Now Listening: Ambient dub, mood pop, alt rock, joyous club
Music by Davis Galvin, ex_libris, sachi's mirror, Roomer, schuttle + Jorg Kuning.
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Dripping 2025 reconfigured my festival calculus
Discomfort, acceptance, surprise, and exaltation in the woods of New Jersey.
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Words With Orchestroll: Montreal, Milan, Ghosts in the Machine
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Asaël Robitaille discuss collaboration, hybridization, soundsystem ambient, and "Corrosiv," their new album on 29 Speedway.
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Now Listening: Introspective Dance Music, Crab-Walk Rhythms, Diasporic Drum'n'Bass
Records by Mineral Stunting, Plumes of Enceladus, Lara Sarkissian, Yetsuby, and Cahl Sel.
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Silicon Valley Hates You
The Silicon Valley death drive is the resoundingly anti-human, anti-creative conceit at the root of generative AI development.
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Words With Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Root Strata, the San Francisco Scene, and Music as Gift
The roots of Root Strata and its S.F. scene; the genesis of "Gift Songs"; ambient music as phenomenon; the creative process.
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Now Listening: Deep Drone, New Industrial, Downtempo Freak Rippers
New records from Grand River, Civilistjävel!, Rivet, Torn Hawk, and Enxin/Onyx.
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Words With: TRjj, TRii, TRii Group
Conversations with a mysterious German artist on authorship, the intimacy of music, sharing art as a means of sharing oneself, graphic design, and more.
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Now Listening: Cosmic Ambience with a Side of Jazz Drumming
New records from Reed Michaels, Freivogel / Sinclaire, DOVS, ASC, and Raven.
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Techno and the Chinese Century: 'The Last Year of Darkness' in review
This 2023 film about club culture and queer nightlife in Chengdu, China, is a compelling watch—and an eye-opening one.
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Words With: James Whipple (Hesaitix, M.E.S.H.)
Musical hiatuses, production flow, artistic growth, connecting with listeners, doing your own thing.
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Nine Records I Loved in 2024
Hesaitix; Thomas Bush; Daria Lourd; V/Z; Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance; Young Echo; TRii Group; Danny Daze; Dregs.
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