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I got no Spotify, and I buy a lot off bandcamp.

• Nate Borofsky, formerly of Girlyman, made a soundtrack for a community theater production of Romeo & Juliet
• Mint Green
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• Kimya Dawson
• John Prine
• Rhiannon Giddens
• Maria Ka, a Polish, non Jewish singer who performs mostly in Yiddish.
• “Fuck the Tories”. Happy fourth of July.
• “FTP in der gasn”, a Yiddish and English arrangement of a nineteenth century song that got there before N.W.A.
• Amber Rubarth and Paper Raincoat (YT link)

i don't have any idea what you'd like so i'll drop some moderately to widely spaced things, all electronic, 90s to now

• Sarin - Daevas
• X-Dream - Irritant and X-Dream - Radio, also Midimiliz - Non Standards
• Rikhter - Ufimzew from Rikhter - Doma, this album is pretty uneven and that track was used as a promo; some bits and pieces from that general area RIK1 RIV1 In Verruf - Rush New Frames - Eigengrau
• Gesaffelstein - Variations

i've started using soulseek recentlyish and everything is there

Rival Consoles - Howl
Sleep Party People - Heap of Ashes
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Katie Alice Greer - Barbarism
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Some albums, mostly electronic, mostly experimental, that I've been enjoying.

• Ladytron - Playgirl
• Astrophysics ft. Marina Rios - Komm, Süsser Tod
• Breath and Bones - The Sound

Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, Telefís). His solo album Black River Falls is beautiful (The Ghost of Limehouse Cut, Black River Falls, Frankfurt Cowboy Yodel)... To say nothing of Microdisney or the Fatima Mansions.

Actually one of the songs on his last album with Telefís was a mockery of TESCREAL beliefs. Space Is Us: "I will live forever in those racks of tin"

I like recommending slightly obscure stuff to give it a bit more exposure.

Crushes Bones, especially their song Nightshade Drips is a real banger.

Alternative rock band from California, but one of the main people behind the project is the creator or a super obscure but really cool and well-made ARG called House of Aberdeen from a few years back that has since been deleted. I don’t like most ARGs but I really enjoyed that one and was sad when it was all deleted, and then I found out she’s making music now.

Completely different, but the album Haunted by Poe, sister of author Mark Danielewski, is cool. It’s meant as an accompanying piece to his novel House of Leaves, which I recently read again.

BABYMETAL x Electric Callboy: https://youtu.be/EDnIEWyVIlE

https://l-a-n-a-r-k.bandcamp.com/track/metallur

https://exwiish.bandcamp.com/track/resident-deceiver

https://paurro.bandcamp.com/track/jingu-kogo-emperatriz-jingu-5

Tuğçe Şenoğul - Bu Rüya Değil

Mon Laferte - Amárrame

Lots of things by монеточка, such as Русский ковчег, for pure outright fun jams.

I have alllllll kinds. Being able to share music in an easy manner is actually a fucking disaster of a problem in recent years. Just try to copy a fucking track name out of something like Spotify or Apple Music.

It's a problem I want to solve.

Fish in a Birdcage just released Rule #34 (it is indeed about sex) and Rule #35, Rule #4 (also titled Fish in a Birdcage) is his most famous and Rule #13 is also very good.

and because I’ve dropped Spotify

oh also, since it may be of benefit to you: I did this a few years back too. attempted to get my play history out. that turned out to be a mess, and definitely missed some shit in the export.

then I started looking at what option I had for starting to seed that into something else, and, fuck me. apple music desktop app? no fucking API exposed for search on the streaming half of the app. all the ex-itunes/local shit? plenty hooks. "Apple Music" side? nope.

you have to go get a fucking developer key to be able to hit the Apple Music API to be able to do that. (or to go use a "free service" which handily gives people access to your full fucking library and thus allows them to mine it, and no fucking way go fuck yourselves thank you)

it's fucking mental

Ricardo Autobahn of Spray will soon be releasing his own album of sample-based bops. Here's "The Hands Of Porsche" and "The Frequency Range" (which came out yesterday, and I bought it immediately). The front covers of these are particularly good. I also recommend Spray's "The Big Idea", which is ideal when you need an '80s-style pop song that goes for an hour as working music.

in the genre of video game music about robots: both The Protomen and The Megas are good

in the genre of seeing, like, some shit man: consider Dan Deacon

Aesop Rock, just, in general

sometimes you want McDonald’s and anybody who has a problem with that is a weirdo and what I’m saying is Pitbull is my McDonald’s