#TheTwen2ie5 day 38 Kero Kero Bonito - Well Rested (UK/Japan, 2021) There has not been nearly enough KKB this decade, but at least there's this seven-minute proghyperpop epic to keep me going (that and Bugsnax) www.youtube.com/watch?v=txd7...

I have a solution to this.

#TheTwen2ie5 day 37 Bullion - Hula (2020, UK) It's no Blue Pedro but it's still lovely www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGd9...

When your country is taken over by sleazy oligarchs they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.

#TheTwen2ie5 day 36 Greta Isaac - Soft Scoop Talking Dog (Wales, 2025) Formerly of Fizz, Greta has been putting out some hard-ass electropop this year, hopefully someone will notice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFL9...

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

"The BBC is too right-wing" = their news department routinely platform fascists and treat socialists as dangerous idiots if they mention them at all "The BBC is too left-wing" = there are some black people and some gay people on screen sometimes

#TheTwen2ie5 day 35 Yaeji - booboo (South Korea / USA, 2024) Lots of bad things are happening in the 2020s, but let's not forget that this shy/nerdy/queer Korean woman can put out the dirtiest, nastiest deep house and techno records and they all absolutely slap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddfH...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 Hannah Diamond - Affirmations (UK, 2023) It's not that it's brilliantly complex work despite being throwaway pop music, it's a brilliantly complex work through and due to being throwaway pop music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4MR...

lol she got his ass and he knows it

My feeling is that we have a shifted from Remembrance - of those that died, those that fought, the horrors of war, the horrors that lead to war To Gratitude - saying thank you for the sacrifice - which naturalises the sacrifice, places it at the centre of our life, and prepares for the next war

#TheTwen2ie5 day 33 Bad Bunny - Tití Me Preguntó (USA, 2022) The biggest act of the decade, yes bigger than Taylor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr8K...

Amazing that someone can be so pathetic but so unsympathetic and also the richest person in the world.

A treat for my Saturday afternoon, a long-form broadsheet article taking pop culture seriously and giving it a thoughtful critical analysis!? Brilliant! Oh wait, it's just the same old shit about generation z, target audiences and viewing habits. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 32 Little Simz - Point And Kill feat. Obongjayar (UK/Nigeria, 2021) Please be careful with that machete. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvY3...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 31 Kelpe - Forever Endeavor (UK, 2020) What I love about Kel is how he creates these warm, rounded, chunky-sounding sound textures and uses them as building blocks to create such a variety of music, in this case slightly unsettled ambient bliss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1O7...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 30 Sudan Archives - My Type (USA, 2025) She just keeps getting better and better and better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vho...

Here's a mix I made which has no vocals, no melody, no rhythm and barely any distinct musical notes, over 80 minutes. Is it still music? Yes. www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of...

Trying to pick just two tracks from this LP may be impossible.

1960: Bobby Era

I must confirm that I am *not* the one and only.

Bit of a specific request here - I want warm, well-produced music you might hear on late night AM pop radio in the USA in the year 1983. The smoother end of R&B, sophisticated AOR, nothing spiky or intense. Must be from 1983, this is an important point.

#TheTwen2ie5 day 29 Doechii - Denial Is A River (USA, 2024) Of course! The greatest new star of 2024 who isn't an Irish middle-schooler. Sharing the audio only because the video does the extra diegetic sound thing which ruins so many music videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-OW...

Rest In Peace as in "evil scientists, please do not try to resurrect his brain inside a killer robot" 🙏

RIP Joe Byrd www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBun...

Multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger & sound designer, soundtrack composer & college professor Joseph Byrd -- leader of The United States of America, and who, in 1968, recorded 'The American Metaphysical Circus,' credited to Joe Byrd & the Field Hippies -- has died at 87. More: alt text

Great clip of Ted Chippington on Pebble Mill in 1986. YT comment otm - "It's quite a talent to be able to make an entire audience laugh and for not one of them to realise that you're funny." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmup...

The Very Late Early 60s Halloween mix is up now at Patreon. I did consider putting it up on Mixcloud but this would be a very much sub-optimal time to do that - so I'm just calling it a Patreon exclusive, and the proper launch can be next Halloween. www.patreon.com/posts/hallow...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 28 Sofia Kourtesis - Si Te Portas Bonito (Peru, 2023) Feels sort of wrong to be listening to this smooth summer jam today when I have a rotten cold and it's drizzling out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj1m...

Talking Pictures TV are showing Out Of Town this morning, a little before my time so did not realise Bob Fleming on The Fast Show was a parody of a real thing. Jack Hargreaves is a good example of a household name from my parents generation who is essentially unknown by mine.

These people are genocidal racists, and while it may feel like it would be refreshing for them to just come out with it and stop maintaining this implausible deniability, the day this happens will in fact be extremely bad, and I fear that it may not be far away.

#TheTwen2ie5 day 27 Hypnotique - Solitude (Netherlands/Spain/France, 2022) Warm synth pads, a complex rhythm that fits together like clockwork, coldly seductive vocals in French, yes this is very much made for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECU...

Remembering Mary Hansen on her birthday youtu.be/DSXf0RRtSQ8

They literally ruin everything they touch

Going to have to accept that this Halloween mix is not going to be ready for Halloween.

#TheTwen2ie5 day 26 Magdalena Bay - Chaeri (USA, 2021) I still cannot get over the fact that these guys are not from Sweden but from Florida! How do you get to sound like that in the Sunshine State? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ben9...

"... The former Prince will be moved to a private residence on the Sandringham Estate owned by the King."

Halloween Week at Centuries of Sound - Day 5 Halloween Records From The 50s Mixcloud - www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of... Blog post - centuriesofsound.com/2024/10/29/c... Tomorrow (if I can get it finished) a new Halloween mix for the early 60s!

#TheTwen2ie5 Honourable Mentions 5/5 Ozoda — 'Ko'k jiguli' (Uzbekistan, 2024) 461,021,861 views; 139,494 comments - Central Asia has arrived! Not by the dodgy president's daughter, unlike the previous Uzbek pop song I liked. (Googoosha's "Round Run") www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Cq...

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Not wanting to step into this particular peat bog, but it's interesting that the late 80s is the first time the US fell behind Europe in the consumption of new forms of pop music. I can't imagine the era without acid house, street soul, madchester and hip house.

the worst era for pop music was (UserProfile: BirthYear+13) to (UserProfile: BirthYear+21). that was total dogshit. everything else pretty much fine

"If I asked Kanye West which door I should go through, which one would he say?"

Halloween Week at Centuries of Sound - Day 4 A 1940s Halloween from Centuries of Sound Mixcloud - www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of... Blog post - centuriesofsound.com/2023/10/25/a...

#TheTwen2ie5 Honourable Mentions 3/5 NewJeans (뉴진스) - Super Shy (South Korea, 2023) K-pop + Timbaland style R&B vocals + Amen breaks = a combination so effective that it's a miracle it took so long to happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArmD...

The moment The Simpsons went wrong was when Homer started doing that secretive gruff whisper thing.

Ambivalent about Coldplay, but it is sad that radio DJs do not have a say over the music they play to this extent.

Teaching in the UK right now is like making thrillers and being legally required to put the entire plot including the ending in the title cards.

Halloween Week at Centuries of Sound - Day 3 Halloween Between The Wars - Original Recordings from 1927-1938 Mixcloud - www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of... Bandcamp - centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/hallow...

#TheTwen2ie5 Honourable Mentions 3/5 Ruger - Girlfriend (Nigeria, 2022) Ruger, your song is a complete delight, but you must know that your behaviour is unacceptable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M2G...