As some of you might know, i maintain another Substack at GOOD MUSIC which is, as you might guess, about good music.
I’ve read a lot of music magazines in my life and at one point i realized, that i hardly actually read them and mostly just use them to have a overview about new releases. Sure, some reviews are useful, but when it comes to music, i don’t trust words and only use my ears. This is why, on GOOD MUSIC, you won’t find any writing, at all. It’s just music videos and new tracks, with some very very few exceptions when a project needs some explanation, like the Birdsong Project recently.
I post on this other blog mainly for the sole reason to have a notebook full of new acts and bands i like and which i want to have a closer look at, buy an album on their bandcamp if i can afford it or stream it somewhere. I also have a playlist of the tracks i post there on Spotify, but i last updated this in September 22 and really really really should get my spotifyplaylistact together but i’m also lazy, so god knows when i’ll do this. But if you want a kickass playlist of semi-new music of all kinds, give this a shot.
I’m writing this because i feel i want to send out some of the gems i post there on this blog here too. The best of the good, so to speak.
I won’t do this too regular as GOOD INTERNET is more about the intersections of technology with culture and society, but i think you guys miss out some really really good music, so i’ll just send out a compilation of my favorite songs every few months or so and hope you will enjoy them too. I’ll try and send those out on sunday evenings local time in Berlin, so you can dance into monday, if you like.
The music in this post are my favorite tracks from the past three months or so, with a focus on recent weeks, stuff i go back to listening to regulary, again and again, because they kick ass and make me jump around, tingle my spine, crawl down my skin, bring me to the brink of tears — or all of those at once.
On GOOD MUSIC, i lately am sorting the songs i post into very rough categories of hardcore (metal and hardcore punk), pop (more mainstream music and synth pop), indie (everything from folk to alternative and punk) and beats (techno and electronica, hip hop and the occasionally downbeats) — but i won’t do this here, so this is gonna be a wild ride.
By sheer coincidence, the first musicvideo of this list, the fantastic Skipping Like A Stone by The Chemical Brothers, features one Kurt Steiner, who “has dedicated his entire adult life to stone skipping, sacrificing everything to produce world-record throws that defy the laws of physics” and who i featured on this blog almost exactly one year ago.
All Killers No Fillers. Enjoy.
did you listen to that deichkind & beatsteaks song?
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