Music (re)discoveries
So hey, I’ve been working on improving the tag browser in the releases section, and have it to a point where the browser itself is, I think, really good? All that’s left to do is to tag all of the songs. I have, uh, a lot of tagging left to do. I built some tools to make it a bit easier, at least, but it’s still going to take me quite some time.
Anyway, while tagging music, I’ve been spending some quality time just listening to other peoples' music. Here’s a few things that I’ve enjoyed recently.
- Programmable Love Songs, Volume One by FlexE (Benn Jordan): I got this in Benn Jordan’s recent-ish complete discography drop, and I rather enjoyed it. I’ve been watching his YouTube channel for a while but only recently have started to actually listen to his music. Some of it’s pretty good! Maybe even most of it.
- Trippin' Out, by Chris McDermott & His Wild Combo: This is a CD I bought back in CDBaby’s old “online record store” salad days, before the entire music industry switched purely to digital distribution. It doesn’t seem to be on any of the indie purchase services these days and as far as I can tell the band is no longer active, but this album is some pretty fun, frenetic blues jamming. My favorite song on the album is “Polkadot.”
- Song Fight!: Tyson’s Corner: This is a fight from 2015 (gosh, has it been 9.5 years already?!) and I don’t think I ever got around to listening to it before. There’s some great songs in this one, and this was from a time period when Song Fight! generally had a decent level of overall quality in most fights.
- Let It Be, by The Beatles: I used to be a huge Beatles fan and their music still holds up for the most part. Some of the songs on this particular album are a bit self-indulgent but oh well, it’s called “classic” rock for a reason.
- Determinance: Original Soundtrack by nervous_testpilot: some pretty great 90s acid techno-style stuff that sounds like it’d be totally at home on any given Playstation 1 racing game. I have no idea how it fits with the actual game it’s from. Maybe I should play it someday.