Category: Music
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🌴 May 2018
I love finding new music. May sure was another month! Lots of good stuff this time around. This time out, the ⬇ means that the album isn’t on streaming services. Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist Galactic Empire – Episode II (Spotify) Even more Star Wars instru-metal, this one covers a lot of the newest movies,…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🌦 April 2018
It’s been one of those months, huh? I took a few weeks off of work and really mellowed out and have had a time getting back into the swing of things. I didn’t tweet an album every single day, but got pretty close. The ⬇ means that the album can be downloaded free. There’s so…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🐇 March 2018
We made it through March. There’s a few albums in here that aren’t on Spotify or Apple Music. I’ve added download links if that’s the case and you can’t get ’em from bandcamp. Non-streaming albums are marked with a ⬇ Spotify Playlist Apple Music Playlist Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo (Bandcamp) Thai funk-inspired mostly…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🐾 February 2018
I’m still doing the album a day thing on twitter. Happy Black History Month! Spotify Playlist Apple Music Playlist Konono No. 1 – Assume Crash Position (Bandcamp)Relentlessly buoyant and just this side of cacophony, this is that sunshine and rainbows music that I like to hear. Rain Machine – Rain Machine (Spotify)Kyp from TV on…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🌜 January 2018
I decided to post a link to an album every day in 2018 on twitter (@ryanruppe). Here’s January: Spotify Playlist Apple Music Playlist USF – Pacific Decade (Bandcamp) Head-nodding electronic atmospherics for a new year. Deltron 3030 (Bandcamp) A stone cold classic. The best scifi rap in existence AND if it wasn’t for this album…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🎄 Christmas 2017 Edition
It’s been a while. I have long playlists for September, October, November, and December. I’ll put them up one day. Anyway, I am compelled to share new Christmas albums I’ve found this year. Only a couple of them are on the streaming services, so no playlists this time. Jherek Bischoff – Chestnuts Roasting on an…
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Ryan’s Music Picks ☔️ 31 August 2017
Spotify Playlist Apple Music Playlist Arcade Fire – Everything Now (Apple Music, Spotify) The new Arcade Fire has a track produced by Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk and a track produced by Geoff Barrow of Portishead. Both tracks (Everything Now and Creature Comfort, respectively) are among some of the best Arcade Fire songs. The…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 🌞 23 August 2017
Spotify Playlist Apple Music Playlist The Knocks & Skylar Spence Present Amelia Airhorn (Soundcloud, FREE DOWNLOAD) Skylar Spence is formerly known on the internet as Saint Pepsi, and he has always been someone who seeks out and samples perfect and mostly forgotten grooves and brings them forwards to the internet age. With DJ/Remixers The Knocks,…
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Ryan’s Music Picks 💎 27 July 2017
I’m way behind. This list was compiled about a week and a half after my last proper music picks email/post. This might be a more slapdash post; I’m aiming for one-sentence album descriptions. I’m trying to exorcise this albums from my mental backlog. A lot of music has come out since I put this group…
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Ryan’s Playlist Picks 🌤 28 June 2017
A lot of the time I listen to music in my car, I just shuffle my entire library and see what comes up. I like the idea of just having what is essentially a Ryan radio station, made up of just music I’ve added to my library. That said, I’ve always been a bit paranoid…