Music by Numbers Day 128 "128 Trek" - Zinc Genre: Drum & Bass There is a tasty post-metal epic from Rosetta that would also work for 128, but c'mon - drum & bass with lots of sampled sound effects from Star Trek TOS! 🖖 #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 2016 #MusicChallenge Day 5: Daniel Romano - "Valerie Leon" This is a fantastic song - sounds like it could have been released any time from, what, the fifties onwards?

Music by Numbers Day 127 "127 North" - Caspian Genre: Cinematic Post-Rock Some classic old-school quiet/LOUD/quiet swell-to-a-crescendo type post-rock... #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 2016 #MusicChallenge Day 4: Agnes Obel - "Familiar" 2016 is turning out to have some absolute bangers!

Music by Numbers Day 126 "Unending 126 Mix" - John Frusciante Genre: Electro Pop Only one option for 126, and it was from one of Frusciante's self released electronic albums, some of which I remember being not so great. Thankfully, this track is pretty nice! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 2016 #MusicChallenge Day 3: DJ Shadow - "Nobody Speak (feat. Run The Jewels)" Fantastic track and equally fantastic video. 🎶 "Picture this, I'm a bag of dicks, put me to your lips" 😆

This week's albums! I was excited for dream-pop-meets-disco from Night Tapes. I think they've added a splash of yacht rock to their sound, too! 😆 The new Paradise Lost is tasty, as well. They've dabbled in doom, death, goth and new wave, and they bring it all together in one harmonious whole here!

Music by Numbers Day 125 "125 MPH" - New Model Army Genre: Alt Rock Back to 1989 for some bouncy alt rock - love the strings that come in, in the middle! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 2016 #MusicChallenge Day 2: Xylouris White - "Black Peak" Jim White of Dirty Three comes together with Cretan lute player George Xylouris to make something raucous and magical! 😻

Music by Numbers Day 124 "Redit 124" - Actress Genre: IDM Starts off glitchy as hell, but settles into something you could, kind of, maybe, dance to! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 2016 #MusicChallenge Day 1: Zamilska - "Rise" 🎶 "When You Think of Me, You Should Think of Fire" In September there was a curious gap spanning 2015 - 2019. I rolled a dice and got 2016. Check out the chart I made of who's doing which year! yamiacat.github.io/interactive-...

Music by Numbers Day 123 "Bluebell, Cockleshell, 123" - King Creosote Genre: Singer Songwriter The children playing what sounds like a singing & clapping game really makes this a great track! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 30 - Elliott Smith - "Needle In The Hay" I didn't discover Elliott Smith until 2010, give or take a year.

An interactive chart for #20SongsByYear #MusicChallenge! Click a color segment to see who did that year, that month. Click a username to see their use of the hashtag! (You need to be logged into bsky in the same browser window, and it doesn't filter their posts by month, but still, not bad! 🤓 )

Music by Numbers Day 122 "Stop 122, Line 1/8" - Anonymeye Genre: Electroacoustic Some ambient-adjacent noodling - very pleasant! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 29 - Slowdive - "Blue Skied an' Clear" I was exposed to some shoegaze in the late 90s, but it was on crappy portable speakers in the 6th form common room, and it did not sound great. Wouldn't be until the late 00s it clicked for me!

Music by Numbers Day 121 "Mr. Landlord / Apartment 121" - A.C.T. Genre: Prog Rock Broke my own rules here by deliberately adding this album to my library specifically so I had a track for 121. 🙈 A concept album about an apartment building isn't out of place, tho! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 28 - Yat-Kha - Karangailyg Kara Hovaa (Dyngyldai) Got into these guys in the early 2000s when the internet started to make such things easier. The youtube comments tell me it's been used in an iPhone ad!?

Music by Numbers Day 120 "One Hundred Twenty" - mouse on the keys Genre: Piano Math Rock I couldn't find the piano math rock track I wanted for 118, but have an opportunity to use one for 120 instead! 🎉 #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 27 -Squirrel Nut Zippers - "La Grippe" Ok, this video is them re-recording it in 2020 for the modern plague, but the original came out in '95!

Ooh, Night Tapes have just released their first album "portals//polarities"! I've hugely enjoyed their EPs. 15 year old me would be agog if you told him his most anticipated album of the year, 30 years later, would be a dream pop / disco hybrid! 🪩😴

Music by Numbers Day 119 "Dream at Tempo 119" - Silversun Pickups Genre: Indie Rock It's been a while since I've used honest to goodness indie rock on a number! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 26 - Massive Attack - "Protection" I didn't get into trip-hop until 97 or 98. Don't think I've seen the video for this track before, and ZOMG it's so good! I want to watch a "making of" next because it was clearly all done with practical effects! 😻

Music by Numbers Day 118 "DeOrbit_118" - London Modular Alliance Genre: Modular Synth Noodling There was a song "118" by DC-based piano math rock band Caverns that would have been my first pick, but all their stuff seems to have been scrubbed from the net?! 🤷 #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 25 - Tortoise - "Cliff Dweller Society" I loved the idea of post-rock when I read about it in the late 90s, but didn't get my hands on any til the early 00s. I often wonder what it woulda been like to be able to check out any music instantly in my teens...

Music by Numbers Day 117 "117 Careplan" - Henry Wu Genre: House Only a single solitary option in my library for 117! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 24 - Goldie - "Timeless" Drum & Bass definitely didn't click for me in '95, but 3 or 4 years later I acquired the taste alright...

Music by Numbers Day 116 "ROOM 116" - Lynks Genre: Electroclash According to lastfm a "merchant of pure gay chaos" which the video tends to bear out! 😆 🏳️‍🌈 #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 23 - Morphine - "Honey White" Awww yeah, love that sax! 🎷

Music by Numbers Day 115 "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" - Bob Dylan Genre: Folk Rock I was gonna go with an Asobi Seksu cover, but nah, I'll stick with the original. This far down the number line the chances to post artists with name recognition are few & far between! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 22 - Bohren & Der Club of Gore - "Midnight Radio 3" There are sadly few artists making doom jazz, but I love them all. 😻 Not sure I would have dug this in '95. I dunno, maybe if it had been sold to me as ambient or cinematic? Sure do like it now though!

Music by Numbers Day 114 "114° (part 1)" - Cassowary Genre: Contemporary Jazz Smooth sax and some funky drumming! 😎 #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 21 - Pavement - "Father to a Sister of Thought" I was aware Pavement existed in '95 - the indie kids at school were super into 'em. I was too preoccupied with establishing myself as a metalhead, though, so it'd be a few more years before I checked 'em out...

Music by Numbers Day 113 "Sonic Scale For Percussion No.113" - Major Force West Productions Genre: Trip-Hop This is great! Sounds like an exploitation B movie soundtrack! This was the ONLY option for 113 in my library. #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 20 - Apes, Pigs & Spacemen - "Antiseptic" Started my 20 picks with Headswim, who felt like "my" band - these guys might actually BE my band - only a couple 100 listeners on lastfm, it seems they barely made a ripple - but this is gorgeous melodic alt-rock!

Music by Numbers Day 112 "Stealing the 112" - Patrick Doyle Genre: Movie Score Ok, things are starting to get tricky - I only had one other option, according to my self-imposed rules - may well be hitting the wall soon! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 19 - Filter - "Hey Man, Nice Shot" Remember how hard it was to discover non-pop music pre-internet? I loved Ministry & wanted more industrial, which lead me to Filter. Didn't really scratch the Ministry itch, but this track at least kicks a lotta ass!

This week's albums! Really been enjoying that Black Country, New Road album - super proggy post-punk, very satisfying! Huh. I have no memory of giving the new Hives a spin!

Music by Numbers Day 111 "111" - Deepside Genre: Minimal Techno I had three options to choose from for 111, all some kind of electronica, which makes 3 electronica days in a row - something different tomorrow, hopefully! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 18 - Rage - "Alive But Dead" I was ALL ABOUT metal bands doing HP Lovecraft-inspired songs, & Rage did a bunch of them, including quite a few on 95's "Black In Mind" This one, which got a video, appears to be about depression rather than eldritch horrors 🤷

Music by Numbers Day 110 "OneHundredAndTenBeatsEveryMinute" - Si Begg Genre: Downtempo Glitch A very pleasant chillout track taken from the enormous "Touched Two" compilation that raised money for Macmillan Cancer Support... #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 17 - Skyscraper - "Never Again" These guys got a lot of buzz in the UK rock and metal press in 95 and then promptly imploded. I still have quite a bit of affection for their album "Superstate"...

On 9th Oct @markchilds.bsky.social will be turning the first chunk of my #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge into a radio show! 😻 I've just been reviewing those picks - it'll be a little eclectic, but I think it might work pretty well! 🤞

Music by Numbers Day 109 "Tropic 109" - Busy Twist Genre: Afro Bass Wasn't sure how to categorize this, but reading up on it, this chap went to Ghana and jammed with a local drumming group, and this is the result, so "Afro Bass" it is! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 16 - Soundgarden - "Fell on Black Days" Happily for me and this challenge, one of my fave Soundgarden tracks got released as a single in January '95 ✌️

Music by Numbers Day 108 "108" - Head of David Genre: Industrial Metal Posted Fear Factory covering these guys in the other challenge, now I get to post them themselves! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 15 - Skyclad - "Another Fine Mess" Idiosyncratic folk metal with some absolutely top notch lyrics - Martin Walkyier sure does like to squeeze some utility out of a homophone, as demonstrated by the album title, "The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea"...

Music by Numbers Day 107 "107 Reasons Why" - Do Make Say Think Genre: Post-Rock (with brass!) I am migrainey today 😖 #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge

#20SongsByYear 1995 #MusicChallenge Day 14 - Hole - "Violet" Probably my fave Hole track - what an album opener! 💜

Music by Numbers Day 106 "106 Beats That" - Wire Genre: Punk / Post-Punk Wire get more done in 1:12 than a lot of bands manage in a whole EP! #MusicByNumbers #MusicChallenge