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Time for the monthly music blog post.

Sorry for the lack of posts, I’ve been pretty busy with Resonite and in general.

In any case, the recommended albums and artists this month are:

• WALKM4N by A M 4 N 音楽: A random discovery from the discovery tab, a good one nonetheless.
• Echochamber by Hunz: I already mentioned Hunz in a previous music blog post, Echochamber being his latest album. I’ve been listening to that one on loop for the whole month so far.
• Meganeko discography: Meganeko is an artist I only previous had an album from, but listening to their latest tracks, I decided to grab the entire discography. I vividly recommend as it’s great music.
• Machinarium Soundtrack by Tomáš Dvořák: This one was a friend’s recommendation. I really love the music in this one, one day I’ll pick up the game it’s from.

That’s all for this month, stay tuned for next month for the recommendations.

Time for the monthly music post. On Friday 2nd of this month, there was the Bandcamp Friday, so there’s a bit more recommendations today.

I usually wait for the Bandcamp Friday to do big sweeps of buying music as 100% goes to the artist during that time.

In any case, here are the recommendations:

• Full discography of Cerealbowlsystem: Someone I know from the Resonite community, cool bean, good music, can recommend checking it out.
• Port Rhombus by Squarepusher: last month had a lot of Squarepusher, this one as well. This album was recommended by a friend and plays nicely into the jazzy style I like in Squarepusher’s music, especially when it comes to the second track.
• Graveyard Orbit by BUNKR: this one has been sitting in my wishlist for a while. As you might expect from the title, the style of music reminds me of a spatial action game. This album is a breeze to listen to and I can recommend if you like chill space-y stuff.
• あじたま見聞録② and Dream Chasers by ああああ(AAAA), 翡乃イスカ(Hino Isuka) and 梅干茶漬け(Umeboshi Chazuke): I’m grouping those two albums together because they contain music from rhythm games I used to play years ago. Overall great music albums, perfect if you’re a fan of rhythm games as well (you might have even heard those before).
• Gear 4 by ANORAK: this one caught my attention on the discovery page. Not sure how to describe why I like it, but I do, and recommend it. This album is also very recent, being released on May 1st of this year!
• LEVEL SELECT by Pizza Hotline: one of my favourite discoveries of this batch. I almost ordered the PAL PS1 disc version, but decided not to given all the import and transport fees making it super expensive. In any case, excellent music.
• Horizon by Resavoir & Matt Gold: this one is a pre-order, something I usually don’t do. I was looking for more jazzy tracks and Bandcamp delivered in this album from which the two preview songs being currently available felt like audio candy. I can’t wait to discover what the rest of the album holds.
• Full discography of SQUIDGY: this one was a last-minute addition to my collection. Right before heading to bed, a friend sent a link to the “POKEDEX VOL 1.” album which was an instant match for me. So far, my favourite song in the lot is “✧⊹ARCEUS⊹✧”.

And remember, don’t forget to support the artists you like. There’s a good website to know when is the next Bandcamp Friday, aptly named “Is it Bandcamp Friday?”. Next one will be in August of this year.

In this blog post, we’re gonna see some places where I find music. Some of those are paid, some of those are free.

First, let’s go over some good players:

• XMPlay – Probably the most accurate MOD player out there
• Foobar2000 – Also a really good player, multi-platform as well
• VLC – Plays everything, though badly for some files

Most of the music I listen to are modules (or MODs), to get those, I have a few places:

• https://modland.com/ – Generalist, has a list of all most software for a variety of platforms, with modules classified
• https://files.scene.org/ – More scene-focused, has a lot of demos as well as modules
• https://amp.dascene.net/ – Amiga-focused directory
• https://deepsid.chordian.net – Large aggregation of collections of Commodore 64 modules, also comes with a good web player

Those can generally be found there for free.

For more traditional music, my go-to solution remains Bandcamp, though sometimes, some artists may allow to buy music directly from their site (which is the case of Lman for instance, but it’s more to get physical media).