I donāt know about you guys but music is top on my list for helping me get through the day. One of my favorite places to check for music is SoundCloud and one of my favorite people on there is lowiron. She does an absolutely amazing job mixing techno, house, and electronic tracks and sheās only been doing it for a few months!! Not to mention sheās really funny on twitter too, love her to death!
finding music on here has been such a blessing. i am so grateful for the ppl that share music on this app everything anyone has shared is beautiful perfect, fantastic, makes me believe in love and the joy of living again. thereās something about someone personally recommending something juxtaposed to the clinically sterilized algorithmic recommendations of every other music app. music is connection and should always be 110% a fundamentally human experience. this remix of club classics is how iām feelin about it
I started a playlist series called Herb Sundays, which came out of posting sort of uncool (āherb-yā) records that I was listening to online and thinking about how the perfect Sunday records get played when other people arenāt looking. I don't feel bad plugging this series because itās free and the mixes are by other people than myself. I donāt think I could host a podcast so this scratches the itch of inviting interesting people to contribute to something beyond my regular job, and its also purely for fun. Music discovery is one of lifeās great gifts. A good new song can make your week, and a good mix can make your day. This series is also a love letter to the Mixtape. I still think a hand-cranked mix is one of the greatest DIY projects as far low-effort satisfaction on both ends of the chain. Iām not anti-algo on the whole, it has a place, but you can feel it when someone puts time into making a great mix.
So Iāve been wearing the same 3 beanies in rotation for the last month and I donāt think I will ever wear another beanie ever again. They fit great, the colors are amazing, they wash well! Fred did such an amazing job with these and heās honestly becoming one of my favorite designers. Iām really excited to see what he has coming next. Keep your eyes on Fred!
Two of my all time favorite creative thinkers and people, Sean Murray and Nick Massarelli, run a publication called First Last and itās been a year since their last release. However, I recently found out that theyāre looking to release their next issue in April and itās been one of my favorite pieces of news in months! Iāve bought every single issue and I will continue to do so!
Man, drink some Yerba Mate and play this in the background, I promise you will finish your to-do list in the next 45mins hahahah. Iāve been getting really into drum and bass music and this is one of my favorites. Youtube has a ton of gems and this is one of the few that Iāve found, such an amazing resource for music.Ā Fun fact: I made this list of recommendations while listening to this :)