#TheTwen2ie5 Day 41: DJ K feat. MC Menor Adr, MC Daneve & MC Kaique da Sul - Flauta do Novo Mundo (2023, BR) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Some of the underground Brazilian funk producers are releasing the most exciting music I've heard this decade, a total new sound. I particularly like DJ Ks tinnitus celebration

Great concert. Who knew that avant-garde Slovenian acoustic drone-folk would be the perfect soundtrack for the present moment.

I'm now 910 albums deep into my @1001albumsgen.bsky.social project tracking the "1001 Best Albums" series, I'll try to post updates from here on to keep me honest. I'd recommend giving it a go, has been interesting filling in gaps/revisiting the canon

Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 40: 100 gecs - ringtone (remix feat. Charli XCX, Rico Nasty, Kero Kero Bonito) (2020, USA, UK) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) The hyperpop mega powers unite. The hook is total crack

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 39: ano - F Wonderful World (2021, JP) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Pretty sure I discovered this from a @jelbugle.bsky.social recommendation, I love the demented energy and how the riff just keeps rolling on. Over well within 3 minutes like all the best songs too

Dug this out of my Steam library and ended up hacking away into the wee hours last night. Needs the Uplink OS mod to really be playable now but still compelling, makes you feel like a hacking god

NTS Radio right now featuring music from the Puerto Rico underground music scene is going down very well www.nts.live/shows/radior...

I've been using Cantilever since it launched and enjoying the focused approach to consuming streaming music, every album I've listened to has been v.good+ so far - more trusted MP3 blog meets Mubi than Spotify. UK only for now but would recommend, first month is free www.cantilever-music.com

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 38: Rosé & Bruno Mars - Apt. (2024, NZ/KR/USA) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Already feels like a song that has been around forever. I like this live performance with Psy where the entire stadium goes completely bananas whilst the irrigation is turned on

Dying at "DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT" - going to introduce it into my work rotation

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 37: Sleigh Bells - SWEET75 (2021, USA) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y)

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 36: Nabihah Iqbal - This World Couldn’t See Us (2023, UK) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRI...

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 35: Mello Buckzz - Move (2023, USA, ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Feel a bit like I'm going to get placed on some list as a middle-aged white guy listening to this but its ludicrously hyperactive mixture of drill & juke is genuinely thrilling, with a bassline that registers on the Richter scale

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 34: Charli XCX ft. Shygirl - 365 (EASYFUN remix) (2024, UK) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) I love the original obv but there's something about how this remix plays out live (great theatre too with the curtain) - 20000 yanks at MSG going absolutely bonkers to two women singing over Altern-8

Greatly enjoying the Palestinian oud trio Le Trio Joubran this Sunday #nowplaying

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 33: Sofia Portanet - Free Ghost (2020, Germany) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Another pandemic era obsession

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 32: Nilufer Yanya - Like I Say (I runaway) (2024, UK) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) youtu.be/HkfbnFyZpok?...

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 31: Tetrarch - I'm Not Right (2021, USA) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Nu-wave of Nu-metal, I loved this stuff back in the day and they could have easily slipped right in with the best

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

lol, don't think this happening

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 30: Grace Ives - Loose (2022, USA) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) I've got a bunch of her Janky Star album shortlisted but this won through primarily as I like how it unexpectedly goes a bit darkcore on the chorus when the breakbeats roll in

If anyone wants a code for a 2 month free trial for the streaming service Qobuz let me know. Has improved considerably over the past year or so, particularly good if you're more album-orientated rather than playlists

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 29: Taqbir - Sma3 (2021, Morocco) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Absolutely raging Moroccan hardcore, a reminder of how good punk rock can still be

Kassa Overall @ The Lower Third 🔥🔥🔥

📧 Years before Google, “Gmail” was a fan email service on Garfield․com; perfect for anyone who hates Mondays. It vanished like lasagne into Garfield's belly, but pawprints remain on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ web.archive.org/web/20000815... 🧵 #Wayback1T #WebHistory

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 28: Jim Legxacy - '06 wayne rooney (2025, UK) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y)

Found this piece from the FT on the annual Pontins meetup of veterans of Britain's nuclear tests fascinating www.ft.com/content/1fca... / archive.ph/VIMSl (archive link)

This is the first one I remember, from my local Woolworths with some Birthday/Christmas money. I would have wanted the Black Box song in particular, in my pre-teen years almost all bought music was consumed via compilations

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 27: Leyla McCalla - Open The Road (2024, USA) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y)

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 26: Bounaly - Wato To (2023, Mali) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) 11 points Starts off quite a typical desert blues sound then halfway through blasts into the stratosphere with face-melting guitar and the drummer on an absolute mad one. Never want it to end. N.B. this is a wedding performance

THIS ROOM IS HAUNTED ... YOU MEET ITS GHOST ! (Source.)

This perfectly captures my feelings for this brilliant/awful game which I pumped like 20 hours into over the course of a week and then had to delete for my own sanity to hopefully never play again

#TheTwen2ie5 HM5: Anna Erhard - Botanical Garden (2024, Switzerland) Another discovery; Two out of five/He's a strict guy

#TheTwen2ie5 HM4: ALVILDA - Angoisse (2024, France) My favourite new-to-me discovery of the challenge so far

#TheTwen2ie5 HM3: Käärijä – Cha Cha Cha (2023, Finland) Few songs have made me happier than this, loses something without its performance so only a HM. A new Eurovision all-timer

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

#TheTwen2ie5 HM2: Hanumankind – Big Dawgs (2024, India) A song that is elevated tenfold by its video, Houston hip-hop by way of Kerala

The lead vocalist may be an acquired taste but new Major Stars album is very listenable if you're into face shredding psych-rock freakouts majorstars.bandcamp.com/album/more-c...

#TheTwen2ie5 HM1: Post Malone (feat. Morgan Wallen) - I Had Some Help (2024, USA) Heartbreaking: Worst person you know just featured on an absolute bop

This compilation is a blast, added enjoyment in looking up the promotional videos

the duality of man

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 25: The Bug (feat. Flowdan) - Hammer (2021, UK) (ISC-N, NKC-Y) Black Hole levels of pressure and intensity in the bassline with Flowdan dancing over the top, will never not love these two together www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww8D...

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 24: Halsey - I Am Not A Woman, I'm A God (2021, US)(ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Reznor serving up the platonic ideal of a NIN banger but Halsey still makes it their own

Finished Werner Herzog's latest book; very strangely structured with often bizarre asides (what if Scott of the Antarctic made pornographic photos?). Under-edited and frankly odd as a book but readable all the same, helped by being so short. Certainly wouldn't have been published if by anyone else

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 23: PinkPantheress & Ice Spice - Boys a Liar (Pt. 2) (2023, UK/US) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y)

Ryan Adams having a normal one down under www.setlist.fm/setlist/ryan... / 7news.com.au/entertainmen...

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 22: Pozer - Malicious Intentions (2024, UK) (ISC-Y, NKC-Y) Croydon's finest, I love this guys flow.

Currently vibing to Bonnie Raitt cod-reggae (w/bonus Bob Hoskins & Denzel in the video) youtu.be/6GFnTgF_RqA?...

At The Line of Beauty at the Almeida this evening, as ever at this theatre an excellent production although here never transcending it's source material. As the source is one of the best books of the 21st Century it's quite a high bar I guess almeida.co.uk/whats-on/the...