Over the past month I've been trying to avoid podcasts. I pay attention to politics closely, but even the shows I listen to that aren't about politics mention enough of it to annoy me.
So I've been listening to a lot of music lately, and made a post about it:
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I shared a few trip hop and downtempo standouts to start the day that I'll definitely go back to.
Number 2 should be posted in the next week or so.
I may even amend this post with a link!
October's Playlists
Four were posted throughout the month; a couple of Samplers (100 minutes) and couple of Sessions (200 minutes).
I used this photo in the art because it was shot in 2016. Click the image above to go to the playlist post
100 minutes of songs from 2010 to 2019.
Here's the direct links to the playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music & YouTube
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100 minutes of music from 1970 to 1979
Here's the direct links to the playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music & YouTube
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200 minutes of kissing cousins—this skews heavily towards the 90s but does feature several tracks from the past twenty years as well.
This was a fun playlist to put together—Jungle and Drum n Bass aren't the same thing, and I knew that going in, but this was a good opportunity to do a little research:Jungle music emerged in the UK in the 90s from the breakbeat hardcore scene, shifting towards faster rhythms, more complex percussion and heavy sampling of reggae, dancehall, funk and jazz music, with a particular emphasis on the Amen break
Around the mid-90s, a new style of bass began to evolve; louder, rolling, resonant and ultra-low, with inaudible frequencies the listener feels more than hears. These basslines are interplayed with more precise and more frequently synthesized percussion
Shout out to my buddy Charles for help with the artwork for the playlist cover; he's a visual artist and sculptor that remixes everything from photos he makes, to now-obscure comics he grew up with:
The original art is by the great John Buscema from a sci-fi mini series called Bront he created for The Savage Sword of Conan sometime in the 70s
Here's the direct links to the playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music & YouTube
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200 minutes of Japanese rock music.
There's something that's been frustrating me for years now.
Any time I'm searching for new J-rock, my social media feeds immediately become cluttered with anime.
I'd be lying if I pretended it wasn't a big part of my initial exposure to Japanese music, but after a deep dive as a teenager in the 90s, my interest in anime deflated back to the mean and nowadays I'm just skeptical.
And...
Manga has always been better.
Anyways, this playlist is my feeble attempt to de-couple one from the other, and features a bunch of metal, punk, new wave, alt, stoner, ska, garage, EBM and just a little bit (as in two tracks) of power metal—this is a playlist for a workout after all.
Here's the direct links to the playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music & YouTubeA Thought
I might do a longer post about what I've learned about J-Rock over the past thirty years or so and share some tracks, albums and maybe even a few shorter playlists here