Music that nobody knows about

@“Moon”#p3152 Very late reply to this post, and sadly not to solve the mystery track, but to say I used to own this Shogun Kunitoki album - I came across it at Dada Records in Perth probably around the time it came out and thought it looked interesting. Can’t find it today, though.

In other music nobody know about, this has 167 views in ten years on youtube, most of them probably from me:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_4Tn2n3VnM

I don’t remember how I first heard it but it was probably because they named themselves after a Black Tambourine song.

I found out today about Ghost Dance, a band consisting of a guitarist from sisters of mercy and the vocalist from skeletal family. They did a yardbirds cover that's pretty good I think.

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

I found out about this by listening to a radio broadcast from 1986 lol.

Miniclash/Tanguy discovering (and not liking much) the new sampler from Teenage Engineering.

https://youtu.be/_yXBysEnwww

https://briankenneyfresno.bandcamp.com/track/time-lady

Be careful this one’s an ear worm.

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

Last year I got really into this song from the self proclaimed heaviest band in Pennsylvania that has some good 90s alt and sludge metal elements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqCAi697I6k](https://)


if you‘re into 90’s power pop-ish stuff i recommend Superdrag!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyZjTcH50Fk

I don‘t know if anyone knows about Kali Malone, but I’m impressed when experimental or auteur artists end up being so experimental they end up regressing several centuries before their own. This is an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-RD31uShEg&list=OLAK5uy_kv3DsJVvY0Ec0GMVZ42VN_Vi6yryRvS2A

This is supposed to be a drone album, but it ends up resembling more of a scholastic choir in the Medieval era rather than anything else.

https://youtu.be/9ai-AYViKT4?si=mcnaJD10-ebt0_eH

https://youtu.be/jE_YSI8yWQc?si=po-0Ioqa64KAvwdk

Every now and then I do encounter someone in the wild who knows about Splashdown—a Boston-based trio from the late 90s/early 00s—but not many people do. I love basically everything they did, but this is probably my personal favorite:

Of note for a video games forum, synth player Kasson Crooker (probably better known for Symbion Project and Freezepop) has a bit of a pedigree when it comes to audio games, and singer Melissa Kaplan's featured on tons of game soundtracks (most recently I think she was on the soundtrack for one or both of the Horizon games, probably some others)

They've recently gotten back together for the potential of some new music, which I'm incredibly hopeful comes to fruition

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Very muffled dream-pop version of an older song? Not sure.

It’s called “Kemm Nixtieq Li Qed” by A Lily, and I loved it.

I heard it on The Wire’s most recent Office Ambience mix which is a cool series if you like this thread.

Here’s the YT link with 29 rock-solid views so far:

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Discovered this band recently and my friend pointed out they have less than 300 monthly listeners on Spotify, so I’ll allow it. Dreamy brit-pop(ish) and I fell in love with the lead singer immediately.

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Feel like this one will blow up in views before long, but so far not too many and, wow, if you’re into Japanese ambient music and you like video gamey aquatic sounds, you will love this.

Yuka Umezawa (梅沢由香) & Tomoko Tsuyama (津山知子) - Fishes’ Dream (魚たちの夢)

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Delicious. That channel is a treasure!

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yeah, just listened to this and really dug it

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I think sometimes about when Flat Top added lyrics to a Daft Punk song for what appears to be a dance demo.

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I have this playing presetly, and am rather enjoying it so far, thanks!

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I am a big Splashdown fan and listened to the Blueshift album non-stop for a few years circa 2010.

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Well, there’s that every now and then I was talking about! I also listened to Blueshift nonstop for a rather long time, haha

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