I haven’t listened to TOKiMONSTA in a while. I really like her music. She’s a beat producer, or at least started out as one. Her new album is more house and disco, and so far, I am really digging it.
Her picks on this episode of What’s In My Bag were all super good, but what I’m mostly interested in is this set of books by Hiroshi Nagai. His illustrations look like vectors, but they’re all hand painted. He apparently did a lot of Japanese City Pop album covers.
Flight Facilities, a DJ/production duo from Australia, released four mixes back in 2013. Each one spanning a decade, starting with 1972, and ending at 2012. The mixes take you on a little music journey through each decade, incorporating pop music and major news headlines on a timeline.
I used to jog around our old neighborhood listening to the 1982-1992 mix all the time.
I’m not sure what prompted me to look these up again, as I’ve had them saved for a while, but I was very excited to see that they’ve added two more decades! 1962-1972 and 2012-2022. They fit in perfectly with the original four. Still super fun and really well done.
Related: another amazing era mix is DJ Spinbad's 90's Megamix. Quite possibly one of the best, and most fun mixes I’ve ever heard.
It’s that time of the year! I love end of year music lists. I find so much stuff that never showed up on my radar. Here’s all of the music that I thoroughly enjoyed throughout 2024.
Cindy Lee aka Patrick Flegel’s latest 32 track LP is only streaming on YouTube, or available to download from their site . Hoping for a physical release soon!
Sonic Pi is a code-based music production and performance tool. I was looking for videos of DJ Dave performing live, and I found out that this is what she uses to do everything! Amazing! Filing this to dig into later.
This is a good one! Really great pickups. I love this series because I always hear something new to dig into.
“When I was 12 or so, I’d just go every week. Because, you know, why not? When you’re a kid, that stuff is free, so you may as well get it.”
Excellent mix of jazz and soul by Anders (I don’t see his whole name anywhere.) Also dig the huge La Planète Sauvage poster.
A collection of mixes with over 500 episodes so far. I love the cover art for each post. via Jeremie
A static site generator for musicians. I’m not a musician, but this is neat! It’s like hosting your own Bandcamp page. via Hacker News
Live Jessie! via Ryan
86 (and counting) eclectic playlists all ~120 minutes supposedly because that’s the amount of time it takes for Jun Takahashi to drive to work every morning. via gee_derrick
Open-source web application allows people to create new music using the Library of Congress’ vast audio collections via Ryan
Covers by the band Ghost on YouTube. From ABBA to Simian Mobile Disco. via Ryan
A well put together behind the scenes movie of Hallas creating their third studio album, Conundrum.