Listen to the playlists:
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Winter 2025
- WINTER 2025 is an eight and a half hour long collection of 154 songs by 143 artists spanning 26 countries (mostly the U.S., U.K. and Germany but also Egypt, Lithuania and Peru) and who knows how many genres. Gonna be honest, it's mostly instrumental and experimental with some ambient in there too.
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Summer 2024
- Here's my summer 2024 playlist, a collection of boogaloo and rock and dance, good background music for your summer endeavors, with lots of artists you haven't heard of that are worth exploring.
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Winter 2024
- I put together this roster of wintry music to help your way in the dark months. This year's collection – 170 songs and 8.5 hours long – is mostly instrumental, with more ambient than I've included in the past, along with other breeds of lo-fi, minimalist and experimental songs.
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Summer 2023
- This summer’s music is a collection of boogaloo and salsa from NYC’s 1960s & 70s scene, some soul, a little rock, a bit of the dancey stuff; collected from artists from 18 countries representing every livable continent.
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Winter 2023
- This year's music is an almost entirely instrumental mix of electronica and ambient, it definitely gets weird, my favorite track title is "Ah Shit, My Heart Is Full," and it's the product of the most productive music-listening year of my life.
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Summer 2022
- My summer playlist, chock full of peppy tunes (dance-y, pop-py and international-ly).
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Winter 2022
- This one's more instrumental than ever (80%), decently international (9 countries represented in the first 11 songs) and is full of electronic / ambient / piano-y songs to score this dark season.
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Summer 2021
- This one's a three-hour-long collection of funk, rock, a little electronic and hip-hop, good for background music on a grill day or something else like that.
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Winter 2021
- A selection of electronic, pop and ambient, from artists all around the world, it skews 2020-2019 but has tracks going back to 1972.
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Summer 2020
- Friends, yes this year has been full of it, and yes it's still summer, and yes I put together a playlist for the season.
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Winter 2020
- This year's is a collection of minor-chord slow-beat songs (electronic, pop and hip-hop) from 140+ artists across 20+ countries, good for playing in the background while you wait for it to get warm enough to go outside.
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Summer 2019
- 95 songs from 91 bands from 18 countries, it's a mix of rock and afrobeat and soul and instrumentals with a little rocksteady and a Sade/Sade-like chunk and a cover of a Neutral Milk Hotel song I love way too much.
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Winter 2019
- A ten-hour long collection of dusty background music tuned to the cold months. This year on it there are 137 bands from 22 countries, some new some old.
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Summer 2018
- It's full of fun pop, hip-hop, dance, funk, and it includes bands from at least 12 countries and four continents.
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Winter 2018
- A new winter's upon us. I know what you're thinking: It's getting dark early and I don't have any music that reflects my dark, dark mood. Look no further!
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Summer 2017
- Here's my summer 2017 playlist, it's full of pep and haw. 85 songs, a few throwbacks and a lot of variation. Some french pop, some hip-hop, some four-chord rock 'n' roll.
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Winter 2017
- It's the noisiest, bleakest and darkest.