reading pitchfork's 50 best IDM albums list got me to dig out a handful of absolute all-time heaters for today. pitchfork.com/features/lis...
David James 🍩
@funkentechno.bsky.social
dad, writer, web dev, mixtapes https://www.mixcloud.com/OptimisticUnderground/ https://buymeacoffee.com/funkentechno
it's a crazy busy day but I've been locked tf in with nonstop Deepchord to keep me going and folks, I can't recommend this stuff enough.
Sterling is back in charge of the office dog bed, guarding the record colleciton
I forgot to post my July grid so here it is. I don't normally do a monthly grid but I figure this shows off some albums that maybe didn't top individual weeks but got consistent plays anyway
New grips. The mailman has been very good to me lately. 🔊 Ron Trent 🔊 Yu Su 🔊 Hoavi 🔊 Shrunken Elvis
rinsing Larry Heard's atmospheric future-jazz chillout session first thing in the morning 🪐
I'm half a year late but I'm finally listening to the Geologist album Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights? and this is fantastic.
Shrunken Elvis 🌬️ So happy to finally own one of my favorite albums of 2025, a slice of pastoral, ECM-coded kosmiche music that feels like Pat Metheny morphing into an Ashra jam by way of Terje Rypdal and even a bit of Emeralds
Watching my first Powell & Pressburger tonight. Pretty excited, heard this one is kind of astonishing.
Chilling with Letty on a patio by the lake with some beers. Hope you guys are having a good Sunday too
My son is a frog-finding savant, and he's so gentle with them. Not sure if we've seen this kind before, with the orange stripe
Just watched this childhood favorite with my son, he loved it. Wants a little family of UFOs as pets now.
just finished my run through these albums, was unable to put on disc 3 of Dimensional Space because a cat claimed my lap and won't get off.
David James 🍩@funkentechno.bsky.social · 5d agoFriday afternoon essentials 🍃
Was lovely chatting with Bill, he asked some great questions and we got into the weeds of making GUEST LIST & coming out of my solo shell.
The Tonearm@thetonearm.com · 5d agoOn his fourth album for Hausu Mountain, and his first on vinyl, the restless synthesist talks improvisation, the burden of the solo record, and the surprises that arrived in the mail. The Tonearm's Bill Kopp works the door. The Company of Others — M. Geddes Gengras and 'Guest List':
happy friday, friends! last 7 days have been very good. though I slept with my contacts in for the first time last night, oops
Gliding through the day with this ridiculously lush ambient/jungle comp from 1995 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNmb...
VA – Artcore - Ambient/Jungle(1995)[Full Album]
YouTube video by NPMT Underground
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We're over halfway through 2026 so I figured it's time to post my list of the best new-to-me albums discovered this year so far. Spans from decades ago up to last year, in the order I first heard them.
I just watched this tonight for the first time.. really good.
Underworld's Second Toughest in the Infants. 30 years old and still sounds like the future. Perfection.
you bet your ass I ordered the (regular) vinyl edition!!!
The Quietus@thequietus.com · last wk.@warprecords.bsky.social has announced a 25th anniversary edition of @aphextwin.bsky.social's 2001 album Drukqs—in quadruple vinyl, double-CD, double-cassette and digital formats. There will also be a limited-edition remake of the ‘chocolate box’ four vinyl record box set buff.ly/B71Rc8J
I've been blasting Drukqs for a couple hours now, brain properly scrambled.. not recommended for work soundtrack but whatever. I'm hyped about the news that they're (very likely) reissuing it on vinyl finally!
Warping into deep space with Patrick Cowley this morning, god this is such perfect music
