2021: tracks of the year

Good records, I think. Slim Alli & The Hodi Boys – You Can Do It This megabop from 1970s Nairobi is syncopated in the right…

cold code

I was part of a very nice software engineering reading group at Spotify, just before I left. In addition to being around for the coining…

tend to your garden

I played a lot of Hades over the winter. Like, “200 hours, 49/49, 32 heat clear with Merciful End” a lot. This got me thinking…

cartoons & classics

Want to save this amazing twitter thread of classical music in cartoons for a few reasons: One, it shows how much music we miss in…

20|20|20 – 20

I could have told you, really, that this set of sets would be done before November 3rd. Keep calm and listen to The Pointer Sisters….

20|20|20 – 19

Northwest Africa, swooshing drones, ambient, etc – autumn is here. 1: Les Filles de Illighadad – Eliss Wan Anas Douban [Sahel Sounds]2: Maalem Houssam Ganina…

20|20|20 – 18

CRJ / JL / JP, and similar abbreviations – and basically some delightful pop music, really. 1: Carly Rae Jepsen – Fake Mona Lisa [School…

20|20|20 – 17

Some steps and some grooves and some rollers, really – not much more to say. 1: Polymod – PG1000 [17 Steps]2: Sofia Kourtesis – Home…

20|20|20 – 16

If you said “oh, you just picked records around 105 until they made sense”, well, you wouldn’t be wrong – but there’s some cleverness hidden…

20|20|20 – 15

Keep on fighting, keep on fighting, hold on – this one, sonically, is probably more about the holding than about the fighting. 1: Kali Malone…