music: september 25

September was full of busy days and quiet mornings. As summer said goodbye and autumn slowly woke up, I decided this would be the month I become a morning person and use the early hours to think.

Evenings and daytime work blocks were mostly filled with ambient and dub techno. Early mornings, however, with the last summer light fading, asked for something softer. One of those mornings, I was reminded of Twin Peaks and started looking for a dreamy sound that sits somewhere between Twin Peaks, Beach House and James K. That became most of my listening in September.

Playlists

• Dreamcore is new and collects that soft, reverb-filled morning sound (although it still needs some refinement).

Artists I played most

1. Chromatics
2. Beach House
3. Angelo Badalamenti
4. Aphex Twin
5. James K

Tracks

• Desire by Ruby Haunt (minimal, nostalgic dream pop)
• Into the Black & Kill for Love by Chromatics (lush, midnight pop)
• Shadow by Chromatics (100% Twin Peaks throwback, every time I listen to it)
• #7 by Aphex Twin (dreamy; perfectly fits the David Lynch idea of "the most beautiful thing, but dark and a little bit scary")
• Master of None by Beach House
• Wildlife Analysis by Boards of Canada (short, but strong album opener; also, Olson from that album is great)
• heart held by marine eyes (gentle, ambient, soft field recordings and vocals)

Venice Biennale Musica 2025

• In October I am traveling to the closing of the Venice Biennale Musica, curated by Caterina Barbieri. The festival explores “cosmic music,” not as a single genre or tradition, but as the generative power of music to create new worlds. I am really looking forward to installations by Meredith Monk and Maxime Denuc, and live performances by Sunn O))), FUJI|||||||||||TA, ecco2k and others.
• Here is a playlist inspired by this year's Biennale by Caterina Barbieri for Crack Magazine.