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# music: december 25
- URL: https://wlxpvn.com/blog/music-25-12/
- Published: 2026-01-04T12:59:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-04T06:35:41.000Z
- Author: wlad
- Tags: wav

**Happy New Year.** May your year be filled with curiosity and discovery. 

December felt long at first, then suddenly short. Now I'm starting 2026 with fresh energy – wanting to be more [intentional](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/were-you-there/), [creative](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/get-every-idea-out/), and [prolific](https://wlxpvn.com/blog/try-lots-of-things/). 

I recently wondered whether it's worth creating something that has been created before, discussing a topic that's already been covered or writing about something others have previously addressed. If I can add a new insight, definitely; but even when I repeat what others have said, I think it's still valuable. I can add my own perspective, and that makes it new. As Ted Chiang puts it:

> Whether you are creating a novel or a painting or a film, you are engaged in an act of communication between you and your audience. **What you create doesn't have to be utterly unlike every prior piece of art in human history to be valuable; the fact that you're the one who is saying it, the fact that it derives from your unique life experience and arrives at a particular moment in the life of whoever is seeing your work, is what makes it new.**

Enjoy these tracks from December.

## First snow

- **Track:** [**Other Joe – Flawless**](https://open.spotify.com/track/5fx3MhjX6c2KQlDUV2acDt?ref=wlxpvn.com) **(warm ambient, IDMish, intricate drums, dreamy)**
- Track: [funcionário – o caminho da estrela](https://open.spotify.com/track/4sIrGVuFylPWtRzuYk5EDO?ref=wlxpvn.com) (ambient, sparkly, going to change my alarm clock to this, very cosmic)
- Track: [Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough](https://open.spotify.com/track/43eLl2gwEr0fgbFgS11uOh?ref=wlxpvn.com) (early 2000s IDM, intricate and romantic, downtempo structures, classical-electronic warmth)
- Track: [AT-XYA – Dreamo (feat. James K)](https://open.spotify.com/track/1A2sNhUw5KNfxd4tJUMFjp?ref=wlxpvn.com) (shoegaze dream pop, synth textures, nostalgic futurism)
- Album: [Moodymann – Black Mahagoni](https://open.spotify.com/album/224OuhZ1LThmaYGhD8ikq6?ref=wlxpvn.com) (holiday vibe, the closest to Christmas and NYE you can get, without stepping into the commercial vortex of Mariah Carey etc)
- Album: [Jonny from Space – back then I didn't but now I do](https://open.spotify.com/album/0uHx3mTUw4Ve3oTfRBBgUv?ref=wlxpvn.com) (downtempo dub, half-club half-ambient, soft breaks for late nights and early mornings, idm'y, also I love a cool, poetic album title)
  - fav tracks: Hearing Colors, Slip, Run it
- Album: [Various Artists – Virtual Dreams II: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999](https://open.spotify.com/album/47QH9uMKRjEbbAyjpOPJe3?ref=wlxpvn.com) (Japanese listening techno, spiritual, meditative)
  - Across the EU/UK, ambient techno emerged as a by-product of rave – chill-out rooms, comedown music. In Japan, "listening techno" was central to the scene from the start. Not a response, but a key part. This compilation captures that parallel evolution – meditative, headphone-friendly techno that was never secondary to the dancefloor.

## Midnight sparks

- Track: [Barker – Reframing](https://open.spotify.com/track/0gRPbCjHQ3B5R7LnYdxdJg?ref=wlxpvn.com) (drifting ambient trance, harmonic motion, modular sound, night-time driving)
- Track: [Davis Galvin – "Naming It"](https://open.spotify.com/album/5yfLSeZ98ktnsJaGpq9mJt?ref=wlxpvn.com) (dubby house, cloudy textures, late-night warmth)
- **Album:** [**Irini – lost in dreams**](https://allpossibleworlds.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-dreams?ref=wlxpvn.com) **(Traumprinz is back, finally had time to listen to those three hours of trance and dub snippets, nostalgic, hypnotic, dancefloor daydreaming)**
  - fav tracks: my father, gb3am, when somebody makes you sad, too lost in love, concaved, durch die nacht?, days of the cocoon?
- Album: [Cousin & Priori – Fly in Amber](https://open.spotify.com/album/2AxIuysrol1DlsjFyY5OPL?ref=wlxpvn.com) (deep dub techno, hypnotic and alien, textured)
- Set: [DJ Metatron aka Traumprinz - This Is Not (Giegling Mix 07)](https://youtu.be/hiAkdoETqNA?si=2cRgg7pZXCgRJpev&ref=wlxpvn.com) (Giegling-era deep house, warm sunrise soundtrack, coming back to this from time to time)
- Set: [Luke Vibert at Waking Life 2025](https://soundcloud.com/wakinglifeportugal/luke-vibert-at-waking-life-2025?ref=wlxpvn.com) (user comment: "can't believe they published the uk banger buffet", time machine back to Praia)

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