Alex Tripp
@endaural.com
she/her, plucky and intrepid reporter of music
https://www.endaural.com
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This is just what people care about culturally. They want the president to be a forum admin and they want him to stop banning Bill Maher
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is just what people care about culturally. They want the president to be a forum admin and they want him to stop banning Bill Maher
False Aralia is a label for Izaak Schlossman to deploy new aliases with focused explorations of Topdown Dialecticesque sounds. There's deconstituted hushed speech fragments in a computer generated swamp, but there's also some discernable singing on the A side! The B side is 15 min in the deep end 😈
False 05 - Vehicular, by False Aralia
3 track album
falsearalia.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
False Aralia is a label for Izaak Schlossman to deploy new aliases with focused explorations of Topdown Dialecticesque sounds. There's deconstituted hushed speech fragments in a computer generated swamp, but there's also some discernable singing on the A side! The B side is 15 min in the deep end 😈
Dustin Wong has gotta be my top pick for that category, but there's also this one from Jorge Espinal, tho it maybe still sounds a little bit like guitar
Bombos y Cencerros, by Jorge Espinal
9 track album
buhrecords.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Dustin Wong has gotta be my top pick for that category, but there's also this one from Jorge Espinal, tho it maybe still sounds a little bit like guitar
There must have been some magic in that old moog Omni Gardens found, for when he played these tunes on it, seasonal depression was turned around! I'm so happy to have this collection of synth'd up Christmas tunes full of warmth and care, this is going to be a staple of the season going forward.
Christmas, by Omni Gardens
7 track album
omnigardens.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There must have been some magic in that old moog Omni Gardens found, for when he played these tunes on it, seasonal depression was turned around! I'm so happy to have this collection of synth'd up Christmas tunes full of warmth and care, this is going to be a staple of the season going forward.
Idea Fire Company have been going for decades, but I had no idea until now! It's an overdue intro, they are making my kind of music. This one has the sort of stasis dissolution that I love from Water Damage with a bit more quiet and less duration, making the decay feel internally driven. I love it!
Hot Enough For You?, by Idea Fire Company
5 track album
horn-of-plenty.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Idea Fire Company have been going for decades, but I had no idea until now! It's an overdue intro, they are making my kind of music. This one has the sort of stasis dissolution that I love from Water Damage with a bit more quiet and less duration, making the decay feel internally driven. I love it!
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a glass head and have someone poking around in there, cleaning things out with some scrapes, ringing hits, and doses of high frequency waves? You no longer have to just imagine it! You can listen to this new one from Masaya Kato on headphones.
Glass Anthimeria, by MASAYA KATO
3 track album
lineimprint.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a glass head and have someone poking around in there, cleaning things out with some scrapes, ringing hits, and doses of high frequency waves? You no longer have to just imagine it! You can listen to this new one from Masaya Kato on headphones.
It really does open up a particular sort of depth perception on gender from having the two vantage points!
December 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It really does open up a particular sort of depth perception on gender from having the two vantage points!
Jawnino & SURF GANG have something that sits in an odd inbetween, with synths that sound emotionally rained out and drums that get punchy and present. Jawnino's rapping feels like it carries both qualities, the former in his tone and the latter in his speed. It's a great listen, wish it was longer!
amnesia, by Jawnino
9 track album
jawnino.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Jawnino & SURF GANG have something that sits in an odd inbetween, with synths that sound emotionally rained out and drums that get punchy and present. Jawnino's rapping feels like it carries both qualities, the former in his tone and the latter in his speed. It's a great listen, wish it was longer!
If you need to be reminded about the fantastic Disiniblud album from earlier this year, this remix album is a great way of seeing the strengths through a variety of new perspectives. Artists like Kelly Moran, The Field, and Baths all put a new light on the curious sense of awe inside these melodies.
Disiniblud (Remixes), by Rachika Nayar
8 track album
rachika.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If you need to be reminded about the fantastic Disiniblud album from earlier this year, this remix album is a great way of seeing the strengths through a variety of new perspectives. Artists like Kelly Moran, The Field, and Baths all put a new light on the curious sense of awe inside these melodies.
Anne Imhof starts this album in a space that feels similar to the messy detachment that Alpha Maid pursued on her latest, but with more emptiness. As the music continues, she gets more fired up while still preserving the void, using the sense of something left unrendered as emphasis for what's here.
WYWG, by Anne Imhof
10 track album
anneimhof.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Anne Imhof starts this album in a space that feels similar to the messy detachment that Alpha Maid pursued on her latest, but with more emptiness. As the music continues, she gets more fired up while still preserving the void, using the sense of something left unrendered as emphasis for what's here.
This is a quality compilation for a great org! It has that kind of sequencing where nothing alike is adjacent, you're always getting sent off in a different direction with every +1 on the track count. Very glad to be introduced to the unfamiliar names here, Crying Laughing is one to watch!
Dave Ruder and I put together this amazing 19-track comp to raise funds for trans healthcare. Featured artists include Crying Laughing, Mikel Patrick Avery, Ryan Power, Icy Demons (!!!), Jack Cooper & Tara Cunningham and many more. Put it in yr bandcamp cart! goldbolus.bandcamp.com/album/mandat...
Mandatory Liberation Vol. 2, by Gold Bolus Recordings
19 track album
goldbolus.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is a quality compilation for a great org! It has that kind of sequencing where nothing alike is adjacent, you're always getting sent off in a different direction with every +1 on the track count. Very glad to be introduced to the unfamiliar names here, Crying Laughing is one to watch!
Hesaitix (fka M.E.S.H.) has a new single out, and it's the most straightforward dance stuff he's done in forever. The b-side is actually kind of smooth! But it still doesn't feel like it betrays the work he's been doing on the future architecture and air quality, it just turns out this can fit.
www.ninaprotocol.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Hesaitix (fka M.E.S.H.) has a new single out, and it's the most straightforward dance stuff he's done in forever. The b-side is actually kind of smooth! But it still doesn't feel like it betrays the work he's been doing on the future architecture and air quality, it just turns out this can fit.
Eamon Ivri (aka Lighght) and JQ team up and pursue abstraction as an appeal rather than an obstacle to connection, dimming the lights and focusing the attention on one area while doing major work in the corner of your eye, shifting the landscape before you can know it. There's good mystery here!
Lattice of Memory, by Eamon Ivri & JQ
10 track album
lighghtmusic.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Eamon Ivri (aka Lighght) and JQ team up and pursue abstraction as an appeal rather than an obstacle to connection, dimming the lights and focusing the attention on one area while doing major work in the corner of your eye, shifting the landscape before you can know it. There's good mystery here!
It's been nearly a decade since we heard from Paul Jebanasam, and he stored all that temporal energy to make one big leap. The audio processing and transformation work so substantially in expanding the ways this music can become something new. This is no mere effect. It's truly fresh material!
mātr, by Paul Jebanasam
7 track album
pauljebanasam.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's been nearly a decade since we heard from Paul Jebanasam, and he stored all that temporal energy to make one big leap. The audio processing and transformation work so substantially in expanding the ways this music can become something new. This is no mere effect. It's truly fresh material!
The temptation to just let it play again was so strong! Can already tell this is a big one tho, looking forward to seeing it on the 2026 lists
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The temptation to just let it play again was so strong! Can already tell this is a big one tho, looking forward to seeing it on the 2026 lists
It took 13 years, but Donato Dozzy & Neel finally have another Voices from the Lake album. They're offering ambient techno that operates like a group of metal zoetropes running at complimentary frame rates displaying looping descents into pillows, softening any sense of the machinery. It's bliss!!
II, by Voices From The Lake
11 track album
voicesfromthelake.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It took 13 years, but Donato Dozzy & Neel finally have another Voices from the Lake album. They're offering ambient techno that operates like a group of metal zoetropes running at complimentary frame rates displaying looping descents into pillows, softening any sense of the machinery. It's bliss!!
Oh I forgot to add that label to my watch list, almost missed this! Sounds very promising, it'll be in tomorrow's thread
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Oh I forgot to add that label to my watch list, almost missed this! Sounds very promising, it'll be in tomorrow's thread
But what if fraud from outsiders using AI generated music is an entirely separate issue from fraud that supports major label artists, and what if the latter issue may still be responsible for driving down rates for other artists? It feels like people might start saying this. It sounds plausible.
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
But what if fraud from outsiders using AI generated music is an entirely separate issue from fraud that supports major label artists, and what if the latter issue may still be responsible for driving down rates for other artists? It feels like people might start saying this. It sounds plausible.
I am familiar with the party line. But I appreciate you citing an example that shows the difference is that fradulent activity on other platforms will actually be detected and persecuted!
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I am familiar with the party line. But I appreciate you citing an example that shows the difference is that fradulent activity on other platforms will actually be detected and persecuted!
Do you worry that this information, when combined with the company's reputation for botted streams, might lead people to believe that the "industry wide problem" of fraud is in fact much more of a problem on Spotify than anywhere else?
Spotify Sued Over "Billions" of Fraudulent Drake Streams
Spotify is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging "billions" of fraudulent Drake streams, claiming he benefited from bots.
consequence.net
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Do you worry that this information, when combined with the company's reputation for botted streams, might lead people to believe that the "industry wide problem" of fraud is in fact much more of a problem on Spotify than anywhere else?
But maybe I'm wrong! I'd be very happy to be. If you happen to have an example of the most passionate expression of support for trans people that your org has given, I'd love to see it. The thing in the pdf seemed antiseptic and bloodless, so I really hope that isn't it.
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
But maybe I'm wrong! I'd be very happy to be. If you happen to have an example of the most passionate expression of support for trans people that your org has given, I'd love to see it. The thing in the pdf seemed antiseptic and bloodless, so I really hope that isn't it.
Is there more info about the advocacy you reference here? I see your organization mentioned as one of the signatories in a letter that gets read into the record for this federal one but I can't find anything about what you've done in the states. I have to say that this feels grossly inadequate.
www.congress.gov
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Is there more info about the advocacy you reference here? I see your organization mentioned as one of the signatories in a letter that gets read into the record for this federal one but I can't find anything about what you've done in the states. I have to say that this feels grossly inadequate.
It is very common to see the idea of trans men deployed in this one-dimensional fashion and it needs to stop
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It is very common to see the idea of trans men deployed in this one-dimensional fashion and it needs to stop