nowlistening Now Listening: Charles A.D., False Aralia, 29 Speedway, Daisy Moon, Fergus Jones Home-listening techno-house; micro-dub minimalism & phantom acoustics; body music as tesseract; techno-pop obsessions; bass music as galaxy.
lookback Look Back: Superpitcher — "Hollywood" Mentioned: The Postal Service, 12-LP albums, Pachanga Boys, Burning Man, $1500 records, Brian de Palma's "Body Double," Philip Glass, Sufjan Stevens, philosophical inquiry, Ship of Theseus.
longform Longform: A Spectre is Haunting Electronic Music Marx would surely have loved the club, but would have been aghast at the economic conditions therein.
wordswith Words With: Ani Phoebe Hong Kong, pop-up vending, records as journaling, cultural currency, sustainability, retail as cooperative ecosystem.
nowlistening Featured Now Listening: A New Industrial Roundup For New Industrial artists and labels, the refusal to be categorized is the category.
Paid-members only wordswith Words With: Autechre, Vol. 2 (2015) The complete transcript of my 2015 conversation with Autechre, published for the first time—in two parts.
Paid-members only wordswith Featured Words With: Autechre, Vol. 1 (2015) The complete transcript of my 2015 conversation with Autechre, published for the first time—in two parts.
Look Back: A Ghost in the Machine (an Autechre feature from 2015) A nearly 10-year old feature on Autechre—with the complete interview transcript to follow.
longform Longform: The New Industrial Or why Dean Blunt might be the truest spiritual successor to Throbbing Gristle.
wordswith Words With: Simon Popp & Polygonia Collaboration, musical backgrounds, Ableton vs. hardware, alternative percussion instruments, spontaneity, techno-jazz intersections, Munich and the midsize-city advantage.
nowlistening Now Listening: Black Decelerant, Lara Sarkissian, Darlynn, Geier aus Stahl, Hotspring Meditative jazz textures, filmic soundscapes, sunny vocal-led house music, funky machine music, ambient-ish songwriting with dub sensibility.
lookback Look Back: CS + Kreme – "Snoopy" Déjà vu, haunted-romance R&B, lysergic downtempo, occult sensibility, "The Wicker Man," Coil.
longform Longform: Exiting the Vampire Algorithm A defense of human-led music discovery in the digital age—with apologies to Mark Fisher.
wordswith Words With: Cone Shape Top Bay Area-Philly-NYC rave history, hiddenness vis-à-vis intentionality, artistic collaboration, community building, alternative commerce.
nowlistening Now Listening: Innode, Swiftumz, Ali Berger, Cola Ren, Bézier Percussive alien electronics, fuzzy power pop, jazzy house music, crystalline Eastern-Western downtempo, analog-future techno with live drums.
Endtroducing... Welcome to Thoughts of a Certain Sound, a new publication—part newsletter, part zine, part journal—examining contemporary culture through a musical lens. My name is Chris Zaldua, and I'm a Bay Area-based writer, music obsessive, and event organizer (or "culture producer," if I'm
