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Used to live in cool places and do cool things. Now I just drink coffee and post music. Classical / Jazz / Electronic / Ambient / Beats / Grooves / Experimental / World Fix your hearts or die.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Another Week in Music 🎧

IDM - Arovane, Seefeel
Ambient - Tim Hecker, 2814
80s - The Cramps, DKs, ESG, Eno&
Classical - Schumann, Schubert
Jazz - Anat Fort, Bill Frisell
Poland - Adam Bałdych, Hania Rani, Skalpel

Any faves?

Tim Hecker - Instrumental Tourist
２８１４ - 新しい日の誕生
Sean Downey - ▲.†. ATLUS VADE .†.▲
ESG - Come Away With ESG
Błoto - Grzybnia
Chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble - Le Beau du Monde / A Modern View on Early Music
Jon Hassell - Fourth World Vol 1 Possible Musics
A Lily - Wake:Sleep
Hound Dog Taylor & the House Rockers - Hound Dog Taylor And The Houserockers
Preservation - Sortilège
Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind
B.B. King - Deuces Wild
C418 - Minecraft - Volume Alpha
Arovane - Lilies
Arovane - Tides
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
Richie Culver - Scream if You Don't Exist
Mstislav Rostropovich - Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata / Schumann: 5 Stücke in Volkston / Debussy: Cello Sonata
Adam Baldych - Passacaglia
John Carroll Kirby - Conflict
Bill Frisell - In Line
Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
White Rainbow - New Clouds
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues
Loren Connors - Hell's Kitchen Park
Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968
Seefeel - St / Fr / Sp
Toby Wiltshire - Surfacing
Little Walter - Hate To See You Go
Blanck Mass - Calm With Horses (Original Score)
Anat Fort Trio - Birdwatching
Anat Fort - A Long Story
Franz Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin D795
Robert Schumann - Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze; Concert sans orchestre
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Franz Schubert - Radu Lupu plays Schubert
Robert Schumann - Schumann: Davidsbündlertanzer; Fantasie, Op.7
Franz Schubert - Mitsuko Uchida plays Schubert
The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
Bert Jansch - Jack Orion
Hania Rani - Ghosts
Skalpel - Skalpel

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

Well 'Inventions for Electric Guitar' was his solo debut but it was released under the 'Ash Ra Tempel VI' name so unless @richards7370.bsky.social tells me otherwise, this one is in my #5DebutAlbums8084

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 6h

#NowListening

Amelia Coburn – Between the Moon and the Milkman (Shoebox, 2024)

Folk / Alt-Folk

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 19h

#NowListening

Julia Holter – Something In The Room She Moves (Domino, 2024)

Art Pop / Alternative

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 21h

And Marvin's Grapevine. Nothing tops those two.

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Aretha, Respect.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Minimal, yes. Repetitive, yes. Masterpiece, yes.

What percentage of listeners in '84 realised how groundbreaking this would be?

A one-hour long two-chord vamp but the blueprint for much of detroit techno, 80s house and 90s ambient.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening #5DebutAlbums8084

Manuel Göttsching – E2-E4 (Inteam GmbH, 1984)

Ambient / Electronic / Kosmische

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening

Tyla – WWP (Fax/Epic, 2025)

Amapiano / Pop / R&B

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening

B.T. Express – Non-Stop (Roadshow, 1975)

Funk / Soul

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening

Dominik Eulberg – Sensorika (Traum Schallplatten, 2009)

Tech-house / Progressive House

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening

Joseph Ashworth – Falling EP (Get Weird, 2017)

Tech-house / Progressive House

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening Bedroom DJ mixing is back. Kinda.

Max Cooper – Harmonisch Serie (Traum Schallplatten, 2009)

Techno / Tech-house / Progressive House

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening

BAILE feat. Felicia Douglass – Without (Tim Green Remixes) (Elements, 2019)

Tech-house / Progressive House

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 1d

as promised, here are 50 more releases from 2025 that you won't find on many (any?) other lists. globe- and genre-crossing/smashing music; singles, eps, albums, collaborations, mixtapes, and reissues. the occasional indulgence. strange steppers. capsule reviews and links to listen, i hope. a thread

YS - Burn
Naone - 은하철도999
Snapped Ankles - Dancing In Transit: Live 2025
Stealing Sheep - GLO (Girl Life Online)
Upchuck - I’m Nice Now
Gonçalo F Cardoso - Impressões de Várias Ilhas
Telepathic Fish: Trawling the Early 90s Ambient Underground
Soles of Mischief - Air Max Tape
Francesca Marongiu - Still Forms in Air
Two [Is Greater Than] One - Part 2
Kliche - Dabrea
Yasmine Hamdan - I remember I forget بنسى وبتذكر
Errol Brown & the Revolutionaries - Dub Expression
Claudio Coccoluto - Claudio Coccoluto live at Underground City, Pescara - 01.03.1997
Unofficial Official - The Tommy Hilfiger Tape
james K - FriendDJ Platurn - PLATURN x ALL DAY PLAY - A TRIBUTE TO SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Wayku - Selva Selva
KILN - Lemon Borealis
Flur - Plunge
De Schuurman & Styn - Bubbling Back 2 Back
HiTech - HONEYPAQQ Vol. 1
Blue Lake - The Animal
Rhoda Dakar - Version Girl in Dub
Muskila - JAH NAM
Sueño Púrpura - Souvenir

Valentina Ciniglio - Sonic In-Betweenness. Acts of Devotion in Public Spaces, Egypt
Wombo - Danger in Fives
Wampís of Guayabal & Aboutface - Los Bosquesinos
JLZ & GG - MÉDIO GRAVE
Fred Elias with Buddy Sarkissian & his Mecca Four - Soul of the East
Ploy - The Flirt EP
Patricia Wolf - Hrafnamynd
TLF Trio - Desire
Coki - Crystal Lake EP
nondi_ - trax from across the river
Distinct Motive - Hypnotize EP
Moskito - Idolar
Lo and Behold - Onward Journey
Orange 9mm - Turn It Up
Allen Ginsberg - More Rags, Ballads, and Blues 1971-1985
Duster Valentine - Dial 212 061 92
bastiengoat - SAFE
Rue des Garderies - Jiddu
Mason Lindahl - Joshua/Same Day Walking
MC Yallah & Debmaster - Gaudencia
Lila Tirana a Violeta - Hydrographic Stains
Slikback x Skrillex - Kixa
Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme - Ghazel
miffle - goodbye, world!
Mondo Lava - Utero Dei

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Cool!

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening

Technical Space Composer's Crew – Canaxis 5 (Music Factory, 1969)

Experimental / Krautrock

a.k.a. Holger Czukay and Rolf Dammers

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Good pick! Blissful stuff.

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Car is fixed. Left waiting almost 3 days but in the end it only took about 30 mins to fix. I feel so much lighter.

Mind you this probably wasn't the big thing that's wrong with it, just one of the many little things.

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 3d

My car is dying. I'm not a car person. This is extremely frustrating.

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening

Heldon – Interface (Cobra, 1977)

Space Rock / Krautrock

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Cause immigrants pay taxes and contribute to society but AI...

Oh wait...

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Well, That Was Gross @thediscoveryofzero.com · 1d

It’d be neat to have a Google Earth style map of the earth that included realistic flora, fauna, geology, ecology, etc data, and that went back in geologic time. e.g. you scroll back to 300 mya, see the continents, basic life, etc. based on data.

It’d be an incredible teaching tool as well.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 2d

#NowListening

100% Pure Poison – Coming Right At You (EMI International, 1974)

Soul / Funk

cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 3d

I kind of assume everyone starts with Blue Train.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 3d

I'd agree with Ascension but Giant Steps seems like a decent entry point to me! Then again it's all a matter of taste.

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cuppa_coffee @cuppacoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely 😍 I think that Frisell album is his debut so might feature in #5DebutAlbums8084