER

just sit still and listen. drink it in.

@royallmonarch

5d ago

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DETACH from the algo, become an active participant in your own curation, form relationships to music, track your patterns

I consume a lot of music regularly, and a huge part of keeping a fresh diet of new listens going is having enough sources of recommendations that aren’t an algorithm that either 1) reinforces your existing listening patterns, keeping you stagnant in your tastes, or 2) platforms whoever paid enough to push their product to the top, serving you something that may not inherently be of inferior quality, but may not align with your tastes, may not be exciting beyond just being a new release, and realigns your current listening habits to be more in line with what the average user on the platform is also listening to — which socially might have benefits but which creates a homogeneity of consumption that can become bland since you’re listening to something really just because it’s the next product on the assembly line to have its public moment and not because anything about the music actually captured your attention. the current landscape of streaming is designed to keep you at an all you can eat buffet where you take what’s served to you, and as a result a lot of us have forgotten how to look at a menu and order. so what does taking a more active role in your own music curation look like? for me, it’s meant not using streaming as a primary listening platform. I mostly use my local Apple Music library on my phone that I curate with the vestigial iTunes Library framework that’s still a part of Apple Music on my laptop. probably going to find an alternative soon since apple seems to be cutting integration progressively. I like this method because it forces me to choose what to sync to the limited storage space I have, forcing me to take inventory of what I actually listen to and what I can offload. the files I get are mostly from Bandcamp or Soulseek depending on whether it’s available for purchase or entirely unavailable online (as is the case for a lot of electronic music that was on vinyl only, which is where soulseek comes in clutch). I also have freedom here to change the ID3 tags to better sort and organize, rate, change track info, and track my own listening data. Bandcamp and other music purchasing platforms are great because 1) it reshapes my relationship to music away from consumerism and back towards curation. I have to pay actual money for this thing now if I want to use it, so i’m forced to consider its value (usually i’ll stream a release first to gauge my interest). 2) having to spend money helps me to course out my meals so to speak, as i’ll buy a few releases i’ve accumulated in my cart over the month and cash out on Bandcamp Friday when 100% of my money is actually getting to the artist (TOMORROW IS BANDCAMP FRIDAY BTW!!!), and between purchases I can actually chew and savor and digest my last orders, they don’t get swept up in the deluge of new releases. my plate is full until i’m done and then I order more. also for the times of the year like now when new music isn’t coming out as regularly I take time to find older music that I would normally overlook while keeping up with new drops. currently very into early 80s/late 70s music with early digital production, kinda stuff that would evolve into synthpop and dance music. so how do you know what to order? for me, I’m getting recs through trusted curation platforms. whether it’s bandcamp daily, y’all lovely folks here on PI.FYI, friends, or most importantly musicians who I follow on socials that share their tastes through posts, stories, playlists on steaming, interviews, etc. I like this last one especially because it’s kind of like a musical game of telephone. if I like an artist and they share their interests and influences it’s like every layer in this process is stretching my palate further from the sound that I was originally interested in and into a new territory that has some shared DNA but would never have been recommended to me by an algo because there’s no shared category or label between them, only the musical influence and interpretation of it made by the artist. as an example, I was a huge Skrillex stan, he signed KOAN Sound to his label, they collab with Asa who collabs with Sorrow, Sorrow takes huge influence from Burial, Burial makes some ambient adjacent stuff and takes huge influence from 90s rave music and drum and bass and 2000s rnb, now i’m listening to Brandy - All in Me, William Basinski, Aphex Twin, none on whom would get recommended by Spotify to me from Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. LAST thing i’ll say — because in yappin about this i’m realizing how actually passionate about this subject I am: MAKE LISTS! playlists are cool, but they can flatten your music into vague categories of “vibes” and “aesthetics” and encourage picking one-off songs from artists that you never form an active audience relationship with. I make a practice of making my own year end lists of top 25 albums (plus some honorable recs and top individual songs) and keeping them in a notes doc that I regularly update and rearrange over the course of the year. this forces me to consider the actual relationship i’m forming with what i’ve ordered for myself. did I like it in the moment but it didn’t have staying power? is it slowly growing on me? it also encourages taking albums as a whole. maybe I liked one or two tracks a lot but the rest wasn't resonating. that’s ok! maybe I rank it lower but now i’ve actually taken time to consider it, it’s in my library, and maybe (quite a few cases for me) something I ranked like bottom 5 albums becomes a retroactive favorite from that year as my tastes evolve. also 25 albums to take with me from each year is really more than you'd think, i struggle sometimes to even find 25 that I formed a true connection with. I think the biggest thing the itunes era ruined that led into now is the single-ification of music, the ability to separate the hits from the deep cuts. albums are meant to be taken as a whole, and then once you've really sat with the whole you can find what actually stuck. even then I like to keep the whole around because soooo often i’ll write off a track that yeeeears later I come to love. trust the artist, they made it like they did for a reason. aaannyyyywayy TLDR: get recs organically, be more active in deciding your listening patterns, fr*cken pay artists yall, trust the artist embrace the album, really consider what you consume

@royallmonarch

Feb 29, 2024

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GOING ON A SUMMER SUNSET BIKE RIDE

many treats to be had

@royallmonarch

3d ago