So this Friday was the last Bandcamp Friday of the year, and even with that aside, it was a big release day for new music. It’s insane, but because of this I’m not doing best-of-2025 till next week. Here’s a whole slew of excellent new music across every genre imaginable.
Water From Your Eyes – Born 4
Alev Lenz – Ivory Tower (on D)
HAYWARDxDÄLEK – Antiphony
HAYWARDxDÄLEK – Breathe Slow
Bomb A Lil Joy – Everything U R Doing
Bomb A Lil Joy – Saigon Too
Blarke Bayer – The Prophet’s Paradise
SUMAC and Moor Mother – SCENE 1 (Shapednoise Remix)
Obelisk – Sanctuary
Hitori Tori – Eurofling
Indicator – Malopropist
Heavyweight – Straight Outta London VIP
Ruffkutt – Your Time
Abstract Drumz – Alone (2025 Remaster)
Noémi Büchi – I was almost there
Luz González – Drawing Dinosaurs (Where can I hide my anger?)
Jad Atoui & Jawad Nawfal – The Celesta Incident
NEUE DEUTSCHE KUNST – Der Sputz der Tagropronisten
NEUE DEUTSCHE KUNST – Keine Nichtmusik Drei
Géraldine Eguiluz & Michel F Côté – Territoires perdus #2
Géraldine Eguiluz & Michel F Côté – Territoires perdus #3
hidden_attachment (ky) – Cartoon Land (Memory/161 to Wilderton remix)
Freda D’Souza – I’ve missed the rain
Emily Wittbrodt – Lied
Otto Lindholm – Lessizty
Connor D’Netto – interlude/nails
Laura Altman – A Call to Water
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Playlist 30.11.25
As we swiftly approach December, tonight is the second-last “new music” show of the year. There’s a lot of music coming out on December 5th! But then that’s it, the next 3 will be Best of 2025.
Keen listeners will be surprised that I’m mixing up the structure tonight. Really, it usually goes the way it goes due to thematic and tonal segues, and this time round the jazz & ambient(ish) stuff just fitted best after our early songs, and the beats are the bulk of the second half.
The Notwist – X-Ray
The Notwist – Magnificent Fall
Muyassar Kurdi – Child of the Sun (feat. Chris Williams)
Peter Knight – The Coiling of the Tide
Laura Jurd – Praying Mantis
Má Estrela – Top Suki Girl
BLACK HAUGE – Papiret (Radio Edit)
Dina Maccabee – Outbreak
Joni Void – Walker
Joni Void – Lighters
Samuele Strufaldi – Musica Invisibile
Mac Seldom – ILUVU
Om Unit – Lost Stories (Bok Bok Remix)
Om Unit – The Chase (Alter Echo & E3 Remix)
Ghost Dubs – Hope
Fatwires x Atsushi Izumi – Ga
UNTECHCIRCLE – Dying Light
UNTECHCIRCLE – not just chaos
Mattr – Tayl
CHEAHDX – Earthbound
dreadmaul – No Shade
Low End Activist – Hope III (Demdike Stare Stressed Version)
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Playlist 23.11.25
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Tonight, one of the underground hip-hop albums of the year, some very unusual collaborations, two releases in the Frisian language of north Holland, solo drum kit, post-jazz, bass & breaks, human/AI collaboration and electro-acoustic sound-art verging into folktronica.
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Dogeared (feat. Kapwani)
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Crisis Phone (feat. Pink Siifu)
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Longjohns (feat. Quelle Chris & Cleo Reed)
HAYWARDxDÄLEK – Asymmetric
YHWH Nailgun – Weaving (original by LEYA)
Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum – in lichem fol beloften
Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum – de Dea
Joana Guerra, Maria Do Mar, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra – Al Dy Kleuren
Joana Guerra, Maria Do Mar, Romke Kleefstra, Jan Kleefstra – Kâlde Mage
Chloe Kim – Ratsnake
SML – Old Mytth
Snorkel – Flash Flood
Snorkel – Sirene
Endless Mow – wattle and daub
An Avrin – 4LYFE
noRecall – The Machine and its Master
Lakker – Hood
Kassian – Ghost Dub
Bad Ambulance – Zero
Olivier Alary – Imagined Presence (preview clip 4)
Rutger Zuydervelt – House of Strength
Rutger Zuydervelt and Lucija Gregov – (Not) Not Three High
Rutger Zuydervelt and Lucija Gregov – Euphoria (outtake)
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Playlist 16.11.25
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What a relentless year of new music… It’s getting that way every year mind you. The releases will run right through December and into January, mark my words…
Anyway, tonight we have the surprisingest song of the week (year?) from two very different pop icons, plus experimental song and electronics of all sorts, blending with classical, jazz, field recordings and more.
Charli XCX – House (feat John Cale)
California Girls – Sorrowful Meat
Alto Aria – Porous Heart
Alto Aria – Fall Blossom
anrimeal – 11. Chapter III – Source and time
anrimeal – 5. Chapter I – SOFAR channel
Meredith Monk – Lullaby for Lise (performed by Katie Geissinger, Allison Sniffin)
Joachim Badenhorst – How To Hold
Maarja Nuut & Ruum – Kiik Tahab Kindaid
Romain Azzaro – Always Late
Mauri – Aquest Any Si
F¥eld Effct – Tst_009
Nadrisk – Cadere
Data General – End with Rests
Fracture & Neptune – Good Stuff
Los Pulpitos – Cubozoa
r hunter – Intra
r hunter – Perfect Mirror
Galina Juritz – Axolotl
STREIKTHROUGH – Bleed Tight
Earl Grey – Doss House
Jack Prest – Dawn
Jack Prest – Movement III
Stefan Schultze – Judson Techno
Stefan Schultze, boxn – CV RMX
Perila – Apocalypta’s Dream
upsammy – Ripple
Bernard Parmegiani – Sadiquement Votre II
Bernard Parmegiani – La Ville en Haut de la Colline II
Lia Kohl – Walking Home, Chicago
Lia Kohl – My Kitchen, Chicago
Lia Kohl – Train, Antwerp to Amsterdam
Lia Kohl – Basketball Court, feat. Macie Stewart
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Playlist 09.11.25
HI PODCAST LISTENER!
(I’m putting this note on the “missing” podcasts that I’m catching up – from Nov 30th onwards it won’t be included)
You may have noticed how late I’ve been getting with these posts. It takes ages to write everything up, but I think it’s valuable.
However, it’s been pointed out to me that people might want the podcast itself to be regular!
So I’m now going to separate out the posts for the podcast feed from the main posts. You won’t get all the detailed review text, but you’ll get to listen sooner, and you’ll get the tracklisting itself still!
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Music from North Africa, West Africa, South Asia, East Asia, South America, North America, Europe and Oceania tonight… which covers most continents. Antarctica needs to pick up their game.
Noura Mint Seymali – Bidayett Lehjibb
Noura Mint Seymali – Lehjibb
Noura Mint Seymali – Moughadim Karr
Perera Elsewhere – Time Will Tell (feat. Andy S)
Perera Elsewhere – Just Wanna Live Some
Low End Activist x Tia Talks – Fake Idols
Mala x Magugu – MILITANT DON
AICHER – Constriction (andereBaustelle Version)
AICHER – Possessions
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das – FACADE06032020
Low End Activist – U Kno
Low End Activist – Colin’s Golf
Clark – 18EDO Bailiff
Clark – Globecore Flats
ZOiD – Day Eight (μ-Ziq Remix)
ZOiD – Day Eight
Nikki Nair, Foodman – Sorry I Lost My Glasses In The Public Bathhouse 銭湯でメガネを無くしてごめん
Tawdry Otter – Alma, The River Flows
Crimewave – 145/155BPM
Crimewave – Misdemeanour
Crimewave – 155/160BPM
Crimewave – Haemoglobin
toso toso – cLAcLAcLA
Juana Molina – la paradoja
CxBxT – Hoshi o Atsumete
Starlight Assembly – Friction
Starlight Assembly – Wait for the Word
The Church – Sacred Echoes (Part Two)
recur – hieroglyph
Mark Harwood – Ein Gehirn Musik
Mark Harwood – Welt
Ov Pain – Kikorangi
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