most obscure alien electronic music

atomhead's netlable entity.be has some free downloads for a lot of music in this style, definitely something you should check out sometime (:

I have not listened to any of the recs yet but why I have this feeling that it is going to be an underproduced-generic-unimaginative-ambient-modular-noise-obscure-only-to-be-obsucre kind of stuff? I tried listening to some "alien" music before and it always felt so lame and amateurish compared to AE or AFX. I would like to be mistaken in my prejudice.

Low Res' hilarious Approximate Love Boat (Mistaken Alien Appropriations of Earth Music)'s concept fits the bill:

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Finally, after ages of searching for a coherent signal amid the omnipresent noise of space, a startling image appeared on the screen, complete with coordinates indicating the exact point of origin. Three words only, their meaning indecipherable, yet clearly a product of intention and not some deceptive coincidental geometry as had so often proven disappointing in the past. Three words, 'The Love Boat', and then a lapse to the same noise which had filled the Lomaxians' displays for generations. But the coordinates were there, and though this planet, "The Love Boat", was very, very distant, it was calculated that an expedition could reach there within one-third of a lifespan. A team of musicologists and engineers was dispatched to collect and classify the musical assets of this planet in their entirety. More mundane data would perhaps be taken on subsequent expeditions.

The expedition was extremely successful, collecting the entire recorded output of the 'Love Boat' planet, and the crew reversed their course for the long journey home.

Disaster struck somewhere near the midpoint of the return trip. While performing some preliminary analyses, a series of erroneous commands was entered into the system causing all of the painstakingly gathered data to be irretrievably deleted.

Having already reported success and their intention to return home, the crew knew that grave consequences were inevitable. So they set about to recreate the wondrous musics they had heard at "The Love Boat" with the technologies available to them on board the space craft in hopes of concealing this very costly error. From memory, the musicologists did what they could, knowing that only a crude approximation would be possible, but retaining hope that their superiors would be convinced of the work's authenticity.

  On 12/5/2015 at 9:53 PM, GetSquirrely said:

atomhead's netlable entity.be has some free downloads for a lot of music in this style, definitely something you should check out sometime (:

  On 12/5/2015 at 10:06 PM, Jev said:

I have not listened to any of the recs yet but why I have this feeling that it is going to be an underproduced-generic-unimaginative-ambient-modular-noise-obscure-only-to-be-obsucre kind of stuff? I tried listening to some "alien" music before and it always felt so lame and amateurish compared to AE or AFX. I would like to be mistaken in my prejudice.

  On 12/5/2015 at 10:22 PM, aencre said:

Low Res' hilarious Approximate Love Boat (Mistaken Alien Appropriations of Earth Music)'s concept fits the bill:

 

Bandcamp here.

try nightcore

  On 12/5/2015 at 9:53 PM, GetSquirrely said:

atomhead's netlable entity.be has some free downloads for a lot of music in this style, definitely something you should check out sometime (:

Entity is brilliant. I can't believe I forgot to mention it. There's an abundance of both beats and ambient pieces from the weirdest and darkest spaces and really high quality pretty much consistently. OP should go through the whole catalog basically :)

  On 12/5/2015 at 10:30 PM, orangebattery said:

 

  On 12/5/2015 at 10:06 PM, Jev said:

I have not listened to any of the recs yet but why I have this feeling that it is going to be an underproduced-generic-unimaginative-ambient-modular-noise-obscure-only-to-be-obsucre kind of stuff? I tried listening to some "alien" music before and it always felt so lame and amateurish compared to AE or AFX. I would like to be mistaken in my prejudice.

there's some of that for sure, but there's been a few gems posted imo.

Nice. What should I try?

Cylobs Nonprivate project

  On 12/5/2015 at 4:47 PM, coax said:

 

  On 12/5/2015 at 12:44 PM, Chalybs said:

[youtubehd]AYBLp7GUglU[/youtubehd]

 

oh damn this one hit me right in the nuts, so awesome

 

Seconded, good shit, very Tourian...

@OP: Check out Bernard Parmegiani - De natura sonorum / La création du monde or some Roland Kayn.

  On 12/5/2015 at 10:06 PM, Jev said:

I have not listened to any of the recs yet but why I have this feeling that it is going to be an underproduced-generic-unimaginative-ambient-modular-noise-obscure-only-to-be-obsucre kind of stuff? I tried listening to some "alien" music before and it always felt so lame and amateurish compared to AE or AFX. I would like to be mistaken in my prejudice.

lol, you even manage to be a negative nancy before you even listened to any of the links. Jev's gonna Jev.

  On 12/5/2015 at 10:06 PM, Jev said:

I have not listened to any of the recs yet but why I have this feeling that it is going to be an underproduced-generic-unimaginative-ambient-modular-noise-obscure-only-to-be-obsucre kind of stuff? I tried listening to some "alien" music before and it always felt so lame and amateurish compared to AE or AFX. I would like to be mistaken in my prejudice.

ur mum is lame and amateurish m8

binray:

  On 12/5/2015 at 1:39 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

most chicha from peru sound like it was made by aliens, i love it!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWbeCk_8xps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qt0kcswYH0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnhDoAH1vAw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIedlS5HcHI

wow

I'll be honest I specificly clicked on this post to have a good old cynical laugh, but instead I was blown away and smiling from ear to ear

very good mr jackson, very good indeed, first couple of tracks are pure extraterrestial gold

  On 12/6/2015 at 3:03 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 12/5/2015 at 10:06 PM, Jev said:

I have not listened to any of the recs yet but why I have this feeling that it is going to be an underproduced-generic-unimaginative-ambient-modular-noise-obscure-only-to-be-obsucre kind of stuff? I tried listening to some "alien" music before and it always felt so lame and amateurish compared to AE or AFX. I would like to be mistaken in my prejudice.

ur mum is lame and amateurish m8

 

Oh yeah, you wouldn't tell me that in person would you? :-)

  On 12/6/2015 at 3:00 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 12/5/2015 at 10:06 PM, Jev said:

I have not listened to any of the recs yet but why I have this feeling that it is going to be an underproduced-generic-unimaginative-ambient-modular-noise-obscure-only-to-be-obsucre kind of stuff? I tried listening to some "alien" music before and it always felt so lame and amateurish compared to AE or AFX. I would like to be mistaken in my prejudice.

lol, you even manage to be a negative nancy before you even listened to any of the links. Jev's gonna Jev.

 

I know man, I just cannot help it. It's just an experience I have. I truly meant the part "I would like to be mistaken in my prejudice".

I am affraid of wasting my time listening to bad stuff. My ADHD makes concentrating on unrewarding music very expensive and deppressing.

So I skimmed through "Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Dark Plasma" and it was exactly what I was afraid of. A completely linear background ambient music without much composition and absolutely without surprises of any kind. Good for a film but not really for careful headphone listening. No rewarding moments. Should I check something else in this thread? I would like something of "Osla for n" quality. A good composition that leads somewhere and surprises you with dynamics. Anything like that in here?

  On 12/7/2015 at 1:13 PM, Jev said:

Should I check something else in this thread?

From what I've listened to so far I really enjoyed auxien's suggestion.It's kinda Richard Deviney so if you don't like RD you probably won't like this either.

Talking of which...

https://vimeo.com/119810764

  On 12/7/2015 at 2:13 PM, Rotwang said:

 

  On 12/7/2015 at 1:13 PM, Jev said:

Should I check something else in this thread?

From what I've listened to so far I really enjoyed auxien's suggestion.It's kinda Richard Deviney so if you don't like RD you probably won't like this either.

 

Very nice sound design moments in those tracks. Composition in the context of tracks - not so good (so far).

  On 12/6/2015 at 6:22 PM, beerwolf said:

wow

I'll be honest I specificly clicked on this post to have a good old cynical laugh, but instead I was blown away and smiling from ear to ear

 

very good mr jackson, very good indeed, first couple of tracks are pure extraterrestial gold

 

really? not having a laugh?

that's great, really glad you enjoyed it! :)

that new russell haswell autechre remix is about as obscure and alien it gets for me

  On 12/7/2015 at 4:21 PM, Jev said:

 

  On 12/7/2015 at 2:13 PM, Rotwang said:

 

  On 12/7/2015 at 1:13 PM, Jev said:

Should I check something else in this thread?

From what I've listened to so far I really enjoyed auxien's suggestion.It's kinda Richard Deviney so if you don't like RD you probably won't like this either.

Very nice sound design moments in those tracks. Composition in the context of tracks - not so good (so far).

sent using magic space waves

  On 12/7/2015 at 1:13 PM, Jev said:

So I skimmed through "Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Dark Plasma" and it was exactly what I was afraid of. A completely linear background ambient music without much composition and absolutely without surprises of any kind. Good for a film but not really for careful headphone listening. No rewarding moments. Should I check something else in this thread? I would like something of "Osla for n" quality. A good composition that leads somewhere and surprises you with dynamics. Anything like that in here?

It's linear but I don't understand the negative 'attitude'. To me it has an organic 'old' sound, which makes a good atmosphere that isn't as prevalent in todays similar music. Second I would argue at least the elements are great, one could argue about the whole composition but, it's not easy to get all the elements right and the balance right like that. I was surprised when I heard it the first time and been digging it since. There is also movement all through but above all it just sounds great to me

some ace bits these ears aint caught b4 specifically the Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Dark Plasma track, theres a lot more going on there than just random static, gonna have to spend some coin on that, so cheers for posting (Spiral??) and Charles Hodges too, fuck me wtf is THAT all about?

love things i could never imagine conjuring personally to experience what other minds & machine create, especially on that level of out-there

would add Lawrence English's - Inside From Above, but coont find a link soz

summat w/beats? RHK's 'Reality Net, complete w/dodgy orig mtv chill-out vid graphics,,,,,, takes a min to hit its stride,,,,,, classic Kirk, Sheffield forever

more alien funk from Peaking Lights (dodgy vid doe)

Kirk does some kind of alien broadcast with gang slang, + 4/4 transcendental medication, apply 3-4 time annually

(some cunt even sourced the orig doc audio/vid source, skills)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBtKhyONL5w