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 [**]
  • Amulets: Not Around but Through (Beacon Sound) [02-21] - ambient
  • Bambara: Birthmarks (Wharf Cat/Bella Union) [03-14] - trip hop
  • Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) [04-04] - techno [***]
  • 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-]
  • Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) [02-28] - techno [A-]
  • Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) [ 01-31] - acid house
  • DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) [04-04] - downtempo
  • Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth) [04-25] - electronic [***]
  • Lawrence English: Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room40) [01-31] - ambient
  • Fantastic Twins: Suite of Rooms (House of Slessor -EP) [02-14] - IDM
  • Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) [02-21] - ambient [**]
  • HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-11] - African/electronic [**]
  • Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound) [04-18] - electronic [***]
  • HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (Loma Vista) [05-09] - electronic
  • Immersion & SUSS: Nanocluster Vol. 3 (Swim~) [02-14] - prog electronic
  • Park Jiha: All Living Things (Glitterbeat) [02-14] - 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
  • More Eaze & Claire Rousay: No Floor (Thrill Jockey) [03-21] - ambient
  • Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (Tokinogake) [05-09] - electronic [B]
  • Raven: Gnosis (Incienso) [02-14] - ambient
  • Sherelle: With a Vengeance (Method 808) [04-09] - jungle/footwork
  • 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-]
  • Anthony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (Mushroom Group/Virgin) [02-28] - house
  • Tokimonsta: Eternal Reverie (Young Art) [03-07] - deep house
  • ERR: stream no grade: Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny
  • Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 3 (Planet Mu) [02-07] - footwork
  • U.e.: Hometown Girl ( 28912) [01-16] - ambient
  • Voice Actor & Squu: Lust (1) (Stroom) [01-14] - ambient dub
  • 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.

  • Borghesia: Clones (1984, Dark Entries) [05-07] - electronic [**]
  • Kali Malone: The Sacrificial Code (Ideologic Organ) [04-11] - drone
  • Studio: West Coast (2006, Ghostly International) [01-24] - electronic [A-]
  • Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980 (Bureau B) [03-21] - krautrock [B]

Priority Counts

  • Priority 1: 25
  • Priority 2: 1
  • Priority 3: 0
  • Priority 4: 15
  • Priority 5: 0

Total: 41