Jose Lopes
@jsl3.bsky.social
Music melomaniak, physics/chemistry/engineering teacher, green tech professional, thermodynamics expert but only if you pay me. Climate change mitigation as a mission these days
no, Taylor Swift 2025 is not fascist, it's just plain bad
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
no, Taylor Swift 2025 is not fascist, it's just plain bad
Los Thuthanaka is like Black Dice done by boring musicstore clerks waiting for a Animal Collective tour or if Gang Gang Dance had decided to join Akufen in a jam session where you couldn't find your instruments after 10 minutes of a cannabinoid smoke
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Los Thuthanaka is like Black Dice done by boring musicstore clerks waiting for a Animal Collective tour or if Gang Gang Dance had decided to join Akufen in a jam session where you couldn't find your instruments after 10 minutes of a cannabinoid smoke
Ok, so the last quarter of the year is catching up in the "remix that sounds different than the original and it's not AI slop" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQPG...
Baxter Dury - Schadenfreude (Marie Davidson Remix) (Official Visuliser)
YouTube video by Baxter Dury
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December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ok, so the last quarter of the year is catching up in the "remix that sounds different than the original and it's not AI slop" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQPG...
one of the remixes of the year, in a year not that memorable in that "category"(I'm being kind it was dreadful when compared with 2024) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2H...
Robyn - Dopamine (Jamie xx Remix)
YouTube video by Robyn
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
one of the remixes of the year, in a year not that memorable in that "category"(I'm being kind it was dreadful when compared with 2024) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2H...
nice song from the albums of the year for me but this video is way too much boooonkeeeersssss www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfFa...
Marie Davidson - Fun Times (Music Video)
YouTube video by Marie Davidson
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
nice song from the albums of the year for me but this video is way too much boooonkeeeersssss www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfFa...
"and now a new entry at 39" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpua...
Tiga feat. Fcukers - SILK SCARF
YouTube video by Tiga
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"and now a new entry at 39" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpua...
Reposted by Jose Lopes
The Young Punctum blog returns, and reaches August 1977, but it isn't just about that man:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/12/augu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/12/augu...
AUGUST 1977
After all I’d experienced and felt that year, I was still back at school this month with my alleged peers making sneery, bad jokes about E...
funthirty.blogspot.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Young Punctum blog returns, and reaches August 1977, but it isn't just about that man:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/12/augu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/12/augu...
Aya's Hexed is a fine album but Im Hole is better and it didn't have that much apreciation back then. Again late
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Aya's Hexed is a fine album but Im Hole is better and it didn't have that much apreciation back then. Again late
one post for today. Please stop doing EOY lists based on chattie or any other LLMs. It's getting out of proportion the same names all over again and everywhere
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
one post for today. Please stop doing EOY lists based on chattie or any other LLMs. It's getting out of proportion the same names all over again and everywhere
Debby Friday almost absent of any EOY lists and Geese almost non absent of any EOY lists is a major confirmation that AI slop has infected the music media
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Debby Friday almost absent of any EOY lists and Geese almost non absent of any EOY lists is a major confirmation that AI slop has infected the music media
one of the singles of the year www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq0j...
CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - EL DÍA DEL AMIGO (Video Oficial)
YouTube video by ca7rielypacoVEVO
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December 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
one of the singles of the year www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq0j...
Reposted by Jose Lopes
Me explaining why I'm not doing an end-of-year albums list this year, nor indeed for any further years:
warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
THE END OF END-OF-YEAR LISTS AND FOR THAT MATTER LISTS
In order that I don’t ruin anybody’s Christmas, I should now confirm that I won’t be doing an end-of-year album list for 2025. Now, ther...
warmrationalism.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Me explaining why I'm not doing an end-of-year albums list this year, nor indeed for any further years:
warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
I probably should have an opinion on several EOY lists I've seen but it would show how awful are these "homogenic" choices. As if there are too many records out and the ppl who write for musig mags, they listen to the same records in their circle of ambience
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I probably should have an opinion on several EOY lists I've seen but it would show how awful are these "homogenic" choices. As if there are too many records out and the ppl who write for musig mags, they listen to the same records in their circle of ambience
among so much dreary autofagic dub techno, AI sloppy house, slop sory LLmelange techno, the new album by Ikonika is not just refreshing but one of the best this year. Liszt timez! ikonika.bandcamp.com/album/sad
SAD, by Ikonika
10 track album
ikonika.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
among so much dreary autofagic dub techno, AI sloppy house, slop sory LLmelange techno, the new album by Ikonika is not just refreshing but one of the best this year. Liszt timez! ikonika.bandcamp.com/album/sad
Reposted by Jose Lopes
Anyone who hasn't included "Cowboys and angels" in their George Michael Top 5 needs to give their head a wobble.
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Anyone who hasn't included "Cowboys and angels" in their George Michael Top 5 needs to give their head a wobble.
Reposted by Jose Lopes
It's Sunday afternoon, it's been a fortnight and it's time for yet another retro UK Top 40 singles chart countdown...this week we go back to the week ending 4 December 1982! How long before you succumb(er)?
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's Sunday afternoon, it's been a fortnight and it's time for yet another retro UK Top 40 singles chart countdown...this week we go back to the week ending 4 December 1982! How long before you succumb(er)?
listening to Jennifer Walton Daughters album and coming to realize that the opening track is so good that even the reasonable tracks on a otherwise unbalanced album, are a relative major letdown. Maybe it's just me though and the current state of my life
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
listening to Jennifer Walton Daughters album and coming to realize that the opening track is so good that even the reasonable tracks on a otherwise unbalanced album, are a relative major letdown. Maybe it's just me though and the current state of my life
black eye matters www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecGo...
Allie X - Black Eye live on The Kelly Clarkson Show
YouTube video by Allie X
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November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
black eye matters www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecGo...
my old pal Didier sent me 8 links for Spotify artists doing techno and house. I immediately spotted 7 which were AI slop almost 100%. The other remaining has an early vocal sample that samples a sampled record which sampled a 80s movie. That's how old I am. As he said " this is getting wild"
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
my old pal Didier sent me 8 links for Spotify artists doing techno and house. I immediately spotted 7 which were AI slop almost 100%. The other remaining has an early vocal sample that samples a sampled record which sampled a 80s movie. That's how old I am. As he said " this is getting wild"
quad 90 CD at a major store in Lisbon with a price of 20 plus euros. By mail, it's 23 € FFS Bregzit-reversion can't come soon enough
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
quad 90 CD at a major store in Lisbon with a price of 20 plus euros. By mail, it's 23 € FFS Bregzit-reversion can't come soon enough
the highlight on Disco 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOh...
let the music play - pet shop boys with caroll thompson
YouTube video by 飛燕
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November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
the highlight on Disco 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOh...
Reposted by Jose Lopes
Young Punctum blog update reaches the miraculous month of July 1977. To quote Elvis Costello advertising Get Happy!, "LOOK AT ALL THESE HITS!!" Not to mention the extras I've added. If there's nothing here that you like then there's nothing I can do for you:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/11/july...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/11/july...
JULY 1977
On 9 July, we flew off for another holiday to New York. On this occasion we stayed there only for three weeks because money was slightly...
funthirty.blogspot.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Young Punctum blog update reaches the miraculous month of July 1977. To quote Elvis Costello advertising Get Happy!, "LOOK AT ALL THESE HITS!!" Not to mention the extras I've added. If there's nothing here that you like then there's nothing I can do for you:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/11/july...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/11/july...
gave a listen to OPN new album and, once again, it sounds meh at the beginning but slowly rises on my soul. At the end I sense a repeat is inevitable
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
gave a listen to OPN new album and, once again, it sounds meh at the beginning but slowly rises on my soul. At the end I sense a repeat is inevitable
this batch of new singles by Magdalena Bay this year are awesome
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
this batch of new singles by Magdalena Bay this year are awesome