I rarely put on ABBA music, not because I don’t like ABBA, but because you can often get lucky and hear other-people’s-ABBA, like playing at an ice-cream stand or in a hardware store, and it feels more special if you keep ABBA just for those situations.

We should at least admit that Ableton Live sounds like the name of an off-brand Richard Scary theatrical.

“180 gram vinyl” means only one half of the record is made out of grams of vinyl, which is basically a rip off. If you want grams of vinyl all the way around the whole thing, it will say “360” on it.

STR releases are available exclusively on Spotify, but we post AI-generated pictures of what they would look like as cassettes because our PR agency thought we might be able to spin those off as NFTs.

If anyone wants to communally listen to noise music at 10 PM GMT/5 PM CST, I’ve got you covered: tracedobjects.bandcamp.com/merch/other-...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was loading dog bark sounds into a sampling keyboard and using those to play the melody from “Why Does It Rain On Me” so it sounds like a dog is singing it.

I’m mainly into epistolary music like Eminem’s “Stan” and Allan Sherman’s “Hello Mother, Hello Father”

Feedback is the sound of music listening to itself. When you hear that swelling shriek, that’s just the music letting out a “whoop!” because it’s so excited about how good it’s sounding.

Thinking back, I can still remember the first time I heard music. It was at a large trade fair for medical devices in Düsseldorf. It was getting later in the afternoon and one of the peripheral stands had rigged up a loudspeaker system that was emitting this kind of hypnotic series of tones.

I like when I’m walking around in a place and there’s a store in the middle of the block just selling a bunch of beds.

A good way to create a sense of tension and narrative when performing ambient music is to waggle your eyebrows.

Every time I listen to music, I tell myself, “This is making you a better music listener.” Even if I don’t want to listen to music, I do it anyway to improve my music listening. My goal is to become the best music listener I can be, and you don’t achieve that by goofing around with the music off.

This is currently the most powerful Data Center in the world, containing literally hundreds of items of information. It is expensive (the total for all units exceeds 70€) and susceptible to nesting wasps. However this equipment represents humankind’s secure knowledge infrastructure for the future.

I watched Lord of the Rings and all ten movies are basically about 1 ring (not plural) and the guy who has the ring isn’t a lord. They should call it “Hobbit of the Ring” so people aren’t be disappointed.

The Cassette Comeback just went up by nearly 8 points! 💰💰💰

Everybody’s lofi electro has to be Ballardian, never DeLilloic 😕

three of these still left. buy them and i’ll make more stuff, probably. yolnoise.bandcamp.com/album/always...

Going by this preview, the new Wuthering Heights movie is going to be pretty HOT youtu.be/m7k-xzboxMQ

If you don’t see the benefits of AI, you aren’t working hard enough. I used Claude to iteratively build myself a custom Outlook extension that reminds me to wash behind my ears at bath time . Now I no longer have to worry about potatoes growing behind my ears.

If anything, the IT industry should be engaging more with our novelty joke tapes!

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A sport where you cross-country ski around a circuit with a saxophone strapped on your back and at the end of each lap you have to skronk out a cool free-form solo before you can continue skiing.

A Sam Mendes biopic project about The Polyphonic Spree where each of the 20 films tells the story of the group from the perspective of a different band member.

By not engaging with “Bawitdaba”, the left risks ceding ground in the critical debate surrounding the music of Kid Rock to the right.

Almost forgot the traditional Karneval post youtu.be/4nQ1Zoeii2Y

If humans don’t widely accept AI, it will instead be taken up by hornets, who will use the technology to develop frightening new ways to sting us, an outcome which I find deeply concerning.

Dunno why I suddenly thought to share this, but @strategictaper.bsky.social 's digital archiving of the Unnoficial Welsh Language Audiobook OST of The Da Vinci Code is very special. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/y-c-d-...

It’s always great in movies when someone rushes into another person’s apartment and puts on loud music and the person who lives there is like “What are you doing!?” and the person who put the music on is like “I have to tell you something very important but the room is probably bugged!”

One of the most beautiful and redeeming things about the world is that you can go into some shitty supermarket or onto some crowded bus and they’re playing music, one of the premier artforms, just out into the air for people to enjoy.

In five days, this brand new tape from @angelhair0.bsky.social and I will be released on the fantastic @tracedobjects.bsky.social label. I encourage you to listen to this music when it is made available. I am biased, but I think it is enjoyable.

Heard a few Frank Zappa songs earlier and they all sound like they could be part of a score for something like Revenge of the Nerds: The Musical

We’re planning to roll out a chatbot to replace some of the music on our cassette tapes. The AI enabled virtual agent will be able to respond directly to questions or correct misunderstandings from listeners and in doing so, communicate the artist’s intended expression more effectively.

🚨Confirmed artists for Woodstock ‘29! Adele Fcukers Big Thief Goose Geese Rascal Flatts Stranger Things Shania Twain Hamilton (cast) The Lunineer Kelly Clarkson James Blake (Acoustic set) Drake Swedish House Mafia Bob Dylan Lorde Lordi Nicky Manaj Chris Martin (DJ set) Hans Zimmer O-Zone

There’s so many different hardstyle remixes of Let it Go by Frozen uploaded on YouTube that you could have a whole radio station that only played hardstyle remixes of Let It Go by Frozen.

According to music theory, each sound in a piece of music invents their own conception of “the artist”, who compels all the sounds to conform to a certain ideal. But because each sound has their own perceived “artist”, powerful tensions arise between them and it’s these conflicts that are the music.

Aside from any other considerations, AI is probably the most incredibly boring thing that humans have ever invented, and for that reason alone it should disregarded.

Just lost power. Give my electricity back you damn wind!

A well-balanced society should contain a roughly equal amount of 808- and 909-based music. When there is an excess of music made with 909s, tensions and unpredictability will rise, while in periods of excessive 808 prevalence, that society will experience widespread complacency.

How do the CD labels get away with calling their plastic boxes “Jewel Cases”? There’s no jewels in there. It’s just a thin slice of aluminum. At least tapes can contain some exotic metals.

When you have a good idea in music, you don’t need to realize it. It’s already good and making it a real thing usually won’t make it better. It’s a waste of time. Bad ideas, on the other hand, should always be acted on, as there is a decent chance that in being realized, they will become more good.

Pretty sure some cyber criminal has been hacking into my phone and switching over to the discover tab.

When you listen to music, between 10%-35%of the sounds you hear are air vibrations caused by microscopic bugs that live in our ears. So when you hear a song and really enjoy it, it could just be that you are actually enjoying your ear bugs!

Just checking out the Ableten Live newsletter. Looks like they now let you use synthersizers, which is big news for producers working in electronic music.

Looking to make a career change from teacher/tape reserve intern to some kind of professional athlete. I’m in my 40s and not very good at any sport, but I have a great attitude, not a hot-head or a prima donna. So if anyone is looking for a pro athlete, lmk and I’ll shoot over my resume!

When trying to figure out what’s really going on in a confusing situation, it can be useful to think about who stands benefit from it, and the answer is usually ambient artists.

When a song’s lyrics are in a language I don’t understand, I just imagine the singer is singing nice things about me. This makes the music very enjoyable, regardless of the style.

Just something to be aware of: 99% of the time when a composer uses basic three-note chordal structures in their piece, this is a way of subtly signalling their membership in the criminal gang the Triads.

At STR, we are confident that novelty joke tapes are especially immune to threats from AI as the technology a) cannot produce anything that is new, b) has no capacity to make jokes, and c) lacks the athletic physical dexterity required to duplicate cassette tapes.

A betting app where you can win money by correctly predicting what will happen next during a free jazz improvisation.

The fact that no country has replaced its nation anthem with Ginuwine’s “Pony” tells you everything you need to know about how stupid countries are.