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The Strategic Tape Reserve, based in the Penedès region of Catalonia, is a fully independent organization dedicated to the responsible dissemination of ferric cassette materials.

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Other Things That Could Be Alphabetical, by Marcloid & Woods Law Group 7 track album

Late to the party on this one, but holy heck this rips.
tracedobjects.bandcamp.com/album/other-...

10.03.2026 15:52 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Just a little update that my DMs are now open to crypto scams.

10.03.2026 11:25 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Everything will continue in the same way forever, though we won’t be there to experience it.

10.03.2026 09:47 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

There’s no way around that, is there? So much for artistic freedom.

10.03.2026 08:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Ending on a drum solo promises that new forms will emerge. Noise freakout endings suggest that if we work together we can fuck shit up in a way that’s fun and who knows what will happen. Motorik grooves imply communal action towards tangible goals. Dog bark keyboard sounds warn of those dog robots.

10.03.2026 08:33 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 1

Songs ending with guitar solos reinforce the myth that the special individual will save us. Synth solos, that tech will save us. Saxophone solo outros suggest we are doomed but still kinda sexy. Ending with field samples of birds obviously implies a future where humans are ruled by avian overlords.

10.03.2026 08:33 👍 67 🔁 12 💬 8 📌 0

It's just one story, one illustration of all the terrible things that have happened. It's been a week since the very great noise/drone artist Siavash Amini posted this, from where he lives Tehran. There has been no update since. It could be for any number of reasons. We just don't know.

09.03.2026 21:15 👍 156 🔁 63 💬 4 📌 1

The truth is, we don’t know what multi-band compression or linear phase eq do to people long term. There’s no information! So that’s why my kids only listen to unmastered music. It just feels safer that way.

09.03.2026 18:29 👍 156 🔁 19 💬 13 📌 2

Each time you accidentally lock yourself out of your home, you gain the capacity to create one additional album that you otherwise wouldn’t have.

09.03.2026 17:56 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wow! Did The Bee Atlas include wasps? If so, that’s like a music industry cheat code and explains the band’s rapid rise to success.

09.03.2026 16:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The pre-spell-check music scene was wild

09.03.2026 14:36 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I understand that The Beatles [sic] are very influential and widely beloved, but for me, having a spelling mistake in the band name is disqualifying. If they won’t even have the name copy-edited, that raises serious quality-control questions about the music. I prefer a more professional approach.

09.03.2026 13:37 👍 182 🔁 20 💬 66 📌 4

If that seems inconvenient or impractical, let’s remember that music itself is 40,000 years old and our small act of patience or delayed gratification is almost nothing on such a scale.

09.03.2026 12:19 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When composing/improvising music, the decisions you make should be informed by a long-term outlook. Rather than considering eg how playing a 7th chord on a piano might affect listeners now or this business quarter, perhaps integrate that decision into a 5- or 25-year-plan for where music should go.

09.03.2026 12:19 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1

A music performance where the artist doesn’t produce any sounds, but instead mimes sounds using gestures and expressions. The audience has to guess the sounds, producing them in any way they can. When the artist confirms a sound has been guessed correctly, they move to the next sound in the piece.

09.03.2026 08:27 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Fair point. Obviously they are shitty people and of course that affects how I hear the music. I think it’s possible to enjoy music specifically because it’s grotesque (KR) or dull (VM), but I’m also not good at separating art from artist, so you got me on this one.

08.03.2026 19:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The reason you hear more reverb in music nowadays is cost savings. Rather than loading up the frequency spectrum with relatively expensive solid sounds, a dreampop artist, for example, will shave a good bit off the budget by filling it with a sense of empty space. So basically, they’re selling air!

08.03.2026 12:02 👍 83 🔁 7 💬 18 📌 1
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07.03.2026 11:15 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

When you’re first getting into music listening, it might seem intuitive to start with short songs, but this is a bad idea. Because your ears are unaccustomed to music, the song will be over before you’ve figured out what’s going on. In the 1st year, anything under 12 minutes will be a waste of time.

07.03.2026 20:41 👍 49 🔁 3 💬 7 📌 0

Because it’s music and we’re people. Take a look around. It’s 100% more likely that we’re the thing that sucks.

07.03.2026 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

If you believe in yourself, you can like ANY music

07.03.2026 18:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When we hear a piece of music we don’t like, this is an opportunity to explore what it is within us that’s denying that enjoyment, and then to work on that, to help facilitate more overall enjoyment.

07.03.2026 18:24 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 19 📌 3

People used to ask each other “So what’s on your CD hooks?” instead of saying “What kind of music do you like?” It meant the same thing. Even if the person didn’t have hooks because they still used tapes. Sometimes I think those days were better, having all that music hanging there on the CD hooks.

07.03.2026 13:55 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Young people probably don’t remember but there was a period in the 90s, before those CD binders were invented, when everyone hung their CDs on hooks, either mounted on the wall or via a string affixed to the ceiling. They were called “CD hooks”. You rarely see those anymore.

07.03.2026 13:55 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 3

A music streaming service that reviews your music listening and shames you if you listen to music wrong.

07.03.2026 11:52 👍 104 🔁 14 💬 15 📌 7
Album cover featuring a black & white photo of flowers against black

Album cover featuring a black & white photo of flowers against black

‘Sleep Chrysalis’ by Sleep Chrysalis

▪️BANDCAMP FRIDAY PREORDER▪️
This is the 10th anniversary, restored and repackaged special edition of the long unavailable collab by Nonconnah’s Magpie Corsa and UK’s rising star of devotional guitar picking Linden Pomeroy…

“…super spooky Americana soundscapery”

06.03.2026 01:35 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1

word is I get an extra dollar today, you get some finely crafted noises

06.03.2026 18:00 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

I can think of hundreds of people of people who can list them.

06.03.2026 18:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

in Nebraska?

06.03.2026 18:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen said he intends to make an album about each of the states in the USA. But until now, the only one he’s done is about Nebraska, where he was born and raised.

06.03.2026 18:15 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 0