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A mix for every year of recorded sound.
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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · Oct 20
🚨 NEW!🚨

Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!

centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
The cover image for this mix, it's me in the year 2000 making a painting using a liquid eyeliner brush, taken from the upcoming* film made from my years in Southampton, 1998-2002, excerpts of which can be heard in this mix. *not at all guaranteed to be publicly released, probably not finished for a good few years.
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#TheTwen2ie5 day 44

Miguel Migs - Midnight Memories (USA, 2021)

Lovely blissful dreamy after-hours party winter house music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmuQ...
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
Sharing this because more people need to see it, this is Kathy Bates, aged 23, in the absolutely brilliant film Taking Off (1971)

youtu.be/VdGAGAWyTj0
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
Why are these pine scented? I'm not going to sniff them either before or after use.
Winter Paws 60 Festive Pine Scented Poo Bags from B&M
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5 day 43

Monkey Safari - Safe (Germany, 2020)

Lovely blissful dreamy slightly tropical house music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLf...
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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foone.bsky.social
A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour

haveigotphobiaforyou.com
Have I Got Phobia For You
Bringing attention to the often harmful practices of our mainstream media. Thankfully the days of vile hostility against gay people are now more or less over, but, reading today’s newspapers, there’s ...
haveigotphobiaforyou.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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jamiesmart.bsky.social
I do not understand authors, broadcasters, voice artists, YouTubers, ANY creative artists using quick and cheap AI for their cover images and not realising: it will be you next.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
#TheTwen2ie5 day 42

Disclosure & Anderson .Paak - NO CAP (UK/USA, 2025)

2010s me is very excited for this collab, 2025 me is as well. kids stopped saying "no cap" about a year ago and this should be a lid on that too I guess.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q4k...
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
If "we're going to confiscate refugees jewellery" doesn't bring down this government, what will? Imagine being a Labour MP and not resigning the whip right now.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
#TheTwen2ie5 day 41

4am Kru & Papa Levi - Ribena (UK, 2024)

DRINK RIBENA FROM OUTTA THE BOX

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFN...
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
So many interesting-looking youtube documentary videos which turn out to have AI voices, why would I bother listening if you can't bother speaking*

*people who genuinely cannot speak are of course exempted here.
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5 day 40

Großstadtgeflüster - Icke! (Germany, 2023)

Weirdo German electro-pop, every time it slowly wins me over, loses me, then wins me back big time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fXn...
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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raynewman.bsky.social
I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
A tatty laminated sign that says: "This site is respecting social distancing. Please adhere to all guidelines on site." There are icons warning people to stay 2 metres apart, wash their hands, etc. A massive footprint on a pavement. Faded text warns people to keep 2 metres apart. A poster advising people on where to get help for domestic abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sticker on a bench: "Safe seat. One person only at any time. Keep your distance even when seated."
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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#TheTwen2ie5 day 39

Mondo Grosso ft. Hikari Mitsushima - In This World (Japan, 2022)

Always love the way Mondo Grosso apply this vividly vast filmic landscape of sound to what is otherwise low-key electropop, and glad Hikari is getting a credit these days too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jL4...
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
Still think Akhenaten was Moses. Yes the timeline is a couple of hundred years off, but that's because we are treating the bible as a valid source, and it isn't one. Pretty sure some Egyptologists are going to come and tell me off for saying this, but **I want to believe** let me have this one pls.
bettybitter.bsky.social Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · Jun 3
Haven't figured out what should replace Polybius as my "one conspiracy theory that I know is BS but believe anyway." My interim has been "the Lindbergh baby is still out there" but I'm gonna need to come up with smth slightly less absurd before the impending centennial of that kidnapping.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
How long has he been waiting there for me?
My dog waiting for me from the window of my son's bedroom My dog waiting for me from the window of my son's bedroom, but slightly closer
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5 day 38

Kero Kero Bonito - Well Rested (UK/Japan, 2021)

There has not been nearly enough KKB this decade, but at least there's this seven-minute proghyperpop epic to keep me going (that and Bugsnax)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=txd7...
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
I have a solution to this.
meemalee.bsky.social MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d
Came across a stash of old mixtapes today.

How do young folk today show their aural love to others (or at least impose their tastes on them)?

I spent ages on the covers for the ones I made, as well as carefully handwriting all the details on the j-card.

Playlists are great, but not the same.
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
#TheTwen2ie5 day 37

Bullion - Hula (2020, UK)

It's no Blue Pedro but it's still lovely

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGd9...
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
When your country is taken over by sleazy oligarchs they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.
andrewhickey.500songs.com Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 7d
You know, not that it's a thing I'm ever likely to do, but were I ever to take part in a child sex-slave ring with a hundred or so of the most powerful men ever to live, I would simply not then repeatedly send plain-text emails to them saying "Hi! Great time we had doing sex crimes the other night!"
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5 day 36

Greta Isaac - Soft Scoop Talking Dog (Wales, 2025)

Formerly of Fizz, Greta has been putting out some hard-ass electropop this year, hopefully someone will notice.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFL9...
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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nojusticemtg.bsky.social
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
"The BBC is too right-wing" = their news department routinely platform fascists and treat socialists as dangerous idiots if they mention them at all

"The BBC is too left-wing" = there are some black people and some gay people on screen sometimes
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9d
Most people think the BBC is biased but in different directions (or they're not sure).
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
centuriesofsound.bsky.social
#TheTwen2ie5 day 35

Yaeji - booboo (South Korea / USA, 2024)

Lots of bad things are happening in the 2020s, but let's not forget that this shy/nerdy/queer Korean woman can put out the dirtiest, nastiest deep house and techno records and they all absolutely slap.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddfH...
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5 day 34

Hannah Diamond - Affirmations (UK, 2023)

It's not that it's brilliantly complex work despite being throwaway pop music, it's a brilliantly complex work through and due to being throwaway pop music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4MR...
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM