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medusinestories · 4 months

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So you know that post about Enigma's "Sadeness" going round, where everyone in the 90ies was into Gregorian Chants for a month?

It was NOT just a month.

The 90ies is a whole decade of unexpected and weird bangers which were based on combinations of synth, traditional instruments, traditional music, choral work and religious music. This is why there was always a whole section in shops called "New Age" (which pretty much meant "weird music we can't classify").

So Enigma releases "Sadeness" in 1990 and it becomes wildly popular in Europe. The band is still going strong apparently, though I haven't heard of any of their other music.

In 1993 in France, another Gregorian Chant banger came out: the soundtrack from a (terrible) comedy called Les Visiteurs.

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If the theme sounds familiar, it's because in 1996 the composer Eric Lévy formed the band Era (also still going to this day) and the song "Ameno" was another banger. The album was apparently France's biggest musical export in 1996.

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In 1994, another choral banger hit the charts. Written phonetically in a language that sounds like Latin, it was used in adverts and the album generally sold really well.

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Okay so how was it possible for this many Latin-sounding choral work weird-ass bangers to get so popular? Well, IMO, someone paved the way for them.

Enya topped the charts for weeks in 1989 with her album Watermark and single "Orinoco Flow". Her music heavily relies on choral work, is heavily inspired by religious and classical music, with her own Irish spin on it. While "Orinoco Flow" sounds quite far from that dark Gregorian style, a number of lesser-known tracks definitely have a feel of it. This is my favourite from 1995, all in Latin (other notable ones are "Cursum Perficio" and "Tempus Vernum"):

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And if you're one of those snobs poo-poohing Enya as "just cutesy ambient music", she is still Ireland's bestselling solo artist 35 years later, in spite of the fact that she doesn't tour and only releases an album every 5 years or so. She has influenced many artists, been used in soundtracks and sampled into several songs which themselves became hits. Her music is complex and varied - if you care to dig further than her singles.

And since it's Christmas, it's only appropriate for me to end with this gorgeous adaptation of a Christmas hymn:

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#enigma #era #enya #new age music #gregorian chants #90ies music #i could have mentioned clannad or loreena mckennitt #but they're not quite in the 'gregorian chant' style anymore #and mike oldfield also paved the way but differently imo #favourite music #Youtube

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mothmanperson · 1 year

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my favorite characters of all time(the things i'd let them do to me, especially uta- he is like- exactly my type its so uncanny)

uncanny valley/liminal space/ star flesh core >>>>

my favorite songs

i enjoy drawing(mo is an art major), i have many ocs(i did roleplay, sadly not so much now) and i would love to hear about yours so don't be afraid to show them to me and tell me about them.

i daydream a lot lol

i am asexual, and non-binary (probably), but at this point i'm just saying i'm queer because honestly i have no idea whats going on

my favorite animals are sharks and cats

(i have the plush shark in blue and pink, both can be found on amazon)

my motto for life is:

"Hydrate or die straight"

and i think its very neat :)

#cats #sharks #uta tokyo ghoul #grell sutcliff #geto suguru #gyutaro #undertaker #favourite music #uncanny #liminal spaces #art #art major #oc stuff #oc rp #vkei icons #extras #hydrate or die straight #ikea shark #Spotify

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galaxis-asteris · 7 months

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Asteria's Album Picks for September 2023

Hey! It's mid-September so I thought I'd share some of my favourite albums this month; both new releases and personal favourites as well!

Hope you enjoy! :]

Title: To Let Go

Artist: NateWantsToBattle

Label: Give Heart Records

Genre: Alternative Metal, Metalcore, Rock, Post-Hardcore

Release Date: September 2023

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Title: Canon EP

Artist: OVERWERK

Label: Fabrik

Genre: Electro, Complextro, Electro House, Electronic.

Release Date: November 2015

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Title: Doubt Me EP

Artist: Beartooth

Genre: Alternative Metal, Metalcore, Rock, Post-Hardcore.

Label: Red Bull Records Inc.

Release Date: August 2023

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Pre-Save "The Surface". Releases October 13th

Title: Remember That You Will Die

Artist: Polyphia

Label: Rise Records Inc.

Genre: Math Rock, Instrumental Rock, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metalcore.

Release Date: October 2022

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Title: Satellites

Artist: Celldweller

Label: FiXT

Genre: Industrial Metal, Rocktronic, Hardelectro, Drum & Bass, Electronic.

Release Date: October 2022

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Also Check Out The Deluxe Edition Here

Title: Wire

Artist: HORSKH

Label: Wire Control / Blood Blast Distribution

Genre: Industrial Metal, Hardelectro, Grunge, Electronic, Future Rock.

Release Date: January 2021

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geekymoviemom · 9 days

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Shuffle your favourite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this ask to your favourite mutuals. 💌

Hey, thank you so much for the ask! 💖

1. Seven Minutes - Dean Lewis

2. Who Do You Love - Marianas Trench

3. Chances - Five for Fighting

4. Greater - MercyMe

5. Hall of Fame - The Script

Thank you again for the ask, this was fun! 💖

#ask geeky anything #kind people are kind #geeky’s favourites #favourite music #thank you!#meidui

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lovejustforaday · 3 months

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2023 Year End List - #1

夢之駭客 Dream Hacker - Otay:onii

Main Genres: Post-Industrial, Experimental

A decent sampling of: Neoclassical Darkwave, Electroacoustic, Glitch, Industrial Techno, Drone

Brace yourself, cause from here on out this is mostly just gonna be me fanboying and gushing uncontrollably.

Back in 2021, I had championed the Chinese American singer/songwriter/composer/producer/performance artist Lane Shi Otayonii a.k.a. Otay:onii for her experimental record Ming Ming on that year's roundup, describing her potential to become "one of the greatest producers of the decade". But who is this enigmatic artist?

Lane Shi divides her time and energy between creating and touring with her hardcore noise rock band Elizabeth Colour Wheel, and performing studio black magic with her solo project under the Otay:onii name.

She is also an artist who regularly alternates her base of operations between two worlds, residing at different times in New York City and Shanghai. The duality of her identity as a Chinese American is a narrative thread that appears many times throughout the artist's work, informing some of the thematic elements of her records.

According to a really great interview she did with the YouTuber Heinos, the moniker 'Otayonii' itself is actually a name that was given to the artist when she met a Seneca First Nations man, who asked if he could call her by the name for 'wolf' in his ancestral language. She liked the sound and what it represented, and so decided to own her new given title.

Musically, Otay:onii is primarily a post-industrial project, but Lane Shi regularly incorporates aspects of darkwave, glitch, drone, traditional Chinese music, and electroacoustic music into her work. Her signature sound is equal parts atmospheric, lovecraftian, primordial, playful, and frenetic. She's kinda like if an ancient vengeful demi-god reemerged from the bowels of the Earth, and learned how to download and play around with studio software on a laptop.

As a vocalist, Lane Shi possesses a contralto range, and falls under one of my favourite niche categories of woman singers I like to call "force-of-nature belters", along with the likes of Tanya Tagaq and Björk. She has a trademark lower register that I would describe as a witch's snarl, a gentler middle register, as well as a higher register that she usually reserves for piercing battle cries and wailing like a banshee.

Her 2018 debut Nag was a comparatively more minimalist, grayscale undertaking, heavy on the more ambient and gothic tones of her sound. A genuinely solid first effort, if a bit less memorable than later records, barring the deliciously dreary eponymous song which is still among her very best.

2021's Ming Ming was an upgrade in all respects. Pulling major influences from Chinese folk music and folklore, I described the record in my previous Otay:onii review as a "true Pandora's Box . . . like the story of a mortal who attempts to enter the realm of the gods". Lots of ominous industrial cyber-magic, with a rare few moments that could have perhaps been edited down or omitted altogether to increase the force of its impact.

So, what to make of her latest then?

Dream Hacker is an exorcism. An inferno of ancient eternal flames envelops this absolutely bonkers and surreal listening experience. Each song carries powerful buildups in intensity combined with impossibly elegant structural competence. Far and away one of the most visceral and transcendent records I have ever beheld. This gets into your bloodstream, like an innate, raw instinct towards entropy.

Otay:onii's work has never sounded quite this immediate, energetic, and dynamic, thanks to the incorporation of avant-garde industrial techno beats that gives the whole project a mighty propulsion. Even during its quieter moments, you as the listener are never far from being engulfed in its unruly fire and brimstone. So many little leftfield moments that made me audibly go "what the fuck?" upon my first listen, too.

To me, this is album of the year not just because it poses the best collection of songs from an artist in 2023 (which, to be clear, it does), but also because it forms the most cohesive and fully realized project of the year. Every moment of this record feels intentional, meticulously crafted, and designed to fit accordingly into a larger entity. This is almost a living, breathing organism unto itself.

Lane Shi described how much of the inspiration for Dream Hacker came to her in a dream, or as she sees it, an "astral projection". Within this dream, she says she witnessed stones being thrown by a child until two of them overlapped, followed by a great light which emerged from the center of the overlap. The imagery was profound enough that she ended up naming most of the tracks after different aspects of what she saw in the dream.

The album starts with humble beginnings. "You Do/Rub" is a two-parter, opening with the haunting, softly swirling piano ballad melancholy of "You Do". The lyrics are deeply cutting and vulnerable, as the artist ponders her shaky relationship with her father as a daughter of the generation where China had implemented the one child policy, breeding stigma against female offspring in the more conservative rural communities. Lane Shi wields her voice like a delicate blade, gracefully and artfully interrogating her father's worldview. The progression of the piano's melody suggests a kind of resolution in ambiguity, resisting rigid, narrow-minded answers to multidimensional questions.

Then quite abruptly, "Rub" completely overtakes and drowns out the serenity of the softer piano song, like a sudden onset computer virus infection. What becomes of this part two is honestly one of the most immaculate timbral frequencies I've ever heard. A glitchy, droning wall of madness forms in dark, ominous, tempestuous clouds all across the sky. Warm colours are sucked out of existence by a black hole, leaving only greyish pale blues. The soul is washed with abrasion until all that's left is the ability to observe. Sound design on this is fucking unreal, as though Lane Shi Otayonii is wiping clean of our universe, leaving only a empty slate to form the basis for her own new sonic domain, wherein she is god of all things.

"Light Burst" is the combustion spark of a rebirth of all things that comes immediately after. Lane Shi let's out a shrill cry of tremendous power and agony amidst the grinding dust and debris of an incredibly dense and intricate industrial techno concoction, built upon her long standing love affair with minor second chord progressions. This track does not relent, adding more and more layers to its already colossal tower of babel proportions until, just as suddenly as it came into existence, it vanishes without a trace of detection.

"Two Rocks A Bird" oscillates like an electron creating new electromagnetic waves. Sound particles split into atoms that dance in a mindless frenzy. Even as a regular Arca fan, I don't think I was ready to comprehend something like this the first time I heard it. Subverted all of my expectations. I think the artist may have invented a few completely new sound textures on this track. A highly reactive new form of industrial music.

After deliberating with all of the sheer fucking brilliance to be found on this project, I eventually concluded that "Overlap" was my favourite off of the record. Like the best song on her last LP "Blackheart Breakables", this is an epic midpoint that just continues to build and build, feeding endlessly like a malignant being that cannot be stopped. Hand drum beat patterns are mutated, modulated, and mutilated by industrial electroacoustic mechanisms, while a synthesized flute echos a most forlorn and sinister melody.

Lane Shi takes on the shape of a skillful pyromancer, testing her newfound powers by conjuring a sea of flames that I visualize with my mind's eye as something similar to the Darvaza Gas Crater. Alternatively, I imagine thousand year old stains of bloodshed on the tombs of a ransacked temple, or the ancient terracotta soldiers of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum brought to life for the purpose of ushering a new war. "Overlap" is just something else, man. My other pick for song of the year.

"Ritualware" opens with a rare calm, dreams swirling on the outskirts of a newborn world that has not reached its zenith. The spacious void bursts to life with a single, literal drop (another brilliant production choice), creating ripples in space-time that give way to a trumpeting sawtooth synths' cacophonous symphony.

"Good Fool" brings things to a stirringly harmonious denouement. The light of the last candle is blown out, and a creeping dusk sets in. Petals of sound float along the wind and promptly dissipate, as everything reaches an uncanny stillness. A hushed, rapid-fire breakdown of bass drums, hand drums, and gongs occurs as the final closing act of the record.

I know I've already said this like a dozen times before about a dozen different artists, but it really needs to be said here - more people should know about Otay:onii. No one I've discovered has been doing anything as consistently exciting, challenging, and infectious as this project in the last few years. As it stands right now, the artist is criminally unknown and criminally underappreciated.

Dream Hacker is the rare ambitious record that dares to be so challenging and not only lives up to all of its potential, but manages to make the old formula of doing things look incredibly obsolete by comparison. Not many avant-garde music albums are this ridiculously fun to listen to, let alone manage to capture sonic worlds that are this truly sublime.

I've probably listened to this at least 40 times in the last year, and I plan on at least doubling that number in the following year. This is not just my album of the year; it is my top album of the 2020s as a decade so far, and already one of my favourites of all time. This record sets my soul ablaze and I simply can't get enough of it. Otay:onii is my new religion, and Dream Hacker is the scripture.

10/10

Highlights: "Overlap", "You Do/Rub", "Light Burst", "Two Rocks A Bird", "Ritualware", "Good Fool"

#album review #music review #list #aoty #year end list #favourite music #favourite albums #aoty2023 #post-industrial #industrial music #otayonii #otay:onii #lane shi otay onii #chinese american music #experimental #experimental music #2023

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residualize · 1 day

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#favourite music #lil peep

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natasharostova1792 · 9 days

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#favourite music #natasha rostova #russian literature #w&p #war and peace #for you #now listening #Spotify

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accal1a · 1 year

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Hongjoong, could you not?

Seonghwa, could you not?

Yunho, could you not?

Yeosang, could you not?

San, could you not?

Mingi, could you not?

Wooyoung, could you not?

Jongho, could you not?

#ateez #halazia #ateez hongjoong #ateez seonghwa #ateez yunho #ateez yeosang #ateez san #ateez mingi #ateez wooyoung #ateez jongho #hot damn #favourite music

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tina-aumont · 1 month

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who’s ur top 10 bands/artists?

Hi Anon, sorry for replying you so late, here there is my top 10 list:

1 - Ritual Duir: this is a pagan folk band from my land, and they are my friends, I saw the conception and birth of their two albums from within and I travel with them at concerts and festivals as the merch-girl, they write their own songs inspired by nature.

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2 - Emian: they are an Italian pagan folk duo and I met them through Ritual Duir, they sing about old legends not only from Italy but from other Mediterranian countries.

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3 - Seed: Also I met this Dutch pagan folk band at Castlefest and they sing about Fairies, Elfs, Goblins and magic lands, enjoy!!

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4 - Number 4 goes to FAUN!!! they made me discover all the pagan folk world, and I just love it, so they will be forever in my heart!!!

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And now what? Well, I will post my favourite artists since I was a child.

5 - Led Zeppelin, to me the best band ever!!

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6 - Queen: I love overall 70s Queen, and I find Queen II to be a masterpiece!

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7 - U2: love them since I was little, saw them twice or three times.

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8 - The Beatles: Always heard them, I love all their songs but I love their psychedelic years onwards.

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9 - The Darkness: How can I forget them!!! I saw them once but I love them since their first album came out since their remind me of Led Zeppelin in a way, and I think their album "Last of our Kind" is a masterpiece!

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10 - I will close this top 10 with Iron Maiden since I heard them since my childhood and I saw them twice or three times if I'm not mistaken.

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But here I would add as well Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Guns and Roses, Saxon, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, T-Rex, Twisted Sister, Saxon, Bruce Springsteen and lots more ..., but I wanted to start by the ones I meet personally since I think we have to help eachother and I hope this post will help them to be known in more places.

Thank you very much for this question!!

Eleni

#ask #ask me #ask me anything #favourite music #top 10 #top ten #pagan folk #rock #hard rock #metal #Ritual Duir #Emian #Seed #Faun #U2 #The Beatles #The Darkness #Iron Maiden #Queen #Led Zeppelin

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