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Thinking back to when Aphex Twin encoded his face into a track: https://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

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And Venetian Snares encoded his cat https://eeggs.com/items/46956.html

And Benn encoded a bird into birdsong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo

And Disasterpeace encoded a puzzle in the Fez soundtrack: https://blog.krzyhau.pl/fez-spectrograms-adventure (and nobody has solved it in over a decade!)

Also, C418 put a creeper face in Minecraft's soundtrack.

Thanks for the reminder of eeggs.com! It still has an Easter egg I found in my printer that I submitted 25 years ago. I wonder how many models of obsolete hardware that site documents...

Into the final track of an album titled "Songs About My Cats", titled "Look". :3

There's a better visualization of the track here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHup81lEjqo

It shouldn't be surprising to see people who know Venetian Snares on here!

If you're up for it, trade a music rec?

Try:

Scorpion Mother - Thief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3113EQvLg

I found Venetian Snares last year and one of their songs made my year-in-review: https://wonger.dev/posts/2025#music

Certain Indian music and metal seems to scratch a similar itch for me. And of course orchestra and drum n bass.

huh that's some pretty decent gothy noises

it's worth noting that the parent commenter's link includes a good render of this easter egg in the article as well (it's the last one on the page)

I did silly things like this as teenager too. Always thought it would be a nice way to hide secret messages on an open signal.

Reminded me of this video covering his use of Metasynth and other obscure software in early tracks on yt https://youtu.be/5wIOBBodoic

Mick Gordon hid satanic symbols in the DOOM 2016 soundtrack.

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