Moth Equals

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[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

2024 has left the building.

Happy new year to my weird, wonderful listeners. Here is a new song - now available on Bandcamp - and there will be more...

https://t.co/l7NKDk28FM

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

This new song from @boardsofcanada is dark, atmospheric, hauntological - all that good stuff✨

[Warp Records @WarpRecords]

→ https://t.co/FuTmwmLmh5

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

Forgive the radio silence 📻

I am still an extant being

and I am still making things -

for me, for you, for everyone else too

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

@Jungle_mmh_Beat Thank you. I recognise one ('Never' by Terranova, which is great), and will listen to the others.

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

✨Please give me some song recommendations ✨

Any genre, any language, any country, any year.

As long as it makes you feel something, and you don't think I'll have heard it.

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

@ZomBiezley That's a whole playlist - thank you. I'll enjoy listening through these.

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

@RussellS How sombre and beautiful.

I know Grouper but I hadn't heard this. Thank you.

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

@modedistract Until Spotify provides horribly intrusive data about each listener, we can only assume.

Plus, it would be cool. On a horse, galloping across the grassy steppe, earbuds in, music on.

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

Completely incidentally and apropos of nothing... here are 10 of my favourite cities ❤️

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

@modedistract I'm not sure I'd give myself five stars for anything 😅 I'm just honoured to be listened to. Thank you.

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

@modedistract

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

R.I.P. David Lynch, January 20, 1946 — January 2025. Here is Angelo Badalamenti sharing his and David’s composition process for “Twin Peaks.”

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

New song coming out 1 Jan - premiering over here (updated link): https://t.co/cV657e3Otv

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

What would be the best/most accessible way to let people preview the (many) demos I'm working on? 🤔

A mix? A livestream? A Soundcloud dump of works-in-progress?

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

There's a relevant bit from @nardwuar's recent interview with @fredagainagain1

@brianeno created the Windows 95 start-up sound, and after making 5-second compositions for months, found returning to longer pieces like having "oceans of time" to play with

https://t.co/8uorS9EikH

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

What's the perfect length for a song?

Some claim 2 minutes 42 seconds, and that anything else is a waste.

But surely a song should last as long as it lasts to make itself heard? I know tracks under 2 minutes that feel like epics, and 16-minute songs where every second counts.

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

@odellandy That's some impressive commitment to a self-imposed constraint.

Like a painter working only on 10x10cm canvases.

I'll have to give the album a listen.

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

RIP Ka, rap's greatest minimalist, Brownsville's finest, inimitably dedicated himself to his city & craft. The master of quiet rage, writing zen koans with unremitting soul & passion. Pain, grief & wisdom in every bar. An artist as pure & real as anyone who ever spit cold facts.

[Moth Equals @MothEquals]

Reminder for other music makers: back-up your work 🔐

I lost a song I'd poured days into all because I didn't have a good back-up process and my tech threw a wobbly.

Auto-save, cloud storage, back-up HDs are friends. To butcher an idiom: make saves while the sun shines ☀️