I’ve started an Apple Music playlist for the selections on this thread. I enjoyed the endeavour last year - 99% of your picks are new to me - so it’s good to broaden my listening, at least for the next few weeks. I’ll add a load more from your lists in the next few days.
Edit - we’re up to 82 tracks and over 7 hours of music.
Are you going to do a hip hop list this year? @Boogie_down_pyjamas Have enjoyed the previous ones.
Yes. I made it a few weeks ago. Just deciding which recent releases will make it on there. I like to give them a bit of time before deciding. I’ll post it soon.
Ok here goes. An inevitably impossible task. Loved ‘em all. (25x25)
Top 3
Narrowly missing out:
4-25 (in no particular order)
The Smile/ James Holden - don’t get me started
JB Dunckel - ghost town
Jeff Mills - theme from star child
Psychederek - thinkin’ bout u
Golden Bug - autobahn (al baabi redub)
Common Saints - Honey
Project Gemini - darkness rising
DD mirage - so hot
Kirk Degiorgio - seven minutes of funk
John Carroll Kirby - Michael Winning
Marie Davidson - demolition
Theo Parrish - Pianamonn
Men I Trust - Another Stone
Nu Genea - Sciallà
Beyind the Struttosphere - storming heaven (Rich Lane)
Blood Orange - mind loaded
Quiet Village - Naked Hunger
Lord of the isles - united wire
Joe Morris - some kind of paradise
Asa Tate - 89
Mad Keys - go where you’re led
Futuro Tropicale - love jam
Obligatory Sault inclusion: HTTR
Gig: Minami Deutsch
DJ set: ALFOS
Mix in car: harvey/wevvers
‘How did I miss this beaut at the time’: Ginger Bamboo - Stinloo
Nice one @Casual - super nice words mate:)
Albums I enjoyed this year:
Jonny Nash - Once was ours forever
Thought Leadership - III of pentacles
Lexx - Rhythm of love
Cate le Bon - Michelangelo Dying
Barker - Stochastic Drift
Kif productions - still out
Steve Gunn - daylight daylight
N1 sound - Din sync dub
Purelink - Faith
Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill - Clay
Coatshek - Soundbath
Voices from the lake II
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquiliser
Exotic gardens - morning dubs
K-lone - sorry I thought you weres omeone else
Paul St Hilaire -w/ The producers
Bump for this.
It’s already got 5 hours of music on there to check out.
The list so far
Acolyte - The Blue
Dark Adrian Sherwood, African Head Charge & Speakers Corner Quartet - Garden of Inspiration EP
Akiyo - Excursions in Gwoka Vol 2
Alek Lee - Cold Feet
Alek Lee - Too Soon
Alle - Dine Paen Ojne
All of Thought Leadership’s stuff - All releases
The All Seeing I - Return of The Crooked Cat
Ambientale - Compilation
Androo - Reprise
Andy Bell - apple green ufo
Anthony Naples - Scanners
Apta - The Pool
Apsaras - Apsaras
Ariel Kalma & Asa Tone - O
Asa Tate - 89
Barker - Stochastic Drift
Barrington Levy - One Foot Jo Jo/To Love Someone
The Beloved - Pablo - Special K Dub
Beyind the Struttosphere - storming heaven
Billy Woods - Golliwog
Bitchin Bajas - Inland See
Blood Orange - mind loaded
Born Under Punches - And The Heat Goes On by Kenny Dope feat. Róisín Murphy
The Bug vs Ghost Dubs - Implosion
Cal C - Bath Bomb EP
Cantoma - Light Before - Noche Española Remix
Caroline - Caroline 2
Cate le Bon - Michelangelo
Dying
Chaos In The CBD - A Deeper Life
Chaz Jankel - Rhumba Jam
Chuquimamani-Condori - Edits
Ciddy Bop - Warrior
The Circling Sun - Orbits
Coatshek - Soundbath
Common Saints - Honey
Compilations - General Entry
Coreysan - Heavy Load
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - The Cosmic Tones Research Trio
Coyote & Peaking Lights - Love Letters
DD Mirage - Exotic Illusions
DD mirage - so hot
ddwy - Beaming Backwards EP
Dennis Brown & Aswad - Promised Land
dgoHn - Alterations In Gyral Form
Discotecas - Ask A Dream
DJ Lelewel - Piano Dub
DJ Ojo - Tongue Tied EP
Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
Eclectic Journeys - Da Da Dim
Eden - Free - Special Maxi Version
Eiko Ishibashi - Antigone
Element - Motion Exchange EP
Emergence Collective - Swimming In The…
Erika de Casier - Lifetime
Erik M. - Soft Wish
Exotic Gardens - Morning Dubs
Fabrizio Esposito - Aria - Acid Dub Mix
Fallout - The Morning After - Sunrise Mix
Fantasy '82 by Azymuth - Track
Floatation by The Grid - Mark Barrott’s Ibiza Sunrise ’90 Re-Work
Florence Adooni - A.O.E.I.U.
Frankie - I Need Your Lovin - Giancarlo’s Ambient
Fundido - Its Outta Loving - DJ Lloyd Edit
Funky Joint Parts I & II by Leonidas & Hobbes - Track
Futuro Tropical - elove jam
Geese - Getting Killed
Glen S, Murrin, Marius - In The Dust EP
Golden Bug - autobahn
Good Block - Window
Greg Foat - 6 Days in Leysin
Greville - Honeyeater
Guy Contact & Solar Suite - Perfect Harmony EP
Hidden Sequence - Isms & Schisms
Hidden Sequence & Aketi Ray - Hidden Sequence Meets Aketi Ray LP
Holden & Zimpel - The Universe Will Take Care of You
Holy Tongue - Ambulance Dub/The Bigger Tutti
Indica II - High In The Sky
Ilija Rudman - Who’s Crying Now
James Kumo - Motivate Your Mind
james K - Friend
Jayme Marques - Africa, Brasil Te Ama
JB Dunckel - ghost town
Jeff Mills - theme from star child
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Gift Songs
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms
Joe - Some Kind of Paradise - Album
Joe - When Love Takes Over - Track
Joe H-W & Paul Cousins - in a fugue state
John Carroll Kirby - Michael Winning
Johnny Sais Quoi - Love On Ice
Jonny Nash - Once Was Ours Forever
Joy Guidry - Five Prayers
Julia Mestre - Marvailhosamente Bem
Junior Delgado - Don’t Trouble Trouble/Yard
Junk System - Beach
Junk System - Tarzan Dance
Kamazu & Caravan - Kwaai Umhlaba
Kangkollektor - Isle of Stonesy
Keanu Nelson - Place Where I Go
keiyaA - hooke’s law
KiF - Still Out
Kirk Degiorgio - seven minutes of funk
K-lone - sorry I thought you were someone else
Kliche - Dabrea EP
Kuunatic - Wheels Of Omon
Kuniyuki - Tremor
Laura Misch - Alchemy
LCD Soundsystem - Home - Tom Sharkett edit
Lee Scratch Perry & Mad Professor - Madman Dubwise
Lex Wolf - Lextended 3
Lexx - Rhythm of love
Lighthouse Family - Question of Faith - Idjut Boys Mix
Lord of the isles - united wire
Los Thuthanaka - Los Thuthanaka
Los Twangueros - Star Guitar
Loose Ends - Hanging On A String - Random House Project edit
Lovehandles - Unrequited Dub
Luke - I Love You - Frontera Mix
Mad Keys - go where you’re led
Magari - Guida Notturna - Josh Ludlow Remix
Malibu - Vanities
Marie Davidson - demolition
Matthew E White - Cool Out
Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill - Clay
Melvin Gibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2
Men I Trust - Another Stone
Mike Francis - Features of Love
Mike Panera - Can’t You Believe
Milkweed - Remscela
Miss Kittin - Cosmic Love Radiation
Modern Nature - The Heat Warps
Mondo Lava - Utero Dei
Monzanto Sound - The Channel
Move 78 - In the Age of Data
Mystery Tiime - A Cruel Dub
Mystery Tiime - Everything
Mystic Jungle - Sunset Jungle
Mytron & Zongamin - Congregate
NAD - Haz Lo Tuyo
Nadah El Shazly - Laini Tani
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas - Totality
Neumayer Station - Crossings
The New Eves - The New Eve Is Rising
N1 Sound - Din sync dub
N1 Sound - People Have the Right To Build
N1_Sound - Such Love
Nic Jalusi - Eternal Sunset EP
Night Heron - ESCAPISM
No Joy - Bugland
Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones
Nu Genea - Sciallà
O & The Mo - make way for the sun
Oklou - choke enough
Oltrefuturo - Culto Del Sol
Omar S - Featuring Omar S
Omid Geadizadeh - Like The Sea Knows Blue EP
Om Unit - Acid Dub Studies III & Remixes
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, & Andreas Werliin - Ghosted III
pacific.coliseum - Hatsudai
Palace Pasador - Footprint Affair
Paul St Hilaire - w/ The producers
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - That Wasn’t a Dream
Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight
Prajñāghoṣa - Flow Of Adhiṣṭhāna
Prince Istari - Under Me Acidhead
Project Gemini - darkness rising
Protek - I Love to Dance with You - @TheNightlark edit
Psychederek - thinkin’ bout u
Purelink - Faith
Quade - The Foel Tower
Quiet Village - Naked Hunger
RAVEN - GNOSIS
Resavoir & Matt Gold - Horizon
Rhythm Doctor - Digital Juju
Rio Kosta - Unicorn
Rotation Sound System Presents Everything You’re About To Hear Is True Vol 1 - Compilation
Rude Audio - North Star Dub
Ruf Dug - Manctalo Beach - More Amour Remix
Ryan Spencer - Between Dreams EP
Sasha Foam - Costa De Acido
Secondo - Over Under
Secret Service - Lets Dance Just A Little Bit More
Sex Judas - Its In Your Eyes
Sherelle - With A Vengeance
Simon Hinter - Perfume
Siva - Skeleton
SML - How You Been
Smerz - Big city life
The Smile/ James Holden - don’t get me started
Sonya Spence - Peace & Unity
Space Ghost - Majestic Fantasies
Stella & The Longos - En Retard
Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Steve Gunn - Daylight Daylight
Steve Hauschildt - Aeropsia
Steve Rachmad - Strings of Love
T3AL - Weightless
Theo Parrish - Pianamonn
Thought Leadership - Ace of Swords
Thought Leadership - III of pentacles
TJ Thomas - Sad To Know I Am Leaving
Transcoastal - Compilation
Ugne Uma - Rage Love, Strange Love
Universal Cave & The Street Road Band - Back In My Arms - Coyote Remix
Various Artists - Head Echo 01 EP
Vermettya Royster - Give Me Your Love
Voices from the lake II - Album
Wikipédias Organizadas - Alfabetos Mesopotåmicos
Yassokiiba - Dub 5 / Dub 3
YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds
Zan’Ten - Zan’Ten & Friends
Ze Ibarra - Segredo
You’re all so bloody cool (mean’t as a genuine compliment) how the hell do you keep track of what you’re listening to across the year?
I can’t remember the name of an album I bought two months ago! 
Same, I’ve tried to post my choices at least 3 times and the simple fact is I just cant remember what I’ve bought and listened too.
Album is definitely Chaos in the CBD though
Every year at this time I start a list on my phone for my likes for the following year…and promptly forget about it until the next December 
Yup that Chaos in the CBD album was excellent. Played it all year
I used Google Gemini to link every track to its corresponding Bandcamp or Youtube link. I haven’t tested any of these but hey, I assume most will be corect
couple of late inclusions
DD Mirage feat. Teddy Bryant - “Echoes” (Introspective dub)
Brochure - Back Off - Extended Mix
Eddie C - U Be Mine - Eddie C Cash Version
Payfone - Volt To Volt
Discovery
Bornn - Visible Love
Love that Bornn track. Had quite the moment to it on an Electric Elephant boat many moons ago.
Here’s my pick of the hip hop releases of the year.
I’ll go for tracks over albums:
Jay Worthy - Reckless
Boldy James & El-P - The IT Factor
Aesop Rock - Roadwork Rappin’ (greatest novelty rap ever??)
Smif N Wessun - Medina
Westside Gunn feat. Doechii - Egypt Remix
Fly Anakin - My N***a
4IZE - WeaponIZE
Evidence - Outta Bounds
Little Simz - Lion
DJ Premier & Roc Marc - Armani Section
Flee Lord & Eto feat. NEMS - Kitchen
Jae Skeese - Round & Round
Kurious - When the Coffee Kicks in
De La Soul - Cabin In The Sky
Gig of the year was probably MIKE.
WOH was as wonderful as ever.
My most streamed artists include Boldy James, Westside Gunn, Flee Lord and Roc Marc. That’s all middle-aged man drug rap. I’m 50 years-old and still not bored of it either.
I also listened to Homeboy Sandman and Black Thought a lot, who release far more sensible music.
Shout out to the Alchemist who released a lot of incredibly good music this year.
R.I.P. to Junclassic, whose music I loved, and who seemed like a genuinely lovely and humble guy.
I’ve made a playlist of my top 50 tracks of the year. I’ve bumped what I think will be the most TP-friendly tracks to the top half of the playlist. Loads of fantastic production.
Here’s the albums I enjoyed the most in 2025. Still thinking on EPs, reissues/comps and obviously second hand/new to me/finally purchased digs
Thank you to whomever put K-Lone’s “Sorry I Thought You Were Somebody Else” in their best of 2025 list. How is that album not being talked about more? It is truly exceptional.
What kills me when I find a new South African record (to me) that when I was growing up they were probably all in charity shops for less than 10c. Oh to have a Time Machine.
Stuff that had me dreaming of loafing around the Med while pretending to do my tedious corporate job:
Ancient Infinity Orchestra - At Yoshino Mountain
Space Dimension Controller - Reflect Itself
Destroyer - Bologna
Wavelexx - Last Dance At Zukunft
Quiet Village & Vanessa Daou - Naked Hunger
Jonny Nash - Green Lane
Giorgio Lopez & Stella - Toujours Distante
KiF Productions - Swaledale to Blakeney Straits
Cassandra Jenkins - Delphinium Bliss
Alex Kassian x Spooky - Orange Coloured Liquid (Placid Angles Remix)
Humble B Flat - Lyra
I Coccodrilli - Love On The Rocks (Paradise Remix)
Parisa Ramezan - Labkhand
Pablo Color avec Liza Carrey - Le Reve (Lexx Remix)
Chaos in the CBD - The Eternal Checkout
Stella & The Longos - Insupportable
Laura Groves - Deep Blue
Celine Dessberg - Selenge
DJ Pippi, Willie Graff, Troels Hammer - Noche De Primavera (NAD Dan Tyler)
Lexx feat Laura Quinn - In Motion
Wilson Tanner - Blush
Σtella - Baby Brazil
µ-ziq - Galletas
Pianoman - Pasion (Alex Kassian’s Mandarine Dream Mix)
