Welp, 2025 is here and it's off to a wild start. Fascism is back in power in America and I'm all adventured out for a lil while. Most of the country is dealing with insane levels of winter weather. The future is here, and it's very fucking strange. Here's some songs that are infinitely better than Spotify's boring-ass AI slop. Enjoy.
Fluid Dynamic- In Da House, Vol. 1
Big 80s diva vocals over crisp, flashy 90s house. Every song hits hard enough to get the dancefloor moving, but also has enough melody and complexity that you can play it in the car or headphones over and over without it losing its straightforward, poppy appeal. I met Ross via Facebook back when they were a resident DJ on my home station, The Music Galaxy Radio. Aside from being a treasure trove of useful advice and friendly AF, they've also put me on to other great music, like Wake Up! The Fluid Dynamic project encompasses everything from hard trance to Dune soundtrack style ambient, all of which is worth exploring, but this is by and far the best album and collection of individual songs, as far as I'm concerned.
Horrendous- Anareta
90s death takes a progressive, psychedelic bend. 3 high school English teachers from Pennsylvania weave a grisly, violent soundscape of ancient kings driven mad by power and prophecy that is simultaneously a slow, meditative descent into the deepest regions of the self. Blastbeats give way to beautiful, soulful melodies and harmonized guitars. The previous album, Ecdysis, found transcendence in 80s thrash and its punk roots. The follow-up, Idol, added a bass player and expanded on the Rush influences to build on this albums' bad-trip type vibe. This is the one that speaks to me the most, though. It's their spaciest and most shamelessly strange piece- The name comes from an obscure astrology term. It's the album that makes music feel raw and edgy again, the way it did when you were fifteen and first heard Master of Puppets.
Netsky- Netsky
The album that got me into electronic music in college. Hadn't really touched it in years till we went on this adventure. It's one of the best albums for zig-zagging down mountains and across desert highways. It's impossible to be in a bad mood when this album is on- As soon as Darrison starts with those magical opening lines to "Escape" your troubles are all disappearing and you're soaring high into the clouds. The melodies cascade and stick in your head like nothing else you'll ever hear in your life. The songs range all over the place in mood, with "Porcelain" making you just as peaceful and meditative as "Gravity" will make you boisterous and cocky. Yet it all sounds like one incredible, cohesive whole.
Black Rave Culture- BRC, Vol. 2
The easiest way to explain techno to people who don't like techno is that it's essentially jazz, made with the "fuck it" mindset of punk rock, using a computer. I was lucky enough to see Amal from BRC DJ at an an afterparty in an art gallery for Movement Festival 2023, and I've never seen a set that's embodied the feeling of a modern update to the "old jazz cat" type vibe quite the way he did that night. This album doesn't quite thump and pulse the way the speakers did that night, but that's because it's going for an entirely different vibe- an album for late night drives that captures the spacy goofiness of a party when the people who have to work tomorrow have already gone home, and it's just you and your friends bullshitting with some randos at 4 AM in the morning without a care in the world. Warm and organic, the way you smile and laugh at a joke that wasn't that funny.
In Conclusion
Elon Musk sucks donkey butt and should not be given any kind of position in leadership because he has the IQ of wet shit. Oh, right... Music. Yeah. That's 4 of my favorite albums from the adventure. We're still on the adventure lol. Next week I might do 4 more. Or maybe DJ mixes. Nobody blogs about music anymore. I think Imma get into this bc it's better than a bunch of lazy first-year CompSci algos calling themselves "AI." P.S. Check out mah merch
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