A long thread of thick beats

Andi McClure posts several times per week to a personal Mastodon thread of interesting audio.

Most posts focus on clips of someone sharing sounds or patterns that they’ve discovered through a synthesizer, but the thread dips now and again into recorded music that has piqued McClure’s interest that day. She always includes an explanatory paragraph, such as today’s:

The musician says this emerged from setting up a new synthesizer, so what I imagine happened: They were trying to make that “chonkchonkchonk” noise from reggae, stumbled into an amazing-sounding semi-repeating pattern, went “I have to stop everything and find a way to make this a song” and built a life support system around it. Result: Lovely little ambient meditation over a 128bpm heartbeat. If ur bored stop at ~5:00.

(h/t Monica)

2025-08-10

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