Music Tracking 2025

These are 2025 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

  • 2hollis: Star (Interscope) [04-04] - experimental hip-hop [**]
  • Actress: Grey Interiors (Smalltown Supersound -EP) [02-07] - ambient
  • Amulets: Not Around but Through (Beacon Sound) [02-21] - ambient
  • Arid Landscapes: Arid Landscapes (self-released) [09-19] - ambient
  • Aya: Hexed! (Hyperdub) [03-28] - electronic [B]
  • Bambara: Birthmarks (Wharf Cat/Bella Union) [03-14] - trip hop
  • Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) [04-04] - techno [***]
  • Barry Can't Swim: Loner (Ninja Tune) [07-11] - downtempo [***]
  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Gift Songs (Mexican Summer) [03-21] - electroacoustic
  • Civilistjävel!: Följd (Felt) [02-14] - ambient
  • Anla Courtis & Lehtisalo: 1972 (Full Connect) [03-04] - electroacoustic [A-]
  • Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound) [05-09] - ambient
  • Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) [02-28] - techno [A-]
  • Death in Vegas: Death Mask (Drone) [06-06] - acid techno
  • Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) [ 01-31] - acid house [***]
  • DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) [04-04] - downtempo [**]
  • DJ Python: I Was Put on This Earth (XL -EP) [03-28] - ambient techno
  • DJ Shaun-D: From Bubbling to Dutch House (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-23] - electronic [***]
  • Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth) [04-25] - electronic [***]
  • Lawrence English: Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room40) [01-31] - ambient
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 001 (Ex#x5f;libris -EP) [06-27] - electronic [**]
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 002 (Ex#x5f;libris -EP) [06-27] - electronic [**]
  • FaltyDL: Neurotica (Planet Mu) [06-13] - hyperpop
  • Fantastic Twins: Suite of Rooms (House of Slessor -EP) [02-14] - IDM
  • Glaive: Y'all (Slowsilver03/Broke) [09-26] - EDM
  • Goldie Presents Rufige Kru: Alpha Omega (Metalheadz/London) [05-16] - drum & bass
  • Kieran Hebden & William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late '80s (Eat Your Own Ears) [09-19] - ambient
  • Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) [02-21] - ambient [**]
  • HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-11] - African/electronic [**]
  • The Hidden Cameras: Bronto () [09-12] - deep house
  • Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound) [04-18] - electronic [***]
  • HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (Loma Vista) [05-09] - electronic [*]
  • James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) [06-13] - electronic [A-]
  • Immersion & SUSS: Nanocluster Vol. 3 (Swim~) [02-14] - prog electronic
  • Park Jiha: All Living Things (Glitterbeat) [02-14] - ambient
  • Kettama: Archangel (Steel City Dance Discs) [10-03] - techno
  • Sofia Kourtesis: Volver (Ninja Tune -EP) [08-01] - deep house [**]
  • Los Thuthanaka: Los Thuthanaka (none) [03-22] - Latin electronic
  • Loscil: Lake Fire (Kranky) [05-02] - ambient
  • Lust for Youth & Croatian Amor: All Worlds (Sacred Bones) [03-07] - indietronica
  • Maribou State: Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune) [01-31] - downtempo
  • Jako Maron: Mahavélouz (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [02-07] - afrofuturism [***]
  • Walt McClements: On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl) [04-04] - ambient
  • Mild Minds: Gemini (Foreign Family Collective) [02-21] - house
  • More Eaze & Claire Rousay: No Floor (Thrill Jockey) [03-21] - ambient
  • Myd: Mydnight (Ed Banger) [08-29] - house
  • ERR: grade bad priority: Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller
  • Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (Tokinogake) [05-09] - electronic [B]
  • Pidgins: Refrains of the Day, Volume 2 (Lexical) [04-04] - electronic
  • Ploy: It's Later Than You Think (Dekmantel) [04-04] - tech house [**]
  • Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal (7K!) [06-13] - electroacoustic
  • Sam Prekop: Open Close (Thrill Jockey) [09-26] - electronic [*]
  • Raven: Gnosis (Incienso) [02-14] - ambient
  • Rival Consoles: Landscape From Memory (Erased Tapes) [07-04] - IDM
  • Sherelle: With a Vengeance (Method 808) [04-09] - jungle/footwork [***]
  • Shlohmo: Repulsor (Wedidit) [10-31] - electronica
  • Silkback: Attrition (Planet Mu) [07-18] - UK bass
  • Six Sex: X-Sex (Dale Play -EP) [03-06] - hard dance [A-]
  • Skrillex: Fuck U Skrillex U Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 (Atlantic/Owsla) [04-01] - electronic [B-]
  • Slikback: Attrition (Planet Mu) [07-18] - UK bass [*]
  • ERR: stream no grade: Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1
  • Nick Storring: Mirante (We Are Busy Bodies) [03-21] - electroacoustic
  • Antony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (Mushroom Music) [02-28] - UK hip-hop [***]
  • Tokimonsta: Eternal Reverie (Young Art) [03-07] - deep house
  • Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 3 (Planet Mu) [02-07] - footwork
  • U.e.: Hometown Girl ( 28912) [01-16] - ambient
  • Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers: Clube Da Mariposa Mórbida (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [07-11] - world/electronic [*]
  • Voice Actor & Squu: Lust (1) (Stroom) [01-14] - ambient dub
  • Leon Vynehall: In Daytona Yellow (Studio Ooze) [10-03] - deep house
  • Whatever the Weather: Whatever the Weather II (Ghostly International) [03-14] - ambient
  • Dustin Wong: Gloria (self-released) [04-01] - ambient
  • Marina Zispin: Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Scenic Route) [03-07] - coldwave

Reissues, Etc.

  • Avicii: Avicii Forever (Universal Music AB) [05-16] - house
  • Borghesia: Clones (1984, Dark Entries) [05-07] - electronic [**]
  • Master Wilburn Burchette: Master Wilburn Burchette's Psychic Meditation Music (1974, Numero Group) [06-13] - experimental [*]
  • Electric Satie: Gymnopédie '99 (1998, In Sheep's Clothing) [06-27] - electronic [***]
  • Kali Malone: The Sacrificial Code (Ideologic Organ) [04-11] - drone
  • Orbital: Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded) () [05-23] - electronic
  • Sophie: Sophie (Numbers/MSMSMSM) [06-18] - bubblegum bass
  • Studio: West Coast (2006, Ghostly International) [01-24] - electronic [A-]
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora (1987, Temporal Drift) [03-20] - ambient [***]
  • Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980 (Bureau B) [03-21] - krautrock [B]
  • Planet Mu 30 (Planet Mu) [05-09] - footwork

Priority Counts

  • Priority 1: 47
  • Priority 2: 0
  • Priority 3: 0
  • Priority 4: 34
  • Priority 5: 0

Total: 81