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30 June 2024
  • K. Yoshimatu – Spherical Voyage
    • Enjoyed.
  • Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth
28 June 2024
  • Devo - Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
    • "Shrivel-Up" has been strangely comforting to me lately.
  • Hum - Inlet
27 June 2024
  • Boards of Canada - Societas x Tape (last 1.5h)
25 June 2024
  • Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
    • Deadbeat summer, it's just a deadbeat summer... "Psychic Chasms".
24 June 2024
  • My mom died and I may have to rehome my dog. What can I listen to now? Ars Lucis, Roedelius, that Gaelle's "Fade Away",...
23 June 2024
  • Aarktica – ...Or You Could Just Go Through Your Whole Life And Be Happy Anyway. (Bliss Out V. 18)
    • "Happy Anyway"
  • Michel Banabila - Des Traces Retrouvées 3
  • Most of Gaelle - Transient
22 June 2024
  • Sweet Trip - Fish (Remixes & Versions)
  • Tonstartssbandht - Petunia
    • "Pass Away", "What Has Happened".
21 June 2024
  • Kevin Drumm - db
    • Is this guy serious?
  • Forest Management - New York Seltzer
  • Solpara - QTT6
  • Kareem Lofty - QTT10
  • Damon & Naomi With Ghost
    • I didn't realize this album was actually really good.
  • Unrest - Perfect Teeth
20 June 2024
  • Jun Chikuma - The Midas Touch
    • I was pleased with this. Pretty dope. Putting everything aside to listen to her new album ASAP.
  • Sweet Trip - Halica (The Bliss Out, V. 11)
    • Awesome. I never really paid any mind to this - typical tendency to ignore the album released before the classic - it's pretty damn good.
  • Jonathan Coleclough - Epidural
19 June 2024
  • Color Filter / Sweet Trip / Junior Varsity KM / Technicolor - Drum & Bliss
  • Sam KDC – Symbol #3
17 June 2024
  • Bugskull - Communication
    • Good. "Remarkably Human", last 2 tracks.
  • Technicolor - Normal Control Range
    • Dopeness abounds
  • Jetty - Jetty's Greatest Hits
    • The one with the Puerto Rican chipmunk. And Staind still fucking sucks, by the way.
  • De-Phazz - Detunized Gravity
    • Gaah these fucking samples are irritating. Tapping out after 15 minutes.
  • Susumu Yokota - Sound of Sky
    • The song playing at ~15 min with a sound like some kind of animal sneezing. "Crash Marble"?
16 June 2024
  • Most of Sounds From the Ground - Kin; boring as hell, sorry.
15 June 2024
  • Tosca – No Hassle
    • I listened to this just before I started to realize a majority of 2000s instrumental hip hop and downtempo Pandora-fodder was little more than a millennial answer to muzak phase. While I still believe Suzuki mostly falls into that sad category, this album is somehow different. I think it's because the majority of tracks east off on the persistent chillness and have some sort of emotional presence through melody or atmosphere. It's like the techno-lite approaches of Fila Brazillia who, though still mellow to meybe get tagged as "chillout", throw in enough oddball elements (be it textures, melodies, stylistic shifts and variety in general) to keep it from completely falling into the background at someone's dinner party. "My First", "Elitsa", "Birthday", "No Hassle".
12 June 2024
  • Combustible Edison - The Impossible World
    • "Laura's Aura", "20th Century", "Pink Victim".
  • Various Artists [Merge] - 5 Rows of Teeth
    • Weird hearing Lambchop's easy country pop alongside what seems to be the grittiest, lowest-fi, lowest effort indie rock and phc on the label. It's almost like a demos compilation. I wonder why this was even released.
  • Poster Children - Daisy Chain Reaction
    • "Dee", "Cancer", "Frustration".
11 June 2024
  • Finishing up Sonic Nurse from yesterday.
    • "Dude Ranch Nurse", "I Love You Golden Blue", "Peace Attack".
10 June 2024
  • Autolux - Transit Transit
    • "Census", "Highchair".
  • Sub Loam - Ohr
8 June 2024
  • Failure - Magnified
    • "Frogs", "Wet Gravity", "Small Crimes".
  • Forest Management - Routines
    • "A Non-Fictional Life", "Forgotten Guardian".
7 June 2024
  • Transient Waves – Wading And Waiting (Bliss Out Vol. 8)
  • Füxa – Venoy (Bliss Out V.5)
6 June 2024
  • Yugen Disciple - Ancestor Node
  • Bright – Blue Christian / Bliss Out v.12
5 June 2024
  • Coroner - Grin
  • Cranes - Particles & Waves
    • Last 2 songs are good. Song where Jim sings, though I'm pleased that someone other than Alison finally has sung on a Cranes song, sounds like something from an insurance or cereal commercial.
  • Sketch Show - Audio Sponge
3 June 2024
  • Windy & Carl - Drawing of Sound
    • "Lighthouse", "Whisper".
  • Hash Jar Tempo - Under Glass
  • The American Analog Set - Late One Sunday: Bliss Out v. 9
2 June 2024
  • Anders Ilar - Senare
  • The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ambient Sound
  • K. Leimer - Music For Land And Water
    • "Very Tired"
  • zakè & Wayne Robert Thomas - To Those Who Dwelt in a Land of Deep Darkness
1 June 2024
  • X.Y.R. - Quiet Time
  • X.Y.R. - Pilgrimage
  • Windy & Carl - Depths
    • I've not been able to fall asleep well without music playing lately, and this works for that well. Obsessed wtih this it. It's retaken its place as my midday nap album too.



31 May 2024
  • Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
    • "Stupid Puma", "Repeat Defender".
  • Circle - Prospekt
30 May 2024
  • Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
    • Enjoyed this much more than last time (about 7-8 years ago?). Enjoyed this more than The Buried Life this time.
  • 35007 - Liquid
29 May 2024
  • Being - Tides
  • Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
    • Partial. "A Short Happy Life", "Queen of Tension", "Christmas Song".
28 May 2024
  • The Detroit Escalator Co. – Black Buildings
  • Two Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down
  • Cranes - Future Songs
    • Gonna revisit. "Flute Song", "Sunset", "Fragile".
27 May 2024
  • Haruomi Hosono – Mercuric Dance
    • "Sea of Tau", "Windy Land".
  • One Dove - Morning Dove White
    • Continued from yesterday. "White Love (Guitar Paradise Mix)", "There Goes the Cure".
26 May 2024
  • Ulla & Ultrafog – It Means A Lot
  • Richard Chartier & William Basinski - Aurora Liminalis
  • Nelson Foltz And Tom Lynn – Volume Two
  • Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
  • Stereolab - Dots & Loops
25 May 2024
  • Casino Versus Japan - Go Hawaii
23 May 2024
  • Voodoo Child - The End of Everything
    • "Slow Motion Suicide", "Honest Love".
  • Matrix - Sleepwalk
    • "Junction"
  • CLOCKDVA – Post-Sign
22 May 2024
  • Various : Divination – Distill
    • Haruomi Hosono – "Ether Vibes", Tetsu Inoue – "Interlink".
  • Alter Ego - Alter Ego
    • "Atomic Playground"
  • Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica
    • "Shoal Beat", "Scuba Rondo", "Sandy Ground".
21 May 2024
  • Sensorama - Welcome Insel
    • Pretty damn good, actually!
20 May 2024
  • S Core - Pretension
19 May 2024
  • Taylor Deupre - Sti.ll
    • Surprised at how good this is. Parts of "Recur" actually sound glitched, and others sound like some kind of eastern European folk music. "Stil" is a gorgeous drone just like the original track, but with a definition and warmth the original lacked.
  • Taylor Deupree - Stil.
  • Moby - Play
    • Decided I'd finally give this a spin, feeling like I'd been missing something great after realizing his ambient stuff is solid. "Porcelain", supposedly the highlight of this guy's career (besides "Go", I guess), is OK. Mostly it's just like...bland dinner party downtempo with samples of folk and blues singers. "South Side" is also OK, but not better than I remember it being.
18 May 2024
  • Calypso Borealis - Ore Bowal
    • Sounds surprisingly more like something from LINE or 12K than from one of those weirdo cassette labels.
  • Looks like I'll be seeing Nilüfer in September.
  • Bare Minimum - Can't Cure The Nailbiters
    • "Luchuk", "Obviously Distracted My Love".
  • Seziki Tetrasheaf - Keys To Kishore
17 May 2024
  • Seziki Tetrasheaf - Keys To Kishore
    • Fucking wild trip of an album. A relentless attack of dripping, melting found sounds layered and fused. I enjoyed this much more than I expected to.
  • Seziki Tetrasheaf / Quiet Evenings – Seziki Tetrasheaf / Quiet Evenings
  • Pierrot Lunaire - Theme For Ascension and Eternal Love
  • Seziki Tetrasheaf - Clannad Matsoyu
16 May 2024
  • Emeralds - Grass Ceiling
  • Marble Sky - The Sad Return
  • Chihei Hatakeyama - Hachirogata Lake
  • Chihei Hatakeyama – Coastal Railroads In Memories
15 May 2024
  • Venn Rain - Humming Hills
  • Kane Pour - Wand in the Beak of the Yellow Bird
  • Dreamers Cloth - Ecstasy Waterfall
  • Earn - Hell On Earth
  • Labradford / Stars of the Lid - The Kahanek Incident Vol. 3
  • Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
  • Magic Sound Fabric - Uplift Drift
  • Celer - Jima
14 May 2024
  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Floating Weeds
  • M. Geddes Gengras - Enduring Doubt
  • Amen Dunes - Death Jokes
  • The Stars - Will
    • Maybe it would be better if I didn't understand the lyrics. "Orange Hour Circle".
13 May 2024
  • zakè - zakè
  • Taiga Remains - Vermillion Dusk
  • Tricorn and Queue - Continual Passage
  • Drunjus - On the Hells of Sleipnir
  • Super Minerals - Clusters
  • M. Geddes Gengras – Smoke Blower
  • Moby - Hotel : Ambient
    • I really enjoyed this. "Snowball", "Live Forever", "Aerial".
11 May 2024
  • Huerco S. - QTT4
10 May 2024
  • C.S. + Kreme - EP #2
    • Thought these guys were lame at first but they're growing on me.
8 May 2024
  • Terre Thaemlitz - Soil (last 3 tracks)
    • This is the...second time I've listened to this? I enjoyed "Elevatorium", "Trucker", and "Aging Core, Aging Periphery". I wonder how much the violent sociopolitical subtext would have registered with me had I not known anything about Terre Thaemlitz or her work prior to listening to this. Would I have noticed the voice clip about Charles Whitman? I definitely would have noticed "Cycles".
  • Terre Thaemlitz – Love For Sale - Taking Stock In Our Pride
    • Soft, burbling electronics and light drones occasionally pierced with loud noises - stuff I would have dug in college. I think I first listened to some of this (and barely paid attention to it) in late August 2018, preparing/dreading to go back to my midwestern university.
  • Koolfang - Jambient
    • "Koolfang"
  • The Mars Volta - Tremulant
7 May 2024
  • Terre Thaemlitz - Oh No! It's Rubato
    • Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V thoughts on Replicas Rubato.
  • Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum
  • Bernard Parmegiani's "L'Oeil ecoute"
  • Terre Thaemlitz - Soil (most)
6 May 2024
  • Manuel Gottsching - Die Mulde
    • Had the "Die Mulde" suite going through my head after listening to some of E2-E4 yesterday, specifically that mechanical chirping sound that sounds like the percussion from "Human Behavior". The beauty of "Hp Little Cry" apparently didn't hit me on my first listen.
  • Some of Pan Sonic's Kesto, which I'm starting to realize I don't really like after all. Some tracks on the second disc (like "Sykkivä") are good, and "Säteily" is nice, but whereas I would have really dug the silence-broken-up-by-the-occasinal-random-noise of the third disc in college, it just seems self-indulgent now, and I never really cared for "power noise" if it wasn't made by Esplendor Geometrico.
  • Macha – See It Another Way
    • "Salty", "The Nipplegong". The first half is so ebullient and eclectic, then the second half is ordinary post-rock. It's not bad, but it's a jarring contrast. Imagine reversing the sides. The second half just sounds like Macha Loved Bedhead - Bedhead Loved Macha.
  • Terre Thaemlitz - Replicas Rubato
    • Provoked by that interview with that bubbly German lady who seems weirdly American in speech and manner. Terre, also weirdly, reminds me of Louis CK in his humorous and casual delivery of his deep pessimism, and his incisive social critique that parallels his self-deprecation. He's kind of an anti-artist with contempt for lofty artistic ideals that sound pretty to package into slogans but are ultimately impractical and meaningless, or at least that's the impression I get and really admire.

      Now, while I like Thaemlitz' early ambient material, and still plan to give Oh No! It's Rubato, Soil, and his run of pseudo-conceptual electroacoustic-ambient-glitch albums a spin, I'm conflicted on this one. I love the general mood - a sheen of reverb makes even renditions of synthpop tunes sound plangent - but these interpretations just come off as cheap and sloppy. I think this came at a time when converting popular songs to sampled instruments via MIDI was a cheap cop-out; now it's a fun novelty. If these were live performances, rather than Terre plugging in the individual notes in a DAW, no doubt it'd sound better. But it's not impossible to scrape a pleasant, organic sound out of this technology - look at Drukqs.

5 May 2024
  • YBO² – Alienation
  • Well, Cindy Lee show is cancelled. Guess I'll just listen to the album?
  • Had a dream about Let The Tribe Increase, a weird dream involving a beach, red-tinted photographs of windows, and suffused with that album's somber mood. "Leave my world for my children; they didn't ask to be born".
4 May 2024
  • Kontakt Der Jünglinge - 1
  • Sakanoshita Norimasa, the sleeping beauty & Atsushi Hamada - Row the Haze
    • "empty playground part .1"
  • And reading The Rest Is Noise, skimming everything not about the modernists and the experimentalists.
  • Ligeti's Requiem.
  • Feldman's Rothko Chapel.
  • Toshifumi Hinata - Reality In Love
  • I was going to do something but I just spent the whole night listening to post- and neoclassical music.
3 May 2024
  • Matrix – Isolated Dot
    • "Isolated Dot", "Equator Music".
  • Florian T M Zeisig - Planet Inc
  • Koda - Movements
    • I somehow enjoyed this more on second listen.
  • Yello - Stella
    • "Koladi-Ola", "Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)".
2 May 2024
  • Radosław Kurzeja – Ogród Botaniczny W Palermo
  • Hex - Digital Love
  • Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
    • "Yellow Calx" sounds like it should be the penultimate track. I can't describe how, but penultimate tracks often have a particular tone, don't they?
  • Sky - Before
  • Radius - Interpolation Tapes [Restoration One]
  • Kontakt Der Jünglinge - 1
  • Kontakt Der Jünglinge - n
  • Transient Waves - Transient Waves
    • Didn't realize how much "Melted" sounds like Starts of the Lid before. "Soulspace" is still great.
1 May 2024
  • Matrix - Isthmus #Fast
    • Enjoyed.
  • Substance – Scent / Relish Sessions
  • Cassette [Pub] - One
  • Macha & Bedhead - Macha Loved Bedhead
    • "Only The Bodies Survive", "How Are Your Windows?".
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - Plankton



30 April 2024
  • Hallucinator – Black Angel
  • Hallucinator – Red Angel
    • Hallucinator's Black Angel and Red Angel 12"s. The title track of both tend toward the closest the duo come to traditional dub techno, albeit with their dark spin on the genre, while tracks like "Moonshot" and "Phebes" forgo the driving beats in favor of experimental admixtures of other dance genres. The latter might be the only track released on Chain Reaction that features an electric guitar.
  • Ridis – Triangle / Foto / Is # 10
    • "Foto"
  • Various Artists - Decay Product
    • "Erode"
28 April 2024
  • Bauri - Lakonia EP
    • Liking this a little more this time.
  • Heprcam - Cohcox
  • Tetsu Inoue - Yolo
  • Farben – Stuck EP
    • '"Oh Love, Well We Finally Made It"'
27 April 2024
  • Trentemøller - The Last Resort
    • TWA influence.
26 April 2024
  • The rest of John Maus - Songs
    • "And Heaven Turned To Her Weeping"
  • ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Source Tags & Codes
    • Kind of falling in love with the second half of this album, though it used to bore me. I'm trying to understand how something sound so boyish and refined at the same time. A comparison to Lowbrow art comes to mind - juvenility by way of technical skill and Baroque motifs.
25 April 2024
  • Most of John Maus' Songs, listened to while driving home at night.
24 April 2024
  • Donato Dozzy - K
  • John Maus - A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material
    • I must admit - I kind of dig it after all. "North Star", "Mental Breakdown", "Castles in the Grave", "Fish With Broken Dreams", "I Don't Eat Human Beings".
22 April 2024
  • Hello Meteor - Maps and Locations: Jaladri
  • Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding-jazz-records
  • Love - Forever Changes
    • Walking around the neighborhood in some kind of reverie. How did that happen?
  • Toshimaru Nakamura - No Input Mixing Board
  • Microstoria - _snd
21 April 2024
  • Rainer Bruninghaus - Continuum
    • Finished from yesterday. "Stille".
  • Christian Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke – It's Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry
20 April 2024
  • Haroumi Hosono - Omni Sight Seeing
    • "Orgone Box" definitely set a new weirdness bar for me.
19 April 2024
  • Myrakaru – Tammetõru
  • Various – Dub Restaurant: Menu Vol. 1
    • Ken Ishii – "The Last Moment", Nina-Noho – "Tempura".
  • YS - Perfumed Garden
    • "Peach Time", "Secret Isle".
  • Shinichi Atobe - Ship-Scope
17 April 2024
  • Nina-Noho - Ambient Classics 1990-1992
    • "Tempura"
  • Second disc of Headz (A Soundtrack Of Experimental Beathead Jams.)
  • Most of Dither - Summit, prompted by reading about a Laurie Spiegel and Dither show taking place in Philly in a few months. I might go. This guy has something.
16 April 2024
  • MPU101 – MPU101
15 April 2024
  • Steve Roach - Immersion : Three
    • Hypnotic.
  • Supreme Particles - Light As Skin
    • I liked Sectors A and B, with the flies and then the spring peepers.
  • Brian Eno - Reflection
  • Movietone - The Blossom Filled Streets
  • First disc of Headz (A Soundtrack Of Experimental Beathead Jams.)
    • Attica Blues' "Contemplating Jazz".
14 April 2024
  • Most of Bring Me the Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn - great tones.
13 April 2024
  • Sophia Zhuravkova - Interior Music 004
  • The Gerogerigegege - None Friendly
    • Some find this to be a difficult listen, but I find that once I put it on I can't turn it off 'til it's through.
  • Santilli - Interior Music 003
  • Body Corp - Interior Music 002
    • This has more of a '90s ambient-chillout feel to it. I noticed the metallic hammer-hit sound used in so many ambient techno tracks.
  • Most of the first half of Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
  • Valium Aggelein – Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond
    • "Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond". My strongest memory of this album is listening in my college dorm-apartment in Camden, falling asleep on a weekday (Friday?) afternoon while it stormed outside and the roommates sorrowed over the TV signal breaking up.
12 April 2024
  • Felt Body - Interior Music 006
  • Cousin - Interior Music 005
11 April 2024
  • Tetsu Inoue - Organic Cloud
  • Other Joe - Interior Music 008
  • Low Flung - Interior Music 007
    • 008 and 007 are just as good as my favorites from this series (mu tate's and X.Y.R.'s entries).
  • Polvo – This Eclipse
10 April 2024
  • Tetsu Inoue & Jonah Sharp - Electro Harmonix
9 April 2024
  • Gas - Zauberberg
  • CS + Kreme - EP #1
    • "Basic Instinct (Club Scene)"
  • Most of Abyuse's Echo soundtrack.
    • "Backstage (I)", "Backstage (II)", "When Your Arms Were Around Me"
8 April 2024
  • Nav Katze - Never Mind the Distortion II
    • "Ready To Go (The Gentle People Mix)"
  • Autechre - NTS Session 4
  • Bjork - Homogenic
7 April 2024
  • Labradford - E Luxo So
  • Polvo - Cor-Crane Secret
    • "Vibracobra", "Bend Or Break".
  • Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet
6 April 2024
  • Four Tet - Three
    • "Three Drums"
4 April 2024
  • Saccharine Trust – Surviving You, Always
    • "YHWH On Acid"
3 April 2024
  • eu - Nu)+(No
  • Croix du Sud - Croix du Sud
    • Reminds me of early Popol Vuh.
2 April 2024
  • Advantage Lucy – Oolt Cloud
    • "響かせて"
  • Robin Saville – Lore
  • Grandbruit – Grandbruit
  • Otto Lindholm - Alter
  • Lawrence - Lawrence
  • 23 Skidoo – Seven Songs
  • Killing Joke - What's THIS For...! (except for the last 3 tracks)
    • "The Fall of Because", "Unspeakable".
1 April 2024
  • Minilogue - Animals
    • "In a Distance", "Old Water", "City Lights".



31 March 2024
  • Sister Irene O'Connor - Fire of God's Love
    • "Mass - 'Emmanuel'"
  • Soul Capsule - Overcome
  • Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
    • "Parade", "Forgetting".
30 March 2024
  • Minilogue - Blomma (second half)
    • "E De Nån Hemma?"
  • .O.Rang - Fields & Waves
29 March 2024
  • Sturm - Sturmgesten
  • Minilogue - Blomma (1/2)
    • "Nor Coming Nor Going"
28 March 2024
  • Phoenecia - Echelon Mall
  • Brighter Death Now - Necrose Evangelicum
    • "Necrose Evangelicum"
  • Velehentor - Dyatlov's Pass
27 March 2024
  • Thanet - System
  • Loscil - Alta
  • Folder - New Path
    • Remember listening to this in June 2020. It's amazing how much of my twenties I spent not working a regular job. I used to be ashamed of that, now I'm grateful.
26 March 2024
  • Koronba - Rain
  • Snoweffect - Desktop Caffeine
25 March 2024
  • Brian Eno - New Space Music
  • Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ambient Sound
  • Most of Kevin Drumm's Imperial Distortion.
  • Clayflower - Still
    • Dangerously sensitive '90s radio rock - Jars of Clay, Goo Goo Dolls, Live, etc...
24 March 2024
  • Phew - Phew
    • "Signal", "Dream".
  • Labradford / Stars Of The Lid – The Kahanek Incident - Volume 3
    • Growing on me.
  • Pteranodon - Pteranodon 2
  • 1958-2009 - 1958-2009 II
  • Sade - Love Deluxe
    • "No Ordinary Love", "Cherish the Day", "Mermaid".
22 March 2024
  • T.Power – The Self Evident Truth Of An Intuitive Mind
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - Insen
  • Them Airs - Echo Park Bomb City
    • "Leaning Together". Rest is rather over-inspired.
21 March 2024
  • Tholen - Sternklang
  • Giancarlo Toniutti - La Mutazione
  • Ayami Suzuki - Vista
20 March 2024
  • Combustible Edison - The Impossible World
    • Last couple of tracks. I was really not into this last night, but now I am. I love the loungey metropolitan sound of "Laura's Aura". It reminds me of a cocktail party among swoopy midcentury furniture and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out onto a vibrantly lit metropolis.
  • Steve Roach - Immersion : Two
  • Koolfang - Jambient
    • "Koolfang"
19 March 2024
  • Barnard's Star - Barnard's Star
  • Labradford - Labradford
  • Do Make Say Think – Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead
    • "Goodbye Enemy Airship", the beginning of "Minmin" is great. Don't like how most of the tracks start quiet and suddenly get loud.
  • Most of Do Make Say Think's debut ()
  • Hualun - An Elephant Sitting Still
    • About a hundred times happier than the film itself.
18 March 2024
  • Quickspace - Quickspace
    • The US version with "Rise" at the front and "Friend" at the back. I can't believe I thought this was boring the first time I heard it. Maybe it was the environment - driving on an endless highway through the woods.
  • Bluetile Lounge - Lowercase
  • Telstar Drugs - Sonatine
  • Peter Jeffries - Substatic
    • "Damage"
17 March 2024
  • Mary O'Hara - Songs of Ireland
    • "Óró Mo Bháidín"
16 March 2024
  • Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls
    • "Love's Labour's Lost", "This Endris Night".
15 March 2024
  • Koyil - Healing Cycles
    • The first "A Glimmer of Light".
  • Hoavi - Posle Vsego
    • Strangely comfortable. "Posle Vsego"
  • Deerhunter - Cryptograms
    • I didn't enjoy this in summer 2016 as much as I'm enjoying it now. "Octet", "Providence", "Cryptograms".
  • Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
    • Sadly, I didn't enjoy this as much as I did in summer 2016. Standout tracks are still "In Harmony Newfound Freedom", "Two Girls Kissing", and "Sunn".
  • Tried about half of Efdemin's s/t, didn't really care for it. Not as big on that nocturnal minimal techno style as I was in college. "Stately, Yes" is good though.
10 March 2024
  • Sonic Youth - Anagrama
    • Longtime like.
  • Ought - Sun Coming Down
    • "It's a very astute observation, if I do say so myself". "Men For Miles", "Sun's Coming Down", "Beautiful Blue Sky", "Celebration".
  • Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
    • "It's the most beautiful thing you'll ever see, and yet you walk past it all the time on your way to work."
7 March 2024
  • Six By Seven - The Things We Make
    • "European Me"
  • Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
    • "Dazed and Confused"
6 March 2024
  • Mixmaster Morris & Jonah Sharp - Quiet Logic
  • Monte / Magnétophonique Split
5 March 2024
  • Various Telstar Drugs things. Had "Weather Underground" stuck in my head all day. Also some Long Long Long and Gretchen.
  • Yo La Tengo – The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science
    • "Hyas And Stenorhynchus", "How Some Jellyfish Are Born".
  • Cold Pumas - Persistent Malaise
    • "A Versatile Gift", "Variety Lights", "Puce Moment".
4 March 2024
  • Wagon Christ - Musipal
    • First listen through since Jan 2016. "Bend Over", "Tomach", "Thick Stew", "Musipal".
  • Boards of Canada - Hi Scores
3 March 2024
  • Mercury Rev – All Is Dream
  • Deerhunter - Microcastle
  • Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont.
    • Never really paid attention to this one. It's good! "Operation", "Slow Swords".
2 March 2024
  • Cherubs – Short Of Popular
    • "Carjack Fairy", "Chanukka".
  • Nav Katze - Out
  • Deerhuter - Fluorescent Grey
  • Breaking Circus - The Very Long Fuse
  • Deerhunter - Microcastle
    • Been almost a 9 years since I listened to this album. I enjoyed it more than I expected upon revisit, even though I've never been big on Deerhunter besides a few songs off Halcyon Digest. Even though I've never fully enojyed this album, I still get that nostalgic warmth from it. "Neither Of Us, Uncertainly" especially. "Twilight At Carbon Lake", "Neither Of Us, Uncertainly".
1 March 2024
  • Wagon Christ - At Atmos
  • Bloodthirsty Butchers – kocorono
  • New Order - Substance
    • "Ceremony", "True Faith".
  • Love Spirals Downwards – Ardor
    • Damn good album I've been ignoring on the whole for too long, though "Sunset Bell" is a longtime afternoon nap favorite. "Sidhe", "Write In Water", "Sunset Bell". Will have to revisit Idylls and Flux.



29 February 2024
  • My Bloody Valentine - Tremolo EP
  • Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 2350 Broadway 2.
    • I used to fall asleep to this at a very low volume. It's the exact vein of space ambient I love; spacious, calm, and slightly dark. Almost as good as 62 Eulengasse.
28 February 2024
  • Wagon Christ – Rissalecki EP
    • "How You Really Feel"
  • Maki Fujii Assembled – Deviation From System
27 February 2024
  • Organization – Anthology 1988-1995
    • "Hope", "Soft Space".
  • Wagon Christ - Throbbing Pouch
    • Particularly fond of "E-Z Listener" and "Yeah" this evening.
  • Wagon Christ – At Atmos
    • Realizing this is tacked onto that Max Carper playlist on YT...it's a great EP, didn't know it existed, thought these tracks were just bonuses of Throbbing Pouch.
26 February 2024
  • Motohiko Hamase - Intaglio
    • "Lung", "Intaglio".
  • Freddie Hubbard - First Light
25 February 2024
  • Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
  • Coroner - Mental Vortex
  • Vektor - Terminal Redux
24 February 2024
  • Coroner - Grin
23 February 2024
  • Lovetrip - Shift Patterns
  • Solipsism – Apocrypha (Book One)
  • Bernd Kistenmacher – Head-Visions
    • "La Tendresse"
22 February 2024
  • Igneous Flame – NYX
  • Long Long Long - A Girl Drinking Orange Juice Feels Acids On The Sides Of Her Tongue. She Also Smells Citric Aromas And Feels The Wetness And Cold.
  • Long Long Long - Shorts
  • LOC-NAR – Hotter Water
  • A Country Western – A Country Western
  • Gretchen - Oblique Contours
  • Brave Radar – Lion Head
  • Lovetrip - Shift Patterns
    • Enjoying. Will revisit and/or buy.
21 February 2024
  • Diatonis – The Convolving Universe
    • "Aurora"
20 February 2024
  • Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
    • "Son Of Mr. Green Genes"
  • Gretchen - Gretchen
19 February 2024
  • Land - Opuscule
    • Growing on me. The opener and closer.
  • M. Geddes Gengras - Enduring Doubt
  • Alio Die - Tempus Rei
18 February 2024
  • Softlight Reveries - Softlight Reveries
    • Not bad. Hits the vaguely tropical Blogspot-ambient spot.
  • Skullflower - Form Destroyer
  • Terminal Cheesecake - Angels In Pigtails
    • "Unhealing Wound"
17 February 2024
  • Rei Harakami - Red Curb
    • "Put Off". It's amazing how little Harakami's style changed between 1997 and 2005.
  • Omni Gardens - Golden Pear
    • '80s revival mystical-new age-synth music, reminds me of Pauline Anna Strom and peers.
  • Mercury Rev – See You On The Other Side
    • Never was interested in checking out this album until I listened to an interview where he talks about it at length, and describes his great disappointment in the lukewarm reception and feeling of self-consciousness in its wake. It's interesting when artists describe their work as being a part of them, as opposed to those who reject the notion that the art is reflective of the artist. Anyway, he mentioned how he believed "Everlasting Arm" to be a "top 10 single", crazy as it is. Though it definitely is transitional, it's not really a big nadir between their two big eras. I suppose part of the reason I finally decided to spin it is that a lot of folks call it as their best; those, I suppose, who believe it's the peak of their classic psych rock era.
16 February 2024
  • Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough
15 February 2024
  • Squarepusher - Hello Everything
    • Prompted by Fantano's Tom Jenkinson interview in which the artist showed himself to be much more down to earth (and of a much deeper voice) than I expected, I decided on a complete whim to listen to this. I enjoyed it much more than I expected (what I expected was 63 minutes of brainless hardcore breakbeats). It's probably his second best, in fact. "Planetarium", "Rotate Electrolyte".
  • Airsculpture - Thunderhead
  • Rei Harakami - Unrest
  • Nav Katze – Gentle & Elegance
  • Synectics – The Purple Universe
    • Lost but good bit of ambient techno (ambient house?). "Free Sphere" and "Natural" are my favorites, which I heard on Synectic's/Ono's Promo EP back in 2020.
14 February 2024
  • Autolux - Future Perfect
  • Acetone - Acetone EP
    • "For A Few Dollars More", "Cindy".
  • Acetone - Acetone
    • "All the Time"
  • Acetone - If You Only Knew

13 February 2024
  • M. Geddes Gengras - Enduring Doubt
  • Terekke – Plant Age
    • "Swim"
  • Glo Phase - Blink
    • "Seaflowers" sounds like Khotin. A lot of this sounds like Khotin.
  • Saphileaum – Exploring Together
  • Miradasvacas - Of No Fixed Abode
    • Enjoyed.
  • Alio Die - Aura Seminalis
    • I listened to this during an afternoon nap. During my nap, my grandmother died at 14:30.
  • Autechre - Anti EP
    • "Flutter"
12 February 2024
  • Saccharine Trust – We Became Snakes (Side B)
    • "Effort to Waste", of course!
  • Pat Metheny Group - Offramp
    • "Au Lait"
  • Unbroken - Life.Love.Regret.
  • Faux Fur – Faux Fur
11 February 2024
  • Botch - American Nervoso
  • Saccharine Trust – We Became Snakes (Side A)
10 February 2024
  • A vast majority of Daniel Pemberton's Bedroom, which I enjoyed.
9 February 2024
  • Gastr Del Sol – Camoufleur
    • "Eureka" now stuck in my head.
8 February 2024
  • Higher Intelligence Agency - Freefloater
    • A classic I somehow overlooked completely, possibly because I didn't quite care for Colourform and just ignored the rest of their albums. I ought to break that habit - with these '90s IDM/ambient techno artists, once you've heard one, you really haven't heard them all; many of them progress stunningly from album to album. Update: it has come to my attention that I listened to this album on 17 December 2019.
  • Voafose - Voafose
    • Ominous synth noodling with interludes consisting of samples from old British radio and TV programs. Surprisingly good.
  • Michael Speers - Ground Drum
  • CS + Kreme - EP #1
7 February 2024
  • Aphex Twin - Collapse
    • Another new Aphex EP I completely ignored when it was released. Pretty good.
6 February 2024
  • AFX & Luke Vibert - Orphans
    • Early sunny morning AFX listening. "Spiral Staircase".
  • Freddie Hubbard - First Light
    • Hot damn this is good.
  • Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
5 February 2024
  • Haroumi Hosono - N.D.E.
    • "Teaching Of Sphinx", "Heliotherapy", "Edge of the End".
  • Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
    • Must be over 7 years since I listened to this album. "1/2".
  • Warp - We Are Reasonable People
    • AFX and Squarepusher's "Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid" and BoC's "Orange Romeda".
4 February 2024
  • TheMikeFlowersPops Meets TheAphexTwin – The Freebase Connection
    • "Debase (Soft Palate)" is obviously the superior remix here. The others just sound like new tracks with the original haphazardly sampled in, which is essentially what makes a remix bad, except the Funki Porcini and Perry De Chico tracks are decent. But again, there's a difference between remixing a track and simply sampling it.
  • Most of Superchunk - Foolish; I've completely fallen in love with "Saving My Ticket".
3 February 2024
  • Kinesthesia - Empathy Box
    • "Plasmoid", "Triachus", "Flicklife".
2 February 2024
  • Jocelyn Pook - Flood
    • "Masked Ball"
  • K. Leimer - Music for Land and Water
    • "Very Tired"
  • Cylob - Mood Bells
    • "After The Soup"
1 February 2024
  • The Cure - Lost Wishes
  • Motohiko Hamase - Reminiscence
    • "Tree"
  • Yoshio Ojima – Une Collection Des Chaînons I: Music For Spiral
    • The one with the laugh track and the one playing around halfway through. "Esplanade (Live)" and "Flius"(?).
  • Les McCann - Invitation to Openness



31 January 2024
  • Aril Brikha - Deeparture In Time
  • Sean Deason - Allegory & Metaphor
    • Listened just after the above album. Very similar in terms of aesthetic - sonic and visual - but I prefer the former. "Allegory & Metaphor (Revisited)".
  • Chick Corea - Return to Forever
30 January 2024
  • 小本生燈 [xsgacha] - 冇有形狀
  • Hirono Nishiyama - 回旋塔 [Kaisentou]
29 January 2024
  • Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
28 January 2024
  • Steve Roach - Quiet Music 1
  • Rei Harakami - Lust
  • Mari Hamada - Amu Onna
27 January 2024
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura – 環境演出音
    • Only "Terrace 3"
  • The Gentle People - Soundtracks for Living
  • K. Yoshimatsu - Spherical Voyage
    • I like the last track, with the loud, metallic clanging. No, really, I do!
  • Shinsuke Honda - Silence
26 January 2024
  • Nav Katze - Gentle & Elegance
    • "Happy", "Ready to Go", "Gentle & Elegance". Also, that Ae track is great. Only catch is the Gentle People remix of "Ready to Go" is much better than the version included here.
  • Harry Kawahara - Shaman: Digital Mushroom
  • Black Rain - 1.0
  • Panasist – 星空のパナシスト
25 January 2024
  • Nozawa Mica – Serious Garden
    • "Velvet Riot"
  • Fred Giannelli - Telepathic Romance
  • Harry Kawahara - Shaman: Digital Mushroom
  • Kumiko Takahashi – Pokkowa Pa?
    • "Riyuu ga Omoitsukanai"
  • Lithops - Uni Umit
24 January 2024
  • Section 25 - Always Now
    • "Babies In The Bardo"
  • Akira Shibuya - La Mar
    • "Waiting For The Dawn"
  • Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
23 January 2024
  • Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
22 January 2024
  • Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms
    • "Digital", "Mad Cat".
21 January 2024
  • Polyrock - Changing Hearts
    • "Like Papers On A Rack"
  • Polyrock - Above The Fruited Plain
    • They really took an '80s cheese direction on this. "Working On My Love".
  • Chrome - 3rd From The Sun
    • "Future Ghosts"
    • "Off the Line"
  • The Gordons - The Gordons
    • "Coalminers Song"
  • Pylon - Gyrate
    • "Weather Radio", "Working Is No Problem".
  • Tolerance - Divin
    • Oh so crisp and clear. The drums are in my ears. "Bokw Wa Zurui Robot (Stolen From Kad)".
  • Ramleh - Hole in the Heart
    • Cassette version. Long CD version is still in my queue.
20 January 2024
  • Polyrock - Polyrock
  • DJ Rashad - Double Cup
    • Dope. "Feelin", "Double Cup", "Drank, Kush, Barz".
18 January 2024
  • Last 10 min of Tropic Of Cancer – The End Of All Things. Penultimate track, "Awake", is pretty good.
  • Heavenly Bodies - Medium
  • Conrad Schnitzler - Eruption
  • Ro70 - Ro 70
    • "Einklang", "Alma", "Künstlicher Ausklang", "Ballon Above Java".
  • Yas-Kaz – Jomon-Sho
    • "Respite Of The Bows & Arrows"
17 January 2024
  • Picture Music - Picture Music
  • About 3/4 of Tropic Of Cancer – The End Of All Things, but I didn't really like anything beyond the first three tracks.
  • J. Derwort - Bamboo
16 January 2024
  • Tropic of Cancer - Restless Idylls
  • Cocteau Twins - Treasure
  • Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
15 January 2024
  • Biosphere – Microgravity (last 27 min)
14 January 2024
  • To Rococo Rot - The Amateur View
    • "I Am In The World With You", "A Little Asphalt Here And There", "Telema".
  • Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978 - 1992
    • Piry Reis - "O Sol Na Janela"
    • Anno Luz - "Por Quê"
    • Andréa Daltro - "Kiuá"
    • Maria Rita - "Cântico Brasileiro No. 3 (Kamaiurá)"
  • Biosphere – Microgravity (first 20 min)
13 January 2024
  • Dregs - Dregs
    • "Underwater (Dub)"
  • Hello Meteor - Maps and Locations: Jaladri (2024)
11 January 2024
  • The Doors - Strange Days
    • "Love Me Two Times", "People Are Strange".
  • Some Cocteau EPs. Aikea-Guinea is probably my favorite.
  • Tropic of Cancer - Archive: The Downwards Singles
    • "The Dull Age"
10 January 2024
  • Chi - The Bamboo Recordings
  • Norken & _Nyquist - MOA052
9 January 2024
  • Yura Yura Teikoku – Hollow Me
    • "Dekinai", "Tender Animals".
  • Yura Yura Teikoku – Beautiful
    • "なんとなく夢を"
  • Darksmith - Total Vacuum
    • "Everything Is Breaking"
8 January 2024
  • Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake
  • Fountain - Fountain 2
  • Most of James Ferraro's Cruisin' The Nightbiker Strip 1977
  • Long Long Long - Leftovers
    • "George Harrison"
  • Long Long Long - A Girl Drinking Orange Juice Feels Acids On The Sides Of Her Tongue. She Also Smells Citric Aromas And Feels The Wetness And Cold.
  • Gretchen - Gretchen
  • Friendo - Cold Toads
  • Grass Cannons - Vet Dream
  • Cold Pumas - Persistent Malaise
    • "Variety Lights", "Puce Moment".
  • Röövel Ööbik – Popsubterranea
7 January 2024
  • Motohiko Hamase – ♯Notes Of Forestry
    • "Nude"
6 January 2024
  • Martin Dupont - Just Because
    • "Just Because", "Bent At the Window".
  • Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
5 January 2024
  • Dimitar Dodovski - MOA134
    • Random pick from Bandcamp sort-by-new. Pretty good.
  • TV-99-AD - Recaffeinated EP
  • Dimitar Dodovski - MOA121
  • Naemi – Tenebre
  • Motohiko Hamase – Intaglio
    • "Lung"
  • Babes In Toyland - Bruise Violet EP
4 January 2024
  • About 3/4 of Martin Dupont's Just Because.
  • I am also amazed to admit that I love Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
3 January 2024
  • Maurizio Bianchi - The Second Death
  • Seigen Ono – Seigén
    • "Kumo No Sokudo"
1 January 2024
  • Forest Management - Passageways
    • This is the first full album I listened to this year, but it's not the first music I listened to. No, that honor goes to the song "Bottom Rung" by Nite Jewel, which I loved.
  • Nite Jewel - Good Evening
    • "Bottom Rung", "Suburbia", "What Did He Say".
  • The Future Sound Of London - Cascade
  • Bauri - Lakonia EP

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