New Music Friday comes with a request
Oct. 17th, 2020 01:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunI start this week with another concert announcement. Chase Eagleson, who I have pointed about several times here is doing a crowdcast concert this Sunday the 18th. I'll be tuning in for sure. You can see his video here for more information.
This soft soulful song, "U Should" by Chika premiered on Desus & Mero (thanks Autostraddle for looking out for that good sapphic stuff). I hadn't heard her song before I saw this one earlier this week but I'm sold. I've been looking for more of her stuff to listen to.
An quarantine collab with London Thor and one of my favor cover channels, stories. This is "Rich Girl" from Hall & Oates. But I really like this very slow, version that again leans sapphic with a female singer. I also really appreciate the softer music mixing with the paper blocking the loud key strikes on the piano.
Lastly, one my old favs loaded a new song with video up today. This is Orla Gartland with "Pretending". I just really love Orla's style, she's got a nice voice and good like rock riffs. I also really like this costume party video that just keeps breaking down behind her as she sings. It's a neat concept.
I hope you all are doing as best you can be this week. I'm collecting good recs on chill sci-fi vibe music for a playlist I'm going to need for NaNoWriMo in what? 13 days or so? Oh boy. So if you have any sci-fi songs - I'm not a trance girl, but Chill EDM or just ambient or if you've got a weird twist on the sci-fi idea, throw it my way pretty please?
Otherwise, I'd love to hear what you've been listening to this week too. Let me know.
This soft soulful song, "U Should" by Chika premiered on Desus & Mero (thanks Autostraddle for looking out for that good sapphic stuff). I hadn't heard her song before I saw this one earlier this week but I'm sold. I've been looking for more of her stuff to listen to.
An quarantine collab with London Thor and one of my favor cover channels, stories. This is "Rich Girl" from Hall & Oates. But I really like this very slow, version that again leans sapphic with a female singer. I also really appreciate the softer music mixing with the paper blocking the loud key strikes on the piano.
Lastly, one my old favs loaded a new song with video up today. This is Orla Gartland with "Pretending". I just really love Orla's style, she's got a nice voice and good like rock riffs. I also really like this costume party video that just keeps breaking down behind her as she sings. It's a neat concept.
I hope you all are doing as best you can be this week. I'm collecting good recs on chill sci-fi vibe music for a playlist I'm going to need for NaNoWriMo in what? 13 days or so? Oh boy. So if you have any sci-fi songs - I'm not a trance girl, but Chill EDM or just ambient or if you've got a weird twist on the sci-fi idea, throw it my way pretty please?
Otherwise, I'd love to hear what you've been listening to this week too. Let me know.
SF music recs (instrumental, dark ambient)
Date: 2020-10-17 11:38 am (UTC)I loved Suspended Annihilation by HALOED, it gave me incredibly strong Ghost In The Shell vibes (as in this scene - skip to 2:20, Youtube doesn't let me copy the timestamp). Very similar atmosphere and synths.
Sector Hydra by Dronny Darko & RNGMNN is an SF/horror hybrid concept album that's soothing and sinister at the same time. Not the horror of action-packed fights with aliens, but of being stranded on an alien planet with abandoned structures, where an encounter could nevertheless be around the corner. My favourite is "Departure Probe".
Ionosphere's "Angular Momentum" is another concept album about space exploration, quite dark and at times veering towards oppressive noise/industrial. More technical than organic, with a lot of radio chatter, very evocative. Someone was kind enough to curate a playlist of its tracks on Youtube. Hard for me to pick favourites, but I'd recommend "Gravitational Repulsion" and the titular "Angular Momentum".
I've already recommended SleepResearch_Facility's NOSTROMO in my review of Ridley Scott's ALIEN, but it's just so good that I need to bring it up again. The soundscapes are soft and droning enough that you could be lulled to sleep by them, but they're having a threatening undertone regardless, as is fitting for ALIEN.
Regarding weird space: Lost Sanctum, by Lull. Despite the name, the drones with some high-pitched synths on top always make me envision the cold glare of the stars and an alien spaceship's empty rooms large as cathedrals. Also works well for interstellar gate travel.
Speaking of gate travel: Timothy Fife's "Transcommunication" is about occult rites to contact parallel dimensions, but I always found the track Cardinal Point to have a science-fiction feel to it, especially the later half which evokes the works of Jean-Michel Jarre.
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Date: 2020-10-17 02:28 pm (UTC)Kingstoken has solid playlists, usually, and I used that the other day to have the sound without being terribly distracted by the lyrics.
Sci-Fi, hmm... Well, any of Janelle Monae's albums might suit, but they are more cyberpunk/dystopia.
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Date: 2020-10-23 04:15 pm (UTC)Utility by Barker
This is on the cyborg end of scifi. Not outer space vibes so much. Only listened to once, but tracks 6-9 have some potential. I can't remember which ones in particular though! (Damn covid brain...)
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Date: 2020-10-25 06:53 am (UTC)Some ambient electronica by RedYellowRed - okay, it's moi, really.
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