Record Crates United
@recordcratesunited.bsky.social
Adventurous music for adventurous listeners.
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I managed to catch a rehearsal for this show last night, and it was beyond magical. Come to Prototype 237 in Paterson tonight to experience something truly special. Tix & more info here: www.prototype237.com/events/bexbu... 🎟️
January 23, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I managed to catch a rehearsal for this show last night, and it was beyond magical. Come to Prototype 237 in Paterson tonight to experience something truly special. Tix & more info here: www.prototype237.com/events/bexbu... 🎟️
Check out this week’s episode of my show in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/22/t...
🔊: “Song for JW,” by The Holy Mountain Orchestra
🔊: “Song for JW,” by The Holy Mountain Orchestra
January 22, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Check out this week’s episode of my show in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/22/t...
🔊: “Song for JW,” by The Holy Mountain Orchestra
🔊: “Song for JW,” by The Holy Mountain Orchestra
Tune in tonight 7-9 to catch me live on EM-Radio.com spinning my favorite cuts from some recent releases plus a choice slice of vintage Dead to salute our man Bobby.
January 21, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Tune in tonight 7-9 to catch me live on EM-Radio.com spinning my favorite cuts from some recent releases plus a choice slice of vintage Dead to salute our man Bobby.
British artist Bex Burch will be performing a semi-freeform minimalist ensemble piece, “as yet untitled,” with a unique lineup of collaborators at Prototype 237 in Paterson, NJ this Friday. Check out my interview with her about the piece and the upcoming show recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/19/b...
Bex Burch Brings her Modular Minimalist Epic, “As Yet Untitled,” to Prototype 237 This Friday
(Photo by Chris Almeida) On Friday, January 23rd, at the Prototype 237 performance and art space in Paterson, NJ, British experimental composer, percussionist, instrument maker and improviser Bex B…
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January 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
British artist Bex Burch will be performing a semi-freeform minimalist ensemble piece, “as yet untitled,” with a unique lineup of collaborators at Prototype 237 in Paterson, NJ this Friday. Check out my interview with her about the piece and the upcoming show recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/19/b...
All Jersey heads & local jazz fans cannot miss Bex Burch’s final tour stop at Prototype 237 in Paterson on 1/23. She’ll be playing a semi-improvised modular long-form piece with a unique ensemble + an opening set of poetry by John Francis Quiñonez. For tix & more info: www.prototype237.com/events.
January 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
All Jersey heads & local jazz fans cannot miss Bex Burch’s final tour stop at Prototype 237 in Paterson on 1/23. She’ll be playing a semi-improvised modular long-form piece with a unique ensemble + an opening set of poetry by John Francis Quiñonez. For tix & more info: www.prototype237.com/events.
I finally have my recap post about our first Psych Ambient Daydream festival up on the site, featuring many incredible shots taken by @cbruno.bsky.social. Check it out! recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/12/p...
Psych Ambient Daydream Recap
This was an all timer great show. I couldn’t be more pleased with how it went. From the quality of the performances to the turn out, and of course the overall warm, welcoming atmosphere, this…
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January 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I finally have my recap post about our first Psych Ambient Daydream festival up on the site, featuring many incredible shots taken by @cbruno.bsky.social. Check it out! recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/12/p...
Rest easy, Bobby youtu.be/ya6gEGpCieI?...
Grateful Dead - Weather Report Suite (Winterland 10/18/74) (Official Live Video)
YouTube video by Grateful Dead
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January 11, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Rest easy, Bobby youtu.be/ya6gEGpCieI?...
I am absolutely crazy for this new super jam by Free Times and June Grass (under the fitting name of “Free Grass”). Spacey psych rock riffage with cosmic synths and iridescent guitar leads? Dude…yes 🙌 freetimes.bandcamp.com/album/full-u...
Full Usual-Free Grass, by Full Usual
4 track album
freetimes.bandcamp.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I am absolutely crazy for this new super jam by Free Times and June Grass (under the fitting name of “Free Grass”). Spacey psych rock riffage with cosmic synths and iridescent guitar leads? Dude…yes 🙌 freetimes.bandcamp.com/album/full-u...
I’m replaying this playlist on my show right now, since we were plagued with so many tech difficulties last week. Tune in for a sampling of 2025’s best and brightest: www.em-radio.com
If you need a good soundtrack for your New Year’s Eve, tune in to www.EM-Radio.com from 7-9 for a selection of some of my favorite songs released in 2025.
January 8, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I’m replaying this playlist on my show right now, since we were plagued with so many tech difficulties last week. Tune in for a sampling of 2025’s best and brightest: www.em-radio.com
I collected a list of some of my favorite releases from last year fashionably late, but if you’re curious about what I dug in 2025, check it out recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/07/f...
Favorite Records of 2025
Even though I didn’t have as much time as I needed to write about all of these great releases from 2025, I was still able to listen to and obsess over quite a few. Here are some of my favorit…
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January 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I collected a list of some of my favorite releases from last year fashionably late, but if you’re curious about what I dug in 2025, check it out recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/07/f...
Experimental rock supergroup, Winged Wheel, shows off their song craft on the daringly original and abstract Desert So Green, which comes out on @12xurecs.bsky.social this Friday. recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/05/w...
Winged Wheel – Desert So Green
The geographically-scattered experimental rock super group, Winged Wheel, has remerged with a driving new LP rich with surreal ear candy and alien kosmische atmospherics. Made up of Whitney Johnson…
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January 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Experimental rock supergroup, Winged Wheel, shows off their song craft on the daringly original and abstract Desert So Green, which comes out on @12xurecs.bsky.social this Friday. recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/05/w...
If you need a good soundtrack for your New Year’s Eve, tune in to www.EM-Radio.com from 7-9 for a selection of some of my favorite songs released in 2025.
December 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you need a good soundtrack for your New Year’s Eve, tune in to www.EM-Radio.com from 7-9 for a selection of some of my favorite songs released in 2025.
Recently out on @centripetalforce.bsky.social, Agnes Martian’s Elsewhere album is a true godsend for all fans of 70s kosmische synth records, Library music LPs and all forms of space rock. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/30/a...
Agnes Martian – Elsewhere
There are many modern bands that reviewers and fans alike refer to as being “kosmische” or some form of continuation of the whole Krautrock ethos and aesthetics, yet few rarely actually…
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December 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Recently out on @centripetalforce.bsky.social, Agnes Martian’s Elsewhere album is a true godsend for all fans of 70s kosmische synth records, Library music LPs and all forms of space rock. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/30/a...
I’m continuing to highlight some of my favorite records of the year that I didn’t get to write about before, and today I have written a post about Wednesday Knudsen’s gorgeous organic ambient soundscape double LP, Atrium. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/29/w...
Wednesday Knudsen – Atrium
As 2025 draws to a close, I’m continuing to highlight some of the best albums of the year that I’ve had the pleasure of listening to. This is one of them. Over the years as a member of …
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December 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’m continuing to highlight some of my favorite records of the year that I didn’t get to write about before, and today I have written a post about Wednesday Knudsen’s gorgeous organic ambient soundscape double LP, Atrium. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/29/w...
Just in time for the holidays, the final release in Jacken Elswyth’s elemental folk tape series, Betwixt & Between, is a chilly split-release of Yuletide carols and ambiance by Elspeth Anne and Côr Meibion Gwalia.
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Elspeth Anne / Côr Meibion Gwalia – Betwixt & Between 12
For what appears to be the final entry in banjoist Jacken Elswyth’s elemental folk tape series, Betwixt & Between, volume 12 is a collection of dreamlike yuletide recordings that captures…
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December 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just in time for the holidays, the final release in Jacken Elswyth’s elemental folk tape series, Betwixt & Between, is a chilly split-release of Yuletide carols and ambiance by Elspeth Anne and Côr Meibion Gwalia.
recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/24/e...
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Thank you so much and warm tidings to you and yours 🎄 ❄️ ☀️
Today I gave the @recordcratesunited.bsky.social solstice mixtape a proper listen from start to finish and it's solid all the way through
So much sonic variety, with a chill vibe emanating throughout
I feel honored to have contributed...well done all!
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So much sonic variety, with a chill vibe emanating throughout
I feel honored to have contributed...well done all!
recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/19/t...
The Record Crates United 2025 Winter Solstice Mixtape
Keith Speaks! Flavors – dec 1st – snowscape Dave Heumann – The Longest Night – This Winter The Unthanks – The Holly and The Ivy – In Winter Mikey Wehling –…
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December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Thank you so much and warm tidings to you and yours 🎄 ❄️ ☀️
Dig into this year’s winter solstice and holiday mix on the site: recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/19/t...
December 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Dig into this year’s winter solstice and holiday mix on the site: recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/19/t...
The good folks at Slipstream Records and Torn & Frayed have collected a wealth of demo recordings by Hal Paris of Country Funk from the early 70s that proves that he’s one of the most unfairly overlooked fathers of the Cosmic American Music world. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/17/h...
Hal Paris – Until Loving Finds Me
Hal Paris is one of the more unsung fathers of the cosmic American music genre through his work with the cult favorite Country Funk. The good folks at Slipstream Records and Torn & Frayed have …
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December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The good folks at Slipstream Records and Torn & Frayed have collected a wealth of demo recordings by Hal Paris of Country Funk from the early 70s that proves that he’s one of the most unfairly overlooked fathers of the Cosmic American Music world. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/17/h...
Tune in to www.EM-Radio.com tonight from 7-9 to celebrate the holidays and the shortest day and the longest night with us on The Record Crates United Mixtape.
🔊: “The Longest Night” by Dave Heumann
🔊: “The Longest Night” by Dave Heumann
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Tune in to www.EM-Radio.com tonight from 7-9 to celebrate the holidays and the shortest day and the longest night with us on The Record Crates United Mixtape.
🔊: “The Longest Night” by Dave Heumann
🔊: “The Longest Night” by Dave Heumann
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Thanks @recordcratesunited.bsky.social for including some hot live Heavy Lidders explorations (and a Sun Ra cover !) on yr latest radio show... cooool man
December 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Thanks @recordcratesunited.bsky.social for including some hot live Heavy Lidders explorations (and a Sun Ra cover !) on yr latest radio show... cooool man
Check out my review of Spiral Wave Nomads’ latest heavy juggernaut LP, The Weightless Sea: recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/16/s...
Spiral Wave Nomads – The Weightless Sea
For those in need of primal acid rock heaviness, seek no further than The Weightless Sea, by Spiral Wave Nomads. Made up of Eric Hardiman (Sky Furrows) on guitar, bass, synths and electronics and d…
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December 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Check out my review of Spiral Wave Nomads’ latest heavy juggernaut LP, The Weightless Sea: recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/16/s...
If you’re looking for some holiday music that goes far off the beaten track, then seek out This Winter, by Sun Cru Records, which features a diverse range of sounds from the likes of Little Wings, Dave Heumann, Wes Tirey, Little H Collective and The Peel recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/14/s...
Sun Cru (v/a) – This Winter
For those who like their holiday music to be eclectic and perhaps a little dark and a little strange, here’s a great record for you. Sun Cru Records’ This Winter compilation brings toge…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If you’re looking for some holiday music that goes far off the beaten track, then seek out This Winter, by Sun Cru Records, which features a diverse range of sounds from the likes of Little Wings, Dave Heumann, Wes Tirey, Little H Collective and The Peel recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/14/s...
Check out the latest two episodes of my show in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/13/t...
December 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Check out the latest two episodes of my show in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/13/t...
I love this one so much
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - s/t LP - supremely meditative music, RIYL Gondwana Records (though this is released by Mississippi Records)
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio
8 track album
mississippirecords.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I love this one so much
Tune in to www.em-radio.com tonight for a live episode of my show beaming straight from my home in Jersey to your ears and hearts, with loads of new music, including the new record by Josh Martin on @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social, of which you can hear in this vid.
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Tune in to www.em-radio.com tonight for a live episode of my show beaming straight from my home in Jersey to your ears and hearts, with loads of new music, including the new record by Josh Martin on @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social, of which you can hear in this vid.