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💻 Support engineer at GitHub
🐈 Sphynx enthusiast
😷 Covid conscious
🎶 Dream pop to doom metal
📚 Sci-fi & post modernism

Matt. UK based - He/Him
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Day 14: Jazz Q Martina Kratochvíla - "Toledo"

Absurdly fun keyboard-driven jazz fusion/prog rock out of Prague.

Tell me you're not hooked after the first 30 seconds!
Toledo
YouTube video by Jazz Q Martina Kratochvíla - Topic
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November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This week's albums!

A double album of Monks' covers - and I did not think it too many.

Cafe Tacvuba got recommended to me here on bsky not long ago - great & varied stuff!

Don't think I've listened to a full New Model Army album before and really dug it!

I'm luke warm on Marillion.
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Music by Numbers Day 167

"167" - Playdoe

Genre: Hip-Hop

Greek punk rock yesterday - South African hip-hop today! Heavily on the electro end of things - I dig it!

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PLAYDOE - 167 - AFRICAN ARCADE
YouTube video by Jarring Effects
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November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Day 13: Hamell On Trial - "Choochtown"

He's a punk rock, anti-folk, spoken word musician, and he's a blast!

This song feels like an entire David Mamet neo noir movie compressed into a single song - give it a try!
Choochtown
YouTube video by Hamell on Trial - Topic
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November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
VICTORY!

I had to go tactical - sweeping rooms, clearing them, then locking them down, but The Grub did not avoid this bathtime!

Look at that clean pink nose!
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Music by Numbers Day 166

"166" - mpliax166

Genre: Punk Rock

Had to go looking for this number - found it in both the track title AND band name of this Greek punk rock group! Bonus!

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Mpliax 166-166
YouTube video by Χρήστος Κ
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November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Day 12: Shana Falana - "Heavenstay"

Gorgeous psych-shoegaze with layered female vocals. Plus the official video is a cat video! 😻

I thought they were fairly well known, but only 12.6k lastfm listeners?

Their album "Set Your Lightning Fire Free" is an all timer!
Shana Falana - Heavenstay (OFFICIAL CAT VIDEO)
YouTube video by Shana Falana
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November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Music by Numbers Day 165

"165 Minutes With You" - Norge

Genre: Ambient Drone

Damn, listened to on a system with some bass, this is like a descent into the dark places of the earth!

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Norge - 165 Minutes With You
YouTube video by dolfijnmetans
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November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Day 11: Tristwch Y Fenywod - "Ferch Gyda’r Llygaid Du"

12.8K listeners on lastfm, so slightly more well known than the other stuff I've shared, but not by much.

Imagine if Cocteau Twins got really into zithers!
Tristwch Y Fenywod. Newcastle upon Tyne. February 2025.
YouTube video by Chris Trew
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November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Music by Numbers Day 164

"Hypnos 164" - Cathedral

Genre: Trad Doom

I did have some Cathedral in my library, but not the EP this track appears on.

I am once again lamenting the fact the standard emoji set does not include the "doom claw" or "wizard hand" gesture.

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Cathedral - Hypnos 164 (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Earache Records
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November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Day 10: Pizzatramp - "I Got Work in the Morning"

70 seconds of gloriously furious Welsh punk about not getting messed up on a school night.

Or.... getting messed up on a school night, anyway.
Pizza Tramp - I Got Work In The Morning (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pizzatramp
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November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Music by Numbers Day 163

"163 För Evigt" - Cherrie

Genre: R&B

Nothing in my library for this number, either. I found an experimental cello ambient track by The OO-Ray that would have worked, and is much more my usual groove, but look! Somali-Swedish R&B! 😄

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Cherrie - 163 För Evigt ft. Z.E
YouTube video by Cherrie
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November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Day 9: Theta Naught + Alex Caldiero - "The Invitation"

This is a collab between experimental jazz fusion/post-rock artists Theta Naught & "sonosopher, poet, and wordshaker" Alex Caldiero.

If you like the menacing parts of David Lynch, check this out, it's a trip!
Theta Naught + Alex Caldiero - The Invitation
YouTube video by sdees
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November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Music by Numbers Day 162

"162" - Emilie Simon

Genre: Trip-Hop

Nothing in my library for this number, but Emilie Simon was kind enough to put out an EP with just the track I needed!

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Emilie Simon - 162
YouTube video by Emilie Simon
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November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Day 8: The Visit - "Offering"

If you like Dead Can Dance, you'll like this.

The cellist, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, is amazing! He does a lot of collabs with prog-metal band Leprous, and has a generally metal attitude - lots of metal covers on his channel!
The Visit - Offering
YouTube video by Raphael Weinroth-Browne
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November 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Music by Numbers Day 161

"Carbon 7 (161)" - Jlin

Genre: Experimental Footwork

Haven't seen the video for this before - wow, this dancer is incredible! Dancing in and out of the uncanny valley! 🤯

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Jlin - Carbon 7 (161)
YouTube video by Planet Mu
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November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Day 7: Dääst - "Tormentor"

Some filthy, filthy industrial techno for a Friday night 😈

Only a couple of hundred listeners on lastfm (using any spelling of the name) so this act really is unknown!
Daast - Tormentor [ official video ]
YouTube video by Ghostshadow Shadowghost
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November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This week's albums!

Enjoyed discovering Sparks' Giorgio Moroder album!

Listened to the first half of that Thandii album - more funky and less dream poppy, but very cute.

Digging the doom dream of shedfromthebody, too! 🤘
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Music by Numbers Day 160

"A Hundred And Sixty Acres" - Marty Robbins

Genre: Classic Country

I didn't catch anything about guns in this one, so I'm guessing it's a trail song... 🤠

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A Hundred And Sixty Acres
YouTube video by Marty Robbins - Topic
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November 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Day 6: Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan - "New Rain Duets I"

Mary Lattimore is pretty well known, I think, but this side project less so.

If you like taking naps to music, then this album is absolutely _sublime_... Harp and effects, gorgeous and lovely! 😻
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan - New Rain Duets - 01 I
YouTube video by Three Lobed Recordings
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November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Music by Numbers Day 159

"159" - Lorraine Feather

Genre: Vocal Jazz

Had to go looking for something for 159, and this is pretty nice!

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159
YouTube video by Lorraine Feather - Topic
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November 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Day 5: Fieldtriqp - "Train to Nowhere"

A lil bit of shameless Boards of Canada worship!
Fieldtriqp - Train To Nowhere
YouTube video by TheIDMMaster
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November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Music by Numbers Day 158

"Analord 158b" - AFX

Genre: IDM

I've used Aphex Twin before in this challenge, for day 54, but he released this under a different name, so I'm not gonna count this as a repetition! 🤓

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Analord 158b
YouTube video by Voyage Productions - Topic
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November 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Day 4: The Great Northwest - "Know What I Mean"

Loooooove these folks, and don't recall how I stumbled across them.

If you like Dandy Warhols / Brian Jonestown Massacre, check em out.

Here they are at the more rockin' end of their spectrum.
The Great Northwest - Know What I Mean
YouTube video by nick allison
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November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM