Journal
29 November 2025
- Deep Space Network meets Higher Intelligence Agency – Deep Space Network meets Higher Intelligence Agency
- "Chai" is on another level.
- Taylor Deupree – Weather & Worn
- Suzanne Kraft – What You Get For Being Young
- CV & JAB – Klima
- Christmas – In Excelsior Dayglo
- Lubricated Goat – Paddock of Love
- "Funeral On A Spit", "Broken Glass".
- Lubricated Goat – Meating My Head / 20th Century Rake
- 3 Chairs – 3 Chairs
- Pariah – Detroit Falls / Orpheus
- In Sync + Pluto – Ratcatcher EP
- Seefeel – (Ch-Vox) (Redux tracks)
- Tadashi Kamada – After Music
- Terekke – Improvisational Loops
- X.Y.R. – QTT7
- Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook – The Dark Side Of The Moog Vol. 1 - "Wish You Were There"
- Late autumn night listen, for old times' sake.
- Tu M' – Monochromes Volume 1
- Steve Roden – Air Forms
- Glassy, somewhat ominous drones accompanies by scraping sounds. Sounds like that winter level in DKC. I like it!
- Jakob Ullmann – Fremde Zeit Addendum 5
- Seefeel – (Ch-Vox)
- Simão Simões – Strel
- Manic, noisy glitch-dm from Portugal. Was drawn to the pretty minimalistic cover art. "liu"
- Oval – Dok
- Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement – Ambient Black Magic
- The American Analog Set – The Fun Of Watching Fireworks
- "Diana Slowburner II", "Gone to Earth", "Too Tired to Shine II".
- The American Analog Set – The Golden Band
- "A Good Friend Is Always Around", "New Drifters III", "I Must Soon Quit The Scene".
- Chris Korda – Apologize to the Future
- Sparse, cold synthpop. Literate and fucking incisive. Not to mention the rhymes. "Apologize to the Future", "Singularity".
- Dream Dolphin - One Love, One Truth
- Diatonis – The Convolving Universe
- Heat Sureens – The Beast At Peace
- Caribou – Start Breaking My Heart
- The deluxe 2xCD version, baby. "People Eating Fruit", "Brandon", "218 Beverly", "Anna and Nina".
- Cupol – Like This For Ages
- The reissue with 3 bonus tracks. A side is just that kind of obnoxious stream of consciousness shouting and erratic instrument banging/strumming that was popular with "experimental" '80s groups. "Kluba Cupol" is nice, and it's interesting that although it has stereotypically "tribal" rhythms, it has the same kind of textures (as in, the actual sound of the drums and synth drones in the background) as a typical minimal wave/post-punk album of its time, everything is short-release and echoey and electronic sounding, doesn't sound at all natural, like some kind of cyberpunk fire dance.
- Giancarlo Toniutti – La Mutazione
- Shabah – 1 (1/2)
- "3"
- Vladislav Delay – Multila
- "Raamat"
- Excepter – Throne
- Charles Hayward / Gigi Masin – Les nouvelles musiques de chambre 2
- "Clouds"
- Glifted – Under And In
- "The Scare", "The Ground", "Red Lift".
- Theater 1 – Theater 4
- Theater 1 – Theater 5
- Theater 1 – Theater 6
- Lowercase – The Going Away Present
- µ-Ziq – Manzana
- Not bad, just...kinda boring? "Distant Storm".
- uon – uon
- Candy Claws – Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time
- "Transitional Bird", "Fallen Tree Bridge".
- Candy Claws – Two Airships / Exploder Falls
- I love Sweet Trip
- All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors – Straight Blue Line
- "Repetitive Monotonous", "Catcher", "The Number Knows Its Name".
- HTRK – Psychic 9-5 Club
- 暗い自然 – 氷床 Earth
- K2 – Silicon Oasis
- White Rainbow – Sea Thru
- Lambent – These Days
- Cabaret Voltaire – Three Mantras
- "Western Mantra"
- Abigor – Fractal Possession
- Factrix – Scheintot
- Pretty good guitar-based industrial. Good bassslines too.
- Bug Bus Piano – Jurassic Period Dishwasher
- "Fare Evade", "Remember Old Phone Number".
- Saqqara Dogs – Thirst
- Pretty good. This is billed as rock (psychedelic rock? post-punk?), and it is but only insofar as it's got the instruments and sound palette of rock, but the rhythms are totally tribal-industrial. t's as much a rock album as 23 Skidoo's early albums are. Some of it sounds like '90s industrial rock.
- Cabaret Voltaire – Groovy, Laidback And Nasty
- It's not good, but it's not that bad either. "Searchin'".
- Red Stars Theory – Life In A Bubble Can Be Beautiful
- "Parts Per Million", "An Alarm Goes Off".
- Hallucinator – Landlocked
- Eliane Radigue – Kyema
- William Basinski – Vivian and Ondine
- William Basinski + Richard Chartier – Aurora Liminalis
- Acid Eagle – Acid Eagle
- It's great.
- Torus – 333 Mirrors
- More Eaze – Eternity
- The Necks – Aether
- Yuko Imada - Untitled (Moon)
- Stephan Mathieu – Remain
- Wagon Christ – Musipal
- John Hudak – Pond
- Ow. "Pond".
- John Hudak – Room With Sky
- Of Cabbages and Kings – Face
- Swervedrver – Raise
- Yaaay. "Pile-Up", "Rave Down", "Sunset", "Sandblasted".
- Sonic Youth – Anagrama
- Coil – Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc
- Manuel Göttsching – E2-E4
- Current 93 – Music From The Horse Hospital
- Leyland Kirby – We Are in the Shadow of a Distant Fire
- Bowery Electric – Beat
- Vidna Obmana – Landscape In Obscurity
- Virtual Dream Plaza – Wuxian kewang
- Brian Eno – Discreet Music
- Nelson Foltz & Tom Lynn – Still Life Vol. 2
- Laraaji – Essence / Universe
- The Necks – Bleed
- Bügsküll – Phantasies and Senseitions
- "Shorty", "Elfin Magic", "Old Towne", "Concave Life".
- Konrad Schnitzler – Grün
- ELpH vs. Coil - Worship The Glitch
- "Opium Hum", "Hydlepark".
- Paul Bradley – Sophia Drifts
- Virtual Dream Plaza – Yi jian zhong qing
- Coil Vs The Eskaton – Nasa-Arab / First Dark Ride
- Swept – Cult Desire
- "First Light in the East/Well-Adjusted"
- The Dils – 198 Seconds of The Dils
- X – Adult Books
- Die Haut – Head On
- The Bags – Survive
31 October 2025
- Coil – The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex
- "Theme From The Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex", "Nasa-Arab".
- N1_Sound – Mantras
- The Durutti Column – Vini Reilly
- "Love No More", "William B".
- Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball
- "Where Will I Be", "Wrecking Ball".
- Li Jianhong – San Sheng Shi
- Darkstar – North
- "Deadness", "Aidy's Girl Is A Computer".
- Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather
- "0°C".
- Harco Pront – Jibberish
- "Inhale", "Osaka Tom".
- Wagon Christ – Planet Roll
- Take that, you bitch. "Bitch". Also "I'm Sorry" samples that on song from the SB soundtrack?
- Loidis – One Day
- "Why Do"
- Andrew Pekler – Sounds From Phantom Islands
- Coil – Megalithomania!
- Some of their best in terms of pure instrumentals. Fits snugly in with their late-stage discog with longform ambient pieces.
- Coil - Horse Rotorvator
- "Slur"
- Throbbing Gristle – Part Two: The Endless Not
- "Rabbit Snare"
- The Durutti Column – Obey the Time
- I was expecting Vini noodling to really cheap sounding house, but it's not far off from his previous albums. Some obvious house/acid/dance influences, but it's not overbearing. "Home", "Spanish Reggae". Some of it is crap though...
- Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve – Filia Sion
- Coil – ...And The Ambulance Died In His Arms
- "A Slip In The Marylebone Road"
- The Auteurs – After Murder Park
- And it's absurd / A silver bird / Could have a fear of flying at all. This album/band is slowly growing on me, but I've been mildly obsssing over "Child Bride" for the past couple of months since I heard it at the gym over the summer.
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – Bob Dinners And Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
- I'd almost consider this album incredible. It's really great. It's wacky and weird but it's packed with catchy hooks and riffs, which is a great combo in my book. It's what sets them apart from other "experimental rock" bands - they can actually write songs, a lot of which move you. Some songs sound multiple songs in one, each one equally moving. "El Cerrito" and "Holy Ghost" didn't stick to me on my first listen but, goddamn, they are great. Some of it almost sounds like renaissance music. "The Barker" sounds like it's alternating between two different songs but flows perfectly, and Mark Davies' Carl Wheezer impression and satirical lyrics make for a memorable vocal hook. "He Keeps Himself Fed" was the one that stuck with me on my first listen; it's another track that sounds like at least 3 different songs in one, starting with a passage approximating a '70s stoner metal jam before fading into a burbling drone, which then gives way to a drumless alt rock dirge in which Anne, as usual, delivers poignant lyrics with a captivating melody. I'll have to jump for this next BC Friday.
- maudlin of the Well – Bath
- Dan Abrams – Stream
- "Mr. Fish"
- D. Haines – Emo
- Xinlisupreme – Tomorrow Never Comes
- Brian Eno – Another Green World
- The Auteurs – New Wave
- "Idiot Brother"
- Close Lobsters – Foxheads Stalk This Land
- "A Prophecy", "Foxheads".
- Lloyd Cole And The Commotions – Rattlesnakes
"Perfect Skin" - Bryan Ferry – Boys And Girls
- "Windswept", "The Chosen One".
- Meat Puppets – Out My Way
- "Other Kinds Of Love", "Not Swimming Ground".
- Virgo – Landform Code
- TV Victor – Timeless Deceleration
- Kevin Drumm – Imperial Horizon
- Kevin Drumm – June
- The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed
- Waaaay more orchestral than I expected. "Tuesday Afternoon" is far more rock/pop and radio-friendly than the rest (except for "Evening"). I listened to that (without "Time To Get Away") repeatedly in middleschool, so the association is bittersweet. "Nights In White Satin" is pretty good.
- Prefab Sprout – From Langley Park to Memphis
- "Hey Manhattan!", "Knock On Wood", "The Holden Calf".
- The Church – Starfish
- Meat Puppets – Up on the Sun
- Polyrock – Polyrock
- a big thank you to 19-year-old me for having fantastic taste and uploading this full album to youtube. also, happy birthday to me!
- Satisfact – The Unwanted Sounds Of
- "It Will Never Happen"
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- Ian O'Brien – Eden EP
- "Midday Sunshine"
- Cymbals – Sine
- "Satellite Sings", "Higher Than The Sun", "Star Collector", "Glide", "Endless, Endless".
- Bugskull – Communication
- This has been in the outer orbits of my musical palate since early college. There's some gorgeous stuff here, especially in the second half.
- Digital Natives / Seziki Tetrasheaf Split
- "Ramble, ramble", "Causeways".
- Freak Heat Waves – Freak Heat Waves
- Nag Dolly / Digital Natives Split
- ...:)
- Emeralds – Allegory of Allergies (second half)
- Querida – Object Orient EP (half)
- Advantage Lucy – 杏の季節
- "Melody Apartment"
- Most of Tonstartssbandht – Petunia
- Jigging Pew – Squawroot Bandicle
- Yukihiro Fukutomi – Love Vibes
- It's cool that he covered "The Space Between", but overall it's pretty ignorable.
- Emeralds – Allegory of Allergies
- First half. "Nereus (Spirits Over the Lake)".
- Tujiko Noriko – Shojo Toshi
- Grew on me. "Tokyo", "Mannequin Surfer".
- Coil – Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1
- Prefab Sprout – Swoon
- Pretty good! Never gave this a try before. I like the weird structures, and the way he sings here, it's like he's trying to hit a lower register but can't quite. Bass is great too. "Don't Sing", "Cue Fanfare".
- Speedometer. – Private
- Chill Japanese downtempo from the millennial, jazzy with hints of dnb. Not bad, but a bit nondescript. Feels like background music for a hip clothing store in some mall. I liked "Walk".
- K. Yoshimatsu – Marine Crystal
- I was pretty harsh on this before, but it's really not that bad. "Atoll Paradise".
- Pontiac Streator – Triz
- Bought/listened to this when it first came out, but now it's really growing on me. "Triz Cohors pt. 3", "Trizlang Gem".
- Alio Die – Aura Seminalis
- Several tracks off Circulation – Colours.
- Daniel Bell – The Button Down Mind Of Daniel Bell
- Trona – Trona
- Interrupting my slick tech house programmnig to listen to this absurdly obscure indie rock album from 1996, which I found on a blog called..."Pee-Pee Soaked Heckhole" who mentioned that they played alongside Stereolab during the latter's earliest US shows. Thought what the hell. Not too interesting overall, some very X-inspired portions, otherwise sounds like those '80s bands on Homestead making country-inflected alt rock (like Eleventh Dream Day, Mofungo, Antietam, etc.). I must say, "Wow And Flutter" sounds very natural in their sound.
- Santilli – Tidal
- Pleasant listen on a calm October afternoon.
- Pierrot Lunaire – Theme for Ascension and Eternal Love
- The Gerogerigegege – Sexual Behavior In The Human Male
30 September 2025
- Jake Muir – Mana
- Mary Hansen – Hybird
- Klaus Wiese – Maquam
- Klaus Wiese – The Rosenberg Tapes
- Klaus Wiese – Maquam
- Oohpoi – Mare Vaporum
- Schema – Schema
- "We Think We're Sane"
- Fergus Jones – Ephemera
- "Heap", "It Should Be (Free)", "A Leap".
- Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
- Sun Electric / Schizophrenia – Tresor 3
- ...And The Native Hipsters – There Goes Concorde Again...
- "Mr Magic", "Stuck", "Freedom".
- Dinosaurs With Horns – Dinosaurs With Horns
- "Merge", "Sabertine's Country", "Do It Now", "Absinthe".
- Deadbeat – Wild Life Documentaries
- Deadbeat – Something Borrowed, Something Blue
- Deadbeat – Primordia
- Yu Su – Yellow River Blue
- "Futuro"
- Lucy – Cooper B. Handy's Album Vol. I
- "Break Even"
- Hype Williams – One Nation
- "Ital"
- Lucy – Cooper B. Handy's Album Vol. 7
- "Going Under"
- The Legendary Pink Dots – Brighter Now
- "Louder After 6", "Apocalypse Then", "Soma Bath".
- De Leon – De Leon
- B1
- Stereolab was good. Very energetic and jammy. About 2 hours before the show I saw Andy Ramsay entering a brewpub next to the venue but didn't recognize him. The venue wouldn't let me bring a bottle of water in because we live in a fascist state. About half of their setlist was from their new album, including an 11-minute rendition of "Melodie Is a Wound". Nothing from TRNBWA (:/), MAQ or Cobra and Phases Group, but they did play "Peng! 33" and "The Way Will Be Opening". Their bassist sung most of Mary's vocal parts. I think Laetitia was playing a Minilogue. They played for about 90 minutes. That's all.
- Pteranodon – Pteranodon 2
- Various Interior Musics
- Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing
- Robert Ashley – Perfect Lives
- Actress – Splazsh
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Bloodstream Sermon
- Akina Nakamori – Fushigi
- Garden Of Mary – The Agony In Memory
- Also listened to this very lo-fi goth kind of album on Bandcamp, forgot the name and there's no history function in Bandcamp app. THe album cover looked like Current 93's Mi-Mort and the last track was called "Grocery Store".
- Khotin – Release Spirit
- Weirdly picks up in the 2nd half. "Fountain, Growth", "Life Mask".
- PDP III – Piled Up On a Couple of Doves
- Dalibor Cruz – Veiled Asperity (1/2)
- Christian Love Forum – X-Nihilo
- Jagatara – 南蛮渡来
- Jagatara – The Naked King
- EP-4 – Lingua Franca 1
- Pendant – Make Me Know You Sweet
- An album that's been pretty inspirational for me, not just artistically, but somehow just in general. I'm almost always in the mood to listen to this album. It's some of the most bizarre and alien sounding ambient music I know of. It's variously tense and foreboding, detached and inhuman. It's spontaneous and unstructured but doesn't sound random; it's like listening to some natural process unfold. Some of it sounds like it generated in a forest somewhere without any human input. There's a heavy use of delay and chopping/glitching effects which serve to make these soundscapes actually more, not less, organic, which is atypical for glitch music. There's also some interesting use of samples (though I think a majority of this album is made of samples).
All the tracks are great, but if I had to pick some highlights: "BBN-UWZ", which strikes a melancholic tone with its quasi-melody, "IBX-BZC", which sounds like a forest complete with various strange hissing, chirping and growling beasts (and a blue jay), "KVL-LWQ", the woozy, squelchy and ambient dub-ish Pontiac Streator collab that's so awesome it has its own applause break, and "NMQ-HYT", the eleven-minute closer that sounds like an air conditioner.
- An album that's been pretty inspirational for me, not just artistically, but somehow just in general. I'm almost always in the mood to listen to this album. It's some of the most bizarre and alien sounding ambient music I know of. It's variously tense and foreboding, detached and inhuman. It's spontaneous and unstructured but doesn't sound random; it's like listening to some natural process unfold. Some of it sounds like it generated in a forest somewhere without any human input. There's a heavy use of delay and chopping/glitching effects which serve to make these soundscapes actually more, not less, organic, which is atypical for glitch music. There's also some interesting use of samples (though I think a majority of this album is made of samples).
- Driv3r OST
- This game has a pretty decent soundtrack for being a glitchy, boring Grand Theft Auto ripoff. Kinda lo-fi, noisy, jammy rock, a bit jazzy and krautrockish occasionally, a lot of it's obviously trying to emulate spy music but somehow avoids being generic wannabe shit. Miami Night and Nice Day are favorites. Oh, and the prayer call you can hear in Istanbul that doesn't appear in the soundtrack.
- Listened to that "Water & Architecture" comp. The Atom Heart track is pretty good glitchy ambient post-techno, Bisk is good (especially "Vague Recollection", which is Bisk at his glitchest), Seefeel tracks are obviously great. AER tracks are meh, a bit directionless, and the samples don't really work.
- Disk Musik – A DD. Records Compilation
- Not big on the rock n roll and folk stuff, which is surprisingly most of this comp (and label?).
- Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
- Finished Two Lone Swordsmen – Swimming Not Skimming
- VC-118A – Spiritual Machines
- Spiritualized – Fucked Up Inside
- maya ongaku – Live on KEXP
- The Millenium – Begin
- Seefeel – Quique
- Smyglyssna – Departures
- Dub Tractor – More Or Less Mono
- Civilistjävel! – Brödföda
- "I" is nice. "IX" is good aside from the pretentious spoken word, but the singing is nice.
- Purelink – Signs
- "4k Murmurs" is gorgeous.
- Pub – Summer
- Smyglyssna – Departures
- Pretty good. Not your typical dub techno/ambient dub fare, as I was expecting, but more strange, short electronic tracks that aren't quite IDM, not quite ambient, not quite techno. "Suburban Rooftops", "Night Sea".
- HTRK – Rhinestones
- Disco Inferno – Technicolour Outtakes
- Awesome, just fucking awesome.
- Disco Inferno – Second Language
- Disco Inferno – A Rock To Cling To / From The Devil To The Deep Blue Sky
- Su Tissue, Arspenlian Reeves – Salon De Musique
- This is...kind of great.
- Lee Ranaldo – From Here to Infinity
- EP-4 – Lingua Franca-X
- Rapidly falling in love with this band.
- Aphex Twin – Analord 08
- Got out of bed wanting to listen to cozy, nostalgic techno. "W32.Deadcode.A"
- Aphex Twin – Melodies From Mars
- Beaumont Hannant – Texturology
- Multicast Dynamics – Ancient Circuits
- Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain
- "This time next year I hope to have a place where I can listen to this album with the window open to the crisp late summer air without having to hear someone else’s TV. Let that be my goal. It will have been 10 years since I last did that."
- Pink Floyd – Meddle
- Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
- Crispy Ambulance – The Plateau Phase
- NIN – Bad Witch
- Paddy McAloon – I Trawl the Megahertz
- I tried to listen to Parklife but I just can't hack it. "Girls & Boys" is great but I stopped at "The Debt Collector". It's just too British and it gets worse and worse as it goes on.
- Richard Wright – Broken China
- George Clanton – Slide
31 August 2025
- Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
- Telstar Drugs – Endless Straight
- Telstar Drugs – Weather Underground
- MUJI BGM 1980-2000
- Hosono and..."Tiny Pet", "To,To,To,Walking". Some of this is pretty great, some is...well, department store music.
- Harold Budd – Avalon Sutra
- Pteranodon – Pteranodon 2
- Heroin – Heroin
- Mohinder – Mohinder
- Jeromes Dream – The Gray in Between
- Gospel – The Loser
- Rites Of Spring – Rites Of Spring
- Slowdive – Just For A Day
- "Catch The Breeze"
- Gospel – The Moon Is a Dead World
- "Yr Electric Surge Is Sweet", "And Redemption Fills the Emptiest of Hearts".
- Jeromes Dream – Seeing Means More Than Safety
- Jeromes Dream / Orchid split
- Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless
- Epic45 – Drakelow
- "Tunnel 2"
- Hood – Home Is Where It Hurts
- "It's Been a Long Time Since I Was Last Here"
- The Blue Nile – High
- Labradford – Labradford
- Labradford – Mi Media Naranja
- Bark Psychosis – Hex
- Bright Channel – Bright Channel
- R. Grant Evans – The Vulture Bardo
- The Millennium – Begin
- "Karmic Dream Sequence #1", "There Is Nothing More To Say".
- The Durutti Column – Sex And Death
- Surprised by how much his guitar playing style changed by this time. "Blue Period".
- Bielizna – Taniec Lekkich Goryli
- "Kuracja doktora Granata", "Stefan".
- Jons – At Work On Several Things
- Hood – The Cycle of Days and Seasons
- Rafael Toral – Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance
- Slapp Happy – Slapp Happy Or Slapp Happy / Acnalbasac Noom
- Rowland S. Howard – Pop Crimes
- The Grinning Plowman – Nothing's Ever What It Is
- For Against – Echelons
- "Broke My Back"
- Dif Juz – Live Kilburn National 18-11-1986
- Dif Juz – Who Says Who?
- Dif Juz – Time Clock Turn Back
- "Trance"
- Maju – Maju-1
- Multicast Dynamics – Aquatic System
- Brian Eno & David Byrne – My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
- Hosono – Philharmony
- "Birthday Party", "Sports Men", "Philharmony", "Air-Condition".
- Fraction – Moon Blood
- Cranes – Loved
- Combustible Edison – The Impossible World
- O Yuki Conjugate – Into Dark Water
- Seefeel – (Ch-Vox) Redux
- The Durutti Column – The Return of the Durutti Column
- Cocteau Twins – Aikea-Guinea
- The Frozen Autumn – Fragments of Memories
- "The Forgotten Frontier"
- Dead Can Dance – Dead Can Dance
- "The Fatal Impact", "The Trial", "Ocean", "East of Eden".
- Dead Can Dance – Garden of the Arcane Delights
- The Durutti Column – LC (again)
- Developing an urge to buy the rest of those Factory Once reissues, the ones where the album cover is a blurry photo of the record sleeve with the next album visible behind it, and cycle through them on the boombox while lying joblessly on my couch.
- American Football – LP3
- For some reason I find his voice very amusing. Good album, though. "Silhouettes", "Heir Apparent".
- Transona Five – Duffel Bag (about half; not really into it)
- Earth – Hibernaculum
- Very slow but surprisingly melodic rock. Danmn good. "Ouroboros Is Broken", "Miami Morning Coming Down".
- Loren Connors - Sails
- First listen sometime in 2017? I like the section of "Sails" that sounds like people dying in a blizzard.
- Steven R. Smith – Tableland
- Was briefly into this as a naptime album in summer 2016.
- The Durutti Column – LC
- Susumu Hirasawa – Ice-9
- EP-4 – Lingua Franca 1
- "Broken Bi-Psychle"
- Wall of Voodoo – Dark Continent
- R.N.A. Organism – R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O
- Pretty damn good. "Say It Loud, I'm Dilettante, I'm Proud", "Matrix".
- ee – For 100 We Try Harder
- Frodus – And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea
- Plaid – Not For Threes (up to "Ol"; this album is rapidly growing on me!)
- Brian Eno – Music for Films
- Brian Eno – Ambient 4: On Land
- Cocteau Twins – Twinlights
- "Pink Orange Red"
- Cocteau Twins – Otherness
- Dumptruck – Positively Dumptruck
- Brian Eno – Ambient 4: On Land
- Brian Eno – The Shutov Assembly
- Laika – Sounds of the Satellites
- Somehow, I enjoyed this more thoroughly than I ever have. Even though it's an early afternoon in August, it's a perfect autumn night listen.
- Studio Pankow – Linienbusse
- Oval – 94diskont
- Jan Jelinek – Loop-finding-jazz-records
- Metamatics – Spook Tinsel Shoal
- Savage Republic – Trudge
- Bloodthirsty Butchers - Kocorono
- Tuxdomoon – Blind
- Tuxedomoon – Suite En Sous-sol
- "Allemande Bleue" and "Courante Marocaine" are great. "L'Etranger" sucks complete ass.
- Copeland & Gast – Sisters Of Control
- Vuemorph – In Expectancy Of The Monumental Awe
- Kevin Drumm – Imperial Horizon
- Zoviet France – Collusion
- Tetsu Inoue – Inland
- Tetsu Inoue – Ambiant Otaku
- Girls Against Boys – Venus Luxure No.1 Baby
- Six Finger Satellite – Law Of Ruins
- Andy Summers – Mysterious Barricades
- "Rain"
- Auteurs - After Murder Park
- "Child Brides"
- Michio Kurihara – Sunset Notes
- Enjoyed this, especially the songs with the lady singer.
- Toshimaru Nakamura – Culvert - No-Input Mixing Board 10
- Bob Desper – New Sounds
- "Darkness Is Like A Shadow", "Time is Almost Over".
- Phew – Phew
- "Signal", "Dream".
- Lycia – Cold
- Usually try to get into this around autumn, but decided to throw it on after listening to "Melon Yellow" by Slowdive. But it's fucking ugly and overcast outside, so I guess it's OK?
- Cocteau Twins – Four-Calendar Cafe
- If I hadn't already been a fan of this band and known what great things they'd done previously I'd be much harsher in my assessment of his album. There are some pretty impressive moments here - "Know Who You Are...", "My Truth", "Essence", "Summerhead" - but some wince-inducers (like the lyrics on "Bluebeard"; sorry, Liz). But, overall, it's very safe and adult contemporary, and at best sounds like a step back into Blue Bell Knoll.
- O Yuki Conjugate – Into Dark Water
- Excellent (but not yet a favorite). Also, "Musica Ficta" is very Cluster-reminiscent.
- Lycia – The Burning Circle and Then Dust
- Donato Dozzy – Plays Bee Mask
- Angel'In Heavy Syrup – Angel'In Heavy Syrup
- The one track near the middle with the skittering Jack DeJohnette-ish drumming.
- High Rise - High Rise II
- Minilogue – Blomma
- It finally occurred to me to look up the source of that sample in "Eevrything Is All You've Got"; apparently it's from a video of (supposedly) a housewife in the 50s (supposedly) trying LSD. The most-viewed YouTube upload is from September 2012; this album was released in April 2013. Makes you wonder. "E De Nån Hemma?", "Everything Is All You've Got", "Mellan Landet".
- Melt-Banana - Fetch
31 July 2025
- Conrad Schnitzler – Rot
- Buddhastick Transparent - G
- Wasn't impressed overall with this, but I liked the 21 minute long track with the jew's harp(?). My day started out pretty rough but my mood improved drastically towards the end of work. Had a nice short conversation with my boss after work about non-work stuff, now at home making what I intend to be fudgy, chewy brownies while listening to a playlist consisting mostly of music I've bought.
- Toshimaru Nakamura – No-Input Mixing Board 2
- Marble Sky – Sway
- The Holy Pervert - Ex-Tradition
- New Philly goth band. Surprisingly good.
- Harold Budd – Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
- Pat Metheny – Bright Size Life
- Laraaji – Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
- Tarzana – Alien Wildlife Estate
- 1958-2009 – Live
- Brian Eno – Lightness
- Kumiko Takahashi – Pokkowa Pa?
- Conrad Schnitzler – Con
- "Black Nails"
- Emaciator – Appease
- Convextion – 2845
- Julia – Julia
- Matrix – Various Films
- Suzukiski – Utopia
- Sun Araw – The Saddle of the Increate
- Second listen since about a year after it came out. Actually fell asleep to it, but towards the 65 minute mark, right after that uncharacteristically poppy song towards the end I reckon (no, it was "Release"). Or did I dream that? "40 Hooves", "On Plateau".
- Sun Araw – On Patrol
- M. Geddes Gengras – Enduring Doubt
- Faraquet – The View From This Tower
- Just saw these guys as PhilaMOCA. Not really my cup, but it was good.
- Tonstartssbandht – An When
- Deakin – Sleep Cycle
- I remember just when this was released, back when I was still browsing some shit website for music recommendations. Really surprised at how much I'm enjoying this. "Golden Chords", "Just Am".
- K2 – Silicon Oasis
- Country Teasers – Destroy All Human Life
- Really surprised I liked this. An alt country album with actually good lyrics? "Golden Apples", "Women & Children First".
- Lost Balance – Air Control
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Gift Songs
- Bop – Clear Your Mind
- "I Found You", "Rovor".
- Duster – 1975
- Spectres – Dying
- Robert Fripp – A Blessing of Tears
- Most of Rei Harakami's [Lust] ()
- Huerco S. – QTT4
- Zeni Geva – 10,000 Light Years
- "Last Nanosecond"
- Today Is The Day – Willpower
- Henry Kawahara – Cybernetic Defiance And Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara
- "Nicea ’N Bark" (whatever the fuck that means)
- Banco de Gaia – Big Men Cry
- Five Starcle Men – Gomba Reject Ward Japan
- "Pizza Hut Families Rule"
- Heldon – Stand By
- Very cool. I love the portion with the dense layered distored guitar.
- Thin White Rope – Moonhead
- Impromptu revisit after a stressful day. Glad I did.
- Fripp & Eno - "Swastika Girls"
- Incredible piece that I too rarely listen to. I find myself focusing mostly on the background synthesizer loops (which I didn't realize was a EMS VCS 3, not a guitar pitched/sped up) rather than the guitar parts. I like how it cuts around as if it was chopped up digitally.
- In Gowan Ring - The Glinting Spade
- Listened, in full, at a higher volume this time. Enjoyed it much more, even the ren faire-sounding sections. "To Thrum a Glass Stem", "Milk Star".
- Sound Track - The Cooler
- Heldon - Allez-Teia
- Tujiko Noriko – Shojo Toshi
- I like the progression of "Mannequin Surfer", and the rhythmically modulated noise effect towards the end. "Porsche" has a nice noisy instrumental too.
- Susumu Yokota - The Boy and the Tree
- Miharu Koshi – Chichi to Pistol (Der Vater Und Die Pistole)
- Forgot how weird/cool this was. 「妖精たちの森」, 「父とピストル」.
- Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid – Velocity
- Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid – Oxygen
- Nice revisit to this guy. Forgot how good it was.
- Heldon – Heldon IV "Agneta Nilsson"
- Damn, this is good. I got stuck listening to "Intermède: Bassong" on repeat afterwards...
- Pretty Girls Make Graves – Good Health
- Makoto – Human Elements
- I got a good laugh at the line "You're exceptional, there's something special about you". You can tell those lyrics were written by a Japanese guy. "You're Divine", "Treasure Towers".
- Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
- The Young Gods - Heaven Deconstruction
- Tetsu Inoue - Inland
- Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Glass
- Unfold.
- Metamatics - Neo Ouija
- Pale Cocoon – 繭
- Still love it :)
- Most of YMO - BGM ()
- X – Under The Big Black Sun
- "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes"
- Chrome – 3rd From The Sun
- Scott Walker – Climate of Hunter
- Marc Ribot – Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume 7
- The Young Gods – Everybody Knows
- Electronic acoustic rock. Not too bad. "Two To Tango"
- X – See How We Are
- Pub visit in the city. "4th of July", "See How We Are".
- The Stooges - The Stooges
- Zeni Geva - Desire For Agony
- "The Body"
- The Stooges – Fun House
- "Dirt", "Funhouse".
- Chrome – 3rd From The Sun
- Real Good. "Armageddon", "Off The Line", "3rd From The Sun".
- Bloodthirsty Butchers - Yamane
- Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
- "Jumpers"
- The Ex + Tortoise - In The Fishtank
- Future Sound of London - Environment 7.003
- Last track is way off-model for them, but it's good.
- Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
- Listened to this several times and still the best thing about it is the cover art, followed by that one section of "Repeat Defender", followed by "Stupid Puma", followed by "Cold Knees (In April)".
- Zeni Geva - Freedom Bondage
- "Ground Zero"
- Seefeel - Starethrough EP
- Henry Kawahara - Dolphin Flow
- Imaginary Softwoods - Eight
- Essentially vanilla sequencer music ("progressive" electronic) but surprisingly enjoyable if only for its reptitiveness. I suppose it's unique among that type of music for lacking any low-end and being relatively minimal - sounds like just a couple layers of arps, three max.
- Virgo – Landform Code
- Smooth, techno-leaning IDM with nice cozy pads. "System For Zodiac", "Last Moment".
- Gore - Wrede - The Cruel Peace
- Thought this was boring at first, ended up listening twice in a row...
- TV Victor - "All"
- TV Victor - Timeless Deceleration
- Still really love this. Year 2500 clothing store music.
- Most of rEAGENZ - rEAGENZ
- Cranes - Future Songs
- Nice sunny morning listen. "Submarine", "Fragile", "Everything For", "The Maker of Heavenly Trousers".
- Kuniyuki Takahashi – Early Tape Works (1986 - 1993) Vol. 2
- No-Man - Sweetheart Raw
- 3/4 of Japan, or 3/4 of Rain Tree Crow? You decide, or something. Not one of the best songs on the album..."Bleed" is good, if only for the spacey Klaus Schulze-ish instrumental.
- Jonny Nash – Once Was Ours Forever
- Sub Loam – Ohr
- Conrad Schnitzler - Schwarz
- Harmonia – Deluxe
- "Walky-Talky"
- Shirley Collins & Davey Graham – Folk Roots, New Routes
- "Pretty Saro"
- David Sylvian – Dead Bees on a Cake
- "Darkest Dreaming"
- .O.Rang - Fields & Waves
- Asmus Tietchens – Eisgang
- Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons
- Deerhunter + Ramleh. "Endless Happiness".
- Henry Kawahara – Dolphin Flow
- Bark Psychosis - ///Codename: Dustsucker
- Babes In Toyland – Fontanelle
- "Bruise Violet" , "Right Now" , "Handsome and Gretel" , "Quiet Room", "Jungle Train".
- Dadamah – This Is Not A Dream
- Dalis Car - The Waking Hour
- Tuxedomoon - Time To Lose
- Cluster – Sowiesoso
- Thoughts on Air - Mallo Yallo