Historically my taste in music has been fairly boring. I listened to Metallica and other heavy metal in my early teens. Progressed to techno and synth in my upper teens and then sort of.. didn't have any real preference in my 20s. Honestly I never listened much to music but preferred shoutcasts and then podcasts featuring talk over music. Something that is true to this day. That said I've been getting poked by friends and colleagues that overheard the music I did play and was asked to make a list of sorts. I'm hoping this might be a recurring element on this blog and I'll update it once a year or so with new finds. In no particular order, this is the best music available as of 2024 (in my not humble at all opinion).

Let's quickly list a handful of my favorites in this genre (or sub-genre?), but there's so very many great ones once you start going down this rabbit hole. I'm not really sure Sim Gretina fits under the rubrik of electro funk but I don't know where to stick him.

Caravan palace

Miracle Lone digger Dramophone

Parov stelar

All night Jimmy's gang Catgroove

Wolfgang Lohr

Bella di notte Hit and run Puttin' on the Ritz

Sim Gretina

Posin Oh Marceline A friend like me

Not a genre I listen to a lot but I played through the retro adventure game Virtuaverse (which was extraordinarily solid) made by Master Boot Record. It, of course, featured a soundtrack made by the band themselves. I'd also specifically like to highlight the song Keygen Assault which is heads and shoulders above most other chip tunes I've heard.

No specific category nor genre, just sort of slow, melodic tunes that I really enjoy. Jeremiah Kane - Miss Heresy Qillix - Most wanted Of monsters and men - Little talks Of monsters and men - Dirty paws Mr. Kitty - After dark Burak Yeter - Tuesday

Exceedingly chill tunes that are hard to categorize. The perfect background music when doing anything that predominantly requires logic. 80s chillwave Lofi rain Lofi japanese

Fallout 76 features a mix of classic and remade masterpieces that everyone can get behind while the Surviving Mars DLC Marsvision song content alone convinced me that buying OSTs is worth it. In fact I'd say it's the very best DLC released for Surviving Mars, despite many of the other ones being fantastic.

Finally, a new genre of sorts (for me). Ambient background music. Now we've all heard those "rain forest" and "whales playing in the ocean" type of affairs. But what about ambient tracks composed to specifically invoke thoughts of a specific scene in science fiction? I found it intriguing, hopefully you will too. Mars STASIS Cyberpunk oasis