playlists

Playlist Gallery

an exercise in mood regulation, aesthetic cultivation, and expanding/refining taste.
i create playlists based on certain concepts or memories i have in mind, combining different genres and periods while maintaining thematic coherence. music is tightly linked to my meaning-making and emotional state; i consider making playlists a hobby but also a meaningful creative and spiritual practice.

Dune Caravan

Moss Memories

Tracing the lineage of the blues through various musical traditions and scenes in Africa. Moroccan gnawa, Saharan Tuareg blues, Afrobeat, Afrodiaspora funk, Ethiopian tezeta

Jan 2024

Memories overgrown, damp. Extremophiles pt. 2, kind of. Songs you can touch. that smell nice. tree jazz. orange sunset electric guitar. Humid music.

Jun 2024

Excommunicado

Extremophiles

Electronic experiments that feel “alive” instead of machinic and lifeless. Ambient, plunderphonics, field recordings

Nov 2023

Cultural alienation and winter loneliness. Traversing the unknown and dancing to faint lights. Post-industrial, drone and electroacoustics, deconstructed club

Dec 2023

Archipelago
Archive

Cozy in Subnautica

Collaborative playlist with @bngel_bun tracing the motifs and cultural currents flowing through the Pacific islands to the Southeast Asian archipelago

Jul - Oct 2023

Aquatic-themed: electro-pop, UK garage and jungle, webcore. Imagine chilling in a jacuzzi way out in space and time

Aug 2023

Dilatación

Swamp Tiger

Soundtrack for persistence in slow lethargic days -- thick heavy fuzzy movement. Stoner rock, doom metal, drone metal, shoegaze

Jun 2023

Psychedelic dance in Latin rhythm form. Spanish hyper-pop, math rock, cumbia digital, flamenco, Afro-Cuban, baile funk

Jul 2023

∞ ∞ ∞

Blue Tape

Collaborative playlist, reveling in infinity and abundance. Muzak, wistful jazz, contemplative ballads and other wholesome instrumentals

Apr 2023

Playlist for my favorite color. Ethereal ambient and drone, art pop, lots of reverb, old smoky soul, classical-tinged jazz

May 2023

unfurling

Dreamscapes

Collaborative playlist exploring texture for texture’s sake. Immersing into oblivion. Drone, shoegaze, ambient. post-rock

Mar-2023

Celebrating our unfolding. Electro-folk, alternative R&B and hip-hop, feel-good indie

Feb-2023

幸

condensation

Up in the clouds music. Glitchy ambient, downtempo beats, hypnotic jazz, floaty neo-soul and indie

Oct 2022

Solitude, security, faith. Warm rays of sun. Smooth neo-soul, hip hop, breezy indie rock, gospel

Sep 2022

園

嵐

“Well-kept gardens do not provide the bounty of unkept forests.” Nature ambient, tribal percussions, spiritual and third stream jazz, dream pop

Sep-2022

Transmission from the eye of the storm; contemplative rap, contemporary jazz, neo-soul beats, folk-fusion, alternative dub

Aug-2022

سلام

Intergalactic

Superhighway

Collaborative playlist of Middle Eastern funk, disco, jazz fusion, soul, rock, folk and all things groovy

Oct-2021

Making space travel simpler. Breakcore, IDM, drum and bass, synthwave, techno, garage, experimental rave

Jan-2022

崩

飛

The chaotic noise of crumbling things. Math rock, jazzy punk, punky jazz, experimental hip-hop, glitchy electronic

Sep-2021

State of the art gliding technology. Experimental trap, future bass, industrial techno, glitch hop, jersey club

May-2021

jazzpill

卵

Contemporary jazz curated for a good friend. Angular, modern, fusion

Feb-2021

Primary color palette of old school straight-ahead jazz from the 50s - 60s, prescribed for a good friend

Feb-2021

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サムライ

Heartbreak-core

youtube-core indie pop, alternative R&B, lo-fi folk

Dec-17 to Jan-18

Beats to wander the Edo countryside to. Inspired by Samurai Champloo. Boom bap and alternative hip-hop

Jan 2020