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2020 albums

Surveillance - Therapy Pt. 1

the damn i really like drum breaks i wish someone made a great song consisting mostly of those of the year

Thou & Emma Ruth Rundle - May Our Chambers Be Full

the dark and rainy November, just take me to wherever you intend to of the year

Gnod & João Pais Filipe - Faca de Fogo

the i only need drums and echoes that never end of the year

Kooba Tercu - Proto Tekno

the human-machine mechanix mystery of the year

Louie Blue - Notes

the smooth grooves for a summer day of the year

Lyyti - Meitä ei ole kutsuttu

the words arranged in a necessary manner of the year

Antti Tuisku - Valittu kansa

the pop chorus wizardry of the year

Babel - Forever

the engulf me in teenage nostalgia of the year

Oklou - Galore

the soft ethereal loop forever soft ethereal loop forever of the year

Benjamin - Someveteraani

the live life 100 tabs a time and am not sure how to feel about it of the year

food house - food house

the ld_music_idklol_final.mp4.wav.3gp of the year

Namasenda - Wanted

the pls just give me a boost of the year

low string albums

Francesca Ter-Berg - In Eynem

i think she has a klezmer background but this truly is all around the place in the best ways

Leila Bordreuil - Headflush

truly one of my fave cellists of all time though quite a recent find, noisy and great

Leila Bordreuil - not an elegy

everything feels like a rock being formed into a shape

Mabe Fratti + Concepción Huerta - Estática

if u make music do also check the spitfire library related to this

BORDREUIL/ROWDEN - DUST

cello and double bass idk what could be better

MMMD - Som Sakrifis

the album that showed me the power of string instruments

Helen Money - Atomic

emotional, eternal, existence

Terry Jennings - Piece for Cello and Saxophone

just joking, there's no sax, just cello, droning, till forever..

music software

tahti.studio

free sampler/sequencer that works in web browser. pure magic

The Spellbook

idk i just like the idea of occult symbols powering your digital sounds. feels eerie

fors.fm

cool max for live -devices with amazing uis. wish they weren't M4L though, I don't trust it. one of the founders used to work at Elektron, btw.

Bespoke Synth (free!)

modular environment made by ex-Harmonix programmer. works fine and is a lot easier than max/msp et al

TouchOSC

u can use this to create custom MIDI controllers on your mobile devices. fun stuff, i've used it both live and in studio

slow video games

Sludge Life

chilling out. feels like a zine in a video game form which is lovely

Outer Wilds

a game that rly understands what games are, plus too spooky

Mondo Medicals

the only non-vr game to ever cause me vertigo. can recommend

Knytt Stories

original mindfulness platformer indeed quite relaxing

sample packs

Slikback - SLK_THAWMUX_SAMPLE PACK
Miss Jay - Miss Jay Sample Pack
Ani Klang - MASSIVE WAREHOUSE - Industrial Sample Pack for Loudly, Berlin
DJ Swisha - DJ Swisha Sample Pack
BABii - BABii SAMPLE PACK NUMBER 1
Pieces of Juno - Icicle Sample Pack
Kavari - Texture Vice [Sample Pack]
xo.re - [Samplepack] RSamples - volume 1
xo.re - [samplepack] Renewed Amens
Clouds - Clouds Sample Pack 001
Clouds - Clouds Kick Drums
Clouds - Clouds Sample Pack 002
Clouds - Clouds Sample Pack 003
Suicide Club Essential Vol.1
Dave Quam - Quamkit
Special Request - SPLURGECORE TOOLKIT SAMPLE PACK
Kai Whiston - Sample Pack Vol. 1
Om Unit - Hardware Synth Drums (Sample Pack)
Merca Bae - Merca Zip /2020/ - Sample Pack
Fanu - D&B BREAKS SAMPLE PACK
Walton - Walton Sample Pack Vol. 1
Walton - Walton Sample Pack Vol. 2
sv1 - sample pack 2020
DJH - DJH SAMPLE PACK 001
Lithe - CLUB UTILITIES [SAMPLE PACK]
Kyle Setch - HAPTIC FEEDBACK [SAMPLE PACK]
Om Unit - Ambient Breakbeat Sample Pack
Clouds - Clouds Sample Pack 004 - Breaks

music hardware

Monome Norns

haven't tried. love the pixelated user interfaces and the idea of a user-curated library though

Neutral Labs Elmyra

budget lyra-8 but absolutely amazing at what it does (i have one of these). gladly didn't have to build it myself since i bought it used.

Make Noise Strega

i dont know maybe more of a traditional fare as far as interface goes but seems quite interesting in its distortion gotta say but haven't tried

Elektron Octatrack

sampler extraordinaire; it's cool that the software is still going strong 10+ years on

SOMA LYRA-8

soma means cute in Finnish and what can I say this is a really cute device and also makes the coolest sounds

The Pipe Shoppe

3d-printed flutes and other such... peculiar devices

experimental font foundries

Velvetyne

these are all free too, ive used these a lot and i think this site's fonts are from here as well

Collletttivo

free and open source! not all that experimental always but still interesting

Typelab

not free but the fonts are rly interesting and pleasing to the eye

Future Fonts

a somewhat confusing pricing model but cool fonts

Lobbby24

packs of intriguing fonts for free

Raphael Bastide - Libre Foundries

basically my list but better

fast video games

Post Void

over and over and over again disoriented nuisance wish i could frame this

Ultrakill

like a bigger post void, amazing style and v hard in my opinion

Nix Umbra

havent played this but adore the way it looks

Super Hexagon

the ultimate mobile game if ur feeling restless

Devil Daggers

ultra sharp focus... surprisingly strategic

drum albums

Deantoni Parks & Chris Hunt - Lightlike

the very cool sounding lyra-8 synth plus deantoni parks (who also played in my teenage fave band Mars Volta), what more could u ask for

Chris Corsano - The Young Cricketer

chaotic and annoying in a good way

Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro - Due Matte

magaletti is seriously one of the most interesting percussionists around

Valentina Magaletti & Julian Sartorius - Sulla Pelle

as said, magaletti is rly good and this is no exception

Don Gero - Weirding

i think this is one person controlling everything that's kinda interesting

Don Gero - Wizarding

yeah somehow these sounds remind me of lightning bolt a bit, a great noise rock band also

Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Balazs Pandi - Become the discovered, not the discoverer

good to have some rhythms around merzbow's soundscapes

Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Balazs Pandi - An Untroublesome Defencelessness

black sludge seeping from between the crevices of these streets

Hikikomori - ...And These Were The War Cries Of Our Enemies

ngl the name is kinda weird for a band from Vancouver but the album is great

Dave Lombardo - Rites of Percussion

slayer's (ex?)drummer, just drumming on...

free browser tools

tahti.studio

free sampler/sequencer that works in web browser. pure magic

Patatap

v easily accessible web browser synth sample drum whatever extravaganza, colorful and fun

Adult Swim - Choir

the fun interface obscures what is a surprisingly emotional experience

Glyph Drawing Club

create not quite pixel art but similar, v intriguing machine

Space Type Generator

create cool and wonky type based experimentz from your own texts

Wobblepaint

create wobbly pixel art gifs

art software

Electric Zine Maker

strange software for making your own printable zines on the computer.

alienmelon - "cool tools" @ itch.io

Nathalie Lawhead's compilation of interesting tools available at itch.io

Nathalie Lawhead's blog (specifically the "Tools" category)

creator of Electric Zine Maker. great resource, contains a LOT. For example about tiny tools, generative art, more tiny tools,

tinytools.directory

directory of small tools for different artistic purposes

Lizard Ladder

keyframe... something? idk this makes very cool 2.5d things

music apps

Koala Sampler

mobile sampler that actually feels like it was designed with mobile in mind

Flip Sampler

another mobile sampler... this time by YouTube music star Andrew Huang

VirtualANS

software simulation of Russian synth ANS... confusing sounds, good stuff. other Zolotov's apps are worth a look also

Nanoloop

game boy classic in app form!

2021 albums

Akkajee - Lastenkerääjä

the rites in a forest grove of the year

Taqbir - Taqbir

the idk just good punk chaos i really liked of the year

Danny L Harle - Harlecore

the endless sparkles around us of the year

Mabe Fratti + Concepción Huerta - Estática

the formless shapes reduced into different types of goo of the year

Manslaughter 777 - World Vision Perfect Harmony

the eechhhooeechhhooo))))o))) of the year

Malla - Malla

the amazing grooves for ages of the year

BORDREUIL/ROWDEN - DUST

the continuous change through 4D planes of the year

Zuli - All Caps

the skittered club bangers of the year

Holy Tongue - II

the so what are you doing here exactly of the year

Blawan - Woke Up Right Handed

the boots and cats and boots and cats of the year

weird website hubs

Parimal Sayal - Rediscovering the Small Web

fb et al made the web a lot more accessible (in a technical sense) than it used to be, which is wonderful. but they're also almost total control of how we see and use the web. that's not optimal. this essay talks a bit about that, and sorta explains this category and the whole idea behind this list site :)

href.cool

everything from strange films to geometry

things magazine

looks like a bunch of autogenerated text at first but is actually a link blog full of interesting paths

The Useless Web

takes you to useless websites i.e. the best kind of ones

Stumbled

a spiritual successor to StumbleUpon which used to do the same - click a button, see a cool site

/r/InternetIsBeautiful

reddit's starting point for fun single purpose websites

Are.na

ok this is a social media but browsing thru here can lead you to some very interesting places. Case examples, these lists by Everett Williams, Gemma Copeland, Camilo García, Camille Wong. Use the "This channel appears in" part in the top bar to get lost in the labyrinth of different channels.

Gossip's Web

artist-focused but in any case a directory of intriguing webpages