![Makoto Kubota - Machibooke [Japan, Soft Rock / Country Rock] (1973) One of my absolute favorites from early the 70s of Japan. Mellow with wonderful steel guitar mixed throughout.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wv2gr2o7ax7r3ns5yjcyckgm/bafkreigdijaqn2php5tkjjbfcd2hucadxaetgx222v47g76qggyaxryrge)
Makoto Kubota - Machibooke [Japan, Soft Rock / Country Rock] (1973) One of my absolute favorites from early the 70s of Japan. Mellow with wonderful steel guitar mixed throughout.
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https://youtu.be/TTF3U2rtDPA
So a guy hired to staff a new center for civic discourse demanded by the legislature assaults a guy for daring to ask a question. Incredible. OSU faculty are cackling.
@rooster.info
www.rooster.info/p/ohio-state...
Tomorrow on The Rooster: A visit to Ohio State’s Right-Wing Free Speech Centers ends with a vicious assault from an … assistant professor?!?!
![Peter Baumann - Bicentennial Presentation [Germany, Electronic/Ambient] (1976) - Founding member of Tangerine Dream](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wv2gr2o7ax7r3ns5yjcyckgm/bafkreigi3g7k3a7hplxsu3oa3fs2nvvyu3bvx4gnhqhvsey4kdgcozvq5u)
Peter Baumann - Bicentennial Presentation [Germany, Electronic/Ambient] (1976) - Founding member of Tangerine Dream
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Not to leave anything off:
Machine Girl: Psychowarrior- MG Ultra X
A harder, more abrasive Machine Girl for harder, more abrasive times.
machinegirl.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...
Rogi: E vidi sad
At the risk of leaning further Balkan in my new music list this year, yet another before-the-bell entry from Belgrade's Rogi. An intimate melding of surprising synthesizer and bedroom anthems a la Jose Gonzales or Kings of Convenience. On repeat as I close out this year.
Catalyst: Perception
A Jazz Dispensary reissue came out this year of this long out-of-print slab of spiritual jazz featuring one of the most spastic to ever do it, the inimitable Odean Pope. Listening to his Someone Like Me, you have to wonder if that was what was inspiring Squarepusher.
DMX Krew & pdqb: Guilty Pleasures
While I believe that if you are pure of heart there are no guilty pleasures, this is a pretty good single, and a refreshing vocal outing from our man Ed DMX, King Midas of the dance floor.
pdqb.bandcamp.com/album/guilty...
DMX Krew: Space is Inside
Ed DMX doing some limited vocoder work in a primarily instrumental acid-directed outing.
alteredcircuitsbrussels.bandcamp.com/album/dmx-kr...
Meki Gluteusi - Zanatlija
Serbian hip-hop meets techno. The title translates as "craftsman".
pssp.bandcamp.com/album/meki-g...
Dillinger Four: This Shit is Geniuser
A voluminous collection of singles and B-sides from degenerate Minneapolis sophisticates Dillinger Four.
dillingerfour.bandcamp.com/album/this-s...
Ana and the Changes: Sabiranje
Sophisticated songwriter pop from Serbia. The title translates as "Addition."
anacurcin.bandcamp.com/album/sabira...
Lavender Flu: Tracing the Sand by the Pool
This came out so early in 2025 or late in 2024 that I may have included it in lists from last year. No matter. The Ric Ocasek take on West Coast psych from dankest Oregon.
tidal.com/album/404008...
Asunojokei: Think of You
Happy auteur post-black metal. Just listen to it.
asunojokei.bandcamp.com/album/think-...
核P-MODEL / KAKU P-MODEL: unZIP
Susumu Hirasawa, founder of Japanese No-Wave band P-Model and electronic pioneer famous also for soundtracks to films like the much-missed Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue and Paprika brings this late-in-the-year offering of a perfect dream state of an album.
AIGEL: Человек (Chelovyek)
AIGEL is Aigel Gaisina and Ilya Baramiya, an electronic duo performing in Russian, Tatar, and other languages in arms' reach. With a title meaning "human," this is another one of those 11th-hour albums for 2025, and my favorite from them.
aigel.bandcamp.com/album/--21
Komissar Lag, XL Traxx, & X-Coast: Da Saga Continues
A marvel of internal movement, the jazz of hard techno. Bravo.
tilt-label.bandcamp.com/album/xl-tra...
Antartktik: Antarktik
Belgrade duo making lo-fi dark-wave instrumental music like if Michael Rother joined Suicide.
Takuya Kuroda: Everyday
Kuroda blends a hip-hop sensibility with an acrobatically agile style of trumpet. One of the most inventive and exciting artists to listen to today.
IE: Reverse Earth
Drones and koans from another world that is uncannily like this one.
iesounds.bandcamp.com/album/revers...
Autopark: La Reunion
This is a perfect album of songs realized perfectly. Serbian alternative stars return in their 25th year with absolute focus and total ethical conviction. The arrangements, the performances, the lyrics are absolute humanity. Tenderness and intensity.
Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season
Confident album of originals that are contemporary while also paying homage to the most trip-hoppy of the legacy of Dorothy Ashby. Her best.
tidal.com/album/440454...
TFS: Fairyland Codex
Aussie dread merchants lurch through another perfect set of KNOWING the world, redecorating your mind like it's a scene cut from a Peter Weir movie.
tropicalfstorm.bandcamp.com/album/fairyl...
Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind
A return to the deep spiritual jazz of her early work, following her excellent collaboration with Wadada Leo Smith last year. Both on ECM heir apparent Red Hook Records.
redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solace...
Stevan Kovacz Tickmayer: Grind Structures & Monochromes
Exactly like it says on the label. Pretty self-explanatory, really.
stevankovacstickmayer.bandcamp.com/album/grind-...
The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie
Much more straight-ahead NZ anhedonia than their previous outing, which was also good.
thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/album/straig...
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Soft New Magic Dream
While you're surfing the pre-mental black foam, do try the new BMSR.
tidal.com/album/420257...
Hyphyskazerbox: BPD Superstar Ultra
You will become aware of many things in the gap between hearing and comprehending. You will not think that you can catch them all with the porous and rotten net cast by your nervous system, but, by some wry magic, you will. Woe betide thee.
keiyaA: Hooke's Law
This is like if Burial and D'Angelo and Company Flow got together and made deconstructed UK Street Soul. Crazy good.
keiyaa.bandcamp.com/album/hooke-...
Zazen Boys: Matsuri Session at Budokan
A 3-hour full-house Budokan concert from across Shutoku Mukai's long-running post-Number Girl outfit Zazen Boys' vast catalog. Progressive arrangements painted in staccato guitar noise palettes. Jazz x Shellac x Mukai's alternation of jokes and intensity.
