David James 🍩
@funkentechno.bsky.social
dad, writer, web dev, mixtapes https://www.mixcloud.com/OptimisticUnderground/
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I posted my AOTY list for 2024 optimisticunderground.com/2024/12/09/8...
rest in peace Tatsuya Nakadai. not sure how many actors could rival his godtier run through cinema history.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
rest in peace Tatsuya Nakadai. not sure how many actors could rival his godtier run through cinema history.
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
hell yeah Chow Yun Fat
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
hell yeah Chow Yun Fat
In the building's penumbra, not even breathing hard, so elegantly that you couldn't say jimmied, she more like Jamesed the side door lock with a needle of antique ivory the Sensei had given her long ago, and slipped within...
"Jamesed" I love his playfulness with language
"Jamesed" I love his playfulness with language
Reading Vineland & listening to Autechre live sets in a hotel room. Pretty nice combo tbh
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
In the building's penumbra, not even breathing hard, so elegantly that you couldn't say jimmied, she more like Jamesed the side door lock with a needle of antique ivory the Sensei had given her long ago, and slipped within...
"Jamesed" I love his playfulness with language
"Jamesed" I love his playfulness with language
just found a pic of me from fall 2000. listening to nothing but underworld and phish, driving a broken camry, and selling CDs at circuit city. good times!
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
just found a pic of me from fall 2000. listening to nothing but underworld and phish, driving a broken camry, and selling CDs at circuit city. good times!
Bochum Welt - Kissing a Robot Goodbye
sub-half hour slice of scifi-tinged idm grooves, somewhere between the Artificial Intelligence era and the og Selected Ambient Works. that sound + the 80s new wave cover art, you'd never guess it dropped in 2004. really fun stuff
sub-half hour slice of scifi-tinged idm grooves, somewhere between the Artificial Intelligence era and the og Selected Ambient Works. that sound + the 80s new wave cover art, you'd never guess it dropped in 2004. really fun stuff
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Bochum Welt - Kissing a Robot Goodbye
sub-half hour slice of scifi-tinged idm grooves, somewhere between the Artificial Intelligence era and the og Selected Ambient Works. that sound + the 80s new wave cover art, you'd never guess it dropped in 2004. really fun stuff
sub-half hour slice of scifi-tinged idm grooves, somewhere between the Artificial Intelligence era and the og Selected Ambient Works. that sound + the 80s new wave cover art, you'd never guess it dropped in 2004. really fun stuff
Four albums to start the week 🌙
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Four albums to start the week 🌙
ambient dub labyrinth, perfect late night reading soundtrack
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
ambient dub labyrinth, perfect late night reading soundtrack
I'm in the grocery store hearing Christmas music already
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm in the grocery store hearing Christmas music already
Sunday morning worship 🌬️
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Sunday morning worship 🌬️
the gigantic Akira box arrived!! wanted to own this for ages, can't wait to read all 2000+ pages for the first time in twenty plus years
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
the gigantic Akira box arrived!! wanted to own this for ages, can't wait to read all 2000+ pages for the first time in twenty plus years
Saturday morning tunes 🌸
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Saturday morning tunes 🌸
The weekend has begun 🌌
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The weekend has begun 🌌
SML - How You Been
just got done with the listening part and all I gotta say is HOLY SHIT this absolutely rips. instant buy. intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-yo...
just got done with the listening part and all I gotta say is HOLY SHIT this absolutely rips. instant buy. intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-yo...
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
SML - How You Been
just got done with the listening part and all I gotta say is HOLY SHIT this absolutely rips. instant buy. intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-yo...
just got done with the listening part and all I gotta say is HOLY SHIT this absolutely rips. instant buy. intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-yo...
last 7 days 🍃 best thing you heard this week?
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
last 7 days 🍃 best thing you heard this week?
Four albums for Friday 🌬️
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Four albums for Friday 🌬️
looping Night Bus II for the first time in years. mix still hits hard. the underworld/meek mill mashup in particular is genius. soundcloud.com/fadermedia/c...
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
looping Night Bus II for the first time in years. mix still hits hard. the underworld/meek mill mashup in particular is genius. soundcloud.com/fadermedia/c...
god I love this movie.
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
god I love this movie.
Rewatching one of my alltime favorites tonight 🥚🥚
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Rewatching one of my alltime favorites tonight 🥚🥚
CFCF - Radiance and Submission
one of my very favorite sad-ecstatic albums, leaning into drifting, dreamy acoustic/vocal ambient compositions. still electronic, but fleetingly tactile as smoke drifting by in the wind.
one of my very favorite sad-ecstatic albums, leaning into drifting, dreamy acoustic/vocal ambient compositions. still electronic, but fleetingly tactile as smoke drifting by in the wind.
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
CFCF - Radiance and Submission
one of my very favorite sad-ecstatic albums, leaning into drifting, dreamy acoustic/vocal ambient compositions. still electronic, but fleetingly tactile as smoke drifting by in the wind.
one of my very favorite sad-ecstatic albums, leaning into drifting, dreamy acoustic/vocal ambient compositions. still electronic, but fleetingly tactile as smoke drifting by in the wind.
I just watched this beautiful cat riding a kayak through a foggy bayou for 6 minutes while listening to Pharoah Sanders and I think you should too www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtkS...
Surprise: Fog in March. Louis enjoys his morning kayaking.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I just watched this beautiful cat riding a kayak through a foggy bayou for 6 minutes while listening to Pharoah Sanders and I think you should too www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtkS...
Tortoise feels so at home on International Anthem and on my turntable 🦂
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Tortoise feels so at home on International Anthem and on my turntable 🦂
False Aralia 05 & 06 🌬️
mindfuck experimental dub from Izaak Schlossman on a laser-focused imprint from Brian Foote of Peak Oil. think Purelink & Topdown Dialectic, further abstracted and more human at the same time. incredible project so far, these new 12"s may be the best yet
mindfuck experimental dub from Izaak Schlossman on a laser-focused imprint from Brian Foote of Peak Oil. think Purelink & Topdown Dialectic, further abstracted and more human at the same time. incredible project so far, these new 12"s may be the best yet
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
False Aralia 05 & 06 🌬️
mindfuck experimental dub from Izaak Schlossman on a laser-focused imprint from Brian Foote of Peak Oil. think Purelink & Topdown Dialectic, further abstracted and more human at the same time. incredible project so far, these new 12"s may be the best yet
mindfuck experimental dub from Izaak Schlossman on a laser-focused imprint from Brian Foote of Peak Oil. think Purelink & Topdown Dialectic, further abstracted and more human at the same time. incredible project so far, these new 12"s may be the best yet
Hell yeah. I paid too much but.. totally worth it to finally own this action grail, restored and better looking than I've ever seen it
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hell yeah. I paid too much but.. totally worth it to finally own this action grail, restored and better looking than I've ever seen it
I just counted and so far I've got 171 albums on my 2025 list. Not all are gonna make it to my big AOTY list in December but damn.. that's a lot of great music, and the year isn't over.
...in fact, while typing this out I just paused to add another to my list.
...in fact, while typing this out I just paused to add another to my list.
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I just counted and so far I've got 171 albums on my 2025 list. Not all are gonna make it to my big AOTY list in December but damn.. that's a lot of great music, and the year isn't over.
...in fact, while typing this out I just paused to add another to my list.
...in fact, while typing this out I just paused to add another to my list.