Today’s Random Album of the Day is Trilogi Peradaban from Zoo. Zoo is experimental music from Indonesia.
It is a lot of chaos. It is really quite good. It does have some rhythmic underpinning but it could use more melodies and it’d be elite stuff. As it is, it is good. But it’s not a good casual listen. You have to be in the mood for this aggressive experimental noise.
If you like experimental noise I would definitely give this a listen. Maybe not first thing in the morning like i’m doing today. I think this benefits from being awake. And I imagine these folks are amazing live. And younger me would have loved this more than current me I think. But for weird reasons.
This would go great in a mix. Pick a good song and mix it with some more melodic material to balance it out. Phenomenal.
Rating: 8.5
Favorite Track(s): Menyudahi Gelap, Kupu-kupu, Lalat-lalat, Di Masa Depan, Perang Saudara, etc…
Keep or Trash: Keep. This is chaos. But it’s good chaos. I won’t buy more because I think this album satisfactorily scratches the itch.
As with yesterday’s pick, the Daytrotter Session isn’t available to stream. But this is their album from the same year.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: