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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 9h

adred was already on my radar w an outstanding metalheadz record. this chikara project ep reigns it in from dnb bpm to something slow that rolls faster than normal downtempo chillout music. moody and richly dense jazzstep synths but the club drums aren't breakbeats, just beats. nice dubs. good wubs

thechikaraproject.bandcamp.com

Grand Illusions - EP [CKRA062], by Adred

4 track album

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 9h

jonathan dee ambient soho mixtape is a specious lost artifact of the who cares, it's bliss variety. atmospheric downtempo selections drift and morph from dreamy tone to dreamy tone. obscure moods. embraces the new age choral/synth presence in electronic music to howard shore middle earth proportions

[FT013] Jonathan Dee — klangatlas nine

YouTube video by R Tape Archive

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Pure Devotion, by Overmono

overmono go one subgenre deeper to hardbag house. the saying goes hard times require furious dancing. no matter how intensely it may drift into the strange or push into the red, it never loses sight of the club. ecstatic soundscapes is too classy a way to put it. a paradise take on d-club intentions

overmono.bandcamp.com

11 track album

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Listen to Abentis: 30th May '26 by Noods Radio #np on #SoundCloud

abentis live at studio nema is an hour of vibes-based techno (as in percussion instrument played w mallets) from the wisdom teeth sister scene in nagoya. dreamy and tone-conscious throwback to telepathic fish food. deep dream house. woke is sampling björk's music, bespoke is sampling her interviews

soundcloud.com

Abentis: 30th May '26

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sulaf debut on peter gabriel's label. sufi poetry, sudanese oud merge with jazzy neosoul elements. very circle of handclaps rugged folk rhythm intimacy, but then these bruce hornsby piano chords appear, and her voice carries like tracy chapman?? is that neosoul? the very vulnerable stone grooves are

sulaf.bandcamp.com

ABA ابّا., by Sulaf

10 track album

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 11h

slikback & kmru form like keyan voltron, linking intense sound design pressure to ambient waveforms of/and field recordings. it will turn on a dime from contemplative to combat-hot like early flying lotus... if he was from halfway 'round the world. hardbeat chillout war tech. elevated pulse zen zone

slikback.bandcamp.com

ENEO, by SLIKBACK X KMRU

4 track album

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gigi fm new single, a throwback to 90s trip-hop songwriting w production quality that doesn't show much age. layers of sultry polyrhythmic vocals glitching and harmonizing gives me björk, but the pace and cyberpunk thud/twinkle are more tricky (as in martina topley-bird). longful wailing. post-post

gigifm.bandcamp.com

Do You Know, by GiGi FM

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 11h

the selecter at the bbc, a killer compilation of peel sesh, ogwt, look! hear! and more. hornless ska is way more spy- and goth-coded, but even still the transition from 79 to 81 in their sound is pretty stark. pressure from the state becomes pressure from the industry, ethical crumbling, finding out

Washed Up And Left For Dead (John Peel Session, 11 October 1980)

YouTube video by The Selecter - Topic

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paceyourself.bandcamp.com

dj yoshino reissue of early 00s gush collective (pardon the pun) liquid ukg. part of the euro movement playing with the sparse, techy, less-is-more direction bass music was going in, adding equally clean 90s house elements. the peaky beats collab track is pretty orbital, but also unmistakably garage

DJ Yoshino - Back To Basics (PACE009), by DJ Yoshino

5 track album

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reykjavík record store and cultural hub mekkleysa started the label plata to put out stuff like safn exactly: the avant-garde icelandic music scene struggles weirdly to be born, again, into a world not meant for such magic. contradictory compositions. future music. an asst. of strange hostile beauty

platalabel.bandcamp.com

safn, by plata

9 track album

relentless youth club is uh school of rock for romani kids so they can have a creative outlet that connects to their (marginalized) culture and/or make absolutely furious hardcore gypsytech. in eastern europe they've been smashing romani folk at club bpm for decades; ryc is a generational torch pass

various - dźivo droma (Side a) Relentless Youth Club with Rian Treanor (2023-2024)

YouTube video by 0bleak

karenylosremedios.bandcamp.com

karen y los remedios is the murder of mutant bop crows coming home to roost. gothic mexico city cumbia. imagine björk doing tom waits covers and you're getting there. lafourcade-level respect for history, but more mythology, monsters, witches, chaneque. so a sound more ipecac records than putumayo

Bestiaria, by Karen y los Remedios

12 track album

rhyw cassette mixtape thematically based on the shephard tone, an audio illusion that "creates the perception that the sound is infinitely rising or falling." a very specific intersection of (nearly) intellectually overwhelming compositions that are intended to be felt, and compel the body to move

[CESAR51] Rhyw — Spiralling

YouTube video by R Tape Archive

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girltalkmusic.bandcamp.com

michael christmas, chris crack & girl talk puts boston and chicago underground rappers with pittsburgh's millennial hipster production don for funny, inspired, rude results. the sample in "vending machine charcuterie board" is on another level. twenty year hip hop time machine right here. summertime

Don't Come To My House Sharing Your Location, by Michael Christmas, Chris Crack, Girl Talk

6 track album

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Club Imperiale, by Maxime Denuc

maxime denuc composes for and programs a midi-controlled giant church organ. i am now and always will be a total sucker for the overlap of ecstatic religious music and the repetition of dance music. but denuc also explores other aspects, the blissed-out sonic landscape laying beneath the amen breaks

maximedenuc.bandcamp.com

10 track album

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you were so close, by various artists

glasgow's blush records do a little tape comp of contemporary slowcore. lots of ethereal vocals, gothic guitars, brushed drums. folky atmospherics, w occasional incredible bouts of lo-fi power pop sunshining through the clouds. dream pop dominates but it can't be said slowcore has one sound

blushtbc.bandcamp.com

16 track album

l'rain made an rnb album, sure, but this is genre-defiant soul jazz chaos with a consistent through-line of layered angelic vocal harmony. the cinematics of listening to glass or vandermark. lush robust vocals over reverb guitar plucks and brooklyn warehouse dance drums, dissolving into digital mist

lrain.bandcamp.com

fata morgana, by L'Rain

13 track album

300skullsandcounting.bandcamp.com

300skullsandcounting & jenny sparks representing the year's proliferation of cybergrind! by pairing up garage blip bloop goofy hooligan gang vocal rap with throat-destroying screamo/metal voice. reminds me of chumbawamba (complimentary) or that first death set ep. ukg le shok. earnest mushes

THIS IS SPA TOWN!, by 300SkullsAndCounting & Jenny Sparks

9 track album

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if this isn't enough, you can read and hear the previous 3 threads/60 albums mixtapes singles etc here:

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 16h

new music of 2026 thread pt. 4 has another 20 releases that span the globe, genre, and time. changing the scope of the club, pushing downtempo into stranger territory, experimental recording scenes rising up where venues are closing. surprise associations. pure joy. brief reviews and links to listen

Hobzee - Things Are Different Now EP
Catz ’n Dogz - Finally
Adred - Grand Illusions EP
Jonathan Dee - klangatlas nine
Overmono - Pure Devotion
abentis - Live at studio nema
Sulaf - ABA ابّا.
SLIKBACK x KMRU - ENEO
GiGi FM - Do You Know
The Selecter - At The BBC: The Complete Recordings 1979-1981
DJ Yoshino - Back to Basics
safn
Relentless Youth Club - dźivo droma
Karen y los Remedios - Bestiaria
Rhyw - Spiralling
Michael Christmas, Chris Crack & Girl Talk - Don’t Come To My House Sharing Your Location
Maxime Denuc - Club Imperiale
you were so close
L’Rain - fata morgana
300SkullsAndCounting & Jenny Sparks - THIS IS SPA TOWN!

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Album of the Day: Karen y los Remedios, "Bestiaria." The bewitching new LP from the Mexican trio moves from light into shadow.

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Karen y los Remedios, “Bestiaria”

The bewitching new LP from the Mexican trio moves from light into shadow.

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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 11/10/2026

I’m not reading an article on political violence that features all white people as the victims. That is an article that fails to understand the full scope of what political violence looks like.

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

yeah urban renewal program/chocolate industries was like aesop rock, prefuse 73, mos def, rjd2, tortoise(?!). formative

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

yeah, i listened to a little hip hop as a teenager but eighteen was this avalanche of rhymesayers and def jux and anticon. and gorillaz leading me to dan the automator and kid koala- and rap records became a thing i'd go looking for at the record store. ford one and two were the first of 'em though

tania ⊹ @synthstatic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Bestiaria - Karen y los Remedios Newest album by Mexico City cumbia artist and collective Karen y Los Remedios. cumbia + trip-hop + dream pop + Latin electronic expanding an introspective worldview centered on Mexican mythology, folklore, and feminine symbolism 〰️

karenylosremedios.bandcamp.com

Bestiaria, by Karen y los Remedios

12 track album

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fwiw most of his comic work was taken from comics that came out the same year as he started each painting, which i think may have been partially the point: everything in the 60s was new, different, now, and here are comics, selling sex and war like wwii and what followed never happened

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

my next writing thing wip atm is on cartoonists in the art museum so i'm just superprimed to talk this shit

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just for the record, the colors on comics from this time period were done by uncredited laborers who worked at the printing press. also one of these images is a mechanical reproduction, while the other was made by hand. i started off hating maurizio cattelan but he was right

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another thing i see quite a bit is people getting the era the comics lichtenstein painted are from wrong and this whole aspect of his work going unconsidered

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