Centuries of Sound
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A mix for every year of recorded sound.
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Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!
centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!
centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
Jazz record: The Jungle Band - Jungle Jamboree
Non-jazz record: Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Lonesome Weary Blues
Book: Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
Film: Man With A Movie Camera
Painting: Edward Hopper - Chop Suey*
*more here: centuriesofsound.com/2020/11/12/1...
Non-jazz record: Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Lonesome Weary Blues
Book: Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
Film: Man With A Movie Camera
Painting: Edward Hopper - Chop Suey*
*more here: centuriesofsound.com/2020/11/12/1...
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Jazz record: The Jungle Band - Jungle Jamboree
Non-jazz record: Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Lonesome Weary Blues
Book: Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
Film: Man With A Movie Camera
Painting: Edward Hopper - Chop Suey*
*more here: centuriesofsound.com/2020/11/12/1...
Non-jazz record: Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Lonesome Weary Blues
Book: Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
Film: Man With A Movie Camera
Painting: Edward Hopper - Chop Suey*
*more here: centuriesofsound.com/2020/11/12/1...
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 8
Molly Sanden - Trophy (Sweden)
Breathy Swedish Pop with a surprising 80s texture to it. Picked up on BlueSky from... someone. Guess I could just do a search but it's bedtime.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cabs...
Molly Sanden - Trophy (Sweden)
Breathy Swedish Pop with a surprising 80s texture to it. Picked up on BlueSky from... someone. Guess I could just do a search but it's bedtime.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cabs...
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 8
Molly Sanden - Trophy (Sweden)
Breathy Swedish Pop with a surprising 80s texture to it. Picked up on BlueSky from... someone. Guess I could just do a search but it's bedtime.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cabs...
Molly Sanden - Trophy (Sweden)
Breathy Swedish Pop with a surprising 80s texture to it. Picked up on BlueSky from... someone. Guess I could just do a search but it's bedtime.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cabs...
I still have a folder of OHP transparencies in case I am one day able to teach in a room with a working OHP and no projector or IWB.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I still have a folder of OHP transparencies in case I am one day able to teach in a room with a working OHP and no projector or IWB.
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The hair. The clothes. 🙌 #TheGenerationGame 📺
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The hair. The clothes. 🙌 #TheGenerationGame 📺
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 7
Cameo Blush - One Chance
Superb electro-house bobbins from London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_p9...
Cameo Blush - One Chance
Superb electro-house bobbins from London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_p9...
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 7
Cameo Blush - One Chance
Superb electro-house bobbins from London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_p9...
Cameo Blush - One Chance
Superb electro-house bobbins from London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_p9...
RIP Martin Parr, who captured Britain on film more vividly than anyone
www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/mar...
www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/mar...
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
RIP Martin Parr, who captured Britain on film more vividly than anyone
www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/mar...
www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/mar...
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
This is my reaction to roughly 65% of the world now.
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is my reaction to roughly 65% of the world now.
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 6
Lung Leg feat. Lora Logic - Girls
Another one of my all-time faves back after a whole quarter of a century away, it has been quite the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBh...
Lung Leg feat. Lora Logic - Girls
Another one of my all-time faves back after a whole quarter of a century away, it has been quite the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBh...
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 6
Lung Leg feat. Lora Logic - Girls
Another one of my all-time faves back after a whole quarter of a century away, it has been quite the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBh...
Lung Leg feat. Lora Logic - Girls
Another one of my all-time faves back after a whole quarter of a century away, it has been quite the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBh...
Seen this episode of The Simpsons a few times before but suddenly this gag hit and I lolled, not their smartest joke but a brilliant one all the same.
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Seen this episode of The Simpsons a few times before but suddenly this gag hit and I lolled, not their smartest joke but a brilliant one all the same.
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The bard himself
December 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The bard himself
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
...
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
...
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
...
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
...
"Worst Song Ever" is an odd category because there are many different ways a song can be unpleasant to someone, many of them not just to do with the music, and people tend to treat their own taste in music as definitive and not requiring analysis or even explanation.
Lots of takes on "We Built This City" today, apparently.
It's not a song I have ever deliberately chosen to listen to, but its status as canonical "worst song ever" is far more tedious than the song itself. It's neither bad enough nor interesting enough to be worth the performative hatred.
It's not a song I have ever deliberately chosen to listen to, but its status as canonical "worst song ever" is far more tedious than the song itself. It's neither bad enough nor interesting enough to be worth the performative hatred.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Worst Song Ever" is an odd category because there are many different ways a song can be unpleasant to someone, many of them not just to do with the music, and people tend to treat their own taste in music as definitive and not requiring analysis or even explanation.
Jim Diamond has this unsettling glint in his eye like he's about to snap, you still get plenty of guys like that in the office and the pub, but it would be refreshing to get a few back in the charts. #totp
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Jim Diamond has this unsettling glint in his eye like he's about to snap, you still get plenty of guys like that in the office and the pub, but it would be refreshing to get a few back in the charts. #totp
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 5
Kevin Sanderson - Detroit (USA)
One of the Techno OG with an example of one of my favourite microgenres - a song about a scene. Please feel free to share more examples!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x-d...
Kevin Sanderson - Detroit (USA)
One of the Techno OG with an example of one of my favourite microgenres - a song about a scene. Please feel free to share more examples!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x-d...
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 5
Kevin Sanderson - Detroit (USA)
One of the Techno OG with an example of one of my favourite microgenres - a song about a scene. Please feel free to share more examples!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x-d...
Kevin Sanderson - Detroit (USA)
One of the Techno OG with an example of one of my favourite microgenres - a song about a scene. Please feel free to share more examples!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x-d...
World cup draw is so far bizarre and wrong, but not in a good way. Lauryn Hill just did a set after disappearing for a quarter century and sad to say it was bad not good.
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
World cup draw is so far bizarre and wrong, but not in a good way. Lauryn Hill just did a set after disappearing for a quarter century and sad to say it was bad not good.
Bandcamp Friday today!
Can I suggest these two Xmas compilations?
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/deep-m...
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/a-holi...
Can I suggest these two Xmas compilations?
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/deep-m...
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/a-holi...
Deep Magic From Before The Dawn of Time: Christmas Records 1902-1924, by Centuries of Sound
20 track album
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Bandcamp Friday today!
Can I suggest these two Xmas compilations?
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/deep-m...
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/a-holi...
Can I suggest these two Xmas compilations?
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/deep-m...
centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/a-holi...
Xmas & New Year posting 2025 from Centuries of Sound
(On Patreon but anyone can view)
www.patreon.com/posts/145077...
(On Patreon but anyone can view)
www.patreon.com/posts/145077...
Xmas & New Year posting 2025 from Centuries of Sound | Centuries of Sound
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December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Xmas & New Year posting 2025 from Centuries of Sound
(On Patreon but anyone can view)
www.patreon.com/posts/145077...
(On Patreon but anyone can view)
www.patreon.com/posts/145077...
I've made a page for all my Xmas mixes/compilations - five so far, the sixth coming in about a week or so.
centuriesofsound.com/centuries-of...
centuriesofsound.com/centuries-of...
Centuries of Christmas
Deep Magic: Christmas Recordings 1902-1924 MP3 | Blog post | Mixcloud | Bandcamp | Patreon | Radio show This compilation of Christmas recordings spans an era which includes the entirety of W…
centuriesofsound.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I've made a page for all my Xmas mixes/compilations - five so far, the sixth coming in about a week or so.
centuriesofsound.com/centuries-of...
centuriesofsound.com/centuries-of...
Doctor: Congrats on the baby! What are you going to name him?
Toss Grumley's mum: Toss Grumley
Toss Grumley's mum: Toss Grumley
It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Doctor: Congrats on the baby! What are you going to name him?
Toss Grumley's mum: Toss Grumley
Toss Grumley's mum: Toss Grumley
As Wonderful Christmastime discourse inevitably rears its head again, here's my dub version
youtu.be/Lx7eu0y4vDk
(It starts ten minutes in, but it would be just rude to skip past Secret Friend, which is pure unremixed McCartney and one of the greatest bonus tracks of all time)
youtu.be/Lx7eu0y4vDk
(It starts ten minutes in, but it would be just rude to skip past Secret Friend, which is pure unremixed McCartney and one of the greatest bonus tracks of all time)
Secret Friend / Wonderful Dubmastime
YouTube video by Centuries of Sound
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
As Wonderful Christmastime discourse inevitably rears its head again, here's my dub version
youtu.be/Lx7eu0y4vDk
(It starts ten minutes in, but it would be just rude to skip past Secret Friend, which is pure unremixed McCartney and one of the greatest bonus tracks of all time)
youtu.be/Lx7eu0y4vDk
(It starts ten minutes in, but it would be just rude to skip past Secret Friend, which is pure unremixed McCartney and one of the greatest bonus tracks of all time)
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If you do audiobooks & would like to read a VERY unusual one then please do feel free to get in touch
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
If you do audiobooks & would like to read a VERY unusual one then please do feel free to get in touch
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 4
The Lewis Express with Chip Wickham - Run Tell That
Soul jazz from Leeds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlYq...
The Lewis Express with Chip Wickham - Run Tell That
Soul jazz from Leeds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlYq...
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#25SongsFrom2025 Day 4
The Lewis Express with Chip Wickham - Run Tell That
Soul jazz from Leeds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlYq...
The Lewis Express with Chip Wickham - Run Tell That
Soul jazz from Leeds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlYq...
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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Have you quit Spotify?
Now is the time to do so
Please take a time to watch (or bookmark for later) our latest podcast with @mynabirds.bsky.social about Spotify CEO’s investment in military tech youtu.be/svJnpYwgo9A?...
(Be grateful of any shares as I’m new to YouTube and building an audience)
Now is the time to do so
Please take a time to watch (or bookmark for later) our latest podcast with @mynabirds.bsky.social about Spotify CEO’s investment in military tech youtu.be/svJnpYwgo9A?...
(Be grateful of any shares as I’m new to YouTube and building an audience)
Why it's time to quit Spotify
YouTube video by Drowned in Sound
youtu.be
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Have you quit Spotify?
Now is the time to do so
Please take a time to watch (or bookmark for later) our latest podcast with @mynabirds.bsky.social about Spotify CEO’s investment in military tech youtu.be/svJnpYwgo9A?...
(Be grateful of any shares as I’m new to YouTube and building an audience)
Now is the time to do so
Please take a time to watch (or bookmark for later) our latest podcast with @mynabirds.bsky.social about Spotify CEO’s investment in military tech youtu.be/svJnpYwgo9A?...
(Be grateful of any shares as I’m new to YouTube and building an audience)