Grateful for the inclusion of @saapato.bsky.social's latest ambient wilding 'In Alaska' on this celebratory substack 💙 "It’s not just untouched majesty, but the intersection of time, technology and humanity with remote locales" 🧊 Listen today saapato.bandcamp.com/album/in-ala...

SHURE V-15 Type III

Watched the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams (about Werner Herzog’s making of Fitzcarraldo), which is amazing if you want some pull quotes from Herzog about how awful and enchanting the jungle is. This sign was apparently in the airport in Quito, Ecuador in 1981. #signs #design #travelsky

I’m driving around with the windows down blasting the new Kali Malone collabo record. Got the whole neighborhood ringing. kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/magnet...

We’re marinating in the current state of “innovation”, celebrating underappreciated innovators of stuff, and pulling out some excellent new music finds, including soul bangers, Brazilian grunge-y shoegaze, German jazz adventures, ambient wilding, and more! open.substack.com/pub/listenin...

Habibi Funk is back with more far-out Middle Eastern psych-funk grooves. Some phenomenal drum samples in waiting + organ solos galore. habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi...

Starting the day with this transportive listening experience from @saapato.bsky.social. 🎧 A blend of field recordings made during a residency with the national park service and synths — exploring majesty and encroachment. #ambient #newmusic saapato.bandcamp.com/album/in-ala...

The AirBnB had an oil painting of Clint Eastwood. They should call that out among the amenities.

Full album dropped today 🎧

An old-ish guy just walked past the house blasting “Many Men” by Fifty Cent on a bluetooth speaker. Friday is happening.

New De La Soul album drops next week. First single feels like the legends aren’t fading. #hiphop #musicsky youtu.be/u9N994FmnxU

Listen to this, it's awesome! This band is a total mystery, I've been able to find virtually no info one them. They only released this one single. Shame we didn't get an album from them. youtu.be/S_6AfBmv3Hw?...

Really enjoying Shad’s new album. A smart but not overly intellectualized form of underground hip hop. It feels like a throwback to catchy-yet-personal works by Atmosphere, or perhaps a more likable and low-key Cudi. #musicsky #hiphop #newmusic shadk.bandcamp.com/album/start-...

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

It's a challenging time to be a person of conscience.

Finally watched Weapons. That was crazy.

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Change a letter make a singer less appealing: Ick Spice

Change a letter, make a singer less appealing: Frack Sinatra

Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for Built to Spill in Woodstock at the Bearsville Theater. #hudsonvalley #concerts

If you aren’t familiar with this Man Mantis album from 2011, it’s a legit masterpiece of beatmaking. In the vain of RJD2 from a drum programming perspective, but open to wider range of sound possibilities. Still hits almost 15 years later. manmantis.bandcamp.com/album/cities...

GENA is a new collaboration between esteemed percussionist Karriem Riggins and Liv.e who deliver a slinky, shimmering piece of lounge-R&B on their first single. youtu.be/8bb7VHElKp4?...

today I’m revisiting some of my old friend Man Mantis’ later work. I’m not sure he still makes music but he does animation for adult swim nowadays. still one of the best producers I’ve ever had the pleasure to know.

A whimsical album from 2019 released by an Osaka-based artist. Moriyama’s career spans decades and ignores boundaries. Sometimes this is organic ambience in the vein of Hiroshi Yoshimura, while other songs have more structure, like gentle, symphonic motorik. emrecords.bandcamp.com/album/y-tai-...

Watch 30 seconds of this video and you’ll be hooked. This is legit amazing material from the mid-80s. Pure living.

Epic version of an already epic tune. Also, you can’t adapt it at all, imo, and this is some evidence. It’s a song that can’t be improved upon thru reinterpretation.

…And that was the night when a DJ saved my life

A friend just sent me a clip from this video and 🤯 — I was not familiar with the legendary Stan Lemkuil. He starts by explaining the difference between a noise and a sound effect. But his own mastery of making sounds is Michael Winslow grade. youtu.be/KhT0PTa0d9E?...

One of my favorite Neil Young songs, in honor of his 80th bday. youtu.be/uX9k9aoX6gk?...

HBD NEIL YOUNG. Here's one of my favorite Shakey oddities — a middle school choir covering "On The Way Home" sometime back in the 1970s. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8000230...

Music tech pitches: -An Uber for saxophones -A VST that generates dog bark sounds via physical modelling synthesis -A GPU embedded in a 180g vinyl -A streaming platform that only plays music backwards -Toe sock MIDI controllers -Bluetooth maracas -A Eurorack digital picture frame

At the monthly vinyl gathering this evening, I had played some Demon Fuzz and our host got excited and pulled out this 1970 record by If, which is a UK psych/proto-prog group I didn’t know. Great chaser to Demon Fuzz’s Afreaka. youtu.be/34kkKdSe11Q?...

I fear for the decades of human made music imitating this slop we are about to endure…

Get big and sell out

A whimsical album from 2019 released by an Osaka-based artist. Moriyama’s career spans decades and ignores boundaries. Sometimes this is organic ambience in the vein of Hiroshi Yoshimura, while other songs have more structure, like gentle, symphonic motorik. emrecords.bandcamp.com/album/y-tai-...

How are we going to “live, laugh, love” in these conditions?

Khruangbin marks 10 years since their debut album with a session revisiting those songs through the lens of all the subsequent experiences they've had together as a band. It’s a record of remembrance, recognition and growth. khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/the-un...

A big spring show announcement for UPAC in Kingston this week: Cat Power will perform in early March. Tickets are going fast for this one.

There’s a very good chance the soundtrack for Sirāt makes it onto my end of year list among the best electronic albums. kangdingray.bandcamp.com/album/sir-t-...

Oh No joins forces with Ghostface Killah, Aloe Blacc and Tristate for back alley tales on a big beat with Fishscale-era energy. Oh No’s new album coming soon. 🎧 #hiphop #musicsky ohnothedisrupt.bandcamp.com/album/nodega

love GED Soul (and DeRobert). this GED Soul 45 gets heavy spins from me at 33 speed when I'm DJing (cover of an old Eddie Harris song) thecoolinsystem.bandcamp.com/album/i-need...

I’m hooked on this classic-sounding (but only recently released), sweaty breakbeat soul jam from DeRobert and the Half Truths. Feels like a lost Stax cut or something. #soulsky #musicsky derobertandthehalftruths.bandcamp.com/album/nothin...

Was flipping through an early 90s rave zine and enjoyed an OG review for the Saint Etienne album Foxbase Alpha. This song is a great, swinging breakbeat number. youtu.be/L-hTXGfWTag?...

Underrated Fall Sunday album

Spotted on a farm house door this weekend. #signs #history

I’ve been revisiting this 2014 album from Ikebe Shakedown, and it’s really held up. An excellent piece of global cinematic soul/funk instrumentals originally released on Ubiquity. ikebeshakedownubiq.bandcamp.com/album/stone-...

I’m hooked on this classic-sounding (but only recently released), sweaty breakbeat soul jam from DeRobert and the Half Truths. Feels like a lost Stax cut or something. #soulsky #musicsky derobertandthehalftruths.bandcamp.com/album/nothin...

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Environmentalist poster from 1971 that I saw at a nearby auction.

The same dude invented Lite-Brite and Mouse Trap? Legend