Moth Equals

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... youtube.com/watch?v=QCEvqO…

Forgive the radio silence 📻 I am still an extant being and I am still making things - for me, for you, for everyone else too

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

@MothEquals music.youtube.com/watch?v=qXlmKk… music.youtube.com/watch?v=-emL5W… music.youtube.com/watch?v=NLasGF… music.youtube.com/watch?v=lnshW_… music.youtube.com/watch?v=62dqE2… music.youtube.com/watch?v=vOo4k3… music.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqIrV…

✨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.

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

@MothEquals Death A.M.- Whitey How are you- Dj Rozwell Headboard- lil ugly mane Tie me down- george clanton Pleasure Pen- Nancy Online Discourse- KFC Murder Chicks (i think that's also dj rozwell) I feel something from each of these songs

@RussellS How sombre and beautiful. I know Grouper but I hadn't heard this. Thank you.

@MothEquals youtu.be/Fl4uiyD3LBA?si…

@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.

@MothEquals I assume that’s her

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

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

@MothEquals "Foreign Fruit" would be higher but for a while it wasn't counting phone listens D: (ps 4 stars isn't imperfect. 4 is nighttime perfect and 5 is daytime perfect 😇)

@MothEquals If this counted iTunes dc would be up there just from me lol

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

New song coming out 1 Jan - premiering over here (updated link): youtu.be/QCEvqOxktfA

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?

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 youtube.com/watch?v=jsoTTM…

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.

@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.

@MothEquals The Residents Commercial Album had 40 songs all exactly 1 minute long.

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.

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 ☀️

Rest by the light of the evening star, Maggie Smith ✨ I recently sampled her poignant 1973 recital of John Betjman's poem "Death in Leamington" for a work-in-progress track. It's strange listening back to it, now. soundcloud.com/moth-equals/ev…