music

some of my albums of all time by genre, my favourite tracks on the album, things they make me feel/remind me of
in no particular order


live shows i've attended



2025: (upcoming or unsure if going): kitty craft, slowdive, thievery corporation, alice longyu gao & cel genesis, gang of four, LTK Bukem, nine inch nails, autechre, stereolab, car seat headrest, shonen knife

2024: the softies, boa, the swirlies, loveliescrushing, poison girlfriend, 2hollis, loathe, bladee, machine girl, lsd and the search for god, geneva jacuzzi, sunami

2023: have a nice life, slowdive, lsd and the search for god, airiel, symposium, the smashing pumpkins, the cure, incubus, pachinko, duster

2022: molchat doma, deftones, alice in chains, she wants revenge, the garden

2019: deadmau5, thom yorke


shoegaze

Souvlaki [Slowdive, 1993]

favourite tracks:

1. Machine Gun
2. Souvlaki Space Station
3. 40 Days
4. Alison

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other:

Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time [Candy Claws, 2013]

favourite tracks:

1. White Seal (Shell & Spine)
2. Birth of the Flower (Seagreen)
3. Fell in Love (At the Water)
4. Where I Found You (One Star)

best when/for:

Beat [Bowery Electric, 1996]

favourite tracks:

1. Empty Words
2. Beat
3. Without Stopping
4. Fear of Flying

best when/for:

Velocity : Design : Comfort [Sweet Trip, 2003]

favourite tracks:

1. Pro : Lov : Ad
2. Fruitcake and Cookies
3. Velocity
4. Sept

best when/for:

Crystallize [Tokyo Shoegazer, 2011]

favourite tracks:

1. Bright
2. 299 Addiction
3. Just Alright
4. Free

best when/for:

LSD and the Search for God [LSD and the Search for God, 2007]

favourite tracks:

1. Backwards
2. This Time
3. Starting Over
4. I Don't Care

best when/for:

Delaware [Drop Nineteens, 1992]

favourite tracks:

1. Kick the Tragedy
2. Angel
3. Happen
4. Baby Wonder's Gone

best when/for:

mikgazer vol.1 [various artists, 2012]

favourite tracks:

1. flash back,0217
2. Alchemy
3. Parachute
4. Reincarnation

best when/for:

Winks & Kisses [Airiel, 2004]

favourite tracks:

1. Shirley Temple Tidal Wave
2. Firefly
3. Airtight Angels
4. This Is Why I Can't Sleep

best when/for:

In Her Gentle Jaws [The Depreciation Guild, 2007]

favourite tracks:

1. Sky Ghosts
2. A Room, A Canvas
3. Butterfly Kisses

best when/for:

Love 15 [Majesty Crush, 1993]

favourite tracks:

1. No 1. Fan
2. Boyfriend
3. Uma

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Doppelgänger [Curve, 1992]

favourite tracks:

1. Horror Head
2. Already Yours

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Dynamo [Soda Stereo, 1992]

favourite tracks:

1. Secuencia inicial
2. Toma la Ruta
3. Primavera 0
4. Camaleon

best when/for:

We're Not Here to Be Loved [Fleshwater, 2022]

favourite tracks:

1. Baldpate Driver
2. Closet
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Pipe Dreams [Whirr, 2012]

favourite tracks:

1. Junebouvier
2. Formulas and Frequencies
3. Flashback

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Distressor [Whirr, 2010]

favourite tracks:

1. Sandy
2. Preface

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Monomara EP [Isabel's Dream, 2001]

favourite tracks:

1. Blue Morning
2. Telesto
3. It's Better With You

best when/for:

Loveless [my bloody valentine, 1991]

favourite tracks:

1. Sometimes
2. Only Shallow
3. Loomer
4. When You Sleep

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Isn't Anything [my bloody valentine, 1988]

favourite tracks:

1. Lose My Breath
2. Several Girls Galore
3. Nothing Much to Lose

best when/for:

Yukari Telepath [Coaltar of the Deepers, 2007]

favourite tracks:

1. Water Bird
2. Carnival (Oumagatoki Mix

best when/for:

dream pop & ethereal wave

Flux [Love Spirals Downwards, 1998]

favourite tracks:

1. By Your Side
2. City Moon
3. I'll Always Love You
4. Psyche

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Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest [Autumn's Grey Solace, 2002]

favourite tracks:

1. Lost
2. Resonant Dusk
3. Forgotten, Fossilized, Archaic
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Heaven or Las Vegas [Cocteau Twins, 1990]

favourite tracks:

1. Fifty-Fifty Clown
2. Pitch The Baby
3. I Wear Your Ring
4. Cherry-Coloured Funk

best when/for:

Milk & Kisses [Cocteau Twins, 1996]

favourite tracks:

1. Violaine
2. Serpentskirt
3. Calfskin Smack
4. Tishbite

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Four-Calendar Café [Cocteau Twins, 1993]

favourite tracks:

1.Theft, and Wandering Around Lost

best when/for:

Head Over Heels [Cocteau Twins, 1983]

favourite tracks:

1. Musette and Drums
2. In Our Angelhood
3. Sugar Hiccup

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Treasure [Cocteau Twins, 1984]

favourite tracks:

1. Amelia
2. Pandora (For Cindy)
3. Lorelei
4. Aloysius

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Blue Bell Knoll [Cocteau Twins, 1988]

favourite tracks:

1. Athol-Brose
2. Suckling the Mender
3. Carolyn's Fingers

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Victorialand [Cocteau Twins, 1986]

favourite tracks:

1. Lazy Calm
2. Oomingmak
3. Little Spacey
4. Fluffy Tufts

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The Moon and the Melodies [Cocteau Twins, 1986]

favourite tracks:

1. She Will Destroy You
2. Sea, Swallow Me

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Cold [Lycia, 1996]

favourite tracks:

1. Drifting

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The Loved One [Strange Boutique, 1991]

favourite tracks:

1. A Happy Death
2. Drown

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Here Comes Everybody [The Wake, 1985]

favourite tracks:

1. Pale Spectre
2. World of Her Own
3. All I Asked You To Do
4. Torn Calendar 5. O Pamela

best when/for:

Ever [Love Spirals Downwards, 1996]

favourite tracks:

1. Sideways Forest
2. Delta
3. Cay at Dawn
4. Ipomoea

best when/for:

Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present [Love Spirals Downwards, 2000]

favourite tracks:

1. Misunderstood (I'll Always Love You Remix)
2. Alicia (Remix)
3. Ring
4. Madras

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Ignite the Seven Cannons [Felt, 1985]

favourite tracks:

1. Elegance of an Only Dream
2. Primitive Painters
3. Scarlet Servants

best when/for:

The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories [Felt, 1984]

favourite tracks:

1. Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow
2.Imprint

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Depression Cherry [Beach House, 2015]

favourite tracks:

1. PPP
2. Beyond Love
3. Levitation
4. Space Song

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Love's Easy Tears [Cocteau Twins, 1986]

favourite tracks:

1. Love's Easy Tears
2. Those Eyes, That Mouth

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You Will Never Know Why [Sweet Trip, 2009]

favourite tracks:

1. Air Supply
2. Milk
3. To the Moon

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Reading, Writing and Arithmetic [The Sundays, 1990]

favourite tracks:

1. You're Not the Only One I Know
2. A Certain Someone
3. Here's Where the Story Ends

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Blind [The Sundays, 1992]

favourite tracks:

1. On Earth
2. Life & Soul

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Lollita [A.R. Kane, 1987]

favourite tracks:

1. Lollita

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69 [A.R Kane, 1988]

favourite tracks:

1. Baby Milk Snatcher

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trip hop & downtempo

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ambient & IDM

Incunabula [Autechre, 1993]

favourite tracks:

1. 444
2. Bike
3. Windwind
4. Autriche

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Cinemascope [Monolake, 2001]

favourite tracks:

1. Cubicle
2. Ionized

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Phaedra [Tangerine Dream, 1974]

favourite tracks:

1. Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares

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Rubycon [Tangerine Dream, 1975]

favourite tracks:

1. Rubycon (Part I)
2. Rubycon (Part II)

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Music Has the Right to Children [Boards of Canada, 1998]

favourite tracks:

1. Olson
2. One Very Important Thought
3. Wildlife Analysis

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The Campfire Headphase [Boards of Canada, 2005]

favourite tracks:

1. Tears From the Compound Eye
2. Satellite Anthem Icarus
3. Sherbet Head

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Geogaddi [Boards of Canada, 2002]

favourite tracks:

1. Dandelion
2. The Devil Is In The Details
3. Music Is Math
4. The Smallest Weird Number

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Selected Ambient Works 85-92 [Aphex Twin, 1992]

favourite tracks:

1. Green Calx
2. Pulsewidth
3. Tha
4. Xtal

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Selected Ambient Works Volume II [Aphex Twin, 1994]

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From Here We Go Sublime [The Field, 2007]

favourite tracks:

1. A Paw in My Face
2. From Here We Go Sublime
3. Everday
4. Good Things End

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Quique [Seefeel, 1993]

favourite tracks:

1. Imperial
2. Filterdub
3. Plainsong
4. Polyfusion

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76:14 [Global Communication, 1994]

favourite tracks:

1. 9:25
2. 7:39
3. 14:31

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Dropsonde [Biosphere, 2006]

favourite tracks:

1. Dissolving Clouds
2. In Triple Time
3. Arafura
4. Birds Fly By Flapping their Wings

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Mysterious Skin OST [Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd, 2005]

favourite tracks:

1. Snowfall
2. Halloween
3. Neil's Theme
4. The Memories Returning

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World of Sleepers [Carbon Based Lifeforms, 2006]

favourite tracks:

1. Abiogenesis
2. Vortex
3. Photosynthesis

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Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis [Chapterhouse / Global Communication, 1993]

favourite tracks:

1. Beta Phase

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Symbol [Susumu Yokota, 2004]

favourite tracks:

1. Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower
2. Song of the Sleeping Forest
3. Fairy Dance of Twinkle and Shadow

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Sakura [Susumu Yokota, 2000]

favourite tracks:

1. Saku
2. Tobiume
3. Shinsen

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Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks [Brian Eno, 1983]

favourite tracks:

1. Deep Blue Day
2. Under Stars
3. Signals

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Green [吉村弘 [Hiroshi Yoshimura], 1986]

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Space 1.8 [Nala Sinephro, 2021]

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Seven Waves [Ciani, 1982]

favourite tracks:

1. The Second Wave: Sirens

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An Empty Bliss Beyond This World [The Caretaker, 2011]

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Before the Day Breaks [Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd, 2007]

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After the Night Falls [Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd, 2007]

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Chill Out [The KLF, 1990]

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S.H.A.D.O [Higher Intelligence Agency / Pete Namlook, 1997]

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Thursday Afternoon [Brian Eno, 1985]

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Through the Looking Glass [Midori Takada, 1983]

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Elegant Harp [Takashi Kokubo], 1993]

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Oasis of the Wind II [Takashi Kokubo], 1993]

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Watering a Flower [Haruomi Hosono, 1984]

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