Centuries of Sound
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A mix for every year of recorded sound.
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Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!
centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!
centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
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Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
New thing!
"A house in Philadelphia. In the room the radio, warm and fuzzy FM radio hits, a Phillies game and radio dramas. To the left a TV with St. Elsewhere, Family Ties and North & South. To the right , someone is playing on a ColecoVision or an Atari 2600."
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"A house in Philadelphia. In the room the radio, warm and fuzzy FM radio hits, a Phillies game and radio dramas. To the left a TV with St. Elsewhere, Family Ties and North & South. To the right , someone is playing on a ColecoVision or an Atari 2600."
www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of...
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New thing!
"A house in Philadelphia. In the room the radio, warm and fuzzy FM radio hits, a Phillies game and radio dramas. To the left a TV with St. Elsewhere, Family Ties and North & South. To the right , someone is playing on a ColecoVision or an Atari 2600."
www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of...
"A house in Philadelphia. In the room the radio, warm and fuzzy FM radio hits, a Phillies game and radio dramas. To the left a TV with St. Elsewhere, Family Ties and North & South. To the right , someone is playing on a ColecoVision or an Atari 2600."
www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of...
Having lunch in Syd Barrett's old pub (not a remarkable pub for any other reason) and they're playing a cover versions of The Roches 'Hammond Song' which has a single singer and no harmonies. It's not bad but why? why would anyone choose to make or play such a thing?
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Having lunch in Syd Barrett's old pub (not a remarkable pub for any other reason) and they're playing a cover versions of The Roches 'Hammond Song' which has a single singer and no harmonies. It's not bad but why? why would anyone choose to make or play such a thing?
Once again I am begging everyone to drop the tvtropesisms and return to critical theory, which may require some thinking to engage with, but at least has something to say about art & culture and is not relentlessly glib.
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Once again I am begging everyone to drop the tvtropesisms and return to critical theory, which may require some thinking to engage with, but at least has something to say about art & culture and is not relentlessly glib.
This clip (from High Fidelity) is in my most recent* (2000 part 2) mix.
*will not be most recent if you are reading this tomorrow
*will not be most recent if you are reading this tomorrow
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This clip (from High Fidelity) is in my most recent* (2000 part 2) mix.
*will not be most recent if you are reading this tomorrow
*will not be most recent if you are reading this tomorrow
Wanted: intelligent cow to help herd other cows into mincing machine. Be one of the first applicants!
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Wanted: intelligent cow to help herd other cows into mincing machine. Be one of the first applicants!
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 50
Myd - The Wizard (France, 2025)
Let's finish our 50 with some NEW fresh glitchy techno goodness from France. See you all on the 1st for the next thing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzsM...
Myd - The Wizard (France, 2025)
Let's finish our 50 with some NEW fresh glitchy techno goodness from France. See you all on the 1st for the next thing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzsM...
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 50
Myd - The Wizard (France, 2025)
Let's finish our 50 with some NEW fresh glitchy techno goodness from France. See you all on the 1st for the next thing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzsM...
Myd - The Wizard (France, 2025)
Let's finish our 50 with some NEW fresh glitchy techno goodness from France. See you all on the 1st for the next thing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzsM...
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Four decades on, Juzo Itami's "Tampopo" remains unsurpassed as a wicked and delicious social commentary on Japanese society told through the lens of food. 👉 ebx.sh/pC51Lw
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Four decades on, Juzo Itami's "Tampopo" remains unsurpassed as a wicked and delicious social commentary on Japanese society told through the lens of food. 👉 ebx.sh/pC51Lw
Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
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November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 49
Arooj Aftab - Raat Ki Rani (Pakistan, 2024)
My only Urdu-language pick, and an artist I am really excited to explore. Such a beautifully sad piece of music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5IO...
Arooj Aftab - Raat Ki Rani (Pakistan, 2024)
My only Urdu-language pick, and an artist I am really excited to explore. Such a beautifully sad piece of music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5IO...
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 49
Arooj Aftab - Raat Ki Rani (Pakistan, 2024)
My only Urdu-language pick, and an artist I am really excited to explore. Such a beautifully sad piece of music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5IO...
Arooj Aftab - Raat Ki Rani (Pakistan, 2024)
My only Urdu-language pick, and an artist I am really excited to explore. Such a beautifully sad piece of music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5IO...
#TheTwen2ie5 day 48
Stereolab - Melodie is a Wound (UK/France/Spain, 2025)
I will confess that the new Pulp album this year led to me taking way too long to check out the new Stereolab album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nndp...
Stereolab - Melodie is a Wound (UK/France/Spain, 2025)
I will confess that the new Pulp album this year led to me taking way too long to check out the new Stereolab album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nndp...
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 48
Stereolab - Melodie is a Wound (UK/France/Spain, 2025)
I will confess that the new Pulp album this year led to me taking way too long to check out the new Stereolab album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nndp...
Stereolab - Melodie is a Wound (UK/France/Spain, 2025)
I will confess that the new Pulp album this year led to me taking way too long to check out the new Stereolab album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nndp...
So it was the year 2001 and my mate Jamie was going on holiday to Prague with his girlfriend, but she failed her finals and had to resit, and he offered me her bus ticket. Yes, we took the bus from London to Prague. When we got to the Czech border we handed over our passports to the bus driver... 1/
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
So it was the year 2001 and my mate Jamie was going on holiday to Prague with his girlfriend, but she failed her finals and had to resit, and he offered me her bus ticket. Yes, we took the bus from London to Prague. When we got to the Czech border we handed over our passports to the bus driver... 1/
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
#TheTwen2ie5 day 47
Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (Wales, 2024)
The perfect sweet spot between ambient dreampop and minimal techno, this is what I hoped music would sound like in the 21st century.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcyr...
Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (Wales, 2024)
The perfect sweet spot between ambient dreampop and minimal techno, this is what I hoped music would sound like in the 21st century.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcyr...
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 47
Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (Wales, 2024)
The perfect sweet spot between ambient dreampop and minimal techno, this is what I hoped music would sound like in the 21st century.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcyr...
Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate (Wales, 2024)
The perfect sweet spot between ambient dreampop and minimal techno, this is what I hoped music would sound like in the 21st century.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcyr...
Would be good to have a labeller for people who post "didn't happen", or maybe just a block list.
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Would be good to have a labeller for people who post "didn't happen", or maybe just a block list.
I was once in a KFC in Zhuhai and they played a recording of a small child singing "Happy Birthday To You" (in Chinese) on repeat for at least half an hour, that's how long it took before I could not bear it any more, it may have been on all day.
The onslaught of piped in Xmas music is workers rights issue. It was THE thing I complained to management about when I worked @ B&N.
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I was once in a KFC in Zhuhai and they played a recording of a small child singing "Happy Birthday To You" (in Chinese) on repeat for at least half an hour, that's how long it took before I could not bear it any more, it may have been on all day.
I wonder what proportion of British people under the age of 30 know who Cliff Richard is? He was such a fixture of the culture when I was young, when he dies it's going to be weird having to explain who he was and why he was so popular to my kids. #totp
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I wonder what proportion of British people under the age of 30 know who Cliff Richard is? He was such a fixture of the culture when I was young, when he dies it's going to be weird having to explain who he was and why he was so popular to my kids. #totp
#TheTwen2ie5 day 46
Sho Madjozi - Chale (South Africa, 2023)
An underheralded aspect of the 2020s so far is Africa leading the way in pop innovation - the production on this is like nothing else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3l...
Sho Madjozi - Chale (South Africa, 2023)
An underheralded aspect of the 2020s so far is Africa leading the way in pop innovation - the production on this is like nothing else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3l...
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 46
Sho Madjozi - Chale (South Africa, 2023)
An underheralded aspect of the 2020s so far is Africa leading the way in pop innovation - the production on this is like nothing else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3l...
Sho Madjozi - Chale (South Africa, 2023)
An underheralded aspect of the 2020s so far is Africa leading the way in pop innovation - the production on this is like nothing else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3l...
#TheTwen2ie5 day 45
Rosalía - Saoko (Spain, 2022)
Not sure I always get the appeal with Rosalía, but this one is undeniable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7b...
Rosalía - Saoko (Spain, 2022)
Not sure I always get the appeal with Rosalía, but this one is undeniable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7b...
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 45
Rosalía - Saoko (Spain, 2022)
Not sure I always get the appeal with Rosalía, but this one is undeniable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7b...
Rosalía - Saoko (Spain, 2022)
Not sure I always get the appeal with Rosalía, but this one is undeniable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7b...
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#TheTwen2ie5 day 44
Miguel Migs - Midnight Memories (USA, 2021)
Lovely blissful dreamy after-hours party winter house music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmuQ...
Miguel Migs - Midnight Memories (USA, 2021)
Lovely blissful dreamy after-hours party winter house music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmuQ...
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 44
Miguel Migs - Midnight Memories (USA, 2021)
Lovely blissful dreamy after-hours party winter house music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmuQ...
Miguel Migs - Midnight Memories (USA, 2021)
Lovely blissful dreamy after-hours party winter house music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmuQ...
Sharing this because more people need to see it, this is Kathy Bates, aged 23, in the absolutely brilliant film Taking Off (1971)
youtu.be/VdGAGAWyTj0
youtu.be/VdGAGAWyTj0
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Sharing this because more people need to see it, this is Kathy Bates, aged 23, in the absolutely brilliant film Taking Off (1971)
youtu.be/VdGAGAWyTj0
youtu.be/VdGAGAWyTj0
Why are these pine scented? I'm not going to sniff them either before or after use.
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Why are these pine scented? I'm not going to sniff them either before or after use.
#TheTwen2ie5 day 43
Monkey Safari - Safe (Germany, 2020)
Lovely blissful dreamy slightly tropical house music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLf...
Monkey Safari - Safe (Germany, 2020)
Lovely blissful dreamy slightly tropical house music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLf...
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 day 43
Monkey Safari - Safe (Germany, 2020)
Lovely blissful dreamy slightly tropical house music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLf...
Monkey Safari - Safe (Germany, 2020)
Lovely blissful dreamy slightly tropical house music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLf...