Special guest @stephenebaker.bsky.social delivers some afternoon selections—ideal for pondering metaphorical ghosts and deserts. www.jamesreeves.co/noon-radio/ • Sa Pa - Ride High • Burger & Ink - Elvism • Minor Hexachords - Radians • Gramm - Legends/Nugroove™ • Vehicular 2 (39% slower) + more

Dictated a note to Siri and wound up this: “open the cosmetics section and sodomize your flies” I don’t remember what I meant to say, but I doubt it was as wise.

How awesome is it to have a record store in walking distance from your house that stays open until 8:00 PM? It is SUPER awesome. Speaking of awesome, my goodness, picked this up tonight: Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland, Eternal Life No End (Constellation, 2026)

Meanwhile at the library, a little girl who can't be more than ten years old is diligently reading Atomic Habits because we've destroyed childhood. And adulthood.

But holy Christ this glorious pair of albums from @theblackdog.bsky.social: theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/my-bru...

Synchronicities abound.

4 Pack duststoredigital.com

She walked through the door, dumped her bag at her feet, and hung her work face on the hook in the hall.

Claude Design is not good. But unfortunately for all of us, it’s good enough.

I always wake up too early on Saturdays because I'm excited it's Saturday.

“shrouded by knowledge”

Special guest @stephenebaker.bsky.social delivers some afternoon selections—ideal for pondering metaphorical ghosts and deserts. www.jamesreeves.co/noon-radio/ • Sa Pa - Ride High • Burger & Ink - Elvism • Minor Hexachords - Radians • Gramm - Legends/Nugroove™ • Vehicular 2 (39% slower) + more

Sometimes all you want is this sound 😉 cyannetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/contem... (paging @anewlinerelated.bsky.social)

Thank you! (It's nice to hear I'm infuriating in a different context for once.)

Midnight Radio gets The Tonearm Seal of Approval™

Tidied up the Midnight Radio archive so you can remember the good times. You need more email in your life, so sign up to have it delivered straight to your inbox. (Tomorrow night’s episode of springtime electronics with special guest @stephenebaker.bsky.social will be a much-needed tonic.)

Yay!!!!!!! (Although I don't want to wait 32 days.) thefield.bandcamp.com/album/now-yo...

My new favorite ritual is to fall asleep with @januszczak.bsky.social at 65% speed while he says things like “this was drawn with the bicep and not the wrist.” I have the most wonderful baroque rococco dreams.

I’ll just sink into this couch while Strange Days plays on mute and somebody tells me all about the end of history and the Information Superhighway. jamesreeves.co/43 • Dr. Atmos & Oliver Lieb • Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin • Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor • B12 • Bedouin Ascent • Photek • Makyo

Just so gloriously chill. The whole album from @anewlinerelated.bsky.social is already a 2026 favorite, and this track in particular has been looping for two hours while working on a project about dreams.

Uh oh.

Going forward, I'd like my Bluesky contributions to summon the mood of the Studio of Gratifying Discourse.

Fergus Jones’ cult FELT label with a new tape of blissed ambient sound-bathing and concrète sound design by Formant Soundsystem’s Grady Steele, calling to mind Perko’s lushest gear via Terre Thaemlitz’s beat-less works boomkat.com/products/nau...

Thank you @hicks.design for this very nice write-up of Spite!

“Where bare life is hallowed, theology gives way to therapy.” —Byung-Chul Han

Artificial intelligence is taking us into a strange new religious age. I’ve had more conversations about the human soul in the past six months than the rest of my life combined.

There ought to be a word for the disappointment one feels when a weather event fails to perform as advertised.

“Night is our diocese, silence is our ministry.” —Thomas Merton

Thank you Minneapolis for serving a glorious slice of Bacon before I head to the airport.

But dig this chill boar from the Meiji era at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

The Benjamin quote is still my fave description of this — the phases don’t have to be strictly sequential. “Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”

I’ll just sink into this couch while Strange Days plays on mute and somebody tells me all about the end of history and the Information Superhighway. jamesreeves.co/43 • Dr. Atmos & Oliver Lieb • Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin • Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor • B12 • Bedouin Ascent • Photek • Makyo

Yep that is *almost* too many songs for any human being to possess. But only four mixtapes? The average human should have at least 37.

Wierd that technological advancement has me leaving typos in my writing so people know they're not dealing with a robot.

I can spell “Einstürzende Neubauten” no problem, but have to look up “necessary” every time.

Spite is a dignified music player without any fuckery. www.jamesreeves.co/spite/

“But it doesn’t matter because soon we’ll all be dead and someday the world will end.” —my mother-in-law discussing politics

"It is precisely the absence of political and moral interest that makes art an agent of liberation wherever it appears." —J.F. Martel

After a long pause, she asked, “But is there really a difference between being closed-minded and having good taste?”

Atom Heart & Tetsu Inoue’s dreamy low-end masterpiece comforted me thirty years ago and still soothes today. It’s some of the most reliable and reassuring music I know. atomtm.bandcamp.com/album/flower...

I’m more interested in light than usual these days. Even a painting of a bucket can hold me for a few minutes if has a nice streak of light.

Exit 8 is a fun slice of existential subway horror that teaches you how to get on a very strange wavelength.

Stoics are afraid of their emotions.

It’s true. I’ve detected zero fuckery in my use of it. I love the clarity of the design objective. Lean, beautiful and functional.

Spite is a dignified music player without any fuckery. www.jamesreeves.co/spite/

“I guess the real question is: Does God believe in Himself?” A heavyweight episode in which Martin Essig ponders ambiguity and faith. Selections include: • Sun Electric - Episode VI • Blawan - 993 • Kakuhan - Kak-Juk • Can - I Want More (500% slower + filtered) www.jamesreeves.co/return-of-th...

Highway underpasses like a Shinto shrine.

Gather your finest mp3s and get them dressed for the ball—a new version of Spite has made its debut in the App Store. apps.apple.com/us/app/spite...