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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. That said, in no particular order, this is the best music available as of 2024 (in my not humble at all opinion).
Electro funk
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.
Miracle
Lone digger
Dramophone
All night
Jimmy's gang
Catgroove
Bella di notte
Hit and run
Puttin' on the Ritz
Posin
Oh Marceline
A friend like me
Chiptunes (sort of)
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.
Soft tunes
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
Synthwave
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
Game soundtracks
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.
Ambient
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
WTF
No comments.. just.. Kim Petras - Throat goat
