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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 57m

#NowPlaying #NewMusic
Yara Asmar: everyone i love is sleeping and i love them so so much (Hive Mind, 2025)

Fully immersed in Asmar's otherworldly, delicately beautiful soundsculptures; aching melancholy, hauntingly evocative, beyond time yet vitally now...
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everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much, by Yara Asmar

11 track album

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Cosmically Funny @cosmicallyf.bsky.social · 10h

The Safety Dance is the natural opposite of breakdancing.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 9h

Might’ve been the one the saying was based on.

LiveAuctioneers app screenshot. The item being auctioned is listed as “Early Double Edged Sword”. It is a short sword with a gold-toned handle. There are no bids on the sword yet.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

Some face-melting news: A new Wagon Christ record (aka Luke Vibert) is coming out this month:

detunedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/planet...

Planet Roll, by Wagon Christ

16 track album

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 1d

Human beings are all sonic vibrations, so try to be good vibrations; an unexpected silver lining in dark times for classical music; and a bunch of excellent musical discoveries await you in this week’s Listening Habit.
#musicsky #newmusic

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Positive Vibrations

We are all sound at the cellular level.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Hertfordshire County Council rules for library use, 1930

RULES FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
BAN ON LIARS AND DIRTY FACES
Strict rules, which have been approved by the Hertfordshire County Council, are to be imposed by the Hyde Institute Library, Barnet Vale.

LIBRARY USERS iN FUTURE MUST NOT:
Enter the library if their faces are offensively dirty.
Fall asleep on the tables.
Eat their lunches whilst reading papers, books, &c
Smoke in the building.
Leave their business cards behind.
Make themselves a nuisance.
Kick or damage the furniture.
Bring dogs within the portals.
Tell lies to the librarian.
Enter when they are in an inebriated con- dition.
If they have small-pox.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

New theory: there WAS a Mayan-predicted apocalypse that started in 2012 and it’s just been a slower burn than what we might’ve assumed at the time.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday, Thelonious Monk.
#jazzsky

This record made a huge impression on me as a young person.

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Ugly Beauty

YouTube video by Thelonious Monk - Topic

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

Mother, Father, Sister, Brother aka “Motherfuckin' Son of a Bitch”, was the house band for Philadelphia International — the architects of the Philly Soul sound in the mid-‘70s.
#soulsky #funksky

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Cheaper to Keep Her

YouTube video by MFSB - Topic

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

*sings something about you are the wind beneath my wings, then promptly falls off roof and breaks leg*

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn gravity. Worst of the natural forces.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

Some face-melting news: A new Wagon Christ record (aka Luke Vibert) is coming out this month:

detunedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/planet...

Planet Roll, by Wagon Christ

16 track album

detunedrecords.bandcamp.com

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 3d

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe's third collaborative album, Liminal, was released today, October 10, 2025

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#OneHitWondered @onehitwondered.bsky.social · 3d

#QuickSidenote Dennis Coffey might be best known for his 1971 hit "Scorpio" (credited Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band), which peaked at #6 on the #Billboard #Top40… and was famously the 1st record spun at NYC’s Studio 54. #DennisCoffey #Studio54 #OneHitWondered

1971 HITS ARCHIVE: Scorpio - Dennis Coffey (mono 45)

YouTube video by AnotherProf

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

John Carpenter’s Big Fat Greek Wedding

National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 3d

John Carpenter's Cousin Vinny

Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 3d

John Carpenter's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · Sep 12

A painting by Panhandle Slim sharing some timely/timeless wisdom from James Baldwin. #art

A simple, illustrated portrait of James Baldwin on the left side of a bright orange background. Black lettering fills the rest of the panel: “we can disagree and still love each other unless our disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin. The panel hangs on a chain link fence near a playground.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

I’m betting no

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched this 1982 Wim Wenders’ project putting directors in a hotel room in Cannes, alone with a camera, and asking them whether cinema was a dying art form. Herzog, Spielberg, Godard, and many more, are among the respondents. Interesting division between art and industry.
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Room 666 (1982)

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera, and answer a simple question: "What is the future...

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 5d

“When musicians improvise, the portion of the brain associated with the “inner critic,” the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, is less active, while the medial prefrontal cortex, the part in the center of the brain associated with creativity and language, takes over.” - from the book Transcendent Waves

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

Seasonal dinner advice:

1. Acorn squashes, halved & seeded, then par-bake 15-20 min at 400 F
2. Cook 1lb loose breakfast sausage in skillet
3. Mix sausage, panko, 1 beaten egg, parmesan, sage, blk pepper
4. Scoop mixture into squash halves and top with more parmesan
5. Bake 15-20 min longer

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 3d

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck Amazon and “Prime Day”

Big Tech is not your friend. It’s a toolset for economic exploitation.

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UPDATE: Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud

The federal class action lawsuit has been ignored by major media outlets, which continue to promote Prime Day deals.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 3d

A link you’d shared a week or two ago about human cells emitting specific frequencies sent me down a rabbit hole, which then back linked to a back issue from ‘23 talking about Mashed Up and how remixing threatens hegemonic forces.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll check it out! Serendipitous timing, you actually get an unrelated shout out in this Saturday’s edition of the newsletter.

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 4d

Algorithmic filter bubbles got you sonically pigeon-holed?

Find some new inspo among the gems on this recent discoveries playlist:

Catchy Colombian triphop, stone-cold jazz, rewarding underground rap, international funk grooves, transcendent bangers, and more.

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Listening Habit - Recent Finds -… - Playlist by Listening Habit

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