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# music: november 25
- URL: https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-25-11/
- Published: 2025-12-10T20:04:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-25T10:13:41.000Z
- Author: wlad
- Tags: wav

**November felt heavy and quiet at once.** Work filled most of it, but music filled the spaces between – processing, reflecting, sinking into sound. I was lucky to spend a day in Utrecht for Le Guess Who and thought a lot about listening – deep listening, immersive listening, social listening and listening as creation. More thoughts on that later. For now, some highlights before December swallows them whole.

## Floating

- [**Florian T M Zeisig – *Planet Inc***](https://open.spotify.com/album/3SvCzUZxQWFMGWOBT9y9mH?ref=wlxpvn.com) (space ambient, weightless dub, late-night drift)
- [**Alva Noto – *Xerrox vol 5***](https://open.spotify.com/album/0nXbVpD63ylK8ZfrdELwlb?ref=wlxpvn.com) (cosmic ambient, 20-year series finale – sounds copied and transformed until they become something new)
- [**Lia Kohl – *Normal Sounds***](https://open.spotify.com/album/5ppFu62P59Zd5ELs3YNzLP?ref=wlxpvn.com) (field recordings that made me want to go outside and capture things)
- [**Donato Dozzy – *Magda***](https://open.spotify.com/album/5VDhlo398SCiqC5XSoPUDl?ref=wlxpvn.com) (half-ambient techno, named after his aunt, inspired by the Adriatic – modular, building energy)
- [**J. Albert – *I want to be good so bad***](https://open.spotify.com/album/3mJ460Zhr7HDy4Egq3ggTZ?ref=wlxpvn.com) (murky dub techno, Basic Channel DNA)
- [**The Allegorist – *From Birth Until Death***](https://open.spotify.com/album/1HtaZoAFSYWsO8RAGeO5mA?ref=wlxpvn.com) (industrial-ambient, poetic song titles, field recordings from Grunewald)
- [**Pavel Milyakov, Yana Pavlova – *the thrill***](https://open.spotify.com/album/6j9VvJR0hOF6F0GQOyDy3N?ref=wlxpvn.com) **(dreamy, melancholic ambient; their album** [**Blue**](https://open.spotify.com/album/2G2NMMqNJFhxQb3JWOROeR?si=8prbsqQeRR-FI8zXXAtpkg&ref=wlxpvn.com) **is also very cool)**
- [**Brendon Moeller – *Blue Moon***](https://open.spotify.com/album/2o8SU0wNo8JIUoWa8bulUj?ref=wlxpvn.com) (dub techno meets drum & bass – warm, sunny, 90s intelligent d&b energy)
- [**Verses GT (Jacques Greene & Nosaj Thing) – *Verses GT***](https://open.spotify.com/album/312yGi77egGyM5mx9eCyRa?si=s8pfdYmVS7iRS6GjssbBgw&ref=wlxpvn.com) (ambient-leaning electronic, club-adjacent, perfect for night driving)
- [**Carrier – *Rhythm Immortal***](https://open.spotify.com/album/4G3ayf2HUKdykT2taYqw33?ref=wlxpvn.com) (alien dub minimalism, fractured, full of empty space)
- [**Stars of the Lid – "Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2"**](https://open.spotify.com/track/7m2iqOIBuCT0XvMkv4wYNv?si=d86fd569bcc546ee&ref=wlxpvn.com) **(one of the saddest ambient pieces ever made)**

## Moving

- [**Anthony Naples – *Scanners***](https://open.spotify.com/track/6rSeRzqfG1M4cOSSryyHuB?ref=wlxpvn.com) (minimal but chunky house, high energy – especially [**Night**](https://open.spotify.com/track/6rSeRzqfG1M4cOSSryyHuB?si=ce72c4f4dac44d6f&ref=wlxpvn.com))
- [**Drum Club – "Sound System"**](https://youtu.be/G4DpVlUNohk?si=-t-oRkJAho3x8APA&ref=wlxpvn.com) **(long intro, groovy sample, slowly turns into trance meditation, the best track I found in a long time)**
- [**Caldera – "Spiral Path of Joy (Skii Mix)"**](https://open.spotify.com/track/68jiuzMGkI6Ec7vxY1EufD?si=6dd28d0de12b419a&ref=wlxpvn.com) (heady techno at 160bpm, somehow still organic and quirky)
- [**Silvio Ecomo – "Standing (General Midi Remix)"**](https://open.spotify.com/track/0iLpHOtenOCc82VRM69Y7f?ref=wlxpvn.com) (nu-skool breaks, ravey, 2000s bboy battle nostalgia)
- [**Binary Algorithms – "Sub-Periphery"**](https://open.spotify.com/track/00y8acmrjNlqQXADj2bjCI?si=ff546da7e8104f5c&ref=wlxpvn.com) (sci-fi electro/IDM, colorful, bright)
- [**Buttechno**](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4XbQUkFYWthjpAPp96lHWt?ref=wlxpvn.com) (Pavel Milyakov's alias – crazy jungle, dub techno, groovy chaos, especially the track "hypno")

## Three highlights from Le Guess Who 2025 (Saturday)

[**33EMYBW & Li Jianhong**](https://leguesswho.com/lineup/33emybw-li-jianhong?ref=wlxpvn.com)  
Deconstructed traditional Chinese instruments through distortion and noise in Pieterskerk. Li Jianhong used something like a Theragun on the guitar strings – creating chaotic, vibrating textures. Witchy and very gloomy (but cool).

[**Adrian Younge**](https://leguesswho.com/lineup/adrian-younge?ref=wlxpvn.com)  
Full band: trumpets, saxophone, drums, bass, vocals. Soul and funk with Brazilian threads. Everyone on stage strongly vibing, the band moving as one whole. "Sirens" (from *Something About April*, sampled by Jay-Z) was very recognizable and clearly the peak.

[**Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force**](https://leguesswho.com/lineup/mark-ernestus-ndagga-rhythm-force?ref=wlxpvn.com)  
Multiple Senegalese percussionists layering interlocking polyrhythms into one hypnotic groove. Ernestus's minimal techno aesthetic lives in the spacious production. Happy vocals, viral energy.

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December will be slow – shorter days and more reflection. But it is not over. Thanks for reading!