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Restless Mosaic

@restlessmosaic.bsky.social
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Made my fourth album with the Grammy-nominated Declaime. Making an EP with the legendary Jan Johnston. restlessmosaic.com has more song details, plus a lot of music history content.

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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Music where the lyrics mention the genre it's in is as much an advertisement as "don't forget to like, subscribe, and ding that bell."
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I WILL DO THIS JOB
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Imogen Heap playing Taboo at a party: This would make a fantastic lyrical style
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
William Orbit productions never sounded cutting-edge, but they were routinely greater than the sum of their parts. I've often taken inspiration from that and described myself as following after him for that reason. R.I.P.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Minnie Riperton's "I'm a Woman" came out the year after Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman." Which means Minnie Riperton was declaring herself a very small part of Chaka Khan.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ooh, can we decide Magic games on life totals?
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What exactly would you want reviewed?
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our school board elections had $500,000 spent on them by butthurt parents of a kid who didn't get the position they wanted on the school robotics team.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It will always be a writer's curse that an article saying "we're talking the right amount about this thing" will by definition upset the balance.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Speaking as a mosaic who is also a band, I feel that truth in adver-t-shirts is important.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Since then: My aunt, who has been a nanny for autistic children, has told my parents she thinks i am autistic. It didn't land well. (They've been butthurt that the diagnosing doctor asked me, & not them, questions about my childhood. They've said I probably don't remember, whereas my mom would!)
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
2017: Diagnosed with autism (age 31) 2018: Pick a strategic moment to tell my parents I am autistic 2019: They tell my then-wife that they doubt I have it (they also disinherit me for lies and wallowing, without telling me what the lies are)
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Did they also catch your eyeborlz?
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
She's got some...intense lyrics.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I'm currently writing and producing an EP for a singer I've loved for around 20 years. It's nearly the *only* thing on my mind a lot of days.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Moreno-owned Angels will stop at nothing to stay the worst-run team in the AL West.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Few of you follow me for this area of take, but: Craig Breslow is a weasel of a man.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
To quote their 2008 team promotional slogan: All Out All Season. (Being their first in ages sans Barry Bonds, the team missing the self-deprecating interpretation of the slogan has always tickled me.)
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A.J. Pierzynski: a famously hard-to-like human A nonzero number of women: likable humans I thought likability was something to aim for on television. Oh well.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" has inane lyrics - the kind I'd assume were written by a junior high kid who thinks they're deep and no one gets them. And yet I've never seen it in a list of bad lyrics. That's especially surprising for it being a #1 hit. I guess I have a new soapbox now!
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Not that Vanilla Lake and Frappe Snowland were that favourable. Or, on the other hand, anything with lava.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Did the panic-based gambit work?
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A review website I hadn't heard of said I made one of the best albums of the year in its genre! The album has sold 2 copies.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Went to a barbershop yesterday that *only* takes cash (didn't have signs saying this) and correspondingly has an ATM in the back. I have no idea what to make of it.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If somebody chooses not to respect professions whose output can be produces at home, then - voila! - nothing respectable is produced at home. Similarly, if in sports I ignore the opposing team's efforts, my side scores all the points.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"The Scream of a Sage Who Lost Freedom and Love Taken for Granted Before" by Susumu Yokota. susumuyokota.bandcamp.com/album/love-o...
susumuyokota.bandcamp.com
Love Or Die (Lo66), by Susumu Yokota
12 track album
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My album with poetry rapper extraordinaire Declaime, called 10 Umbrellas for Your Soul, is out today! And this hip-hop focused site has already added it to their best-of list for the year: hiphopgoldenage.com/list/the-bes...
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The Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2026 - Hip Hop Golden Age
The Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2026: dive in, explore the sounds, and see what we consider the best Hip Hop albums of 2026.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I hope you enjoy the list! My research process for these would be characterized by most as "insane" and "too much." And that album at the end...she did a Twitter giveaway contest that I won, and that's how we know each other!
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Advising on a whirlwind of items that are in Seattle news, helping Everett with its decennial charter review, trying to manage the release of my album with Declaime, in my first week of knowing I've been lactose intolerant all decade, getting ready to move (in-town) in two weeks, and more!
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Just a few weeks ago, I put them on my best-of-2023 list. Hadn't heard of them really before then. restlessmosaic.com/2023list/
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
When I was on the M15 cardname/flavor text team, I submitted flavor text for Aggressive Mining that was a callback to the flavor text for Squandered Resources. I don't think I ever had a clear favorite in my day, but (maybe influenced by age of your fav) Squandered Resources leapt straight to mind.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
<3
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Will the Bracket 1 version live long enough to consistently display the bit?
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A.k.a. McNeil Deluxe?
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New single and video! It's your classic breathing meditation poem into some vaporwave-adjacent IDM where half the song rotates around the other half. youtu.be/l_KXB1VQENI?...
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Restless Mosaic Presents Declaime - Inhale the Calm, Exhale the Shade (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Restless Mosaic
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
That feels like a continuation of big marketing's off-the-shelf, supplied whimsy. "No, we're not high strung in Silicon Valley! We have software suggest hikes in the Appalachians!" (While posting on LinkedIn that seven days away from the business is for betas asking to go bankrupt.)
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I've just confirmed that my new single is getting play at a club in Berlin. This was a fun sentence to type.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I'm getting basically no sleep and it's at bizarre hours. But I also just cleared 1,000 monthly Spotify listeners for the first time. (It's day 5 of single #1 for this album with someone much more famous than me.)
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
STREET CRED: I made this hip-hop track with a Grammy-nominated rapper. Album drops January 30. NERD CRED: I made the lyric video in PowerPoint. youtu.be/rVbFEK5ijw0
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Restless Mosaic Presents Declaime - A Trillion Neurons (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Restless Mosaic
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Real vibes of "Chang started his solo. Knowing him, that gives us only 9 minutes."
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
@gabyduboisjoli.bsky.social You might want to look at my just-finished best-of-2025 3-hour playlist that comes from checking out roughly 500 albums this year and is put in chronological order. Like, maybe at the end of the list or something. :-) restlessmosaic.com/2025list/
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Given Spotify’s life choices, I don’t know whether it will be viable for playlists after this year. As it is, it’s missing this song for I think that reason: Plant43’s &#822…
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This looks like you're making your own music video for Saint Etienne's "He's On the Phone." And I for one would enjoy that.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A DJ with a food name has to refer to vinyls as "platters." It's the law of how-I-wish-it-worked.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I think writers as a group conflate articulability with relatability. And writers struggling with executive function and finding success are probably the plurality.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Leave it to a drum machine-using follower like m'self to contribute 9.09% of the likes.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I find it harder to use their non-drum samples unless you like using Kontakt. But I've used them in a few things. It's the drums that really pop for me.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Supplement it with the Samples from Mars Black Friday deal, and you've got the makings of...some makings?
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
That most is the key word, because you're right - when the loneliness hits, it hits hard.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I'm an only child, and that probably helped prepare me to be alone in music tastes generally and concerts specifically. But the time in 2014 when the Canadian border crossing guy asked "why aren't your friends going?" to an indie Japanese rock thing that was my trip purpose still stings a bit.
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Restless Mosaic @restlessmosaic.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Are you there as a performer or attendee?
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