this is great, like a microtonal Onheotrix Point Never. Second half is totally 80s

I love the ending of this. It would perfect for an early Animusic animation

album art: https://twitter.com/TomasPraestholm
music: @damifortune
track 3 live drums written, performed & recorded by @jaxcheese
track 16 co-written with @doctorn0gloff

Distant Islands: 51 minutes of experimental SNES chiptune, treating the soundchip like the quirky 8-channel sampler that it is; featuring microtonality, glitches galore, heavy manipulation of the chip's available effects and parameters, and unusual, often homegrown sounds. All tracks were recorded straight from a single Super Famicom system, with the exception of live drums layered onto "Welcome Back to Dragon Airlines".

Someone once told me that when I write I "leave keys for distant islands" and the phrase has stuck with me ever since. This is my first full-length, non-compilation album in three years, and I focused on making something that resonated with me personally and employed the kinds of sounds I wanted to hear. I also went all-out in exploring just how strange, incredible, and absurdly messed-up the SNES could conceivably sound. I'd like to think this covers some new, fresh territory in Super Nintendo chiptune, and I hope you enjoy it!

All songs were composed and written to blank SNES ROMs using osoumen's C700 VST (or forks of the VST that add microtonal functionality and extra MIDI tooling), then recorded from my Super Famicom. The rendered audio is lightly mastered for consistency.

Distant Islands

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What Year Is This

Sleep Deprived Cooked Alive

Just another track from Rhythm and Xen, the 2015 album by Sevish. Please consider supporting my music by buying the album from https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen

Spreading love for microtonal music. And any music that subverts traditional musical tuning systems.

Neon Tetra Elemental

From Rhythm and Xen (2015) by Sevish:
https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen

Desert Island Rain

Microtonal drum and bass from MK-SUPERDUPER: sevish.bandcamp.com/album/mk-superduper

MK-SUPERDUPER

Avocado Experiment

Chirality is a prized attribute, sought after by multiversal minds that occupy galactic clusters and their analogues, often simultaneously across universes. One galaxy in particular is a hotly-contested locus of machromind interference--in no small part due to the delectable flavour of its healthy mid-term spiral.\\\\\\

///Teeming with life, the spectral competition between machrominds carves out deeper, darker recesses in spacetime, which the native ternary civilizations are eager to populate with minds of their own. Nurturing these barely-sustainable presences imparts a refreshingly tart undercurrent beneath the frothy sweetness of the so-called Milky Way (known to multiversal sorts by the electromagnetic spectrograph of 2-Hydroxypropanoic acid).

[https://soundcloud.com/euglossine sample Wiggle Organ (chrd) from Euglossine Sample Pack Vol. 1 used under Creative Commons]

weekly beats 2018

Lactic Ocean

eternal planes (scraps/unfinished) [2020]

PULSE of POISON
21 tracks of genre-bending music basking in our season of Halloween. Press play and be transported to a car full of your closest friends, out for a night of eating treats and committing petty crimes.

art by chocoVania
Instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/chocovaniart/
Twitter ~ https://twitter.com/chocovania

Masikus on...
Bandcamp ~ https://masikus.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud ~ https://soundcloud.com/masikus
Apple Music ~ https://music.apple.com/us/artist/masikus/480259178
Spotify ~ https://open.spotify.com/artist/778wBqpOOoFlpSJC29lcU0?si=27xR2MTMSIy2susJDbmDrg
Twitter ~ https://twitter.com/Masikus

PULSE of POISON

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Masikus - Spirit River

PULSE of POISON
21 tracks of genre-bending music basking in our season of Halloween. Press play and be transported to a car full of your closest friends, out for a night of eating treats and committing petty crimes.

art by chocoVania
Instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/chocovaniart/
Twitter ~ https://twitter.com/chocovania

FLOOR BABA on...
Apple Music ~ https://music.apple.com/us/artist/floor-baba/1031804818
Spotify ~ https://open.spotify.com/artist/3J4heSMiOqE9MpbyGTtNHA?si=6GJu3FnnRP2g8vELkHt-GA
Bandcamp ~ https://floorbaba.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud ~ https://soundcloud.com/floorbaba
Twitter ~ https://twitter.com/FLOOR_BABA

FLOOR BABA - COME TO LIFE

xenharmonic bass music

Sevish (aka Sean Archibald) is an electronic musician from London, UK. His music is fast and atmospheric. The style mainly gravitates around drum & bass and other electronic dance music varieties, although even ambient and chilled works have been released under this moniker. Sevish sidesteps pop structures and familiar "EDM" tropes, instead trying to capture the essence of something flowing and meandering. It's the perfect music for blocking mind-altering radiation.

Since his album Golden Hour, Sevish's technique has included a dark art known as microtonality/xenharmonics. For short, we can call this xen. Simply put, the xen aesthetic tries to achieve new musical ideas by making things more or less in-tune than normal music. For something that is so easy to describe, you would think that every musician was doing it. Sadly, the technicalities of (ab)using musical tunings to create xen music are too much for most musicians to muster at this point in time. Perhaps 3D printing will change that in the future, allowing new instruments with crazy tunings to be developed quickly and cheaply. Until then, it's the domain of a few tinkerers and madmen scattered across the globe. One of those being Sevish, who blends xen with his own brand of experimental dance music.

The xen movement is still small but growing rapidly. It has a lively facebook group, its own wiki (deeply incomprehensible to all but the initiated), and about as many dedicated record labels as you could count on one hand.

In 2010, Sevish launched his own netlabel to get together the scattered artists composing xen music. Called split-notes, this label is known for its focus on xen-with-a-beat, and most of its releases are free to download with Creative Commons licensing. While the output of the label has slowed down due to other commitments, it's still alive with new releases showing up from time to time.

Sevish's music has been put out by the Dutch label Dubbhism Deluxe. In 2011, Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon released an album called Subversio to online music shops and popular streaming services. This project lies somewhere between being a band album and being a compilation, as each of the 3 artists provided 3 solo tracks each. So it's more of a musical triptych than either of those things. Certainly a form of collaborative album that can (and will) be explored further. Each of the musicians on Subversio combine xen with beats and bass, but their individual styles contrast and compliment. Tony Dubshot excels at trippy electro dub with lots of analog processing. Jacky Ligon's style is often described as oceanic or panoramic, with fluid and rotating beats and deeply moving atmospheres and melodies. And Sevish's style... well, you already know by now.

In 2014 Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon followed with 23, something of a mini-album in the same stylistic ballpark as 2011's Subversio. Numerology, conspiracy and ancient knowledge is something that the trio is attracted to, and 23 is inspired from that.

Desert Island Rain

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