Jonathan Hape, a bloke from Ohio who does the theme song for one of my favorite film podcasts, Lost in Criterion, is putting out a new record on bandcamp and the preview tracks are something else I tell you.
https://glasscassette.bandcamp.com/album/glass-cassette
For some reason this band never got famous, I always thought they were well known but they sure were not.
Here's a song about a place down the street from my house, california's oldest lesbian bar. also maybe about heroin, one never knows. anyway I always liked the line "it wants you to come for a night of gay dancing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOE3uPgmglk
Quick question; how are people posting embedded Bandcamp players?
I've tried the URL (thinking that forum magic would do the same as it does for YouTube) and the 'embed' code from the Bandcamp page, and in the post preview neither option seems to work.
Bunch of cool stuff here! Wasn‘t sure if I should post this in the “Sounds like Game Music” thread or here because I do use his stuff with racing and action games. I like this guy’s more aggressive synthwave style and there‘s some AMVs out there that have a bunch of views, but in terms of popular… I’m not sure. Since there's been so many new musicians making synthwave it can be easy to get lost in the shuffle and he stands out to me. So here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxxrUz4I3EA
@billy#4810 I posted
https :// glasscassette . bandcamp . com / album / glass-cassette
To get that embedded
One of my favourite albums of all time. No idea how obscure it really is, but endlessly fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVK-7FseoZk
I sometimes make this lo-fi DIY nonsense:
https://women.bandcamp.com/album/sensitive-man
http://women.bandcamp.com/track/piss-on-my-tiny-hands
It definitely falls into the 'music that nobody knows about' category as I do almost nothing to promote it and use it mostly as an excuse to make loud noises at people in clubs. I used to have quite a shitty job and this was an excellent release from that. I kinda like my job now, so the pop career has suffered somewhat.
Right now I‘m listening to CASIO Turkey Onsen. I first heard about them a few years ago, but I hadn’t downloaded their album Yu until today. I only remembered them because I thought their name was cool. Now I realize that I‘m in love with this weird 80s toy keyboard post-hip-hop that they’re doing.
Here's the music video for (a shortened version of) their song Surimacca no Uta, which I guess doubles as an advertisement for a [screen printing toy](https://surimacca.com)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f7-rNsb4qM
@Eubanks#2483
Casiopea is what got me on my now never-ending Japanese fusion jazz kick. I was looking into the music of Outrun and got referred to this band and never looked back. Love the crap out of these guys.
In fact, these days all I ever listen to is Japanese fusion and my favorite band ever which I am always thrilled to blab about to anyone who will listen. They may not be so obscure on the internet, but everyone I ever bring them up to thinks I'm making them up.
Anyway, they're a psych rock outfit from Australia called King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. They are super experimental and started out as pretty standard garage rock, but most of their albums are completely different from each other musically, exploring different genres and musical styles. In the ten years they've been around they've put out 16 albums (including 5 full, stand alone albums in 2017).
They play everything from acoustic dream pop:
https://youtu.be/lci8-n8K394
to straight up thrash metal:
https://youtu.be/qtTi_uyYynA
and all that is in between. They've experimented with polyrhythmic prog rock and boogie funk and eastern microtonal music. My favorite album of theirs has to be Fishing for Fishies.
https://youtu.be/-kE1S9olY6A
They also have recurring themes and ideas and that weave in and out of their albums in the form of musical motifs or references in the lyrics. The lyrics are often philosophical and metaphorical, but a lot of the stuff they write is drenched in sci fi and fantasy. One of their most prominent themes is a human-robot hybrid who threw up so hard he became then destroyed the universe. This character pops up in more than a handful of their albums in different forms and version and it's so much fun to find it when it pops up, along with all the other references and characters. Oh and one of their albums has a whole section called The Tale of the Altered Beast which may or may not be a reference to the game.
They also put on a killer live show. Oh and they had 2 drummers for most of their tenure which was a treat to see live. These guys love what they do and show no signs of stopping.
What counts as obscure anymore? I feel like everything is obscure except mega-famous stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_-H6012rks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yZWnv2W5rU
oh man trigger warning but I‘m about to talk about jpop and eurobeat lol. I used to like the group D&D, which is an old jpop eurobeat group that launched the career of Olivia Lufkin. After Olivia left the group the remaining members released like 2 songs before disappearing forever. One song is a track I absolutely love called Waitin’ for Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpHb17r6RsQ
there is a comment on that vid from 1 year ago that says "original: Margaret - YOU'RE IN MY HEART" and my mind is blown!! This is another song I've been listening to for close to 20 years and had no idea there was an original version! And it's really not uncommon for jpop eurobeat songs to be copies of actual eurboeat songs, but the fact that I've been unaware of the original version for so long is crazy!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDETWccT_TA
I looked for existing topics I could use to post this and I guess spanish indie bands are something that is unknown for people outside both of Spain and the local scene, so seems like a good enough fit.
Omar Álvarez is a former Nintendo Ibérica PR (the spanish subsidiary of Nintendo Europe) that left the company and used to work as creative director for Vizz, one the biggest gigs dedicated to the Youtube and streaming scene here.
He was diagnosed with terminal cancer and last October he shared that the doctors gave him 4 months of life. He's been very open with he whole process, hoping to normalize his situation and help others dealing with loss and going through similar experiences. Yesterday he shared on his Twitter account that he had produced the following videoclip of VVV, a local post-punk spanish band, in which he exposes how was 2020 for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8oMGGObTU
I felt like sharing because I thought the whole thing was very moving and beautiful, independently of his whole personal situation.
I always come back to this song, Lust for summer blues by adustam. https://soundcloud.com/adustam/lust-for-summer-blues-1
I found it from this animation short (content warning for some real bizarre stuff in this, just a heads up) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RzNDZFQllA
The artist seemingly released an EP some 10 years ago, and has some tracks strewn across their Soundcloud, but I've never been able to track them to any future endeavors. It has been difficult to pin down a genre for this song, and I always come back to it every year or two when I feel the mood hit.
I don't know that I'd say it's "music nobody knows about" considering how many listens it has, I just think about the artist in question a lot and wonder what they went on to do. So maybe it fits in that respect.
@JoJoestar#13732 it‘s wonderful that he’s making meaningful art in the time he has left, thanks for sharing it here
@cera#2487 woah hey Shinobu! I've loved their stuff forever. They have a song based around Killer7 even.
i saw their Drummer's Tokyo band in like 2009 I do not remember the name of. Then Hard Girls which is a terrible name for an all guy band but I do like their stuff a lot.
Mammal Dap is an extremely tiny New England band that I saw live once. Of their two albums, I like Deep Field better.
Here's (I think) their most popular song:
https://youtu.be/wBB3KyYGuAA
I thought about this thread a lot and I went with 3 things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqRr9BokbeQ
This delightful hangout-ska band Sugarhill Downtown Orchestra that I need to put their albums somewhere on the internet because you can't get their stuff anywhere except two songs off one album on itunes???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wa1LnTLv8U
China Drum who I have been listening to since I was 14 and have not encountered someone that is a fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCtoVAKwZ8Q
And then some ancient IC lore of Kama Boiler.
here's some 90s pop rock woo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPmVHk5078
so unknown no one went to their live show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwUIoPBVTY
This is from an album I picked up from a bargain bin at a record store entirely on the back of it having some nice Roger Dean cover art.
The album as a whole is basically pretty good, somewhat proggy folk-rock. The opening to side 2, however, is, just... Peak Dad Rock. Like, "Would fit In perfectly In a Guardians of the Galaxy movie" levels of Dad Rock. And it's a song that currently has just over 2000 views on YouTube, from an album that doesn't have a wikipedia page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ3hRmR6kh0&list=PL6ERljmTLc6IKOk1s4nDy6aqHTtMWjBiV
I imagine a number of forum users are familiar with numero group, but in case anyone is unfamiliar it's a record label that focuses on re-publishing overlooked/forgotten/never-noticed music. They also do a ton of work researching and contextualizing the artists. Cool stuff!
http://www.numerogroup.com/