Writer, music liker, sometimes event producer. Bay Area-based.
Meditative jazz textures, filmic soundscapes, sunny vocal-led house music, funky machine music, ambient-ish songwriting with dub sensibility.
Déjà vu, haunted-romance R&B, lysergic downtempo, occult sensibility, "The Wicker Man," Coil.
A defense of human-led music discovery in the digital age—with apologies to Mark Fisher.
Bay Area-Philly-NYC rave history, hiddenness vis-à-vis intentionality, artistic collaboration, community building, alternative commerce.
Percussive alien electronics, fuzzy power pop, jazzy house music, crystalline Eastern-Western downtempo, analog-future techno with live drums.
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'