03.28.25

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

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

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

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

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

05.07.23

Another year of distorted space and time; a little late on the list this year but, as the saying goes, better late than never.

Some lists, in no order, of a few things that helped me get through 2022.

Music

  • Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers [Top Dawg Entertainment]

  • Civilistjävel!: Järnnätter [Felt]

  • Lifeguard: Crowd Can Talk [Born Yesterday Records]

  • Thme

  • J.Rawls: #jazzhop [Polar Entertainment]

  • Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer: Februarys [Dauw]

  • Fuubutsushi: Birthingbodies EP [Cached]

  • Fuubutsushi: Good Sky Day [Longform Editions]

  • Morimoto Naoki: Kotoba [Seil]

  • IDRA & Hiroshi Ebina: Circle [Mystery Circles]

  • Sawako: Stella Epoca [12k]

  • Danny Paul Grody: Sunrise, Looking East [Longform Editions]

  • N. Kramer: Altered Scenes and Slight Variations [Leaving Records]

  • J. Foerster + N. Kramer: Habitat [Leaving Records]

  • JID: The Forever Story [Dreamville]

  • Minamo & Asuna: Tail of Diffraction [12k]

  • Nathan Salsburg: Landwerk No. 3 [No Quarter]

  • Mura Oka: Auftakt [Latency]

  • Damu The Fudgemunk: How It Should Sound, Vol. 1 & 2 [Redefinition Records]

  • The Kinks: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation [Pye]

Film

  • Decision to Leave

  • The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Triangle of Sadness

TV Series

  • Slow Horses

  • The Bear

  • What We Do in the Shadows

  • Barry

  • Severance

  • Atlanta

  • The Rehearsal

  • Our Flag Means Death

  • Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

  • Ramy

  • Mo

  • Andor

  • Hacks

Podcasts

  • Will Be Wild

Radio

  • Paul Bruno [WFMU]

  • Footsteps of Reggae [WKCR]

03.27.22

Listening to the Dead Kennedys series from No Dogs In Space rekindled an interest and nostalgia in zines for me; this was different from my curiosity around the sub culture of graffiti zines, lead by the likes of Carnage, and the overwhelming amount of zines that Printed Matter promotes and curates. My intrigue was rooted in the music editorial and art direction of these early publications, having created an aesthetic of their time period that has become a framework for what followed, and, possibly, an original version of what current tech product circles would call user generated content.

A hyperlink brain dump:

How to make a zine via The Creative Independent

Damage, Slash, and No Mag zine collections via Circulation Zero

A history of metal through fanzines via Send Me Back My Stamps

DC Punk zine archive

One-page Artist Books via Quarantine Public Library

Leaderless: Underground Cassette Culture Now via Printed Matter

02.01.22

Unlike previous years, it was challenging to recall everything that came out in 2021 and even more challenging to remember what happened in 2021, the second year of a distorted space time .

Some lists, in no order, of a few things that helped me get through 2021.

Music

  • Taylor Deupree: Mur [Dauw]

  • Federico Durnad

  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Ilyas Ahmed: You Can See Your Own Way Out [Devotion]

  • Mach-Hommy: Pray For Haiti [Griselda Records/Daupe!]

  • Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt: Made Out Of Sound [Palilalia Records]

  • M. Sage: Wants A Diamond Pivot Bright [Florabelle]

  • Patrick Shiroishi: Hidemi [American Dreams Records]

  • Perila & Ulla: Memories of Log [VAAGNER]

  • Thme: Red roses are red now [Seil]

  • Olivia Block: October, 1984 [Longform Editions]

  • Lea Bertucci: A Visible Length of Light [Cibachrome Editions]

  • Midori Hirano: Soniscope [Dauw]

  • Matt Rösner: No Lasting Form [Room40]

  • Fuubutsushi: Shiki [Cached]

  • Josh Mason: Recreación Segura [Self Released]

Film

  • Dune

  • Sisters With Transistors

  • The French Dispatch

  • The Beatles: Get Back

  • The Velvet Underground

TV Series

  • White Lotus

  • Succession

  • Mare of Easttown

  • WandaVision

  • Ted Lasso

Podcasts

  • No Dogs In Space

  • The Dropout

  • Did I Ever Tell You the One About...MF DOOM

Reads

  • Girl in a Band: A Memoir: Kim Gordon

  • Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest: Hanif Abdurraqib

01.01.21

Starting the new year by closing out the previous year.

A list, in no order, of a few things I listened to that helped me get through 2020.

  • The Professionals: The Professionals [Madlib Invazion]

  • Jeff Parker: Suite For Max Brown [International Anthem]

  • Kirk Barley: Landscapes [33 33]

  • Beatrice Dillion: Workaround [PAN]

  • Ulla: Tumbling Towards A Wall [Experiences Ltd]

  • Dylan Henner: Flues Of Disappearing Sand [Dauw]

  • The Necks: Three [Northern Spy]

  • Federico Durand: Alba [12k]

  • Andrew Tuttle: Alexandra [Someone Good]

  • Sofie Birch: Hidden Terraces [Vaknar]

  • Green-House: Six Songs For Invisible Gardens [Leaving Records]

  • Kin Leonn + Hiroshi Ebina: Faraway Vicinity [Kitchen Label]

  • Hiroshi Yoshimura: Green [Light In The Attic]

  • Twilite Tone: The Clearing [Stones Throw]

  • KMRU: Jar [Seil]

  • Quakers: Supa K: Heavy Tremors [Stones Throw]

  • Quakers: II: The Next Wave [Stones Throw]

  • Various: Still In My Arms [A Colourful Storm]

  • Roméo Poirier: Hotel Nota [sferic]

  • Josh Mason: 'Aumakua [Longform Editions]

  • Taylor Deupree: Canoe [Longform Editions]

  • Strategy: The Babbling Brook [Longform Editions]

  • Pan American: Nightbirds [Longform Editions]

  • Green-House: Passiflora [Longform Editions]

  • DJ Koco: 45 Live Volume 1 + 2

  • Marcus Fischer: Futuresequence 11 Mix

  • Kin Leonn: Singapore Community Radio Mix