2025 favorites / standouts?

Getting a jump on the most important question of the year - what was good
that came out this year?

Seems like the biggest thing would be the Autechre tour (which I didn’t
catch any chatter about here?!) - got to see them three times, each very
different, two of them extremely sick.

NHKyx did a good ep for Skam.

Ghost Dubs stuff  from this year and last is very good - elegant, fresh and
musical.

Foodman did some crazy releases.  I caught him live doing an Electribe
set.  Very hype and mental - reminded me of 00s minimal at a happy hardcore
tempo?

Cool seeing Topdown Dialectic do some gigs. Definitely melon twisting stuff
that sounds great on a big system.


Not IDM but I also dug Sissy Spacek “Entrance” on Shelter Press, Ryu
Hankil’s 8 Rhythm Machine, Rafael Toral’s “Traveling Light” and Takuma
Kuragaki’s “Cleave” were all novel sounding and intense electronics
records. Oh have to mention Nick Forte’s new harsh noise project Green Tea
- brilliant.

Big year for familiar names impressing me massively on the dancefloor - DJ
Sprinkles, Theo Parrish, Appleblim and Mark Ernestus all delivered.

Was it this year that a friend put me onto Guitar - Sunkissed? Positive,
headnoddy, almost twee computer version of MBV. So sick.

Ok your turn