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  • Check out My Youtube Page

    Check out My Youtube Page

    Cassette Dad Type II on YouTube for nearly a year, I’ve been irregularly adding synthesizer videos to YouTube. Check them out!

  • Some New Playlists

    Well, it’s been a while. I don’t have a good reason for why I haven’t written music picks since December 2018. It’s not like I have stopped listening to music. Some of what I’ve been listening to is in this thread on Twitter, and some of it has been popping up on my instagram stories.…

  • Ryan’s Music Picks 🎄Christmas 2018

    Ryan’s Music Picks 🎄Christmas 2018

    Hey there. Thanks for subscribing. I love Christmas music, and it’s all I listen between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’ll have a favorites of 2018 list at some point in January. Spotify Apple Music Buymusic.club (bandcamp playlist!) ⬇️ Joyful Noise Records – Holiday Party, Vol. 2 (Bandcamp) A nicely out-there compilation of Christmas classics. Some indelible…

  • Ryan’s Music Picks 🎛 November 2018

    Ryan’s Music Picks 🎛 November 2018

    Here’s some new stuff. A lot of it is pretty mellow. Expect a Christmassy one of these soon. Also, I started a new podcast where my friend Alan and I talk about comics. Check it out at youshouldreadthis.club Spotify Playlist Apple Music Playlist Lullatone – Thinking about Thursdays (Bandcamp) Fifty-two charming soundtracks of tiny moments.…

  • Ryan’s Music Picks 🍂 October 2018

    Ryan’s Music Picks 🍂 October 2018

    I’m tired. It’s been too long of a year. I’m glad it’s fall, my favorite season, but time’s moving too fast. Spotify Playlist Apple Music Eric Copeland – Trogg Modal Vol. 1 (Bandcamp) A playground of sound with fun beats and a sunny disposition. Psychic Temple & Cherry Glazerr – Houses of the Holy Vol.…

  • Ryan’s Music Picks 💨 September 2018

    Ryan’s Music Picks 💨 September 2018

    It’s been a long but fast month for me. I traveled for fun and for work, and felt busy and slightly overwhelmed for most of the month. (That’s not even taking into consideration news and world events.) I don’t know if it was just an emotional month for me or if this crop of albums…

  • Ryan’s Music Picks 🔥 August 2018

    Looks like you made it through August. Nice. Spotify Playlist Apple Music Playlist Dntel – Hate In My Heart (Bandcamp) A tape of bleeps and bloops, wooshes and swoops for your hazy late afternoon enjoyment. JFDR – Brazil (Bandcamp) Enchanting and haunting like the ghost of a siren. Gorgeous and exquisitely produced. You Drive –…

  • Ryan’s Music Picks 🌴 July 2018

    At the beginning of June, one of my favorite singer/songwriter/musician/producers, Richard Swift, passed away. He was involved in a ton of my favorite music and I’ve listened to and written about a lot of his music over the years. The first 8 picks this time around are albums he was involved with. Spotify Playlist Apple…

  • Ryan’s Music Picks ☁️ June 2018

    June’s Ryan’s Music Picks is a little thin. I took some time off twitter for my own mental health and that bled over into me not posting albums on twitter. On the upside, I made you a Southern California Goth mix! Spotify Playlist Apple Music Playlist Ghost – Prequelle (Spotify) The psuedonymous phenomenon continues to…

  • Summerween 2018

    Summerween 2018

    A mix for the June/July gloom and the Southern California Beach Goth in all of our hearts. It’s been cloudy every morning since June started, and a lot of the days, the clouds haven’t burnt off. The days have been long and bummers have abounded, so I wanted to make a mix that reflected that…