music i made, mainly downtempo, from july 2023 to august 2023. the title is based on "Listen Up with Cabaret Voltaire" except instead of listening you are falling into a ditch. with me.

as always it is free. my target audience is people who fell into a cave and have limited cell service and can only download one album. this decreases the need for competition.

favorite track is Modernist (track 7).

some of the tracks are labeled "BONUS:" because they didn't fit into the track progression and have a different sound from everything else

play-by-play:
1. Sad People Don't Go to Manhattan (04:07). originally titled "good people don't get in situations like this" and then i fired the neurons and came up with this name. samples some noise from a vinyl rip, and at the end it incorporates some concert banter by they might be giants.
2. Worst Vilbel (02:18). named for, and samples, "Second Bad Vilbel" by autechre. bad vilbel is the name of a town.
3. Slowlife (02:01). very minimalist. i made this with the limitation of only using very small samples (less than 1000 sample points each).
4. Bogus (02:22). this one i previewed in the ljus discord not too long ago. spoken samples from Audio Active - Happy Shopper. this track is based on when i was listening to a track from my previous album, hippo, with my headphones on the desk and i only heard the percussion.
5. Music Isn't Real (02:53). basically just a bunch of weird short concepts bashed together into 2 minutes 53 seconds. includes a section in a weird time signature that i don't know if i actually pulled off. fun times.
6. Sky Music (01:35). made entirely with "homemade" samples i recorded myself (this time mainly weird environmental noises but also the iphone shutter sound).
7. Modernist (02:50). continuation of "music for modern homes" 1 & 2 from the previous album, with the same base samples and some more added. very melancholy.
8. Fare Collector (01:30). this is an alternate version of a cover of They Might Be Giants - Token Back to Brooklyn i submitted to a tmbg cover album.

made with openmpt.

so i made like 10 albums other than this but this is probably the most coherent one. very annoying though.
SC called it similar to early c418, as it happens that was a lot of my inspiration alongside tackhead and art of noise
short clips of other music are commonly sampled and pitchshifted for instruments or percussion, as i do not own any gear except a guitar, though some self-made samples are also present.


(that's the name of the album. it's not upcoming; it's already been released. the album is named "Next Real Album" and it has already been released.)

tracklist and commentary follows. references to my previous material will be in italics.

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01 - Bonus Bonus Beats (2:52)
remix of my beats (originally known as "my bonus beats"). 3-part song. samples random bits of the soundtrack to roger corman's 1961 film "Creature from the Haunted Sea"
02 - The American Dream (4:03)
downbeat track using some samples from nurykabe's remix chain project; a bit meandering
03 - Wow Look How Easy It Is To Do IDM (1:52)
yeah i am kind of making fun of autechre. i wanted to do a polymeter thing eschewing musical convention (i don't know musical convention anyway)
04 - Hippo (2:23)
kind of jazzy track. uses the "zak" snare from nifflas's sample pack. ending is a ripoff of Jesse Rae - Umhlaba Jikelele and includes a cheesy noir monologue. the cymbals in the beginning are heavily pitchshifted from Alias Conrad Coldwood - Hip 2-2, hence the name
05 - Auxiliary (0:43)
this was sitting around and i put it in the album. (technically everything was just sitting around and i put it in the album, but this was particularly last-minute.) the method of sampling noise like this is similar to home music 7.5
06 - Tsch (1:32)
another song with remix chain samples. i never really finished this one. the little shop of horrors (1960) was previously sampled in my teeth
07 - Music for Modern Homes (0:46)
a continuation of my home music album; all samples here are recorded by myself. features an old piano that was near my old apartment (also heard in Hippo)
08 - Music for Modern Homes 2 (0:49)
sequel to the above track. a lot less coherent, and i wasn't sure where to go with it (if you can tell)
09 - A Trophy & All Beef (The Silent Technique) (3:08)
a song recorded entirely without listening to it, similar to nurykabe's deaf weeks album. as a result it's a sonic trainwreck. uses beats playground as a base, but the kick and snare samples were later changed.
10 - Blind Fish (Swimming in a Cave) (1:20)
a song sampling the 1959 roger corman film "a bucket of blood". also uses some art of noise drums.
11 - Some Spider Thing (1:16)
a song sampling They Might Be Shitposting's audioplay/skit take on They Might Be Giants - Spider. uses oberheim dmx cymbals
12 - Awful (1:55)
a pretty loose remix of the boss theme from "Awesome" on the amiga, originally intended for a bonus area in my KS level Gaseous soap. later i made a slightly extended version of this i might release eventually.
13 - I Haven't Stolen Enough From Ministry Yet (1:09)
another take on beats playground, this time with ministry drums (and a lifted riff from Ministry - All Day)
14 - Shop (0:53)
short song with heavy beats. meant as a shop theme for a video game. glockenspiel sampled from They Might Be Giants - Shoehorn with Teeth. as with Awful i extended this later.
15 - Hello (0:57)
this was made a while ago, i forget what it was for if anything
16 - Uh-Oh! Boring Stupid Time (2:42)
this is a very cliche techno song using the built-in openmpt samples, made as a joke for a game jam soundtrack release
17- That Was Exciting (0:53)
downbeat outro.

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made in openmpt

to clarify for Hmpf, what lit knob meant is that if the tileset specifically says this:

then that warning no longer applies due to nifflas granting permission for the tilesets he made to be used anywhere. other old tilesets with "no use" on them have nothing to do with it, and as far as i'm aware nifflas never wrote "no use! FU" on any of his tilesets.

Have you deleted the level? The link doesn't work.

3.5-year bump. despite seeming to link to a .knytt.bin file, the download link actually redirected to an otamatone cover of Never Gonna Give You Up (rickroll); might've been this one

i went looking for this thread after i heard this otamatone cover of Evanescence - Bring Me to Life. which is amazing.

This level reflects the general vibe I perceive in the song "marhide" by Autechre. That song is also used as an ambiance loop throughout the level, which makes this like the Knytt Stories equivalent of a music video.

The level is comparable to This is Not a Level but with more colors and less challenge.

Download.
(v2 fixes some graphical errors and a useless wallswim.)

Grnated. It now comes in sizes for all types of adult tarantulas.

I wish there were a strange manor somewhere in Bedfordshire no-one's ever visited before, and if you walk inside you'd find a table with exactly three objects on it: an apple, a hat, and a skull. You'd be briefly confused by this arrangement of objects before coming to a stunning revelation about the nature of matter itself, so vast and enlightening that you'd go insane trying to process the ramifications. You'd then ditch human society and live the rest of your unnaturally long life inside the manor, as locals speculate that you originally built or owned the manor before finding something inside it that drove you to insanity. Only one woman would be brave (or foolhardy) enough to shrug off these mythos and enter the manor herself to find out what's really going on. And that woman would be named: Juni. Got all that?

Granted. You then discover that the universe is effectively a simulation that renders about 10000 "frames per second." Additionally, while you have the power to speed up or slow down time, you don't have the power to revert those time changes, instead applying opposite time changes proportionally so time seems to go back to normal. As it happens, whenever you slow down time, you introduce some artificial smearing between frames, and whenever you speed up time, you drop a few frames. (There are probably better options the Universe Builders could have used, but they mainly wanted to get this feature out the metaphysical door.) Initially this isn't noticeable, but you use this power a lot, and it stacks up. Vision is now a bunch of washy overlaid images playing at 5FPS, and all audio receives similar aliasing as if you were to resample it over and over.

I wish for a clear and concise summary of what's going on in the world right now.

Granted! It involves me trashing the Tomatoes series by introducing Tomatoes Gaiden Gaiden, the gag-a-day comic strip featuring Juni and the Rotten Tomato in a cartoonish rivalry, with the jokes rivaling Garfield in blandness. As expected this causes all of the rotten tomatoes to feel ashamed by association and decide to live remote lives. Unfortunately, this also causes Juni to feel ashamed by association and decide to live a remote life, thus permanently halting all Knytt Stories levels until someone can come up with an awesome enough OC to replace Juni.

I wish someone came up with an awesome enough OC to replace Juni.