New Album: Long Walks and Short Tangents
Hey Everyone!
N0n-B1nary here. I'm very happy to announce that my first album, "Long Walks and Short Tangents" is now available on Spotify!
This album has a pretty wide range of instrumental themes, but most are in the softer, lofi categories that are great to study , write, do chores or just zone out to.
Two of the songs, "Translating an Akkadian Script with the help of Some Cheap Coffee" and "Sometimes Letting Go Of Your Past Means Crossing Mountain Ranges And Barbed Wire" were directly inspired by two characters from the fantastic Syntax Podcast made by @twinstrangersp , who are starting their crowdfunding campaign for season 3! Huge shout-out for their continued encouragement and support!
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Where were you on the 1st of March, 2024?
I mean, you weren't at the Cask & Craft with the good people of Boldmere, were you?
It's a good job I recorded this set for you then, isn't it?
Just shy of five hours of the finest in Friday night party music to get you shaking like only we can!
There's funk & soul from Gil Scot-Heron, Cymande and The Salsoul Orchestra, some hip-hop from The Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and Danny Brown, disco from Say She She and Penny Goodwin, electro swing from Parov Stelar and Vonobox, some dub styles from Prince Fatty, Horseman, Bob Vylan, and Greentea Peng, Latin vibes with iLa & Natalia lafourcade, Nia Archives, and DJ Marky, 90s beats from The Chemical Bros, Mi7, Dee Pattern, and 187 Lockdown, and some heavy breaks from High Contrast, Ratty & Tango, Sub Focus, and Jaguar Skills, A luscious track from local artist, Rosie Tee, plus a metric shit ton more!
Anyway, see you at the next one, yeah?
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My net buddy System ST91 who does awesome 90s dance / VGM inspired tracks paired with their sweet (also 90s inspired) anime art is so close to 1K subscribers on youtube, meaning they can soon monetize / get superchats and other benefits on their channel! which FYI youtube shows ads on people’s videos regardless of being in partner program or not so might as well get something out of it 🙃
so to celebrate I’ll post my top 5 favorite songs of theirs (that are on YT). music ranges anywhere from DNB breaks, jungle, techno, garage house, vaportrap and juke with touches on various atmospheres and game setting themes:
and my absolute favorite, the entire Mind-Station 98 album 🔥🔥🔥:
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Today's compilation:
Out Patients
2000
Future Jazz / Broken Beat / Drum n Bass
Checked out this sweet turn-of-the-millennium electronic comp over the past couple days called Out Patients, the first installment in a three-volume series that was put out on UK label Hospital Records. Originally launched in 1996, Hospital was founded by London Elektricity, a duo who, sometime in the early 2000s, decided to downsize to just one member, Tony Colman, so the former member, Chris Goss, could devote more time and energy to running Hospital himself.
Now, if you know anything about either Hospital or LE beyond what I've just told you, then you know that what they're both primarily known for is their drum n bass output. In fact, in their first four years of existence, that's all Hospital pretty much ever released. However, in 2000, with the launching of this little, cleverly titled Out Patients series—songs that largely laid outside of Hospital's own sonic radius—they decided to venture a little out of their comfort zone.
So, ultimately, what we have here are a bunch of groovy electronic lounge-type vibes that largely come in the form of future jazz and broken beat—a pair of oft-intertwined electronic genres that were both surging at around the same exact time. Broken beat was this wonderful, broadly-defined music that saw fundamentals of drum n bass taken to a sharper, more complicated and unorthodox abstraction, and its rhythms would be integrated into future jazz, a type of jazz-infused electronic music that succeeds the late 80s-to-mid-90s UK phenomenon of acid jazz, and hearkens back to the halcyon days of free-flowing jazz fusion from the 70s and 80s too; also known as nu jazz.
And even though this is just an exclusive dozen tracks from a label that'd never really put out this type of material before, Hospital was still able to get a few notable names to contribute to this release here: veteran Uschi Classen, who in addition to her own solo material, had also been in a bunch of groups, like Ashley Beedle's Black Science Orchestra and the Ballistic Brothers; dnb trio Aquasky; and Mr. Scruff, whose biggest claim to fame is this very popular electro swing tune—one of the only decent ones that's ever been made—and if you're an American of a certain age, you might remember it from an old ad campaign for Lincoln's full lineup of vehicles too.
Here's one of those ads with Michael Clarke Duncan!
But, to me, the best song on this release has to be "Action," by Japan's Yukihiro Fukutomi. Fukutomi himself was his own entity too by the time this song had been included on this very comp, but the vast majority of his music had only ever been released in Japan; so when he appeared on Out Patients, it was likely the first time that many people outside of Japan had ever heard him before. And those people were probably fuckin' dazzled, because the combination of constantly shifting broken beat drum rhythm and Fukutomi's whiny old school keyboard improv here is simply diabolical 😈. Get lost in this super craggy shit!
And something that also needs pointing out here is that even though most of this comp isn't drum n bass, there are still a couple dnb tunes on here anyway. And as someone who really loves it when people just *straight-up rap* over drum n bass beats, I can't leave this post without mentioning MC Mello and London Elektricity's bouncy "Melloizdaman." This is just such a cool and fun tune, overall, and I especially love how LE add this warm coat of ambient synth to their double bass-infused beat after the first verse. Usually rappers need to rap over steady beats in order to maintain their own timing and flow, and while LE don't mess with the rhythm itself here, they're still able to enhance their tune further with this added synth in order to keep it sounding fresh. Really great stuff 🤩.
So a pretty dope set of early 2000s tunes from Hospital Records here. Mostly not the kind of electronic music that they're typically known for releasing, but they included some nice, previously unheard tracks on this album nonetheless 👍.
And if you want the type of stuff that Hospital *is* known for, check out this post I did a few months ago on Plastic Surgery 2, a double-disc comp and DJ mix that featured them on the 2-step liquid funk trend, a more mass-appealing strain of drum n bass that grew to be very popular in the UK in the mid-to-late 2000s that they themselves were on the forefront of.
Highlights:
Liane Carroll - "The Trap"
Uschi Classen - "Tocatta (The Indigo Blue Mix)"
Aquasky - "Another Day"
Skitz + Julie Dexter - "Be...."
Landslide - "Golden Cavalier"
London Elektricity - "Incurable"
Space Clique - "Exit #1: Luna Park"
MC Mello vs. London Elektricity - "Melloizdaman"
Yukihiro Fukutomi - "Action"
Marcus Intalex & S.T. Files - "Taking Over Me"
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What are your favorite/least favorite music genres?
rubs my autistic hands together
something about indie folk is like fucking crack to me i just adore it. i also LOVEEEE new wave, dream pop, synth pop, doo wop, and city pop! those are my absolute faves and i also really enjoy classic rock, country (NOT bro-country!!!), jazz, rhythm and blues, and pretty much any pop from the 80s.
and disclaimer before i answer the second part, i think it’s stupid to say you hate an entire genre of music; there will always be a few songs or artists in that genre you’ll enjoy. they don’t ALL sound the same. i know a lot of people tout that they “love every single genre” but don’t actually. but genuinely i’ll never judge a song based on its genre—if it sounds good, then it sounds good. in one of the spotify wrappeds it said i listened to 900 new genres or something insane like that? so i'm really not afraid to branch out.
that being said, i have never enjoyed anything i’ve heard that i’d describe as death metal, screamo, mumble rap, or like modern bro-country (tits, beer, pickup trucks, america. you know the kind). i don’t really like grunge either which is an opinion that will probably get me killed.
anything that hurts my ears, even if i can recognize as good, well-made music, i can’t listen to. so like hyperpop, breakcore, noise music, grindcore (and quite a few metal subgenres). even some jazz and blues, those horns feel like they split my head open sometimes and it honestly sucks bc i really love jazz!!
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