Cool Tracks From 2025

Check here for last year’s post. You can listen to these tracks as a mix in podcast form here:

Also there’s a playlist of these tracks (+ the previous years) here BUT BE ADVISED this is incomplete as not all selections are available on Spotify.

JAN 03 2026: Mooninite at Backstage Bar & Billiards (Las Vegas)
JAN 24 2026: Buzzin’ Beats #14 (International, SLC)

Tim Reaper - aisle

Starting things off with a smooth, chill, funky track from the personal archive of Tim Reaper (probably my favorite release of the year). A bit outside his usual classic drum & bass sound.

DJ Aaakmael - Autumn

Some nice & deep leftfield house. Really like the weird samples here.

KaySoul - Boogie-Woogie

A solid house track from South African producer KaySoul containing some smooth chords and cutting bass. It has some weirdness, but would still be a crowdpleaser in the club.

Jun Kamoda - Beautiful Fact Check

Big club track with one foot in low-end 90s breakbeats, and the other in modern abstract technique.

SSSLIP & Beton Brut - Pigeons

Cool grime vocal track that gradually becomes more and more club friendly as it goes on.

Area 3 - P-plunky

Very nice track from a Khotin ambient alias. Some good grainy digital textures in here.

Sally Shapiro - Did You Call Tonight

Still the best italo throwback project.

1000 Eyes - Warm Light (Graves)

Re-imagined track from the excellent soundtrack for Signalis. Hazy & minimal, but very textural & evocative.

Not Even Noticed - Aerial

Chill & easy going 90s-style acid breakbeat house from Germany.

Nine Inch Nails - Forked Reality

The best part of a mediocre Tron movie. This is some unhinged, raw, detuned synthesis that really does its best to elevate the film.

Lost Trax - And/Or

Solid electro track in the Drexciyan vein.

Client_03 - TESTBED DOT SELF_03

(Listen here)

Another release from the mysterious electro project. Great stuff as always.

BufoBufo - Petroglyph

Great mix of familiar styles here. Got some electro, classic breakbeat house, acid, and ambient elements all working together. Good stuff.

MPU101 - Goodbye

Some very nice arpeggiated ambient haze.

Smackos & Dim Garden - Buying An Autechre CD After School November 1994

Got a classic Legowelt track title here. From the album info: “Synthesizer folksongs full with nostalgia and yearning. Made on a rusty DX7 synthesizer & DexeD controller fed through various analog filters to warm it up a bit.”

Pugilist & Tamen - Limerick

Very pleasant drum & bass track with some dreamy elements.

Oneohtrix Point Never - Waterfalls

OPN is really good at finding the middle ground between making experimental music and listenable music. This track really takes you on a trip through all the sounds of this album, and OPN’s style in general.

Mad Rey - Luv (Dub Mix)

Some more smooth funk to end the list. A weird and hooky track that sounds like it’s from a different era (and maybe played at the wrong speed).

Thanks for reading! More to come in 2026
Compiled by KJ
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