My fav new album this week (and his third of the year) is Heels Have Eyes 3 by Westside Gunn, who continues to mine his unique style of virtuoso shit-talking (ultraviolence, high fashion) over soul beats - sometimes without actual beats - and wrestling commentary.

open.spotify.com/album/3BWM8S...

Hosted another killer radio show this week (link in bio) and updated my playlist with 🍯 new music from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Crooked Man, 🇳🇱 Yucky, 🇳🇱 T.No, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 DJ Polo, 🇺🇸 Noname, 🇺🇸 Kurious, 🇺🇸 Westside Gunn, 🇿🇦 Tots x Mdu AKA TRP, 🇯🇵 Stones Taro & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Breaka, 🇮🇹 Piezo & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yushh and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harry Rodger & Yushh

Hosted another killer radio show this week (link in bio) and updated my playlist with 🍯 new music from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Crooked Man, 🇳🇱 Yucky, 🇳🇱 T.No, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 DJ Polo, 🇺🇸 Noname, 🇺🇸 Kurious, 🇺🇸 Westside Gunn, 🇿🇦 Tots x Mdu AKA TRP, 🇯🇵 Stones Taro & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Breaka, 🇮🇹 Piezo & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Yushh and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harry Rodger & Yushh

Oh, and Bristol! Sorry, DJ Polo. Full playlist of my 2-hour show:

My Heavy Rotation show on Echobox.radio from last Friday is online now, listen to me play great new music from The Hague, Stockholm, London, Jo'burg, Baltimore, Berkeley, Chicago, Berlin, Los Angeles, Sheffield, Paris, Pretoria, Budapest, Utrecht, Buffalo and NYC

www.echobox.radio/shows/heavy-...

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

Now! Echobox.radio

I'm live on Echobox.radio for two hours at the top of the next hour (4pm CET) with new tunes in Heavy Rotation from Yucky, Olof Dreijer, Beatrice M., Mdu AKA TRP, DJ Polo, Mezey, Sampha, Momoko Gill, Noname, PVAS, Kaytranada, Crooked Man, Bambounou, Officixl RSA, In Transit, Westside Gunn and more!

Eating honey with Winnie in Hundred Acre Woods: self-styled "rap underground princess" Noname is back with a sweet Single of the Week titled 'Hundred Acres', conjuring better times for all of us (hopefully)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr06...

Just added the 400th song to my playlist of best new music of 2025 and it's a very timely dance cover by legendary Sheffield producer Crooked Man (AKA Parrot) plus-unknown-female-singer of Jarvis Cocker's 'Running the World'. This time more directly titled, 'Cunts'.

open.spotify.com/playlist/14x...

Intrigued by Los Van Van’s ‘All Night Long’ meets ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ (but make it latin). Found myself voting ‘Centipede’ nonetheless.

There’s also Robert and Lyric Hood, AKA Floorplan

Two peer-reviewed VASCO papers have revealed statistically significant links between pre-Sputnik sky transients, UFO sightings, and nuclear tests, along with a 22σ deficit of transients inside Earth’s shadow suggesting solar reflections from objects in orbit before the Space Age.

Even so! That was Jody Watley WITH Eric B. & Rakim, not “featuring”…

Of course!

IIRC the word "featuring" was hardly used at the time. I remember encountering it for the first time in Dutch chart listings for hits by 'The Kids from Fame' in 1983, but according to this interesting article by @cmolanphy.bsky.social it didn't become widely used until 1990 slate.com/culture/2015...

I need at least two bonuses

RIP Jack DeJohnette (1942-2025)

My fav new album this week is Dutch 🇳🇱 producer Dave Huismans AKA A Made Up Sound and 2562’s untitled first record as In Transit. Mostly beatless ambient music to drift into space to, although there are some bass drum encounters about halfway through.

amadeupsound.bandcamp.com/album/in-tra...

Vind ik echt sfeerverhogend altijd in het Bimhuis

Verachtelijk en smerig. Hier mogen ze niet mee wegkomen.

www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/twe...

Enjoy! Ik lig reeds in bed :)

Totally missed Amsterdam Dance Event this week, but I did manage to update my playlist with ⛅️ new music from 🇺🇸 Patrick Cowley, 🇨🇦🇩🇪 PVAS, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sampha and 🇭🇺 Ghost Warrior

open.spotify.com/playlist/14x...

James Brandon Lewis 🎷 always a delight, whether with his trio, quintet or, tonight in Amsterdam’s Bimhuis, quartet (pianist not pictured)