FURICO Playlists

FURICO Playlists

In the FURICO Production page on SoundCloud, TM, the producer and member of FMT makes playlists. Here, TM took the notes on each track in them.



FMT Frequently Listened

Explore our most-played tracks in a fresh and unfiltered way. The "FMT Frequently Listened" playlist arranges songs by ascending play counts, creating surprising juxtapositions across production periods. Let the natural resonance of our listeners guide you through FMT’s evolving soundscape. (Notes page)




FMT Pianic

This playlist "FMT Pianic" gathers piano-featured digital pieces out of The FURICO Music Team - Music Works, which have unique tastes - very different from not only ordinary piano works but also the Team's other pieces. Selected by TM of FMT. (The notes are linked here.)



FURICO Playlist 3

I, TM, will pick up about 20 wonderful tracks from SoundCloud mostly in 2023.



FURICO Playlist 2

This playlist follows FURICO Playlist 1 so that I, TM, can assemble outstanding works that I found on SoundCloud mainly in 2022. 



FURICO Playlist 1


(TM writes:)

My very first attempt to arrange a playlist on SoundCloud was so fun. It contains 20 tracks (as of 4 Nov 2021) that I truly think are so great music and hope to remain in the long future and take many listens to (though I have taken already).

The trigger was that TI, the other member of FMT, suggested me to make playlists in the newly opened SoundCloud account of "The FURICO Production." Although I am an (or possibly the most) eager listener to FMT, the playlists will not have FMT's tracks. Just in case I cannot keep the promise, I rather should say Playlist 1 doesn't at least.

For FURICO Playlist 1, I did not have any intention, plan, concept, theme or prospect in prior. I just travelled alone around SoundCloud, getting lost in the jungle many times. 

Having returned home securely and thereafter picked up 20, my huge and surprising finding through assembling the tracks for FURICO Playlist 1 is that so many of the artists I selected here have been frequent listeners to FMT and been in touch with FMT, especially TI. 

That was completely accidental. I just hope to highlight as broad a range of artists as I can, but at least this time, it's totally amazing.

I hope you will have fun with the playlist as well.



1. Nādabindu - fauna [see Bandcamp on Description]

Percussion-centred. That's solely fantastic. FMT sometimes tries. Not only that, but also is every single tone superb. I love especially that sort of digital percussion and its intonations, which we tried similarly in the track called "Rock", but "fauna" treats it as its centre. The other parts accompany the percussion. Later, the unplugged drum kit and rhythm machine, moreover, become centred and outstanding. Even though this type of music is likely to exist, it does hardly, as far as I know.


2. esslemont - No Photographs Of Me Exist

It's Ambient, but a lot more than that. The combinations are well-designed and amazing: Of the piano and synths in the primary motif, of the noise percussion and acoustic drums, of the several voices, and so forth. The sounds are changing quite calmly throughout the track, which FMT also loves. Every time it gets close to the end, I feel like listening once more.


3. Gary Rees - Orson Said So

I selected this NOT because FMT have featured Gary many times, but simply because he did an excellent job. The first four bars are attractive enough and I love the way the percussion in so good tones is overlaid. The lead synth appears unexpectedly. Whereas most of his music is just like paintings -- oil on canvas perhaps -- , "Orson Said So" well symbolises that. I wish I could have a listen much longer.


4. Teth Sin - Every Minute | feat. Mizero

Again, this track is let join the playlist NOT because Teth Sin is a great collaborator with FMT, just because I love it; if I heard this on the radio, I would get impatient to identify who made it. I don't know whether it's intentional or not that it uses consonant and dissonant chords almost alternately, which successfully adds charming nuances together with the fantastic vocals. Teth Sin is also a great bass-line writer.

(Teth Sin told me later that it was completely intentional.)


5. Brosco - Outskirts (w/Louie Simon)

This non-chordal work is also somewhat percussion-centred -- including the chromatic one. But from the middle of the track the centre shifts very peacefully to the guitar and bass, the combinations of monophonic or dyad phrases. I wonder why it feels very very nostalgic -- nostalgic for nowhere. It's somewhere I have never been but I love to be back. 


6. Belial Pelegrim - TAFFETA | Part 59

I chose as many as three of Belial Pelegrim's works but I wanted to even more. I would say it's like some digital folk music of nowhere. I don't know if it's the concept but I love that sort of approach very much, like FMT recently made the track called "The Beginnings", but in a more Ambient style unlike that. Even though I originally planned to have one piece per artist in the playlist, I had to give that up because of Belial Pelegrim's quality works.



7. Van D - Flava Come In All Flavas

I wonder when he breathes... Anyway, it's simply a great track as a whole, especially in terms of the way it makes various sounds intertwin like the raps / piano-like synth, guitar / timbales, introspective synth / kick drums, hi-hats and snares. "Flava Come In All Flavas" sounds quite simple but is actually complex, which I love how is made.  


8. Belial Pelegrim - TAFFETA | Part 56

It's Ambient but the rhythm plays probably the most important role in it. I also like the way that such acoustic parts as the piano, strings and choir are overlaid on the digital rhythm. I feel "TAFFETA | Part 56" is a very short track, but it's not because of the intensity, I suppose.



9. Belial Pelegrim - Induced

Again, I found out from "Induced" that Belial Pelegrim makes many attractive pieces to me because they have excellent rhythms are blended in the Ambient context. The tones of the percussion is wonderfully built-in. You may think tracks like this are likely to exist anywhere, no, not at all, I would say after listening to hundreds of tracks for this playlist.



10. Mrs. Audio Boy - Raw Groove And Rainy Ambiance [Jam session sections: RAW2020 - 1]

It has a lot of wonder, such as how a man talks about the rhythm like a storyteller, how the very short tones of bass supplement the drums, how it begins to rain, and that it's one-way-structured, meaning it never goes back to sections that have already appeared, like FMT also often structures the tracks.



11. Northfield Lenox - Flight NL667

It is a beautiful chill-out track, but a lot more than that. The tones, chords, strings arrangement are so elaborate that it leads us to an introspective world with its complex beauty, which FMT also often try. When you play the drums softly and relaxedly, typically during a break in the studio, the beat tends to swing this way. The title reminds me of Brian Eno. 



12. Mono - ha - Unreason

13. Mono - ha - Repent

Interestingly, the tempo is made unstable and a little bit ambiguous. The tracks are poly-structured vaguely or unreasonably; I am composing in a similar way though the sounds as a whole are different. At the same time, they are based on a pops structure. The balance between pops and experimental music is super.




14. Data Krypton - Tremolo Contine

15. Data Krypton - Syndrome

In the former track, on the beautiful five-notes mode, delayed chords and frequency modulations  -- or, I should say tremolos -- form the unstable and relaxed rhythm. It reminds me of the Paradise Music in the 1970s, which I like very much. In the latter, similarly but differently, the tone shifts form something like a story.




16. Wud Records - Dark Company: Horizontal Hold (beta mix)

After I found out this track, I wanted to take more listens to Dark Company's music, but I could not find any, very unfortunately. The bass is so simple and cool throughout the track. The way to treat the chords is extra-ordinary. I was addicted to it.




17. Richard Barbieri Official - SEASONAL BLEEPINGS

Richard is a legend of mine. It's almost scale music and chordless. The number of tones is small but the rhythm is sometimes complex. Simple and complex throughout. Much more than the Ambient Music. I love this.



18. Sasha Shevchuk - Distortions

I understand what it means well. The components and progression resemble U2. When I listened to U2 for the first time, perhaps around 1987, I thought they had pleasure that the Ambient also had, if I say in today's language.



19. rogue wavs - IN DRIPS

20. rogue wavs - WHENIAMGHOSTRMX

It's very well-designed sound, somewhat like French Pops I have loved since the 1980s. To me it sounds like a Moog bass and digital synthesizers like Yamaha DX-7 with a Roland TR-808, though different actually. In "In Drips" the bass is much more central than the rhythm machine is, which I think is very effective here.

In both tracks the rhythms are not what is called "zero groove". Strictly speaking, it's half-zero-groove and half not in the 5 beats (in "WHENIAMGHOSTRMX"). Every part (not only percussion) has zero groove but the combination is not zero. I love the way they pursue here. 






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