u/cygnusy1

PLEASE READ BEFORE REMOVING REDDIT MODS. 

Thanks to all alternative reddit music die-hards for all the contributions to the DRONE libraryB( MONOLITHIC UNDERTOW) being expanded. xxxxx 

go raibh maith agat. 

This is for you. Xxx 

🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸  🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦  ❤️ 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪  ✌️ ❤️ 🤟. 

Peace. Love. Death metal.

To the far-right: eat shit and die.

I spent the last few months -onnsock leave- building my own music library tracing the idea of drone through music history after reading Monolithic Undertow by Harry Sword. 

Not just ambient/drone music — but repetition, sustained tones and hypnotic sounds across blues, folk, industrial, post-punk, shoegaze, post-rock, doom, techno,, to free jazz to ambient techno, minimalism to uileann pipes, sitar etc….. From Bo Diddley, Velvet Underground and Faust through to Lankum, Sunn O))) and Orbital.

One thing the book made me realise:

Drone isn’t really a genre — it’s almost a human constant. Heartbeats, machinery, church bells, pipes, feedback, engines, chants and a cat's pur, my favourite kind of drone. especially Jessie's. Not sure about my wife's snoring though. 

This Drone library is not an info dump nor was it created with A.I. ( f..k those fascist tech bros). Along with my own favourite tunes and my friends', I asked for recommendations from die-hard fans across ALL Reddit subs which was invaluable.

Older brothers and sisters and their friends' music? That kid at school? That enthusiastic person in the record shop whose brains you picked? Overhear a tune somewhere? A song in a film moves you?  song at a rave or disco? A song that reminds you of sth or sby, or brings back a memory of a loved one passed away. Music is therapy. 

All these situations got me into music or developed my taste and as a result, got me into other types of music I would never have heard otherwise. 

Hopefully this public resource will be a gateway into other genres for you. Or maybe not. Horses for courses.... 

If you like the tunes you hear, go to your record shop and buy them or order them on CD or record or download on Bandcamp. Go and support live bands and buy their merchandise. Streaming is ripping off artists and killing music. Artists need your support. Stop subscribing to Spotify especially, they support genocide. 

Would genuinely love any more recommendations for artists/tracks I’ve missed some tunes or non-obvious ones from any genre or culture. I'll add it to the list. 

Please note:

\\-- This is an unofficial UNCURRATED PUBLIC LIBRARY RESOURCE and not a curated playlist.

\\-- For maximum pleasure play on SHUFFLE

\\-- Use it to create your own curated playlists

\\-- The library is updated regularly. 

\\-- Please share. It's anonymous so there's no element of self-promotion or profit involved. If you do happen to know me, please don't dox me. I'd prefer to remain anonymous. 

Apart from the creators, music belongs to everyone so please don't gatekeep. 

Finally, I'm not “Karma farming”. I'm over 50 and don't give two  shites what people think of me. I don't need/want external validation. 

I plead with the mods on reddit. Share this resource and post. Don't remove it. Have a heart. Don't gate keep. This post is not about anything but music and might bring pleasure to people in these dark sinister times. 

🙏 

Spotify Link: ( less ethical option) 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1s2xu4aZIhItPfNHRYuP0o?si=fk-zch4GTXy4ZYrPiRP57g&pi=vUwqzKulQWGPk

Apple: updated more as Spotify is evil. 

https://music.apple.com/ie/playlist/monolithic-undertow-personal-library/pl.u-NpXmYopt4Evx8pJ?ls

P.s. Be nice. You never know what another person is going through. But don't be gullible either; some people are simply c..ts.

Maybe PIL or the Velvets? Any other less obvious ones.

Thanks so much for all the contributions xxxxx

go raibh maith agat. Hail Satan and Georhe Best.

This is for you

🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 ✌️ ❤️ 🤟. Peace. Love. Death metal.

To the far-right: eat shit and die.

Spent the last few months building my own music library tracing the idea of drone through music history after reading Monolithic Undertow by Harry Sword. 

Not just ambient/drone music — but repetition, sustained tones and hypnotic sounds across blues, folk, industrial, post-punk, shoegaze, doom, techno,, to free jazz to ambient techno, minimalism to uileann pipes, sitar etc. From Bo Diddley, Velvet Underground and Faust through to Lankum, Sunn O))) and Orbital.

One thing the book made me realise:

Drone isn’t really a genre — it’s almost a human constant. Heartbeats, machinery, church bells, pipes, feedback, engines, chants and a cat's pur, my favourite kind of drone. especially Jessie's. Not sure about my wife's snoring though.

This Drone library is not an info dump nor was it created with A.I. ( f..k those fascist tech bros). Along with my own favourite tunes and my friends', I asked for recommendations from die-hard fans on various Reddit forums, which was invaluably helpful.

Older brothers and sisters and their friends' music? That kid at school? That enthusiastic person in the record shop whose brains you picked? Overhear a tune somewhere? a song in a film moves you? song at a rave or disco? A song that reminds you of sth or sby, or brings back a memory a loved one limg gone. Music is therapy.

All these situations got me into music or developed my taste and as a result, got me into other types of music I would never have heard otherwise. 

Hopefully this public resource will be a gateway into other genres for you. Or maybe not. Horses for courses.... 

If you like the tunes you hear, go to your record shop and buy them or order them on CD or record or download on Bandcamp. Go and support live bands and buy their merchandise. Streaming is ripping off artists and killng music Artists need your support. Stop subscribing to Spotify especially, they support genocide.

Would genuinely love rany more ecommendations for artists/tracks I’ve missed some tunes or non-obvious ones from any genre or culture. I'll add it to the list.

Please note:

\-- This is an unofficial UNCURATIED PUBLIC LIBRARY RESOURCE and not a curated playlist.

\-- For maxium pleasure play on SHUFFLE.

\-- Use it to create your own curated playlists

\-- The library is updated regularly. 

\-- Please share. It's anonymous so there's no element of self-promotion or profit involved. If you do happen to know me, please don't dox me. I'd prefer to remain anonymous. 

Apart from the creators, music belongs to everyone so please don't gatekeep. 

Spotify Link: ( less ethical option)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1s2xu4aZIhItPfNHRYuP0o?si=fk-zch4GTXy4ZYrPiRP57g&pi=vUwqzKulQWGPk

Apple: https://music.apple.com/ie/playlist/monolithic-undertow-personal-library/pl.u-NpXmYopt4Evx8pJ?ls

P.s. Be nice. You never know what another person is going through. But don't be gullible either; some people are simply c..ts.

Anything by Mono.

Thanks so much for all the contributions xxxxx

go raibh maith agat.

Hail Satan and George Best.

This is for you. Xxx

🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 ✌️ ❤️ 🤟. Peace. Love. Death metal.

To the far-right: eat shit and die.

Spent the last few months building my own music library tracing the idea of drone through music history after reading Monolithic Undertow by Harry Sword. 

Not just ambient/drone music — but repetition, sustained tones and hypnotic sounds across blues, folk, industrial, post-punk, shoegaze, doom, techno,, to free jazz to ambient techno, minimalism to uileann pipes, sitar etc. From Bo Diddley, Velvet Underground and Faust through to Lankum, Sunn O))) and Orbital.

One thing the book made me realise:

Drone isn’t really a genre — it’s almost a human constant. Heartbeats, machinery, church bells, pipes, feedback, engines, chants and a cat's pur, my favourite kind of drone. especially Jessie's. Not sure about my wife's snoring though.

This Drone library is not an info dump nor was it created with A.I. ( f..k those fascist tech bros). Along with my own favourite tunes and my friends', I asked for recommendations from die-hard fans on various Reddit forums, which was invaluably helpful.

Older brothers and sisters and their friends' music? That kid at school? That enthusiastic person in the record shop whose brains you picked? Overhear a tune somewhere? a song in a film moves you? song at a rave or disco? A song that reminds you of sth or sby, or brings back a memory a loved one limg gone. Music is therapy.

All these situations got me into music or developed my taste and as a result, got me into other types of music I would never have heard otherwise. 

Hopefully this public resource will be a gateway into other genres for you. Or maybe not. Horses for courses.... 

If you like the tunes you hear, go to your record shop and buy them or order them on CD or record or download on Bandcamp. Go and support live bands and buy their merchandise. Streaming is ripping off artists and killng music Artists need your support. Stop subscribing to Spotify especially, they support genocide.

Would genuinely love rany more ecommendations for artists/tracks I’ve missed some tunes or non-obvious ones from any genre or culture. I'll add it to the list.

Please note:

\-- This is an unofficial UNCURATIED PUBLIC LIBRARY RESOURCE and not a curated playlist.

\-- For maxium pleasure play on SHUFFLE.

\-- Use it to create your own curated playlists

\-- The library is updated regularly. 

\-- Please share. It's anonymous so there's no element of self-promotion or profit involved. If you do happen to know me, please don't dox me. I'd prefer to remain anonymous. 

Apart from the creators, music belongs to everyone so please don't gatekeep. 

Spotify Link: ( less ethical option)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1s2xu4aZIhItPfNHRYuP0o?si=fk-zch4GTXy4ZYrPiRP57g&pi=vUwqzKulQWGPk

Apple: https://music.apple.com/ie/playlist/monolithic-undertow-personal-library/pl.u-NpXmYopt4Evx8pJ?ls

P.s. Be nice. You never know what another person is going through. But don't be gullible either; some people are simply c..ts.

A Quick demo of the Blue Colander Tibetan Quaalude. One of my favourite Sun preamp pedals. Worth checking out.

Guitar: Guild Polara ( Drop A tuned).

Any questions please ask.

Signal chain:

TC Polytune 》 DBA Rooms 》EHX Freeze 》 EAE Halberd 》DBA Octave Clang 》 Unsound Circuitry Hyper Pozzum 》 EQD Life Pedal 2 》Blue Colander Tibetan Quaalude 》》 Boss BF2 》 Source Audio Encounter 》 OBNE Darkstar 》 Dirty Bird Reveerb 》

EQD White Light 》Past Fx Rotary Phaser 》 Surfybear Metal 》 Walrus Lore 》 Blackskykraft Unusual EAS 》 MAE Part Garden Ge 》Blue Colander Tremond 》

Lichtlaerm Audio Medusa 》 EAE Dagger 》 EAE Glaive 》 Acid Pedal Works Judas Lichtlearm Audio Untife 》 Red Panda Tensor 》 Surfybear Blossom Point 》 EHX Micro Pog 》》Moth Electric M Stellatarum Tremolo 》 Boss RC-5

COULD ANYONE RECOMMEND THE BEST PLACE TO PUT THE MICRO-POG? Used for doom beginning or at the end of the chain??

Spent the last few months building a chronological playlist tracing the idea of drone through music history after reading, Monolithic Undertow: in search of oblivian, by Harry Swords.

Not just ambient/drone music — but repetition, sustained tones and hypnotic sound across blues, folk, industrial, post-punk, shoegaze, doom, techno and modern pop.

From Bo Diddley, Velvet Underground and Faust through to Lankum, Sunn O))) and Orbital.

One thing the book made me realise:

Drone isn’t really a genre — it’s almost a human constant. Heartbeats, machinery, church bells, pipes, feedback, engines, chants.

Would genuinely love recommendations for artists/tracks I’ve missed, especially non-obvious ones from any genre or culture.

Thanks for all the recommendations i got on different reddit forums. This was a cross-genre project. Enjoy.

Playlists here:

https://music.apple.com/ie/playlist/monolithic-undertow/pl.u-NpXmYopt4Evx8pJ?ls

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1s2xu4aZIhItPfNHRYuP0o?si=Y0pmAiTeTGemyi2G0buv8A&pi=rUMIINGGRJKOn

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Spent the last few months building a chronological playlist tracing the idea of drone through music history after reading, Monolithic Undertow: in search of oblivian, by Harry Swords.

Not just ambient/drone music — but repetition, sustained tones and hypnotic sound across blues, folk, industrial, post-punk, shoegaze, doom, techno and modern pop.

From Bo Diddley, Velvet Underground and Faust through to Lankum, Sunn O))) and Orbital.

One thing the book made me realise:

Drone isn’t really a genre — it’s almost a human constant. Heartbeats, machinery, church bells, pipes, feedback, engines, chants.

Would genuinely love recommendations for artists/tracks I’ve missed, especially non-obvious ones from any genre or culture.

Thanks for all the recommendations i got on different reddit forums. This was a cross-genre project. Enjoy.

Playlists here:

https://music.apple.com/ie/playlist/monolithic-undertow/pl.u-NpXmYopt4Evx8pJ?ls

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1s2xu4aZIhItPfNHRYuP0o?si=Y0pmAiTeTGemyi2G0buv8A&pi=rUMIINGGRJKOn

Monolord: Empress Rising

Thanks so much for the replies. They've been collated and added to a comprehensive playlist based on the book, Monolithic Undertow: in search of Oblivion. Book based on the history of drone musuc. Enjoy.

https://www.tunemymusic.com/share/y7yIFpYAVf

Apologies for resend. NOT SPAM

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A playlist based on the book, Monolithic Undertow.