Todd Grotenhuis

🎶 Don’t know how I’m just now hearing about Submotion Orchestra.

This is very much my jam. Especially my “hanging out and having a chill evening with cool people” jam.

🎶 Plex took me from Sanctum to Apoptygma Berzerk and my turn-of-the-millennia moment was glorious.

🎶 Disgustipated is the best Tool song.

Tapeworm is the best musical project that never happened.

Tool with trash-fashion instruments playing on tour with Einsturzende Neubaten or something would have been epic.

⚽️📺🎶 MLS All Access has been pretty good, but they really need some variety in beats in order to mix it up during commentary.

There’s probably an opportunity here for a tie-in, like in Fitness+.

🎶 I feel like my next Bandcamp album needs to be something super special.

Taking suggestions.

🎶 I hadn’t really payed attention to Jinjer. That was a mistake.

This is them live. Can you imagine what the studio recordings are like? Check her stylistic range!

🎶 August Burns Red has three profiles on Bandcamp¹. If you are looking for the album released today, check this one

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1. issues with labels, I suspect? ↩︎

🎶 It’s wild to think that all of these Zao albums came out within three years, each being a masterpiece of hardcore/proto-metalcore.

🎶 Furnace Fest is looking pretty rad.

Also….TFU? I’ve been dreaming of a Demon Hunter show where they are like “nah, we’re gonna do some TFU stuff”.

🎶 genre tags in a never-ending arms race:

🎶 I was wary of the Epic Games takeover: Bandcamp Employees Unionize for Fairer Conditions – Rolling Stone

⚽️ are you ready for some futbol? 🎶

The #USL starts tonight and my #IXI are away.

Many (most? all? just check livesoccertv?) are on ESPN+

1. Post a great album with no explanation.
2. Tag others to do the same.

@mileszs@ruby.social @gregorlove.com@fed.brid.gy @infomorph@octodon.social

🎶 Who’s written an essay exploring the themes between Igorrr’s Opus Brain and Downgrade Desert?

(Specifically: the music videos 📺)

🎶 Recent listening matches my various musical proclivities pretty well:

• atmospheric deathcore
• super chill dub
• piano
• christian industrial
• darkjazz
• jazz metal
• industrial rock
• christian metalcore (I listen mainly to the old albums)

Missing: industrial techno, because it’s spread across many artists.

🎶 I find most dream pop to be boring, but Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X is a massive exception.

Seen on elephantsite:

🎶 “Are you ready for some futbol? 🎶 #MLS ⚽️

🎧 attempting headphone repairs 🤞

🎧 We’re having a Gamache-a-thon because the audiobook is due back to the library soon.

🎶 I often think about how Katatonia’s re-release of their album as a semi-acoustic version was genius:

Dead End Kings becomes Dethroned and Uncrowned

🎶 I think it might be bandcamp friday.

I used Plex mostly for 🎶, but tonight we dove into 📺 and 🎥 with the addition of an HDHomeRun and antenna. Hope this works!

🎶 It’s not the end of the year, but we’re getting close. Here’s about where it will land. (Much more to come in end-of-year music post.)

🎶 Just heard a new (to me) track that was intriguing, so I checked out the artist and….

…ok, go on.

(the band is Ne Obliviscaris)

🎶 How do you get from louisville-rock to antifascist red-and-black-metal?

Apparantely through:

• post-rock
• super-indie-christian industrial
• extreme christian metal

This is an example of the “DJ Stretch” feature in PlexAmp, and it’s really fun.