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David James 🍩

@funkentechno.bsky.social

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dad, writer, web dev, mixtapes https://www.mixcloud.com/OptimisticUnderground/

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · Dec 9

I posted my AOTY list for 2024 optimisticunderground.com/2024/12/09/8...

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 1h

rewatching The Wailing tonight, easily one of my favorite horror movies of the last decade

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 7h

Four albums for Friday 🌬️

Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Boris - Smile
Girls - Broken Dreams Club

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 12h

last 7 days. happy friday, friends.

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 1d

fyi it's already Friday in Australia 🌿

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 1d

Call Super is back, baby! new mix CD album totally rips callsuper.bandcamp.com/album/a-rhyt...

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 1d

XEXA - Kissom

this melted my brain. cosmic synth techno fourth world inner space kizomba adventure? no idea how to describe it even after two listens. powerful treasure from Príncipe, essential listen, right on my 2025 list principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/kissom

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 1d

just remembered that time I swapped faces with my cat

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 1d

good morning from Sterling and me

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 2d

Ben Bondy - XO Salt Llif3

dreampop / downtempo / triphop / shoegaze / ambient emo... I keep coming back to this. one of the best albums of 2025 maybe benbondy.bandcamp.com/album/xo-sal...

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 2d

haha yeah you gotta watch this wide awake or not at all

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 2d

yep! funny enough I've listened to the album a bunch but only seen the movie once

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 2d

I almost put it on last night but realized I was too sleepy for something so dro)))ne adjacent, probably gonna watch this weekend

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 2d

his episode of Cabinet of Curiosities was great! like.. this movie crossed with fear & loathing??

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 2d

Shawn Rudiman - Flow State

deep techno from the scifi-tinged realm of FSOL, Pete Namlook, Global Communication, B12, Artificial Intelligence series.. really hope he drops another banger soon

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 2d

Steve Hauschildt - Strands

still one of my favorite post-Emeralds releases from any of the former bandmates. pure warp-drive synth bliss. perfect sunrise music.

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

Criterion has most of carpenter's movies right now so I'm rewatching escape from ny again. I still clearly remember my mind reeling at the box art in the rental shop as a kid, how I HAD to see this. Still one of the coolest posters ever

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

Polypores - I Wish There Was a Place Like That

absolutely swimming in this freewheeling, deeply psychedelic synth bath. 70+ minutes of systemic bubbling melodic bliss. lean in closer and you only get more & more detail quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/i-wish...

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

ged does it again 🌊🌊🌊

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

I love picking up cheap heat at the local used movie shop. haven't seen this one since it was new

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

oh man, consider me jealous! he's one of my alltime favorite artists, and I've chatted with him online but never seen him live, and it's not looking likely that he'll ever play again

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

the third disc is basically the Quoth EP. so I dunno if worth upgrading.. I never owned the original, just glad to finally have a copy!

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

I love how everything I've seen him in, women just find him irresistible despite him looking like just a regular dude

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

hunt that friend down! haha

David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

oh man.. Magnolia is closest to my heart of all his films. it's big and messy and overly earnest but just strikes something deep in me. watched a couple days after my dad died in 2020 and the scenes with Earl just destroyed me in a good way

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David James 🍩 @funkentechno.bsky.social · 3d

I love Max's artwork on almost all Hausu releases