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Friday Fun Thread for May 9, 2025

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Music subthread.

Are there any (very) old school trance / EDM fans here?

I've never much liked EDM as I find most of the music dreadfully repetitive and boring. I do however have a soft spot for some early 90s trance due to being introduced to a handful of tracks via friends in the mid to late 90s that I later found to my surprise are now considered some of the OG classics (Paragliders, Cygnus X, some other Eye Q Records singles). I've recently been looking for some more music in that style and realized that something happened to the genre around 96-98 and the music before that is much more varied, interesting and has more "air" and space in the music. After that it's all supersaw cliches, sounds overstuffed and is really quite cookie cutter. So the question goes: Did something specific happen around 1997 to the scene, other than Roland publishing JP-8000 (which introduced supersaw)?

One of the classic tracks conveniently has the original 1993 version and a 1996 remix that demonstrates quite well what I mean.

choko aba, m.rux - small car

You see, kids, in 1999 there was an album released with songs performed by a bus-killed Afro-Jewish man by the name of Marvin Pontiac. One of those songs was a bit of nonsense about tiny farmers going on a Swiftian journey to the land of the normals to find out why the stars were shining. They never did find out, but they had had a nice day.

In reality, Pontiac was alive, definitely not Afro-, practically not Jewish, and most notably (to me) the future painter of the immortal превед медвед. But this isn't important.

What is important is that I came across this reworking of the original song about the tiny farmers. In this one, the fake Afro-Jewish man is replaced by a fake Afro-American man and the backing music is pared back and groovy. Self-recommending, as they say.

I have only one thing to say to you, I have only one thing to say to you, I have one thing to say to you. And that is the next time you are not feeling so well try remember the day the farmers, the little grey farmers went out on a long drive.

Is this what having a stroke feels like?

If you're a Millennial, this Windows 95 theme ambient track is probably pretty nostalgic.

Nice elevator hum but I don't get the association with Windows 95. It had no such sounds.

Back then people were often customizing system sounds. The default sounds were the same as now, but a lot more stuff in OS was making noise if I'm not mistaken.

People were also more frequently changing it, now it seems less common. You can do so but honestly I never bother and haven't noticed anyone bothering.

I remember getting a sound scheme based on the ancient game Kingpin(great 1st episode, the rest ass) . Had a modest amount of very profane voice acting. https://youtube.com/watch?v=8PH65GBY5KE

My mom set it up on her work computer. When email arrived the words 'a piece of shit' would sound. Did raise some eyebrows. But it was a small company, nobody minded and she was one of 2-3 people who actually spoke some English.

Windows 95 isn't what most are nostalgic for. It was kind of crap. Windows NT, 2000 and XP, on the other hand..

It prominently features the iconic Windows 95 startup sound famously created by Brian Eno on commission from Microsoft.

Youtube algorithm has recently blessed me with 'The Miracle Aligner'.

The name doesn't indicate much but that guy's specialty is translating modern songs into usually dead languages and then performing them. So, covers, sometimes 'period' covers in dead languages.

So far there's a fair amount of good stuff. I especially like Latin because in parts I almost get the words and it sounds awesome.

Classical latin:

The Sound of Silence

The Little Dark Age (very appropriate)

Everybody wants to rule the world

All Star

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Medieval latin A Horse with No Name

Middle English Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Poula (Nepalese-Tibetan tribe) Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (..is that the channel owner's native language?)

Not sure if this is actually an ancient accent, just funny. Medieval (Bardcore) version of 'Fortunate Son'

I feel like I've already posted about this but I can't get any hits. Is the search broken?

Also: one more fun piece of music.

5 minute organ only version of the vapid disco love song "L'Amour toujours" . First found it when trying to find the original music for a particularly extremist meme video. You love to see the guy who performed it signing up for gigs in the comments! Melody is the same but it's quite different.

Also the comment section is very funny full of probably elderly mostly German people praising the youtube algorithm :D.

Comparable vibes: Tabernis - Alveus Umbrae, original music on bagpipe + drum by French guys dressed as medieval beekeepers.

here's my current project: https://lefthandscorpio.bandcamp.com/album/test-drive

Got the next track in the pipeline, but since we're sharing...

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