#5 in a series of posts about the tracks on my latest album, Small Things.

#4 in a series of posts about the tracks on my latest album, Small Things.

#3 in a series of posts about the tracks on my latest album, Small Things.

#2 in a series of posts about the tracks on my latest album, Small Things.

#1 in a series of posts about the tracks on my latest album, Small Things.

Here’s five recommendations from the …66? releases I’ve picked up since last December.

I can’t believe I haven’t done one of these posts the whole year! (I’m still listening to all of those releases from last December btw.) But I’m trying to be the opposite of just linking to the latest thing I’ve heard.

So, a couple of weeks back Adrien hit me up to contribute to a compilation of hit em tracks. I contributed 3 tracks in 3 nights, during a stressful work week, and holy shit it was a good time. The original tweet being about a rave, I focused on dancefloor sounds that I’ve always loved: give me disco ahead of the entire history of rock, in a heartbeat, says the troll in me.

This is a bit of a random one, but I wanted to just do a bit of a link dump. There’s been an absolute shed load of noise about generative AI and LLMs in the last year or so and here’s some of the writing I’ve found most interesting.

It was really fun to do this mix for Ivo who runs the Mahorka label that released my band Takamu about 18 months back. Here’s some words about my selections.

I’ve been thinking about music in shops. It’s a cliche surely that people, if asked, would never say they wanted more or louder music to play in a shop. But I had an experience that got me thinking about the alternatives.