Quarterly Reports

03.30.26

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A long list to start the year off.

Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, which I have mentioned previously, deserves a call out as an honorable mention for this quarter’s list. Although an interesting read, it was slow and could have benefitted from a bit more editing.

Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother and Bobbito Garcia’s Doin' It In The Park, although making the grade, came close to being honorable mentions as well.

Tracks:

  • Grauzone: Eisbär

  • Sa Pa: Irradiate

  • Blue Mitchell: Good Humor Man

  • Galina Juritz: Spirit Level (feat. Buddy Wells, Andrew Lilley, Jonno Sweetman & Stephen de Souza)

  • Babe Roots: Jah Nuh Dub (feat. IXM)

  • World Renown: Come Take a Ride

  • World Renown: How Nice I Am

  • Common: Like They Used to Say

  • Jigmastas: Lyrical Fluctuation (feat. Mr. Complex, Pharoahe Monch, Shabaam Sahdeeq & Talib Kweli)

  • Sly & Robbie: Crime (Who Are the Criminals?)

  • Sly & Robbie: Extraterrestrial Invasion

  • Sly & Robbie: Conference

  • Freestyle Fellowship: Can You Find the Level of Difficulty In This?

  • Conjunto Concerto Viola: Retiro: Tema de Amor Número 3

  • Lia Ouyang Rusli: To The Lighthouse

  • Black Uhuru: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

  • Your Old Droog: Bubble Hill

  • Your Old Droog: Rst (feat. DOOM & Mach Hommy)

  • JANKA & CRZKNY: Kaori Dub

  • Janka: Piesek Dub

  • Common + Sadat X: 1999

  • Bambooman: M1

  • Erik Jabari: Resound

  • Sa Pa: Gausian Ecstacy

  • Mr. Dé: Shake It Baby

  • Hieroglyphics: The Who [Del Mix}

  • Radiohead: How to Disappear Completely

  • Radiohead: You and Whose Army?

  • Radiohead: Pyramid Song

  • Aphex Twin: Minipops 67 [120.2] [Source Field Mix]

  • Woody Shaw: Sun Bath

  • Neu!: Hallogallo

  • Beneficence: Digital Warfare (feat. Inspectah Deck)

  • Nickelus F: Dead Ends

  • 時代樂樂隊: 脸儿红心儿跳

  • JJ DOOM: Wash Your Hands

  • Gregory Hutchinson: Orbits (feat. Ambrose Akinmusire, Ron Blake, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders)

  • New Age Steppers/Creation Rebel: Chemical Specialist

  • Sly & Robbie: Weeping Willow

  • Sly & Robbie: Mystic Mix

  • Sly & Robbie: Eden Dub

  • Foresteppe: Little Bird Cherries

  • Ciro Vitiello: Please Please Dear Seagull

  • OMD: Electricity

Albums:

Radio:

  • Sophia Zhuravkova W/Jefre Cantu-Ledesma [NTS]

Reads:

Film + TV:

  • Hoop Dreams

  • They Live

  • The Studio

  • The Secret Agent

  • Arco

  • Moonstruck

  • Fog Of War

  • Geoff McFetridge: Drawing A Life

  • Sun Ra: Do The Impossible [American Masters]

  • Father Mother Sister Brother

  • Doin' It In The Park

  • Frances Ha

  • It Was Just An Accident

  • In The Loop

Podcasts:

Events:

Seen:

Places:

RIP:

01.04.26

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A slow end to the year, I did not keep notes as carefully as I normally do.

Tracks:

  • Earl Sweatshirt: Fire in the Hole

  • Fontaines D.C.: Too Real

  • Krystof: Gate Passage

  • Eddie Marcon: 真夜中の音楽 / Mayonaka No Ongaku

  • Raphael Roginski: Electron

  • KNOTS: Action

  • The Bags: Survive

  • The Brat: Starry Night

  • Tom Skinner: Kaleidoscopic Visions

  • Object Agency: Honey, I Automated the Kids

  • Sun Ra Quartet: When There Is No Sun

  • Lewsberg: All Things

  • Kama Aina: Hotaru

  • Tony MacMahon: The Wounded Hussar

  • The Tights: Cracked

  • The Toys: Blanket to Blanket

  • Jet: Start Here

  • Robin Richards: B-R

  • Andrew Pekler: Close To Strangers

  • H.Takahashi: Körper

  • Hesitation: Three Way Mirror

  • Natural Information Society: Perseverance Flow

  • Joe McPhee: Tenor Solo

  • Babe Roots: Over Babylon

  • Octaedre: M Nature II

  • Mike Schommer: Violet's Dream

  • Steve Lacy: Shuffle Boil

  • El Choop: Ethereal

  • El Choop: A Jaded City [Pt.I]

  • El Choop: Narrow Pulse

  • Your Old Droog & Edan: Ghostwriter

  • Paul St. Hilaire & Mala: Like It’s Always Been

  • American Contemporary Music Ensemble: In a Treeless Place, Only Snow

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience: If 6 Was 9

  • Nas + Premier: It's Time

  • Nas + Premier: Writers

  • Nas + Premier: My Life Is Real

  • The Humble Bee: 06.01.2010

  • Lullatone: leaves falling

  • Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a Madman

  • Black Sabbath: Breakout

  • Black Sabbath: Air Dance

  • Black Sabbath: Never Say Die

  • Simon Fisher Turner: I Love You More Than My Eyes

  • Pablo Picasso: Not Movin' -1983

  • Sleaford Mods: West End Girls

  • Low End Activist: Airdrop 04 [Merv's Lazy Eye]

Albums:

Radio:

Film + TV:

Podcasts:

RIP:

  • Jane Goodall

  • Diane Keaton

  • Saul Zabar

  • Ace Frehley

  • Alison Knowles

  • Frank Ghery

  • Rob Reiner


10.08.25

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Keeping a rhythm or at least trying to.

Tracks:

  • Diamond D: The Hiatus

  • Flying Lotus: Melt!

  • Lifeguard: Under Your Reach

  • Slick Rick + Nas: Documents

  • Duffy x Uhlmann: Etch

  • Solo Andata: Live in Tokyo [April 10, 2010]

  • Taylor Deupree: Live in Tokyo [April 11, 2010]

  • Solo Andata: Live in Melbourne

  • Taylor Deupree: Live in Melbourne

  • Diamond + The Psychotic Neurotics: I'm Outta Here

  • Clipse: The Funeral

  • Geechi Suede: BX Sniper

  • Dilated Peoples + Defari: Third Degree

  • Dilated Peoples + Joey Chavez: Heavy Lighting

  • Cynthia Dall: Holland

  • Bauhaus: She's in Parties

  • Droogie Otis + Killer Mike: The Edge

  • Parquet Courts: Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience

  • Parquet Courts: Berlin Got Blurry

  • Thee Oh Sees: Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster

  • Skee Mask: Rev8617

  • Skee Mask: Session Add

  • Brigitte Bardot + Serge Gainsbourg: Bonnie And Clyde

  • Jay Electronica: Road To Perdition

  • Loren Connors: Whispers

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain: Upside Down

  • Peter & The Test Tube Babies: Blown Out Again

  • Paul Revere & The Raiders: Kicks

Albums:

Reads:

Film + TV:

  • The Bear

  • Severance

  • Kim's Video

  • Minnesota Hardcore

  • Finding Vivian Maier

  • Slacker

  • 45365

  • Before Sunrise

  • Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off

  • Pavements

  • Johny Stecchino

  • Paterson

  • Night on Earth

  • Among Wolves

  • Bird

  • Thelma

Podcasts:

Places:

  • Half Moon Rondout Cafe

Seen:

Events:

RIP

08.18.25

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Slow to collate and post this time around.

I am leaving Spotify, more details in another post, all links to previous posted playlists will be removed.

Q2.25

Tracks:

  • 秋山徹次: Transparent Encephalon

  • Gloria Jones: Tainted Love

  • Just Brothers: Sliced Tomatoes

  • O.C. + Big L + Diamond D: Get Yours [Remix]

  • Showbiz + A.G.: Spit

  • Stone Alliance: Sweetie-Pie

  • Edwin Starr: Twenty Five Miles

  • Kara-Lis Coverdale: Daze

  • Droogie Otis: Everything Designer

  • Fuubutsushi: Harmony of Irrelevant Facts

  • Wrecked Lightship: Reeling Mist

  • Anagrams: Prescription

  • Britton Judd: Caterpillar Treehouse

  • Omni Gardens: Now Is Now

  • Masahiro Takahashi + Karen Ng: Kogarashi

  • Stezo: It's My Turn

  • O Terco: Adormeceu

  • Barker: Fluid Mechanics

  • Jorge Ben Jor: Ponta De Lança Africano

  • Tortoise: Oganesson

  • Nice & Smooth: Funky For You

  • Stephen Drury: Dream [John Cage, 1948]

  • Elodie: Vieux Silence

  • Taylor Deupree + The Humble Bee: Case Study 7

  • Taylor Deupree + The Humble Bee: Case Study 5

  • Hinode Tapes + Hiroki Chiba: Hinode Tapes #11

  • Hinode Tapes + Hiroki Chiba: Hinode Tapes #12

  • Fadi Mohem: Solvent

  • Fadi Mohem: Solute

  • Kerri Chandler: Downtown

  • Kerri Chandler: The Bassline [Kerri's Dark Mix]

  • Kerri Chandler: Syntax Error

  • Kerri Chandler: Hexadecimal [Chord Version]

  • Kerri Chandler: What If

  • Pan-American + Kramer: Under The Mariana Trench

  • Kara-Lis Coverdale: Freedom

  • Purelink: Circle of Dust

  • Venigmas: Turn The Light Out

  • Kara-Lis Coverdale: Offload Flip

  • Ken Parker :True, True, True

  • Flower-Corsano Duo: The River That Turned Into a Raging Fire

  • Errol Holden: Hot 90sevend Out

  • Ronnie Laws: Tidal Wave

  • Evidence: Where You Come From? (feat. Rakaa, Lil Fame & Termanology)

  • Kendrick Lamar: PRIDE.

  • Stanley Cowell: Travelin' Man

  • Vast Aire: Tippin Dominos [RJD2 Remix]

  • Lone Catalysts: Ones We Miss

  • Brian Wilson: Love And Mercy

Albums:

Mixes

Reads

Places

Film + TV

  • Slow Horses: Season 4

  • Regular Show

  • Andor: Season 2

  • Shall We Dance

  • Pee Wee As Himself

  • Robot Chicken: Star Wars

  • Fremont

RIP

  • Val Kilmer

  • Sacha Jenkins

  • IRIS Storefront, Montclair

  • Sly Stone

  • Brian Wilson

  • Anne Burrell

03.28.25

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Q1.25

First one of the year, a little early this time around.

Tracks:

  • Ghost Dubs: The Regulator

  • DTMD, Godly MC, Kev Brown: Raw

  • New Order: Dreams Never End

  • René Löwe + Paul St. Hilaire: Faith [No Vox Mix]

  • The Roots: Proceed V [Beatminerz Mix]

  • Heltah Skeltah + Smif-N-Wessun: W.M.D.

  • Skyzoo, Illmind, Heltah Skeltah: The Burn Notice

  • Diamond D, Tek, Reef Hustle, Shortee Sha: HYENAS

  • The Love In: Late As Usual

  • Strangeways: All The Sounds Of Fear

  • The Shivvers: Please Stand By

  • Meat Whiplash: Don't Slip Up

  • Smif-N-Wessun: Elephant In The Room

  • Redman + Method Man: Lalala

  • Ana Roxanne: Suite Pour L'invisible

  • Shoes: Tomorrow Night

  • George Benson: Shadow Dancers

  • Dobby Dobson: Loving Pauper

  • George Harrison: What Is Life

  • Ulysses Wells: Blues Runs The Game

  • Wreckless Eric: Whole Wide World [Alternative Version]

  • Lonnie Liston Smith + The Cosmic Echoes: Devika (Goddess)

  • Miłosz Pękala: Juju

  • Audio Two: Top Billin

  • Big Daddy Kane: Young, Gifted and Black

  • Wrecked Lightship: Hex

  • Wrecked Lightship: Sunken Skies

  • Insane Poetry: Let Em Know

  • The Normal: Warm Leatherette

  • Art Blakey + The Jazz Messengers:A Chant For Bu

Spotify Playlist

Albums:

Radio:

  • Outsiders: Objects & Sounds - Spotlight on Florabelle [Kiosk Radio]

  • Footsteps Of Reggae: 12.21.24 [WKCR]

Playlists:

  • Hinode Tapes Inspirations: 1 + 2

Reads:

Film + TV:

  • Nebraska

  • A Real Pain

  • Everything Is Illuminated

  • Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary

  • We Beat The Dream Team

  • Celtics City

  • Pioneers of Hip-Hop Series [1, 2, 3]

  • West Wing: Season 1

  • Meat Puppets: Finn + Friends: 1985

Podcasts:

  • Drink Champs: 3rd Bass

Events:

  • Open Collage Night @ IRIS

RIP:

  • David Lynch

  • Gene Hackman

  • David Johansen

  • Roy Ayers

03.06.25

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Q4.24

Late again, I am sure to have missed a few things.

Tracks:

  • K. Yoshimatsu: Poplar

  • Pan-American + Kramer: A Mountain is an Ancestor

  • Channel One: Cornmeal Dub

  • Galaxie 500: Shout You Down

  • Alton Ellis: I'm Still In Love

  • Larry Marshall: Throw Mi Corn

  • Alton Ellis: Hurting Me

  • Hortense Ellis: People Make The World Go Round

  • Ken Boothe + Joe Higgs: A Message of Old

  • Ken Boothe: I Don't Want to See You Cry

  • Emmer & Einkorn: Hob's House

  • Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum + Durr: You Can't Blame Me

  • The Gaylads: It's Hard to Confess

  • Raime: This Foundry [Regis Version]

  • Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi's Dead [Official Version]

  • The Troggs: Our Love Will Still Be There

  • Delroy Wilson: Better Must Come

  • Derrick Harriott + The Crystalites: Tonight

  • Kaiju: Pride

  • Joe Gibbs + The Professionals: Rockers Dub

  • Infiniti: Thought Process

  • Infiniti: Walking on Water

  • Infiniti: Game One

  • MF DOOM: Vomitspit

  • Civilistjävel!: XII

  • Civilistjävel!: II

  • Civilistjävel!: I

  • Fergus Jones: It Should Be (Free)

  • Fergus Jones: Heap

  • Blaq Poet + DJ Premier: I-Gititin

  • Blaq Poet + DJ Premier: S.O.S.

  • Heather B: Sendin' Em Back

  • The Alchemist + Earl Sweatshirt: E. Coli

  • The Alchemist: Paint Different

  • The Alchemist: Turkish Link

  • The Alchemist: Vertigo

  • Non Phixion: Sleepwalkers

  • BADBADNOTGOOD: Kaleidoscope

  • Landlord: I Like It [Blow Out Dub]

  • Youngsta + Mucky Update: Plenty

  • Horace Andy: You Are My Angel

  • Your Old Droog: SUSPECTS

  • Yo La Tengo: Leaving Home

Spotify Playlist

Albums:

  • Antipop Consortium: Shopping Carts Crashing [Antipop Recordings]

  • Antipop Consortium: Tragic Epilogue [75 Ark]

  • Siah + Yeshua dapoED: The Visualz Anthology [Head Bop Music]

  • Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus [Official Recordings]

  • Nas: Illlmatic [Columbia]

  • Seaworthy + Matt Rösner: Deep Valley [12k]

  • NUG: Bong Boat [West Mineral Ltd.]

  • Pan-American + Kramer: Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road [Shimmy Disc]

  • Will Samson: Harp Swells [12k]

  • perila: Intrinsic Rhythm [Sferic]

  • Yuichiro Fujimoto: Speaks Melodies [Audio Dregs]

  • Taylor Deupree: Ash [Nettwerk]

  • Zero Key: 01 [False Aralia]

  • Selfsame: 02 [False Aralia]

  • Katharina Schmidt: Another Year [Vertical Music]

  • Billy Gomberg: Nanahari Edit [Dinzu Artefacts]

Radio:

  • Daniel Blumin: Tribute to Steve Roden [WFMU]

  • Space Afrika: èvia [NTS]

  • Tuff Shed [NTS]

Reads:

Film + TV:

Seen:

Places:

RIP:

  • Clark Kent

  • Quincy Jones

10.27.24

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Q3.24

A little late. I am sure to have missed a few things.

Tracks:

  • Taylor Deupree: Deupree Live @ Tonic 11.26.02

  • Common + Pete Rock: Dreamin'

  • Common + Pete Rock: All Kind Of Ideas

  • Rhucle + Morimoto Naoki: Kigi

  • Barrington Levy: Robin Hood

  • Appleblim + Peverelist: Over Here

  • Non Phixion: Four W's

  • Ill Bill: Gangsta Rap

  • J Dilla + MED + Guilty Simpson: Jungle Love

  • Gregory Isaacs: One One Cocoa

  • Gregory Isaacs: Lonely Soldier

  • The Caretaker: Moments Of Sufficient Lucidity

  • Skúli Sverrisson: Sería

  • Mark Pritchard: Elephant Dub

  • J Dilla + Black Thought: Love Movin'

  • Leroy Smart: I Don't Like It

  • Sogar: PE

  • Minamo: Stay Still

  • The Congos: Fisherman Dub

  • Gyeongsu + June: Lead to Curse

  • Rhucle + Morimoto Naoki: Kisui

  • Azu Tiwaline + Forest Drive West: The Pitch

  • Seaworthy + Matt Rösner: Bundanon

  • Joe Yorke + The Co-Operators: Invasion Dub

  • Jah Shaka + Mad Professor: Ecological Dub

  • Oh No + Roc C: Move

  • J Dilla: The $

  • Your Old Droog + Conductor Williams: Mercury Thermometers

  • The Alchemist: Gangster Banger

  • The Alchemist: Wet Wipes

  • The Alchemist: Big League Chew

  • The Alchemist: Guns Is Razor

  • Michael Scott Dawson + M. Sage: Where There Is Happiness There Is Happiness

  • Steve Gunn: Clean Floor

  • UNKNOWN ME: Can You Hear a New World

  • Nala Sinephro: Continuum 1

  • Lina Filipovich: Wave

  • Pan-American: Point Harbor

  • Chelsea Bridge + Pan-American: New News

  • MJ Guider: To The Hour

Spotify Playlist

Albums:

Mixes:

Reads:

Places:

Seen:

Film + TV:

RIP:

  • Dr. Ruth

  • Bill Viola

  • James Earl Jones

  • Hakeem Olajuwon

07.04.24

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Q2.24

I am sure to have missed a few things.

Tracks:

  • Masta Ace: Staurday Nite Live [L.A. Jay Mix]

  • Danny Paul Grody + Rich Douthit: Last Light

  • Madlib + Black Thought + Your Old Droog: REEKYOD

  • Rachika Nayar: Memory As Minatures

  • Mark McGuire: Radio Flyer

  • Nas: It Ain't Hard To Tell [Remix]

  • IDRA: What You Thouhgt That Day

  • Codename John: Warned

  • Nas: Nasty

  • Nas: Define My Name

  • Units: High Pressure Days

  • Ambassadors: Ain't Got The Love (Of One Girl On My Mind)

  • Bassque Dub Foundation: Walls Of Dub

  • Carlton Livingston: 100 Weight

  • Colloboh: Zero Day

  • Common + Pete Rock: Wise Up

  • Giant Panda: With It

  • Metamatics: Vanishing Point

  • Stray: Pushed

  • Ben Bondy: Hum

  • Nueen: The Now Liminal

  • Mike Slott: Letting Go

  • Miris: Streams Of Activity

  • IDRA: Remembering Me

  • Jon Fay: Untitled 2

  • Fuubutsushi: Nora Nora

  • Fuubutsushi: Tenel Ka (First Crush)

  • Dubamine: Mosquito Dub

Spotify Playlist

Albums:

  • Sawako: Sounds [12k]

Playlists:

Podcasts:

Radio:

  • Purelink [NTS]

  • Pan American [NTS]

  • Early Bird Show [NTS]

  • Young Echo [NTS]

Places:

Reads:

Photographers:

Film + TV:

RIP:

  • Sawako: I am happy to have had the opportunity to see Sawako several years ago at Grand Ferry Park in Brooklyn, Kenneth Kirschner, although from a separate performance, sums up the experience of seeing her perform live:


    ”In trying to explain her work to others, I always fall back on a story from her New York days. She was playing an outdoor concert in one of the old community gardens in the East Village – amidst traffic, noise, talking, the city’s endless sonic chaos. And never for a second was a single sound out of place. Every car horn, every obnoxious passerby’s loud conversation, every plane flying overhead – it was as if she controlled them all, as if the scattered fragments of the city’s soundscape were her very own instrument, each a seamless, perfect, intentional part of her unfolding composition. With Sawako there was no inside or outside, no nature or artifice, no music or non-music. There was only the world. Her tiny universe.”


    A remembrance from The Wire.
    Sawako talks Sound.

  • Mister Cee: I first came across Mister Cee from his radio show with Mr. Magic on WNYC on Thursday nights, The Best Of Both Worlds, in the mid 90s, which lead me to other underground radio shows such as New York Live with Riz and Mayhem and eventually Stretch & Bobbito. As time went I came to understand more Mister Cee’s role and impact on the hip hop community, pushing and representing the culture until his last days.

    His tribute to Guru still gets play on occasion.

  • Steve Albini

06.02.24

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After not coming up with a year end list this year, I came to accept that time works a little bit differently for me currently and have decided to try and do quarterly lists with the possibility of creating year end lists more easily if I choose to.

Q1.24

Tracks:

  • Wil Bolton: Patina

  • Four Tet: 31 Bloom

  • Pan American & Kramer: The Caretaker

  • Koel Holtkamp: Haus und Spirale im Regen

  • Koel Holtkamp: Sky Flowers

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Chorale | Look For Me Here [Solo Andala Remix]

  • Reggae Regular: Ghetto Dubbing

  • Hi Timess Band: Just Dubbing

  • Sly & Robbie: Trappers Dub

  • Sandwell District: Haiku [Regis Edit]

  • Craven Faults: Tenter Ground

  • 9th Wonder: CrushinYallVillas!!!!!

  • Dean Blunt: STOOZY [Kwake Dub Version 2]

  • Joanna John & Burkhaaard Sstangl: Birds Cannot Enter the Poem

  • 3rd Bass: The Gas Face

  • Paul Riedl: Searching For Light

  • Jeru The Damaja: The Prophet

  • Frankenstein: Nebula

  • The Lounge Lizards: A Paper Bag and the Sun

  • nthng: Moving On

  • Marc Codsi: The Day Before

  • Nu Shooz: I Can’t Wait

  • Overmono: Is U

  • Overmono: So U Kno

  • Diverse & Mos Def: Wylin Out [RJD2 Remix]

  • Gangstarr: Comin’ For The Datazz

  • Von D: Surrealiste Skank

  • Blondde Redhead: Snowman

  • Dion: Only You Know

Spotify Playlist

Albums:

Mixes:

Podcasts:

Radio:

  • Kit Records [NTS]

Stores:

Reads:

Photographers:

Film + TV:

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm

RIP:

  • Phil Niblock

  • Richard Lewis

  • Silent Servant