Steady State Sounds
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he/him - steadystatesounds.com - Seattle music obsessive & musician (Friends Below Zero). Hablo y estoy aprendiendo español.
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Calling the 1 Line the "Lobster Express" from now on in honor of this
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Calling the 1 Line the "Lobster Express" from now on in honor of this
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Was this the plan all along?
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Was this the plan all along?
ESTO es por qué no tengo prisa por hacer una lista de Los Mejores de 2025 todavía.
Acabo de describrir el grupo de DF, México que se llama Mengers esta mañana y su álbum de Oct 2025 que se llama Flavio - industrial/no-wave/synth punk excelente, influenciado por Suicide y Cabaret Voltaire.
Acabo de describrir el grupo de DF, México que se llama Mengers esta mañana y su álbum de Oct 2025 que se llama Flavio - industrial/no-wave/synth punk excelente, influenciado por Suicide y Cabaret Voltaire.
ALT, by Mengers
from the album Flavio
mengers.bandcamp.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
ESTO es por qué no tengo prisa por hacer una lista de Los Mejores de 2025 todavía.
Acabo de describrir el grupo de DF, México que se llama Mengers esta mañana y su álbum de Oct 2025 que se llama Flavio - industrial/no-wave/synth punk excelente, influenciado por Suicide y Cabaret Voltaire.
Acabo de describrir el grupo de DF, México que se llama Mengers esta mañana y su álbum de Oct 2025 que se llama Flavio - industrial/no-wave/synth punk excelente, influenciado por Suicide y Cabaret Voltaire.
THIS is why I’m not rushing to make a Best of 2025 yet. I just discovered the CDMX band Mengers this morning and their October 2025 album Flavio - great industrial/no-wave/synth punk, with nods to Suicide & Cabaret Voltaire.
ALT, by Mengers
from the album Flavio
mengers.bandcamp.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
THIS is why I’m not rushing to make a Best of 2025 yet. I just discovered the CDMX band Mengers this morning and their October 2025 album Flavio - great industrial/no-wave/synth punk, with nods to Suicide & Cabaret Voltaire.
El álbum “How You Been” de SML (International Anthem) no tiene que ser tan bueno para clasificarse para mi lista de 5 mejores álbumes de 2025, pero es bastante increíble.
Miles Davis de “On the Corner” se fusiona con 99 Records
Miles Davis de “On the Corner” se fusiona con 99 Records
Taking out the Trash, by SML
from the album How You Been
intlanthem.bandcamp.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
El álbum “How You Been” de SML (International Anthem) no tiene que ser tan bueno para clasificarse para mi lista de 5 mejores álbumes de 2025, pero es bastante increíble.
Miles Davis de “On the Corner” se fusiona con 99 Records
Miles Davis de “On the Corner” se fusiona con 99 Records
SML’s How You Been album (International Anthem) doesn’t have to be that good to make my Top 5 albums of 2025, but it’s quite incredible.
“On the Corner” Miles meets 99 Records
“On the Corner” Miles meets 99 Records
Taking out the Trash, by SML
from the album How You Been
intlanthem.bandcamp.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
SML’s How You Been album (International Anthem) doesn’t have to be that good to make my Top 5 albums of 2025, but it’s quite incredible.
“On the Corner” Miles meets 99 Records
“On the Corner” Miles meets 99 Records
“The Spanish Dancers” (1921) by Marie Laurencin
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“The Spanish Dancers” (1921) by Marie Laurencin
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Wimps, Mark Robinson (Sings the Music of Unrest) and Pitschouse are playing the Sunset Tavern in Seattle/Ballard tomorrow (December 9). Hope to see some of you there!
December 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Wimps, Mark Robinson (Sings the Music of Unrest) and Pitschouse are playing the Sunset Tavern in Seattle/Ballard tomorrow (December 9). Hope to see some of you there!
Chance-buying a Tackhead 12” at Tower Records in 1986, alongside Ministry’s Twitch changed my music world. Both were produced by Sherwood.
Today in HOLY FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I HAVE WANTED THE TACKHEAD 12" SINGLES REMASTERED ON CD
and word is that next year adrian and crew will be releasing a TACK>>HEAD boxset.
this has quite literally been top of my wishlist forever.
the 'power inc' comps are great and all that, but damn, to have a complete set of TACK>>HEADs 12" compiled and remastered would be amazing.
this has quite literally been top of my wishlist forever.
the 'power inc' comps are great and all that, but damn, to have a complete set of TACK>>HEADs 12" compiled and remastered would be amazing.
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Chance-buying a Tackhead 12” at Tower Records in 1986, alongside Ministry’s Twitch changed my music world. Both were produced by Sherwood.
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Today in HOLY FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I HAVE WANTED THE TACKHEAD 12" SINGLES REMASTERED ON CD
and word is that next year adrian and crew will be releasing a TACK>>HEAD boxset.
this has quite literally been top of my wishlist forever.
the 'power inc' comps are great and all that, but damn, to have a complete set of TACK>>HEADs 12" compiled and remastered would be amazing.
this has quite literally been top of my wishlist forever.
the 'power inc' comps are great and all that, but damn, to have a complete set of TACK>>HEADs 12" compiled and remastered would be amazing.
December 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Today in HOLY FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I HAVE WANTED THE TACKHEAD 12" SINGLES REMASTERED ON CD
Hot take: The voice of Cameron Winter of Geese is… fine?
It reminds me of the voice of Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah if played at 16 RPM
The timbre has the usual rock critic/hipster nods to David Byrne, Beck, Chris Knox, Kevin Ayers + more
I’m not surprised at all Geese are so hyped
It reminds me of the voice of Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah if played at 16 RPM
The timbre has the usual rock critic/hipster nods to David Byrne, Beck, Chris Knox, Kevin Ayers + more
I’m not surprised at all Geese are so hyped
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hot take: The voice of Cameron Winter of Geese is… fine?
It reminds me of the voice of Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah if played at 16 RPM
The timbre has the usual rock critic/hipster nods to David Byrne, Beck, Chris Knox, Kevin Ayers + more
I’m not surprised at all Geese are so hyped
It reminds me of the voice of Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah if played at 16 RPM
The timbre has the usual rock critic/hipster nods to David Byrne, Beck, Chris Knox, Kevin Ayers + more
I’m not surprised at all Geese are so hyped
There is so much to support on #BandcampFriday - For electronic dance, John Tejada (Los Angeles) has been consistently good since the 90s and great since the Kompakt years. He released another great more ethereal album this year, “The Watchline”
The Watchline, by John Tejada
11 track album
johntejada.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
There is so much to support on #BandcampFriday - For electronic dance, John Tejada (Los Angeles) has been consistently good since the 90s and great since the Kompakt years. He released another great more ethereal album this year, “The Watchline”
Ah, this old 1999 Sven Väth gem, "Dein Schweiss", popped up in my YouTube recommendations. But I had never seen the music video until now.
This is, like, sooo stereotypically German and ultra-SPROCKETS, it makes the original Sprockets skits tame by comparison. ("AAAAGH, ANT FACE!")
This is, like, sooo stereotypically German and ultra-SPROCKETS, it makes the original Sprockets skits tame by comparison. ("AAAAGH, ANT FACE!")
SVEN VATH dein schweiss
YouTube video by ORTHODOXX HD
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December 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Ah, this old 1999 Sven Väth gem, "Dein Schweiss", popped up in my YouTube recommendations. But I had never seen the music video until now.
This is, like, sooo stereotypically German and ultra-SPROCKETS, it makes the original Sprockets skits tame by comparison. ("AAAAGH, ANT FACE!")
This is, like, sooo stereotypically German and ultra-SPROCKETS, it makes the original Sprockets skits tame by comparison. ("AAAAGH, ANT FACE!")
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Maybe 3 people at most will be concerned, but there should be no Friends Below Zero music on Spotify in a week or so.
This Friday is also Bandcamp Friday, just sayin’
This Friday is also Bandcamp Friday, just sayin’
Friends Below Zero
"For All The Fucked-Up Indie Pop of This World, We Give You..."
friendsbelowzero.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Maybe 3 people at most will be concerned, but there should be no Friends Below Zero music on Spotify in a week or so.
This Friday is also Bandcamp Friday, just sayin’
This Friday is also Bandcamp Friday, just sayin’
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MASSIVE FUCKUP: there’s a new 4K streaming restoration of Twin Peaks and in the pilot episode you can see the reflection of a scary-looking crew member in a mirror. how did they screw this up so badly?
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
MASSIVE FUCKUP: there’s a new 4K streaming restoration of Twin Peaks and in the pilot episode you can see the reflection of a scary-looking crew member in a mirror. how did they screw this up so badly?
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My latest for @theseconddisc.bsky.social is a review of the new reissue of Prince's 'Around the World in a Day,' which I can only recommend for completists who can forgive embarrassing audio errors. There are no lights on at that estate, huh
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Prince and The Revolution, 'Around the World in a Day (Deluxe Expanded Edition)' - The Second Disc
In theory, the posthumous care and handling of an esteemed discography with the deep potential for archival excavation like Prince's would be an easy if daunting task. When the pop icon died unexpecte...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My latest for @theseconddisc.bsky.social is a review of the new reissue of Prince's 'Around the World in a Day,' which I can only recommend for completists who can forgive embarrassing audio errors. There are no lights on at that estate, huh
It doesn’t help that the last roots/Americana revival was the confluence of Stomp Clap Hey!, unironic Don Draper hairdos and the 2010s tech boom/gentrification that is punishing us currently for their collective mid-life crises.
One of my big aesthetic realizations over time is that 'roots' is as meaningless/universal a term as you want it to be. My roots are early 80s top 40 radio: synth/UK stuff as it surfaced, Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson, pop metal as it coalesced. The 'old weird America' was learned; it's not my roots.
I also like the fact that it's a senior citizen operating this thing because it's a reminder that some of our most important synth pioneers (Mort Garson and Perrey-Kingsley are the first to come to mind) were born in the 1920s and so this has me thinking about this stuff as "roots music"
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It doesn’t help that the last roots/Americana revival was the confluence of Stomp Clap Hey!, unironic Don Draper hairdos and the 2010s tech boom/gentrification that is punishing us currently for their collective mid-life crises.
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One of my big aesthetic realizations over time is that 'roots' is as meaningless/universal a term as you want it to be. My roots are early 80s top 40 radio: synth/UK stuff as it surfaced, Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson, pop metal as it coalesced. The 'old weird America' was learned; it's not my roots.
I also like the fact that it's a senior citizen operating this thing because it's a reminder that some of our most important synth pioneers (Mort Garson and Perrey-Kingsley are the first to come to mind) were born in the 1920s and so this has me thinking about this stuff as "roots music"
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
One of my big aesthetic realizations over time is that 'roots' is as meaningless/universal a term as you want it to be. My roots are early 80s top 40 radio: synth/UK stuff as it surfaced, Quincy Jones/Michael Jackson, pop metal as it coalesced. The 'old weird America' was learned; it's not my roots.
New great dance music/remixes is teeming. At least every week, I search new arrivals for “house”, “deep house” or “minimal techno” on Bandcamp and Beatport, and there’s also something great.
I don't think it's cluelessness, I think it's how things are. I also listen to new music all the time and I know maybe slightly more than a quarter, and I bet it's a mostly different quarter to what Lee does. But yeah this is the era of abundance. I think the impossibility of keeping up is exciting.
Despite listening to new music constantly this year, The Quietus albums of the year chart once more demonstrates that I'm clueless. I own eight of these albums, I heard maybe 15 more. So barely a quarter 🙄
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New great dance music/remixes is teeming. At least every week, I search new arrivals for “house”, “deep house” or “minimal techno” on Bandcamp and Beatport, and there’s also something great.
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I don't think it's cluelessness, I think it's how things are. I also listen to new music all the time and I know maybe slightly more than a quarter, and I bet it's a mostly different quarter to what Lee does. But yeah this is the era of abundance. I think the impossibility of keeping up is exciting.
Despite listening to new music constantly this year, The Quietus albums of the year chart once more demonstrates that I'm clueless. I own eight of these albums, I heard maybe 15 more. So barely a quarter 🙄
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records) | The Quietus
One of the scant benefits bestowed by editing a countercultural magazine born in a time of great financial turmoil is that you eventually develop a state of permanent readiness for the next disaster. ...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I don't think it's cluelessness, I think it's how things are. I also listen to new music all the time and I know maybe slightly more than a quarter, and I bet it's a mostly different quarter to what Lee does. But yeah this is the era of abundance. I think the impossibility of keeping up is exciting.
I haven’t been into the Giles Martin era Beatles boxed sets, or saw them as anything more than Steven Wilson cosplay gone mad.
I made a promise to not buy any Beatles boxed sets since the 2009 campaign, and - with the sightings of crummy AI tech in the new Anthology reissue - I don’t regret it yet.
I made a promise to not buy any Beatles boxed sets since the 2009 campaign, and - with the sightings of crummy AI tech in the new Anthology reissue - I don’t regret it yet.
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I haven’t been into the Giles Martin era Beatles boxed sets, or saw them as anything more than Steven Wilson cosplay gone mad.
I made a promise to not buy any Beatles boxed sets since the 2009 campaign, and - with the sightings of crummy AI tech in the new Anthology reissue - I don’t regret it yet.
I made a promise to not buy any Beatles boxed sets since the 2009 campaign, and - with the sightings of crummy AI tech in the new Anthology reissue - I don’t regret it yet.
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Not strictly a Thanksgiving memory but a super memorable week-after-T-Day back-to-office day that still haunts me and also makes me laugh 1/
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Not strictly a Thanksgiving memory but a super memorable week-after-T-Day back-to-office day that still haunts me and also makes me laugh 1/
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Would you all like to read a short horror comedy? I knew you would.
Not strictly a Thanksgiving memory but a super memorable week-after-T-Day back-to-office day that still haunts me and also makes me laugh 1/
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Would you all like to read a short horror comedy? I knew you would.
Replacing the word “crypto” with “Sampo” in my mind has made this whole subculture a little funnier to tolerate.
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Replacing the word “crypto” with “Sampo” in my mind has made this whole subculture a little funnier to tolerate.
I somehow managed to never see the film nor any stills from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. You *think* seeing a few stills of Mickey Rooney in the movie will give you an idea without mental scarring, but holy shit, I've been watching Twin Peaks the Return all month and *that* was far far creepier
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I somehow managed to never see the film nor any stills from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. You *think* seeing a few stills of Mickey Rooney in the movie will give you an idea without mental scarring, but holy shit, I've been watching Twin Peaks the Return all month and *that* was far far creepier